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Nurgle beast of artwork

Rotspawn artwork, Cyanide Studios

General[]

The followers of Chaos have been involved in Blood Bowl since the earliest days of the sport. Although most teams started as a conglomerate of followers of all of the Chaos gods, it didn't take long for teams to be more selective in their choice of deity. Most teams draw their players from shadowy plague cults or wandering bands of diseased prophets- in fact, nowadays, even the smallest cabal is likely to have an amateur team that heads to the local waste ground every weekend for a quick kickabout [1].

On the field, what they lack in agility and coordination, they more than make up for with brute strength, a natural resilience to harm, and a whole playbook of stomach-churning tactics devised to bring the other team to its knees. Though Nurgle teams defy conventional definition, they tend to be made up predominantly of Rotters- players who have only recently contracted Nurgle's Rot; Bloaters- players so swollen with disease, they are walking hives of decay; Pestigors- Beastmen attracted to the smell; and Rotspawn- players so blessed by the Plague God, Nurgle, that they have devolved into hideously mutated beasts [1].

Famous Nurgle Teams[]

  • Bile-City Blightkings
  • Diseased Destroyers
  • Nurgle's Rotters
  • The Plaguebearers
  • The Subterranean Slimeballs

BB2020 Favoured Of... Star Players[]

Name Race Position Team First Appearance
Akhorne the Squirrel Squirrel Squirrel? White Dwarf #458, 2020
Crumbleberry Halfling Halfling Warhammer World, 2017
Glart Smashrip Skaven Blocker Skavenblight Scramblers White Dwarf #86, 1987
Grak Ogre Ogre Warhammer World, 2017
Grashnak Blackhoof, the Great Black Bull Minotaur Minotaur Death Zone: 3rd Ed., 1994
Hakflem Skuttlespike Skaven Gutter Runner Skavenblight Scramblers 5th Ed., 2008
Helmut Wulf Human Chainsaw Bruendar Grimjacks 5th Ed., 2008
Kreek Rustgouger Skaven Ball and Chain Warpfire Wanderers Death Zone: Season 2, 2017
Lord Borak the Despoiler Human? Chosen Blocker The Swords of Chaos Death Zone: 3rd Ed., 1994
Max Spleenripper Human Chainsaw None 5th Ed., 2008
Morg 'N' Thorg, "The Ballista" Ogre Ogre Chaos All-Stars 1st Ed., 1986
Scyla Anfingrimm Bloodspawn Bloodspawn Khorne's Killers Spike! Journal #1, 2018


Famous Nurgle Star Players (who have been blessed by Nurgle)[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Blood Bowl Almanac, 2018, pg. 6