A Conduit for Desiccation!

The above model is officially what you use to build a Chaos Lord in Terminator armor. It does not however look like a Death Guard Character because its has been painted in Black Legion colours.

I have a better option:

This is Lord Lethius. He is actually a limited edition Lord of Contagion but one could use either to mod themselves a cool looking Chaos Lord.

Another option is of course taking the first model and putting Death Guard bits on it to make him look the part!

Images from warhammer.com

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

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Back to the review.

The whole project has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.

I should have started when 10th edition launched!
625 days since the start of 10th Edition. (somehow I got this wrong yesterday... oh well)
This is Review #256, I am 369 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)

Death Guard, Death Guard Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor

10th Edition Index

A Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor is found in the Chaos Space Marines Codex and the Death Guard Index. Like I say above where the model pictures are, they come in a standard box that make them look like Chaos Marines but not Death Guard.

The specialist Death Guard Terminator Characters have other weapon load outs and one would need to tinker a bit to either make those characters fit this datasheet. Or to embellish this kit to look like Death Guard.

And by that I mean make him look green and sickly and full of horrible disgusting details. He serves the God of Plague after all.

This is very similar on how I convert everything into Space Wolf stuff. I add wolf pelts, wolf tails, necklaces, runes, all sorts of viking(Fenrisian) details to the model to make it look the part.

This Chaos Lord can lead either of the specialist Death Guard Terminator units available to them.

This model costs 85pts to field and $35 to buy.

Let's check his stats.

Stats

Movement 4"
Toughness 6
Save 2+/4++ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 6
Ld 6+
OC 1

Weapons

Standard Wargear is: Plague Combi-bolter and Plague-encrusted exalted Weapon.

The Plague Combi-Bolter can be replaced by the following:

Combi-weapon
Plague-encrusted exalted weapon

The Plague-encrusted exalted weapon can be replaced by the following:

Chainfist
Plague fist

Both weapons can be replaced by a set of Twin Lighting Claws.

The word Plague appears more here that the word "wolf" appears in my army!

Ranged Weapons

Plague Combi-bolter

24" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 2+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 2 (Get 2 additional attacks if the target is within 12" - half range)
Lethal Hits (Hit rolls of a 6 cause an automatic wound)

Combi-weapon

24" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 2+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 1 (Get 1 additional attack if the target is within 12" - half range)
Anti-Infantry 4+ (Causes Critical Wounds against Infantry units on a 4+ instead of 6+, it also wounds on a 4+ regardless of the target Toughness)
Devastating Wounds (When a Critical Wound is scored, the attack causes Mortal Wounds.)

Melee Weapons

Plague-encrusted exalted weapon

6 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S5, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Lethal Hits (Hit rolls of a 6 cause an automatic wound)

Plague Fist

5 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S8, AP-2 and 2 Damage each.
Lethal Hits (Hit rolls of a 6 cause an automatic wound)

Chainfist

5 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S8, AP-2 and 2 Damage each.
Anti-Vehicle 3+ (Causes Critical Wounds against Vehicle units on a 3+ instead of 6+, it also wounds on a 3+ regardless of the target Toughness)

Twin Lightning Claws

7 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S5, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Twin-linked (This weapon can re-roll Wound Rolls)

Abilities

Deep Strike - When set up from reserves, he can be set up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" away from enemy models.

Chaos Lord

While leading a unit, each time any model in the unit makes an attack, re-roll Hit rolls of 1.

Desiccation Conduit(Aura)

At the end of every turn, every enemy unit within Contagion Range(I need to review the Army Rule to explain) of this model rolls a D6, on a 4+ that unit suffers D3 Mortal Wounds.

Thoughts

The amount of times something is called Plague this and Plague that... is probably going to happen the whole time with this faction.

This is a solid HQ. The Desiccation Conduit is a cool rule to just cause auto damage on tough targets. Being in a unit of Deathshroud Terminators in the middle of the enemy lines is where he wants to be.

His weakness? And that of ALL Death Guard Terminators? Movement. Movement 4... super slow. Most infantry are M6", Terminators and Gravis marines are M5". These Death Guard Terminators slog it out for 4".

Because of that, they usually Deep Strike, putting them within 9" of the enemy. A charge is 2D6" so they might make it.

Their other option (the expensive one) is to stick them into a Land Raider and drive them towards the enemy.

Their trade-off is that Death Guard Terminators have an extra point of Toughness more than the others. T6 instead of T5 means certain weapons have a tough time harming them. Lasguns S3 go from 5+ to Wound to 6+, Heavy Bolters S5 go from 4+ to 5+, Assault Cannons S6 go from 3+ to 4+, etc.

Re-rolling 1s to Hit is also a solid buff.

That makes 7 Death Guard Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 21.87% Completed. The total Completed is 27.94% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

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I shall leave Army and Detachment rules here as well as World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons!

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Aeldari		Army Rule #4
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Bridgehead Strike	Detachment Rule #2
Space Marines		Army Rule #3

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
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
Death Guard	Malignant Plaguecaster	#71
Thousand Sons	Ahriman	#108
Thousand Sons	Ahriman on Disc of Tzeentch	#109
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
World Eaters	Angron	#255
World Eaters	Lord Invocatus	#100
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85