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Champions of Contagion Death Guard detachment · 11th edition

What Champions of Contagion does for Death Guard, in our own words: its rules and enhancements, any stratagems that change an attack, the units they name and how often winning lists take it.

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What its rules do

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In our own words, as the calculator applies them; see the codex for the rules.

Enhancements

The 4 enhancements Champions of Contagion offers, with their points and who can take each, in our words.

• Final Ingredient 20 pts · for BIOLOGUS PUTRIFIER: Once, a second Plague after a character falls.
• Visions of Virulence 15 pts · for MALIGNANT PLAGUECASTER: Units it slows are Afflicted too: the army rule's Afflicted chip.
• Needle of Nurgle 25 pts · for PLAGUE SURGEON: Returns up to D3 models instead of 1.
• Cornucophagus 35 pts · for LORD OF POXES: A second Plague in its Contagion Range.

Stratagems that change an attack

The 4 stratagems of Champions of Contagion that change the dice, in our words, as the calculator plays them.

• 1 CP: Critical hits on 5+ shooting or melee · for PLAGUE MARINES, BLIGHTLORD TERMINATORS, DEATHSHROUD TERMINATORS, POXWALKERS
• 2 CP: Re-roll hits and wounds shooting or melee · for PLAGUE MARINES, BLIGHTLORD TERMINATORS, DEATHSHROUD TERMINATORS, POXWALKERS
• 1 CP: +2 Toughness when attacked · for PLAGUE MARINES, BLIGHTLORD TERMINATORS, DEATHSHROUD TERMINATORS, POXWALKERS
• 1 CP: Target's save worse by 1 shooting or melee

Units its rules name

The army's units its rules, enhancements and stratagems name by keyword, most named first.

• S Plague Marines
• A Deathshroud Terminators
• S Blightlord Terminators
• S Poxwalkers
• A Lord of Poxes
• S Malignant Plaguecaster
• C Plague Surgeon
• S Biologus Putrifier

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