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I’ve also heard the following can work if you can build around it.

20 man, 2 flails, all knives (2 blight launchers isn’t awful either). Advance up behind PBCs and use cloud of flies. Arch contaminator again and whatever psyker casting blades. Biologus to maximise blight grenade stat. Hateful assault with knives and flails makes quite a difference.

8-9 man alternative to above using a Rhino to deliver them and use blight grenade strat. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10678719.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10678719.page GMT How does one arm and use plague marines? PG and 2 blight launchers, as Alpha legion supplementing a vanguard.

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The humble rhino, perhaps? Did it get a points drop in CA?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10679310.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10679310.page GMT How does one arm and use plague marines?
Malefic666 wrote:

I’ve also heard the following can work if you can build around it.

20 man, 2 flails, all knives (2 blight launchers isn’t awful either). Advance up behind PBCs and use cloud of flies. Arch contaminator again and whatever psyker casting blades. Biologus to maximise blight grenade stat. Hateful assault with knives and flails makes quite a difference.


I like the sound of this, what does the rest of this list look like? Do you advance them every turn? I wonder if boltguns can do work here instead of all the knives? Would you use Ahriman and pals for warptime and some smite battery?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10687065.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10687065.page GMT How does one arm and use plague marines?
 Nithaniel wrote:
Malefic666 wrote:

I’ve also heard the following can work if you can build around it.

20 man, 2 flails, all knives (2 blight launchers isn’t awful either). Advance up behind PBCs and use cloud of flies. Arch contaminator again and whatever psyker casting blades. Biologus to maximise blight grenade stat. Hateful assault with knives and flails makes quite a difference.


I like the sound of this, what does the rest of this list look like? Do you advance them every turn? I wonder if boltguns can do work here instead of all the knives? Would you use Ahriman and pals for warptime and some smite battery?


Dunno about the rest of the list tbh. Personally I’d probably want to advance them behind 3xPBCs and drop cloud of flies every turn. I’d use them to hold the middle of the table, get too close or charge and I’ll use blight bombardment & vets. Arch contaminator Lord or DP makes those plague weapons decent. Honestly though, I almost always run 6x5 man. MSU is just better. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10687521.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10687521.page GMT How does one arm and use plague marines?
 Nithaniel wrote:
Malefic666 wrote:

I’ve also heard the following can work if you can build around it.

20 man, 2 flails, all knives (2 blight launchers isn’t awful either). Advance up behind PBCs and use cloud of flies. Arch contaminator again and whatever psyker casting blades. Biologus to maximise blight grenade stat. Hateful assault with knives and flails makes quite a difference.


I like the sound of this, what does the rest of this list look like? Do you advance them every turn? I wonder if boltguns can do work here instead of all the knives? Would you use Ahriman and pals for warptime and some smite battery?


There was actually a guy placing at a top table with this. He used all bolt guns and had a psyker buff them with Putrefying Blades before they charged. The key to making this work is having blobs of pox walkers with Typhus support walking in front of them an using cloud of flies on the marines to keep them at full strength as long as possible. Once they get in range you can either use the boltguns with VotLW or a metric ton of grenades to clear out stuff and then charge and deal a bunch of mortal wounds. Just don't go pick fights with units that have a high number of high S/ low AP attacks or models that can turn single attacks into multiple hit rolls like knights, greater daemons or Mortarion.

I actually have a list trying to do this lined up for Sunday, I'll report how it went.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10695106.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/784127/10695106.page GMT