Death Guard – Plague Marines
RANGED WEAPONS | RANGE | A | BS | S | AP | D | |
| Blight launcher blast lethal hits | |||||||
| Blight launcher blast lethal hits | 24" | D3 | 3+ | 6 | -1 | 2 | |
| Boltgun lethal hits | |||||||
| Boltgun lethal hits | 24" | 2 | 3+ | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bolt pistol lethal hits pistol | |||||||
| Bolt pistol lethal hits pistol | 12" | 1 | 3+ | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Meltagun melta 2 | |||||||
| Meltagun melta 2 | 12" | 1 | 3+ | 9 | -4 | D6 | |
| Plague belcher anti-infantry 4+ ignores cover torrent | |||||||
| Plague belcher anti-infantry 4+ ignores cover torrent | 12" | D6 | N/A | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Plague spewer anti-infantry 2+ ignores cover torrent | |||||||
| Plague spewer anti-infantry 2+ ignores cover torrent | 12" | D6 | N/A | 5 | -1 | 1 | |
| Plasma gun – standard rapid fire 1 | |||||||
| Plasma gun – standard rapid fire 1 | 24" | 1 | 3+ | 7 | -2 | 1 | |
| Plasma gun – supercharge hazardous rapid fire 1 | |||||||
| Plasma gun – supercharge hazardous rapid fire 1 | 24" | 1 | 3+ | 8 | -3 | 2 | |
| Plasma pistol – standard pistol | |||||||
| Plasma pistol – standard pistol | 12" | 1 | 3+ | 7 | -2 | 1 | |
| Plasma pistol – supercharge hazardous pistol | |||||||
| Plasma pistol – supercharge hazardous pistol | 12" | 1 | 3+ | 8 | -3 | 2 | |
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Bubotic weapons lethal hits | |||||||
| Bubotic weapons lethal hits | Melee | 4 | 3+ | 5 | -2 | 1 | |
| Heavy plague weapon lethal hits | |||||||
| Heavy plague weapon lethal hits | Melee | 3 | 4+ | 8 | -2 | 2 | |
| Plague knives lethal hits | |||||||
| Plague knives lethal hits | Melee | 3 | 3+ | 4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Power fist lethal hits | |||||||
| Power fist lethal hits | Melee | 3 | 3+ | 8 | -2 | 2 | |
WARGEAR OPTIONS
- The Plague Champion’s boltgun can be replaced with one of the following:
- 1 bolt pistol
- 1 plasma gun
- 1 plasma pistol
- The Plague Champion’s plague knives can be replaced with one of the following:
- 1 bubotic weapons
- 1 power fist
- For every 5 models in this unit, 1 Plague Marine’s boltgun can be replaced with 1 blight launcher.
- For every 5 models in this unit, 1 Plague Marine’s boltgun can be replaced with 1 plague spewer.
- For every 5 models in this unit, 1 Plague Marine’s boltgun can be replaced with one of the following:
- 1 meltagun
- 1 plague belcher
- 1 plasma gun
- For every 5 models in this unit, up to 2 Plague Marines can each have their boltgun replaced with 1 bubotic weapons.
- For every 5 models in this unit, up to 2 Plague Marines can each have their boltgun replaced with 1 heavy plague weapon.
- One Plague Marine equipped with a boltgun can be equipped with 1 icon of despair. This model’s boltgun cannot be replaced.
ABILITIES
FACTION: Nurgle’s Gift (Aura)
Infused with the Blessings of Nurgle: In your Shooting phase, each time this unit is selected to shoot, after this unit has shot, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks. Until the start of your next turn, that enemy unit is Afflicted.
WARGEAR ABILITIES
Icon of Despair (Aura): While an enemy unit is within 6" of the bearer, worsen the Leadership characteristic of models in that unit by 1.
