the cycling buildings is great but i'm trying to find out how exactly to maximize it. When I saw there was a way to cycle the buildings faster it made me think that you could maximize a provinces income by synchronizing your buildings and speeding through the early stages and sitting on the later ones for more income. I was unsure if thats how it worked but am testing it out now. Hopefully the income isn't just gained when the cycle ends like how units are gained because then this idea falls apart.
Nurgle has one strength over most factions: Whilst each individual building doesn't produce much money, every building provides you with some income. That means that it's possible to get a fairly decent income at the mid-game once you've unlocked some higher tier settlements that let you build multiple buildings in them
Nurgle has some exploits with plagues that give infinite nurglings, infinite favor and infinite infections. It’s a little game I call pass the nurgling. Make a circle of lords, infect one with nurgling summon and favor, infect another with any other with infections and get bonus infections then pass a nurgling around from each infected lord to their neighbor, always maintaining one lord with one of each plague. This 100% spread chance only lasts the turn you make the plague. In fact I’ve found that nurgle plays kind of like vampires. You want many lords with low tier units stacked and close together. Nurglings stacked on kugath to start fights and have the other lords come with better units. Kugath makes nurglings pretty much unkillable in melee even from high tier units. Missiles and magic are the only things to worry about. I’ve found that getting a stack of lords on the edge of a province raiding and sending in heroes with minus control and corruption as well as plagued cultists with minus control and attrition and negative campaign movement will quickly cause rebellions… rebellions you can assist with lovely plagues and assaulting garrisons/armies.
One very good thing about the Cultist is that he has Armor Sundering attacks. It helps to mitigate the fact that Nurgle armies have so few armor piercing options.
The Cultist of Nurgle exists to summon 3 units of plaguebearers and a great unclean one, that alone makes it well worth the slot in the army, in addition he becomes pretty darn good in melee, and the mobility bonus for the army is by far the strongest of the agent allied army actions. A must pick for every nurgle army.
Infrastructure buildings are the ones that provide garrison and they provide the same amount throughout it's whole life cicle, so the garrison does not change.
The heat does cause pathogens to denature at a faster rate. Plus, the jungles have all been reinforced by slann magic, so that could also limit plague spread somewhat
Yeah, Jungle and Magical Forest should be suitable for Nurgle with Savannah and Island unpleasant. The Garden of Nurgle is a magic-saturated, rotting rainforest...which Savannahs and Islands don't tend to be.
@@Ecoraptor3339 Let's not forget that the jungles and magical forests are protected by the magics of the old ones, so it would be extremely difficult for nurgle to get a foothold there
@@sev1120 That is not entirely correct. Magical forests are protected by forest spirits, which are very much corruptible. As for jungles, the protection of the Old Ones comes in the form of canivorous plants, insects capable of cracking dragonscales with their stings, and the like. This protected Chaqua from all Chaos Gods but Nurgle (and Clan Pestilens later), as their plagues rotted everything around and in the Temple-City. What you said holds true for the other Chaos Gods, but Nurgle has a very distinct advantage over his Brothers in Darkness here.
Cant tell if its a bug or not but Nurgle doesnt get an encamp replenishment bonus at all from the 6 hours i just played of him. Youre either garrisoned or you arent
@@justinpeace6841 ive noticed that you will still get some replenishment back in foreign territory like normal but doing so in your own land doesn't grant any bonus
Yeah the replenishment icon has a red line through it and it says "Local effects." Maybe replenishment only occurs with plague because you can get +35% almost at will, plus the +20% commandment thing.
I feel like you need to rewind quite a lot because of the hurried presentation style. Like an audible version of a massive wall of zero punctuated text. The content is good, but it's not the easiest to access. A bit like eating an orange.
Mega OOF!! Please don't tell me the game stutters like hell when going on the Plaque Cauldron at 2:45 Am I the only one who noticed or is that him slowing down the video?
