Chaos Space Marine, Death Guard: Army Showcase

The organisation work carries on and I’m slowly taking stock of what I have, what I still have to paint, and I’m steadily getting paint on the bare lead/metal.

Today I dug out my Warhammer 40,000 (40k) Death Guard Chaos Space Marines and thought I’d do a bit of a showcase. I’ve been collecting these since the beginning of the 8th edition of 40k, and since way back in the mists of time with 40k 3rd Edition I've played for games with this army than any other.

To be honest I hadn't intended to buy a new faction, but the 8th Edition starter box (Dark Imperium) included these chaps so I acquired them incidentally.  Looking at them I really liked the sculpts, and I've always had a soft spot for Grandfather Nurgle, so I painted them up and was hooked! As it turned out, the Death Guard were also a pretty good army in 8th, and I had a fair bit of success using them.

Anyway, here’s the army on parade.

The Vectorum in all its glory.

A mob of allied (or summoned?) Plaguebearer daemons. These are a mix of modern plastic miniatures and order metal Plaguebearers. They're both nice sculpts, but maybe its the Old Grognard in me, but those venerable metal miniatures just have a bit more charm for me. 

The Cadre of Blightlord Terminators. Grade A troops for the Death Guard, they are hard hitting and really tough to shift. Being able to teleport also makes them useful for getting into the opponent's rear zones.

Nurglings. Jolly little daemons and point-for-point (for a time at least) some of the best troops in any army list in the game.

Possessed Death Guard marines. I painted these up as they are older models I'd acquired, but I've never used them in anger in a list.

The core of the army are these chaps. These Plague Marines are excellent basic troops, able to hold their own even against tougher opponents.

The Council of commanders and leaders. To be honest, I've only really made much use of the Malignant Plaguecaster, who is an auto-include in any list for me. Other than that, the Foul Blightspawn has ssen use.

Clearly the blessed foetid fumes were getting to my camera, hence the blurry image...

This is Lord Felthius. However, I've used him as a proxy for the Typhus model (which I don't like).

Cultists. I never had much use for these, and they lacked the disgustingly resilient special rule. These miniature are mostly old Cawdor metal figures from the original Necromunda game.

My usual army commander, a Daemon Prince of Nurgle. I kit-bashed this miniature from a bunch of old plastic bits I had lying about, mixed with greenstuff.

The Poxwalker horde. I went mainly for daemon engine builds so never really maxed out on these fellows.  They were a useful bit of bubble wrap for the MAlignant Plaguecaster though.

My Hellbrute. I don't remember ever fielding him.

Myphitic Blight-haulers. I bought into the three tri-lobe tactic so have nine of these little plague snufflers. They're a great unit with some real flexibility and decent special abilities.

Foetid Bloat-drones. HAnds down my favourite unit in the army. Fast moving, hard-hitting, and surprisingly tough. I used them together with my flying Daemon Prince to form a brutal assault cadre.

My trio of Plagueburst crawlers, these daemon engines are excellent "tanks" and I had a lot of success with them.

I also have these bits still to complete.

I also have a Chaos Heldrake knocking about somewhere, and three Foetid Blight-drones from Forge World.

I really must get round to finishing this army off.

Edit: More finishing off, and the Great Unclean One