Zombie Plague

The result of the zombie mania that has gripped popular culture in the last decade, the Zombie Plague is games workshop's attempt to cash in with some of that sweet zombie loving by getting Nurgle to whip up some zombies so we can all enact our own resident evils and the walking dead scenarios, except replacing helpless ladies and panicking rednecks with hardened space marines and sisters of battle screaming for more fire for PURGING THE UNCLEAN!

Ok, heck it will be more realistic to have Imperial Guard then as the defenders.....but even they are a hundred time tougher then a regular zombie horde survivor.

The Zombie Plague

That rascal Typhon decided that it wasn't enough to spread disease and filth. No, he thought that Nurgle's worlds were a bit too quiet so what was needed was to get a lot of people together for a bunch of parties. Spreading a delightful plague to a lot of harmless worlds in the run up to the 13th Black Crusade and then during it, Typhon created a whole load of nurglite zombie worlds, where the plague dead rose up and fell on the horrified defenders.

Such was the dire threat possessed by this that the Inquisition founded a new minor ordos to study and combat the zombie plagues

But why?

Nurgle has had a long standing thing of being able to raise the dead and some of the old fluff did mention it but it seems to have become a more center stage ability of his to raise his victims as his new worshippers and that is due to the current zombie trend in mainsteam culture.

GW is nothing if not on the ball for an opportunity to join in on a trend. Seeing how popular zombies have become and horrified their space themed game doesn't have them in good measure like their fantasy game, GW decided to change that.