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Heyo! Playing a friendly game this evening with my first full Death Guard list after picking up DI. At this points level I'm fairly happy its a nice well rounded list but still any C&C fire them this way. I'd also like to know what people would recommend getting next. I see a lot of people run multiple bloat drones so I'll probably look at at least one more of those and also maybe some blightloards

++ Battalion Detachment +3CP (Chaos - Death Guard) [57 PL, 1003pts] ++

+ HQ [13 PL, 227pts] +

Lord of Contagion [7 PL, 117pts]: 1. Revoltingly Resilient, Manreaper [], Warlord

Malignant Plaguecaster [6 PL, 110pts]: Miasma of Pestilence, Putrescent Vitality, The Suppurating Plate

+ Troops [29 PL, 471pts] +

Plague Marines [10 PL, 164pts]
. Plague Champion [42pts]: Plague knife, Plasma gun [], Power fist []
. 4x Plague Marine w/ boltgun [68pts]
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon []: Blight launcher []
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon []: Blight launcher []

Plague Marines [13 PL, 187pts]
. Plague Champion [42pts]: Plague knife, Plasma gun [13pts], Power fist []
. 5x Plague Marine w/ boltgun []
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon [30pts]: Plasma gun []
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon [30pts]: Plasma gun []

Poxwalkers [6 PL, 120pts]: 20x Poxwalker [120pts]

+ Elites [7 PL, 147pts] +

Helbrute [7 PL, 147pts]: Missile launcher [], Twin lascannon []

+ Fast Attack [8 PL, 158pts] +

Foetid Bloat-drone [8 PL, 158pts]: 2x Plaguespitters [], Plague probe []

++ Total: [57 PL, 1003pts] ++

I'd say that, whatever you do next, you won't go wrong with Typhus, more poxwalkers/cultists, more plaguespitters drones, a DP, and a rhino plus biologus for your plague marines... and there are crawlers and a hard choice to make on their loadout...

Looking at FW, leviathan dreadnaught with two butcher cannon arrays is maybe the best dakka unit you can take...

Cheers Elk! Typhus is a beast, I'm not really one for playing named characters though but I might have to make an exception for him. Defo grabbing some more plaguespitters and a DP.

On the game news I lost but that was fully due to my own bad deployment then getting initiative seized from me, live and learn! Lord of Contagion is a beast though. He brought down a hive tyrant and carnifex in close combat but finally went down after 4 rounds of shooting from a Tyrannofex. He's just too slow out of combat

cheers go to you! ))) on traits, Revoltingly reseliens is not bad but your lord or DP will be better off with Rotten constitution - see, it just cancels a single wound without need to roll 4+... sure it's useless against D1 weapons, but with the statline you normally don't care about D1 much... and it plainly halves damage from overcharged plasma and any other D2 weapon - simply great...

You could give suppurating plate to your warlord, he's likely to get more use out of it as I doubt you'll want your psycher in close combat as often. Although the downside is your psycher will lose the 2+ which your warlord already has.
I used my warlord against a mob of Ork boyz while equipped with superating plate... utter carnage : )

I agree on the psyker should not be in combat but it was a small enough game and he did end up killing several genestealers thanks for the new armor For Orks I'd definitely put it on the lord but against Tyranids and their high AP CC attacks I was always using my invul anyway.

I'll try out Rotten Const. next, and another I want to try is Tainted Regeneration. There's probably some mathhammer done out there on what is statistically the best one for wound prevention

I love lots of cultists or renegades and heretics around poxwalkers with the dead walk and screen of flies do all the 4-6 point cannon fodder becomes pox walkers doubling their worth.
Renegades and heretics maybe the worst army in the game atm but has its uses so consider a detachment of them.
Or nurgle demons, heralds can heal your deamon engines and buff them. Like the bloat drones and crawlers. Plus a nurgle tree on objectives its fun

This is basically what my 1k point list looks like, except with a few models scrapped to switch heroes to DP/Typhus.

That being said, my personal plans range from adding a blightspawn, termies and beefing out a few units or adding a lord, to potentially grabbing a blighthauler for the PM blob and deathshroud instead of termies with a joint typhus deepstrike.

Not convinced about the plagueburst crawler yet, I might rather add drones or a PM filled rhino tank hunter unit.

Reliable AT seems hard to get with DG, but a helbrute firing twice and all the PM special weapons help. Not to mention any of our characters or terminators getting into CC with vehicles.

I need to play more games to really see how it works, but tbh DG seems to lack dakka in general, hence why anything fly or a fast vehicle seems super nice. 3 mobile haulers hitting on 3s is tempting for this reason. I like the idea of PM marching forward with a 2+ saving popping all sorts of plasma/blight launcher/missiles/melta out.

If rhinos were a bit cheaper I think I'd do a 5 man double melta squad, but it comes to more points than anything they'd kill

From looking around here and other sites there is plenty of options on how to run a death guard army; typhus + poxwalkers, haulers advancing up screening stuff, even that LVO army with the something like 10 plague burst crawlers nasty list that

So I have managed to get more death guard! I now have the DI death guard half twice and the Know No Fear box set. I might try the PM blob marching up behind the haulers(which I do need to get, but they're only 12 lids on goblin gaming) with blight launchers since they can advance and fire those. I do really like the terminators though so they might be next on my list now. They seem stupid tough and incredibly hard to kill