Beast of Nurgle

Beast of Nurgle
Overview
ID	wh3_main_nur_mon_beast_of_nurgle_0
Race	Nurgle
Category	Monster
Unit size	1
Strategic
Tier unit Cost (MP): 800 (800) Turns: 2 Upkeep: 200 Weight: Heavy Size: Large entity
Tactical
Health: 6388 (6388 per model) Leadership: 60 Speed: 40 Melee Attack: 42 Melee Defence: 34 Charge Bonus: 22
Melee Weapons
Weapon Strength: 300 Base Damage: 100 Armour-Piercing Damage: 200 Melee Interval: 3.7 s Melee Reach: 6 Bonus vs. Buildings: +1.25% Poison!: Yes Magical Attacks: Yes
Protection
Armor: 50 (37.5% reduction)
Unit Attributes
Causes Fear: This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack. Daemonic: Daemonic units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is low. Daemonic units also have: Physical Resistance Fear and Terror Immunity Immune to Flanking: This unit takes no penalties when flanked.
Resistances
Physical Resistance: +20%. Damage of physical (non-magical) attacks is reduced by this amount.
Additional Stats
Siege Attacker: This unit can attack gates or walls, allowing you to instantly launch a siege battle without having to wait for siege towers or battering rams to be built. Resilience: This unit is immune to the following types of attrition: Chaos Wastes, Chaos corruption, Land of the Plaguelord, Snow.

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Any other lifeform is a potential friend to this ooze-drenched, pox-slobbering beast – until they inevitably die, of course.

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Beast of Nurgle is a Nurgle, Daemons of Chaos, and Warriors of Chaos monster unit in Total War: Warhammer III.

Recruitment

• Daemons of Chaos
  • Unlocked with: Monolith of Nurgle
  • Nurgle Glory: 660
• Nurgle
  • Unlocked with: Lesser Garden of Blight (Seeding), (Germinating) or (Budding)
• Warriors of Chaos
  • Activating the Blighted Beasts gift and recruiting it in the Gifted Units

Description

The Beast of Nurgle is a truly horrendous aberration, no less deadly than it is morbidly and irrefutably ugly. Its corpulent form is both sticky and slimy, as a layer of infectious ooze seeps from its every pore and orifice. Despite its fearsome appearance and deadly attributes, the Beast is an affectionate creature that behaves in all respects exactly like an over­friendly and easily excited puppy. It craves attention, greeting newcomers by slobbering all over them and petting them with its slimy tentacles. Once the Beast's new friend stops moving, its interest quickly shifts to another target.

Attributes

• Monster
• ▲ Armour-Piercing: The damage of armour-piercing weapons mostly ignores the armour of the target, making them the ideal choice against heavily-armoured enemies. They are often heavier and attack at a slower rate though, making them less efficient against poorly-armoured targets.
• ▲ Regeneration: Regeneration allows a unit to heal while in battle. Fire is known to harm this healing process, so be warned that flaming attacks will cause more damage to units with Regeneration.
• ▲ Poison Attacks: The poisonous attacks of this unit weaken the target's speed and damage and/or apply the Poison! debuff.

Unit Abilities

Passive Abilities

• Cloud of Flies
• Daemonic Instability
• Banished!
• Regeneration
• Slime Trail
• Wounds

Strategy

The Beast of Nurgle doesn't fill any easily identifiable niche and instead functions as a jack-of-all-trades light monster. It's cheap for an SEM and relatively easy to get in campaign, lending it some utility, and its Slime Trail passive means it's at its best supporting your front line, weighing in against cavalry and sword and board infantry. Deploying it there also allows you to pull it back behind your line if it gets into trouble and needs a Fleshy Abundance. Don't pitch it at other SEMs unsupported because it's very unlikely to either win or be able to escape, it's very much a combined arms tool for that slow, unstoppable infantry wall of yours.