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 1 Plague Champion
- 4-9 Plague Marines
| YOUR UNIT COSTS | |
| 5 models | 90 |
| 7 models | 125 |
| 10 models | 180 |
KEYWORDS: INFANTRY; BATTLELINE; GRENADES; CHAOS; NURGLE; PLAGUE MARINES
FACTION KEYWORDS:
DEATH GUARD
DEATH GUARD
STRATAGEMS
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Core
C
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Core
C
FIRE OVERWATCH
1CP
Core
C
RAPID INGRESS
1CP
Core
C
EXPLOSIVES
1CP
Core
C
HEROIC INTERVENTION
1CP
Core
C
COUNTEROFFENSIVE
2CP
Core
C
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic
BA
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
BLESSINGS OF FILTH
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic
GROTESQUE FORTITUDE
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic
MALIGNANCE MAGNIFIED
2CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic
RABID INFUSION
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Strategic Ploy
INFESTATION
1CP
Embarked Regiment – Strategic Ploy
DRONING HORROR
1CP
Flyblown Host Stratagem
EYE OF THE SWARM
1CP
Flyblown Host Stratagem
NAUSEATING PAROXYSMS
1CP
Flyblown Host Stratagem
DRAWN TO DESPAIR
1CP
Mortarion’s Hammer – Battle Tactic
SHAMBLING WALL
1CP
Shamblerot Vectorium – Strategic Ploy
SHOCK AND HORROR
1CP
Shamblerot Vectorium – Strategic Ploy
CLUTCHING CORRUPTION
1CP
Tallyband Summoners – Battle Tactic
SEEPING CORROSION
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy
CHINKS IN THE ARMOUR
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Battle Tactic
GROTESQUE DEMISE
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy
LEECHSPORE ERUPTION
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Epic Deed
PLAGUESURGE
2CP
Virulent Vectorium – Epic Deed
DISGUSTINGLY RESILIENT
2CP
Virulent Vectorium – Battle Tactic
CREEPING BLIGHT
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Wargear
LED BY
This unit can be led by the following units:
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Verminous Haze
Worldblight
Miasmic Bombardment
Manifold Maladies
Reverberant Rancidity
Numberless Horde
Deadly Vectors
Sevenfold Offerings
ENHANCEMENTS
Insectile Murmuration
15
Plagueveil
15
06.02.01 Normal Damage
Normal Damage is damage that was inflicted on a model as a result of a weapon’s D characteristic, rather than by other means such as mortal wounds. Mortal wounds dealt in addition to normal damage from an attack are part of that same attack.
06.02 Mortal Wounds
Some attacks or rules inflict mortal wounds on units. Each time a unit suffers one or more mortal wounds, its controlling player must resolve the following sequence for each of those mortal wounds, until either all of them have been inflicted or that unit is destroyed:- Select Model: Select one model in that unit by following the first instruction below that applies:
If a non-CHARACTER model in that unit has lost one or more wounds, you must select that model. Otherwise, if that unit contains one or more non-CHARACTER models, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, if one or more CHARACTER models in that unit have lost one or more wounds, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, you must select one CHARACTER model in that unit. - Resolve Damage: The selected model loses 1 wound. If this reduces that model’s remaining wounds to 0, it is destroyed.
MORTAL WOUNDS AND NORMAL DAMAGE
When resolving attack dice, if those attacks inflict a mixture of both mortal wounds and normal damage, resolve all of the normal damage first, then resolve all of the mortal wounds.
SEE ALSO
- Normal Damage 06.02.01
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Aircraft
Artillery
Infantry
Mounted
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
The DEATH GUARD keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Monster Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Battleline
Aircraft
Artillery
Beast
Infantry
Swarm
Vehicle
The GRENADES keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Monster Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Battleline
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Aircraft
Artillery
Infantry
Mounted
The PLAGUE LEGIONS keyword is used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Monster Epic Hero
Monster Character
Battleline
Beast
Mounted
Swarm
[LETHAL HITS]24.23
Many deadly weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.
Each time an attack made with a [LETHAL HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, you can choose for that attack to automatically wound the target.Designer’s Note: Choosing to automatically wound the target means that no wound roll is made for that attack. You may decide against this, as it means that attack cannot result in a critical wound and so cannot trigger other abilities such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].
Hit Roll
Make one hit roll for each attack dice by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a hit by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL HITS
Critical hits are still hits. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical hit, such as [LETHAL HITS] (24).Nurgle’s Gift (Aura)
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.
If your Army Faction is DEATH GUARD, while an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of one or more DEATH GUARD models from your army, it is Afflicted (see below).
CONTAGION RANGE
Contagion Range changes over the course of the battle:
Contagion Range cannot be greater than 12" after modifiers.
