Goatboy’s Grimdark Armylist: Plague Marine Traffic Jam
I don’t know about you – but a massed wave of Plague Marines in Rhinos seems like a powerful little army. Here’s a good one I made for you!
Plague Marines are cheap, can be fielded in units of 7, and they love to live in Rhinos. I don’t know about you, but if you’ve been playing competitive 40K, you should be seeing a lot more Rhinos showing up for Chaos-based armies that can take them.
Why Death Guard in Rhinos?
But really, the whole idea here is to see if I could build a decent list using 6 units of 7-man Plague Marines, Morty, and 6 Rhinos. I just think that is a lot of “beef” to get through up the board, in a traffic jam of Nurgle. The army has a lot of synergy with using their Contagion abilities. Finally, just having a lot of bodies on the floor means you will always have some play during the missions.
Really the ability for Death Guard Rhinos to infect objectives seems very powerful. Having the option to push so much beef further into your opponents deployment zone and still have objectives held just feels powerful. I have seen some Death Guard lists do well, and they do wonders against any of the heavy-pressure builds out there. I would think CSM would have some trouble if they can’t get their Forge Fiends into units as well as Obliterators – but I keep seeing CSM armies play less and less of them.
All of this makes me think Death Guard might just be a great little sleeper army. I just love having choices at the beginning of the game, and being one of the few armies that get it seems good. Plus, just having all of this with Rhino boxes lets you have a ton of movement play. I am not sure on the character front for list-building but figured Mortarion and a few HQ’s is the way to go. I do wonder if a few more would be better. But I wanted a few enhancements plus two units of Nurglings to help gum up the board.
Plague Marine Traffic Jam Death Guard
Plague Company
Strike Force (2000 Points)
CHARACTERS
Biologus Putrifier (70 Points)
• 1x Hyper blight grenades
1x Injector pistol
1x Plague knives
• Enhancements: Living Plague
Foul Blightspawn (75 Points)
• 1x Close combat weapon
1x Plague sprayer
• Enhancements: Shamblerot
Mortarion (325 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Rotwind
1x Silence
1x The Lantern
BATTLELINE
Plague Marines (110 Points)
• 1x Plague Champion
• 1x Plasma Gun
1x Heavy plague weapon
• 6x Plague Marine
• 1x Blight launcher
2x Heavy plague weapon
1x Plague belcher
1x Plague boltgun
6x Plague knives
1x Plague spewer
Plague Marines (110 Points)
• 1x Plague Champion
• 1x Plasma Gun
1x Heavy plague weapon
• 6x Plague Marine
• 1x Blight launcher
2x Heavy plague weapon
1x Plague belcher
1x Plague boltgun
6x Plague knives
1x Plague spewer
Plague Marines (110 Points)
• 1x Plague Champion
• 1x Plasma Gun
1x Heavy plague weapon
• 6x Plague Marine
• 1x Blight launcher
2x Heavy plague weapon
1x Plague belcher
1x Plague boltgun
6x Plague knives
1x Plague spewer
Plague Marines (110 Points)
• 1x Plague Champion
• 1x Plasma Gun
1x Heavy plague weapon
• 6x Plague Marine
• 1x Blight launcher
2x Heavy plague weapon
1x Plague belcher
1x Plague boltgun
6x Plague knives
1x Plague spewer
Plague Marines (110 Points)
• 1x Plague Champion
• 1x Plasma Gun
1x Heavy plague weapon
• 6x Plague Marine
• 1x Blight launcher
2x Heavy plague weapon
1x Plague belcher
1x Plague boltgun
6x Plague knives
1x Plague spewer
Plague Marines (110 Points)
• 1x Plague Champion
• 1x Plasma Gun
1x Heavy plague weapon
• 6x Plague Marine
• 1x Blight launcher
2x Heavy plague weapon
1x Plague belcher
1x Plague boltgun
6x Plague knives
1x Plague spewer
DEDICATED TRANSPORTS
Death Guard Rhino (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
1x Havoc launcher
1x Plague combi-bolter 1x Plague combi-bolter
Death Guard Rhino (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
1x Havoc launcher
1x Plague combi-bolter 1x Plague combi-bolter
Death Guard Rhino (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
1x Havoc launcher
1x Plague combi-bolter 1x Plague combi-bolter
Death Guard Rhino (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
1x Havoc launcher
1x Plague combi-bolter 1x Plague combi-bolter
Death Guard Rhino (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
1x Havoc launcher
1x Plague combi-bolter 1x Plague combi-bolter
Death Guard Rhino (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
1x Havoc launcher
1x Plague combi-bolter 1x Plague combi-bolter
OTHER DATASHEETS
Plagueburst Crawler (165 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
2x Entropy cannon
1x Heavy slugger
1x Plagueburst mortar
Plagueburst Crawler (165 Points)
• 1x Armoured tracks
2x Entropy cannon
1x Heavy slugger
1x Plagueburst mortar
ALLIED UNITS
Nurglings (35 Points)
• 3x Nurgling Swarm
• 3x Diseased claws and teeth
Nurglings (35 Points)
• 3x Nurgling Swarm
• 3x Diseased claws and teeth
2000pts
Using the Death Guard Traffic Jam
There is just a lot of meat on that table to try and dig thru. Rhinos can move forward, get on objectives, and just be a pain to remove. You have a ton of Lethal hits all over the place to try and do wounds to things. You have a lot of bodies can can hit somewhat hard if needed
For the XIVth Legion!
