Nurgle Forge World Terminators

I don’t have a lot of the time for the hobby, but I do try to paint every Sunday and I sometimes get a little painting in after work, but generally I’m tired and busy. Currently the second rust effect and the second verdigris effect paint is drying on my Nurgle Forge World Terminators, but I’ve been taking work-in-progress photos during the day so I can share those.

These models are now out-of-print and people are expecting me to just cough up my other two alas I didn’t get your DM bro. But it is not my responsibility to buy models with my limited income over the last twenty years then carefully keep the models in mint unassembled condition so you can then have them whenever you post to social media. My advice to you is build a time machine, or pay the Internet price.

Pay the Iron Price

How I painted these models

This is at least the second post about these models and there was a third model I primed years ago, that was actually finished first. That was the first green Diseased Son Nurgle Chaos Space Marine Renegade model I’ve painted in years. I guess I can dig out a picture of the finished model once again. I need to take more pictures of my old models and post them to Flickr, it is a much better repository than Instagram.

The finished Nurgle Forge World Terminator miniature

These models of course belong to the Right Hard Posse which is currently being run as Blightlord Terminators but will probably become Nurgle Chaos Renegade Terminators when the next Chaos Codex comes out. I have the original lead Rogue Trader era models then I probably have most of the 2nd edition metal models. Then of course I have the first plastic CSM Terminator models which I’ve augmented with the Forge World bits as shown above. I even did champions and terminator lords over the years.

The Right Hard Posse

I actually stripped and repainted some of my old OOP Chaos Terminator models, the lord may have been painted three times in total. But this is not supposed to be a greatest hits post. The new models I’m actually trying to paint less well. I used random greens, browns, purples, reds, and metallic paints. One good thing about Nurgle is no one expects your army to match perfectly and mine is so old, people often don’t know what army I’m even playing or codex I’m using.

Another converted terminator model with Forge World bits

I actually got to bust out some of my evil dark reds for these models, I painted some blood drops and the tank on the combi-flamer first terracotta then various red, including some Reaper Master Series paints I bought at Imperial Hobbies. I’ll probably hit the blood with Blood for the Blood God technical paint after I varnish the models. I actually varnish my models because they are gaming pieces. I’ve learned that this reactivates both pigments and the Dirty Down Rust product, but what can you do, I want the Dirty Down to interact with the other rust paints and washes I’ve used so can not apply it after varnishing, but I can apply the glossy Blood for the Blood God.

I just got out the poisonous “wine spirts” as the British call them and uses some of my formerly internet famous AwesomePaintJob.com rust pigments. I may even use some other Internet famous pigments to produce a more yellow rust. Dirty Down has released a yellower rust product and yellow isn’t a color I use often. I learned about these pigments from Hirst Arts, they are Doc O’Briens and mine have sat unused for years because I think for rust AwesomePaintJob’s selection is enough, but now that I’ve gone rust effect crazy, perhaps it is time for some yellow pigment to be added to my models.

The Bubonic Blades which are a little out of focus, Bill is slipping he hasn’t complained or commented on any of my social media posts for a bit. The Bubonic Blades were painted with some cherrypicked Monument Hobbies ProAcryl miniature paints. This is a bit different than what I usually do. I own a lot of green paint, I’d say 20% of my paint is greenish. I even have green metallic paint which GW used to sell and I used it along with their purple metallic on these models.

I actually used a lot of different metallics on these models. I used the Dark Bronze from ProAcryl but I used new Citadel paints and old Citadel paints too. I also used Vallejo, Army Painter, Nostalgia ’88, Warcolors, and Wargames Foundry triad system paints. I waste a lot of paint using the droppers some people love, but they may use wet palettes. I may have to bust mine out after all these year, but I am one of the few people online who tries to paint worse than they used to paint. I even take off my glasses because my prescription is for distance and they make miniature painting worse. I never got out the magnifying headset for these models and honestly I think they look fine, even if my photos are blurry.

Maybe if I post another poorly focussed picture Bill will be summoned. I shared them on his Discord server and he said nothing, even DiceHateKris was silent. It is like my slaving away at the painting desk using long out of print paints on long out of print models doesn’t even matter to them anymore.

