Range Review - Death Guard

[@acourbet]

I think the half skull on the axe is the old Dusk Raiders symbol. Doesn't change the fact it's size is too much, but adds a little story.

[@Kawanakajima]

The new Upgrade heads are pretty much exactly like the helmets in the old Forge World resin Plague Marine upgrades (and those were obviously inspired by the picture of the Pre-Heresy DG in the old Index Astartes article). Actually surprised The Outr Circle didn't recognise them. And the old resin Plague Marines were in Mk V (like most of the CSM range was back then). So, no: they're not the new Mk III. And to me they're perfect 'cause they remind me of a simpler time when Pre-Heresy was already a thing but we didn't have special rules or miniatures and had to convert everything outselves (including de-plagueifying Plague Marines).

[@itsallpointless6501]

Dunno if anyone has mentioned it below but the half skull on the axe is the dusk raiders icon hence the spikes on the other side of the circle

[@tabe8850]

The problem I have with Mortarion model is that I always envisioned him as gaunt and skeletal. I never saw him with a badonkadonk. But maybe I misread his descriptions in books. Those legs just seem wrong.

[@jamesespinosa690]

You are half correct. He is described as gaunt and skeletal. Many times. BUT! He is also described as (in my words) an 'immovable object'. I'm thinking the gaunt skeletal description is specifically his face.

[@DeusExMachina10001]

You are definitely correct that he was said to look pretty skeletal. Problem is; how do you make someone look skinny in Power Armor?

[@tripwire31]

The icon on the newer cataphractii praetor's power axe is the Dusk Raiders. Just sucks they didn't find a better place to put it on the models.

[@TheDECKFISH]

Poor Nathanial. Not even included in his legion

[@uwesca6263]

Most likely they will include him in a campaign book.

[@chadmrrsn]

The deathshroud arms with the chem launchers can be used as a great basis for a terminator narthicium for a primus medicae

[@sleeplepeople7313]

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Thanks. Fir saving me the coin. :)

[@MalfunctioningAndroid]

These prices are insane. I never bothered buying FW stuff on FW site, preferring a local recast. But daaaaamn.

[@adennkyramud116]

Don't forget, these are Australian prices, they're even more price gouged than anywhere else

[@MalfunctioningAndroid]

@@adennkyramud116 madness.

[@darko-man8549]

Typhon listened to Edna Mode

[@Theredsunrising]

the praetor's pauldrons are hilariously big

[@itsallpointless6501]

I hate the cloak on the preator, not just because it is clean but the way it is sitting just doesn't look right at all, it seems like it is from another model or they forgot to photoshop it out or something.

[@Balevolt]

I have a hard time taking Scythes on loyalist Deathguard

[@tabe8850]

We gonna get an exemplary HH book review? I am. Salamanders player, and am disappointed from what I heard. I would never buy that book. I want HH1.6 edition. Takes the few good parts of 2.0, like running at initiative, and dumb stuff from 1.5 like Medusa being S10 AP whatever. I wish we as community could make a our own rule base (hint hint)

[@TheOuterCircle]

I ordered the book the minute pre-orders came up, I'm only the biggest HH-dedicated "influencewhore" and I don't get them sent to me, instead it's a wait until the end of this coming week for me to get my hands on my copy.

[@marcmiddleton2277]

I don't like Capes/Cloaks. I also don't like the Terminator Praetor Bare head/face. The axe is kinda like why?

[@hironagamaki9744]

Power Scythes are expensive pound for pound in resin😢 Managed the get the DG contempor before they cut off his legs. Personally i cant find the right white to start painting the armour

[@edwardgates4090]

I used Vallejo Off White for mine. But the stuff I paint is more like the old Forgeworld style not the more modern creamy brown colour they seem to go for.

[@mrnaughtyscotty69]

The Mortarion Grime Shade GW released last year over Wraithbone or Grey Seer does a really good job of getting that kind of dirty off-white color.

[@John-bb4zm]

ten dollars a scythe...

[@ew7d]

The loss of the old death guard torsos was a sharp pain.

[@myrar8708]

agree the legion specific torsos should have stayed

[@disconcerningcitizen2224]

Where does mortarion model rank for you compared to the other primarchs ?

[@TheOuterCircle]

Solidly in the middle.

[@disconcerningcitizen2224]

@@TheOuterCircle I predict magnus will be your number 1

[@bruceduncan9988]

Did the tarators have access to mk6

[@Grubnar]

What?

[@bruceduncan9988]

Wasen't M6 towards the end of the Heresy ? & if so the Mk6 would not be avaluable to them ?

[@Grubnar]

​@@bruceduncan9988 Wait, did you mean to write "traitors"? I thought it was supposed to be "tartarous" ... that is a type of Terminator armour. Mk VI Corvus armour is actually mis-named. You see, it was designed at the same time as Mk IV Maximus armour, and was considered to replace the old Mk II Crusade armour ... Maximus was chosen, because it was considered to be "better" in more important ways. Despite some Legions liking it more than the Maximus type, like the Raven Guard and Alpha Legion. It was only after the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, when the two sides were trying to grind each other into dust that one of it's advantages became much more important. Ease of manufacture! That was why the Loyalists (and Traitors) started mass-producing it ... because every suit of power armour counted. The Traitors were actually the first to start making it in large numbers. The Alpha Legion stole the blueprints, and started manufacturing their own version of it before anyone else.

[@bruceduncan9988]

It's my bad spelling sorry mate { traitors } but thanks now I know 👍

[@Grubnar]

@@bruceduncan9988 No worries, I just didn't understand what you meant. Mk VI armour is just one of those funny things in the lore that GW suddenly had to explain how there were a few guys wearing it BEFORE the start of the Horus Heresy, when it was not supposed to have become the most common mark of armour until AFTER the Heresy, during The Scouring.

[@itsallpointless6501]

I think the new 40k death guard plague marines look like something Fabius bile would make rather than Nurgle, so I am making a fabious bile army for 40k with them

[@jeffers1985]

99% of gw cloaks are pristine and it's just copy/paste. I agree, the praetors need tattered cloaks at least