Plague Surgeon
Death Guard
Keywords: Infantry • Character • Chaos • Nurgle • Plague Surgeon
Unit Profiles
| Model | M | T | Sv | W | Ld | OC | Invuln |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plague Surgeon | 5" | 6 | 3+ | 4 | 6+ | 1 | — |
Melee Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balesword | Lethal Hits | Melee | 4 | 3+ | — | 5 | -2 | 2 |
Ranged Weapons
| Profile | Keywords | Range | A | WS | BS | S | AP | D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolt pistol | Lethal HitsPistol | 12" | 1 | — | 3+ | 4 | 0 | 1 |
Unit Composition
■ 1 Plague Surgeon
This model is equipped with: bolt pistol; balesword.
Unit Abilities
View Army Rule
If your Army Faction is DEATH GUARD, while an enemy unit is within Contagion Range of one or more DEATH GUARD models from your army, it is Afflicted (see below).
CONTAGION RANGE
Contagion Range changes over the course of the battle:
Afflicted
During the Declare Battle Formations step, select one of the Plagues below. Until the end of the battle, while an enemy unit is Afflicted, subtract 1 from the Toughness characteristic of models in that unit, and that unit has the effect of your chosen Plague.
While this model is leading a unit, in your Command phase, you can return 1 destroyed Bodyguard model to that unit.
At the start of the Fight phase, select one enemy unit within Engagement Range of this model. Until the end of the phase, each time this model makes an attack that targets that unit, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit. If that unit is Below Half-strength, an unmodified Hit roll of 4+ scores a Critical Hit instead.
Core Abilities
Some CHARACTER units have ‘Leader’ listed on their datasheets. Such CHARACTER units are known as Leaders, and the units they can lead – known as their Bodyguard units – are listed on their datasheet. During the Declare Battle Formations step, for each Leader in your army, if your army also includes one or more of that Leader’s Bodyguard units, you can select one of those Bodyguard units. That Leader will then attach to that Bodyguard unit for the duration of the battle and is said to be leading that unit. Each Bodyguard unit can only have one Leader attached to it. While a Bodyguard unit contains a Leader, it is known as an Attached unit and, with the exception of rules that are triggered when units are destroyed, it is treated as a single unit for all rules purposes. Each time an attack targets an Attached unit, until the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks, you must use the Toughness characteristic of the Bodyguard models in that unit, even if a Leader in that unit has a different Toughness characteristic. Each time an attack sucessfully wounds an Attached unit, that attack cannot be allocated to a CHARACTER model in that unit, even if that CHARACTER model has lost one or more wounds or has already had attacks allocated to it this phase. As soon as the last Bodyguard model in an Attached unit has been destroyed, any attacks made against that unit that have yet to be allocated can then be allocated to CHARACTER models in that unit.
Each time the last model in a Bodyguard unit is destroyed, each CHARACTER unit that is part of that Attached unit is no longer part of an Attached unit. It becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks.
Each time the last model in a CHARACTER unit that is attached to a Bodyguard unit is destroyed and there is not another CHARACTER unit attached, that Attached unit’s Bodyguard unit is no longer part of an Attached unit. It becomes a separate unit, with its original Starting Strength. If this happens as the result of an attack, they become separate units after the attacking unit has resolved all of its attacks.
Each time a unit that is part of an Attached unit is destroyed, it does not have the keywords of any other units that make up that Attached unit (unless it has those keywords on its own datasheet) for the purposes of any rules that would be triggered when that unit is destroyed.
*Example: If you only destroy the Bodyguard unit that is part of an Attached unit, you have not destroyed a CHARACTER unit. If you only destroy the CHARACTER unit that is part of an Attached unit, or if you destroy the whole Attached unit, you have destroyed one CHARACTER unit.*
Stratagems by Detachment
Champions of Contagion
Blessings of Filth
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.
Malignance Magnified
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.
Grotesque Fortitude
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.
Rabid Infusion
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.
