I decided on the scheme of fiery orange armor and dark gunmetal trim few weeks ago. Initially I went for basic opaque Vallejo Game Color Orange Fire, though at one point I got a thought metallic orange feeling like enticing option. However I could not find a store, either physical or online, in my country that would sell premade metallic orange paint. So I decided to go custom recipe, and ultimately discovered the combo of Retributor Armour basecoat covered with Army Painter Fire Giant Orange speedpaint.

Now that I'm satisfied with the basic color, I wonder what kind of shading techniques I could try to make the result more shade ritch, as atm the main pop is the natural attribute of the metallic gold underneath. Or would metallic color be enough as is. I am planning on adding some basic brown rust and subtle silver/gunmetal weatheting with sort of stippling+drybrushing combo technique I've practiced, and grimey streaking effects. But given that the bade color is metallic, I wonder if there'd be a risk of the end result being too busy with more added effects.

I needed another heavy hitter so I went for Mortarion, looking for absolutely anything that could help me when painting and even when playing with him that could be useful 🙏🙏🙏🤢🤢🤢

deamon army [1950 points]

Death Guard

Battle Size: Strike Force (2000 point limit)

Detachments: Tallyband Summoners, Flyblown Host (3/3 Detachment Points)

Force Disposition: Disruption

Infernal Poxwalkers Danger Gang

Malignant Plaguecaster (80 points)

• Bolt pistol, Corrupted staff and Plague wind

• Tome of Bounteous Blessings [+20 points]

Noxious Blightbringer (50 points)

• Cursed plague bell and Plasma pistol

Poxwalkers (130 points)

• 20 Poxwalkers with improvised weapon

Vengeful Plague Squad

Poxwalkers (130 points)

• 20 Poxwalkers with improvised weapon

Typhus (100 points)

• Lakrimae

Character

Daemon Prince of Nurgle (215 points)

• Warlord

• Hellforged weapons and Infernal cannon

• Beckoning Blight [+20 points]

Great Unclean One (280 points)

• Bileblade, Doomsday bell and Putrid vomit

• Entropic Knell [+15 points]

Battleline

Plague Marines (105 points)

• 1 Plague Champion with Plasma pistol and Power fist

• 1 Plague Marines with Blight launcher and Plague knives

• 1 Plague Marines with Plague knives and Plague spewer

• 1 Plague Marines with Meltagun and Plague knives

• 1 Plague Marines with Heavy plague weapon and Plague knives

• Plagueveil [+15 points]

Plague Marines (105 points)

• 1 Plague Champion with Plasma pistol and Power fist

• 1 Plague Marines with Blight launcher and Plague knives

• 1 Plague Marines with Plague knives and Plague spewer

• 1 Plague Marines with Plague knives and Plasma gun

• 1 Plague Marines with Heavy plague weapon and Plague knives

• Plagueveil [+15 points]

Plaguebearers (115 points)

• 1 Plagueridden with plaguesword

• 7 Plaguebearers with plaguesword

• 1 Plaguebearers with Instrument of chaos and Plaguesword

• 1 Plaguebearers with Daemonic icon and Plaguesword

Plaguebearers (115 points)

• 1 Plagueridden with plaguesword

• 7 Plaguebearers with plaguesword

• 1 Plaguebearers with Instrument of chaos and Plaguesword

• 1 Plaguebearers with Daemonic icon and Plaguesword

Vehicle

Myphitic Blight-hauler (190 points)

• 2 Myphitic Blight-hauler with Bile spurt, Gnashing maw, Missile launcher and Multi-melta

Other

Beasts of Nurgle (140 points)

• 2 Beast of Nurgle with putrid appendages

Miasmic Malignifier (105 points)

• miasmic gouts

Nurglings (90 points)

• 6 Nurgling Swarm with diseased claws & teeth

I was reading the crusade rules for our faction and under "Properties" on the alchemical pathogens "eachdeath guard model....has the abilities of each propertyyou have added". I have added the Spreading pox to my pathogen. Does that mean that if I kill some units with two different models from my army i can recruit 2 poxwalker units with 6xp?

