When a unit disembarks from a TRANSPORT model, set it up on the battlefield so that it is wholly within 3" of that TRANSPORT model and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models. If, for any reason, a disembarking model cannot be set up, that model’s unit cannot disembark. And, among this cavalcade of madness, the Chaos Space Marines of the Death Guard march stolidly forwards, plague-ridden bodies impervious to the puny weaponry flung against them by terrified defenders. Chaos Lord • Exalted Champion • Chaos Champion • Aspiring Champion • Sorcerer Lord • Daemon Prince • Daemon Prince of Nurgle • Daemon Prince of Tzeentch • Death Guard Lord Chaos Space Marines • Havocs • Chosen • Chaos Terminators • Possessed • Greater Possessed • Khorne Berzerkers • Plague Marines • Noise Marines • Rubric Marines • Obliterators • Mutilators • Chaos Spawn • Fallen Angels • Noxious Blightbringer • Foul Blightspawn • Biologus Putrifier • Blightlord Terminators • Deathshroud

Wargear Tweaks. A lot of weapon profiles were tweaked, to the point that I’m pretty sure we’ll get an FAQ updating profiles for Thousand Sons and Chaos Space Marines and Daemons soon, which will probably not be so great for those factions. Also there are a few melee weapons that went down by 1 Strength that won’t feel it if you’re running mono-Death Guard.

Warhammer 40k 10th edition Death Guard rules

It’s been a long road to get here but Death Guard players can finally rejoice and enjoy the long-awaited gifts of Grandfather Nurgle because Codex: Death Guard is nearly upon us! Games Workshop have been teasing us with some incredibly nasty rules over the last four weeks and thanks to the wonderful folks over there we were finally able to sit down with a copy of the new book and dive into the rules. During the Declare Battle Formations step, for each Leader in your army, if your army also includes one or more of that Leader’s Bodyguard units, you can select one of those Bodyguard units. That Leader will then attach to that Bodyguard unit for the duration of the battle and is said to be leading that unit. Each Bodyguard unit can only have one Leader attached to it. Don: Possessed are in a weird spot. They basically count as terminators for getting in to our codex transports and I would be willing to wager a Forge World Errata to normalise this is not far off. This means that they will most frequently have to foot slog. Yes, they are a bit faster than our other infantry, but they don’t necessarily hit much harder and have practically no interaction in the shooting phase. I just try to compare a plague marine to a possessed and ask why take the possessed. I compare 2 possessed to a death shroud and still shrug. Did possessed get better with the new book? Yes, they did. Did they improve as much as everything else? No, they did not. I am sure possessed will work, but don’t think they will do any better than points equivalent numbers of plague marines or terminators. HQ: Lord of Change w/Baleful Sword Exalted (-1 CP), Powers: Infernal Gateway, Bolt of Change, Gaze of Fate Holy crap there’s so much in this section. All your favorite characters return, and they’re all better than ever.

Mortarion’s Anvil have lost the Transhuman Stratagem but retained Relaptic Assault , which for 1 CP lets any unit perform a Heroic Intervention if there’s an enemy unit within 3”. They also get the insanely powerful Gloaming Bloat plague, which prevents enemy units from firing Overwatch or setting to defend and prevents them from re-rolling hit and wound rolls. Their relic, the Warp Insect Hive , gives the warlord full re-rolls to hit and wound in melee. Don: As with the other 9th edition codexes, the Death Guard book gives us a set of faction-specific secondary objectives to consider. There are three of these and two of them are pretty good. Death Guard bring other defensive abilities to the field, too. Daemon engines like the Myphitic Blight-Hauler and Foetid Bloat-Drone have a 5+ invulnerable save. The stratagem Cloud of Flies is a potent defensive buff: for 1CP it grants one of your units the Stealth core ability during your opponents’ shooting phase, inflicting a -1 to hit penalty. Wielding a scythe the size of a dreadnought, he has the melee capability you would expect, while Feel No Pain 5+ and a 4+ invulnerable save from the Barbaran Plate, together with the Toughness and Wounds of a Land Raider make him very durable. Same goes for giving the color shade to the ampoules. Use the lighter color almost like a glaze, bringing the color from the bottom up, so that it settles at the top, creating that gradient we are looking for. For the ampoules I avoided the gray, preferring to color the missing part with dark green, obtained by mixing the colors already present on the wet palette. Always simulating a hypothetical light from above, as for the syringe, I created white reflections on the ampoules.Terminators. Terminators in the Death Guard are now 5” Movement, but haven’t given up their 4+ invulnerable save – they get to keep it, which is just great. Wings: Except Terminator Sorcerers, who wear cowardly clean Terminator armour.

