Lack of Nurgle-Love?

[GenerationTerrorist]

Hi guys.
Just wondering what your thoughts are about any particular reason why GW has not bothered to release plastic/finecast versions of it's Nurgle Daemons range.
The other 3 Chaos Gods have had their stuff (or most of it!) redone in the past few years, yet poor old Father Nurgle has been forgotten about.

For what it is worth, my one hope is that Nurgle Daemons will be the suprise army included in the 6th Edition box set!

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[Scaryscarymushroom]

Hi guys.
Just wondering what your thoughts are about any particular reason why GW has not bothered to release plastic/finecast versions of it's Nurgle Daemons range.
The other 3 Chaos Gods have had their stuff (or most of it!) redone in the past few years, yet poor old Father Nurgle has been forgotten about.

For what it is worth, my one hope is that Nurgle Daemons will be the suprise army included in the 6th Edition box set!

*Mods, feel free to move this to the right section if I have posted it in the wrong one*

What do you mean?

Nurgle gets a little love with every finecast release!

OK, OK. So I don't actually mean that. I wonder if the reason the Nurgle Daemons haven't gotten any attention is because of a huge discrepancy in their stock-- or maybe it's a popularity thing. Perhaps Nurgle sells well enough through their site that they don't feel like it needs to change. Or maybe it sells so poorly that they don't feel it's worth the attention? Just thinking out loud. I thought about Dark Eldar like this for years. And I think about Sisters of Battle like this now.

[Iron Puritan]

Look at all the Death Guard plogs kicking around the different forums. Nurgle is plenty popular. Perhaps they overestimated demand or experienced a drop in sales and have to work their way through a surplus?

[RunepriestRidcully]

Look at forge world releases, look at which god has it's own daemon prince model, Nurgle is anything but unloved, and has more support then the others, leading to a supported because it's popular, popular because it is supported situation.

[Private_SeeD]

Like the above post, they might not be feeling the love with GW releases but they are with FW, they had a whole campaign book about Nurgle pimp slapping the empire with Tamurkhan the Throne of Choas

[Charax]

I'm confused...you equate being released in Finecast with "love"? I wouldn't wish that on anything!

but yes, Plastic plaguebearers are one of the rumoured new set of chaos releases, possibly part of the starter set. Makes no sense to release something in Finecast only to immediately replace it with plastic

[Iron Puritan]

But Papa Nurgle's blessings are in abundance now that we have Finecast....

[zoggin-eck]

I've always thought Nurgle got plenty, if not most, of the love.

Besides the obvious missing plastic Plaguebearers, they really do get plenty with GW and Forgeworld models combined. Once we see Plaguebearers released, they'll be sweet. Maybe plastic beasts would be cool, but I'm happy enough converting.

[Iron Puritan]

The lack of plastic Plaguebearers has been mystifying. A good kit would have been a huge success. It would still do well, but there was a real pro-Nurgle thing going on for a while that would have been perfect timing to make good with the plastic.

[MajorWesJanson]

Plastic Plaguebearers are supposedly coming in a Daemon wave along with plastic furies.
They will not be in the starter.

[RunepriestRidcully]

Still, look at what nurgle has, then look at what Tzentch or Slaanesh get, notice the difference? (not just tzentchian lesser daemone just look silly )

[Trasvi]

Its because Nurgle is too easy to scratch build:
1) Make a human-shaped armature from greenstuff
2) Put in mouth and chew for 15 seconds
3) Spit onto base

...
Nurgle have a huge amount of Forge World stuff. Maybe GW thinks that is sufficient? But as above, plastic plaguebearers are rumoured to be very soom(tm).

[Whitwort Stormbringer]

Yeah like everyone else, I think it just seems like Nurgle is neglected due to the lack of plastic infantry (which to be fair does make collecting an army a daunting task - either a lot of converting or a lot of money on metals), but otherwise Nurgle really has a pretty awesome range of minis. I feel like it was around the 6th ed Warriors/Daemons release that the Nurgle, Tzeentch, and Slaanesh ranges finally caught up with Khorne, and they've all been fairly well-supported since.

[Sunyavadin]

Maybe it's down to Nurgle players being so dedicated a player base that they'll happily buy half their stuff from FW?

[GomezAddams]

I think its more a case of tooling a model like a plague bearer - I can imagine them being a nightmare to cast with all the different shapes and contours. It is the only god missing troops though so I should imagine they'll make an appearance either with the next CSM codex or the next daemon codex. Or with the legion specific codex if there still going that.

The fan support is there unquestionably, but you also have the fact that a few other companies now do plague bearers so its not like you can't get better and sometimes cheaper proxies.

[Lorcryst]

The fan support is there unquestionably, but you also have the fact that a few other companies now do plague bearers so its not like you can't get better and sometimes cheaper proxies.

I'm a devotee of Father Nurgle, and own at the moment more than 40 metal Plaguebearers (form various eras), but I've never seen "other companies" models ... maybe my search-fu is weak ... care to enlighten me with a link, for the sake of my wallet ?

[Scaryscarymushroom]

Avatars of War has a single daemon-style miniature called the herald of pestilence. It'd be a good character mini, but too expensive for a basic troop.

Troll Forged miniatures has a couple of nurgle options too. Rot Demons, Slug Demons, Plague Imps, a Bloated Demon, and Plague Minions (Which are too lanky for my tastes). Also, UltraForge miniatures has some beautiful Greater Daemon/Daemon Prince substitutes.

That was just off the top of my head. I could try harder.

[Lorcryst]

Thanks !

I knew about the AoW one, I was thinking about buying it for my Herald at 2K (yes, I play a mono-Nurgle DoC army )

I'll do a search about Troll Forged and UltraForge ... now that I know where to search, it will be easier

EDIT : ooooh-kay ... those are really nice, but seriously, they are EVEN MORE expensive than the GW metals ... I think I'll continue to scour eBay for OOP ones, and hope for a plastic kit soonish

[Liber]

IMO Slaanesh has gotten the short end of the stick model wise.

[codeslingerMalthius]

Nurgle gets a little love ... I think about Sisters of Battle like this now.

I like where you're going with this.