Poxwalkers

Model NameMTSvWLdOC
Poxwalkers
25mm
5"47+ 18+1
Keywords:
Death Guard, , Infantry, Chaos, Nurgle, Poxwalkers
Ranged WeaponsRangeABSSAPD
Melee WeaponsRangeABSSAPD
Improvised weapon
lethal hits
Melee25301

Abilities

Curse of the Walking Pox:Each time a POXWALKER model in this unit makes an attack that destroys an enemy model (excluding MONSTER and VEHICLE models), after this unit has resolved its attacks, you can return one destroyed POXWALKER model to this unit.

While Typhus is leading this unit, enemy models destroyed as a result of TYPHUS’ Eater Plague ability count as enemy models destroyed by an attack made by a POXWALKER model in this unit for the purposes of this ability.

Wargear Options

Wargear Abilities

Unit Composition

10-20 Poxwalkers
Every model is equipped with: improvised weapon.

Costs

10 models - 65pts
20 models - 130pts

Leader

Stratagems

NameDescription
1CP GO TO GROUND
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, all models in your unit have a 6+ invulnerable save and have the Benefit of Cover.
1CP HEROIC INTERVENTION
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Your opponent’s Charge phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Charge move.

TARGET: One unit from your army that is within 6" of that enemy unit and would be eligible to declare a charge against that enemy unit if it were your Charge phase.

EFFECT: Your unit now declares a charge that targets only that enemy unit, and you resolve that charge as if it were your Charge phase.

RESTRICTIONS: You can only select a VEHICLE unit from your army if it is a WALKER. Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.
1CP COMMAND RE-ROLL
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Any phase, just after you make an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test or a Hazardous test for a unit from your army, or a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll or a saving throw for a model in that unit, or a roll to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon equipped by a model in that unit. If you are using fast dice rolling, this Stratagem can still be used after rolling multiple rolls or saving throws at once.

TARGET: That unit or model from your army.

EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw. If you are using fast dice rolling, select one of those rolls or saving throws to re-roll.
2CP COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.

TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
1CP INSANE BRAVERY
Detachment: Core
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you take a Battle-shock test for a unit from your army.

TARGET: That unit from your army.

EFFECT: Your unit automatically passes that Battle-shock test.

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem more than once per battle.
1CP RAPID INGRESS
Detachment: Core
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.

TARGET: One unit from your army that is in Reserves.

EFFECT: Your unit can arrive on the battlefield as if it were the Reinforcements step of your Movement phase, and if every model in that unit has the Deep Strike ability, you can set that unit up as described in the Deep Strike ability (even though it is not your Movement phase).

RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this Stratagem to enable a unit to arrive on the battlefield during a battle round it would not normally be able to do so in.
1CP RABID INFUSION
Detachment: Champions of Contagion
WHEN: Start of the Fight phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army that includes two Character models.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability.
1CP BLESSINGS OF FILTH
Detachment: Champions of Contagion
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard Attached unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
1CP GROTESQUE FORTITUDE
Detachment: Champions of Contagion
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Death Guard Attached unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 2 to the Toughness characteristic of models in your unit.
2CP MALIGNANCE MAGNIFIED
Detachment: Champions of Contagion
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard Attached unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit that is below its Starting Strength, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
1CP VERMIN CLOUD
Detachment: Flyblown Host
WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in this unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".
1CP EYE OF THE SWARM
Detachment: Flyblown Host
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit (excluding Blast weapons) have the [PISTOL] ability.
1CP ENERVATING ONSLAUGHT
Detachment: Flyblown Host
WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after a DEATH GUARD INFANTRY unit from your army makes a Charge move.

