Editing Warhammer 40,000/9th Edition Tactics/Death Guard (section)

===The Harbingers===
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The 1st Plague Company is led by Typhus the Traveler. They are accompanied by vast hordes of plague zombies, and maintain hundreds of strains of zombie plagues. 

Thematically, they are the classic zombie horde. Massive swarms of shambling corpses led by Death guard are pushed into your opponent's lines, while others rise from beneath the ground to strangle their foes. 

Mechanically, they are slightly different from the others. Both Typhus and Poxwalkers gain the Harbinger keyword if included in this detachment, and their rules emphasize taking large hordes of the latter. 

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*'''Warlord Trait - Shamblerot (Contagion):''' When non-{{W40Kkeyword|vehicle}} units are within contagion range at the start of their movement phase, roll a d6 for each unit, subtracting 1 for any {{W40kKeyword|Character}}s. On a 4+ they suffer a MW, upped to 1d3 MW on a 6.
**On average, that's 2/3 of a mortal wound for a non-character non-vehicle, and 1/3 of a character non-vehicle.  
**Since it triggers at the start of enemy movement, the way it will come up the ''most'' is adding output to your warlord's charges, as almost no enemies will have a way to escape contagion range after getting charged but before their movement phase.  Don't count on it too much for persuading the enemy to stay away, as once they've entered their own movement phase, they have both the rest of their turn and all of yours before they have to worry about the mortal wound coming up - e.g. if your Warlord is charged, he'll have to at least stay close through two fight phases before it comes up.
*'''Relic - Infected Remains:''' Once per battle, the bearer can drop this on an objective within 3" at the end of the movement phase. So long as the bearer remains on the board, this objective now counts as having the same contagions as the bearer.
*'''Stratagems - The Wrathful Dead (1 CP):''' Use in the fight phase when a {{W40kKeyword|Harbingers Poxwalkers}} unit attacks. The unit now re-rolls any hit rolls. Pair this with the Mutant Strain Strat, and now even lowly zombies are killing terminators. 
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