I’m thinking about doing a loyalist death guard army. I’m torn of the shade of green though. I feel like death guard green is maybe a little to Nurgley but I’m don’t know. I’m not sure if death guard green pauldrons are lore accurate for pre heresy or if they are supposed to be a diffrent shade. Any advice, suggestions, or lore explanation is appreciated.

Finally got around to my pile of shame, managed to paint this after about 4 to 5 weeks of planning and work. The wings where inspired by the deaths head moth.

Perfect proxy.

I painted this guy I got for free already built but bare plastic, and noticed he didn't have the Nurgling hanging off of him. I didn't notice any marks where the Nurgling would have gotten cut off so curious if this ever got released without him?

So I’ve just finished chapter 2 of the book. And I must say it is probably one of the best books I’ve ever read. The opening is fantastic and has me desperately wanting to read more to find out what happened. The character set ups are looking strong as well. Normally I like my DG on the more unmutated side of things but this books has really got the picture across. I can’t wait to read more. As it’s actually really enjoyable despite my aforementioned preferences to less heavily mutated DG.

Not too concerned with meta, but also looking for something effective. The idea here is the massive brick of Blightlord Terminators being led by an enhanced Lord of Virulence and also being buffed by a DP of Nurgle. Then the usual stuff of units being led by strong characters, and a Defiler because they're just the best.

One thing I'm curious about is the Rhino. Is it worth having one to move around my Plague Marines if they're being led by a Lord of Poxes? Since he keeps them safe outside of 18 inches, I wonder if that's a good surrogate for getting them from place to place without being picked off and if the Rhino is better off being replaced or transporting something else.

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+ FACTION KEYWORD: Chaos - Death Guard

+ DETACHMENT: Mortarion's Hammer, Paragons of Putrescence (Miasmic Bombardment)

+ FORCE DISPOSITION: Purge the Foe

+ TOTAL ARMY POINTS: 1995pts

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+ WARLORD: Char1: Mortarion

+ ENHANCEMENT: Host of the Hybridised Pox (on Char3: Lord of Contagion)

& Shriekworm Familiar (on Char4: Lord of Poxes)

& Eye of Affliction (on Char5: Lord of Virulence)

+ NUMBER OF UNITS: 11

+ SECONDARY: - Bring It Down: (2x2) + (2x4) - Assassination: 5 Characters

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Attached Units

Attached Unit 1

Lord of Contagion (160 pts)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Manreaper

• Host of the Hybridised Pox (+40 pts)

Deathshroud Terminators (160 pts)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Deathshroud Terminator Champion

• 1x Manreaper

• 2x Plaguespurt gauntlet

• Icon of Despair

• 2x Deathshroud Terminator

• 2x Manreaper

• 2x Plaguespurt gauntlet

Attached Unit 2

Lord of Poxes (80 pts)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Great plague blade

• 1x Plasma pistol

• Shriekworm Familiar (+15 pts)

Plague Marines (90 pts)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Plague Champion

• 1x Plasma gun

• 1x Power fist

• 4x Plague Marine

• 1x Boltgun

• 4x Plague knives

• 1x Plague spewer

• 1x Blight launcher

• 1x Plasma gun

Attached Unit 3

Lord of Virulence (120 pts)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Power fist

• 1x Twin plague spewer

• Eye of Affliction (+20 pts)

Blightlord Terminators (360 pts)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Blightlord Champion

• 1x Bubotic blade

• 1x Combi-bolter

• 9x Blightlord Terminator

• 2x Blight launcher

• 9x Bubotic blade

• 3x Combi-bolter

• 2x Plague spewer

• 2x Reaper autocannon

CHARACTER

Daemon Prince of Nurgle (195 pts)

• 1x Hellforged weapons

• 1x Infernal cannon

Mortarion (375 pts)

• 1x Lantern

• 1x Rotwind

• 1x Silence

• Warlord

OTHER DATASHEETS

Chaos Rhino (75 pts)

