40k Detachment Focus - Chaos Daemons: Plague Legion

In this breakdown, we review the Plague Legion detachment for the Chaos Daemons.

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[zerlz]

If GW is gonna keep pushing these Battle Shock Focus detachments, they need to change battle shock on a fundamental level.

[ajnazhot]

I love this detachment. The sensation of stink up to death and debuffthem is one of the thinks i love about nurgle. Complain all you want, but you can force 3 battleshock + the stratagems + the units under half. I just love the idea of take an oponent point just by making their army get constantly gross out and sick

[prashkumar]

Nicely presented and great commentary, thank you

[gealgain]

as unreliable as battleshock is, it should be "every unit within engagement range of a nurgle daemons unit"

[emperoramp]

One thing: this detachment certainly does have good CP generation. Epidemius gives us CP for killing stuff w nurgle daemons

[jbcake]

would it be a good idea to bring Khorne units with precision in order to kill enemy unit leaders, making leader ship tests worse?

[MsTrollzor]

What do you mean the spoilpox scrib has bs abilites ? He has oc abilities do you mean the splotiy bile piper ? 😂

[StarvingBrain]

don't like the Nurgle one. You lose too much compared to the old one. Plus, I hate Battleshock because most of the time, even with a -1, the enemy doesn't even get Battleshocked that often, and against nids with their 3 dice, it's just stupid.

[MrScumsen]

As soon gw writes battleshock everybody is crying. I think this detachment is hard on denying points. Forcing 1-2 battleshocks a round is useless but forcing more will get pain. Most of the BS abilities also trigger in enemy turn like bilepiper or the Army rule. Nurgle is hard to kill and over time losing models to mortals or just for failing a BS adds up. Im pretty sure the BS system isnt unlocked really right now by players. Its a control playstyle more then a i run and kill everything. Not scoring or scoring less primaries for several rounds could be the nail in the coffin

[bendre]

I don’t understand why they won’t just roll the Daemons in with the Chaos legions.

Even if this detachment were great, if you run mono-Nurgle, you’re functionally bringing a 2K list of GUOs, plaguebearers, beasts and a couple Nurglings. Mono-god chaos daemons don’t have the unit range to support their own armies. Think about how much better Nurgle Daemons would be supported by (or supporting, depending on which is your main force) Death Guard.