AFFLICTEDCONTAGION RANGE
Contagion Range changes over the course of the battle:
Contagion Range cannot be greater than 12" after modifiers.
During the Declare Battle Formations step, select one of the Plagues below. Until the end of the battle, while an enemy unit is Afflicted, subtract 1 from the Toughness characteristic of models in that unit, and that unit has the effect of your chosen Plague.
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 a melee 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). |
[DEVASTATING WOUNDS]24.10
The most potent weapons strike with such power that they make a mockery of armour and can cleave through several foes.
Each time an attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon results in a critical wound, the attack sequence for that attack ends and the target unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the D characteristic of that weapon. These are inflicted after resolving any normal damage inflicted by those attacks.Mortal wounds inflicted by [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapons can damage a maximum of one model for each critical wound; any remaining mortal wounds inflicted by that attack are lost.
Example: An attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon with a D characteristic of 3 results in a critical wound against an Intercessor Squad, so inflicts 3 mortal wounds. The first 2 mortal wounds are sufficient to destroy 1 Intercessor model, so the remaining mortal wound is lost.
05.02.01 Multiple Toughness Characteristics
When resolving attacks that target a unit in which the models have two or more different T characteristics, follow the first instruction that applies from below:- If the target unit is an attached unit, use the highest T characteristic amongst bodyguard models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
- Use the highest T characteristic amongst models in that unit that are on the battlefield.
Wound Roll
Make one wound roll for each hit by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a wound by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL WOUNDS
Critical wounds are still wounds. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical wound, such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] (24).SEE ALSO
- Multiple Toughness Characteristics 05.02.01
05.04.04 Destroyed
Throughout a battle, models will suffer damage, lose wounds and be destroyed. When every model in a unit has been destroyed, that unit is destroyed.When a model is destroyed, first resolve any rules that are triggered when it is destroyed, then it is removed from the battlefield. If any such rules apply, and if the model was destroyed as the result of an attack, unless otherwise stated, those rules are only resolved and that model is only removed after the attacking unit’s attacks have been resolved. Unless otherwise stated, destroyed models and units cannot use abilities or be selected or targeted by rules.
Some rules only trigger if an enemy model or unit was destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army. This means that the enemy model or unit was destroyed by an attack made by a model from your army, or by a player rule you have. Enemy models or units that are destroyed by any other means are not destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army.
06.03 Hazard Rolls
To make a hazard roll for a unit, roll one D6: on a 1-2, that roll fails and that unit suffers 1 mortal wound, or 3 mortal wounds instead if each model in that unit is a MONSTER/VEHICLE model. If more than one hazard roll is required for a unit, make all of those rolls simultaneously.
06.01 Visibility
Line of sight is used to determine visibility between models. For an observing model to have line of sight, it must be possible to draw an imaginary straight line, 1 mm wide, from any part of that model to any part of the model being observed. This line is the line of sight. While doing so, other models in the observing model’s unit and in the observed model’s unit are ignored.Other models and units can be either visible or fully visible to the observing model, as shown below. Note that terrain applies additional rules to visibility (13.07).
Model Visible
If any part of another model is visible to the observing model, that model is visible.
Model Fully Visible
If every part of another model that is facing the observing model is visible to the observing model (so the only thing blocking visibility to any part of that other model is that model itself), that model is fully visible.
Unit Visible
If one or more models in a unit are visible to the observing model, that unit is visible.
Unit Fully Visible
If every model in a unit is fully visible to the observing model, that unit is fully visible. When determining this, the observing model can see through other models in that unit.
The DEATH GUARD and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Death Guard datasheets:
Infantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Battleline
13.08 Benefit of Cover
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit, if every model in that unit meets one or more of the following conditions, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack:- That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area.
- That model is not fully visible to the attacking model due to one or more intervening terrain features and/or one or more intervening obscuring terrain areas (see below).
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit that has the benefit of cover against it, worsen the BS characteristic of that attack by 1.
STEALTH24.33
The stealthiest warriors can evade the attentions, and the bullets, of their foes.
If every model in a unit has this ability, each time a ranged attack targets that unit, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).[IGNORES COVER]24.18
Some weapons are designed to root enemy formations out of entrenched positions.