Luckily for me I have one fan on the Bolter and Chainsword who lives in Edmonton and threatens to come to Calgary and force me to actually play a game of Warhammer 40,000 with my every growing collection of painted Chaos Space Marine models. My posts also usually get liked by fellow bloggers but do very poorly on Mark Zuckerberg’s walled garden of a social network. I refuse to optimize my social media usage to maximize vanity metrics. I continue to hope that eventually my twenty plus years of hard work will again be noticed by the corporate overlords.

Paint then drink and blog

If you guessed I randomly opened a very strong beer you’d be correct. It is called Deth’s Tar and it has sat in a box in my apartment for months until this evening when I just gave’r. That is a genuine Canadian expression we even conjugate it. I taught Canadian slang to my fellow English teachers when I was in China, they were quite impressed with all the words we have associated with drinking.

I myself am going on vacation next Friday. I am going to Scotland and I will give’r. I have booked myself into a very long, very detailed whisky tour. Then I am pressing on to the far North of Scotland where my family originally came from. I am not a big whisky drinker. I actually prefer Irish whisky or bourbon over Scotch, but I want to make my coworkers jealous. I have some fans in Scotland and if I was smarter maybe I would have gone to Warhammer World in Nottingham, but I’ll just have to visit the UK again and tour whisky distilleries on Islay.

The North Remembers

A long time ago, or not that long ago depending on your thinking, Sarah McLachlan’s band had Corb Lund on bass and Luke Doucet on lead guitar. Now I’ve never seen Sarah McLachlan play but I’ve seen Luke Doucet many times. However, the reason I mention this is actually because of Corb Lund who is an Albertan whom my sister loves. I could not link to the official video, because Corb wouldn’t let me embed it on my blog, Corb why you do me this way?

My sister actually just finished her annual poker tournament, I’ll be in Scotland during some charity poker tournament I was asked to play in. I don’t even like Rye whiskey or poker particularly, but I like songs about poker and whisky. Corb seems open to drinking Irish whiskey. My sister is overdue for her annual visit to Alberta, alas she seems more interested in dinosaur bones and high tea than drinking whisky in honkytonks.

Last time she visited we did go to the Calgary Stampede and saw the rodeo, so maybe she’s gotten it out of her blood.

This is the end.

This blog has really gone off the rails. I’ll post one more picture because I’m going to have let that toxic mixture of poison and pigment dry overnight and then hit post, because these models are not getting finished this evening and GW is probably not going to feature this blog post on their podcast.

If you have questions about whisky, beer, or painting Nurgle you can leave a comment below. I gotta go.

Not dead, still painting Nurgle

January is the busiest month of the year at work. We are still trying to fix everything and complete all our obligations but I try to make a little time on Sundays to paint and yes I have been taking pictures of the two models I am currently working on. They are two old Forge World Nurgle terminators which I of course will run as Blightlords at least initially.

You might remember the Fabulous Mister Toad, he has gotten two coast of gloss varnish plus a little Blood for the Blood God. He still hasn’t gotten on the table but he was in the last army list I wrote out which I will have to redo after the January Balance Slate. Perhaps next weekend Bill and I can resume our rivalry.

Forge World Nurgle Terminators

These models have been converted and primed for many years, going back to my time in East Vancouver before yet another stint of unemployment and of course working in China for four years. I don’t really need more Nurgle Terminators at least not those with what GW is calling combi-weapons. These models have a combi-flamer and a combi-melta and I wish both were still options. The other conversion was to use two bits one of which is definitely Black Templar one to make an Icon.

Somewhat Random Green Paints

When I painted the last one I used green paints I owned at the time. This would have been around Week 7 of our narrative campaign during 9th Edition. Since then I’ve bought more paint but I’ve also thrown more paint away. The original Diseased Sons painting scheme involved drybrushing and used what I now suspect was a slightly off pot of Ghoul Grey. It also of course used Ork Flesh and Waaagh Green Ink. More recently but still in the previous millennium it may have used Dark Angels Green and I definitely regularly use the red lid pot of green glaze.

