Yeah I've got the death guard 9th and Limited edition Beast Snaggas 9th. Similar to what we saw for Space Marines with Combat Doctrines, Death Guard now get a bonus for keeping the army to a single faction: If every unit in your army has the DEATH GUARD keyword, then those units gain the Nurgles Gift Contagion ability, which gives enemy units within contagion range -1 Toughness. As a Lord of the Death Guard he now has a 6 reroll hits of 1 aura that only affects Core units. Similar to Cryptek Arcana in Necrons, these arent relics, so you can have both a relic and a pathogen on a model, but you can only take each one once. Wings: Fully agree with Don here, this guy rocks, just a really strong, flexible character. Diseased Minions prevents you from taking more PLAGUE FOLLOWER units (Cultists) than BUBONIC ASTARTES CORE infantry units in your Detachment, and applies the same restriction for Poxwalkers, so a given Detachment can only have a maximum of one Poxwalker and one Cultist unit per Plague Marine, Blightlord or Deathshroud unit. Hes T8 now and he gets a staggering three Warlord Traits, plus at the start of every game you get to pick one of the Plague Company Warlord Traits to give to him. All of the Chaos Space Marine units with T4 now have T5 in the book, so Chaos Lords, Possessed, and Sorcerers in Terminator Armour got a nice boost to their durability. Possessed are in a weird spot. The new Contagion rules give you access to a unique battlefield control tool, and will reward you for clever positioning and use of stratagems to spread the sickness. This secondary is one that is likely to never be taken. That never made sense anyways. Losing contagions for them stings a little, but opening up your arsenal to include Daemons and Chaos Space Marines gives you access to Poxbringers and psychic powers like. The book really captures the narrative feeling of the Death Guard, and to me that is a sign of a great Codex. Adding the enhanced mode makes this way more exciting, because that starts to do spectacular damage to hordes and appreciable hurt to smaller units. Theres only one truly bad unit in the book and even they have a purpose, and I can already picture multiple builds with this army both as monofaction Death Guard and in soup lists. Disgustingly Resilient has had a big change in that it now reduces the damage of an attack rather than being a 5+ wound shrug this makes you much more susceptible to Damage 1 weapons, but is actually a net improvement against damage 2 shots. These are the Daemon engine specialists and their abilities reflect this, their strat is ace not only does it allow daemon engines to shoot blast weapons in engagement range, they also get +1 to hit! Since we published the 2020 edition of the Munitorum Field Manual we have released several 9th edition codexes One This means that they will most frequently have to foot slog. Stratagem lets a unit of poxwalkers re-roll hit rolls and is a pretty powerful effect on top of their WS boost and Nurgles Gift. Those are pretty great rules but the clincher is that you can deploy this model and its furnace buddy within 6 of each other anywhere more than 12 away from the enemy deployment zone and any enemy models, allowing you to drop these guys mid-table and control sections of the board as your units move up. Whatever, I hate painting them anyways. B-. It has gone up to 18 range, but in 9th with fixed power choices its very hard to take an option thats going to be dead or nearly dead in some games. The Entropy Cannons are only +5 points now and also strongly worth consideration, since they now do a staggering D3+3 damage. This is a wonderful upgrade from the previous (now mostly broken) iteration, giving Plague Marines the ability to Rapid Fire (via the returning Malicious Volleys rule) at 24 on the move, and dramatically improving the armys mobility overall. Can see some really fun lists with aggressive mortars and defilers with this! Finally, Im in Dons camp on the Daemon Prince the sword build whips now. It extends the range of the bearers Aura abilities by 3, to a maximum of 12. Rob vs. Don: Are Death Guard Possessed Good? and has been replaced with most units just having more attacks. You can publish your book online for free in a few minutes! Like the other Daemon Engines the Crawler now hits on a 3+ and the Mortar is also now more reliable with a flat 2 damage, the Entropy cannons now do D3 +3 given them a spike in effectiveness too! Thats. Did possessed get better with the new book? (progressive scoring) Score 3 Victory Points at the end of any battle round that an enemy unit fails a morale check and has suffered at least 1 casualty from a plague weapon that battle round. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. ffAh, the suffering! Required fields are marked *. He, like the rest of our Lords gained the aura of reroll hit rolls of 1 for CORE units within 6. We definitely have some stand out units/stratagems, but each codex of 9th does. Surprisingly great on a Malignant Plaguecaster, as pushing their staff to S8 AP-2 makes it much, much more dangerous for opponents to wander into bonk distance. Chaos is fickle! That means the sword build in particular is massively better here you get 6 S8 AP-3 D3 attacks (plus one with your default talon), and your opponent is going to be at -1T. Bigger chances are afoot for Plague Wind (WC6) and GIft of Contagion (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. This is an interesting change and I wonder if we see any other actions like this in other codex in order to restrict cheap units that often got picked to fill out detachments. (2 CP) is potentially the most busted Stratagem in the book. The Entropy Cannons are only +5 points now and also strongly worth consideration, since they now do a staggering D3+3 damage. This new book finally brings the faction forward into 9th edition with a massive release that includes new units and a major refresh of the model range. of weapon profiles were tweaked, to the point that Im. This really only matters for Poxwalkers because well, youre never going to take Death Guard Cultists again. I am not sure how hard it is going to be to keep this fortification alive. Gift of Contagion no longer applies a random effect, instead always stripping off a point of S, and taking away an attack as well if you get an 8+ on your cast. This relic is identical to its 8th edition version, but is even more useful now. Combine those with the one-per-detachment restriction and an inability to field one alongside another Lord and while I still think the Death Guard daemon prince is good, he wont be the auto-include he was. Within the 3rd Edition a new type of codex was published. , however. 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 isnt great, but so much of it just works. Stratagem. Continuing from the character upgrades seen in the Space Marine codex, the Death Guard can pay points to give upgrades to the characters and unit champions and while named characters cannot take them, I absolutly love the fact that you can for example give your Deathshroud champion an upgrade giving each hit of a 6 an additional hit, or why not make each wound of 6 cause a mortal wound on top? A+, Rob: This book is straight fire. You now can only give him wings or a Plague Spewer with the wings now only increasing his movement to 10. On the whole however I do feel that the Death guard come out of this for the better and it seems a fairly balanced book. Hobby Guide: I did an Army Centre-piece model and so can you! Theyve got 2W and 2A each on their profiles now, plus Remorseless. relic can heal nearby vehicles every time the bearer kills a model. I have a small collection of marines but I'm too poor to buy the book Thanks in advance 28 65 comments Add a Comment gatedcerulean 1 yr. ago Almost every datasheet in Codex: Death Guard has been updated. Whatever, I hate painting them anyways. . If those sound like Auras to you well, they should be but the rules explicitly state that they arent and are not affected by rules that affect Auras. Your Plague Marines, Terminators and Daemon Engines can soak up absurd levels of punishment as they creep inexorably closer to the enemy, and when they arrive they can do spectacular damage, crushing all resistance in their path. This is a wonderful upgrade from the previous (now mostly broken) iteration, giving Plague Marines the ability to Rapid Fire (via the returning. This secondary is one that is likely to never be taken. , I do also want to call out that the relic is an absurdly strong character buff it just gives the bearer full hit and wound re-rolls in melee with no questions asked, which is quite the thing on a Daemon Prince with a hellforged sword. The many Relics of the Death Guard Codex have undergone some changes as well. July 15, 2020. Both conditions must be met to gain these points. Units with this rule count as Stationary if they didnt Advance or Fall Back in the previous Movement phase, Vehicles with the rule dont 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. It does not affect Nurgle units when it explodes either. The unit also now caps at 10 models rather than 20. now gives friendly BUBONIC ASTARTES infantry units within 3 a 6+ roll to ignore wounds, and can heal a friendly model for up to D3 wounds. I love content like this as it really allows you to capture the narrative of your force with a developing story that will evolve between games. by Lord-Solar Looking for a good pdf fro the 9th ed space marines codex Like the title. This is going to let you do some extremely stupid stuff in combination with the Plague Company Contagions and the Flash Outbreak stratagem. They will be unrelenting and will provide a lot of pressure to their opponent. Five Things to Know About Chaos Space Marines. Did they improve as much as everything else? If youve not picked up a Codex before, essentially this contains lore information about the army that shares their history, their organisation and leaders along with the rules for using the units in both Matched Play and Crusade games. are just as great as you remember re-roll wound rolls of 1. The Death Guard see quite a lot of changes in this new Codex, with a number of new keywords created in order to manage these rules. is potentially the only loser of the bunch, having received a major nerf to his plague sprayer damage its now only damage 2 and is locked in at S7 and a big nerf to his fight last aura, which now only affects one unit within 3, but has been improved to include the not eligible language that turns off fight first abilities. Yes, they are a bit faster than our other infantry, but they dont necessarily hit much harder and have practically no interaction in the shooting phase. The Death Guard are the Traitor Legion most favoured by Nurgle. Also. The ability to Heroically Intervene with your units, even as a Stratagem, is an incredibly good trick to have in your back pocket and Gloaming Bloat is also super good.