Each time an attack is made with an [IGNORES COVER] weapon, the target cannot have the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08), including from rules that give a model or unit the benefit of cover (e.g. Stealth).03.04 Engagement
A model’s engagement range is the area of the battlefield within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of it.
- While a friendly model is within engagement range of one or more enemy models, those models – and the units they belong to – are engaged with each other.
- While a unit contains no engaged models, that unit is unengaged.
WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT?
While opposing models are within each other’s engagement range, they are able to fight in vicious melee, so unless they are seeking to make melee attacks, models should keep out of their foes’ reach.
ENGAGEMENT
These two units have at least one model within 2" of the opposing unit, and are therefore engaged with each other.
SNAP SHOOTING15.09
ELIGIBLE IF: As stated in the rule allowing this shooting type.
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
- You can only target one visible enemy unit within 24" of your unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
- Each attack only hits on an unmodified hit roll of 6 (irrespective of the attacking weapon’s BS characteristic or any modifiers).
- You cannot re-roll hit rolls.
FIRE OVERWATCH15.08
1CP
Core Stratagem
A hail of fire can drive back advancing foes.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
ADVANCE MOVE09.06
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Advance roll + your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Make an advance roll by rolling one D6.
AFTER MOVING:
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or start an action.
01.07.01 Battlefield Morale
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.
01.07 Battle-shock Rolls
To make a battle-shock roll for a unit, its controlling player makes a leadership roll for it (see above).- If that roll succeeds, that unit does not become battle-shocked.
- If that roll fails, that unit, and each model in it, is battle-shocked.
While a unit is battle-shocked:
- The Objective Control (OC) characteristic of all of its models is modified to ‘-’ (02.02).
- Its controlling player cannot target that unit with stratagems (15).
- It is not eligible to start an action (16), and any action it has started cannot be completed.
SEE ALSO
- Battlefield Morale 01.07.01
- Battle-shock Test 01.07.02
BATTLEFIELD MORALE
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.The FLYBLOWN tag is used in the following Death Guard detachments:
01.02.01 Starting Strength and Half-Strength
The number of models a unit contains at the start of the first battle round is its starting strength. The starting strength of an attached unit is the number of models that unit contains at the start of the first battle round.Some rules refer to units being below starting strength, or at – or below – half-strength. The meaning of these terms varies depending on a unit’s starting strength, as shown below.
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Example: A Captain (1 model) is attached to a unit of Intercessors (5 models). This attached unit has a starting strength of 6. If three Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be at half-strength. If four Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be below half-strength. If all of the Intercessors were destroyed, the remaining Captain would be below half-strength, despite having his full wounds remaining.
SOME UNITS CANNOT BE AT HALF-STRENGTH
If a model’s W characteristic or a unit’s starting strength cannot be evenly divided in half, that model or unit cannot be at half-strength (but can be below half-strength as described above).FIGHTS FIRST24.13
Those possessed of lightning-fast reactions may strike before the opponent can react.
While every model in a unit has this ability, that unit is a Fights First unit.See the Resolve Fights First Combats step in the Fight phase (12.04).
Save Rolls
The opposing player resolves the following sequence:- Create Groups: Divide all models in the target unit into the following groups, as many times as required:
- One group for each CHARACTER model.
- One group for all other models with the same W, Sv and InSv characteristics.
- Allocation Order: Declare the order in which those groups will have attacks allocated to them, applying all of the following:
- If a non-CHARACTER group contains a model that has lost one or more wounds, that group must be first in the allocation order.
- No CHARACTER group can be earlier in the allocation order than a non-CHARACTER group.
- CHARACTER groups containing a model that has lost one or more wounds must be earlier in the allocation order than CHARACTER groups containing no wounded models.
- Make Save Rolls: The opposing player makes one save roll for each attack that wounded the target by rolling one D6.
13.09 Hidden
A model is hidden while all of the following apply to it:- That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area that contains one or more dense terrain features.
- That model’s unit did not make one or more ranged attacks during this turn or during the previous turn.
[BLAST]24.05
High-explosive rounds can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them too close to comrades is unwise.
Each time you gather attack dice for a [BLAST] weapon, add one additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down).If this ability takes the form [BLAST X], each time you gather attack dice for such a weapon, add X additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down) instead.
