RUMORS: New 40k Daemons Plague Drones Rules

By Travis Pasch | August 17th, 2022 | Categories: Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines, Nurgle, rules, Tabletop Gaming News, Warhammer 40k

New 40k Daemons Codex rules rumors have been spotted; check out what may be changing with the floating monstrosities called Plague Drones!

Please remember that all of this is pure speculation (even though some of these are from people who said they have seen the new physical codex). It is worth noting that GW supposedly recently “fired” some of its playtester pool recently who were thought responsible for leaking rules. However, the information-sharing policy is supposedly okay once it is leaked.

Regardless here are the latest Chaos Daemons rules rumors and leaks with a look at the official preview by GW first!

Chaos Daemons Codex Art & Details Revealed By GW!

There’s another ever-present threat lurking just behind the material veil. Gibbering, bloodthirsty legions of daemons claw at the walls of existence, taking advantage of any tear in realspace to manifest plagues and curses, tempt mortal souls, and slaughter untold millions. All it takes to invite devastation is one ill-considered ritual drawn from a blasphemous grimoire… speaking of which, Codex: Chaos Daemons is on the way.

As we said, there weren’t too many rumors floating around about when this would actually come out. Maybe that’s because it was basically next in line! Also, we’re not sure if many new minis will come with the book, but we expect at least one new character model.

However, they don’t give an exact date as of yet.

The warp-wrought children of the Chaos Gods are bursting out of the immaterium with a 152-page tome packed with eldritch esoterica, forbidden daemonology, and in-depth rules for games of Warhammer 40,000. There are more ways than ever to bend the mortal plane to your will, thanks to 56 datasheets split between the four Chaos Gods – and Be’lakor, with his very own Army of Renown – alongside 25 Warlord Traits, 24 Relics, 36 Stratagems, and a profane slate of psychic powers for all.

The book will be quite large and, from the looks of it, plenty for every Chaos god!

RUMORS: New 40k Chaos Daemons Plague Drones Rules

These Chaos Daemons rumors for plague drones come from B&C; let’s check them out!

Statline-wise, they’ve received some minor improvements to most of their stats, but it all adds up to make them very challenging to kill:

10″ move, 4+ WS/BS, S5 T6 5w 5+/4+

Where things start getting interesting is their damage output and the synergies with said output. Each drone gets:

D3 shots at s4 ap-1 d1
2 attacks at s5 ap-2 d1, 6s autowound (sergeant gets an extra attack)
2 attacks at s5 ap-2 d1
4 attacks at s3 ap-1 d1

On its own, this is a respectable but not insane output for 45ppm. However, where this gets spicy is the synergies, as Plague Srones have access to many buffs. Some of the more exciting ones:

If they have an icon, they can use a 1cp stratagem to have 6s to wound deal a mortal wound in addition to damage.
The virulent blessing psychic power gives them +1 damage on all their melee
If they’re within 12″ of a great unclean one with a bell, he can resurrect one in the command phase
They have a strat for transhuman

And then there are herald buffs. All of these are things they could receive:

+1 to hit in melee and Obsec
+1 move and +1 to adv/charge
6’s to wound do an extra damage
+1 to hit and reroll charges

And all of that is before talking about the warp storm table, where more powerful boosts live. I’m personally very excited for Plague Drones and expect them to be a core of all Nurgle strategies that may come from this book.

These rumors later on in the comments was even more interesting, as we hadn’t seen this yet, and it helps multiple wound models like the plague drones, etc.

One of the warp storm abilities not mentioned in the article is the most powerful and costly. 5 WS points. Every single wound model unit gets d3 models back, and every multi-wound model gets d3 wounds back.

While the statline isn’t anything too crazy, when you add in all those possible buffs and synergies, they could be a serious menace! Especially with all the rolls of 6 buffs, they could really dish out the damage.

Here’s all the latest on the upcoming rules updates and points changes for Warhammer 40k.

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Here’s the most up-to-date list of new Games Workshop bits from all preview models that we should watch out for. Click on the gallery above to see dozens of Rumor Engines with new models still left to be revealed!