RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
Infernal cannon [lethal hits] | |||||||
Infernal cannon [lethal hits] | 24" | 3 | 2+ | 7 | -1 | 2 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
Hellforged weapons – strike [lethal hits] | |||||||
Hellforged weapons – strike [lethal hits] | Melee | 7 | 2+ | 8 | -2 | 3 | |
Hellforged weapons – sweep [lethal hits] | |||||||
Hellforged weapons – sweep [lethal hits] | Melee | 14 | 2+ | 6 | -1 | 1 |
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Mighty heroes fight at the forefront of battle.
Some CHARACTER units have ‘Leader’ listed on their datasheets. Such CHARACTER units are known as Leaders, and the units they can lead – known as their Bodyguard units – are listed on their datasheet.The Death Guard are warriors of the Plague God Nurgle. Their bloated bodies are riddled with corruption, and their mere presence causes the foe to sicken and wither in the grip of supernatural diseases while the battlefield falls to rot and ruin around them.
Skullsquirm Blight This horrifying affliction sees the minds and senses of the victim gnawed gradually away from within. Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. |
Rattlejoint Ague Limbs shuddering with fever palsy, bones turned brittle as glass, these warriors can barely act to defend themselves. Worsen the Save characteristic of models in this unit by 1. |
Scabrous Soulrot Victims of this insidious ailment become glassy eyed and morose as their very animus and essence decay. Worsen the Move, Leadership, and Objective Control characteristics of models in this unit by 1 (this rule can only worsen a model’s Objective Control characteristic to a minimum of 1). |
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder every time they are used.
Weapons with [HAZARDOUS] in their profile are known as Hazardous weapons. Each time a unit is selected to shoot or fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, for each Hazardous weapon that targets were selected for when resolving those attacks, that unit must take one Hazardous test. To do so, roll one D6: on a 1, that test is failed. For each failed test you must resolve the following sequence (resolve each failed test one at a time):The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
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High-explosives can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them where your comrades will get caught in the ensuing detonation is simply unwise.
Weapons with [BLAST] in their profile are known as Blast weapons, and they make a random number of attacks. Each time you determine how many attacks are made with a Blast weapon, add 1 to the result for every five models that were in the target unit when you selected it as the target (rounding down). Blast weapons can never be used to make attacks against a unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more units from the attacking model’s army (including its own unit).Some warriors attack with blinding speed, landing their blows before their foes can react.
Units with this ability that are eligible to fight do so in the Fights First step, provided every model in the unit has this ability.Some units make their way to battle via tunnelling, teleportation, high-altitude descent or other extraordinary means that allow them to appear suddenly in the thick of the fighting.
During the Declare Battle Formations step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can set it up in Reserves instead of setting it up on the battlefield. If you do, in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models. If a unit with the Deep Strike ability arrives from Strategic Reserves, the controlling player can choose for that unit to be set up either using the rules for Strategic Reserves or using the Deep Strike ability.Many warriors thunder headlong into combat, using the impetus of their charge to bring swift death to their foes.
Each time a unit makes a Charge move, until the end of the turn, that unit has the Fights First ability.Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd, whether through the unerring aim of a sniper or the pinpoint accuracy of a blade-master’s strike.
Weapons with [PRECISION] in their profile are known as Precision weapons. Each time an attack made with such a weapon successfully wounds an Attached unit (see Leader ability), if a CHARACTER model in that unit is visible to the attacking model, the attacking model’s player can choose to have that attack allocated to that CHARACTER model instead of following the normal attack sequence.Some attacks are so powerful that no armour or force field can withstand their fury.
Some rules inflict mortal wounds on units. Each time mortal wounds are inflicted on a unit, each of those mortal wounds inflicts one point of damage to that unit, and they are always applied one at a time. Each mortal wound is allocated to a model in the same manner as allocating an attack. Excess damage from mortal wounds is not lost if the damage can be allocated to another model. Instead, keep allocating damage to another model in the target unit until either all the damage has been allocated or the target unit is destroyed.The PLAGUE LEGIONS keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
As the foul tendrils of the Death Guard quest further across the battlefield, they infest even the most secure, holy and heavily warded sites with supernatural disease. To fight amidst such foulness is a virtual death sentence to the foe, win or lose.
If you control an objective marker at the end of your Command phase and a unit from your army (excluding Battle-shocked units) is within range of that objective marker, that objective marker remains under your control until your opponent’s Level of Control over that objective marker is greater than yours at the end of a phase. In addition, until you lose control of that objective marker, it has the Nurgle’s Gift ability as if it were a model from your army.In the wake of preparatory bombardment by artillery weapons both forbidden and foul, the surviving foe are left reeling amidst clouds of plague smog. With their flesh running like tallow and their weapons rusting in their hands, they will be hard-pressed to fight back.
At the start of the battle round, select a number of enemy units more than 12" away from every model from your army that is on the battlefield. Until the end of the battle round, those enemy units are Afflicted. The maximum number of units you can select in this way depends on the battle size, as shown below.
