In Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus, players can acquire characters in the Death Guard faction. Get to know how to get these characters, conditions, where to get shards, and more using this guide.

For all characters and factions, check out this list.

Tacticus – How To Get Characters (Death Guard)

“You are my unbroken blades. You are the Death Guard. By your hand shall justice be delivered, and doom shall stalk a thousand worlds.”

Typhus – Herald of the Plague God

Tacticus Death Guard Typhus

Once first Captain of the Death Guard, Callas Typhon led his whole legion into the rotten embrace of the God of Plagues. Now he is Typhus, the Herald of Nurgle, spreading his god’s devastating gifts throughout the galaxy.

How To Get

  • Requisition Drops

Read Typhus’ skills & character guide for more info.

Maladus – Blightlord Champion

Maladus

Relentless and unstoppably tough, Blightlord Terminators are elite Death Guard warriors who are bound forever to their mutated Armour. They are saturated with foulness, which pours off them to rot flesh and corrode metal.

How To Get

  • Requisition Drops

Read Maladus’ skills & character guide for more info.

Nauseous Rotbone – Plague Surgeon

Nauseous Rotbone

This accomplished Plague Surgeon is the personal physician of Mortarion himself. And he is keeper of the surgical dungeons deep within the Black Manse, wherein the Death Guard keep their stocks of tainted gene-seed.

How To Get

  • Requisition Drops

Read Nauseous Rotbone’s skills & character guide for more info.

Pestillian – Biologus Putrifier

Pestillian

Biologus Putrifiers take obscene delight in developing myriad plagues and spreading them with blight grenades during battle. With their injector pistols they implant killing maladies into the enemy before extracting samples for their next experiment.

How To Get

  • Requisition Drops

Read Pestillian’s skills & character guide for more info.

Corrodius – Noxious Blightbringer

Tacticus Death Guard Corrodius

Cursed plague bells tolling, Noxious Blightbringers erode the enemy’s will to fight and spawn maggots in the mind of psykers. To the Death Guard the sound is beautiful, and upon hearing it they surge eagerly into the fray.

How To Get

  • Requisition Drops

Read Corrodius’ skills & character guide for more info.

Other Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus Guides

Check out Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus via the official website to know more.

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Jose Felongco
Player of video games since the tender age of 3. Still wonders why his dad allowed him to play Doom during those times. Currently working for a gaming company and spends time painting Warhammer 40k minis to relax.

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