In this video I take a look inside the latest Death Guard codex and run through all the big changes.
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Any thoughts on weaknesses for Death Guard faction now? Plague surgeon seems to tip their survivability to absurd levels, and theres enough cheap infantry options to balance out the elite low model issues. 40 points for the terminators is cheaper than some of Primaris models now so they shouldn't be finding themselves significantly outnumbered early game. They were always strong in 9th but this really must be putting them at the top of the pyramid, especially with some of the ridiculous Harlequin loopholes being closed. Nice to see chaos get some time in the sun but there needs to be something to exploit to make DG players think rather than just march up the table and laugh at everyone who spent weeks gluing heavy bolters onto everything when they went up to 2 wounds. In that regard I do quite like that they break the "anti space marine" meta, although I suspect the change really was made to reduce the number of dice rolls in the game which could get really tedious playing these guys. Has anything been done to fix the flail of auto unit delete?
Oooo could we see some more battles with the end of all things?
For that algorithm
Hang on a minute! No more Death to the false Emperor… WHAT!!!
Exciting! Looking forward to hearing the full read on DZTV. 🧙♂️
People calling the new DR a nerf haven't done the math. It's MORE effective on Plague Marines and Terminators… the general core of a Death Guard army
It's only slightly worse on vehicles and monsters, or anything with 4+ wounds due to how damage gets allocated.
Let’s push that 100k
The new Death Guard codex sounds really interesting. Almost tempted to start one army 😀
So Plague Surgeon no where near as good as Apothecary/Chief Apothecary? Cant have anything on par with marines.
The few dislikes are your competition channels who would drag all the info you gave us and turn it into a patron only 4 hour video, cheers bro
Thanks Winters, very cool
Blightlords, Deathshrouds and Plague Burst Crawlers are absolutely sick (no pun intended) right now. Even the "humble" Plague Marines with that -4 AP on their melee weapons strat is just ridiculous. I'm really curious how will DG fare against Custodes and whether we'll get to see them on your glorious channel someday 🙂
That 4++ on terminators on top of their other rules seems a bit much.
That new DR actually seems super good now that marines have 2W. You need a weapon that deals at least 3 damage if you want to one-shot a marine… so either a lucky D3 roll, or something anti-tank.
Alright, I'm excited. Thanks for the overview, hope you're doing okay!
YESSS!!!! PAPA NURGLE PROTECTS!!!! Our codex is goood!!
Id love to see the word eaters get a book like this Angron is still my favorite
Cheers Winters.
Thank you!
Once nurgles blessing has calmed down I look forward to using this book.
Good review Winters, not a player but seems a decent Codex. The Death Guard is my favourite 40k army in the Black Library books.
So with these rule changes does that mean the combat patrol box they’re releasing with this codex is illegal and can’t be used
I like the new DR it seem much stronger as instead of spiking high or low for the rolls now you auto get one which is way more consistent and the fact you can give them a 6+++ is even better
Cant wait. I've got 2 new blightlord terminators kits to build in anticipation.
That was most helpful thank you mr.Winters!
I think people are underestimating the new Disgusting Resilient rules. There is clearly going to be a huge focus on 2 wound attacks in this edition
The plague surgeon can’t pick up models though
Lower model count… I’m tempted to maybe paint an extra pox walkers 20 I have on sprue to get upto 80. Even with the restrictions in fielding them needing equal bubotic units they’re amazing now at 5 points t4 and 4+ to hit native. Play in the plague company where they have a stratagem to re roll all attacks stack with 6 to hit does a mortal and they’re a real threat.
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Does blades of putrification still exist?
Can pox walkers take units of 30? or is the Combat Patrol box an illegal army?
Thank you for this summary of the ‘dex, as I write this I wasn’t in the mood to sit through an hour or more from other reviews I’ve seen posted from other folk.
Cheers
Nah bro, surgeon cannot revive dead models, only heald wounded ones. That's worse than SM version. Also, Plague marines got 1 extra attack, great. But they lost both DTTFE AND HATEFFUL ASSAULT….
A nice concise and helpful highlight of the main changes. Thanks winters. Sounds like a very interesting codex which makes me hopeful for the other chaos codex books… When they appear. Slightly odd that the chaos codex is not released before this book though.
Im sorry but that -1 toughness is just nasty. WTF were they thinking with that, cant wait to play against it lolz
Pychic Awakening "War of the Spider" still usable with this codex? or is it obsolete?
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from reading the book it seems they removed the ability to have a whole squad equipped with double plague knives instead of a boltgun. I like to run a squad on stabbing and it seems to be basiclly impossible now. Since only of 5 plague marines can have two plague knives. So i would basically have to spend very high amounts of points on 4 diffrent melee weapons which would be annoying to roll attacks for. Really not a fan of that change.