Festus Campaign Knights of nurgle vs plague drones?

[Googley Eye'd Bastard]

Trying out festus for the first time, I'm close to being able to upgrade my nurgle warriors into chaos knights of nurgle but I'm curious if I shouldn't bother and work toward the flying plague drones instead.

[Ashardalon]

very different units
the knights are a big help for nurgle as they are one of the few real hammers for your anvil
unlike the frogs that are stunlockers with their animations a knight charge does actual damage and ends things quickly
something pretty rare in the roster
the drones on the other hand are fliers and fast, your fastest option + flier so no running around things
they can still do the rear charge morale hit, but wont do nearly as good a job at actually killing things as the knights
more units to fly ahead and occupy artillery and archers or enemy fliers
things that hurt you before you can get into the nurgle grind

so depends on how you want to play
do you want a more standard hammer anvil, melee focused army
with some actual burst damage
or do you want to get into the nurgle grind healthier so you can grind grindier
yet have little to actually do beyond grinding causing fights to be pretty grindy

[Googley Eye'd Bastard]

Originally posted by Ashardalon:

very different units
the knights are a big help for nurgle as they are one of the few real hammers for your anvil
unlike the frogs that are stunlockers with their animations a knight charge does actual damage and ends things quickly
something pretty rare in the roster
the drones on the other hand are fliers and fast, your fastest option + flier so no running around things
they can still do the rear charge morale hit, but wont do nearly as good a job at actually killing things as the knights
more units to fly ahead and occupy artillery and archers or enemy fliers
things that hurt you before you can get into the nurgle grind

so depends on how you want to play
do you want a more standard hammer anvil, melee focused army
with some actual burst damage
or do you want to get into the nurgle grind healthier so you can grind grindier
yet have little to actually do beyond grinding causing fights to be pretty grindy

Thanks for the info I think Ill keep a couple of both.

[Ashardalon]

knights are better in the early mid while the drones come out superior once you get some mechaspiders

[Enelith]

Generally speaking, u want to focus on mortal units with WoC as their red line buff them nicely (and give pretty poor ones for daemons….) ~ while Daemons of Chaos give better buffs to daemons compared to mortal units.

So Festus ? WoC : Go Chaos Knights.