Not sure I agree with the nurgling fall off statement. The buffs kugath gives them plus the red tree makes them a pretty good meatshield fir the rest of the army to take advantage of flanking and kugath mortis effect. Having a hand full mixed in with his other units will keep them relevant as their stats once buffed are pretty on par with the rest if the units. Not to mention their upkeep is insanely cheap and they can be recruited and replenished very quickly. Having only elite tier infantry in all the armies is a surefire way to tank your economy. Nurglings ftw!
@@doorag_bill well tech pirates' are, nurgle does not like oceans and can do nothing there? Anyways i don't every remember a water faction who's preferred is ocean?
for the plague recipes, do you have to do something to unlock them specifically or is it just make a plague using the symptoms/type that it tells you to?
Just started a Nurgle campaign, and unlike every other faction, it seems that upgrading your settlement building is a huge waste of resource. All you get is +50 resource and +1 infection per upgrade, and a bigger garrison. They arent required for the cycles to go through all tiers. If you dont need to defend the settlement against attack, isnt it best to just leave them all at level 1?
Either I'm doing something wrong or the "global recruitment" has been changed. I have to go all the way back to the sewers to recruit anything other than nurglings or toads. And after the long journey back to recruit more units it only lets me recruit one measly unit.. This is a huge handicap for me. I'm stuck with only half an army unless I want to make maggot infested s'mores in the sewers for 10 turns.
its easy. Im a nurgle main. All you need is one or two provinces that are making troops. the rest just spam the nurgling buildings for defense. once you kill the lizardmen. Make peace with the chaos dwarves and kill greasus its game over for everyone. herman ghorst is the only real hiccup, but if you fight him with greasus before going to war with him its easy as well. I rarely have to fight an enemy army at even half health. I nuke everything before it even has a chance to get close. also spreading your plagues with the caravans helps vastly with income.
You called this video a "campaign guide" but all you did was read the tooltips. Anyone can do that... I was hoping for a more comprehensive explanation to applying the nurgle mechanics.
Wtf is this? That's not a guide. We all can read text descriptions of an ability... I was looking for an answer why I can't recruit higher tier unit despite building being at the right cycle and didn't find the answer here. Not much of a guide.
Not sure if you already got your answer since this reply is late but you need to complete the cycle to build units from that cycle. For example if you are in cycle 4 of the build, you can recruit the cycle 3 units. When you move to cycle 5 (if it is available) then you can recruit the unit from cycle 4..thats what I found with my 3 hr game play so far...
What's your favourite Nurgle campaign mechanic?
The animation of their units.
the cycling buildings is great but i'm trying to find out how exactly to maximize it. When I saw there was a way to cycle the buildings faster it made me think that you could maximize a provinces income by synchronizing your buildings and speeding through the early stages and sitting on the later ones for more income. I was unsure if thats how it worked but am testing it out now. Hopefully the income isn't just gained when the cycle ends like how units are gained because then this idea falls apart.
Nurgle has one strength over most factions:
Whilst each individual building doesn't produce much money, every building provides you with some income. That means that it's possible to get a fairly decent income at the mid-game once you've unlocked some higher tier settlements that let you build multiple buildings in them
Pity this 'guide' doesn't say that...
@@aaronjohnson2215 4:06 "Every building at each cycle will net you a small amount of income".
Thats ok i can just sack a settlement with khorme and get 70,000$ instead
Skaven are very similar. You want as many buildings as possible even if you have to wait to upgrade them
Nurgle has some exploits with plagues that give infinite nurglings, infinite favor and infinite infections. It’s a little game I call pass the nurgling. Make a circle of lords, infect one with nurgling summon and favor, infect another with any other with infections and get bonus infections then pass a nurgling around from each infected lord to their neighbor, always maintaining one lord with one of each plague. This 100% spread chance only lasts the turn you make the plague. In fact I’ve found that nurgle plays kind of like vampires. You want many lords with low tier units stacked and close together. Nurglings stacked on kugath to start fights and have the other lords come with better units. Kugath makes nurglings pretty much unkillable in melee even from high tier units. Missiles and magic are the only things to worry about. I’ve found that getting a stack of lords on the edge of a province raiding and sending in heroes with minus control and corruption as well as plagued cultists with minus control and attrition and negative campaign movement will quickly cause rebellions… rebellions you can assist with lovely plagues and assaulting garrisons/armies.
I shall take this advice and do my best with it thank you for the insight
One very good thing about the Cultist is that he has Armor Sundering attacks. It helps to mitigate the fact that Nurgle armies have so few armor piercing options.
I said that nurgle looks like my brother, now i have a black-eye:)
Did you go number 2?
Probably thought you were tzeentch
Guess he is favored by khorne
Sounds like he couldn't take the "love" that papa nurgle wants to share.
A blessed gift from nurgle
The Cultist of Nurgle exists to summon 3 units of plaguebearers and a great unclean one, that alone makes it well worth the slot in the army, in addition he becomes pretty darn good in melee, and the mobility bonus for the army is by far the strongest of the agent allied army actions. A must pick for every nurgle army.
After getting a TH-cam account after all these years, you’re the first person I subbed to
Tis an honour
Infrastructure buildings are the ones that provide garrison and they provide the same amount throughout it's whole life cicle, so the garrison does not change.
Shouldn’t jungle climates be suitable for nurgle? Jungle bring out the best plagues and infections
You're not wrong
The heat does cause pathogens to denature at a faster rate. Plus, the jungles have all been reinforced by slann magic, so that could also limit plague spread somewhat
Yeah, Jungle and Magical Forest should be suitable for Nurgle with Savannah and Island unpleasant. The Garden of Nurgle is a magic-saturated, rotting rainforest...which Savannahs and Islands don't tend to be.
@@Ecoraptor3339 Let's not forget that the jungles and magical forests are protected by the magics of the old ones, so it would be extremely difficult for nurgle to get a foothold there
@@sev1120 That is not entirely correct.
Magical forests are protected by forest spirits, which are very much corruptible. As for jungles, the protection of the Old Ones comes in the form of canivorous plants, insects capable of cracking dragonscales with their stings, and the like. This protected Chaqua from all Chaos Gods but Nurgle (and Clan Pestilens later), as their plagues rotted everything around and in the Temple-City. What you said holds true for the other Chaos Gods, but Nurgle has a very distinct advantage over his Brothers in Darkness here.
Cyclical buildings is the coolest strategy innovation ngl
Nurgle seem very unique for sure! Will for sure get around to them at some point. But Slaanesh will defo be my first choas campaign.
Cant tell if its a bug or not but Nurgle doesnt get an encamp replenishment bonus at all from the 6 hours i just played of him. Youre either garrisoned or you arent
I've had the same issue,I do hope that is a bug and not intended. :/
@@justinpeace6841 ive noticed that you will still get some replenishment back in foreign territory like normal but doing so in your own land doesn't grant any bonus
Yeah the replenishment icon has a red line through it and it says "Local effects." Maybe replenishment only occurs with plague because you can get +35% almost at will, plus the +20% commandment thing.
These guides are life savers!
These videos are really good, you should definitely be getting a lot more views than you are getting, hopefully thet will come soon.
I feel like you need to rewind quite a lot because of the hurried presentation style. Like an audible version of a massive wall of zero punctuated text. The content is good, but it's not the easiest to access. A bit like eating an orange.
Mega OOF!! Please don't tell me the game stutters like hell when going on the Plaque Cauldron at 2:45
Am I the only one who noticed or is that him slowing down the video?
