Blightlord Terminator

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Death Guard

Blightlord Terminators are the elite Chaos Terminators of the Death Guard.

Overview

A Blightlord Terminator battles a Tempestus Scion^[1a]

Blightlord Terminators are relentless and unstoppable, elite Death Guard warriors bound forever to mutated suits of Cataphractii armour. They stalk forward with guns blazing, mercilessly mowing down rank after rank of the enemy. Combi-weapons, Plague Spewers and Blight Launchers add to the fusillade, reducing infantry and vehicles to slop. At the last, the Terminators break into a lumbering charge, hefting huge weapons with which to hack and bludgeon the enemy. Flails of corruption entangle weapons and limbs in sizzling, corrosive barbs. Bubotic axes and baleswords tear ragged wounds into which a thousand poxes seep. By the time the Blightlord Terminators stomp on in search of new victims, nothing remains of their enemies but maggot-riddled corpses. Combining the protective powers of Cataphractii war plate with the diseased resilience bestowed by Nurgle's gifts, Blightlord Terminators are terrifyingly hard to kill. They take great pride in this fact, advancing contemptuously into the teeth of the fiercest firestorms, mocking their enemies' attempts to lay them low. This arrogance grates upon their Death Guard brothers, but the Blightlords make such exceptional shock troops that it is overlooked - or even condoned - by their masters. Most vectoriums include at least one band of Blightlord Terminators for breach assaults, boarding actions and sudden teleport strikes, and it is a rare ship of the Plague Fleets that takes to the tides of the warp without a complement of Blightlords aboard.^[1a]

Due to the amount of time they spend embarked upon diseased warships, Blightlord Terminators are saturated with empyric entropy. This foulness pours off them in waves, rotting flesh and corroding metal in an area around them. Where the Blightlords tread, crawling veins of corruption radiate outwards like spiderwebs of rot and rust. An enemy needs only to be gripped by them in order for these energies to start agonisingly eating them away, while vehicles and fortifications exposed to the Blightlords' malignant presence soon slump and crumble.^[1a]

On many ships, Blightlords act as an elite garrison, standing ready to defend the bridge, magazines or enginariums at a moment's notice. During void battles, Plague Fleet captains bring their ships in close to an enemy vessel, allowing massed formations of Blightlords to Teleport directly aboard. Like parasites hatching in the body of a luckless victim, the Death Guard Terminators begin their destructive rampage. Bulling their way down narrow corridors and corroding through sealed bulkheads, the Blightlords mercilessly crush the ship's defenders while spreading their corruption throughout its decks.^[1a]

In battle, Blightlord Terminators wield a variety of foul weapons such as Baleswords, Flails of Corruption, Bubotic Axes, Combi-Weapons, Reaper Autocannon, Plague Spewer, or Blight Launcher.^[2] Every Plague Marine regardless of preference will carry a Plague Knife.^[4]

Leaders of Blightlord Terminator squadrons are called Blightlord Champions.^[1b]

Images

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  A squad of Blightlord Terminators^[2]
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  Blightlord Terminator with Combi-Bolter and Bubotic Axe^[3]
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  Blightlord Terminator with Combi-Bolter and Balesword^[3]
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  Blightlord Terminator with Plaguespitter^[3]

See also

• Deathshroud

Sources

• 1: Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition):
  • 1a: pg. 39
  • 1b: pg. 81
• 2: Games Workshop
• 3: Games Workshop webstore : Easy to Build Lord Felthius & Tainted Cohort (saved archive)
• 4: Codex: Death Guard (10th Edition), pg. 26