We check out the brand new Codex Death Guard for Warhammer 40k 9th edition in our latest review! We take a look at all the new Datasheets, rules and abilities of every unit in the game along with a discussion of the Stratagems, Relics and warlord traits
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This sounds like such a cool and thematic Codex! So many fun rules! I'm not a Death Guard player but I look forward to playing against them in future. I hope the future books are just as interesting!
I dont play DG so I dont mind, but I wasnt expecting them to lose death to false emperor.
Magnifier is quite broken with that kind of ability and at 75pts lol,
Correct me if I’m wrong but intoxerable advance means bolters always rapid fire at 24” if they just moved right?.
Guess I'm taking multiple detachments
Happy with most of the changes! Can’t wait to give the new book a spin!!
dude, there's a lot of stuff you didn't know about death guard i guess, half the new stuff for units you talked about happened in the 40k app a while ago (once 9th ed hit). example: daemon lord has been s7 for a long time, and chaos spawn have had a -1 leadership aura as well.
Does Typhus allow for bigger blobs of pox walkers or is it only 20?
Is it even possible to make a battalion if Mortarion is included?
You totally missed DG squads can now carry 5 special weapons in a 10 man squad or that Sigil of decay lets bolter autowound on a hit of 6. That's major offensive firepower added finally
Okay
What about chaine axe?
+1 -1 1??
Basically mortarion right now is a 4++, 5+++,-1d, reroll lock model with a 9" -1 T aura.
Can anyone tell me the Attacks and Wounds profile on Chaos Lords and Sorcerors? I imagine that will be the change coming for CSM as well and I'm dying to find out!
Are there summoning rules?
What a really boring codex. Plague Marine restrictions for melee weapon loadout is a joke. 9th edition is a huge disapointment
still wondering why we have 30 pox in the combat patrol box if we can only use one unit of max 20 models with the only plague marine unit they gave us
As a DG player since 3rd edition, this book is kind of a mixed bag for me. I appreciate most changes, but there are a quite a few bummers.
-Fluffy lists with allied daemons got punished too hard imo
-secondaries are hilariously bad
-keywords like Bubonic Astartes and DR are given too restrictive e.g. Defiler (if it's a nurgle daemon engine it should have DR) or fw Dreads (no helbrutes anymore)
-wargear options are rly screwed up. Pls tell me how a PM melee squad with X weapon profiles speed up the game…
-possessed should either get 3w or transports
-i won't be able to field morty in casual games if I want to keep friends
-hq restrictions are way to harsh imo
-I'll miss summoning on the fly and deep striking poxwalkers…poxwalker hordes don't seem fun at all
-mbh's don't grant cover anymore (but this weird space bong does…)
Don't get me wrong I really like most changes, but it's far away from being perfect 😉
Ironic that the death guard being delayed by plague 😂
Im so far behind .. dident they have a new death guard codex like a year ago ?
Plague marines datasheet is a mess, the way its written makes it look like you could take all 5 melee options in a squad of six.
Look at the special weapons bullet point, for every five models 1 can take 1 of these options, but having all the melee options on separate bullet points makes ot look like you could take them all at once becauae their irrelevant to each other . For every 5 models 1 can take a x weapon, and then the following point says for every 5 one can take an x weapon, meaning for every five models that doesnt have a x weapon they. An take an x weapon
I know im wrong but visualy that's how it looks.
it's me or it doesn't show the profile of blight grenades on any datasheet?
In 8th edition, Poxwalkers could only come back if you paid for the points, right? Is that gone? They just come back now if they kill a model?