Nurgle tech tree

The Nurgle tech tree consists of technologies that unlock new advantages throughout the game. Research takes place constantly, but the rate at which discoveries occur can be increased by using heroes to spy or building additional research buildings at your settlements.

Nurgle's tech tree is divided by 7 tiers of technology with 7 techs each. To unlock a new tier, the player must at least research 4 techs from the previous tier of technology.

Description

Seven is the number of the Plague Lord. Seven are the ways which Nurgle infects mortal and immortal alike with contagions. Invoke His methods and become the blessed carrier.

Technologies

Tech	Effects
Come to Grandfather Though the Fly Lord broadly eschews the politicking of the Great Game, he will seek fleeting accord with Khorne or Slaanesh should it be to the detriment of Tzeentch, his despised rival.	Diplomatic relations: +10 with Khornate and Slaaneshi factions
Favourite Children The Urfather loves each and every Nurgling dearly, be they long-lived shepherds of his Rot or fated to be a brief and messy existence as contagion-spreading catapult ammunition.	Leadership: +4 for Nurglings units
Spore Diffusion The decomposing mulch of Nurgle's garden breeds countless foul-smelling, ruinous fungi, which yield a rich bounty of noxious spores.	Growth: +5
Contaminating Claws By soaking a Fury's claws in flesh-burning contagions, even the slightest scratch will bless its prey with the fabulous gift of death.	Armour-piercing weapon damage: +5 for Chaos Furies units
Cyst Growth The land's of Nurgle are coated in pus-filled protrusions. Many simply explode in a noxious shower of filth, but from the most bulbous are birthed fresh legions.	Cycle time: -1 for Plagueflesh Poppies buildings
Viral Incubation From life follows death, from death follows decay, from decay follows new life. The great wheel forever turns - and judicious contagions can speed its passage.	Growth: +10 in settlements with Chaotic climates
Highly Infectious Though sending lone Nurglings toward enemy settlements appears a baffling act of folly, the tiny Daemons know no greater honour than to die showering their killers in disease.	Unlock Plague symptom: Fever Chance of plague spreading: +1%
Research 4 technologies from the previous tier to unlock this tier
Ravenous Tadpoles Most Rot-eater spawn are idly popped and drunk by passing Plaguebearers, but the fastest and hungriest survive to become wondrous nightmares.	Speed: +5% for Plague Toads of Nurgle units
Foetid Corpses No two Maggotkin look indentical, for each has their own array of weeping sores and cracked lesions, but all are born from the blighted carcasses of mortals.	Double experience gain for Plaguebearers of Nurgle and Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle units
Tumorous Squirt Like an infected udder, this tumour squirts out Nurgling after Nurgling into the world.	Casualty replenishment rate: +10% for Nurglings units
Despicable Rival Tzeentch, the meddler: his petty games disrupt the eternal cycle of life, and death, decay and rebirth, and move even ebullient Nurgle to rage.	Leadership: +8 when fighting against Tzeentchian factions Missile resistance: 6% when fighting against Tzeentchian factions
Contagious Horde "Buboes, phlegm, blood and guts! Boils, bogeys, rot and pus! Blisters, fevers, weeping sore! From your wounds the fester pours."	Unlock Plague symptom: Pustulant Chance of plague spreading: +2%
Fecundity The time of Rot has come! Father Nurgle grants unto us his greatest gift! Let the world entire be remade in His festering image!	Army ability: "Fecundity" (all armies)
Plague Sight A well-placed pox-maggot in the eyeball can grant sight beyond sight - at least until all the jelly is consumed.	Grants line of sight when a plague is spread
Research 4 technologies from the previous tier to unlock this tier
Plague Paragon When the Black Death bites deep, countless souls shall perish in flesh cracked, fever-wracked agony. In these joyous times, a champion shall stand tall.	Lord recruit rank: +2
Plague Incubation Disease, destruction and decay - these are what the perfectly-virulent breeding-ground requires.	Cycle time: -1 for Living Tree of Decay buildings
Curse of the Slug On the day the Black Death came, consuming the flesh of untold thousands, decimating the Empire of man, none could deny Nurgle's foetid majesty. Lo, that day shall come again...	Cooldown: -10% to Lore of Nurgle and Death spells (all armies)
Speckled Hides Nurgle's Black Plague is only a death sentence for the faithless. For the Urfather's true believers, the ravening passage of His great contagion leaves armour-hard scabs in its wake.	Armour: +10 for Beast of Nurgle units
Plague Infection Blisters burst, sores weep, lesions bleed, spores choke, flies bite. Let the fester pour forth!	Nurgle corruption: +2 (all provinces) Unlock Plague symptom: Highly Contagious
Plague Beasts Death is necessary, Nurgle's greatest gift to us all, for the decay that follows is the herald of new life - squirming, oozing, reeking, slobbering new life.	Bonus vs Infantry: +5 for Beast of Nurgle units
Children of Nurgle From the Fly Master's oozing innards arises a swarm of filth-caked insects, shrouding Nurgle's children within a buzzing, pustulant cloud.	Chance of plague spreading: +1% Passive ability: "Children of Nurgle" for Great Unclean One units
Research 4 technologies from the previous tier to unlock this tier
Kislevian Infection Cold is a most marvellous incubator of disease. The proud men of Kislev shall make excellent hosts indeed.	Double experience gain for units when fighting against Kislev
Eye Rot Incubation Though Nurgle's ocular pox lays rapid waste to mortal settlements, amongst the Urfather's chosen it is a virulent spur to great deeds.	Cycle time: -1 for Rancid Aloe buildings
Festering "Like a fly laying its eggs, keep warm... incubate."	Unlock Plague symptom: Festering
