Death Guard - Background
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When i started to play Warhammer 40k again this year after a more than five year long break i knew that i wanted to play the Death Guard. I have always been a fan of Nurgle and seeing that Forgeworld now produce some great looking conversion parts made my choice even easier. I started by looking at the codex and realised that my Plague Zombies from my old Traitor Guard army could be used to bolster my ranks as i built and painted as long as i had Typhus as one of my HQ choices. I ordered a Typhus model via ebay and enough parts to make two squads of Plague Marines as well as a terminator set. I got my hands on some metal obliterators and used the terminator parts to make them look more Nurgle. So, my first armylist looked something like this:

  • Typhus
  • 30 Plague Zombies
  • 30 Plague Zombies
  • 7 Plague Marines with 2 plasma guns
  • 7 Plague Marines with 2 plasma guns
  • 3 Obliterators with MoN

It worked quite well and Typhus proved to be a beast, sometimes winning games all on his own. I then discovered the Traitor list IA 7 - The siege of Vraks 3 and decided that the Plague Zombies needed to go back to that list. I built myself a new Nurgle Lord as well as another unit of Plague Marines and a unit of Havocs with autocannons and MoN. I also stumbled apon a second hand Blight Drone that i couldn't pass up. I played a game or two with these squads before setting in on my 1500 pts list:

  • Escetecius Chaos Lord, MoN, Lightning Claw, Melta Bombs, Aura of Dark Glory, Burning Brand of Skalathrax
  • Blight Drone of Nurgle
  • Heldrake with Baleflamer
  • 7 Plague Marines with 2 plasma guns
  • 7 Plague Marines with 2 plasma guns
  • 7 Plague Marines with 2 plasma guns
  • 2 Obliterator with MoN
  • 2 Obliterator with MoN
  • 7 Havocs with MoN and 4 autocannons

So this is what i am currently building, or rather, everything but the scratch built Heldrake is done and i have started to paint the first squad. For 2000 pts i am toying with the idea to add Typhus back in a Spartan Assult Tank, but we'll see if that ever happens.

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Carl Cedergren
2013-08-19 15:11

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