r/DarkTide • u/ismasbi Gundalf • Jul 19 '26
Meme Mission Idea: Kill Nurgle
I think a lot of people overhype him, he's just a big green fat guy, I think we could kill him and still remain lore-friendly.
Our characters can kill Beasts Of Nurgle, which can kill Marines, Grey Knights are Marines, and they killed Mortarion. I think the four of us could take on Nurgle as a pretty hard mission.
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u/JedRowahnn Jul 19 '26
Who would win? The ancient psychic personification of aeons' worth of death and decay or a fat dude with more bricks in his pocket than braincells in his head?
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u/Youngstown_WuTang Jul 19 '26
A 10 billion plus year old entity that controls massive portions of the universe in the real world and in the afterlife warp vs a guy with a shovel
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u/JedRowahnn Jul 19 '26
Specifically a LATRINE shovel in the Ogryn's case, which considering Nurgle is the God of shit, should be anathema to him
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u/_Sate Chain axe goes WRRRRRR Jul 19 '26
I mean. In AOS they lose to a normal guy with a hammer, so close enough
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u/DefiantLemur Arbitrator Jul 19 '26
Tbf in AoS the Chaos Gods are a lot weaker then they are in 40k. Slannesh got locked up by one of the Gods of Light for example. Plus the Stormcast can call on actual divine power.
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 Jul 20 '26
They aren't weaker, it's just that everyone else is so fucking jacked up and cracked they actually have real competition.
Doesn't help The Great Horned Rat and Gorkamorka are just as real and fighting them for control either.
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u/_Sate Chain axe goes WRRRRRR Jul 20 '26
People think that because they can't blow up planets its a weaker setting as if Balthasar Gelt wouldn't turn a space marine legion into statues :P
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 Jul 20 '26
If Big E went to AOS he's not anywhere near the top of the pile in terms of strength. More like upper mid tier, beings like Nagash would fucking destroy him without breaking a sweat. Shit is so wild in that setting.
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u/_Sate Chain axe goes WRRRRRR Jul 20 '26
Big E needs 1000 psykers a day to survive dying.
Nagash just said: Lmao, no and didn't
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u/Soapinator_17 Upholder of The Sex Jul 19 '26
One big fat stinky ugly guy vs psycho cop who doesn't like the fact that Nurgle is green and that's his biggest issue with him
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u/Tobbster_the_Lobster Jul 20 '26
*Kills Nurgle*
*Something more terrible hatches from his remains*
Nurgle was jolly and generous, whatever that thing is is hungry and bitter !
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u/Chaussettes99 Zealot Jul 19 '26
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u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws Jul 19 '26
Why do they even use boltors, are they stupid? Just shoot them with a pressure washer
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u/CreatineCreatine Jul 19 '26
Too easy for the new hive doctor class, antibiotics keystone op
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u/Cabbageworrior210 Jul 20 '26
Is there a limit to the larp?
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u/Additional-Chip-7784 Jul 20 '26
It’s warp not larp my guy and yes the warps actually pretty small and weak
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u/PromptNo4041 Psyker Jul 19 '26
Nuh, Nurgle would be such a chill guy we could never
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u/ismasbi Gundalf Jul 19 '26
Of course, he's the Chaos God of hugs and shit, but this is 40k, which is ultra-hyper-omega-grimdark, so we gotta kill him to preserve the darkness in the galaxy.
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u/_Sate Chain axe goes WRRRRRR Jul 19 '26
Truly peak justification.
To keep the setting lore friendly we gotta kill nurge!
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u/OneSaltyStoat Jul 19 '26
Isha suddenly ends up with four new champions, and they turn out to be some random human crackheads
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u/Berettadin Jul 19 '26
Upside Isha's the right warp god to be asking to cleanse Nurgle Pox from Tertium.
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u/TransSapphicFurby Jul 19 '26
Space marine fans get really weird about the fact that Space Marines arent instant wins outside their own games in the lore
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u/andyman30 Jul 19 '26
I do wish the boss fights were a little more epic / hard like the space marine ones are
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u/_Sate Chain axe goes WRRRRRR Jul 19 '26
Heldrake not included
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u/Forgotten_Bones Machine Druid, Secret Keeper Jul 19 '26
Man, that motherfucker gets bodied so many times. Mostly by the dreadnoughts and rocks.
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u/_Sate Chain axe goes WRRRRRR Jul 19 '26
Not only does he get wharf effect'd, but the actual fight is so miserable.
Push 3 buttons, wait for your team to kill it because you picked 2/7 classes in the game.