Example: If a [BLAST 2] weapon with an A characteristic of 3 targets a unit containing 12 models, you would gather four additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of seven for that weapon).
CLOSE-QUARTERS SHOOTING10.06
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply to your unit:
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- Engaged and did not make an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons or is a MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- MONSTER/VEHICLE Models: Each time a MONSTER/VEHICLE model in your unit makes an attack:
- Unless that attack is made with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon and targets a unit your unit is engaged with, subtract 1 from the hit roll.
- If that attack is made with a [BLAST] weapon, it still cannot target a unit your unit is engaged with.
- Non-MONSTER/Non-VEHICLE Models: You can only select [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons to make attacks with and you can only select enemy units that are engaged with your unit as targets.
[CLOSE-QUARTERS]24.07
Weapons designed for close-quarters fighting can be wielded effectively even in the press of melee combat.
Units containing one or more models with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon can shoot using close-quarters shooting (10.06).When using another shooting type, for each model in that unit (excluding MONSTER/VEHICLE models), you can only select one of the following to make attacks with:
- One or more of its [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons.
- One or more of its other ranged weapons.
[TORRENT]24.37
Torrent weapons project clouds of fire, gas or other lethal substances that few foes can hope to evade.
Each time an attack is made with a [TORRENT] weapon, that attack automatically hits the target.EXPLOSIVES15.05
1CP
Core Stratagem
Priming grenades or other explosives, these warriors draw back and hurl death into the enemy’s midst.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged EXPLOSIVES/GRENADES unit that is eligible to shoot and did not make an advance move this turn.
EFFECT: Resolve the following sequence:
TARGET: One friendly unengaged EXPLOSIVES/GRENADES unit that is eligible to shoot and did not make an advance move this turn.
EFFECT: Resolve the following sequence:
- Select one EXPLOSIVES/GRENADES model in your unit.
- Select one unengaged enemy unit within 8" of and visible to that model.
- Roll six D6: for each 4+, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (06.02).
01.05.05 Roll Off
Some rules instruct players to roll off.- To do so, both players roll one D6, and whoever rolls highest wins the roll-off.
- If there is a tie for the highest roll, roll off again.
Army List
Datasheets collatedInfantry Epic Hero
Infantry Character
Battleline
Dedicated Transports
Aircraft
Artillery
Infantry
Mounted
Vehicle
Fortifications
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
[PISTOL]24.27
Pistols can be wielded even at point-blank range.
[PISTOL] and [CLOSE-QUARTERS] are identical for all rules purposes. See [CLOSE-QUARTERS].Designer’s Note: [PISTOL] is a pre-existing ability that will be superseded by [CLOSE-QUARTERS] as this edition of Warhammer 40,000 progresses. Both are functionally the same, but the latter is a more suitable term for weapons that function in this way.
[HAZARDOUS]24.15
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder and those that stand beside them.
Each time a unit is selected to shoot or selected to fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, make a number of hazard rolls (06.03) for that unit equal to the number of [HAZARDOUS] weapons you selected in the Select Weapons step.COMMAND RE-ROLL15.02
1CP
Core Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you make one of the following rolls for a friendly unit or model:
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
- Advance roll
- Charge roll
- Damage roll
- Hazard roll
- Hit roll
- Save roll
- Wound roll
- A roll to determine the number of attacks generated with a weapon.
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
01.05.01 Automatically Successful/Passes/Hits/Wounds
When a dice roll or test is automatically successful or automatically passes/hits/wounds, do not roll the dice and instead move to the next step of the sequence for that roll as if the required result had been rolled. Any rules that take effect on a particular dice result or roll result do not take effect.Example: If a hit roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Wound Rolls step for that attack. Such a hit roll is not a critical hit.
Example: If a wound roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Save Rolls step for that attack. Such a wound roll is not a critical wound.
INSANE BRAVERY15.04
1CP
Core Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you make a battle-shock roll for a friendly unit.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
INGRESS MOVE20.04
SET-UP DISTANCE: 6"
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is in strategic reserves (excluding units that are embarked within TRANSPORTS that are themselves in strategic reserves).EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
WHILE MOVING: Set up your unit wholly within the set-up distance of one or more battlefield edges and more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
- Before the Third Battle Round: While doing so, no models can be set up within your opponent’s deployment zone.
RAPID INGRESS15.07
1CP
Core Stratagem
Be it cunning strategy, potent technology or supernatural ritual, there are many means by which a commander may hasten their warriors’ onset.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
HEROIC INTERVENTION15.11
1CP
Core Stratagem
Voices raised in furious war cries, your warriors surge forth to meet the enemy’s onslaught head-on.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
- Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
+1CP
- Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.
COUNTEROFFENSIVE15.12
2CP
Core Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight step of your opponent’s Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you have made a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll, a saving throw, an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test, a Hazardous test, or just after you have rolled the dice to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon, for an attack, model or unit from your army.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just after you have failed a Battle-shock test taken for a unit from your army.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A well-placed explosive munition in confined shipboard spaces can cause bloody carnage.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
BLESSINGS OF FILTH
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Employing their unique gifts, this champion enhances the weapons of their comrades with even greater levels of infectious malevolence.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD Attached unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD Attached unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
GROTESQUE FORTITUDE
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
After their champion calls down the blessings of Nurgle, these warriors can fight on no matter the catastrophic, often gruesome, damage done to them by the foe.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD Attached unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Toughness characteristic of models in your unit.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD Attached unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Toughness characteristic of models in your unit.
MALIGNANCE MAGNIFIED
2CP
Champions of Contagion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The vile talents of such plague specialists act like a filth-smeared lens, focusing and intensifying the infectious gifts of Nurgle.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD Attached unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD Attached unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
RABID INFUSION
1CP
Champions of Contagion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The combined talents of these Death Guard champions drive their followers into a foam-jawed fury, be it through injection with a curdled cocktail of stimms or immersion in a fug of infectious agents.
WHEN: Start of the Fight phase.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that includes two CHARACTER models.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that includes two CHARACTER models.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability.
INFESTATION
1CP
Embarked Regiment – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The taint left by the servants of Nurgle is not easily scoured from the stuff of realspace.
WHEN: Start or end of any turn, when an enemy unit attempts to Seize an objective marker you have Secured.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) within Contagion Range of that objective marker.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 5+, until the end of your next turn, that objective marker remains Secured by your army and you are considered to control it, regardless of how many enemy models are within range of it.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) within Contagion Range of that objective marker.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 5+, until the end of your next turn, that objective marker remains Secured by your army and you are considered to control it, regardless of how many enemy models are within range of it.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
DRONING HORROR
1CP
Flyblown Host Stratagem
Clouds of droning daemon flies sweep across the battlefield to envelop the enemies of the Death Guard. As their victims claw and scratch at the seething swarms, Mortarion’s sons pick off their targets at leisure.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase, when a friendly PLAGUE MARINES unit is selected to shoot.
TARGET: That PLAGUE MARINES unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks:
TARGET: That PLAGUE MARINES unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks:
- Can re-roll hit rolls of 1.
- That target a unit within half range, can re-roll wound rolls of 1.
EYE OF THE SWARM
1CP
Flyblown Host Stratagem
The vermin swarms intensify as the Death Guard close in upon the enemy. As their foes clutch and tear their crawling skin, pitiless Plague Marines unleash volleys of point‑blank fire into their tormented foes.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase, when a friendly PLAGUE MARINES unit is selected to shoot.
TARGET: That PLAGUE MARINES unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks have [CLOSE-QUARTERS].
TARGET: That PLAGUE MARINES unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s ranged attacks have [CLOSE-QUARTERS].
NAUSEATING PAROXYSMS
1CP
Flyblown Host Stratagem
The contagion borne by the Death Guard and their attendant swarms of winged vermin triggers bouts of sickness and convulsion in those they encounter.
WHEN: Start of the Fight phase
TARGET: One friendly engaged PLAGUE MARINES unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit engaged with your unit. That enemy unit makes a battle-shock roll, with -1 to that battle-shock roll.
TARGET: One friendly engaged PLAGUE MARINES unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit engaged with your unit. That enemy unit makes a battle-shock roll, with -1 to that battle-shock roll.
