White Dwarf - Issue 37 by Games Workshop

Author:Games Workshop
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: 40000, citadel miniatures, white dwarf, warhammer, games workshop, hobby
Published: 2014-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Gutrot Spume and the Putrid Blightkings are champions of Nurgle, disease-ridden warriors gifted with a portion of their god’s strength and resilience. Read on, mortal creatures, for here you will find their full rules along with tactical suggestions courtesy of Nurgle himself.

The Putrid Blightkings are a terrifying prospect for most opponents. Individually they are formidable warriors capable of besting an enemy hero (even some lords) in single combat. A unit of them – at least 10-strong – is an even scarier thought.

The Putrid Blightkings are best employed right at the heart of your army, where their corpulent bulk can roll inexorably up the battlefield and get stuck into close combat. The plague of flies that surrounds them should make them hard for the enemy to hit and any Attacks that do land still have to go through their diseased bulk. Just killing one of them would be an achievement. In return, they can dish out vast amounts of damage, changing their weapons to suit their foes. Use great weapons for armoured foes, hand weapons and shields for pesky Elves, and two hand weapons for anything that’s easy to puree.

The only major threats to the Blightkings are massed firepower and spells that inflict a lot of damage (like Magic Vortices). A Chaos Sorcerer with the Mark of Nurgle casting Fleshy Abundance and Curse of the Leper should ensure they power through, while the Blades of Putrefaction will help them chop through tough targets. The unit can take a Magic Standard, too, and the Gleaming Pennant is always worth taking. It’s cheap, but it could be the trinket that saves your Blightkings from an embarrassing failed morale test.

Gutrot Spume is a dependably violent Chaos Lord, albeit with added tentacle-shaped benefits that make him even better in combat. He’s slow to fight due to his great weapon, but his resilience should see him survive most challenges to strike back. Against high-level Lords such as Karl Franz and Tyrion, Gutrot may struggle, so put him to use bludgeoning as many heroes and monsters as possible for those all-important rolls on the Eye of the Gods table. While Gutrot can march into battle, he can also ride a Warshrine, turning him into a super-resilient war machine that radiates the power of Chaos. With a unit of Blightkings marching alongside, your opponents will be hard-pressed to destroy both before they get into combat.

PUTRID BLIGHTKINGS

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