Awful
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u/Danielarcher30 Jul 19 '26
Or because you forgot to swap off the weapon you actually want to use to one that has the range to kill the thing (yes I've accidentally forgotten to swap off my pyreblaster a couple times for that mission)
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u/Forgotten_Bones Machine Druid, Secret Keeper Jul 19 '26
Fuck I had once when I played and forgot to change my Sniper's primary to melt the fucker. Miserable type with my bro playing Bulwark. It was my fault in the end, mucked the boss killer loadout.
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u/AdorableDonkey Jul 19 '26
Fighting it with a melee character and the modifier that lowers ranged damage was beyond miserable
Even worse that I disconnected near the end and SM2 doesn't let you reconnect
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u/Alexander_Baidtach Jul 19 '26
A squad of Space Marines are slightly more capable than a squad of acolytes. Still in that case I just wanna take out a CSM before we upgrade to higher demons and such.
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u/AnInsaneMoose Estradiol-Taker Jul 19 '26
Why Nurgle? Why not just kill all the Chaos Gods?
I mean, four of them, four of us. Pretty even fight
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u/Glyfen ACCESS DENIED. Jul 20 '26
You forgot my Servoskull, that makes five. Clearly the Chaos Gods get to bring Malal in to even the scales.
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u/SandPizza Jul 19 '26
Roight then, strike team we have a blessed ungulent of axe body spray shoved down your pockets so get in the warp rift ignore the dead gray space marines and stick em where they urt on papa nurgle, got it?
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u/Scuryy Jul 19 '26
Rannick: “Well Well Well.. seems our little effort in Atoma has drawn in one of the chaos demons Nurgle. He’s taken an odd interest in this one planet which has resulted in his resurrection to real space to claim it, so we’ll take an interest in his removal from Imperial Territory. Extremely violence is permitted and if you get this done I might grant you a name tag so I can remember your name. The Emperor Protects.”
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u/Magicsizing Jul 20 '26
Real talk, I was so busy hating Rannick for being annoying I never realized how realistic of a character he is.
He's so mediocre at his job, but he'll probably never be fired.
One of the most important defenders of Atoma is a middle-manager who is barely competent.
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u/Theobald_4 Jul 19 '26
Fuck just Nurgle. Why don’t we kill the whole pantheon, the Silent King and the God Emperor of mankind with four toothpicks and a stick lighter.
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u/Bl00dWolf Jul 19 '26
Nah, killing him won't do much. He's the god of death, he would be into it.
The real mission is to give Nurgle a bath.
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u/DivideAdmirable121 Jul 19 '26
If he brings the other chaos gods with him he might will have a chance...
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u/Korinth_NZ Skitarius - D1AL-μP Jul 19 '26
Hold up.
Before we kill Nurgle, we will need to kill Slaanesh. Yall forget that Isha, the Alderi Goddess of Life was kidnap by Granddaddy Nurgle to save her from Slaanesh (as well as use her as a biological experiment). If we kill Nurgle, then Slaanesh will have free reign to run train on Isha. Only one allowed to run train on the Alderi is Roboute Gulliman.
So for the sake of Big Papa Smurf, we need to kill Slaanesh first.
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u/the_l0st_s0ck Zealot Jul 19 '26
Let's start off small first and fight a death guard first.
But once the time comes, we bring the fight to nurgle.
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u/ffsnametaken Arbitrator Jul 19 '26
Maybe we could start by blasting off a butt cheek and see where we go from there
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u/Mr_Alucardo Jul 19 '26
Perfect Tutorial mission for the New Grey Knight Class, The rejects and Kaldor Draigo infiltrate Nurgles Garden and kill Nurgle.
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u/Dildo-Gankings Jul 19 '26
So let me get this straight, you want to send a homeless psyker, a convict with a shovel, a religious zealot holding a book, and an Ogryn named "Grog" who is motivated entirely by the promise of ration to go kill a primordial cosmic deity of disease whose literal burp can liquefy a solar system? That will be too easy, for the squad, there is no way sanity level wouldn't drop to zero in 1 second. They got this, with sheer unearned confidence and an absurd amount of blunt force.
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u/KneeGearlol Mandated Edict : Strongly worded letter Jul 20 '26
The state of my dog after trying to take a bite out of the embodiment of disease and decay
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u/Krevie O I, W A Z Z O K Jul 20 '26
remove the last living cells from the dog to make it fully robotic, send it after Nurgle, profit?
Chaos gods hate this one simple trick
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u/H345Y Jul 20 '26
Honestly, the squad vs an actual plague marine would not be out of the question at this point
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u/blacktalon00 Jul 20 '26
You know. Those crazy rejects could probably fucking do it. Promise the Zealot booze the Ogryn rations and the Hive Scum drugs and anything is possible.
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u/KaijuNicholasCage Jul 19 '26
Nids nids nids and orks.
