The Death Guard codex coming out and all the hype around DG being good again did get my attention and inspired me to break out the Plague Marine kits and get those built. I'm also working on finishing or fixing some of the unfinished & broken vehicles etc. to be able to get them on the table in a presentable fashion as opposed to the "well if this helbrute had an arm it would be an autocannon" kind of approach. Since they are "good again" my poor Defiler is even being reassembled after losing legs and guns etc. in various drops and moves and I'm pretty happy about that. I may even manage to get the various terminators all built (finally!) and usable as well.
My vision for this army is built around 2 squads of Plague Marines in Rhinos moving up the board built for up-close melee with melta and flamers as the main ranged weapons. I'll have a 3rd and maybe a 4th squad built more for shooting to either hold the backfield or move up as a second wave. A max squad of Deathshroud Terminators with a Lord of Contagion will be one of the heavy-hitters, deep striking in. Blightlords will be utility players, likely in 5-man squads.
I have the aforementioned reassembled Defiler, various Helbrutes, Daemon Princes, Blight Drones (also being built and painted), Blight Haulers, and Plagueburst Crawlers to add in as needed. I don't know that it will fit The Meta but it should look like a Death Guard army at least and I'm looking forward to playing it.
Also of note - we actually played a game of 40K this weekend which has inspired me to make some more progress. I'll post up some pictures in Friday's entry.
