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Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle is your guide to collecting and playing with a Nurgle army.

With expanded and updated rules for the Rotbringers – Nurgle’s most dedicated mortal servants – as well as the Daemons of Nurgle, you’ll be able to build a powerful, thematic collection dedicated to the God of Plagues.

Fans of the Rotbringers will now have a much wider tactical toolbox to work with, and while there are plenty of benefits to be had by mixing your army, a pure Rotbringers force is now more viable than ever, with new units to patch the tactical holes, magical spells of their own and a range of warscroll battalions.

Our favourite of these is the Lord of Blights, who adds much needed ranged capabilities to your Nurgle army. While this baleful figure looks like a close combat juggernaut (and, in all fairness, he’s no slouch in melee!), his real strength lies in the clutch of severed heads he carries with him. The Lord of Blights hands out these heads to nearby units of Putrid Blightkings, letting them bombard nearby foes.

We’d recommend combining this with the new Rotbringers spell, Blades of Putrefaction, allowing the Blightkings to inflict some extra mortal wounds when they attack in this way. Given that Blightkings have also seen a points reduction in the book, they’ll make for a very flexible core to many Nurgle armies.

Meanwhile, the Daemons of Nurgle can benefit from the updated Great Unclean One as well as their own warscroll battalions, magical spells, artefacts and more. The Great Unclean One, in particular, is worthy of a closer look – just look at his new profile and weapons Options!

The Doomsday Bell is particularly potent new option, lending an additional 3” of movement to nearby Nurgle units and compensating for their generally poor mobility. Nurgle players can now also add a named Greater Daemon to their army, akin to Skarbrand or Kairos Fateweaver, with Rotigus, a gigantic creature who deals a deluge of mortal wounds to any units that dare stand near him:

Finally, there are loads of extra content in the book for mortal Nurgle armies. As you may know, the Chaos God keywords in Warhammer Age of Sigmar allow you to take incredibly diverse armies drawing from any force that shares their keyword, and Nurgle is no exception. Thanks to the Nurgle keyword, Slaves to Darkness and Clans Pestilens units can be added to your army with ease, whether you’re grabbing some ranged support from a clutch of Plagueclaw catapults or just need some fast-moving Chaos Knights to capture objectives further up the field. Even if all you collect is Slaves to Darkness, this book is for you, with tables of spells, Warlord Traits and artefacts just for you. Our personal favourite is a Chaos Lord on Manticore with The Eye of Nurgle, an unpredictable but effective foil to Nagash, Archaon or anyone that dares stand before your Chaos Lord!

In short, Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle is a great toolbox for any kind of Nurgle player, opening up a vast array of options when building your army. From daemonic hordes to elite forces of Rotbringers and mixed armies drawing from a variety of sources, you’ll be able to make your mark on the tabletop. If you fancy a closer look at some of the new Nurgle models, make sure to come back every day this week as we count down the Seven Days of Nurgle!

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Today, we’re checking out a couple of the new Heralds available to Nurgle armies:

Previously, Nurgle only had one kind of Herald available, known appropriately as a Herald. However, these guys only represented some of the myriad servants available to the God of Plagues, and with the new Codex: Chaos Daemons and Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle, Heralds are getting more diverse than ever.

Our favourite has to be the Sloppity Bilepiper, a miniature that sums up the repugnant jollity of Nurgle perfectly. Armed with a set of jolly gutpipes and a marotter (crafted from the remains of the previous Sloppity Bilepiper), these Heralds are the victims and carriers of the Chortling Murrain, a disease that causes its victims to laugh themselves to death. Sloppity Bilepipers cavort and joke with Nurglings, Great Unclean Ones and Beasts of Nurgle (but not Plaguebearers, who lack a sense of humour) and strike horror into the hearts of their mortal foes.

Meanwhile, the Spoilpox Scrivener is a downright dour creature by comparison… It’s the job of the Spoilpox Scriveners to ensure that Plaguebearers meet their tallies, a job they accomplish by relentlessly browbeating and bullying their counterparts with a barrage of insults and commands. On the tabletop, the Spoilpox Scrivener will ensure that your Plaguebearers fight harder, making them a handy strategic lynchpin for the rest of your army.