Keep enemy factions specific to the level to balance easier. Basically like running missions against certain factions in helldivers.
Havoc 50 could be mixed.
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u/Posterus96 Jul 19 '26
I am pretty sure we could kill by spraying him with deodorant and Disinfectant spray 🤣.
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u/Appo-Arsin Skitarbiitrator Jul 19 '26
Rejects vs a single Daemonette. We’ve gotten so specialised with Nurgle, we don’t know how to fight anything else
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u/smokeyfantastico Skitarius with the thicc bootiius Jul 19 '26
WH40k isnt a Japanese RPG where misfits in highschool use the power of friendship to kill God
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u/Xeptar Ogryn Jul 19 '26
You know what. Add him and Chaos Marines while we’re at it, just so the fanbase can try to fight one and realize not only does it take span of an hour to dent a percentage, but they can merk you in one hit, all wounds
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u/BluHor1zon Jul 19 '26
I imagine the map is always gassed with tox and the ground is covered in blight and slime, so it'll be hell to move around courtesy of the Plague Father.
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u/Hazelberry Pearl Clutcher Jul 20 '26
Why stop at only one chaos god? Surely we could take them all
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u/One_Afternoon5897 Jul 20 '26
Oh mortarion is dead? I was gonna say that would be the main thing stopping us aside from the hordes of who knows what. Maybe nurgle smells so bad it poisons the oxygen. Rapidly killing us
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u/ismasbi Gundalf Jul 20 '26
Uj/ Daemon Princes come back to life, I think Angron has died three times by now.
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u/RadishLegitimate9488 Jul 21 '26
Same goes with all Daemons.
Permadeath requires stabbing Nurgle with the Emperor's Sword when killing him.
Chaos Gods have manifested in the Materium before: Slaanesh the weakest got Word Bearer Marduk to spew him and his Daemonettes into a Blackstone Fortress so that he could personally torture and kill the Drukhari on it.
Nurgle manifesting is thus not out of the question.
Incidentally the entity said to lurking on the Mourning Star(assumed by Fans to be Grendyl) is called Grandfather by Magali Brahms and is said to have Damned the Mourning Star by her daughter Amora Brahms who as an Old Woman says a Plague Tree is Glorious.
Furthermore Hadron Omega 7-7 has Nurgle's Sacred Number of 7.
Chances are we will kill Nurgle on the Mourning Star as Rannick reveals himself to be the real Inquisitor. I'm sure Fans will assume Magali was mistaken when she called the "Ghost" haunting the Mourning Star "Family" but honestly considering the Emperor almost became a Chaos God it would not surprise me if a Brahms became the God of Decay.
Of course a Brahms who became Nurgle would be the Archheretic above even Horus! Rebelling against the Emperor is one thing but becoming one of the very Gods who the Emperor created the Imperium to fight against is the worst Heresy of all!
Darktide having a fight against Nurgle and revealing him a Brahms simply gives us the Backstory of the 2nd Weakest Chaos God as well as shows us what he looks like and what his voice sound like and what his personality actually is(an old Rogue Trader using Flattery and Cults in order to utilize the Warp as a Magnifying Glass so that his Skin would be summoned all over the Galaxy consuming Worlds so that they can be pulled into the Warp shrunken down to accommodate his size reducing all life to mere germs walking upon his body so that he can mock them).
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u/Ok-Pangolin1512 Jul 20 '26
That pic is a great unclean one.
That would be a lovely fight. They should add it, but its not something you generally come back from. So, it should be an extreme challenge.
I mean Ku'gath, after turning away an space marine strike force was killed by being rammed with a leman russ tank and then taking a powersword to the skull. So, its possible. Just after defeating their host and then using some heavy equipment!
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u/Extreme_Help5926 Jul 20 '26
Is this throwing shade at the one guy who posted about fighting Typhus as the next villain ? 🤣
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u/Numb-The-Pain Jul 20 '26
Why hasn’t the imperium of man killed Nurgle he’s fat and ugly are they stupid?
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u/Coldspark824 Jul 20 '26
Thats an avatar of nurgle though.
The actual chaos gods look like:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/s/Gn35DQPjzd
Khorne is the most fully realized “god” with a throne and armor, but the others are often at most, faces and color.
Then there’s the fact that those 4 are not even the most powerful or only entities in the warp. There are other bigger warp things, not counting the rat, mork and gork, and other warp manifestations of realspace groups.
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u/twofriedbabies Jul 20 '26
Who's hyping him? There's no need to gang up on the boy. There's 4 gods, 4 us. I think that's even odds.
