Like Father Christmas, Grandfather Nurgle has brought a new Detachment for the Death Guard to kick off the Grotmas Calendar. The Flyblown Host takes advantage of the diseased flies that follow in the wake of Mortarion’s forces. Here’s the Warhammer 40,000 Design Studio with more.
As the Death Guard stride inexorably towards their foes, the battlefield buzzes with the wingbeats of a trillion swollen flies. Bloated and mutated Plague Marines march beneath a pathogenic haze, striding forward slowly and purposefully, unleashing precise salvos of diseased projectiles. The obscuring swarms foul their foes’ return fire, and whatever clots of contagion their desperate shots manage to clear away are filled moments later by yet more hovering insects. Amidst the droning miasma, the Death Guard stride on, at one with the crawling horror surrounding them. As the horrifying cloud washes over the enemy, their warriors retch and claw at their skin. The Plague Marines exploit the distraction ruthlessly, cutting down their stricken foes and leaving nothing but rotting corpses in their wake.
Death Guard Infantry take advantage of the Verminous Haze to Scout at the beginning of the battle and benefit from being harder to hit. The Detachment’s Enhancements and Stratagems explore this narrative farther with the likes of the Rejuvenating Swarm, where a warrior calls upon the swarm to rejuvenate their contagion by regaining all of its lost wounds at the end of each phase. Stratagems like Droning Horror allow the Death Guard to benefit from the distraction this swarm causes their foes.
Today’s blessing from Nurgle is just the first of a month’s worth of gifts. Tomorrow’s is less pungent, but no less green – we turn to the Dark Angels.