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We’ve looked at some of Nurgle’s daemonic servants over the past couple of days, but next year will also see some of his mortal devotees join the battlefields on the Mortal Realms. (After all, Nurgle considers himself a god of life and is as alarmed as any about the growing threat of Death!)
First among these servants is the Lord of Blights, who joins a growing stable of Rotbringers heroes including the Lord of Plagues and the Glottkin themselves. The Lord of Blights is a brutal figure, armed with a towering shield and brutal maul as well as a host of strange abilities. On the battlefield, the Lord of Blights can shroud his fellows in swarming hosts of flies or hand out deadly death’s heads for Putrid Blightkings to fling at enemies!
Sounds grotesque – and it’s only just for starters. Check back tomorrow when we’ll be taking a look at the Pusgoyle Blightlords…

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Pusgoyle Blightlords are the shock cavalry of the Rotbringers army, combining the speed of a unit of Plague Drones with the durability and martial prowess of the Putrid Blightkings. These are the elite of the Rotbringers, and they allow you to flank enemies, control space and dash onto objectives at the last minute, giving you a much wider tactical toolbox when using the Nurgle army!

In the Pusgoyle Blightlords kit, you’ll also find the option to build a Lord of Affliction, who, like the Lord of Blights, is a new leader for Nurgle armies, with abilities designed to aid the rest of your Pusgoyle Blightlords and inflict mortal wounds on your foes.

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New year is coming, and there’s all sorts of exciting Warhammer on the way, from the Mortal Realms, to Middle-earth™, to the 41st Millennium.

White Dwarf is on hand to guide you into a new year of hobby, starting with the resurgence of the Plague God. Both Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar will soon be feeling the rancid visitations of Grandfather Nurgle, from a range of new daemonic Heralds, to a new Beast of Nurgle, the Pusgoyle Blightlords, and the gigantic Great Unclean One. We’ve gathered some of the ‘Eavy Metal team to share their top tips on painting your Nurgle armies, from a look at potential colour schemes to some advanced techniques.

Indeed, it’s a dark time for the Mortal Realms – and not just because of Nurgle. Something ancient and evil is rising, and the omens are everywhere. This month’s White Dwarf contains more clues as to what it might be with a pair of short stories…

Finally, to celebrate the release of the Middle-earth™ Strategy Battle Game: Battle Companies, White Dwarf has a pair of new scenarios written by designer Jay, allowing you to act out a partner campaign to the Quest to Fornost narrative campaign in the main book. This is just the start of the campaign – you’ll find the continuation of each scenario in February’s issue.

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PREISE:

- Battletome : 25€, préco le 6
- Grand Immonde : 110 € précommande le 6 (5€ de plus que Skarbrand, 20 € de plus que le Buveur de sang et que le Duc du changement/Kairos, je trouve ça étrange)
- Feculent Gnarlmaw : 22,5€, préco le 6
- Lord of Blight : 20€, préco le 6
- Sloppity Bilepiper : 20€, préco le 13
- Spoilpox : 20€, préco le 13
- Beast of Nurgle : 32,5€, préco le 13
- Pusgoyle Blightlords : 55€, préco le 13

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It’s the 6th Day of Nurgle, and today, we’re looking at some of the Plague God’s most well-meaning (and deadly) servants. Next year, the Beasts of Nurgle will be getting an updated kit to properly capture the grotesque friendliness these monstrosities are known for:

The new Beast of Nurgle kit is absolutely packed with extras, meaning if you want to field a pack of them you’ll be able to ensure that each looks different. From a variety of exposed innards to flailing tentacles, they’ll be great for converting the rest of your Nurgle Daemons too!
While you wait for your Beasts of Nurgle, we’ve got a free wallpaper to tide you over. Make sure to come back tomorrow for your last preview, when we’re looking at some new scenery for devotees of the Plague God.

