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, Malignant Plaguecaster

10th Edition Index

The Malignant Plaguecaster or Fart Wizard(TM) is a Chaos Sorcerer dedicated to the service of the Plague God Nurgle.

Usually you could only get this model from the one Starter Box of (I think) 7th of 8th Edition called Dark Imperium. OR, you can buy the Chosen of Mortarion box for $44 for 3 models including this one.

He costs 65pts

Let's check his stats!

Stats

Movement 5"
Toughness 5
Save 3+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 4
Ld 6+
OC 1

Basic stats for a "secondary" leader in a Space Marine army but with -1 Movement and +1 Toughness that is typical for Death Guard.

Weapons

For Ranged he has a Plague Bolt Pistol, which is just a Bolt Pistol with Lethal Hits and Plague Wind (told you.... Fart Wizard). Like many psychic powers, this ranged psychic attack has a focussed witchfire profile which is Hazardous.

Ranged:

Plague Bolt Pistol
12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 2+. S4, AP0 and 1 Damage.
Lethal Hits, Pistol

Plague Wind — witchfire
12" Range, D6 Shots, S4, AP-1 and D3 Damage each.
Torrent, Psychic

Plague Wind — focused witchfire
12" Range, D6+3 Shots, S6, AP-2 and D3 Damage each.
Torrent, Psychic, Hazardous

So you get a guaranteed 3 extra hits, +2 Strength and an extra Armor Piercing. In exchange, roll a dice and suffer 3 Wounds if you roll a 1 and you stink yourself. Lol.

Melee:

Corrupted staff
4 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S6, AP-1 and D3 Damage each.
Lethal Hits, Psychic

Not fantastic, but an OK addition to a squad's attacks.

Abilities

Pestilent Fallout

If he scores a Wound with his Plague Wind, the enemy unit is at -2 Movement, -2 to Advance moves and -2 to Charge rolls. (They had their mouthes open and everything!)

Gift of Contagion

In the Shooting Phase, select an enemy within 18" and visible to the Fart Wizard. Roll a Dice. On a 1, the Fart Wizard's unit takes D3 Mortal Wounds... this is a backfire. On 2+, this is successful. Until the next turn, that enemy unit is at -1 to Wound rolls in Melee.

Thoughts

The Torrent attack is strong and the Gift of Contagion is also powerful since Death Guard are already an army that has usually 1 more Toughness than other Space Marines and Chaos Space Marines.

So if two Space Marine level units hit each other, Strength 4 vs Toughness 4 makes for a 4+ roll. Toughness 5 makes for a 5+ roll... get hit by Gift of Contagion and now its a 6+ roll which means if the unit did not have weapons with higher than S4 in melee, they will be doing nothing that turn in combat, severely putting a blunt on their attacks!

That is 6 Death Guard Datasheets reviewed putting them on 18.75% Completed and the total Completed on 7.10% Complete!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Alphabetical List

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Knight-Centura	#54
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain	#61
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armor	#70
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Adeptus Mechanicus	Belisarius Cawl	#53
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
Aeldari	Guardian Defenders	#64
Aeldari	Night Spinner	#65
Astra Militarum	Kasrkin	#60
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Black Templars	The Emperor's Champion	#63
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Gabriel Seth	#66
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
Dark Angels	Lazarus	#62
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Deathwatch	Proteus Killteam	#57
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
Genestealer Cults	Hybrid Metamorphs	#58
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	Culexus Assassin	#69
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
Space Wolves	Arjac Rockfist	#68
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
T'au Empire	Stealth Battlesuits	#67
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18