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Playing in a short league, with no PBBL experience.

What would ya'll recommend for the first 4-5 skills?
What about if I happen to roll a few mutations?
Is Claw the only good one?
Which players would be best for mutations? I'm guessing not rotters as they'll die before I have a chance to convert a model.
So, what skills/mutations are good for pestigors and which for warriors?

A lot of questions, but want to have a direction to take the time before the season starts.

Thanks!

Ok there's been a fair bit of discussion about this on the SG site. I'll try to repeat what I remember.

Here's how I'd play it (having watched a Nurgle team develop and played Chaos myself)
Remember mutations in PBBL are normal rolls for everything except the Beast of Nurgle. But most mutations are best taken at the 3rd or 4th roll. Block, Guard, Tackle, Mighty Blow are your bread and butter skills.

Beast of Nurgle:
Stand Firm, Guard, Grab (these maximise the use of tentacles), Break tackle
Doubles: Block, Pro (that's pretty much my standard choices for big guys on doubles.)

Pestigores:
2 of them go:
Sure Hands, Block, Extra Arms, Guard
Doubles: Dodge
Other 2 Go:
Block, Tackle, Mighty Blow, Guard, Piling On
Doubles: Jump Up

Nurgle Warriors:
3 of them
Block, Mighty Blow, Tackle, Guard, Piling On, Claw
Doubles: Jump Up, Diving Tackle
(Mix up the order of picks with these guys depending on opposing teams)
1 of them
Block, Break Tackle, Mighty Blow, Tackle, Guard
Doubles: Dodge, Jump Up

Rotters:
1 Dirty Player (at least, maybe 2)
1 Kick
Other Rotters:
Block, Fend, Foul Appearance, Tackle, Disturbing Presence
Doubles: Guard, Diving Tackle

Other Skills that have been suggested include:
2 Heads on Pestigores
Wrestle + Tackle sweepers Pestigores
a Wrestle, Tackle Rotter to drag key players down for a fouling
Tentacles on ST increased Warriors.

Don't take what I say as gospel though, I'm sure others will have excellent suggestions.

What are guys using for nurgle models since the team has a whole new look in the LRB 5?????? the box nurgle team doesnt really jive.....

kano wrote:What are guys using for nurgle models since the team has a whole new look in the LRB 5?????? the box nurgle team doesnt really jive.....

Beastmen as Pestigors
Blood Bowl "Rotters" as Nurgle Warriors
Zombies as Rotters

Nurgle Beastmen - Pestigors
Converted BB Chaos Warriors - Nurgle Warriors
Rotters - Rotters (Cause I've never felt they look like they have ST4)

fen wrote:Nurgle Beastmen - Pestigors
Converted BB Chaos Warriors - Nurgle Warriors
Rotters - Rotters (Cause I've never felt they look like they have ST4)

This is what I'm using as well.

The Rotters in the boxed set never look more like the current Rotters than the ST 4 ones from LRB 4.0 so I just use the boxed set ones for the LRB 5.0 Rotters and they work great.

Galak

I use:

Beastmen as Pestigors
Chaso Warrior as Nurgle Warrior
Seuchenhüter (Plague Bearer?) as Rotters. Just get rid of the Big swords.

Nurgle Beastmen - Pestigors
Converted BB Chaos Warriors - Nurgle Warriors
Rotters - Rotters (Cause I've never felt they look like they have ST4)

Also using this, though I'm leaving the look of the 2nd edition chaos warriors. That is not converting them. Doing a bit of that on the Rotters and Beast.

I use like you:
pestigor -> BM
plaguebearer -> rotters

for the CW i don't find mini for now

for the beast of nurgle -> the french mini = l'horreur putride, made in resin by Fenryl