You’ll use rulers and dice to measure distances and successes. In a given turn you will pick units to move, use psychic powers, shoot from your gunline and finally charge, and attack. You’ll face off against an opponent with a force which could be a couple of units or a sprawling army. Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop wargame that sees you playing battles on a tabletop, ideally with miniatures that you have built and painted yourself.Ĭurrently in its eighth edition, it is a much more streamlined game than it used to be, built around playing relatively fast objective-based matches which involve rolling a whole lot of dice, measuring distances and using your faction’s unique rules to enact synergies and tactics to best your opponent. It provides players and hobbyists alike a rich seam of fiction to draw on in order to build, paint and play with peerless models. If you have managed to avoid its numerous video game adaptations, or its ubiquity in the tabletop miniatures scene for more than three decades, Warhammer 40,000 is Games Workshop’s flagship tabletop wargame and the sibling to the fantasy-flavoured Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.ĭesigned and manufactured in the UK, it has a different feel to many other tabletop games as it is steeped in over 30 years of fiction and world-building. Its tagline is “In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war,” which is very economic scene-setting: you engage with the game and its rich fiction by enacting miniature war on your tabletop. Who, by the way, is about due the Ahriman/Kharn treatment…Ĭheck back with us in the very near future as we wrap up with the final two Death Guard units of the box.Warhammer 40,000 is fundamentally all about war. This is quite possibly one of my favourite Games Workshop models since the release of the latest Typhus model. You can see his insides are trying their best to escape out of his body via his stomach whilst a formidable shrine/trophy rack sits atop his armour proudly boasting Nurgle’s blessing. Setup/positioning is important for the Lord as even if he’s not in close combat he is able to buff allies that allows them top potentially inflict mortal wounds on nearby enemy units!Īs we stomps into battle, seemingly crushing Nurglings underfoot, he grips his vicious Plaguereaper and bellows smoke from his pestilent-filled incense burners. If he’s not in close combat then he’d better be well on his way! His armour makes him incredibly difficult to put down but also slow, but thankfully the option to Teleport Strike is there. This is his only weapon so he has no grenades, no pistols, no psyker abilities. Though, why you’d not want to take Typhus I am completely clueless I adore that model to bits! The Lord marches into battle carrying a huge two-handed Plaguereaper. If you ever wanted an HQ unit for your Nurgle Marines that wasn’t Typhus but you wanted something similarly powerful/effective then the Lord of Contagion is the answer to that very prayer. The big, bad, Death Guard boss man himself – the Lord of Contagion. Now, let’s move on to the big man himself.
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I’m sure as he marches he tolls a jolly tune indeed. He’s an ample manifestation of all things Death Guard.
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But look closer and you’ll see fleets of Nurgle iconography, hidden incense burners within the bells all over the armour and maggots all writhing withing nooks and crannies that you might need to squint to see. Sure, you’re drawn to the large Tocsin atop his armour and the dangling Nurgling.
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The model itself is brimming with all sorts of of detail that is easy to miss at first glance. He provides buffs to nearby Death Guard, allowing them to move faster when advancing and can also lesson leadership of nearby enemy units. Positioning is key for the Blightbringer. But strictly getting this guy into combat may not be the wisest move. He wields a Plasma Pistol along with a Cursed Plague Bell for those more close-quarters confrontations. This stinking, bell-toting traitor acts primarily as a buffing character for nearby Death Guard units. But right now we’ll be looking into two of the characters in the box, namely the Noxious Blightbringer and the Lord of Contagion.įirst up let’s look at the Blightbringer. You can find Part I of this right here where we look at Poxwalkers and the Foetid Bloat Drone. We’ll be continuing a further break down of the new Death Guard units in the Dark Imperium box for Warhammer 40K 8th edition. Hello again, all you enlighted rotbringers or disillusioned loyalists.