I did buy a paint mixer, but some pots just have separated too much or never were mixed well. The new miniatures paints are supposedly so much better than those from twenty or more years ago. I also switched from Smelly Primer to Chaos Black primer so I don’t need to start with such a dark green in my experience. I always use at least one wash so generally I go darker then brighter then darker then lighter until I finally say “enough” which you’d know if you followed my painting vow last year.

My midtone green has changed the most as I keep trying out different paints. The final highlight remains a hexagon era pot of Striking Scorpion Green. Sometimes I use multiple midtones, but my dream is to have a triad plus a wash and maybe a glaze. More than five coats of paint I of course do, but I really got to break that habit on rank and file models. My pot of Bilious Green died so if I want to go really bright green, I may now use a non-Citadel colour. However I remain somewhat subconscious of going too bright as my style has been called cartoony.

On this batch I also tried two new metallic paints, likely some recommend by Vinny V, a Vallejo Airbrush Colors one and a Signature Pro Acryl Dark Bronze I had high hopes for. That paint really needed a lot of mixing, it was the least well mixed Pro Acryl pot I’ve tried. I find you still want a highlight on your metallics and a wash so I’ll hopefully get back to painting soon, but you can see where I left the models this afternoon below.

I also did the traditional random brown drybrush of my beach sand. I went with a very new Citadel base color, then a poorly mixed pot of Vallejo Model Color followed by two Foundry Triad colors so my dirt is partly British Uniform Brown for those who remember my brief foray into historically accurate miniature painting.

New Chaos Space Marine Codex

I’m not sure when it will come out, in the past I read all the rumours and of course I bought the last CSM Codex but I never used it. In 10th Edition the Chaos Space Marine Codex comes out way before the Death Guard Codex. I was never really a Death Guard player, that codex came out while I was out of the hobby. I started the Diseased Sons at the dawn of second edition so they were definitely a homebrew Chapter of Nurgle Renegades.

Over the years I expanded into non-Nurgle models even models worshipping the other Chaos Powers. So in order to use more of my painted miniature collection I’ll probably benefit from switching to using the Chaos Space Marine Codex as my main book. I think that was the ultimate plan for 9th edition. I can still run some Death Guard, some Daemons and even a Chaos Knight. I can still hopefully do a pure Nurgle army, but I could also field some models that haven’t seen a gaming table in a decade or more, if ever.

I want to wrap this post up, but if you have thoughts on painting green, brown, or metallics or the proper way to play Death Guard or Chaos Space Marines or even if you just have some random speculation about the codex you can leave a comment below. I’m tempted to make my army a lot different, lots of bikers or raptors or havocs or even all three? I have plenty of bog standard bolter guys.

Painting a Plague Toad

It is actually almost finished. I have a bad habit of applying one more highlight then one more wash then of course one more highlight. The only thing I might highlight more is the lone eyeball. I really want to it to pop.

If you tuned in last week or follow me on Instagram you would have seen earlier work-in-progress pics of this model. It is a Plague Toad of Nurgle made by Forge World but I plan to field it as a Chaos Spawn, as you must run them in units of two in the current rules for Warhammer 40,000. This model who I’ve dubbed the Fabulous Mister Toad will accompany Maceo the Mutated for all eternity or at least until they update the rules again.

This WIP shot was posted to Instagram

I tested out some Monument Hobbies Pro Acryl paints on this model. And I know people complain about the pots, I don’t mind them that much, but one of the advantages of the flip tops if you just need a little dab of paint, you can get just one brush full from a traditional Citadel style pot. With Vallejo or Pro Acryl I tend to put more paint than I need on my palette. Maybe if I switch back to a wet palette this would be less an issue but I paint random colours and use a lot of washes so I like my hard plastic palette with little spots for washes.

