The Rotten Horror Picture Show: Tyranids vs Death Guard

 

Here they come, walking down the street, get the funniest looks from, everyone they eat...

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Following on from a cracking (and close) game against Winters at Weekend at Burnies (see my batrep here), I took a Death Guard list to play him at the weekend. I was looking for a combination of fluffy but still effective. I tried this force out against Kraken a couple of weeks ago, and it has beautiful Nurgle symmetry: three "Flies" with the number seven embedded in each Fly. Apart from the threes and sevens, I wanted to include some newly modelled Death Guard Possessed, built from a mixture of the AoS Putrid Blightkings, the two old Greater Possessed (now downgraded to lose their Greater status) and a few other new acquisitions (like the Possessed, the Plague Surgeon and Plaguecaster have only been fielded in the test game against Kraken). 

First Fly (seven characters):

• HQ - Maxwell's Daemon, Daemon Prince. Hellforged Sword, Miasma of Pestilence, Warp Insect Hive relic and Revoltingly Resilient as additional warlord trait (-1CP)
• HQ - Clausius, Lord of Contagion. Manreaper (replaced by Reaper of Glorious Entropy relic (-1CP) & Orb of Dessication, Rotten Constitution trait (-1CP)
• HQ - Boltzmann, Malignant Plaguecaster. Bolt pistol, Putrescent Vitality & Curse of the Leper
• Elites - Maxwell, Biologus Putrifier. Warlord with  Arch-contaminator trait
• Elites - Kelvin, Foul Blightspawn. Revolting Stenchvats relic (-1CP) and Viscous Death
• Elites - Carnot, Tallyman
• Elites - Planck, Plague Surgeon

Second Fly (seven units of seven infantry):

• Troops - 7 Plague Marines. Blight Launcher, Bubotic Axe, Great Plague Cleaver, Flail of Corruption, Plague Spewer, Meltagun. Champion with Power Fist, Plasma Gun, Plague Knife and Plagueskull of Glothila (-1CP)
• Troops - 7 Plague Marines. 2x Plague Knives, Blight Launcher, Great Plague Cleaver, Flail of Corruption, Plague Spewer, Meltagun. Champion with Power Fist, Plasma Gun, Plague Knife
• Troops - 14 Poxwalkers
• Troops - 14 Poxwalkers
• Elites - 7 Death Guard Possessed

Third Fly (seven supporting vehicles):

• Elites - Helbrute. Multimelta, Helbrute Fist with Heavy Flamer
• Fast Attack - Foetid Bloatdrone. Fleshmower
• Fast Attack - Foetid Bloatdrone. Heavy Blight Launcher
• Heavy Support - Plagueburst Crawler. Entropy Cannon and Rothail Volleygun
• Heavy Support - Plagueburst Crawler. Entropy Cannon and Heavy Slugger
• Dedicated Transport - Rhino with Havoc Launcher
• Dedicated Transport - Rhino with Havoc Launcher

The Second Law Battalion Detachment, 1,999 points 7CPs

The Other Kraken

• HQ - Winged Hive Tyrant. Monstrous Bonesword & Lashwhip. Warlord with Relic: Chameleonic Mutation (-1 to hit) and trait: Adaptive Biology (5+++). Psychic Scream & Onslaught psychic powers.
• HQ - Neurothrope. Additional relic: Resonance Barb (+1 to cast). Catalyst & Onslaught psychic powers.
• Troops - 3 Tyranid Warriors with Deathspitters
• Troops - 3 Tyranid Warriors with Deathspitters
• Troops - 3 Tyranid Warriors with Deathspitters
• Troops - 3 Tyranid Warriors with Boneswords
• Troops - 23 Hormagaunts with Toxin sacs
• Elites - Haruspex with Dermic Symbiosis (4++)
• Elites - 3 Zoanthropes
• Elites - 3 Zoanthropes
• Heavy Support - Exocrine
• Heavy Support - Screamer-Killer
Heavy Support - Screamer-Killer

Hive Fleet Kraken Battalion Detachment, 2,000 points 11CPs

Winters set up (yet another) first-rate table to play on.