Chaos Rhino • Chaos Predator • Infernal Relic Predator • Chaos Vindicator • Chaos Land Raider • Chaos Land Raider Proteus • Infernal Relic Land Raider Achilles • Land Raider Hades Diabolus • Relic Sicaran Battle Tank • Maulerfiend • Forgefiend • Defiler • Brass Scorpion • Blood Slaughterer • Blight Drone • Foetid Bloat-drone • Kytan • Plague Hulk • Venomcrawler • Myphitic Blight-hauler Auras affect CORE units. Most of the faction’s auras are now limited to friendly CORE units, significantly limiting their effects. HQ: Sorcerer [6 PL, 90pts, -1CP]: 4. Blades of Putrefaction, 5. Putrescent Vitality, Relic: Ironclot Furnace (-1 CP) Typhus, the Traveller, Herald of Nurgle, Host of the Destroyer Hive, master of the dead who walk… Typhus has many names, each one earned through uncountable atrocities enacted in the name of the plague God. This is also where the Death Guard army bonus comes in. Similar to what we saw for Space Marines with Combat Doctrines , Death Guard now get a bonus for keeping the army to a single faction: If every unit in your army has the DEATH GUARD keyword, then those units gain the Nurgle’s Gift Contagion ability, which gives enemy units within contagion range -1 Toughness.The Feculent Gnarlmaw is the only option really worth discussing here; those went up 10 points and per the Daemons FAQ now give Light cover, plus an extra +1 to save rolls. The Plague Marines pile into the drill with a pair of characters – typically this will probably be the Sorcerer and the Biologus Putrifier, though you could swap in the Blightspawn as needed depending on the threats and if you wanted the Plague Marines to focus more on melee. Otherwise the unit can arrive in the drill, jump out, and be ready to raise hell with the Blight Bombardment stratagem and boosted combat output from Trench Fighters, Putrescent Vitality, and Blades of Putrefaction. The Harbingers are still all about Poxwalkers and now Typhus comes with this company pre-loaded (but he can still be in other company detachments without breaking their focus). The Wrathful Dead Stratagem lets a unit of poxwalkers re-roll hit rolls and is a pretty powerful effect on top of their WS boost and Nurgle’s Gift. The Shamblerot contagion resembles Mortarion’s old ability to do mortal wounds on a 4+ to nearby units. HQ: Death Guard Daemon Prince of Nurgle [9 PL, 195pts]: 1. Miasma of Pestilence, Hellforged sword, Wings The usual suspects are all here and the Plagueburst Crawler is the star of the show again. Now sporting BS 3+ and a Plagueburst Mortar with a flat 2 damage statline, it’s priced to move at 165 points. The Entropy Cannons are only +5 points now and also strongly worth consideration, since they now do a staggering D3+3 damage. Also the Rothail Volley Gun is Rapid Fire 3. It’s a hell of a tank. Similarly, the Defiler is also very good here. While it doesn’t have Disgustingly Resilient (and has no way to get it), it does get Contagions and it benefits from the upgrade to WS/BS 3+. You pay 30 points more for it than Chaos Space Marines do theirs, but the other upside is that the Defiler Cannon is now a flat 3 damage gun. Dedicated Transport