The secret weapon to this colour scheme and it literally was manufactured by Secret Weapon which may be no more is Baby Poop. This was a formula developed by Les Burley. It is more viscous than some washes you may be used using but doesn’t separate as much as his AwesomePaintJob dot com ones. The closest thing to it in GW’s range is probably Mortarion Grime but Baby Poop is more yellow brown and Mortarion Grime is more greenish. I did use Mortarion Grime on the pustules and bone on the Plague Toad.

I liked the pustules better when they were a darker English Uniform Brown, but I highlighted up and even used a yellow, but then I toned that down with the aforementioned Mortarion Grime. The first time I used Baby Poop I put it on really thick as you can see in the banner but I did a second coat thinned with water. For Mortarion Grime I tend to paint straight from the pot.

Besides Pro Acryl and Vallejo and Citadel I used paints by Wargames Foundry and Reaper and maybe some others. I didn’t use a lot of technical paints but I plan to put varnish on this model then I may put some Blood for the Blood God on bits particularly the tongue.

The Fabulous Mister Toad

I took even more WIP pictures. I think I shared them to Bill‘s Discord server, no one said anything. I assume I will play him again soon in Warhammer 40,000 as he always likes to kill the freshest Chaos Spawn. We’ll see how my spray sealant likes the below zero weather we have in Calgary. Worst case scenario I go seal it in one of the two parking spots I own.

If you have thoughts on paint, painting, Nurgle, Forge World models or how Fabulous Mister Toad looks you can leave a comment below.

Painted Today

It wasn’t much, but I did put several coats of new paint on my counts as Chaos Spawn. I’m using this model to try out some of the new paints I’ve bought but also just to paint something dark and dirty and slimy looking as my first two Chaos Spawn were bright and multi-colored.

My first Chaos Spawn, Billalexdevin

Stumpy, Spawn of Chaos

Maceo the Mutated was also an experiment as I dry brushed him. This model is from Forge World and I decided I wasn’t going to use dry brushing on the Plague Toad of Nurgle but rather switch back to black primer and try out some paints I got from Monument Hobbies. I also got even more paints from them and other companies via a game store in Edmonton.

Now even more fancy paints have been released and I’ll have to try them if they come in to the Sentry Box or perhaps in the new year I will place an order from somewhere online but so far I’ve just seen some videos about the latest greatest miracle paint.

I still have nostalgia for the old paints and I do paint from the pot or even a dry palette most of the time. I probably should thin my paint more and use better brushes and I definitely should remember to wear my magnifying headset because as it got dark today I decided to wrap things up, whereas in the olden days I used to paint late into the night.

I poured these old hex pots into droppers but they’ve gotten so thick.

Now I think it is time to have another beer. I generally don’t paint and drink, mainly because my painting desk is covered in stuff. At some point in the future I may get a bigger place and have more room for painting and gaming, but I’m just glad I slapped some fancy paint on fancy models and I’m confident that although Matt Cexwish’s “Brown Grey” dried way more grey than brown, I’ll make it work by highlighting with greens and browns and probably throwing “baby poop” over top because that is a secret weapon you can learn about online for painting Nurgle.

In the banner hopefully you can see I painted Grey Seer over parts I want to be lighter, I may even use Contrast Paint over it. I used a new GW brown base paint on the portions that I’ll eventually become browny bone. I also did order a bunch of paint before Halloween and none of them have been used yet, so I’ll bust open at least the two yellow greens.

The newest paints I’m going to try real soon now.

Some of the paints very much were recommend by Vince Venturella including his beloved Intense Wood. Hopefully he gets around to updating his recommended paint video. I don’t watch a lot of YouTube painting videos, I kinda know how to paint, but as I ranted about recently, Google very much sends you to their other website YouTube or websites that will sell you stuff rather than an informative blog post on say why you should use a Landraider Redeemer in 10th Edition Warhammer 40,000.

Bill and I did not play 40K this weekend, perhaps he is still recovering from our beer tasting. I’m tasting some more advent calendar craft beer as I type this and in the new year I am planning a trip to Scotland where I may do some serious damage to my liver by going to some distilleries. I have one follower in Edinburgh on Instagram not sure if he reads my miniature painting blog.

