Poxwalkers

Groaning, mutated victims of Nurgle's Walking Pox whose conscious minds remain trapped inside rotting bodies forced to shamble forward with frozen grins.

Death Guard Chaos Daemons

Category: Troops
Faction: Death Guard
Related characters: 4

Illustrated by Vesta (Skitoya) Menyachikhina (“Nurgle Follower”, used with permission)

Lore & origins

Among the cruellest plagues brewed in Nurgle's Cauldron and spread by Typhus the Traveler is the Walking Pox. When the contagion claims a hive city or Imperial Guard regiment, the victims' organs liquefy and horn-like bone spurs erupt from their skulls, yet their souls are prevented from departing. Trapped helplessly behind their own rotting eyes while their facial muscles twist into a permanent rictus grin, Poxwalkers shamble in endless, groaning tides ahead of the Death Guard, biting and bludgeoning their former comrades to swell the horde.

Appearance & wargear

Bloated, corpse-pale mutants with a single blackened horn sprouting from the forehead, distended bellies bursting with tentacles and maggots, and rusted improvised weapons—wrenches, pipes, and trench clubs.

Weapons & Vehicles

Standard Armament & Combat LoadoutPoxwalkers attack with infectious teeth, blackened forehead horns, and rusted improvised clubs and wrenches.

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Battlefield role & tactics

Driven in shambling walls of infected flesh ahead of Plague Marine phalanxes, Poxwalkers absorb enemy gunfire and drag down survivors to rise as fresh Poxwalkers moments later.