Radious Total War Mod - Warhammer III Blog Entry #3

Hello everyone, Team Radious here!

Welcome to the third entry  in our WHIII Radious Overhaul Development Blog. We hope that you are  ready for another dose of our dreams and hopes! Today, the focus is  placed squarely on the roster of minions you might end up commanding while serving the lord of death and decay himself, the one and only Grandfather Nurgle! Our plan is to give his roster as much love and care as he offers all his countless grandchildren, so please, join us in our  deep dive into the world of plague and never-ending growth!

Our first 2 blogs can be found here: Link 1 and Link 2

Let’s  begin by discussing some of the more general points that have been  guiding our decision-making throughout the process of coming up with the list of units below. Whilst reviewing the base CA roster we have reached the conclusion that it is very heavily focused on daemons, except for the Forsaken, which meant that our focus was quite heavily  shifted to adding more diverse mortal units. Nevertheless, based on what  has been revealed so far, there seems to be a lack of appropriate visual assets and animations we need to create a properly unique new Lord option for this faction as we would be unable to give him a fitting  Nurglite mount, be it a Bile toad or a Rot Fly, making it a much weaker  choice which would not be used by anyone. With this out of the way, let us now jump into the roster expansion proper!

Nurgle

Deep inside of his incomprehensibly complex soul, Nurgle is a kind and caring parent-like figure, keen to share his many gifts with his followers, and even his enemies. Be it the deadly plagues they carry, infestations of flies and other tiny critters turning using  they bodies as hives, or mutations galore, it is often very easy to spot a follower of Nurgle, if not by looking at them, then by their smell. Endurance, regeneration, and various debuffs are going to be the leading themes of our planned units for this faction, as the followers of the Lord of Decay are famously hard to kill, and his invasions the most difficult to clean up after.

Nurgle Roster Expansion

Nurgle Tribesmen

Many  tribes worship Nurgle, thinking of him as a loving Father that cares  for all his followers, granting them endurance and resilience. Others  join the flock less willingly, usually by being infected with one of the  infinite diseases he has created and spread across the world for  centuries. Ultimately it does not matter how one became a member of his  family, since the Lord of Decay loves all his children equally and encourages them to keep sharing his gifts and spreading his blessed plagues.

Plague Warriors

Unlike many other Chaos  followers, who care only for ambition and glory, these warriors have not  sold their souls for selfish wishes of power, but because they  genuinely want to devote themselves to the service of their Father  eternally. Their purpose in life is only to spread his love and  affection to the other mortals who are to blind to see their beauty.

Plague Knights

Plague Knights ride on the vanguard of Nurgle´s legions, happy to be the first to corrupt untainted lands and share the gifts of the Father with its unaware denizens. In battle, their enemies  are many times outmanoeuvred when they realize that those sick steeds,  covered in pustules and scars can not only run as fast as any healthy looking one but also seem to never get tired.

Chosen of Nurgle

Nurgle  loves each and every one of his followers, but his munificence is even  more pronounced towards those that have succeeded in spreading diseases on entire mortal cities, and corrupted rivers and lakes driving nations  to choose between kneeling before the Father and accept his embrace or face starvation and painful death.

Bile Trolls

The vilest of all trolls, they are cursed,  tortured creatures with a hunger that can never be satiated. Corrupted  to the point of unrecognizability, unlike many other of Father Nurgle´s  children, these wretched creatures live in constant agony and are not  comforted by their patron’s loving embrace. Their touch is a lethal  poison, and their corrosive bile is stronger that even the most potent  of acids.

Tainted Ogres (T4)

Some ogres who fight for too  long alongside the tribes that worship Father Nurgle end up  participating in corrupted feasts and consuming infected flesh. Soon,  all manner of plagues and diseases are visited upon their desecrated  bodies and their suffering is only elevated after finally embracing  Nurgle as their new god. In battle after battle, they will sate their  hunger and smash the enemies of the Lord of Decay, getting stronger the  longer they survive, until the day they will be barely recognizable as  the Ogres they once were.

The Manreapers (T5)

Sometimes, Nurgle feels so satisfied with his latest plague that he cannot wait to  see the results and sends these warriors, those he loves the most from  the throng of all his mortal followers, to the Kingdoms of Men, Elves  and Dwarfs to harvest the souls of the afflicted ones. To them, all the  victims of a plague belong to their beloved Father and will be happy and  proud to fulfil this task, leaving behind fields of rotten corpses that  will act as the seeds of the next plague whose fruit they will be sent  to collect, in an endless cycle that pleases the Lord of Decay.