Greetings folks! Here's one of my first attempts at a Death Guard list. I've got a few other more cookie cutter builds, so thought I'd start with something a little bit different here. After reading Mabrothrax's Tactica and comments on Nurgle Bikers, I figured it would be cool to try out a squad of Nurgle Bikers.

How's this look?

HQ
Daemon Prince – Wings, MoN and Warptime [175]
Chaos Lord – Bike, MoN and Power Fist [165]

Troops
7 x Plague Marines – 2 x Plasmaguns and Rhino [226]
7 x Plague Marines – 2 x Plasmaguns and Rhino [226]
7 x Plague Marines – 2 x Flamers, Rhino and Champion with Power Fist [246]

Fast Attack
7 x Nurgle Bikers – 2 x Meltaguns and Champion with Power Fist [341]

Heavy
2 x Nurgle Obliterators – [150]

Total 1491

Sweet. When I finish my jetbike unit I'm going to run a similar force.

Your spare 9 points could go in to meltabombs for the lord or biker champ, or an icon for the lord - gives more options for deepstriking the oblitertors.

i really like this list too.

i have one thought though and it is this. with such an assault minded force i owuld be tempted to drop all the plasma guns (o_0) in favour of melta guns. This way you have 29pts left to spend on icons and melta bombs but mainly i would do this so all your PM squads can fire and assault. with all your units in rhinos they should get into range fast enough with a turbo and pop smoke move right away, then you can shoot and assualt units with your PM units. this way when you assault a unit you get it 'stuck' in combat with your PM's and dilliver a killing blow by then adding the bikers or DP to the assault. I think you might even get away with dropping your champ with fist if you do this. just use your marines as 'fly paper' and the DP and bikers as the 'swats'.

i confess to you all this is not an original idea of mine but an idea from...some other place. When i build my bikes though i intend to try it out

what do you all think?

thanks

phill

Thanks so much for the replies!

Looking over the comments here and the list again, I decided to modify things a bit. I thought the option of Lesser Daemons might be nice.

Thoughts?


HQ
Daemon Prince – Wings, MoN and Warptime [175]
Chaos Sorcerer – Bike, MoN and Doombolt [160]

Troops
Plague Marines – 7 w/ 1 x Champ. w/ PF, 2 x Meltaguns and Rhino [256]
Plague Marines – 7 w/ 1 x Champ. w/ PF, 2 x Flamers, Icon and Rhino [251]
18 x Plague Bearers [234]

Fast Attack
5 x Nurgle Bikers – 2 x Meltaguns, MoN, Icon and Champ. w/ PW [270]

Heavy
2 x Nurgle Obliterators – [150]

Total 1496

honestly i think another PM sqd is better than 18 PB. but if you really want the PB's then two squads of seven would be better. That many will be really hard to hide in cover and really easy to shoot at.

The sorcerer on bike is cool. I love to insert badgers into my face decide between a sorcerer or a lord with lightning claws on my bike....so let me know how he does!!!!!

last thing...you know, to get Nurgles lucky dice you should have one more biker......

phill

Not set on the Lesser Daemons at all actually. I was just having a hard time figuring out how to keep 3 x Plague Marine Squads in. Should I swap out the third squad's Flamers for Plasmaguns, drop their Rhino and keep them home?

I really liked Mabrothrax's review of Fraggle Rock Chaos Sorceror. I'll certainly keep you posted how he does on the bike!

And another revision haha! These odd points are killimg me! I'm so use to loyalist marines. Need to fill 19pts now...

HQ
Daemon Prince – Wings, MoN and Warptime [175]
Chaos Sorcerer – Bike, MoN and Doombolt [160]

Troops
Plague Marines – 7 w/ 1 x Champ. w/ PF, 2 x Meltaguns and Rhino [256]
Plague Marines – 7 w/ 1 x Champ. w/ PF, 2 x Flamers and Rhino [246]
Plague Marines – 7 w/ 1 x Champ. w/ PF and 2 x Plasmaguns [231]

Fast Attack
Nurgle Bikers – 6 w/ 1 x Champ., 2 x Meltaguns and MoN [263]

Heavy
2 x Nurgle Obliterators – [150]

Total 1481

EA on the melta-rhino? Or the flamer-rhino...

Out of all the lists in this thread I like the first one the best but I think it comes out to 1529 and not 1491. How about something like this?:

HQ
Daemon Prince – Wings, MoN and Warptime [175]
Chaos Sorcerer – Bike, MoN and Nurgle Rot [165]

Troops
7 x Plague Marines – 2 x Plasmaguns and Rhino [226]
7 x Plague Marines – 2 x Plasmaguns and Rhino [226]
7 x Plague Marines – 2 x Flamers, Rhino and Champion with Power Fist [246]

Fast Attack
6 x Nurgle Bikers – 2 x Meltaguns and Champion with Power Fist [308]

Heavy
2 x Nurgle Obliterators – [150]

Total 1496

well, I like it