Toxic Traitor Guardsman

Saves: Toughness +4

Proficiencies: Awareness +4, Fieldcraft +3

Corroded Rounds. A creature hit by the guardsman's ranged attack makes a Toughness Save DC 12 or takes 1d4 toxic damage at the start of its next turn. Every graze is a gift.

Patient as Rot. The guardsman is immune to fear and cannot be Pinned by Suppression while in cover. It simply waits out the noise.

Blighted Lasfire. Ranged Attack: +4 to hit, range 80/240 ft., one target. Hit: 1d8 + 2 energy damage, plus the Corroded Rounds rider.

Unhurried Volley. If the guardsman does not move this turn, it makes a Blighted Lasfire attack with +1 to hit. It has nowhere better to be.

Morale: Does not retreat and does not hurry. It holds its position until destroyed or ordered elsewhere by a preacher.

Tactics: Emplace it in cover on the approaches and let attrition work — each hit the party shrugs off keeps costing them. It lacks the mobility to respond to flanking, which is the party's answer; make them earn the angle through contaminated ground. Pairs miserably well with blight grenadiers.

Loot / Evidence / Hooks: Contaminated charge packs — worthless as ammunition, damning as evidence of which manufactorum blessed them.

The Toxic Traitor Guardsman is a soldier whose lasgun charge packs and ammunition were blessed by rot — contaminated rounds, unhurried doctrine, and a persistent cough. It keeps Guard discipline at plague-cult tempo.

Use this enemy as Nurgle's ranged line infantry, making every wound the party takes a lingering problem.

Moderate durability, disciplined ranged fire with poison riders, cover use, slow but unshakeable — attrition with a trigger.

Corroded Rounds. Its ranged hits force a Toughness Save against lingering poison damage; every graze is a gift.

Patient as Rot. Immune to fear and Pinned states from Suppression while in cover; it simply waits out the noise.

Blighted Lasfire. Standard ranged attack with the toxin rider.

Unhurried Volley. Forgoes movement for +1 to hit; it has nowhere better to be.

Morale: Does not retreat and does not hurry; holds its position until destroyed or ordered elsewhere by a preacher.

Tactics: Emplace it in cover on the approaches and let attrition work — each hit the party shrugs off keeps costing them. It lacks the mobility to respond to flanking, which is the party's answer; make them earn the angle through contaminated ground. Pairs miserably well with blight grenadiers.

Full Stat Block Priority: Medium