Cataclysm in the Abyss

Death Guard

Faction detachments for Boarding Actions

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Vectors of Decay

Mustering a Boarding Patrol

You can include up to one of the following units:
You can include up to one of the following units:
You can include up to three of each of the following units:
*The combined total number of all of these units cannot be more than the total number of PLAGUE MARINES units.

You can include up to one of each of the following units:

Forming Boarding Squads

POXWALKERS and DEATH GUARD CULTISTS units do not split into separate units in the Form Boarding Squads step.

Rules Adaptations


Army Rule

Slow Decay

Steady and inexorable, the dark gifts of the Plague God seep from the Death Guard to corrupt all.

Units from your army with the Nurgle’s Gift ability retain that ability and gain this one.

When measuring your units’ Contagion Range, Walls and closed Hatchways are ignored. In addition, Contagion Range changes over the course of the battle as shown below, instead of as specified in the Nurgle’s Gift ability.
BATTLE ROUND CONTAGION RANGE
1 1"
2 3"
3+ 6"

Detachment Rule

Sevenfold Offerings

Seven by seven the enemy fall, reaped like blighted crops or rotted from within. Seven by seven their souls are offered up to the Lord of Pestilence.

For every seven enemy models that have been destroyed, add 2" to the Contagion Range of units from your army. Note that any increase to the Contagion Range of units from your army as a result of this rule does not take place while a unit from your army is attacking. In such an event, the increase will take effect after such a unit has finished making its attacks.

Stratagems

CHINKS IN THE ARMOUR
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Even the slightest weakness is enough for the foulness of the Death Guard to find a way in.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
GROTESQUE DEMISE
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Many of the plague weapons and revolting diseases unleashed by the Death Guard inflict endings so hideous that the mere sight of them is enough to send unharmed enemies fleeing in horror.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after a DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) has shot or fought.

TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that had one or more models destroyed as a result of those attacks. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
INFESTATION
1CP
Embarked Regiment – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The taint left by the servants of Nurgle is not easily scoured from the stuff of realspace.
WHEN: Start or end of any turn, when an enemy unit attempts to Seize an objective marker you have Secured.

TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) within Contagion Range of that objective marker.

EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 5+, until the end of your next turn, that objective marker remains Secured by your army and you are considered to control it, regardless of how many enemy models are within range of it.

RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
SEEPING CORROSION
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Crawling tendrils of foulness spread through the voidship at the touch of the Death Guard, poisoning and rotting luckless foes.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, when a DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXWALKERS units) attempts to open a Hatchway.

TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 1" of your unit and on the opposite side of that Hatchway from your unit, and roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. Until the end of the phase, if an enemy unit attempts to prevent that Hatchway from being opened, when rolling off, you can re-roll your result.

Enhancements

We are not using enhancements from Boarding Actions in the crusade. These are here for reference only!

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Foul Constitution

Rancid with might, feverish with unclean power, this warrior’s diseased body is as unnaturally resilient as it is unfeeling of pain.

Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
Fountaining Filth

Bloated fit to burst with noxious corruption, this champion’s straining body is like an overfilled pressure vessel ready to explode like a diseased warhead.

When the bearer is destroyed, before removing it from the battlefield, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer and roll one D6: on a 2-3, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 4-5, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds.

Unclean Uprising

Mustering a Boarding Patrol

You can include up to one of the following units:
You can include up to one of the following units:
You can include up to three of each of the following units:
You can include up to one of the following unit:

Forming Boarding Squads


Rules Adaptations


Army Rule

Slow Decay

Steady and inexorable, the dark gifts of the Plague God seep from the Death Guard to corrupt all.

Units from your army with the Nurgle’s Gift ability retain that ability and gain this one.

When measuring your units’ Contagion Range, Walls and closed Hatchways are ignored. In addition, Contagion Range changes over the course of the battle as shown below, instead of as specified in the Nurgle’s Gift ability.
BATTLE ROUND CONTAGION RANGE
1 1"
2 3"
3+ 6"

Detachment Rule

Relentless Spread

Like a virus seeking fresh hosts, the unclean worshippers of the Plague God spill through the ship’s corridors on the hunt for untainted souls.

Each time a DEATH GUARD unit from your army makes a Consolidation move:

Stratagems

POX FLARE
1CP
Unclean Uprising – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Like fever heat bursting into unclean flame, the diseases infesting these Poxwalkers flare with sudden infectious vitality.
WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One POXWALKERS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1.
PATH OF PESTILENCE
1CP
Unclean Uprising – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Long have lurking cultists planned the uprising and prepared the route for their plague-blessed masters to process to victory.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.

