The Garden of Nurgle and Nurgle Plaguebearer List

Yesterday, Games Workshop announced that they’ve released another batch of digital products, including a nurgly background-supplement called the Garden of Nurgle.

The Plague Father’s realm within the Warp includes the nauseating putrescent of the Garden of Nurgle. A tangled forest of noxious plants and rotting souls the garden is crisscrossed with winding paths and stinking bogs, each one leading to another terrible part of Nurgle’s personal domain.

£3.49 for 14 pages is a probably too steep for me, though I do have a soft spot for green (if you haven’t noticed). So instead, I thought I post a nurgly list (even though my 40k-list-building-fu is weak) as there are preciously few chances to talk about Warhammer 40K Chaos Daemons.

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#1 – A Brief Plaguebearer Tactica

For me, for most armies, there’s always “that one model” that makes me want to build an army. For Tau, it’s the humble Fire Warrior. For Daemons, it’s probably the new plastic Plague Bearers that keep growing on me the longer I think on them.

Plaguebearers are a staple of most Chaos Daemons armies though, and for good reasons.

• Plagueswords – Most people thinking of Plaguebearers think camping objectives. That’s not wrong, but Plaguebearers come with one of the greatest utility weapons in a Daemons army: Plagueswords. They are poisonous and they can auto-glance vehicles on a 6. All right, I admit, you need will somebody else to cut through Space Marines, but when Plaguebearers can attacks something vulnerable to their swords, they should!

• Daemon of Nurgle – Plaguebearers lost Feel No Pain, though they did gain Shrouded, Slow and Purposeful and – if the unit is made up entirely of Daemons of Nurgle – Defensive Grenade. Yes… objectives! Objectives win Warhammer 40K.

• Herald of Nurgle – With a Greater Locus of Fecundity (love those names!), they bring back Feel No Pain to your tough & Shrouded Plaguebearers. Now try moving that!

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#2 – A 1500 Points Nurgle Daemons List

A 1500 Nurgle Daemons list full of slimy green goodness.

• Great Unclean One - Eternal Blade for extra attacks, Greater Reward for the fun potential of Daemonic Resilience (but nearly all of them are great). T7 and Shrouded. What’s not to like?

• Herald of Nurgle – Gives the large Plaguebearers unit Feel No Pain. Instant Death-Sword keeps your opponent wary.

• Plaguebearers of Nurgle - An extra helping of Plaguebearers… it’s what I promised!

• Nurglings – Can’t have a Nurgle-list without Nurglings, can you?

• Beasts of Nurgle – Admittedly, a Nurgle-themed army like this will move at a snails pace. Beasts of Nurgle aren’t the fastest thing in the Codex, but their Attention Seeker ability can jump a surprise on your opponent if he moves too carelessly as he’s running circles around your slimy guys.

• Plague Drones – I don’t really know much about them, but they have shiny new models. The icon might come in handy for deep striking other units.

• Winged Daemon Princes – Flying Monstrous Creatures to challenge the skies (and just about everything else). They aren’t cheap, but they hit hard!

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Thoughts?

What do you think?

It’s not an army that will win tournaments (nor does it want to be that army), but it may well teach some of your opponents the meaning of nurgleseque perseverance.

• Would you play a Nurgle army like this?
• Would you change something? If so, what?
• What would you do if this army showed up opposing you?

Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Z.