There’s a lot to like about Chaos Daemons following the points changes, and they have some great Troops that can be real monsters in 9th edition’s board control game. Where they’ll struggle a bit is with killing large targets (though hopefully shifts in the meta will make knights less of an issue), and having psyker-heavy armies will mean that Abhor the Witch is an easy take and very max-able against daemons armies every game.

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. This is a very good bonus; it’s not quite as singularly powerful as Combat Doctrines (and their Chapter Doctrine tag-alongs), and that’s a good thing. It incentivizes and rewards a mono-Death Guard army and really shines on Plague Marines and Blightlord Terminators (bubotic axes wounding space marines on a 2+ rerolling 1s is real good ), but it also isn’t so strong that you’d never benefit from or consider souping Death Guard with Daemons and Chaos Space Marines. The limited range also encourages a certain type of play style (keep moving forward) and it makes transports like Rhinos much more interesting since they can be disease vectors and help their passengers out by dropping them off, then Advancing to be within range of a target enemy unit the passengers want to shoot. Despoiled Ground (Battlefield Supremacy): (end game scoring) This secondary gives you four conditions to score points off of at the end of the game:

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Rob: As for Cultists losing Objective Secured – well, if GW doesn’t want me to buy any more of these ever again, sure. Whatever, I hate painting them anyways. Nurgle’s Gift (Contagion): While an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of this unit (see below), subtract 1 from the Toughness characteristic of models in that enemy unit. Overall Chaos Daemons did pretty well in the points adjustment! I was probably a bit too harsh on them in our original assessment of factions immediately following our review of the Munitorum Field Manual points update. The real question is how they play. Chaos Lord • Exalted Champion • Chaos Champion • Aspiring Champion • Sorcerer Lord • Daemon Prince • Daemon Prince of Nurgle • Daemon Prince of Tzeentch • Death Guard Lord Contagions: The Plague Company rules give you seven plagues to spread, and the book provides you a bunch of tools to manipulate them and unleash them where it matters most.

Oh man, I almost forgot to add the Tallyman! For 70 points he’s a bargain. And we’re just now at 1599. What else do we need now. Well, we have a lot of bodies on the tabletop and some firepower with the Plagueburst Crawlers. We’re great at holding an objective but pushing into enemy territory is going to be a challenge. Especially as this army isn’t particularly fast. No Mercy, No Respite secondaries are probably going to make more sense with a Nurgle-heavy army where Grind Them Down can benefit large plaguebearer squads that are hard to remove, or large units of Horrors that can split models and be a chore to grind through, making it likely you can score points for Grind Them Down on a smaller number of kills. Your game plan already relies on killing more units than your opponent most games, anyways. Thin Their Ranks isn’t liable to be something you’ll look at and is really more something you want to make sure you’re not giving up inadvertently – taking 90 pink horrors with splitting is going to make this one a no-brainer against you. While We Stand, We Fight isn’t likely to be a good play, since it’s most often going to double-reward an opponent for killing your greater daemons. This article explains the main information from the Warhammer 40k 10th edition Death Guard rulesthat you’ll need to bear in mind when planning your army. This is a bigger deal for competitive play than casual, but previously many rules such as Psychic powers, add-on Warlord Traits and Relics, and using stratagems that Exalt your Greater Daemons were done at the start of the game, after you’d seen your opponent’s list, allowing you a chance to respond to what they were bringing. That’s not the case anymore, meaning that we have to be much more laser-focused with our pre-game strategy, and it means that a lot of traits and powers that we’d have used conditionally now just aren’t likely to make it into our lists. Note that if you’re rolling for random Exalted traits for your Greater Daemons, those rolls happen before you make decisions about placing units in Reserves. Army Construction

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Recruiting from the toxic world Barbarus, the Death Guard prided themselves on their hardiness, their indomitability, and their resistance to pain. They fought in the foulest of warzones, prosecuting the most uncompromising and gruelling sieges through swamps poisoned by industrial waste, trenches filled with radioactive contaminants, or jungles alive with alien plagues. Ok, let’s talk about the new ones. Here are my votes for the seven best new Death Guard stratagems: The Destroyer Plague and Nurgle’s Rot ravaged them, driving warriors insane and rotting the very souls of the Astartes. Eventually Mortarion, most stoic and indomitable of the Primarchs, succumbed to the only path he could see that would end his sons’ suffering: he pledged them all, body and soul, to Nurgle.

Let’s go with some Blightlord Terminators! They’ve got some heavy armor, a good invulnerable save, and you can Teleport Strike with them. And because it’s Nurgle, we gotta go with 7 of them. At 40 points each that’s 280 points + wargear. With there addition we’re at 1879 + wargear. I want to stop there because Death Guard can also buy Deadly Pathogens which is a whole other set of abilities. The ListBoth will add anti-tank firepower; the Crawler is slow, durable, carries a huge plague mortar that can target units out of line of sight, and has the option for sponson-mounted Entropy cannons, while the Blighthauler is fast, comparatively fragile, and happiest when it follows up a salvo of missiles and melta-fire by charging into enemy lines.

Wings: Since this is essentially ATSKNF , it’ll be interesting to see if it’s Death Guard only or propagates over to the rest of CSM when they get a book. I could go either way, the flavour here is quite Death Guard specific. We posted this in the Thousand Sons Faction Focus, but it’s worth reposting here where it’s less of a troll for readers. This list is patterned after the one that Davis Frye recently piloted to a 1st-place finish at a 9th-edition release party RTT in Virginia, and focuses on threat saturation with big daemons (Frye has given credit to Seth Riggins for coming up with the list). Terminators: Both flavours of Terminators are now some of the nastiest in the game, and should be incredibly satisfying to use on the table.Once you have selected an eligible unit to declare a charge, you must select one or more enemy units within 12" of it as the targets of that charge. The targets of a charge do not need to be visible to the charging unit.