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===The Ferrymen===
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The Ferrymen are the 6th Plague Company. Also known as the Brethren of the Fly, they maintain plague fleets and acquire new ships to add to Mortarion's armada. Instead of a signature disease, they are riddled with parasitic plague insects collectively known as the Droning.

Thematically, they focus on obtaining new ships for the plague fleets and fielding large numbers of Blightlord Terminators.

Mechanically, they give tricky tools to buff your auras or slow down enemies.

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*'''Warlord Trait - The Droning (Contagion):''' Enemy units within Contagion range have their movement halved during their movement phase.
**Much harder to use than some of the other contagions, as by the time you get this close your opponent’s speed is less relevant. This makes it harder to impossible for units to meaningfully fall back or escape melee, but most won’t mind (shooting armies will just fire back and melee ones will just counter charge). 
**Best paired with Flash Outbreak and a Bloat Drone. Drive the drone into the heart of the enemy and slow them down for a critical turn.
***RAW does nothing, as units don't have Move characteristics (and as the Space Wolves and Deathwatch can tell you, it's ''very'' possible to have a unit of mixed Move), but ''presumably'' this means halve the Move characteristic of each model in the unit. 
*'''Relic - Ferryman's Scythe:''' Replaces a Manreaper with another Manreaper that gets 3 attacks per scythe instead of 2.
*'''Stratagems - On Droning Wings (1 CP):''' At the start of your Command phase, select a {{W40kKeyword|Ferrymen Foetid Virion}} unit. One of their auras now add +6" to a max of 12" to their range. This trick is pretty decent, as each one model carries a powerful aura, even if it isn't a chaos lord's. This pairs really well with the Foul Blightspawn relic to negate charges, the Living Plague warlord trait to turn off auras, and many others. 

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