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A spirit of competition infects Nurgle’s champions when they fight alongside one another. With each vying to outdo the others in virulence, the foes are subjected to a riotous string of nightmarish outbreaks amongst their ranks.
At the start of the battle round, you can select one of the Plagues listed in Nurgle’s Gift. Until the end of the battle, that is your chosen Plague instead of any previously chosen Plague.Reality rings like a struck bell as it rebels against the sheer wrongness of Nurgle’s daemons. Borne upon these jarring waves of metaphysical disease, magnified and redoubled with every dolorous peal, the Plague God’s myriad infections spread and multiply all the faster.
While a PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army is within 7" of one or more units from your army, that PLAGUE LEGIONS unit has the Nurgle’s Gift ability.No matter how many Poxwalkers the enemy gun down or tear limb-from-limb at close quarters, more groaning mutants keep coming from every side.
In your Command phase in each of the following battle rounds, depending on your chosen battle size, add a new POXWALKERS unit with a Starting Strength of 10 to your army, in Strategic Reserves.
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The plagues and parasites to which these elite warriors play host are amongst the most lethal in the galaxy. Moment by moment, even the most resilient foes sicken and wither in their presence until all that remains is rotted matter deliquescing sloppily from mouldering bones.
In your opponent’s Command phase, roll 2D6 for each Afflicted enemy unit, subtracting 1 from the result if that unit is Below Half-strength. If the result is 6 or less, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds.Be it the Seeping Blade, the Talon of Befoulment or even the dreaded Axe of Putrescence, this weapon contains a malevolent daemonic entity whose mere touch rots and sickens the foe.
Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
model only. Each time the bearer makes a melee attack, an unmodifiedSome warriors refuse to be laid low, even by what should be fatal wounds.
Some models have ‘Feel No Pain x+’ listed in their abilities. Each time a model with this ability suffers damage and so would lose a wound (including wounds lost due to mortal wounds), roll one D6: if the result is greater than or equal to the number denoted by ‘x’, that wound is ignored and is not lost. If a model has more than one Feel No Pain ability, you can only use one of those abilities each time that model suffers damage and so would lose a wound.The unfettered energies of Nurgle’s realm gush from the Warp like foulness from a punctured boil, earthing themselves in the fabric of realspace through this champions repulsive body.
objective marker you control, each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Wound roll.
model only. While the bearer’s unit is within range of anThis champion’s body blazes with fever as a cornucopia of supernatural diseases churn and roil within. Mere proximity to them is enough to trigger an infectious outbreak of daemonic viruses.
[DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
model only. Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of the bearers melee weapons, and the bearer’s melee weapons have theThis daemonic familiar lives in the champion’s flesh and watches with bitter paranoia for enemy threats. Should it spot a counterattack from the foe, it bursts forth to scream its shrill warning.
battle round, you can target the bearer’s unit with the Fire Overwatch Stratagem for 0CP.
model only. Once perSome weapons are designed to root enemy formations out of entrenched positions.
Weapons with [IGNORES COVER] in their profile are known as Ignores Cover weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, the target cannot have the Benefit of Cover against that attack.Peering at the world through this bloated yellow orb, the bearer of this vile gift sees the souls of the sickened burning bright as targeting flares no matter how their victims try to hide.
[ignores cover] ability while targeting an Afflicted enemy unit.
model only. Ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit have theThis unclean gift infects its host with animaluminescent fungus. Once their spirit is riddled with incorporeal mycelia, it begins to glow. This sickly radiance acts like a guiding lantern to the daemons of Nurgle, who follow its glare into realspace.
model only. Each time a PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability, if it is set up wholly within 12" of the bearer, it can be set up anywhere that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models, instead of more than 9".
Gifted by Nurgle to be forever surrounded by shambling packs of Poxwalkers, this champion has become adept at leading their festering hordes into battle.
POXWALKER unit, and is in Strategic Reserves, for the purposes of setting up that unit on the battlefield, treat the current battle round as the third battle round.
model only. If the bearer is leading aThis mould-furred talisman is studded with teeth torn from Poxwalkers’ jaws. It bolsters the creatures’ putrid vitality, forcing them to stagger and fight even through grotesque wounds.
POXWALKERS models in that unit.
model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, add 1 to the Toughness characteristic ofSome weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.
Weapons with [LETHAL HITS] in their profile are known as Lethal Hits weapons. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, a Critical Hit automatically wounds the target.From detonating ammo stores to corrosive innards or frenzied death throes, some targets are deadly even in defeat.
Some models have ‘Deadly Demise x’ listed in their abilities. When such a model is destroyed, roll one D6 before removing it from play (if such a model is a TRANSPORT, roll before any embarked models disembark). On a 6, each unit within 6" of that model suffers a number of mortal wounds denoted by ‘x’ (if this is a random number, roll separately for each unit within 6").The DAEMON keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
The FLY keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets: