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Hello,

Looking to start getting into gaming with a slow grow tournament. I have spent some time on battlescribe building a patrol detachment and am just looking to see if I am starting off on the right foot. Due to tournament rules I can add 250pts every couple of weeks up to 2000pts I believe. Any suggestions on tactics or a completely different list would be brilliant but any reply would be greatly appreciated!



++ Patrol Detachment (Chaos - Death Guard) [29 PL, 496pts] ++

+ HQ +

Chaos Lord in Terminator Armour [6 PL, 112pts]: 1. Revoltingly Resilient, Combi-bolter, Power axe, The Suppurating Plate, Warlord

+ Troops +

Plague Marines [10 PL, 144pts]
. Plague Champion
. . Codex: Boltgun, Plague knife, Power fist
. 5x Plague Marine w/ boltgun
. Plague Marine w/ Special Weapon: Plasma gun

Poxwalkers [6 PL, 66pts]: 11x Poxwalker

+ Elites +

Helbrute [7 PL, 174pts]: Helbrute hammer, Twin lascannon

[b]++ Total: [29 PL, 496pts]

Well, the Helbrute is gonna drop in points by about 20-30 when Chapter Approved 2018 comes out, and the plague marines are gonna get cheaper too. Could use the points for some more poxwalkers, and/or a blight launcher.

Suppurating plate is great and actually imho best used on a regular chaos lord rather than a terminator one, but either way it's a great choice.

If you would like to be TFG.

Then I would field at 500.

Chaos lord + suppurating plate + arch-contaminator + power sword + combi-plasma (89)

5man plague marines + 3x plasma gun (113)

Foetid bloat-drone + 2x plague spitters + plague probe (158)

Plagueburst crawler + 2x plague spitters + heavy slugger + plagueburst mortar (140)


For sure it's always playing the mission and you can actually squeeze in a batallion for total of 8 CP. Troops are great at holding objectives and poxwalkers are great for holding the backfield, but at 500 points they will be very slow even on a small game table.

If you want us to help you more, let us know what models you have access to right now and we can try to continue from there.

EDIT:
Actually the 130€ battleforce is a superb deal when starting a death guard force, might feel expensive, but there's some much in value that if anyone have to euros to spent..

DP of nurgle (156)
4x plague marine, champion (85)
bloat drone (124)
plagueburst crawler (140)
505 total
I was thinking of running this for a fun xmas tourney

Thanks for your quick replies!

I am a bit undecided on whether to go ahead with the death guard as it would be a big time commitment to paint enough points every fortnight. My job means I can really only paint on weekends and I really don't want to rush the death guard because of all the great details.
So I've had a bit of a rethink and am looking towards maybe taking some blood angels. I can easily put together a decent scheme with some picked out details here and there. I'm considering the following list because I like the idea of picking off characters with snipers and rolling a lot of dice with the predator! Its dead on 500 so ive probably forgotten to add something that will take it over the limit.

++ Patrol Detachment (Imperium - Blood Angels) [28 PL, 500pts] ++

+ HQ [7 PL, 116pts] +

Captain in Terminator Armour [7 PL, 116pts]: Archangel's Shard (replaces power sword or master-crafted power sword), Relic blade [9pts], Storm bolter [2pts], Warlord

+ Troops [13 PL, 220pts] +

Scout Squad [4 PL, 65pts]
. Scout [13pts]: Sniper rifle [2pts]
. Scout [13pts]: Sniper rifle [2pts]
. Scout [13pts]: Sniper rifle [2pts]
. Scout [13pts]: Sniper rifle [2pts]
. Scout Sergeant [13pts]: Bolt pistol, Sniper rifle [2pts]

Tactical Squad [9 PL, 155pts]
. 7x Space Marine [91pts]
. Space Marine (Heavy weapon) [27pts]: Heavy flamer [14pts]
. Space Marine (Special weapon) [24pts]: Plasma gun [11pts]
. Space Marine Sergeant [13pts]: Bolt pistol and boltgun

+ Heavy Support [8 PL, 164pts] +

Baal Predator [8 PL, 164pts]: Twin assault cannon [44pts]
. Two heavy bolters [20pts]: 2x Heavy bolter [20pts]

++ Total: [28 PL, 500pts] ++

P.S since this has go e off topic from death guard don't know whether to shift it to a new post...

I play both BA and DG and Ive found DG fast to paint. Full DG green, then rakath flesh on horns, guts and tentacles.. Wash with agrax earth shade. Some red wash and khorne blood on guts.. Metallics on weaponry.. Maybe max 1h for painting a 5man group.. But back to the topic.

Change the topic name or create totally new one.

Your chosen models are not used in competitive lists.. Few reasons.. For about same points as termie cpt, you can have a jump pack cpt with storm shield and thunder hammer. I has a lot more mobiity. Sniper scouts are on a weak spot, 5 boltet shots lack volume and sixes on wound roll is a rarity.

Using 10man tac unit is flulffy, but in 8th edition ablative wounds are for devastators..for the same points you can have two 5man tac units with additional sergeant.

You already have purchased the start collecting box?

My death guard scheme is corpse makers and it's the first one I've been happy with the quality.

I hadn't thought about the jump pack captain tbh I was just thinking what I could do with the start collecting box I'm sure a scout round on eBay could find me a decent kitbash selection. I know the snipers are a gamble in terms of dice rolls but I was just thinking of some cool (very lucky) dice rolls. So are you recommending swap out tactical squads for devestator as a better choice? I'm not too bothered about fluff but I obviously don't want to be rolled over instantly. Also want to make it easy to expand.