Codex: Death Guard Homebrew WIP, feedback needed!

[Grimnar42]

You have a point there knowing how touchy GW gets about IP (not mentioning there own questionable paractise)

I see the points in favour as

1: They dont have a current 5th ed dex covers Deathguard exclusively
2: You will of course put in the ususal disclaimers not endorsed by gw etc
3: They constantly encourage players to make up their own rules
4: You will not profit from it
5: You are not copying any minatures
6: Rather than detract from any possible sales it may well encourage players to buy

Well thats my take

[Grimnar42]

So how is this coming along guys any progress

[Kepora]

Well i think there maybe is a debate here, but the reason we left these options out, in the death guard army list from the 3.5 codex, there was no bikers option or raptors option. certainly when they were a loyalist legion, they had bikers and jump pack troops, as per the army organization of the times, but now that their sole combat doctrine is based off of Mortarion, and not imperial edict, i dont see why they would include these options as: "the primarch of the death guard, Mortarion, trained his warriors to fight on foot relying on their bolters to cut down their enemies." also see pg 52 of codex 3.5: "the death guard are primarily infantry based, and lack the specialised fast attack choices available to other chaos forces."

This is why we decided to leave out these particular options.

and ill be happy to add in the explanations for the old wargear options.

Not all of us Nurgle players want to play "Death Guard", though; you gotta keep that in mind. DG aren't the only Nurgle followers, and if you haven't tried a high number of Nurgle bikters before, well....T6 bikers tend to be annoying to an opponent :P Throwing some heavy weapons, even just a few lascannons or Heavy Bolters or something would be good; possibly giving Havocs S&P or even Relentless, but as an upgrade?