"In the embrace of great Nurgle, I am no longer afraid, for with His pestilential favour I have become that which I once feared: Death." —Kulvain Hestarius of the Death Guard The Death Guard are one of the Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines. They worship and devote themselves exclusively to...

May 24, 2021 · Luckily we have a shining example in the form of Typhus. He and his splinter fleet are only nominally part of the death guard, hated by all the rest (Mortarion especially) as the ungrateful betrayer and his band of thin-bloods and turn-coats. And you bet …

Feb 20, 2021 · Bloated with festering corruption, Plague Marines form the mainstay of the Death Guard, and unlike many Traitor Legions their numbers have only swollen as the millennia have passed.

Jan 18, 2025 · During the Horus Heresy, Mortarion and the majority of the Legion swore allegiance to Horus, becoming one of the nine Traitor Legions who betrayed the Emperor. After Barbarus was destroyed during the Heresy, they relocated …

Jul 12, 2019 · I’ve seen the claim that there’s a superficial Nepalese/Tibetan connection for the Death Guard based on some of the names (at least, the ones that aren’t stuff like ‘Pestilax’ or ‘Corruptius’) and the fact that they use khukhuri knives as trench daggers.

CLOUD OF FLIES PLAGUE COMPANY – STRATEGIC PLOY STRATAGEM With a thrumming roar, a thick cloud of daemon flies whirls around the Death Guard and obscures them from the enemy’s sight. WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets. TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your

Often drawn from those Legionaries who survived where their comrades had fallen, the Deathshroud form Mortarion's silent bodyguard and faceless enforcers - each sworn to absolute secrecy, and listed as dead on all official rolls.

Oct 19, 2017 · The first thing I did when starting death guard was experiment on color schemes, trying to find out how best to make them pop. The original scheme was a pale blue green with iron trim.

TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit's attacks. EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

Apr 24, 2021 · But if you missed any of it or were interested in picking up the army or finding ways to beat it, we’ve collected everything we’ve written right here in one article.