Home › Units › Death Guard › Poxwalkers
1 / 4 · Click to enlargeLore & origins
Among the cruellest plagues brewed in Nurgle's Cauldron and spread by Typhus the Traveler is the Walking Pox. When the contagion claims a hive city or Imperial Guard regiment, the victims' organs liquefy and horn-like bone spurs erupt from their skulls, yet their souls are prevented from departing. Trapped helplessly behind their own rotting eyes while their facial muscles twist into a permanent rictus grin, Poxwalkers shamble in endless, groaning tides ahead of the Death Guard, biting and bludgeoning their former comrades to swell the horde.
Appearance & wargear
Bloated, corpse-pale mutants with a single blackened horn sprouting from the forehead, distended bellies bursting with tentacles and maggots, and rusted improvised weapons—wrenches, pipes, and trench clubs.
Weapons & Vehicles
The corroded, pus-dripping combat blades of the Death Guard Plague Marines, so saturated with Nurgle's supernatural contagions that a s…
The bloated, disease-ridden warriors of the Death Guard, blessed by Nurgle with a hideous resilience to pain and injury.
The mute, scythe-wielding Terminator bodyguards and executioner-emissaries of Mortarion, sworn never to stray more than forty-nine pace…
Explore all 48 entries in the Weapons & Vehicles armoury.
Battlefield role & tactics
Driven in shambling walls of infected flesh ahead of Plague Marine phalanxes, Poxwalkers absorb enemy gunfire and drag down survivors to rise as fresh Poxwalkers moments later.
Munitorum & Ordo Xenos Technical Dossier
Classified under Ordo and Departmento Munitorum threat-index protocols as a primary Driven in shambling walls of infected flesh ahead of Plague Marine phalanxes, Poxwalkers absorb enemy gunfire and drag down survivors to rise as fresh Poxwalkers moments later. asset of Death Guard, Poxwalkers relies on a tightly coupled symbiosis between operator conditioning and primary armament. Field maintenance and biological recovery logs indicate that extended deployment without liturgical recalibration or bio-stasis rest degrades targeting and metabolic stability by less than 4% per solar week—far outperforming standard sector baselines—while post-engagement recovery teams prioritize the immediate extraction of their core wargear, neural/gene-seed components, or machine-spirit memory cores before enemy scavengers can exploit them.
Notable battles & users
- M42 — Typhus unleashed the Walking Pox across the hospital world of Iax during the Plague Wars in Ultramar.
Related
Characters (4)
Mortarion · Primarch of the Death Guard, the Death Lord
Typhus · Herald of Nurgle, Host of the Destroyer Hive
Grandfather Nurgle · Chaos God of Disease, Decay and Despair; the Plague Father
Ku'gath Plaguefather · Great Unclean One of Nurgle
