Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

In this series, I will review one unit at a time, picking them randomly.

So let me spin the wheel again and see what I get:

Death Guard, Lord of Contagion

10th Edition Index

Another Death Guard entry, this time one of the HQ Characters - the Lord of Contagion.

Pretty much a melee character that can lead either of the two Death Guard Terminator units, he costs 80pts and has a good toughness which makes me think he would be an essential leader in smaller points games but I am not so sure about the larger game values.

He is good for boosting Deathshroud Terminators, which has not come up in the review yet. The LOC can lead Blightlord Terminators as well, but with their Blistering Fullisade ability, it is clear that they are primarily a ranged unit while the LOC boosts the melee ability of a unit.

Call it a conflict of role, really depends on the role but there is another Death Guard, the Lord of Virulence that would be a better match for the Blightlords.

So lets look at the LOC and see what he can do!

Stats

Movement 4" (Super slow! Better use that Deep Strike!)
Toughness 6 (Super tough!)
Save 2+/4++(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 6
Ld 6+
OC 1

Weapons

This guy has zero ranged weapons.

Melee:

His Plague Blade has 2 strike options, you need to choose one of the two.

Plage Blade - Strike:
5 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S8, AP-2 and 3 Damage Each with Lethal Hits meaning 6 to hit auto-wounds.
This is a Marine/Terminator killing strike and great for putting wounds on tanks.

Plage Blade - Sweep:
10 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S5, AP0 and 1 Damage Each with Lethal Hits meaning 6 to hit auto-wounds.

Obviously an anti-horde option. It might also be worthy to note that this weapon becomes much less effective even when fighting units with 1 wound each when they have good armor.

Abilities

Deep Strike (They can be put into reserves an appear anywhere on the battlefield outside 9" of an enemy at the start of a turn)

Vector of Disease

While leading a unit, every model in the unit can re-roll the to Hit roll for melee attacks only. This is why I say he is the melee option as a Lord.

Also, with Lethal Hits on all the melee weapons of the units that he leads, you can re-roll all the to Hit dice you want so you can "fish for 6s". This means you roll attacks, keep the 6s and roll the other dice again and get more 6s.

Those now auto-wound and the other hits can be rolled to see if wounding happens.

So this is a direct damage buffing ability and can enable the squad to take on units with massive toughness.

Abundance of Sickness

When the LOC loses a wound in the Fight Phase, roll a D6, on a 4+ a unit in engagement with him takes a mortal wound.

Its written so that should he loose all 6 wounds in one go, you would roll 6 dice and on 4+ he can allocate those mortal wounds on units.

You can't block Mortal Wounds except for Feel No Pains.

So... not a bad unit for 80pts. Melee units that are a bit slow though. It would make sense to spend a CP to use Rapid Ingress like my friend Nicholas uses it and then have a movement and charge the next turn.

There is no point really in marching Deathshroud across the board at 4" a turn (Though you could make them run)

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Alphabetical List

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Knights	War Dog Brigands	#30
Chaos Knights	War Dog Executioners	#31
Chaos Space Marines	Abbadon the Despoiler	#50
Chaos Space Marines	Haarken Worldclaimer	#41
Chaos Space Marines	Khorne Lord of Skulls	#37
Dark Angels	Asmodai	#16
Dark Angels	Azrael	#17
Dark Angels	Belial	#4
Dark Angels	Deathwing Knights	#20
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
Genestealer Cults	Reductus Saboteur	#33
Grey Knights	Brother Captain	#25
Grey Knights	Grand Master	#48
Grey Knights	Strike Squad	#51
Imperial Agents	Callidus Assassin	#9
Imperial Agents	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Knights	Armiger Helverin	#22
Imperial Knights	Armiger Warglaive	#43
Leages of Votann	Brôkhyr Iron-master	#27
Leages of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leages of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18