One of the changes for Plague Marines in the recent points updates has been that their weapon options have become free. So you can give a Plague Marine a plasma gun or a melta for for the same cost as a bolt gun, and that’s too good a thing to turn down. My last few games have seen me take some weapon upgrades but I’ve had to proxy them on the table, I didn’t have any meltas at all. So I’ve been working on some models to give me some more options.
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My hope for this was that I would use it to take an objective during deployment and hope that my opponent would shoot at it buying me time to move up the other elements of my army. Coupling this with something fast, to take the best advantage of the time that the Malignifier would buy me, seemed a good idea. Originally I took three Foetid Bloat Drones, but on the way to the game store I recalled that in 1,000 point games there’s a limit of using a data sheet twice. So I hurriedly dropped the third drone, brought in a Plagueburst Crawler to act as a big beat stick, and paid the increased cost by taking less Poxwalkers. The drones were backed by a winged Daemon Prince.
The third element to the army was some ground pounding Plague Marines lead by a Malignant Plaguecaster and backed with some Poxwalkers. Hopefully they wouldn’t draw much fire and would move around getting stuff done.
Plague Gardening 