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Malign Portents is the beginning of a dark and dangerous new era for Warhammer Age of Sigmar, with each Grand Alliance seeing Harbingers – prophets, seers and emissaries blessed with strange abilities – rise to meet the oncoming threat. For the forces of Chaos, these are the Darkoath Warqueens, tribal leaders who practice diplomacy with the edge of an axe. For the forces of Death, the Knights of Shrouds command legions of the undead as they execute their master’s mysterious bidding. For Destruction, the Fungoid Cave-Shaman prophecy doom, annihilation and the best battle their ladz have ever seen.

Order’s champions are the Lord-Ordinators, a new kind of Stormcast Eternal that combines a mastery of engineering with the storm-forged might of their brethren.

Lord-Ordinators have a particularly sacred duty – where the other Stormcast Eternals clear the way for Sigmar’s kingdoms, it’s these warrior-engineers that oversee the construction of new cities, walls and Stormkeeps, working in tandem with Dispossessed work gangs to create wonders unseen since the Age of Myth. These warriors also observe the movements of the stars in the heavens above the Mortal Realms, using combinations of mathematics, science and seer-craft to determine the future. With a great evil rising, the Lord-Ordinators have been dispersed among the armies of Order so that they can help prepare them for what is to come…

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I) General stuff :
-Hard cover,
-104 pages
-Nice satin finish.
The book cover 3 types of nurgle force : Daemons, Mortals, Rotbringer.
As in all Battle tome you get Fluff, pics, Traits, Artefacts...
It's easier to show you all an image of the summary :

Let's dive right in :

II) Fluff :
The first 32 pages are Nurgle fluff. Starting at the top with Grandfather Nurgle himself and ending with the Blightkings.
We learn quite a few things like, why nurgle and horned rats hate each other or we get new details on how are made the Plaguebearer.
Honestly the section is well made, it was a fun read. After reading this section, i understand how fun are the Blightkings now
As i don't want to spoil anyone i'll say no more.

III) Vision of nurgle :
Beautiful models and Images.

IV ) Armies of the plague god.

A) Nurgle keyworded army.

If you play a Nurgle army with only Nurgle keywords you gain these bonus :
Cycle of corruption : can use the Nurgle wheel from the slimux box.

-Garden of Nurgle : Before the start of the battle you can set up a Feculent Gnarl Maws for free. 1" away from another terrain.
-Summon Daemons of Nurgle : None of the Nurgle Daemons in the book can be summoned by spell. These time are over.
In a nutshell, you gain contagions points and use them to summon Nurgle Daemons. (You still need to keep points in matched Play)

It's interesting to be able to play a mortal army (using a mortal only Warscroll Battalion) and summon extra daemons during the games.

B) Command trait
Nurgle forces are divide in 3 groups : Rotbringer, Daemon, Mortal.
Each one have access to 6 traits.
If your General qualify for 2 groups choose one to use.
Nothing special here, you get bonus , reroll or things like that.
2 exceptions : (aviable to all 3 groups)
Grand Father Blessing
Move the Nurgle cycle 1 step forward or backward (once per battle).
Living Plague
Roll dice for each unit within 1" of the general, on a 4+ you get 1 C points and they take a mortal wound.

C) Artefacts of power

Nurgle forces are divide in 3 groups : Rotbringer, Daemon, Mortal.
Each one have access to 6 choices. One item attracted my attention. The carrion Dirge : Mortal hero only, -2 bravery for enemy units in a 12" (ouch).

D) Spells of Nurgle :
Again Divided in 3 groups
One extra spell for every one : Foul Regenesis.

In a nutshell on a +7 Regenesis grant you a +1 to wound in melee on all the battlefiedl (or extra 2" move) as you set cycle back to there.
The Nurgle lore look very strong with interesting debuff/buff/dmg spell.