That was just slowed down in post to fit the video. Performance isn't quite that bad lol
Not sure I agree with the nurgling fall off statement. The buffs kugath gives them plus the red tree makes them a pretty good meatshield fir the rest of the army to take advantage of flanking and kugath mortis effect. Having a hand full mixed in with his other units will keep them relevant as their stats once buffed are pretty on par with the rest if the units. Not to mention their upkeep is insanely cheap and they can be recruited and replenished very quickly. Having only elite tier infantry in all the armies is a surefire way to tank your economy. Nurglings ftw!
Good guide, but this so much.
Well Colonel Damneders is known for not knowing the game mechanics very well and using some not all units poorly
very well done, thank you kind sir
You say nurglings fall off but I always see people say that they rank so high. I also dont know how to get the swarm of flies buff for them
What’s the background music at the start of the video? I can’t find it in the ost..
hmm i did not know there was a ocean faction? Or is that a hint of something to come like Naga?
Who said there was an ocean faction?
@@doorag_bill well tech pirates' are, nurgle does not like oceans and can do nothing there? Anyways i don't every remember a water faction who's preferred is ocean?
Vampire coast in WH2 like ocean
@@ColonelDamneders yep about the only ones that i can think of
DE’s have Felheart he is probably the best “ocean” based hero!!! I mean being able to recruit a Black Ark for EACH major port is pretty ridiculous!
What do you mean by red yellow and blue line for the attributes? I don’t see these colors
for the plague recipes, do you have to do something to unlock them specifically or is it just make a plague using the symptoms/type that it tells you to?
If you hover over it tells you what you need to do to unlock each symptom. Most of them just require you to spread plagues of that type
Just started a Nurgle campaign, and unlike every other faction, it seems that upgrading your settlement building is a huge waste of resource. All you get is +50 resource and +1 infection per upgrade, and a bigger garrison. They arent required for the cycles to go through all tiers. If you dont need to defend the settlement against attack, isnt it best to just leave them all at level 1?
Are there any spread plague traits?
Either I'm doing something wrong or the "global recruitment" has been changed. I have to go all the way back to the sewers to recruit anything other than nurglings or toads. And after the long journey back to recruit more units it only lets me recruit one measly unit.. This is a huge handicap for me. I'm stuck with only half an army unless I want to make maggot infested s'mores in the sewers for 10 turns.
its easy. Im a nurgle main. All you need is one or two provinces that are making troops. the rest just spam the nurgling buildings for defense. once you kill the lizardmen. Make peace with the chaos dwarves and kill greasus its game over for everyone. herman ghorst is the only real hiccup, but if you fight him with greasus before going to war with him its easy as well. I rarely have to fight an enemy army at even half health. I nuke everything before it even has a chance to get close. also spreading your plagues with the caravans helps vastly with income.
The caravans will spread your income boosting plague across the entire map going in all directions.
why cant i recruit unclean one when i have tier 5 settlement plus building enabled
Has your building gone through its full cycle?
Wtf is a nurgle thicket? How do I unlock cultists of nurgle?
Its 2024 idk y im watching old nurgle guide 😅 I'm snowballing very hard campaign rn
Where's them ogre Bois?
ribbit
You called this video a "campaign guide" but all you did was read the tooltips. Anyone can do that... I was hoping for a more comprehensive explanation to applying the nurgle mechanics.
This would be better if you did it in a different accent
Wtf is this? That's not a guide. We all can read text descriptions of an ability... I was looking for an answer why I can't recruit higher tier unit despite building being at the right cycle and didn't find the answer here. Not much of a guide.
Not sure if you already got your answer since this reply is late but you need to complete the cycle to build units from that cycle. For example if you are in cycle 4 of the build, you can recruit the cycle 3 units. When you move to cycle 5 (if it is available) then you can recruit the unit from cycle 4..thats what I found with my 3 hr game play so far...
Nurgle in 2024 is broken. It is rigged against the player completely. I just quit my game.
What is the point of a guide when nobody can play the damn game LOL
Less than 2 weeks to go!
if I get all the guides ready for launch then people wont need to wait post launch