I know there are not that many work-in-progress photos in this post. Perhaps I’ll take another one now that things have dried and I can even use my lightbox. But until you put on some some highlights and perhaps some shading via a wash, the model isn’t very exciting. I blocked in the base colors so it meets GW’s old standards for battle readiness, but I have not glued the Plague Toad to the base as I want to get some details on the bottom of the toad in case it breaks off mid-game.

See I did get up and put it together and in the light box, take that Instagram!

I actually wanted to drybrush the skulls, that is why the model isn’t on the base yet, I’ll put at least a little bit more paint on the toad itself, though I seem to be rubbing off some off, including my Vallejo Model Color brown violet (70887) which thanks to that “paint mixer” I bought is finally more usable, so expect to see some dark greeny browns used on some pox walkers perhaps but what I really need to paint in 2024 is some vehicles so I can kill other vehicles without running over to them and stabbing them with rusty knifes or having my Nurglings use their diseased claws and teeth.

I have a lot of paint I ordered online from my brief foray into painting accurate WW1 Canadian Infantry but a lot of them have proven useful in painting Nurgle models of Chaos Cultists. Painting more cultists is definitely on my to do list but probably after some more Blightlords. I will eventually switch to using the Chaos Codex as I’m not really a Death Guard player, I’m more of a Nurgle Renegades kinds guy, after all they are the Diseased Sons not the Death Guard.

This post turned out plenty long and although it doesn’t have the greatest pictures, it does have some plus links and even embedded video clips! So if you have thoughts on old paints, new paints, unreleased paints or social media influencers you can leave a comment below. My posts seem to be getting a couple comments and likes, but people in the Death Guard Facebook group remain blissfully ignorant thanks to Mark’s walled garden.

Batting .500 at 10th Edition 40K

That is right haters, using the sorry Codex-less Death Guard led by a sub-optimal Chaos Lord who did nothing and relying on my legendarily powerful units of Nurglings, Chaos Cultists and Chaos Spawn I emerged victorious. I defeated the Ultramarines after carefully adjusting my army list, improving my tactics and not getting randomly assigned the same primary and secondary missions as last game.

Not only did I win handily, all my models died! Death Guard is famously not as hard to kill as it was a few editions ago. It still isn’t that shooty and my plague marines are not optimized for melee. Bill also completely changed his army since last week, he has a large collection of painted Ultramarines that you can see not only here in pictures, as he is my most regular opponent in Calgary but on his very own Instagram.

He abandoned the winning ways of the first company for more of a mixed force. They all got to have Heavy weapons somehow which in 10th edition is basically plus one to hit if you stand still. Unfortunately most missions require you to move, so despite playing an all foot slogging Death Guard army I was able to infiltrate, scout and even deep strike my way to victory. I plan to continue to play with my mostly OOP foot slogging Death Guard force but I reserve the right to bring vehicles and I’m already on record stating I will use the new Chaos Codex when it comes out unlike last edition where I bought lots of rules and never even got around to reading them all.

What did I change?

First I continue to read and re-read the rules. I still don’t have much time for the forums let alone talking head wannabe know-it-alls on YouTube. But I have learned a thing or two, for instance Stealth via Cloud of Flies seems like a no-brainer every enemy shooting phase. Bill always uses the Oath of the Moment to make it easier to kill one unit of mine, so I can counter that if I choose with Stealth making that unit slightly harder to hit.

I also changed my 1000 point army list. I sold back a single squad of plague marines. I replace it with my chaos cultists, the Cancer Cell plus an icon bearer to join the Burning Sores. The Icon Bearer did not do much and in fact died earlier than he should have due to the Ultramarine’s voluminous shooting. The now twelve model squad combined with the ten man cultist squad and the nine stand nurgling squad gave Bill a lot of targets to shoot his blast weapons at.

The other change I made was adding Toe Jam my first two heavy weapon hellbrute, replacing at no point cost, my single heavy weapon hellbrute Rabban. In tenth edition very few weapon options cost points so you should generally max out on special weapons and upgrades. In fact I will theme my army less going forward as leaving stuff on the shelf when I could have it for free is getting old.

Infiltrate on top of the centre objective

What worked?

