Signals from the Frontline #561: Death Guard are Here! (Casts Added)

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Show Notes

Date: 9-13-17

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  • Death Guard discussion.
    • The Salty Banana regales us with tales of the Death Guard’s past.
    • Frankie talks tactics.
    • Reecius talks about how to beat Frankie.
    • Also, check out the new Deathshroud Terminators! These bad boys go up for pre-order, next week. Grab yours in the FLG store.

  • Here are some preview pictures from our next video bat rep featuring Death Guard vs. Space Wolves! Sub to our YouTube page to get the latest. This video will air Monday at 9am PST.

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  • Adeptus Mechanicus updates on the Warhammer Community page.
    • Jason covers Graia

  • Frankie covers Mars

  • Reece gets Metallica.

  • All 4 Shadespire factions have been revealed! You will be able to play this game at the LVO too, in what may be the first large scale tournament after its release.

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28 thoughts on “Signals from the Frontline #561: Death Guard are Here! (Casts Added)”

  1. The +1 to hit to skitarii shooting Stratagem actually combos with nothing except plasma not exploding.
    The 2 exploding 6+ both don’t apply as they are either:
    Melee (Dragoons)
    Not Skitarii (Electro priests)

    1. Also, I’ve heard bad news about Kataphrons, Servitors and so on not changing at all (Except 1 weapon that no one used on a unit that no one used) despite them being not viable at all.

    1. Yeah, very sorry about that. For some reason no one was monitoring audio during the show and while we’re casting it we cannot tell if there is a problem. Won’t happen again.

      Luckily the audio for the podcast and videocast of the show will be good.

  2. Hey guys first yeah the volume was low but wouldn’t have posted with an exclamation. Not sure what the deal is there but don’t like that my usual handle I use everywhere comes off as a jerk (or more of one then I am anyways lol)

    Anywho thanks for the shoutout for the Harvester. Gonna be a fun event. Would be awesome to have you guys up to Spokane one of these days.

  3. Great episode chaps.

    Agreed the aesthetics of some of the death guard models are a little too comical for my tastes, but I’m sure a dark paint job will make them look menacing.

    You’re right that they’ll be super vulnerable to alpha strikes so not sure how competitive they’ll end up being

  4. I don’t care where I’m posting this, BUT FUCK YES ADMECH DEEPSTRIKE.
    1) Low mobility
    2) No transports
    3) One-dimentional lists
    all gone. 1 CP to delete any unit in the game. Makes half the units more viable(Destroyers and servitors still suck so far :p)

  5. I have been doing absolutely amazing with my Death Guard over in europe in various tournaments and store games and i havent really seen many people play the style of death guard i do.

    Currently im looking into transitioning into:

    Mortarion
    Daemon prince
    Epidemius
    3 Blight drones with flamers
    Blight hauler
    Some blightking termies

    and then a couple of troops and some extra daemonic vehicles such as either a plagueburst crawler or some more drones. Perhaps a sorcerer with jumppack to warptime mortarion.

    Pretty much everything in that list is a Nurgle Daemon so they trigger epidemius. Kill a couple of units and the buffs really start rakcing up. Thought Death Guard were hard to kill? Try killing them at T8 or even T9 on the crawler.

    Been working absolutely great and its neat the codex allows for such varied playstyles. Cant wait to get some more multi part plague marines and try footslogging behind haulers or doing the whole poxwalkers in a rhino bomb. Imo one of the most fun and flavourfull releases GW has done in a long time (besides GSC)

    1. Epidemius might rise up in popularity a bit used in conjunction with daemon Deathguard units, but I think he’s still fairly risky. To get to +1T you need to *completely* destroy 5 units (run away units don’t count because the Nurgle daemon didn’t finish them off).

      Depending on the list that can be literally impossible or just very difficult. Especially for an army that needs to get close to do maximum damage. Not that the previous bonuses aren’t good well, it’s just not 100% guaranteed to get that T8 on Morty or anyone else in a timely matter.

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