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Plague Legion

Legiones Daemonica detachment

Plague Legion

To fight the daemons of Nurgle is to endure their entropic assaults upon both the physical and spiritual battlefields. The horror of inevitable decay claws at the soul…

46.9%
win rate
228
games
19%
faction share

Detachment ability

always on · no CP

Melancholic Miasma

While an enemy unit is within 9" of one or more LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE units from your army, that enemy unit is within your army’s Shadow of Chaos. In each player’s Command phase, select one enemy unit within your army’s Shadow of Chaos. That unit must take a Battle‑shock test.

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To fight the daemons of Nurgle is to endure their entropic assaults upon both the physical and spiritual battlefields. The horror of inevitable decay claws at the souls of their victims even as the daemons’ splintered talons rake their flesh, heralding nightmarish putrefaction and impending doom. 

Stratagems

6

Battle Tactic 3Strategic Ploy 3

Command

2CP

Foetid Resurgence

Strategic PloyYour Command phase.

Return up to 1 destroyed model to your unit (excluding CHARACTER models) or up to D3 destroyed models instead (excluding CHARACTER models) if your unit is a BATTLELINE unit, with their full wounds remaining. If your unit is a MONSTER unit, one model in your unit regains up to D3+1 lost wounds instead.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Mounted · Beast · Swarm · Monster · Fortification · Psyker · Fly · NurgleFull rule ▾

Target: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army that is on the battlefield.

1CP

Plague of Woes

Strategic PloyYour opponent’s Command phase, before selecting any targets for the Melancholic Miasma Detachment rule.

Until the end of the phase, after an enemy unit takes a Battle‑shock test as a result of the Melancholic Miasma Detachment rule, select one other enemy unit within 9" of your unit; that enemy unit must take a Battle‑shock test.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Mounted · Beast · Swarm · Monster · Fortification · Psyker · Fly · NurgleFull rule ▾

Target: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army.

Movement

1CP

Rot and Renewal

Strategic PloyYour Movement phase or your Charge phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through terrain features.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Mounted · Beast · Swarm · Monster · Fortification · Psyker · Fly · NurgleFull rule ▾

Target: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army.

1CP

Murkshadows

Battle TacticYour Movement phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal move, add 5" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Psyker · NurgleFull rule ▾

Target: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE INFANTRY unit from your army.

Shooting

1CP

Fever Visions

Battle TacticYour Shooting phase or the Fight phase. 

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. After your unit has finished making its attacks, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks; that enemy unit must take a Battle‑shock test.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Mounted · Beast · Swarm · Monster · Fortification · Psyker · Fly · NurgleFull rule ▾

Target: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Charge

1CP

Rot and Renewal

Strategic PloyYour Movement phase or your Charge phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a move, it can move through terrain features.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Mounted · Beast · Swarm · Monster · Fortification · Psyker · Fly · NurgleFull rule ▾

Target: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army.

Fight

1CP

Seeping Virulence

Battle Tactic Fight phase.

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Mounted · Beast · Swarm · Monster · Fortification · Psyker · Fly · NurgleFull rule ▾

Target: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

1CP

Fever Visions

Battle TacticYour Shooting phase or the Fight phase. 

Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. After your unit has finished making its attacks, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks; that enemy unit must take a Battle‑shock test.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Mounted · Beast · Swarm · Monster · Fortification · Psyker · Fly · NurgleFull rule ▾

Target: One LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

Enhancements

4

EnhancementPtsWhat it does
Cankerblight (Aura)15LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE model only. Each time an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) that is within 6" of the bearer fails a Battle‑shock test, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, one model in that unit is destroyed (chosen by its controlling player). Each time the bearer uses this Enhancement, no mortal wounds are inflicted by your army’s Daemonic Terror rule.
Maggot Maws15LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE model only. In your Shooting phase, select one enemy unit within 6" of the bearer; that enemy unit must take a Battle‑shock test. Then roll one D6: on a 3+, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds. Each time the bearer uses this Enhancement, no mortal wounds are inflicted by your army’s Daemonic Terror rule.
Droning Shroud (Aura)35LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE MONSTER model only. While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit is within 6" of the bearer, that unit can only be targeted by a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".
Font of Spores (Aura)20LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE MONSTER model only. While a friendly LEGIONES DAEMONICA NURGLE unit is within 6" of the bearer, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of weapons equipped by models in that unit by 1.