Plague Toad

The blackest, filth-choked lagoons and lightless sumps of the Plague-
Father’s realm have served as spawning ground to all manner of
daemonic beasts and foul creatures, both nightmarish and base. Among
the lesser of these blasphemous creatures – although by no means the
least foul – are the Plague-Toads, also known as rot-eaters, and sewer-
kin; mutated, toad-like bags of brackish filth and pus whose wide maws
can swallow a man whole.
These semi-sentient Daemon-vermin are, by some reckoning, bloated
Nurglings swelled to enormous proportions by indulging their appetites
and wallowing in the worst noisome decay, while others maintain they
are devolved and accursed Plaguebearers, punished for their failure to
maintain Nurgle’s tally. In either case they are the victim of the petty
abuses and ire of Nurgle’s other get. As well as being dragged along
like pestilent flies in the wake of Chaos summonings and Daemonic
incursions, these maligned Daemons are drawn to places of disease and
decay in the mortal world, such as the dank reaches of sewer-pits and
stagnant mires, devouring the unwary that cross their path and finding
sustenance in suffering and befoulment. It is in such locales as these
that those well-versed in the lore of the Plague-Father can corral the
beasts, and bind them to their will, offering them the chance to glut
their appetites on yet-uncorrupted flesh.

Profile M WS BS S T W I A LD
Plague Toad 6 3 0 4 4 2 1 2 5 24 points per model

Unit Size: 3+ Special Rules: SPECIAL RULES

• Immune to Psychology
Unit Type: • Fear
Monstrous Beast • Poisoned Attacks
• Ward Save (5+)
Equipment: • Strider Marsh/Swamp
• Gelid horn and vile • Daemonic Attacks
tongue (hand weapon) • Daemonic Instability
Daemonic Attacks: The Plague Toads are a manifestation of Chaos, and all their
attacks are magical.
Daemonic Instability: Plague Toads are daemonic creatures, and when a unit of
them loses a combat they must take a special kind of Break test, called a Daemonic
Instability test. In multiple combats, each unit of Plague Toads must test separately.
First, calculate combat resolution normally and roll 2D6. Then, compare the dice
roll to the Plague Toads’ Leadership value, including any modifiers for combat
resolution. For each point the unit fails its instability test by, it loses a wound with
no saves of any kind allowed.

Note that a Daemonic Instability test is a Break Test (albeit of a special kind) and
can be re-rolled due to the Hold Your Ground! special rule, and/or be taken on
unmodified leadership if the unit is stubborn.

Fear, Poisoned Attacks, Immune to Psychology, Ward Save (5+) and Strider
Marsh/Swamp: see the Warhammer Rule Book.

Plague Toad units may be taken as Core choices in Daemons of Chaos armies, and as
Special choices in a Warriors of Chaos army which also contains at least one Character
bearing the Mark of Nurgle.