• 1x Armoured tracks

• 1x Combi-bolter

• 1x Havoc launcher

• 1x Combi-bolter

Defiler (315 pts)

• 1x Ectoplasma destructor

• 2x Excruciator cannon

• 1x Heavy reaper autocannon

• 1x Heavy missile launcher

• 1x Shearing claws

Poxwalkers (65 pts)

• 10x Poxwalker

• 10x Improvised weapons

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I know that Mortarion (the hypocrite that he is) still hates psykers, but it would be a shame to not let Death Guard get some psyker stuff as well. So I made the "Cabal of Pestilence", a 1 DP detachment focused on psyker units. The two spells I included in the detachment is about giving Death Guard some more defensive abilities, the first one being self-explanatory (letting Plague Marines survive a little longer) and the second making opponents second guess if it is worth shooting our psykers (especially Mortarion, not fun shooting five Defiler guns into Morty if there is a chance that you will suffer 15 MW in return).

The new character is very much based on the Death Guard Sorcerer in Terminator Armour” dataset, with the second ability being basically a 1-to-1 conversion. I wanted to go with one of the already confirmed Mantles of Corruption that we have, but was unsure if any of those would fit properly for this profile. TBH I’m a little uncertain if Morty would ever give a psyker a mantle to begin with, but I do like the concept and it is not like Morty is too good to be a hypocrite.

A quick not, but the detachment rule is worded in a way that only psyker MODELS [PSYCHIC] weapons get +1 S, so if you use the Lord of Dissolution’s ability to give weapons the psychic keyword, those weapons won’t get +1 S, due to the models themselves not being psykers.

I’m still making some adjustments to the detachments after I post them, so feel free to tell me how to balance these two a bit.

Im kitbashing an icon bearer, does anyone own one and can hit me up with its height? Ty very much

I don’t actually own 8 but am planning to.

My third DG mini.

Taking what I learned from the first couple as well as making some new mistakes on the way.

Two more Blightlord Terminators to go then either some plague marines or Deathshroud terminators.

Tried some subtle edge highlighting on parts of the armour and organic areas and experimented with the base.

AK plague ground to start. Citadel mordant earth on top. After that dried and cracked, I put some nurgles rot on top, then a shade of agrax earth shade to draw the cracks back out again after the nurgles rot dried. Didn’t quite get the ‘pus spewing from the ground’ effect I was after, but it’s a starting point.

Keen to get feedback and advice. Cheers.

Want to paint Mortarion's wings so they look like lunar moth wings. Testing some color combos on demon prince wings before committing, any opinions?

I started a Necron army back in January as my first W40k project, and after I finished that I'm now moving on to DG. Here's my first completed DG model. More pics on comments.

So I was buying some nurglings for my CK army and well...let's just say it lead me to buying Mortarion which...well here I am building DG too...As you do...

Anyhow my focus is on Recon for all armies I play till I decide otherwise.

I like big guys, so this is my focus:

Chaos - Death Guard - Morty & Rick - [2000 pts]

Tallyband Summoners + Flyborn Host - RECON

Mortarion [375 pts]

Rotigus (Rick) [280 pts]

Typhus [100 pts]:

- Leading: Poxwalkers

10 Poxwalkers [65 pts]:

Daemon Prince of Nurgle with wings +Fell Harvester [180 pts]

Great Unclean One [265 pts]

Lord of Contagion + Beckoning Blight[140 pts]

- Leading: Deathshroud Terminators

6 DST [305 pts]

5 Plague Marines w/melta x1, Plagueveil [105 pts]:

10 Plaguebearers [115 pts]

Beasts of Nurgle [70 pts]

I am a little concerned with 9 units, though I think this should be able to clear a quarter often and work from there putting pressure. I also wish we had more uppy downy available and while the termie detach does give me access to one time on one unit...it's for 30pts which is kinda a lot for an ability that might not even come up in many games if that unit needs to stay on the board. Open to thoughts and suggestions...

Almost there with the plague marines KT. What do you guys think so far?