Captain Calas Typhon seeded secretive lodges within the legion, creating a secret society that was more loyal to the legion than to the Imperium, while the Primarch Mortarion nursed his own old grudges against the Emperor. They often deployed deadly and proscribed weaponry from the Dark Age of Technology, including viral bombs, radiation missiles, and crawling phosphex.Īs the Horus Heresy approached, however, curdled pride turned the legion away from the Imperial cause, and towards darker ends. They fought in the foulest of warzones, prosecuting the most uncompromising and gruelling sieges through swamps poisoned by industrial waste, trenches filled with radioactive contaminants, or jungles alive with alien plagues.
Recruiting from the toxic world Barbarus, the Death Guard prided themselves on their hardiness, their indomitability, and their resistance to pain. The Death Guard have always been known for endurance Some of them are ancient Predator and Land Raider tanks, now pocked with corrosion and afflicted with fleshy growths, relics of a war they’ve waged for 10,000 years. Behind them, rumbling vehicles grind through the putrefying soil. Shambling, once-human Poxwalkers crowd forwards ahead of the main force, their mouths twisted into rictus grins, their bodies deformed by peculiar mutations. And, far from resenting their plague-bearing plight, they rejoice in the sickness, and revel in spreading their feculent patron’s gifts to an unwilling galaxy. In fact, paradoxically, their ailments lend them vigour, making them hardier than even the Primaris Space Marines. The Death Guard are walking vectors of every infection imaginable, so diseased they should not be able to live, much less wage war in the name of their hideous patron – yet still they fight. Read on for our guide to the Death Guard’s lore, tactics, and rules – and how you can dive into the filth yourself. Cursed by an ancient pact with the plague god Nurgle, each one of them is impossibly afflicted by supernatural illness and insane mutation. Warhammer 40k’s Death Guard army features a diverse roster of revolting warriors, making for a varied (if vomitous) array of tabletop possibilities. Of all Warhammer 40k’s Chaos armies, the Death Guard are the very foulest.
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