Having a strength 12 gun, one that could shoot over 24 inches, probably helped. But I continue to use my hellbrute to tag a unit I want to destroy, Bill used his big land speeder in a similar manner. Infiltrating the big squad of nurglings right on top of the centre objective makes them a problem. They soak up a fair amount of fire and although I can not play Aura of Flies on them, do the Chaos Daemons have a similar card I could play? I think they did in 9th Edition, but then again I spent a lot of money on codices and stratagem cards for that edition. I am not sure I can use any other stratagems than the basic set and the Death Guard set under the rules of tenth edition Warhammer 40,000. That is the way I’ve been playing it.

Going to ground is still a thing apparently, but nurglings are not infantry so can not use that stratagem. None the less, I should remember it as an option to use instead of or in addition to Aura of Flies. I really should buy a set if possible of the basic stratagems. Were they only in the big box? I don’t see them on the website currently.

I finally got to overwatch with my four plague flamer squad and the plague spewers did work, first when Bill moved a land speeder nearby and eventually some terminators within twelve inches of my big plague marine unit the Burning Sores. I don’t know why a plague marine squad wouldn’t have a plague spewer in it, it does not compete with another special weapon. I have soured on the less powerful plague belcher and would rather have a melta gun. A plasma gun which can shoot 24 inches also seems more valuable and versatile in what is a glorified tactical squad.

Scout and advance the Chaos Cultists

The increased movement of both the Chaos Spawn and the Chaos Cultists along with deploying nurglings in the centre of the board allowed me to jump out to an early lead. I still have no alpha strike capability. I think I may have killed one space marine in the first turn of shooting, certainly no actual units, but I completed both my secondary missions and I got an early start on winning the primary mission. So making me go first and expecting me to do nothing but shuffle some plague marines five inches forward is no longer guaranteed.

Bill decided the Cancer Cell must die.

Should you always declare every charge?

What’s next?

We’ve agreed to play again I think. I definitely think we agreed to drink some of the expensive beer I picked up at ABX today. I’m not sure if we agreed to invite DiceHateKris or any of the riffraff. I figured we would go up to 1250 points and Bill is eager to get more of his toys on the table. I had tentatively picked out 210 of my next 250 points and was leaning towards yet more nurglings but given how the game went and my desire to improve my plague marine squads further I’ll make even more changes.

I’ve gotten away with a single hellbrute along with a token heavy weapon in my Blightlords unit but I will definitely add a second hellbrute at 1250 points. I have three painted and I told Bill I might just try the third one, Blastmarker Billy, he could be the best of the three for 10th Edition but honestly I really like the “Infused with the blessings of Nurgle” rule so much so I plan to always include a hellbrute in my 10th Edition Death Guard armies, so why not two?

Ultimately I plan to run an absolute brick of Blightlords, they are right hard. I’ll eventually paint a Lord of Virulence to lead them. However in smaller games it is a lot of points to commit to one unit, better to have more pieces to move around hence the cultists, spawn and nurglings.

Will I ever run four plague flamers again?

Although I like having themed units and not just running cookie cutter squads, the all flamer squad isn’t cutting it. I need more anti-armour. I think I’m going back to the green all-stars and the purple all-star plague marine units. With the Chaos Codex coming out first, I may never need more than three plague marine squads, until Bill and I play our legendarily large game. I usually run one colour of models as plague marines and the other colours as Nurgle renegades. I also have the option of running undivided or multi-mark armies in the Chaos Codex. I can still sprinkle daemons on top. And although Bill hasn’t been reading the rules, the lone giant Chaos Knight as an army centrepiece after thirty years collecting Chaos models has appeal.

My mind is still stuck in previous editions of the rules. So many editions of the rules have come out I can’t even remember if things were rules or if they were just thematic ways of running your army. For instance, currently there is no rule restricting you to one Chaos Lord. In our 9th Edition campaign not only did I run one just a single Chaos Lord, even after Maceo turned into a Chaos Spawn I never replaced him. I just had McFly lead as that was in the spirit of the game, rather than optimal. The reason I mention this is if you want to empower a squad of plague marines, why not go all out and put a Chaos Lord in the squad, this seems like a good option given I recently painted a plague surgeon.

