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Hello first post, long time lurker.

I regularly play against a Custodes player, he tends to bring Forgeworld Custodes (saggitarum, etc).

I am looking for advice/updating my Regular Death Guard list to face Custodes with the new Codex. Thank you

1500pt Dakka (1520 points)

Death Guard
Strike Force (2000 points)
Virulent Vectorium


CHARACTERS

Daemon Prince of Nurgle with Wings (215 points)
• Warlord
• 1x Hellforged weapons
1x Infernal cannon
• Enhancement: Revolting Regeneration

Lord of Virulence (90 points)
• 1x Power fist
1x Twin plague spewer

Typhus (90 points)
• 1x Lakrimae


BATTLELINE

Plague Marines (190 points)
• 1x Plague Champion
• 1x Plasma gun
1x Power fist
• 9x Plague Marine
• 5x Boltgun
2x Heavy plague weapon
9x Plague knives
2x Plasma gun

Plague Marines (190 points)
• 1x Plague Champion
• 1x Plasma gun
1x Power fist
• 9x Plague Marine
• 2x Blight launcher
5x Boltgun
9x Plague knives
2x Plasma gun


DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Chaos Rhino (85 points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
1x Combi-bolter
1x Combi-weapon
1x Havoc launcher


OTHER DATASHEETS

Deathshroud Terminators (140 points)
• 1x Deathshroud Champion
• 1x Manreaper
2x Plaguespurt gauntlet
• 2x Deathshroud Terminator
• 2x Manreaper
2x Plaguespurt gauntlet

Plagueburst Crawler (195 points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
2x Entropy cannon
1x Heavy slugger
1x Plagueburst mortar

Plagueburst Crawler (195 points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
2x Entropy cannon
1x Heavy slugger
1x Plagueburst mortar

Poxwalkers (130 points)
• 20x Poxwalker
• 20x Improvised weapon

Exported with App Version: v1.33.1 (80), Data Version: v609

2 questions:

1) Is your opponent OK with you bringing 1520pts to a 1500pt game?

2) What is that giant blob of expensive, T4/1W/no save Poxwalkers bringing to the battle? Especially vs Custodes?

Me? I'd drop those Poxwalkers and then spend 110 of that 130 freed up pts on something more effective.
I would NOT exceed the agreed upon pts limit.

Infiltrators can be very valuable. But a 20-man is overkill if you just need them for Infiltration purposes.

Edit: Gonna echo ccs on the points limit too.
If the limit is 1,500, you bring 1,500 or less. At the absolute minimum, you need to ask your opponent if they're okay with being 20 points over.

Hello thank you for the reply.

Yes the extra 20pts is the detachment enhancement missed that in the export.

I'm struggling to decide on a detachment/enhancements and some combos. I like playing fluffy Death Guard - marines heavy but I cracked prior to the new dex and fielded a rhino and land raider plus crawlers. The tanks would never die and my rhino has more custodes kills due to tank shock than my marines lol.

The list I posted is a compromise on fielding tanks.

The poxwalkers sit in the back attached typhus and prevent deep striking around the crawlers and objective/action control while my cultists would move around to table quarters.

I'm usually up against a unit of saggitarum, allarus, 4 bikes (including shield captain), venatari and a vindicare or callidus.

Muadsa wrote:
Hello thank you for the reply.

Yes the extra 20pts is the detachment enhancement missed that in the export.

I'm struggling to decide on a detachment/enhancements and some combos. I like playing fluffy Death Guard - marines heavy but I cracked prior to the new dex and fielded a rhino and land raider plus crawlers. The tanks would never die and my rhino has more custodes kills due to tank shock than my marines lol.

The list I posted is a compromise on fielding tanks.

The poxwalkers sit in the back attached typhus and prevent deep striking around the crawlers and objective/action control while my cultists would move around to table quarters.

I'm usually up against a unit of saggitarum, allarus, 4 bikes (including shield captain), venatari and a vindicare or callidus.

Gah!! It gets even worse, Typhus just hanging out in the backfield twiddling his thumbs....
All your foe has to do to nullify 220 pts of your army is just leave your backfield/home objective alone as long as possible.

If you switch to the Tallyband Summoners detachment you could:
●screen your backfield with 2 small squads of Nurglings & some proper spacing for 70/110 pts
Or
1 10x unit of Plague Bearers- who if attacked might actually make some ++ saves & can fight.

If you go the nurgling route you'll have 40pts (maybe 50 or 60 depending if you give your prince the Fell Harvester or not). 50 or 60 pts is enough to get you 1 of several different options.

And if you aren't opposed to using Legends?
Check out the Spindle Drones in the Unaligned section. Two squads of those are the same price as the 2 nurglins squads- but they have OC1 & a gun.
And you don't need to switch detachments

Thank you for the input.

I guess Typhus and walkers aren't too popular lol. Honestly I've had good results with them in games with the Custodes player but I see your point.

I updated the list to reflect more what I fielded before sans cultists and pox walkers. Man did things go up in pts but oh well.

I made a Tallyband Detachment out of the other models in my collection for fun but I mostly want to play something with Plague Marines (PA and Terminators).

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I'm not opposed to legends and neither is the Custodes player. I have a nice converted Leviathan and Contemptor.