DRAWN TO DESPAIR
1CP
Mortarion’s Hammer – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Those who languish in misery or cower in terror make themselves easy targets for the Death Guard.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a visible enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT) within your opponent’s deployment zone, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a visible enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT) within your opponent’s deployment zone, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
SHAMBLING WALL
1CP
Shamblerot Vectorium – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Lacking even basic self-preservation instincts, Poxwalkers make excellent walking shields.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly POXWALKERS unit within 3" of your unit and visible to both your unit and the attacking unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your DEATH GUARD unit, if your POXWALKERS unit is visible to the attacking model and is an eligible target for that attack, no saving throw is made for that attack; instead a number of POXWALKERS from your POXWALKERS unit equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack are destroyed.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly POXWALKERS unit within 3" of your unit and visible to both your unit and the attacking unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your DEATH GUARD unit, if your POXWALKERS unit is visible to the attacking model and is an eligible target for that attack, no saving throw is made for that attack; instead a number of POXWALKERS from your POXWALKERS unit equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack are destroyed.
SHOCK AND HORROR
1CP
Shamblerot Vectorium – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Already dismayed by this living nightmare, the enemy falters before another sudden onslaught.
WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after a DEATH GUARD unit from your army ends a Charge move.
TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.
TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.
EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.
CLUTCHING CORRUPTION
1CP
Tallyband Summoners – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The daemons of Nurgle grasp their victims tightly with rotting talons and coiling tentacles, their clutch as inescapable as entropy itself.
WHEN: Fight phase.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more PLAGUE LEGIONS units from your army, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more PLAGUE LEGIONS units from your army, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
SEEPING CORROSION
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Crawling tendrils of foulness spread through the voidship at the touch of the Death Guard, poisoning and rotting luckless foes.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, when a DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) attempts to open a Hatchway.
TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 1" of your unit and on the opposite side of that Hatchway from your unit, and roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. Until the end of the phase, if an enemy unit attempts to prevent that Hatchway from being opened, when rolling off, you can re-roll your result.
TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 1" of your unit and on the opposite side of that Hatchway from your unit, and roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. Until the end of the phase, if an enemy unit attempts to prevent that Hatchway from being opened, when rolling off, you can re-roll your result.
CHINKS IN THE ARMOUR
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Even the slightest weakness is enough for the foulness of the Death Guard to find a way in.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
GROTESQUE DEMISE
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Many of the plague weapons and revolting diseases unleashed by the Death Guard inflict endings so hideous that the mere sight of them is enough to send unharmed enemies fleeing in horror.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after a DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) has shot or fought.
TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that had one or more models destroyed as a result of those attacks. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that had one or more models destroyed as a result of those attacks. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
LEECHSPORE ERUPTION
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Epic Deed Stratagem
Billowing from this warrior's wounds come clouds of parasitic spores that settle on the foe and drain their vitality, stealing it for the one who spawned them.
WHEN: Your Command phase.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD model your army that has lost one or more wounds.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 3" of your model. Roll a number of D6 equal to the number of wounds your model has lost: for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers one mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds) and your model regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 6 lost wounds).
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD model your army that has lost one or more wounds.
EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 3" of your model. Roll a number of D6 equal to the number of wounds your model has lost: for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers one mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds) and your model regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 6 lost wounds).
PLAGUESURGE
2CP
Virulent Vectorium – Epic Deed Stratagem
The foul miasma around the Death Guard swells and thickens, boiling outward like putrid smog.
WHEN: Your Command phase.
TARGET: Your DEATH GUARD WARLORD that is on the battlefield.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models from your army.
TARGET: Your DEATH GUARD WARLORD that is on the battlefield.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models from your army.
DISGUSTINGLY RESILIENT
2CP
Virulent Vectorium – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Those favoured by Nurgle are inured to pain, their rotting bodies shrugging off all but the most traumatic damage with ease.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
CREEPING BLIGHT
1CP
Virulent Vectorium – Wargear Stratagem
Those in the grip of Nurgle's unholy plagues become weaker by the moment, barely able to lift their weapons, let alone defend themselves from the attacking Death Guard.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an Afflicted unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One DEATH GUARD INFANTRY unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an Afflicted unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
Worldblight
Virulent Vectorium Detachment
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.
