Blightwar (2017), p40 — Plague Drones of Nurgle

Amongst the swiftest and most dangerous of Nurgle's followers, Plague Drones are high-ranking Plaguebearers who ride to war astride huge and malevolent Rot Flies. These daemonic airborne mounts attack the foe with stingers, proboscises and chitinous limbs, while their riders hurl slime-filled death's heads into the enemy lines that explode in showers of infectious filth.

Move	Wounds	Save	Bravery
8"	5	5+	10

Missile Weapons	Range	Attacks	To Hit	To Wound	Rend	Damage
Death's Head	14"	1	4+	3+	-	1
Melee Weapons	Range	Attacks	To Hit	To Wound	Rend	Damage
Plaguesword	1"	1	4+	3+	-	1
Prehensile Proboscis	1"	3	3+	4+	-	1
Venomous Sting	1"	1	4+	3+	-1	D3

Description

A unit of Plague Drones of Nurgle has 3 or more models. The Rot Flies attack with their Prehensile Proboscises and Venomous Stings, while their Plaguebearer riders swing Plagueswords and throw virulent Death's Heads.

Fly

Plague Drones can fly.

Plaguebringer

The leader of this unit is the Plaguebringer. A Plaguebringer makes 2 attacks rather than 1 with its Plaguesword.

Icon Bearer

Models in this unit may be Icon Bearers. If you roll a 1 when taking a battleshock test for a unit that includes any Icon Bearers, reality blinks and the daemonic horde is bolstered. Add D3 Plague Drones to the unit.

Bell Tollers

Models in this unit can be Bell Tollers. Your opponent must re-roll battleshock tests of 1 for units that are within 6" of any Bell Tollers.

Abilities

Disgustingly Resilient: Roll a dice each time this unit suffers a wound or mortal wound; on a 5 or more, the wound sloughs away rancid flesh but does no real harm and is ignored.

Locus of Contagion: If the result of a wound roll made for this unit is a 6 or more, and this unit is within 7" of a Daemon Hero of Nurgle from your army, that wound turns septic and flyblown in moments, inflicting a mortal wound on the target unit in addition to any other damage.

Magic

Chaos Wizards know the Summon Plague Drones spell, in addition to any others they know.

Summon Plague Drones

Summon Plague Drones has a casting value of 6. If successfully cast, you can set up a unit of up to 3 Plague Drones within 14" of the caster and more than 9" from any enemy models. The unit is added to your army but cannot move in the following movement phase. If the result of the casting roll was 11 or more, set up a unit of up to 6 Plague Drones instead.

Keywords

Chaos, Daemon, Plaguebearer, Nurgle, Plague Drones