Lord Kallozar Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 What is the difference? Are they meant to be the same thing or different vehicles? Is there any fluff on the creation or manefestation of them? Thanks. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/347771-blight-drone-and-bloat-drone/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gederas Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 What is the difference? Are they meant to be the same thing or different vehicles? Is there any fluff on the creation or manefestation of them? Thanks. This is their summaries from Lexicanum: The Foetid Bloat-drone is a type of Daemon Engine of Nurgle used by the Death Guard in the closing days of the 41st Millennium. This floating engine hunts its prey with a malign intelligence. Created Nurgle-dominated Daemon worlds, the cost in blood sacrifice to create these engines is significant, and the binding rituals are hazardous in the extreme. Yet their enduring popularity with the Traitor Legion’s Chaos Lords ensures that Bloat-drones are used in great numbers to the war zones in which the Death Guard fight, and deployed in swarms that darken the skies. This is especially true in forces of the 5th Plague Company, with warbands such as the Sons of the Maggot, the Suppurant Sting, and the Smogrot Brotherhood fielding great numbers of Foetid Bloat-drones in varying pack strengths and configurations. The Daemons that possess Foetid Bloatdrones are more aggressive and spiteful than most Daemons of Nurgle. Some are so wilful that they cannot be entrusted with ranged weaponry at all, their desire to smash themselves into the enemy ranks all too evident. These rebellious engines are instead fitted with the macabre devices known as Fleshmowers, which tear apart enemies caught within them at close range. The mashed remains of flesh-mower victims make excellent fuel for those Bloat-drones armed with Plaguespitters or Heavy Blight Launchers, and so the two variants often form parasitic war packs. The Blight Drone is a Daemon Engine of Chaos, usually employed by followers of the Chaos God Nurgle, particularly the Death Guard. Seemingly a bizarre conglomeration of insect larvae, machine, and daemon engine, the Blight Drone is armed with rapid-fire autocannons and a maw-like apparatus capable of spewing noxious poisons and acid which can eat through both metal and flesh within seconds. Blight Drones prefer to operate in swarms and are drawn to battlefields with large amounts of dead. Though they were first encountered during the Siege of Vraks, Blight Drones have since been seen in use by The Purge Chaos Space Marine forces, during the Chaos invasion on Graia and in the 13th Black Crusade. This is a Blight Drone: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/7/79/Blightdrone.jpg So they're similar daemon engines, but not exactly the same. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/347771-blight-drone-and-bloat-drone/#findComment-5094431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lay Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 It's possible that Bloat Drones were supposed to be Blight Drones at some point, since GW has a history of turning FW minis into plastic ones for new releases (Baneblades, Trygons), but since they have different rules they're pretty much different vehicles. "Alongside Foetid Bloat-drones, some plague champions favour the deployment of Blight Drones, another type of airborne Daemon Engine. Believed to be twisted perversions of the ancient Vultarax Stratos-automata, these fly-like mechanical horrors ride the high air currents over the battlefield on droning turbines, before dropping down to slaughter the enemy with cannon fire and feed upon their seeping corpse-fluids." -Codex: Death Guard, pg.50 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/347771-blight-drone-and-bloat-drone/#findComment-5094439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kallozar Posted May 30, 2018 Author Share Posted May 30, 2018 Thank you for clarifying. So I know bloat drones can only be used by codex death guard armies, however can blight drones still be used by non codex death guard armies? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/347771-blight-drone-and-bloat-drone/#findComment-5094488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gederas Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 Thank you for clarifying. So I know bloat drones can only be used by codex death guard armies, however can blight drones still be used by non codex death guard armies? Correct. Unless it's an army that can't take anything but their respective Chaos Mark, IE: Thousand Sons, World Eaters and Emperor's Children Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/347771-blight-drone-and-bloat-drone/#findComment-5094521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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