At the end of your Command phase, if a friendly DEATH GUARD unit is controlling an objective, that objective is secured. Until you lose control of that objective, while an enemy unit is within range of that objective, that enemy unit is Afflicted.Miasmic Bombardment
Mortarion’s Hammer Detachment
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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Manifold Maladies
Champions of Contagion Detachment
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.Reverberant Rancidity
Tallyband Summoners Detachment
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 DEATH GUARD units from your army, that PLAGUE LEGIONS unit has the Nurgle’s Gift ability.While a DEATH GUARD unit from your army is within 7" of one or more PLAGUE LEGIONS units from your army, add 3" to that DEATH GUARD units Contagion Range.
PLAGUE LEGIONS
You can include PLAGUE LEGIONS units in your army, even though they do not have the DEATH GUARD Faction keyword. The combined points cost of such units you can include in your army is:
- Incursion: Up to 500 pts
- Strike Force: Up to 1000 pts
- Onslaught: Up to 1500 pts
No PLAGUE LEGIONS models from your army can be your WARLORD.
Numberless Horde
Shamblerot Vectorium Detachment
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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KEYWORDS
POXWALKERS units from your army gain the BATTLELINE keyword.
Deadly Vectors
Death Lord’s Chosen Detachment
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.Sevenfold Offerings
Vectors of Decay Detachment
Seven by seven the enemy fall, reaped like blighted crops or rotted from within. Seven by seven their souls are offered up to the Lord of Pestilence.
For every seven enemy models that have been destroyed, add 2" to the Contagion Range of units from your army. Note that any increase to the Contagion Range of units from your army as a result of this rule does not take place while a unit from your army is attacking. In such an event, the increase will take effect after such a unit has finished making its attacks.
[ANTI]24.03
Certain weapons are the bane of particular foes.
This ability always takes the form [ANTI-X Y+]. Each time an attack is made with an [ANTI] weapon, if the target unit has the keyword denoted by X, an unmodified wound roll of Y+ is a critical wound.Example: An attack made with an [ANTI-VEHICLE 4+] weapon against a VEHICLE unit will result in a critical wound on an unmodified wound roll of 4+, while an attack made with an [ANTI-PSYKER 2+] weapon against a PSYKER unit will result in a critical wound on an unmodified wound roll of 2+.
[RAPID FIRE]24.30
Rapid fire weapons are capable of long-ranged precision shots or controlled bursts at nearby targets.
This ability always takes the form [RAPID FIRE X]. Each time you gather attack dice for a [RAPID FIRE] weapon, add X additional attack dice if the target unit was within half range of that weapon in the Select Targets step.Example: If a [RAPID FIRE 1] weapon with an A characteristic of 1 targets a unit that is within half range, you would gather one additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of two for that weapon).
[MELTA]24.25
Melta weapons are powerful heat rays whose fury is magnified at close range.
This ability always takes the form [MELTA X]. Each time a model makes an attack with a [MELTA] weapon, if the target unit was within half range of that weapon in the Select Targets step, until the attacking unit’s attacks have been resolved, add X to that weapon’s D characteristic.Example: A model targets a unit that is within half range of a [MELTA 2] weapon with a D characteristic of D6. While resolving those attacks, that weapon has a D characteristic of D6+2.
Verminous Haze
Flyblown Host Detachment
A cloud of winged insects descends over Mortarion’s pathogenic sons, obscuring their malodorous ranks and shielding them from the eyes and augurs of the enemy. Beneath thrumming storms of fat-bodied flies, Plague Marines stride towards their wavering foes until they are close enough to unleash punishing volleys of killing fire.
In the Declare Battle Formations step, you can select up to two friendly PLAGUE MARINES units. Those units have Infiltrators.This detachment has the FLYBLOWN tag and cannot be taken with another FLYBLOWN detachment.
Flyblown Host Detachment
The buzzing swarms respond to the will of Nurgle’s disciples, sweeping down upon their chosen target, their crawling, biting and droning enfeebling the horrified foe.
PLAGUE MARINES unit only. When this unit’s attacks target a unit within Contagion Range of a friendly unit, those attacks can re-roll wound rolls of 1.
Flyblown Host Detachment
Nurgle’s blessings manifest as a buzzing clot of darkness that falls over these diseased pilgrims, enveloping them like an enshrouding fog.
PLAGUE MARINES unit only. This unit has -3" detection range.