Eye Crusts Legend tells that a single tear from a Tainted One's saprogenic eyeball can blind an entire city in weeks. The legends are wrong. This heroic feat requires mere days.	Physical resistance: 5% for Plaguebearers of Nurgle and Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle units
Temperate Stain Nurgle's glorious Eye Rot is traditionally gifted through airborne sweat particles, but for cooler climes the pox can adapt to live on door handles, clothing and children's toys.	Growth: +10 in settlements with Temperate climates
Rot, Glorious Rot Flesh is but one of Nurgle's churches. His sermons may also be preached within the mind, where pathogens strip all reason from their hosts. As madness reigns, the Urfather rejoices.	Army ability: "Rot, Glorious Rot" (all armies)
Rancid Visitations The disease starts from within, silently rotting organs to mulch. Only then, as its blessed hosts stagger and vomit copious blood, does their skin begin to blacken and split.	Plague duration: +1% Spell: "Rancid Visitations" for Great Unclean One
Research 4 technologies from the previous tier to unlock this tier
Norse Infection To those mortals who have wisely given themselves to the worship of the Ruinous Powers, Grandfather Nurgle shall provide a richly festering, gloriously agonising reward.	Bonus vs Infantry: +8 when fighting against Norsca
Revel in Malady Some diseases are not apparent until long after they have been shared with others through acts of congress. There is, after all, no gifts as kindly meant as one imparted in secret.	Upkeep: -4% for Forsaken of Nurgle units
Sores "They are gifts to be treasured until they burst."	Unlock Plague symptom: Sores
Specimen Collection There are no words that could accurately describe the stickly substance which seeps from the pores of a Red Ague host, but Nurgle himself fondly calls it 'crimson honey'.	Casualty replenishment rate: +2%
Pestiferous Life When the flesh can bear no more lesions, the spirit seeks release. So endless is Nurgle's love that he does not permit this misguided folly - there are always more gifts to bestow.	Recruitment cost: -10% for Plaguebearers of Nurgle and Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle units (all armies)
Strain Resistance Colder lands are no barrier to the Urfather's flesh-ravaging affections. His scarlet pestilence shall be a benediction upon all, come rain or shine.	Growth: +10 in settlements with Frozen climates
Curse of the Leper The touch of Nurgle is a wondrous gift indeed, sapping strength from muscle and sloughing skin from bone.	Chance of plague spreading: +5% Spell: "Curse of the Leper" for Great Unclean One units
Research 4 technologies from the previous tier to unlock this tier
Fattening Seeds As the Rot carries far and wide, the noxious fruit of Nurgle's distant garden ripen and swell. The more virulent the spread, the more seeds the mouldering fruit shall bear.	Casualty replenishment rate: +10% for Plague Drones of Nurgle units
Growing Buboes Though Nurgle's Rot is disease perfected, already His ultimate gift to existence, there remains scope for delightfully nauseating new augmentations.	Population surplus: +1 for newly-captured settlements
Pox Tally Never send to know for whom the Tallymen of Plagues drone: they drone for thee.	Upkeep: -7% for Plaguebearers of Nurgle and Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle units
Fleshy Growths Each new pustule and tumour is a blessed mark of the Urfather's love. With every retch and heave summoned by the sight of such growths, Nurgle is shown deserved gratituded.	Physical resistance: 4% for for Plague Drones of Nurgle units
Ogre Susceptibility The larger the host, the more acres of flesh there are to infect, desolate and ultimately decay. Truly, the bloated mountain Ogres are fortunate indeed.	Bonus vs Large: +6 when fighting against Ogres
Rot Incubation The Urfather's wondrous Rot is already remarkably virulent, but as nature take its course, new and ever-more contagious strains will emerge.	Cycle time: -1 for Lesser Garden of Blight buildings
Blight Boil Even the Plaguebearers could never hope to tally the vast array of pox-filled growths which forever sprout across the immense and oozing bulk of a Stench Lord.	Chance of plague spreading: +4% Spell: "Blight Boil" for Great Unclean One units
Research 4 technologies from the previous tier to unlock this tier
Locus of Virulence Close contact is but one vector by which Nurgle's ruinous gifts may be shared. Once a strain mutates sufficiently, it can be equally contagious when hurled through the skies at speed.	Ammunition: +100% for Exalted Plaguebearers of Nurgle units
Fever Incubation The more minds that fall to glorious delirium of Grey Fever, and the more voices that gibber in senseless madness, the more fertile Nurgle's cankerous domain becomes.	Cycle time: -1 for Daemonic Egg Sacs buildings
The Touch Once the stream of pus passes a certain threshold, even Maggotkin cannot help but wipe their eyes to clear their vision.	Population surplus: +1 for newly-captured settlements
Maddening Crowds Sometimes, misguided hosts-to-be attempt to refuse Nurgle's pestilent bounty. Once the Grey Fever consumes their minds they shall see the truth, and welcome Him into their hearts.	Population surplus: +1 for newly-captured settlements
Eastern Malady The Iron Dragon of Cathay is famously touched by madness from Warpstone exposure, but once the Grey Fever comes for the Celestial Empire, he will seem the kingdom's sanest soul.	Missile resistance: 10% when fighting against Cathay
Preferred Strain Whispers in the forest; murmurs from the shadowy valleys; secrets muttered by brooks and streams; rasping madness from the crops. The Grey Fever stalks...	Growth: +10 in settlements with Mountain climates
Fleshy Abundance Flesh gruesomely caked in cankers, tumours, cysts and scars; there is no greater armour in this or any other realm.	Chance of plague spreading: +5% Spell: "Fleshy Abundance" for Great Unclean One units