Dallas Drake

You can’t split the turn you DS.

Can I pick people's brains? For a competitive (not nose bleed ITC level, but no fat) list I've been running a list based around 3 plaguespitter bloat-drones quite successfully, most opponents I've faced can drop one or two in a turn but generally they're tough as old boots & really graft for the list and I've been impressed with them. FWIW I've also been really impressed with the 2 blightspawn too, when they can get in range. The issue I've had is that I've experimented with a few of the 'long range' options like c-beam decimators and predators but I'm coming around to the idea that I'm better off having the majority of my list operating at medium to close range. With that in mind I have a decision about what to add: 1) 2x fleshmower bloat-drones & a poxbringer punting at virulent blessings probably rushing up with a DP, or 2) 2x PBCs with more plaguespitters and a poxbringer to go for fleshy abundance. Any thoughts would be great!

It doesn't have enough attacks for me. 5 attacks at S14 Ap-3/-4 D3/4 is great against monsters and tanks but it's just too easy to tarpit. An extra attack for giving up shooting options like the butcher cannon or kheres is just not worth it.

Can you point me in the direction of these points changes please?Here you go, the 5th and 6th picture has all the FW stuff it's now 103pts without wargear now for Contemptorshttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bb5U_nflpU2/ Brilliant, thanks!

Can you point me in the direction of these points changes please?

Whilst I am a massive Black Metal fan (Watain, Immortal, Nachmystium, etc) and Synth Wave (Kalax, Perturbator, Carpenter Brut) I wierdly got addicted to a classical alternative album while I was reading the Horus Heresy Fulgim book about 9 or 10 years ago. It's all I listened to for the 2-3 weeks I read the book. It seemed to fit the slow, tragic fall of the Emperor's Children into Slaanesh's grasp so well.

GW have the ability to produce insanely detailed and good looking models. The fact that spawn have been so neglected when some of the artwork depicting them (i.e. in the codex) is so utterly terrifying (on a par with The Thing) is really frustrating and sad. I know we could say that about much of our range (Berserkers, Havocs, Noise Marines, Abaddon, etc.) but I just reckon that new models for these could be so cool and unsettling.

I use CSMs in my Black Legion army. I like Cultists both thematically and in the game but I want CSMs in my CSM army. What CSMs bring is a unit that can take and hold objectives effectively. 10 or 2x5 with special weapons and a champ with a combi weapon is a touch over-priced but still pretty decent. I personally think they need a Rhino, plus another combi-weapon and a havoc launcher is more good needed shooting. I've been using 2x5 man squads in 1 Rhino. For Black Legion the stratagem Let the Galaxy Burn is fantastic for when you get into double tap range & can get a charge off. 1CP is cheap to get re-rolls on all hits.

Here you go. Like I said, it's a doable conversion. The hard part is attaching the Knight 'torso' to the Glotkin legs, I also attached the Glotkin back to the Knight torso, I ordered about 5 feet of green stuff off ebay but also use a lot of bluetac to fill in gaps as when you build it you need to bulk out the space in order to get it to glue then green stuff. The advantage of using the Knight torso is that you can then have the weapon fitting, which I magnetised, and the pouldrons and caraoace to get that 'Knight' look. I was all set to run mine as a Nurgle Renegade Knight but *snip* they went the way of the dodo unfortunately I would post new pics of it painted up in Black Legion colours but I'm converting Obliterators and painting Brims & Blue Horrors so my work space is a bit of a mess. I will get around to it at some point, promise...

Yeah that's how I'd recognize it as Knight. Otherwise it looks too much like it could be a Great Unclean one instead. Also you have to use the [ img ] tags if you want to make a picture show. I think if you want it as a Knight you need to find a way to use as many Knight parts as possible, I used everything except the legs and copious amounts of green stuff. I won't lie, it's one of the most ambitious conversions I've done and I've done quite a few, the fear comes from the fact you're cutting up 2 very expensive kits. The biggest tip I can give is to dry fit and measure everything several times, also don't fear making a mistake, with green stuff and bits even a balls up can be fixed. I was in a rush leaving the house so couldn't be bothered linking it properly, all fixed nice now

My Knight is a Glotkin conversion using both kits. Took about 12 hours to convert. I've since painted it and it looks really good on the table.

Deffo not new models, prob just 32mm bases. We've been stuck with the current kit since the Gavdex was released. Some parts aren't bad but other parts of the kit are dated and quite silly. Looking at the new Death Guard models makes me so unbelievably excited for what GW could give us... yet they don't! A lot of people use FW Gal Vorbak, but they are expensive. As far as in games goes, they're okay. Changeling Alpha Legion -1/-2 to hit them 4++ save is cool, as is the Slaanesh angle. The D3 attacks just sucks because you know you'll roll that 1 when you need them to count & it's not the sort of roll you want to burn a CP on tbh.

With a few head swaps and cutting the weapons up (or just adding bits from your box) you can make the poxwalkers kit quite different. I dislike some of the spikes and horns on them so cut a lot off or down (try putting some in a foam carry case, it's hell). Basically, you can use whatever you like and can mix and match or just cut them up. They're a very versitile kit. To the OP I say use zombies, just because GW can't copyright 'zombie' shouldn't cost you an arm and a leg!

I've used 30 man Plaguebearers and they're alright for area denial and screening, not cost effective as brimstones or cultists but decent and auto-includes in a Nurgle army. in combat they're reasonably killy and with a Herald can hurt stuff. Poxwalkers are immune to morale and replenish with kills made however, which is easily worth an extra few points over cultists and are still cheaper than Plaguebearers. If they drop Poxwalkers down a point and allow them in squads of 30 I think they will totally outperform Plaguebearers (with Typhus). Quite what Mortarion will do to these units we don't know, but if DG could have Plaguebearers as troops at 5-6 points a pop then that would make for interesting options. What I like about Plaguebearers is that large blobs of them don't need babysitting, just take 30 (and a herald if you need to) and they can do any job on the battlefield while the rest of your army opperates around them, Poxwalkers need Typhus and at least 1 blightbringer within 7" at all times.

Double butcher cannon array is soild on the Leviathan too.