TARGET: One DEATH GUARD CULTISTS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase and is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Select one closed Hatchway within 1” of your unit. Your unit can attempt to operate that Hatchway.

RESTRICTIONS: Until the end of the turn, your unit cannot attempt to operate a Hatchway again.
THE DEAD RISE
1CP
Vectors of Decay – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
What appeared moments before to be a mere carrion heap suddenly lurches into foul and grinning unlife.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, at the start of the Reinforcements step.

TARGET: One POXWALKERS unit from your army that is in Reserves.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Deep Strike ability.

RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
SHAMBLING ONSLAUGHT
1CP
Unclean Uprising – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Relentless, untiring, the plague-rotted hordes press forward in a tide of grasping hands, stinking bodies and gnashing, splintered teeth.
WHEN: Your opponent's Movement phase, just after an enemy unit is selected to Fall Back.

TARGET: One POXWALKERS unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

EFFECT: After that enemy unit ends that Fall Back move, if your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, your unit can make a Normal move.

Enhancements

We are not using enhancements from Boarding Actions in the crusade. These are here for reference only!

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Pox-Bearer

This foul champion is a living vector for the spread of the walking plague, a suppurating nexus of filthy unlife that cannot be cleansed.

Once per battle, at the end of your Movement phase, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, select one friendly POXWALKERS unit within 9" of and visible to the bearer; return up to D3+2 destroyed models to that unit.
Hand of Nurgle

Foul and foetid is the touch of this blessed being, seeping filth and rust-blooming fungi spilling from everything they lay their hands upon.

In your Command phase, select one objective marker that you control and is within range of the bearer. Roll one D6: on a 2+, that objective marker is Secured by your army

Arch-Contaminators

Mustering a Boarding Patrol

You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):
You can include up to one of each of the following units:

Rules Adaptations


Army Rule

Slow Decay

Steady and inexorable, the dark gifts of the Plague God seep from the Death Guard to corrupt all.

Units from your army with the Nurgle’s Gift ability retain that ability and gain this one.

When measuring your units’ Contagion Range, Walls and closed Hatchways are ignored. In addition, Contagion Range changes over the course of the battle as shown below, instead of as specified in the Nurgle’s Gift ability.
BATTLE ROUND CONTAGION RANGE
1 1"
2 3"
3+ 6"

Detachment Rule

Inescapable Corruption

The combined plague blessings of so many champions of the Plague God is universally contagious, a dreadful omnirot that infests flesh, metal and even the minds and souls of its victims.

Each time an enemy unit is selected to perform a Tactical Manoeuvre, if that unit is within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, that enemy unit must take a Leadership test. If that test is failed, that Tactical Manoeuvre has no effect (that enemy unit is still eligible to shoot and declare a charge this turn as normal).

In addition, in your Command phase, roll one D6 for each objective marker that is within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army and is Secured by your opponent’s army: on a 5+, that objective marker is no longer Secured by your opponent’s army.

Stratagems

ALLIES OF ENTROPY
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The foul vitality that flows through these warriors is slow to depart, even in extremis.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
SEED OF CORRUPTION
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Like infectious spores contaminating their victim, the warriors of the Death Guard teleport into battle then dig in as their foulness slowly spreads around them.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One DEATH GUARD TERMINATOR unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: If your unit was set up on the battlefield this turn, it can perform a Tactical Manoeuvre this phase as if it was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
CORROSIVE CURSE
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Mere proximity to these repulsive plague champions is enough to see vital systems rust and crumble as the taint of Chaos consumes them.
WHEN: Start of your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One DEATH GUARD TERMINATOR unit from your army that is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Select one objective marker within Contagion Range of and visible to your unit. That objective marker is Secured by your army.

RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once and, until the end of the turn, your unit is not eligible to shoot or declare a charge.
CLOUD OF FLIES
1CP
Arch-Contaminators – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Plague flies engulf these warriors in a storm of buzzing wings and pustulent bodies, soaking up incoming enemy fire and obscuring the Death Guard elite from the foe.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit's attacks.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.

Enhancements

We are not using enhancements from Boarding Actions in the crusade. These are here for reference only!

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Miasmic Odour

An omnipresent reek of decay wreathes this dark champion, mingling with swarms of parasitic plague flies and turgid clouds of infectious spores.

Add 3" to the Contagion Range of the bearer.

Disgusting Reinvigoration

Grotesque maws and stabbing probosces burst from this champion’s bloated form to consume and corrupt the very life essence of their victims.

Each time the bearer destroys an enemy model with a melee attack, roll one D6: on a 5+, the bearer regains one lost wound (to a maximum of two lost wounds per phase).