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The idea behind the list is that the rhino loaded up with 9 plague marines and the Putrifier get unconfortably close and drop blight grenades under effect of blight bombardment and veterans of the long war. This should give a decent number of mortal wounds. The bloat drones move up with the rhino, morty and the DP. While the Plagueburst crawlers stay near their chaos lord and gnarlmaw, trying to take out heavier targets, while being able to fall back and shoot if getting attacked by deepstrikers. Cultist obviously for taking objectives. The 6 man PM squad is more of an supporting/objective capping role, I was thinking of using cloud of flies on them to protect the ''heavy'' upgrades on them.

Super Heavy Aux
-Mortarion

Battallion
HQ:
-Chaos lord - Boltpistol & Chainsword
-Daemon prince of Nurgle - Hellforged sword - Malefic Talon - Warlord Trait Arch contaminator - Psychic powers Blades of putrefaction

Troops:
-9 Plague marines - Flail of Corruption on Champion, rest bolters plague knives
-6 Plague marines - 2 Blightlaunchers
-10 Cultist - Autoguns

Elite:
-Biologus Putrifier

Fast Attack:
-Foetid Bloat drone - 2 Plaguespitters & Plagueprobe
-Foetid Bloat drone - 2 Plaguespitters & Plagueprobe

Heavy Support:
-Plagueburst Crawler - Entropy cannon & Heavy slugger
-Plagueburst Crawler - Entropy cannon & Heavy slugger
-Plagueburst Crawler - Entropy cannon & Heavy slugger

Dedicated Transport:
-Rhino - Combi Bolter

Fortifications:
-Feculant Gnarlmaw

Comments and suggestions are very welcome!
I am aware of the little amount of bodies on the field, can always take a look at dropping PM for more cultist.


]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10139801.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10139801.page GMT [2000] - Death Guard - Death Guard 2k how effective will this be? Swap the Lord with a Sorcerer
Swap the 6 man squad with several cultists
This said, I understand the Plague boys are good, but are you sure that instead of spending the points for them+the rhino it wouldn't be better to just take some Terminators? This way you can be certain they will arrive where you want them when you want them!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10142368.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10142368.page GMT [2000] - Death Guard - Death Guard 2k how effective will this be?
 Dampyr Blackblade wrote:
The first ideas that come to my mind are
Swap the Lord with a Sorcerer
Swap the 6 man squad with several cultists
This said, I understand the Plague boys are good, but are you sure that instead of spending the points for them+the rhino it wouldn't be better to just take some Terminators? This way you can be certain they will arrive where you want them when you want them!


I agree with you on the sorcerer and the swapping pm for cultist. The problem is that terminators do not carry any blight grenades. So changing the pm for terminators would make the Biologus putrifier obselete. If I drop all the pm rhino putrifier and add a sorcerer, I should be able to squeeze 5 termies in with 30 cultist in total. Let me know what you think is best.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10144062.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10144062.page GMT [2000] - Death Guard - Death Guard 2k how effective will this be? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10145352.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10145352.page GMT [2000] - Death Guard - Death Guard 2k how effective will this be? Bl are 100 times better, the grenade combo works only against unskilled opponents, imho.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10145747.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10145747.page GMT [2000] - Death Guard - Death Guard 2k how effective will this be? IMO if you take Gnarlmaw, your units should 100% have "Nurgle Daemon" tag. Now you take too many "human".]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10147697.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10147697.page GMT [2000] - Death Guard - Death Guard 2k how effective will this be? PBC you cant entangle them in CaC and prevent them to fire, hard to charge a model firing str 7 flamers in overwathc then fall back fire again and force you to eat some more overwatch again, rinse and repeat.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10147906.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10147906.page GMT [2000] - Death Guard - Death Guard 2k how effective will this be? PM champion can't take a flail; it isn't one of the listed options. I would take 2 flails if you are running the CC rhino squad.

As someone who runs the CC PM rhino squad even in comp games, you will want two things you are missing. First is a caster, malignant plaugecaster works great, to cast blades of purtrificationn and putrescent vitality. With VotLW you can even wound knights on 4s and kick out mortal wounds on 5+. My second recommendation is remove the biologus and replace him with a blightspawn (nearly same points). As another mentioned, any experienced player will know the grenade trick and he isn't useful for anything beyond that. The blightspawn, on the other hand, will provide some CC defense with it's aura and it's weapon is one of the deadliest available and is perfect for the rhino. With 8 marines, the blightspawn, and the plaugecaster you'll have a fun party bus. Also, fun trick, rush the rhino forward, pop smoke, and case miasma of pestilence form another caster for a -2 while you get into position. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10149759.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10149759.page GMT [2000] - Death Guard - Death Guard 2k how effective will this be? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10150160.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/763331/10150160.page GMT