Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle contains expanded battle traits and rules for your putrid legions, alongside an assortment of bloated brutes, and a mad daemonic doctor riding a slug. It also contains rules for a whole host of villains from Warhammer Quest: Darkwater* – which are getting separate releases alongside the rest of the Plaguefather’s rotten forces, so they can continue to cultivate the foetid Garden of Nurgle across the Mortal Realms.
Gelgus Pust, the Prince of Sores, not content with attempting to corrupt the Everspring below the Jade Abbey, swaggers into battle to continue his role as a Master Contaminator. Once per battle he can turn a terrain feature within 6” of him into a Polluted one, causing it to exude a Polluting Aura that’s also 6” wide, boosting the healing powers of Maggotkin of Nurgle units, while decreasing the efficacy of enemies’ salves, tinctures, and spells.
The winning smile that Pust sports isn’t just proof of his bottomless charisma, the Grin of the Grandfather is said to be a rare glimpse at the face of Nurgle himself. No dentists in the Realm of Chaos then… This horrifying visage can cause your choice of three nightmarishly debilitating conditions in combat, so long as you can roll higher than your target’s Control characteristic.
GELGUS PUST THE PRINCE OF SORES
POLLUTING AURA
Passive
Where Pust corrupts the land, the air is thick with disease – inimical to enemies but life-giving to the Maggotkin.
Effect: While a friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE unit is wholly within 6" of a POLLUTED terrain feature, each time that unit uses or is the target of an ability that would heal 1 or more damage points, add 1 to the number of damage points healed.
While an enemy unit is within 6" of a POLLUTED terrain feature, each time that unit uses or is the target of an ability that would heal 1 or more damage points, subtract 1 from the number of damage points healed, to a minimum of 0.
GELGUS PUST THE PRINCE OF SORES
GRIN OF THE GRANDFATHER
Any Combat Phase
To look upon Pust’s ever-smiling visage is to glimpse the face of Nurgle – a sight that is hard to stomach.
Declare: Pick each enemy unit in combat with this unit to be the targets.
Effect: Roll a dice for each target. If the roll equals or exceeds the target’s Control characteristic, pick 1 of the following to apply for the rest of the turn:
Subtract 1 from hit rolls for the target’s combat attacks.
Subtract 1 from wound rolls for the target’s combat attacks.
Subtract 1 from the target’s Control characteristic.
Our fly-winged daemon prince is also joined by some of his closest allies, including the Shaman Foulhoof. A decent wizard in his own right, the warscroll spell Purulent Profusion allows him to reduce the Rend of an enemy unit by 1. This can be crucial to increase the survivability of herds of Pestigors, who are at home performing a little bit of Bestial Desecration, increasing their own Rend by 1 while they’re outside enemy territory.
Foulhoof can further boost their efficacy by encouraging them to partake in a little bit of Rampant Defilement, increasing their attack characteristic from 2 to 3 with a successful 3+ roll.
PESTIGORS
BESTIAL DESECRATION
Passive
As Pestigor herds use their own bodily waste to pollute the land in tribute to Father Blight, their filthy blades brim with all manner of fluid-borne pathogens.
Effect: Add 1 to the Rend characteristic of this unit’s melee weapons while it is not within enemy territory.
SHAMAN FOULHOOF
RAMPANT DEFILEMENT
Any Combat Phase
Shaman Foulhoof’s mere presence sends his bestial flock into a frenzy of despoliation.
Declare: Pick a friendly Pestigors unit wholly within 12" of this unit to be the target.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 3+, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the target’s melee weapons for the rest of the turn.
Belga the Cystwitch adds another Nurgle priest to your line up, her mere presence empowering unsalubrious preachers or wizards who hang around her. All she needs to do is Scry the Filth, divining power from her portable cauldron, adding 1 to either casting rolls or chanting rolls for nearby Maggotkin. Her extremely pestilent prayer is Ruptured Cysts, which deals damage to Diseased units, and on a chanting roll of 9+ turns slain Infantry into fresh Plaguebearers reinforcements.
BELGA THE CYSTWITCH
SCRY THE FILTH
Your Hero Phase
Globules of bloody mucus in Belga’s cauldron coalesce into misshapen masses that Belga uses to divine Nurgle’s will.
Effect: Pick 1 of the following effects to apply for the rest of the turn:
Add 1 to casting rolls for friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE WIZARDS while they are within 3" of this unit.
Add 1 to chanting rolls for friendly MAGGOTKIN OF NURGLE PRIESTS while they are within 3" of this unit.
BELGA THE CYSTWITCH
RUPTURED CYSTS
Your Hero Phase (4)
Belga intones a chant that triggers a chain reaction of agonising, pus-filled eruptions in the bodies of sickened foes.
Declare: Pick a visible DISEASED enemy unit within 18" of this unit to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on the target. Then, inflict 1 mortal damage on each other DISEASED enemy unit within 3" of the target. If the chanting roll was 9+, you can also pick a friendly Plaguebearers unit within 12" of the target. For each enemy INFANTRY model slain by this ability this turn, you can return 1 slain model to that friendly unit.
KEYWORDS: PRAYER
Also joining Pust are the Cankerborn, a pair of disgusting daemons who have the uncanny ability to teleport around the battlefield, cutting down foes with their Blightblades, which are enhanced by supernatural rust and rot to deal 3 damage and the Crit (Mortal) ability. They’re also joined by the far weaker, but much more numerous, Pox-Wretches, who wade into battle to prove their worth. They are accompanied by Mire Kelpies, which act as tokens that can be expended by Pox-Wretches in an attempt to infect enemy units with Disease.
You can pre-order all of the above miniatures tomorrow alongside Battletome: Maggotkin of Nurgle, or you can pick up Warhammer Quest: Darkwater right now, and get all of those gloriously foul and foetid miniatures, plus a whole narrative adventure game to use them in.
* Many models from Warhammer Quest: Darkwater that don’t get specific rules in the new Battletome can still find their way into a Maggotkin of Nurgle army. For example, Mulgoth the Cleaver is a perfect Lord of Blights, while the Blight Templars make great Putrid Blightkings.
