Warhammer 40K Hot Mess – Gellerpox Infected
Gellerpox Infected need serious love. What is this set of units even supposed to do? Let’s get to work.
Seriously what is this set of units even supposed to do? Why is it, its own type of army? Why does it have its own Keyword? Why doesn’t it have Death Guard so it could be some kind of mutated batch of crappy models that could fit in an army?
I really don’t understand the desire to give 40k rules to units the truly don’t need them. These Gellerpox Infected should have no place in regular 40k. They are set up for Kill Team or weird scenario based games and have no reason to be in Grimdark. They should never be good. The Gellerpox Infected should just be cool models you could bring out in some kind of weird Space Hulk like game. Then you can watch your characters go hog wild like some murder hobos wrecking these gross stanky piles of gross.
Gellerpox Infected
First this should just be a Death Guard set of units. They should get with that group, become a neat cheap option, and something different than Poxwalkers. Maybe you have them do a different type of contagion thing that is kind of effective. Heck let them be an Agent of Chaos that gives your Death Guard somethin unique they can add to the army. Like why not a new and cool secondary? That would be neat and different.
Make em Sneaky!
You know what might Death Guard better – some models that could infiltrate. These guys were the first people infected on the planet. So why not have them hide out in terrain and pop out going OOGIE BOOGIE – and scare those Marines a bit? You could have these hidden vectors of disease that just pop out and let you control and objective fast. Or maybe corrupt something with their special Secondary they can do – “Throwing up on Stuff and making it Nasty!”
Let Them Mark a Unit that Kills Them
As much as we loathed Leagues of Votann Judgement Tokens there was a good thought in putting something on a unit that does your army harm. So why not have Gellerpox Infected mark enemies that squish them in combat? Something like a lingering stench that helps your army charge (reroll charges or +1 to get their cuz you love that stinky smell). We could also do something like removing objective secured as your curse them with your gross Nurgly bits that are all over their weapons?
Make Gellerpox Infected Just Not Suck
These are pretty neat models so doing something cool with them would be nice. Make them match up with the mutated Cultists from Chaos Space Marines but with a Nurgle tint. Make them do some weird stuff Death Guard are missing? Let them be valuable on the table as they shouldn’t be super killy but let them be really sneaky. These are things that would be easy to add and make this boxed set something desirable to have for your army. Heck just give them the Death Guard keyword at the very least and not some random Gellerpox Infected nonsense.
Let us know how you would fix the unit, down in the comments!
