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Whilst I was studying the Death Guard codex, I noticed something rather striking: the Chaos Lord and Termi Lord doesn't have access to some of the more unique melee weapons available to other Death Guard units. There's the Balesword, sure, but no Flail of Corruption, or Great Plague Cleaver, Mace of Contagion, Bubotic Ax - not even the ubiquitous Plague Knife! I guess not having Death Guard equipment is Death Guard enough these days.

This seems like a simple fix, but giving the Lord access to plague melee weapons would really open up some roles to this simple HQ choice, so he can add his share of attacks when grouped up with Plague Marines, Deathshroud, Blightlords, etc. instead of being solely a "re-roll 1s" baby-sitter. Even if he's doing just that and sitting with some PBC's, he can more successfully fend off attacks from the rear with Plague weapons.

It's also thematic and would look cool - Rather than some Chaos lord slathered in green and rust paint, you can field a WYSIWYG badass with an awesome great weapon, ready to break those Loyalist spines to dust.

The only downside to this is the modelling issue. Finding spare weapons that fit, especially for the Termi Lord, is difficult to find. Unless you have a plethora of Plague Marine or Blightlord kits, you will have to trawl through eBay and the like for the necessary bits for a would-be Plague Lord. But who knows? Maybe GW will listen to my idea and sell an accessory kit for $15 or so.

But enough rambling. What does Dakka think of adding options for Plague weapons to a Lord or Termi Lord?

That stuff should be a no-brainer...it's just a symptom of GW's really poor decision to go with "no model, no rules". Go for it.

The Flail feels iffy... It's a pretty insane weapon on a 2 Attack Terminator. On a 4 attack Lord...

Everything else, though, go wild.

 JNAProductions wrote:
The Flail feels iffy... It's a pretty insane weapon on a 2 Attack Terminator. On a 4 attack Lord...

Everything else, though, go wild.

Then it just needs to be priced appropriately of course. It's honestly priced okay as is even with that many attacks.

really the deathguard lore and lord of contagion should be the same unit. and the LOC should simply represent other options for the lord.

What I'd do is the following.


"Death Guard Lord"

Standard Lord stats with T5 and DR. May take terminator armor, may take cataphracti armor. May upgrade to Lord of Contagion for X points, which gives the LOC's aura (in addition to the re-roll aura)
they could also add in the other DG Lords only mentioned in fluff as other varients.

In short rather then have 2 differnt lord types just have one that can be customized to hell and back

BrianDavion wrote:
really the deathguard lore and lord of contagion should be the same unit. and the LOC should simply represent other options for the lord.

What I'd do is the following.


"Death Guard Lord"

Standard Lord stats with T5 and DR. May take terminator armor, may take cataphracti armor. May upgrade to Lord of Contagion for X points, which gives the LOC's aura (in addition to the re-roll aura)
they could also add in the other DG Lords only mentioned in fluff as other varients.

In short rather then have 2 differnt lord types just have one that can be customized to hell and back

This would have been the simpler solution.

LOC with the standard Lord aura would definitely make me take him more often.

 NurglesR0T wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
really the deathguard lore and lord of contagion should be the same unit. and the LOC should simply represent other options for the lord.

What I'd do is the following.


"Death Guard Lord"

Standard Lord stats with T5 and DR. May take terminator armor, may take cataphracti armor. May upgrade to Lord of Contagion for X points, which gives the LOC's aura (in addition to the re-roll aura)
they could also add in the other DG Lords only mentioned in fluff as other varients.

In short rather then have 2 differnt lord types just have one that can be customized to hell and back

This would have been the simpler solution.

LOC with the standard Lord aura would definitely make me take him more often.

a LOC with the re-roll aura, the mortal wound aura, a set of Cataphracti plate and whatever weapon options it ended up with would proably be expensive yes, but I tend to like the idea of space marine captains and their equivilants eaither being able to be reasonably cheap, or ones that can really be tricked out into something special. this would also resolve an issue with the LOC, whereas despite GW clearly wanting the LOC to be the "death guard captain" it suffers from some pretty major flaws. not the least of which is only one of the death guard relics really works with the LOC, (meanwhile one of the relics can give almost a deamon prince the LOC's mortal wound aura as well as a 2+ armor save, the deamon prince with that relic is kind of a no brainer HQ choice IMHO)