I was really lazy for this game, well with some thought backing that up. The list I used in my last game against the Tyranids seemed to be reasonably good so I thought that I would try it again. But I’m also aware that I need to give my Plague Marines another chance on the table, but to do that I need to contemplate the buffing characters, so that can wait a bit.
I enjoyed my last game and felt that the list was working reasonably well, but that it had some fat that could be trimmed.
The Helbrute was dropped as I don’t think that it gave me much, my plan of using it to infect things didn’t really make much difference when it seemed that by the second round I was infecting stuff anyway. I also came to the bizarre conclusion that I had too many Nurglings.
So those things were dropped out of the list, which gave me a few more points. I took a unit of Cultists, my plan for them being that I could use their scout move to move towards the centre of the table and grab stuff or that I could hold them back to perform actions in my deployment zone. I also took a fast moving Bloat Drone equipped with the lawnmower to act as an additional threat and a distraction from Mortarion.
This would be my second game using 10th’s Leviathan Mission cards and it would be slightly bigger than my last at 1,500 points. Mortarion seemed to be working nicely in 10th and I wanted to get all my Plagueburst Crawlers onto the table, and that’s a big chunk from my list gone. I also wanted to bring the Helbrute back to see if he could tag enemy units with the Death Guard’s contagions. Typhus was almost an after thought for my list, and he was accompanied by only a small unit of 10 Poxwalkers. I think this was was, as I will return to, a mistake. The Lord of Virulence with some Deathshroud seems like a solid choice, and then it was a case of taking as many Nurselings as I could.
Plague Gardening 