Warhammer 40K Tabletop Thread XXXV: 4 Pages of Rules, 46 Pages of Pointless Bickering

[Cheesegear]

Nurgle Daemons are way more competitive than Death Guard right now.

Got any idea what that list looks like?

Death Guard have a few good units

Death Guard have a lot of good units because Chapter Approved fixed the entire Codex.
Blightlord Terminators are currently making tournament players poop bricks.

but Nurgle Daemons are probably the most competitive pure chaos faction.

That's not true at all. Tzeentch is clearly the best Daemons Detachment by a wide margin by way of being the fastest, <Fly> and outputting a ridiculous number of Wounds - some of them Mortal - without even having to cross the board into Melee...Which sucks now because Ruins are far too strong.
Tzeentch also synergises with the extremely powerful Thounsand Sons units.

The basic problem with a Nurgle brigade is that Nurgle are best at Plague Bearers...

So...Poxwalkers except worse that also can't be buffed by Abaddon?

<mark of chaos> is a faction keyword so you can throw any non-Thousand Sons non-Fabius heretic astartes unit into a nurgle detachment.

But you only get your Loci Bonus if all your models have the <Daemon> Faction Keyword.

I just checked the points cost for Soul Grinders...

Welcome to Plaguecrawler town. The best <Chaos> Vehicle (excluding Knights) in the game.