Doctor Stealgood lasted the longest.

Ultimately I may paint my new daemon prince and deploy it along side my biggest block of plague marines but in the short term after I crunch some numbers I may run two chaos lords. I need all the help I can get what with all the bolters and knifes I run, re-rolling ones seems useful. Similarly I may add a leader to Syphilis squad or just go up to seven models. All my plague marines used to be legal seven model squads with an icon. So I can quickly throw in an Icon Bearer to boost my Death Guard army for 45 points, this is almost as cheap as nurglings and cheaper than a unit of chaos cultists. I could also deploy one or more Malignant Plaguecasters in my army.

Usually I frown on herohammer, but with every other Death Guard army on the entire Internet led by the Primarch, can’t a unit of Death Guard take a piss without literally one of twenty Primarch every genetically engineered by the Emperor personally supervising? Even the combat patrol has a named character. Do all the combat patrols have a named character? Does every army have named characters now?

What hasn’t worked?

Not having guns is a disadvantage. You may think this is obvious and if you’ve read this blog long enough you’ll realize I’m in favour of having a gun in a war zone at least 40,000 years into the future. However some people play a very assault heavy force and advance whenever they can. This is all well and find until you read some of the missions where it says “a unit eligible to shoot”. We have been playing that as requiring a gun. So nurglings and to a lesser extent chaos spawn and likely a lot of units can not complete these missions, so having too many units without a gun is a bigger disadvantage than you might suspect.

I am still committed to running nurglings and may add a third squad again. I also seem to be adding a second squad of chaos spawn in the future. One use of these small cheap units is to deny space to deep strike to your opponent. I was able to deploy arguably my best unit in the Ultramarine deployment zone on turn two. I deliberately put the second squad of nurglings where I thought Bill might want to deep strike his terminators. Similarly putting some chaos spawn in my own deployment zone and just keeping them there until all the deep striking is done may be a valid tactic. You could use some other units that are cheap and have an actual gun too I imagine for this purpose, but I may try spawn as they can move pretty fast.

Isn’t this a painting blog?

It kinda is a painting blog. But I really did injure my painting arm. I think I could paint a little and may finally try tomorrow. I plan to paint a chaos spawn. Not because chaos spawn are so great in 10th edition Warhammer 40,000 but because they come in units of exactly two now and I’ve painted exactly three. They also apparently have feel no pain, which I seem to have forgotten for at least the last two games if not all four I’ve played of tenth edition. After that I plan to paint Blightlords, two that are actually Forgeworld Death Guard terminators, that I assembled and primed many editions ago. They were not included in my vow but their Chaos Black primer mocks me.

I do plan to paint some actual Blightlord models. If I paint three, that will let me run close to an optimal brick or even two units of five which might better. But next year it seems I will switch to the Chaos Codex so then Death Guard unique units like Plagueburst Crawlers or Death Guard specific guns like the Blight Launcher may be shelved in favour of the old boring weapons I’ve used since 2nd edition and the many many models I’ve painted that haven’t been fielded, potentially ever.

Three squads of plague marines is more than most Death Guard players use. So far in 10th edition, that is the most I’ve fielded. Would I even be limited to just three in a Chaos Space Marine army? I can still be “all Nurgle, all the time” if I want to using Chaos Space Marines. And I do own non-Nurgle models including many old rare OOP non-Nurgle models I could eventually get around to painting. When the 10th edition Death Guard codex is finally released in a year or two, if Bill and I are still hardcore I can resume painting Death Guard specific models.

This post is up to at least twenty paragraphs of mostly sober ramblings. Most blog posts are not this long and include some sort of top ten list and call to action. Plus of course a click here for me to make money link. I don’t have a click here for me to make money link, however I have at least two fans on the entire Internet. So if they have thoughts on what I should do with the Diseased Sons or you are stunned I won without Mortarion, Typhus, or whatever is supposedly good in a Death Guard army list you can leave a comment or just blame Bill.