death guard stratagems 9th
It is focussed on Fabius Bile (detailed here), but it also covers the Adeptus Custodes and the Death Guard. There’s too much you can’t control and it shares a slot with the. First spotted over on Imgur, now all of these rules can be found in the latest codex reviews on YouTube. This lets you pick a DEATH GUARD unit within 18”, and boost the range of their Contagion abilities by 6” till your next psychic phase, to a maximum of 12”. There are some complaints I have, sure – there are a few areas where the rules are clunky and the lack of cross-faction synergy with daemons isn’t great, but so much of it just works. You still need to get him up the table to make it work but if you’re running Daemons, there’s no way you aren’t running one of the Nurgle heralds. Beyond that, the Plagueburst Crawlers power up the table aided by the Daemon Prince and the rest of your plague marines can move to objectives. A good Death Guard army is always going to have Psykers so Abhor the Witch is out and I’m just not convinced you can afford to train a Malignant Plaguecater or Sorcerer’s time on doing Psychic Actions instead of casting a much-needed buff. At its core, it’s all about threat saturation, and putting too much on the table for an opponent to be able to effectively deal with it all. This has a high floor (it’ll be unusual to score below 6) but a pretty low ceiling, as you can only do one per turn so maxing it out against a savvy opponent is going to be very tough. Finally, Daemons are no longer in the book. Now that we suddenly have a real use for Noxious Blightbringers and Plague Surgeons, it’s a whole different ballgame. Corrupted by the powers of Nurgle, the children of Mortarion grow bloated with filth, their unnatural resilience lending to their tenacious trench warfare abilities. With new rules, point adjustments, stratagems and units. Every HQ choice except for the Malignant Blightcaster and the Sorcerer in Terminator Armour now has the LORD OF THE DEATH GUARD keyword, preventing you from taking more than one in a detachment. In 9th Edition resiliency is crucial, as every mission allocates 50% of the victory points towards taking and holding objectives. This means you can take a Miasmic Malignifier or Hellblade in an army of Ferrymen, then use this to give them. 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. is a new rule that lets units ignore modifiers when taking attrition tests. (WC5), both of which now have a “basic” mode and a more powerful effect that goes off on a cast that exceeds the target charge by 3 or more. Deadly Pathogen, making them S8 and giving them re-rolls on the shots. and has been replaced with most units just having more attacks. Yeah, Poxwalkers and Cultists are expensive now but they went up at rate and Poxwalkers haven’t been played much since the ability to go above starting models was nerfed. Units with this rule count as Stationary if they didn’t Advance or Fall Back in the previous Movement phase, Vehicles with the rule don’t get a penalty for firing Heavy Weapons at units within Engagement range, and INFANTRY with this ability ignore any/all modifiers to its Move characteristic and Advance and Charge rolls. Don: I would like to start off by saying the warhammer community misspoke in their introductory article for this guy. Rhinos get Contagions, making them very neat ways to spread your -1 Toughness around. is back, but now can affect Death Guard CORE units instead of just Plague Marines, which is a welcome plus for Blightlords. and a IW patrol with 3x oblys. At the end of the battle you get 3pts for each objective you have contaminated. Adding the enhanced mode makes this way more exciting, because that starts to do spectacular damage to hordes and appreciable hurt to smaller units. I am in the camp of loving the Malignant Plaguecaster though. We’ll be following this up with more content next week – Starting with a Death Guard-focused Hammer of Math on Monday, a review of the book’s Crusade rules on Tuesday, and a look at building competitive lists from these new rules on Wednesday. So far my game experiences with Death Guard in 9th have suggested that PBCs still aren’t accurate enough to make entropy cannons work. However, most of these units have other things that buffed them, like the daemon prince sword becoming str +1 ap3 3dmg. The only thing I’m a bit worried about is The Droning – I don’t love having to pick on a single effect, but it’s just a bit too easy to slap down a massive bubble of this on turn 2 onwards, and I think there’s a reasonable chance that goes too far in bringing the opposing force down to the Death Guard’s level. Entropy cannons now look like a slightly more effective option, but a lot of their potential value in our War of the Spider review was predicated on the notion that you’d have 6 turns to shoot them over. We have a couple strong secondary picks that will see frequent play. This is a fine change and works well with the extra wound now added to most of the army’s profiles. The first is. (WC6, -1 to hit against a DEATH GUARD unit) are both completely unchanged.