If you like playing a powerful, tanky force the Death Guard might be for you, but that’s not all they have going for them. Your Plague Marines, Terminators and Daemon Engines can soak up absurd levels of punishment as they creep inexorably closer to the enemy, and when they arrive they can do spectacular damage, crushing all resistance in their path.

Psychic Powers – The Contagion Disciplineĭeath Guard are, with this book in hand, one of the most durable armies in the whole game.The Five Coolest Things About This Book.We’ll be following this up with more content next week – Starting with a Death Guard-focused Hammer of Math on Monday, a review of the book’s Crusade rules on Tuesday, and a look at building competitive lists from these new rules on Wednesday.įinally, thanks to Games Workshop for providing us with a preview copy of the book. Don and I are very excited to talk about this book – there’s a lot here and Chaos players of all stripes should be extremely pleased with these rules.Īs with our other reviews, we’re not going to exhaustively cover every detail in the book – we’ll talk about the major things, what’s good and what’s bad, and talk about the broader implications of the rules. Joining us for this review is relatively new Goonhammer author Don “The Mastodon” Hooson, a player renowned for his mad genius when it comes to Death Guard and Chaos Space Marines lists. It’s been a long road to get here but Death Guard players can finally rejoice and enjoy the long-awaited gifts of Grandfather Nurgle because Codex: Death Guard is nearly upon us! Games Workshop have been teasing us with some incredibly nasty rules over the last four weeks and thanks to the wonderful folks over there we were finally able to sit down with a copy of the new book and dive into the rules.

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