Thank you to Matt for being a noble opponent, and Dave for being a loyal brother of nurgle in the game yesterday. Despite my initial discomburation regarding mission objectives, I had a good time, and am pleased to have been able to play my first game of 10th ed with two chaps who were kind enough to overlook my ignorance of the finer points of victory point acquisition. I promise to do more homework next time!
Incidentally, the more I look at it, the more I feel like I don't actually have a DG army. In fact, I have a CSM army with the mark of nurgle. I need to crunch the numbers, but looking at it that way does make sense, given that my army was assembled back in the day when DG actually
were a CSM variant army, rather than having their own book. There's definitely a fair number of minis I have that wouldn't find a home in such an army (off the top of my head, my Lord of Contagion, Malignant Plaguecaster, Foul Blightspawn, Plague Surgeon, Deathshroud, Foetid Bloat Drone, PBC and Morty.) However, all of these are individual minis, as opposed to whole squads (well, Deathshroud are a squad, but theyre a very little one...) I'm wondering if it might be worth trying out CSM (with allegiance to Nurgle) so I can use my Chosen, Havocs, Raptors, Bikers, Biker Lord and (believe it or not!) my Greater Blight Drone, which for some reason isn't a Death Guard unit
as well as having my terminators actually armed with what they've physically got on the model. If I run my DG minis as CSM with the mark of nurgle, that also makes them a lot more wysiwyg. Or, there's always the option of doing what Jye suggested, which is just to run 1000pts of CSM and 1000pts of DG. That seems like a sensible suggestion. Obviously, I can try different options, as long as my opponent is clear about what my minis are supposed to be on the day.
Anyway, whatever form they may end up taking, I look forward to my stinky boys infecting more objectives in the near future.
Cheers, all