E) Path to glory and batlle plan :

A complete PTG section and one fun plagued battle plan

V) Warscrolls :

A) Warscroll Battalion
The Munificent Wanderers :
Big detachment composed of 1 GUO and 2 Tallyband
TallyBand of Nurgle
Standard Nurgle Daemon detachment, Extra contagion if you have 7 units and return 1d3 Plague bearer to each unit during your hero phase.
ThriceFold Befoulment
3 GUO, Bonus if they 14" and 7" from each others. ps : casting plague wind 7" from 2 other GUO = 3d3 mortal for each unit hit.
Nurgle Menagerie
Slimux and Beast, planting tree all the game.
Blessed Sons
Big detachment .
Plague cyst
Basic Battalion for BlightKings lead by a Lord of Plague
Lord of plague grant reroll to all failed attack 7" of him.
Blight Cyst
Basic Battalion for BlightKings lead by a Lord of Blight.
Every blightking units within 3" of the LOB get the shooting attack.
Affliction Cyst
Composed of Blightking on drone and one lord of affliction
grant a 16"+3d6" charge to all the army ^^.
This one is super powerful but the composition is really limited.
Each warscroll Battalion cost from 180 to 240.

B) Warscrolls Points :
Nearly everything cost +20/+40
New GUO is +100
Plague Bearer are +20 per 10. (ouch)
BlightKing and Plague drone got a -20 discount.

C) Warscrolls changes :
Nurgle tree : Friendly units can do a charge starting 7" from the model even if ran. on a 4+ take 1 mortal wound if not nurgle.
Nerf :
Epidemius : Nerfed and cost increased by 20 the 21+ count got changed to 1 Contagion points per turn.) ouch.
Slimux and beast slime trail activate on a 4+ now. (it's a nerf to Slimux only)
Morbidex twiceborn : Lord of nurgling nerfed to +1 nurgling.(from 1d3)
Change :
GUO +100 pt but +6 wound +1 extra spell, new command is very strong.
Beast of Nurgle : +40 pt each, +1w, got the slimux trail and +1 to damage to each attack with near a nurgle daemon hero.
Sprume : Grant a deeep strike, but pseudopod work on a 4+ now, lost towering arrogance as a command ab a got a reroll to hit 1 vs hero.
Lord of plague : +40 pt but a few upgrade, grant reroll 1 to BK units in 7" (meh) Lost the regen of 1 per hero phase.
Buff :
Drone : cheaper and locus of contagion grant now 1 extra attack for each weapons.
Blightking : +1w -20 cost

VI) Conclusion :
Very nice Battletome, my favorite yet. It's Great, they added a lot of synergies to the nurgle armies.
Still not convinced by the Summon rules as you need to do a lot of counting during games..
Ask questions in comment i'll respond !!

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What about the Mortal Realms? Worry not, generals – the Open Day also saw some exciting reveals for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. While the Malign Portents remain as mysterious as ever, one thing is certain – something great and terrible is rising in Shyish, and Nagash is behind it. This year promises to be a huge one for Death players, and we’re getting things started with Legions of Nagash, a new battletome with not one – but SIX! – allegiances within:

Since the start of Warhammer Age of Sigmar, each Grand Alliance has evolved to feature more factions, allegiance abilities and options for collecting; from the mixed Order armies of the Great Cities to the god-marked cavalcades of Chaos. Battletome: Legions of Nagash is designed to make sure that Death players have just as many options as their counterparts. Inside, you’ll find the warscrolls for every single Death model (so far…) alongside four new Allegiances within Death – the Grand Host of Nagash, Legion of Shadows, Legion of Sacrament and Legion of Blood. You’ll also find rules for the Soulblight vampires, if you’re looking to field one of Death’s most elite armies. If you would rather have an army formed from multiple facets of Nagash’s legions, there are also rules for those who pledge themselves more generally to the powers of Death.

The particularly devout among you may have spotted that each of these corresponds to a Mortarch (or Nagash himself), and each allegiance, while using a mixed pool of Death units, will feature its own unique in-game mechanics and abilities.

It’s not just rules, either – inside, you’ll find your guide to the realm of Shyish and what everyday life is like for the denizens of Nagash’s kingdoms – from the serried ranks of Deathrattle skeletons cutting lumber in the woods of Carstinia to sinister cities where the living and the dead dwell alongside each other. We’ll have more previews on the way closer to the release of Battletome: Legions of Nagash, but if you’re still hungry for the forbidden lore of Death, check out the Malign Portents Website.

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