Editing Warhammer/Tactics/6th Edition/Skaven (section)

===The Bubonic Court of Nurglitch===
Debuting in the [[Lustria]] [[splatbook]], the Bubonic Court represents both an "official" version of the Clan Pestilens army above, which mens a lot of the stuff here will basically be improved versions of the Clan Pestilens units, and a historical faction, representing the early days of Clan Pestilens as it fought to conquer Lustria. As such, you're not really supposed to use it outside of re-enacting those historical missions, but let's face it, this is so much better than the vanilla Clan Pestilens army your opponent will probably let you use at least some of these units in that army.

====Bubonic Court Lords====
[[RAW]], Nurglitch is mandatory as your army's general when using this army list, but we're sure a reasonable opponent will let you drop him for home-games.

'''Plague Lord:''' As per Clan Pestilens.

'''Plague Pontifex:''' This is the Bubonic Court's counterpart to the Grey Seer, but way cheaper; 145 to the Greys Seer's 235. Statwise, he's +1 Weapon Skill, Toughness and Attacks at the -1 Initiative penalty that's standard for Bubonic characters compared to their armybook counterparts. He can take a 2nd hand weapon (+6 pts), flail (+6 pts) or plague censer (+24 pts) and up to 100 points of magic items, and is Frenzied. The biggest downside is that he's only a level 2 [[Wizard]] who only knows Pestilent Breath and Plague, though you can bump him up a level and add Death Frenzy and a third Warpstone Token for +60 points.

'''0-1 Cauldron of a Thousand Poxes:''' This is the Bubonic Court's version of the Screaming Bell, and as such you buy this as a "steed" for a Plague Pontifex. It functions like a Screaming Bell, save for three hanges. Firstly, it's always got to be pushed by a unit of Plague Monks, who will never lose their Frenzy so long as the Cauldron is intact. Secondly, the Cauldron obviously can't be rung, so you don't have to worry about saved S7+ hits ringing it involuntarily. Thirdly, what the Cauldron does instead of ringing is let you cast Plague as a Bound Spell once in each Skaven Magic Phase, with 1-3 Power Dice to fuel it; the result of those Power Dice is the spell's Power level, and a 13 will get you Irresistible Force... but a double or a treble has the same disastrous consequences as getting one with a Screaming Bell!

====Bubonic Court Heroes====
'''Plague Priest:''' The only change here is that these guys can be your Battle Standard Bearers.

'''Festering Chantor:''' Statistically identical to the Clan Pestilens version, but with one major quality of life improvement; now you can upgrade them to Level 2 [[Wizard]]s, giving them a 2nd Warpstone Token and the Plague spell, for +45 points.

'''Stinking Thing:''' The Heroic counterpart to the Plague Lord, this is a Chieftain who has yet to be fully accepted into the new cult. Basically, take a Chieftain, give them +1 Toughness and -1 Initiative, and swap the ability to take a shield for the ability to take a flail (+4 pts).

====Bubonic Court Core====
'''Plague Monks:''' Noted as "1+" in the army list, but not explicitly a Mainstay Unit - it's unclear if this army even ''has'' that rule, but it's probably best to presume they do.

'''0-1 Plague Rat Swarms:''' Just like in the core army; 65 points per base for a Rat Swarm with Poisoned Attacks.

'''Rotten Rodents:''' Aspirant plague monks, these are basically Clanrats that cost 6 points apiece; they're Toughness 4 instead of Toughness 3 and lose their shields, Clan Skryre Weapon Team Attachments and option to take spears, but can take additional hand weapons for +2 points per model. The points to give them champions, standard bearers and musicians remain unchanged.

'''Pusbags:''' Skaveslaves that cost 3 points per model and can't take shields or spears, can take flails for +2 points each, and have the special rules Cloud of Flies (-1 to hit penalty against Pusbags when in close combat) and Dying (each Pusbag unit loses d6 models at the end of each Skaven Movement Phase) alongside expendable.

====Bubonic Court Special====
'''Plague Censer Bearers:''' Noted to no longer have the "Disciples" rule that meant you needed to have equal or greater numbers of Plague Monks.

'''Frothing Giant Rats:''' These are Giant Rats without Packmasters but with Frenzy. They cost 5 poins apiece for a unit size of 10+. Other than that, their stats are identical.

====Bubonic Court Rare====
'''Mad Rat Ogres:''' Rat Ogres that lose their Packmaster handlers but gain Frenzy. 50 points per model.

'''Rat Spawn:''' Fuel to the fire of the conspiracy theory that Clan Pestilens represents an attempt by [[Nurgle]] to corrupt the Skaven. Basically a Skaven [[Chaos Spawn]]: Movement 6, Weapon Skill 3, Ballistic Skill 0, Strength 4, Toughness 5, Wounds 3, Initiative 2, Attacks D6, Leadership 10, Unit Size 1, Unit Strength 3, special rules are Stubborn, Cause FEar, and POisoned Attacks.