TARGET: That Death Guard Infantry unit.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES). Roll one D6 for each model in your unit that is within Engagement Range of that unit, adding 1 to the result if that model is not a Cultist or Poxwalker model: for each 5+, the selected enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds).
1CP DRONING HORROR
Detachment: Flyblown Host
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If that attack targets a unit within half range, you can re-roll the Hit roll instead.
1CP MYPHITIC INVIGORATION
Detachment: Flyblown Host
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army that is within 6" of one or more friendly Myphitic Blight-hauler units and that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of this unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
1CP NAUSEATING PAROXYSMS
Detachment: Flyblown Host
WHEN: Start of the Fight phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit. That unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from the result.
1CP DRAWN TO DESPAIR
Detachment: Mortarion’s Hammer
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a visible enemy unit (excluding AIRCRAFT) within your opponent’s deployment zone, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
1CP SMEARED WITH FILTH
Detachment: Shamblerot Vectorium
WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One Poxwalkers unit from your army that was just destroyed. You can target that unit with this Stratagem even though it was just destroyed.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that made one or more attacks that targeted your unit this phase. Until the end of the battle, that enemy unit is Afflicted.
1CP SHAMBLING WALL
Detachment: Shamblerot Vectorium
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks, and one friendly Poxwalkers unit within 3" of your unit and visible to both your unit and the attacking unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time you would allocate an attack to a model in your DEATH GUARD unit, if your POXWALKERS unit is visible to the attacking model and is an eligible target for that attack, no saving throw is made for that attack; instead a number of POXWALKERS from your POXWALKERS unit equal to the Damage characteristic of that attack are destroyed.
1CP GRIP OF THE WALKING POX
Detachment: Shamblerot Vectorium
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Poxwalkers unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: After the attacking unit has fought, roll one D6 for each model from your unit that was destroyed as a result of those attacks: on a 6, the attacking unit suffers 1 mortal wound. If your unit is not destroyed after the attacking unit has fought, enemy models destroyed as a result of this Stratagem count as enemy models destroyed by an attack made by a model in your unit for the purposes of the Curse of the Walking Pox ability.
1CP SHOCK AND HORROR
Detachment: Shamblerot Vectorium
WHEN: Your Charge phase, just after a Death Guard unit from your army ends a Charge move.

TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.

EFFECT: Each enemy unit within Engagement Range of your unit must take a Battle-shock test, subtracting 1 from that test.
1CP HIDDEN AMONGST THE DEAD
Detachment: Shamblerot Vectorium
WHEN: The Reinforcements step of your Movement phase.

TARGET: One Poxwalkers unit from your army that is in Strategic Reserves and that is not an Attached unit.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in that unit have the Deep Strike ability.
1CP GNAWING HUNGER
Detachment: Shamblerot Vectorium
WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: One Poxwalkers unit from your army.

EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, add 1 to the Move characteristic of models in your unit, and add 1 to the Attacks and Strength characteristics of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.
1CP CLUTCHING CORRUPTION
Detachment: Tallyband Summoners
WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit that is within Engagement Range of one or more Plague Legions units from your army, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
1CP THE DEAD RISE
Detachment: Unclean Uprising
WHEN: Your Movement phase, at the start of the Reinforcements step.

TARGET: One POXwALKERS unit from your army that is in Reserves.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Deep Strike ability.

RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
1CP SHAMBLING ONSLAUGHT
Detachment: Unclean Uprising
WHEN: Your opponent's Movement phase, just after an enemy unit is selected to Fall Back.

TARGET: One POXwALKERS unit from your army within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.

EFFECT: After that enemy unit ends that Fall Back move, if your unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, your unit can make a Normal move.
1CP POX FLARE
Detachment: Unclean Uprising
WHEN: Fight phase.

TARGET: One POXwALKERS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1.
1CP SEEPING CORROSION
Detachment: Vectors of Decay
WHEN: Your Movement phase, when a DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXwALKERS units) attempts to open a Hatchway.

TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 1" of your unit and on the opposite side of that Hatchway from your unit, and roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds. Until the end of the phase, if an enemy unit attempts to prevent that Hatchway from being opened, when rolling off, you can re-roll your result.
1CP CHINKS IN THE ARMOUR
Detachment: Vectors of Decay
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.

TARGET: One DEATH GUARD unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit within Contagion Range of one or more units from your army, a Critical Hit is scored on an unmodified Hit roll of 5+, instead of only a 6.
1CP GROTESQUE DEMISE
Detachment: Vectors of Decay
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after a DEATH GUARD unit from your army (excluding CULTISTS and POXwALKERS units) has shot or fought.

TARGET: That DEATH GUARD unit.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit that had one or more models destroyed as a result of those attacks. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test.
2CP PLAGUESURGE
Detachment: Virulent Vectorium
WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: Your Death Guard WARLORD that is on the battlefield.

EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 3" to the Contagion Range of models from your army.
2CP DISGUSTINGLY RESILIENT
Detachment: Virulent Vectorium
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.

TARGET: One Death Guard unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
1CP CREEPING BLIGHT
Detachment: Virulent Vectorium
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard Infantry unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.

EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a ranged attack that targets an Afflicted unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
1CP LEECHSPORE ERUPTION
Detachment: Virulent Vectorium
WHEN: Your Command phase.

TARGET: One Death Guard model your army that has lost one or more wounds.

EFFECT: Select one enemy unit within 3" of your model. Roll a number of D6 equal to the number of wounds your model has lost: for each 5+, that enemy unit suffers one mortal wound (to a maximum of 6 mortal wounds) and your model regains 1 lost wound (to a maximum of 6 lost wounds).