Mobile Vector
When: Your Movement phase, before the Reinforcements step.
Target: One DEATH GUARD CHARACTER unit from your army that is not leading a unit.
Effect: Select one other friendly DEATH GUARD unit (excluding Battle-shocked units and Attached units that already have two Leader units or one of your CHARACTER units leading it) within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of your unit that your unit can lead (as described in the Leader section of its datasheet). Your unit attaches to that unit as a Leader. Change that unit’s Starting Strength accordingly.
Death Lord’s Chosen
No matching stratagems for this unit.
Flyblown Host
Nauseating Paroxysms
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.
Vermin Cloud
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".
Eye of the Swarm
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.
Droning Horror
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.
Enervating Onslaught
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).
Myphitic Invigoration
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.
Mortarion’s Hammer
Blighted Land
When: End of your Movement phase.
Target: One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE unit from your army.
Effect: Select one terrain feature within 24" of and visible to your unit. Until the start of your next turn, enemy units are Afflicted while they are within 3" of that terrain feature.
Relentless Grind
When: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.
Target: One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE unit from your army that has not been selected to move or charge this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.
Drawn to Despair
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.
Font of Filth
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE 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 have the [ASSAULT] ability.
Eyestinger Storm
When: Your opponent’s Command phase.
Target: One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE unit from your army.
Effect: Select one objective marker visible to one or more models in your unit. Each Afflicted enemy unit within range of that objective marker must take a Battle-shock test. Enemy units affected by this Stratagem do not need to take any other Battle-shock tests in the same phase.
Stinking Mire
When: Start of your opponent’s Charge phase.
Target: One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE unit from your army.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy unit selects your unit as the target of a charge, subtract 2 from the Charge roll (this is not cumulative with any other negative modifiers to that Charge roll).
Shamblerot Vectorium
Shock and Horror
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.
Shambling Wall
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.
Tallyband Summoners
Clutching Corruption
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.
All Is Rot
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, enemy units are not considered to be within Engagement Range of your unit for the purposes of selecting targets of ranged weapons. Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy model loses a wound, while that model’s unit is within Engagement Range of your unit, roll one D6: on a 5+, your unit suffers 1 mortal wound after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks.
Fleshy Avalanche
When: Your Movement phase or your Charge phase.
Target: One PLAGUE LEGIONS MONSTER unit from your army that has not been selected to move or charge this phase.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit makes a Normal, Advance or Charge move, it can move horizontally through terrain features.
Avatars of Decay
When: Your Shooting phase.
Target: One PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, while an enemy unit is within 6" of your unit, that enemy unit is Afflicted.
Mireslick
When: Your opponent’s Movement phase, when an enemy unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) is selected to Fall Back.
Target: One PLAGUE LEGIONS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.
Effect: Until the end of the phase, while an enemy unit is within Engagement Range of your unit, each time that unit is selected to Fall Back, it must take a Leadership test. If that test is failed, that unit must Remain Stationary this phase instead.
Virulent Vectorium
Putrid Detonation
When: Any phase.
Target: One DEATH GUARD VEHICLE or DEATH GUARD MONSTER model from your army with the Deadly Demise ability that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
Effect: Do not roll one D6 to determine whether mortal wounds are inflicted by your model’s Deadly Demise ability. Instead, mortal wounds are automatically inflicted. In addition, any enemy units that suffer mortal wounds as a result of this Stratagem are Afflicted until the start of your next turn.
Disgustingly Resilient
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.
Plaguesurge
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.
Leechspore Eruption
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).
Overwhelming Generosity
When: Start of your Shooting phase.
Target: One DEATH GUARD CHARACTER unit from your army.
Effect: Select one enemy unit visible to your unit. Until the end of the phase, each time a DEATH GUARD unit from your army selects that enemy unit as the target of any ranged attacks, you can re-roll the dice to determine how many attacks a weapon equipped by a model in that unit makes.
Creeping Blight
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.