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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - Datasheet Review post!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit in the game of Warhammer 40,000

The last of the Indexes! A new challenge!

Right, I am finally ahead and by my best estimations as I explained in this Post, I should be able to keep ahead of the release curve and get the remainder of the Indexes reviewed before those Codex releases.

So I embark on a new challenge. I have calculated that there are roughly 148 reviews to do. I have chosen my frequency and have given myself 96 days to review them all.

I took a long pause... because I got sick... and then got sick with a second virus... and now just recovering from a third infection which was bacterial... this is what happens when you have three kids in three schools! You get ALL the bugs!

So I count TODAY as the next day in the challenge! But I am running out of time too... and I desperately need to rebuild my HP and make more HBD... so I might post like I beast! Hopefully I can!

Today is Day 30/96.
I have reviewed 45/148.

Time elapsed: 31.25%
Review Completion: 30.40%
Under 1% Behind.

Hobby Fund - Working myself into the clear

With my hobby posts, I generate a hobby fund. 50% of the income goes into the fund. At the moment I put all my HBD earned from Warhammer posts into my alt account @zakl.hobbyfund.

I am collecting funds in the following ways:

• Blogging about Warhammer to earn HBD
• Accepting donations - Can be sent directly to @zakl.hobbyfund in HBD
• Selling some of the collection to friends.

At the current count I am paying off some hobby debts. I still have $226 to pay off!

Every bit counts!

Back to the review!

Chaos Daemons, Plague Drones

10th Edition Index

Holy moly these things look gross!

Flying Cavalry(mounted) of Nurgle? I have no idea what they do or if they are good... But I guess we will discover that now!

It is 110pts for 3 and 220pts for 6 of them in a unit.

Let's see what they do!

Stats

Movement 10"
Toughness 8
Save 6+/5++(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 5
Ld 7+
OC 2

Weapons

Standard Wargear: Death’s heads; Foul mouthparts; Plaguesword.

Options: 1 model may be equipped with an Instrument of Chaos.
1 other model may be equipped with a Daemonic Icon

Ranged Weapons

Death’s heads

12" Range, D3 Shots, Hitting on 4+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Lethal Hits (Rolls of 6 to Hit cause automatic Wounds)
Blast (For every 5 models in the target unit, rounding down, add an attack to this weapon's profile)

Melee Weapons

Plaguesword

2 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Lethal Hits (Rolls of a 6 to hits wound automatically)

Foul mouthparts

2 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S5, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.
Lethal Hits (Rolls of a 6 to hits wound automatically)
Extra Attacks (These attacks can be made alongside the other attacks this model makes)

Abilities

Deep Strike - If this unit arrives on the Battlefield from Reserves, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" from enemy models.

Death’s Heads

Select one enemy hit in the Shooting Phase by this unit's shooting attack. Till the end of the turn, whenever Nurgle Daemon units from your army attacks that unit, they can re-roll to Wound!

Wargear Abilities

Instrument of Chaos

+1 to Charge rolls made by this unit.

Daemonic Icon

The unit has a Leadership of 6+

Thoughts

Right... call me impressed! M10 and T8 are quite harsh! They do not have good armor but you will have to hit them with anti-light tank guns to have a hope of hurting them. Anti-infantry and anti-heavy infantry guns do not have enough strength to reall hurt them.

5 Wounds is also good.

Their tagging ability is a good synergy and of course it makes sense that this attack and ability will precede a move by the Daemon plays from another Nurgle unit to kill something.

Thus I believe that when you see Plague Drones moving in towards an enemy in conjunction to other Nurgle units, that it telegraphs their intentions in regards to damage.

That makes 32 Chaos Daemon Datasheets Reviewed, putting them on 64% Completed! The total of the remaining Index reviews is now 101.

Thank you for reading!

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I shall leave all Army and Detachment rules here and the few Chaos Daemon datasheets I have done already:

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Aeldari		Army Rule #4
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Bridgehead Strike	Detachment Rule #2
Chaos Knights		Army Rule #8
Chaos Knights	Tratoris Lance	Detachment Review #11
Chaos Knights	Iconoclast Fiefdom	Detachment Review #12
Death Guard		Army Rule Review #6
Death Guard	Plague Company	Detachment Review #4
Death Guard	Flyblown Host	Detachment Review #7
Imperial Knights		Army Rule Review #9
Imperial Knights	Noble Lance	Detachment Review #13
Imperial Knights	Questor Forgepact	Detachment Review #14
Space Marines		Army Rule #3
Space Wolves	Champions of Russ	Detachment Review #9
Space Wolves	Champions of Fenris	Detachment Review #10
Thousand Sons		Army Rule #7
Thousand Sons	Cult of Magic	Detachment Review #5
Thousand Sons	Hexwarp Thrallband	Detachment Review #8
World Eaters		Army Rule #5
World Eaters	Berzerker Warband	Detachment Review #3
World Eaters	Vessels of Wrath	Detachment Review #6

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Be'lakor	#370
Chaos Daemons	Bloodcrushers	#371
Chaos Daemons	Bloodletters	#372
Chaos Daemons	Bloodmaster	#373
Chaos Daemons	Bloodthister	#374
Chaos Daemons	Blue Horrors	#375
Chaos Daemons	Burning Chariot	#376
Chaos Daemons	Changecaster	#377
Chaos Daemons	Contorted Epitome	#378
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Daemon Prince of Chaos	#379
Chaos Daemons	Daemon Prince of Chaos with Wings	#380
Chaos Daemons	Epidemius	#381
Chaos Daemons	Exalted Flamer	#382
Chaos Daemons	Fateskimmer	#383
Chaos Daemons	Feculent Gnarlmaw	#384
Chaos Daemons	Fiends	#385
Chaos Daemons	Flamers	#386
Chaos Daemons	Flesh Hounds	#387
Chaos Daemons	Fluxmaster	#388
Chaos Daemons	Great Unclean One	#389
Chaos Daemons	Hellflayers	#390
Chaos Daemons	Horticulous Slimux	#391
Chaos Daemons	Infernal Enrapturess	#392
Chaos Daemons	Kairos Fateweaver	#393
Chaos Daemons	Karanak	#395
Chaos Daemons	Keeper of Secrets	#394
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82
Chaos Daemons	Pink Horrors	#396
Chaos Daemons	Plaguebearers	#397

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