Mr.Plague

I see all your points but what if I run my all out plague monk list with the 320 (8x40) monks and 1 plague priest. Are the blades still better than the staves? I know I got noone to give me bonus attacks with the staves but I can imagine that with 320 rats to use them all effectively with only an 1'' attack might be difficult? Or is a mixed units setup ones with blades and others with staves in an army with this amount of units the way to go? Feedback would be greatly appreciated before I start building 320 rats with the wrong loadout

How about this list? The monks for chaff this time and the mass amount of censer bearers (17x5) in the small size units to have a lot of walking smoke bombs that deal d3 MW to all units within 3" on a 2 up per censer bearer unit because of the battalion. Would it be playable? Allegiance: Pestilens LEADERS Plague Furnace (180) - General Plague Priest with Plague Censer (80) Grey Seer (100) - Allies UNITS 20 x Plague Monks (140) -Foetid Blades 20 x Plague Monks (140) -Foetid Blades 20 x Plague Monks (140) -Foetid Blades 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) 5 x Plague Censer Bearers (60) BATTALIONS Plaguesmog Congregation (140) ENDLESS SPELLS Chronomantic Cogs (60) TOTAL: 2000/2000 EXTRA COMMAND POINTS: 1 WOUNDS: 167 LEADERS: 3/6 BATTLELINES: 20 (3+) BEHEMOTHS: 1/4 ARTILLERY: 0/4 ARTEFACTS: 0/2 ALLIES: 100/400

How about going all in on the monks and just beat down everything in your way? 325 wounds is nothing to sneeze at Allegiance: Pestilens LEADERS Plague Priest with Plague Censer (80) UNITS 40 x Plague Monks (240) 40 x Plague Monks (240) 40 x Plague Monks (240) 40 x Plague Monks (240) 40 x Plague Monks (240) 40 x Plague Monks (240) 40 x Plague Monks (240) 40 x Plague Monks (240) TOTAL: 2000/2000 EXTRA COMMAND POINTS: 0 WOUNDS: 325 LEADERS: 1/6 BATTLELINES: 8 (3+) BEHEMOTHS: 1/4 ARTILLERY: 0/4 ARTEFACTS: 0/1 ALLIES: 0/400 As an alternative you could drop 20 plague monks (still 300 on the field ) and switch the plague priest for a furnace. What do you think? Would this list actually be competetive? Besides the time consuming fact of shuffling 320 monks around on the board