I've recently finished my Nurgle Deamon (not SoC) painting project that I had planned to take to the Dutch GT. And since Team Shenanigans has now decided not to go to holland this year now seems as good a time as any for its tournament debut. So here's the list:
Great Unclean One, General 600pts
Aspiring Champion, bsb, undivided, barded steed, Warbanner 146pts
Chaos Sorcerer, Lv2, undivided, barded steed 2x scrolls 186pts
16 Plaguebearers 256pts
3 Nurgling Bases 120pts
5 Furies 75pts
4 Chaos Trolls
4 Chaos Trolls
Chaos Chariot, MoN 135pts
Tuskgor Chariot 85pts
Chaos Giant 205pts
2248pts
8pd/5dd+2 scrolls
38 models/85 wounds
Here's a link to some (bad quality) pics of the army:
http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa18 ... le%20army/
As you can see, I've spent some time modelling a few things a bit differently. The nurgling pump wagon is the tuskgor chariot, being the smaller of the 2. I've used old beasts of Nurgle models as the trolls (I chose trolls because they suited the models best), forgeworld winged rippers as my furies and some other conversions for the 2 characters.
The usual tactic is to have the large unit with the GUO in fairly central flanked by the 2 trolls units. The sorcerer and bsb join troll units to provide an undivided stupidity reroll. The giant and nurglings are there mainly to help hold flanks with the chariots as trouble shooters. The furies' role is obvious
. I have used alternative setups though some of which work, some that don't, so I can still mix things about a bit.
The idea is that, although my advance is slow, it is also very resiliant. And in order to get a massecre, my opponent will have to take on the big unit with the GUO in. I've managed to get a fairly large number of games in against a variety of opponents while I've been building the army and have been fairly successful so far, notching up somewhere in the region of 9 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses (those numbers are guesstimates though), including one game against DA where I was winning until my GUO miscast and spectacularly blew up taking his entire plaguebearer unit with him! The thing I like the most about this army though is that it always gives a good game for both players; the game is never decided in 2 turns etc. This is because my army is slow but resilient, so it will always reach the enemy in one way or another no matter how much shooting is thrown at it. So a shooty army can shoot the crap out of me for 2 or 3 turns, a manouvreable army can run around my flanks etc. but the points are in the trolls and plaguebearer units, so these units will always have to be taken on at somepoint.
The obvious weakness though is to artillery heavy armies. A 4 cannon empire army will have a field day with the army with all the chariots, multiwound creatures and characters without look out sir rolls. He won't know what to shoot first! There is of course very little I can do about this so if I do play such an opponent I'll just have to grin and bear it, hope for a few misfires and lucky ward saves and be content with the knowledge that if I still have stuff alive in turn 4 cannon crew are easy to kill...
So, thoughts? comments? criticism? Bear in mind that the display base has already been made so any changes I make will still have to fit. This limits me to character setups and an extra fury really, oh and the possibility of a deamon steed for the sorcerer (the extra space was made so I could use it at a 2300pt tourney too). So it is very unlikely that the list itself will be modified. I'd still like to hear any suggestions people have though. Could be interesting.
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