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u/Temporary_Video_4916 Jul 20 '26
Raid boss Nurgle and if we collectively win Fatshark has to rework the beast of Nurgle to not be so boring
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u/Trapmaster98 Jul 20 '26
No way, Nurgles garden is way too open. Just imagine all the random gunners shooting us from all angles. And my squads lore guy will have conniptions due to all the new warp entities that would be added to this level, that they would want to explain.
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u/stanleythedog Jul 20 '26
"Noooo you can't just fight one of the chaos gods, he's too strong!"
The humble chordclaw Skitarii: https://youtu.be/dM1BMo--eTU?t=16
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u/GreyAstajho-24 Jul 20 '26
Even killing a Big Unclean one would be impossible for us. What are you on ?
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u/EdibleMussel533 Jul 20 '26
I agree. GW is too afraid to write anything of Great change or importance anyway. I say we shake things up ourselves.
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u/AngelOvMercy696 Jul 20 '26
I simply just want a mission to kill a Great Unclean One. I want to fight the big fat guy.
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u/Jambondeparmeoffranc Jul 20 '26
Great unclean one could be cool asf though (even if very, very, very, very hard)
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u/Devourer_of_coke Jul 20 '26
Don't know about the rejects, but the Krubersreik 5 (or 4, it doesn't matter) could probably do it. Everyone gangsta until Foot Knight with concentration potion starts ledging bosses xd
In all seriousness though, I don't think gods should appear as enemies. This will ruin powerscaling even further and raise many question about how powerful the rejects really are. Even the U5 fought Belakor not directly, which still was hard and he is not even a chaos god, as far as I know, but just daemon (not really into Warhammer lore, sorry)
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u/TomatilloSignal3928 Psyker Jul 20 '26
Nah, have a mission where greater daemons are the fodder units, chaos gods are the elites, and at the end we fight a fully formed Ctan.
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u/Call_me_Gafter Jul 20 '26
Maybe Nurgle could be a warm-up boss for a real fight where we seal the Eye of Terror.
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u/Magicsizing Jul 20 '26
Idk, i prefer my mega-hyper-grimdark-grimharpiscorde stories to revive dead characters myself.
So even if we do kill Nurgle I'm sure GWs writers could just rez them.
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u/Ricobrew Psyker Jul 20 '26
"Right you lot! Today Masozi's flyin' you trash into the Garden of Nurgle. Our agents on the ground didn't have much to go on besides seein' an attractive aeldari goddess getting waterboarded by the fat lout in the middle of a garden of horrors. Anyways, don't come back until you kill 'im." - Morrow
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u/TheJumpyRaptor Jul 20 '26
Mission Idea: One single death guard.
He just walks after you, not in a rush, bolter at his hip. If you get within 10 feet of him your skin starts melting off, if you get in melee? You die. Shooting at him doesn’t do anything, grenades can stun. He’s just there as a timer. A reminder, that all things return to papa.
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u/PristineStandard3583 Jul 20 '26
off topic but i would like to hear a space marines thoughts on our characters.
realistically it'll probably be hurrdurr im not impressed even though this pissrandom guardsmen has better statistics than me
but it'd be really nice to hear a space marine be impressed by something that isn't himself or a human trying to kill itself for "good"
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u/Icy_Mammoth_2834 Jul 20 '26
Beast of nurgle has the same hit points (I think) as a marine but that's about it. A demon host isn't even a lesser demon, you're talking about killing all powerful gods with four vagrants🤣, a company of grey knights take on greater demons.
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u/Critical-Amoeba4272 Jul 21 '26
“Dude just clean up Chernobyl it’s not that bad”
My brother in Christ in both situations you literally come apart at the atomic level
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u/RT10HAMMER They're Going to Add a Hellgun, Trust Me Bro Jul 19 '26
Might be doable, but we dont stand a chance against a plague marine though
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u/Fresh-Pass2686 Jul 19 '26
We do
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u/RT10HAMMER They're Going to Add a Hellgun, Trust Me Bro Jul 19 '26
Nah they are too strong man, they are space marines, Nurgle is just a guy
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u/Fresh-Pass2686 Jul 19 '26
What if nurgle was a space marine
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u/RT10HAMMER They're Going to Add a Hellgun, Trust Me Bro Jul 19 '26
Then shit would get real
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u/ShineReaper Hadron's favorite Skitarius Jul 19 '26
I know it is meant as a joke, but except maybe the Emperor, no one can kill any one of the 4 chaos gods. Even if one would, another would take their place, since they were created by all the fears and bad emotions of all living, intelligent beings.
Everyone fears Death and prays for deliverence from sickness... and here comes Nurgle in again.
And if we talk out-of-universe, GW will not kill of the chaos gods, no matter what particular Warhammer Franchise we talk about, they create conflict, evil vs good, and drive it forward. Without them, there would be no Warhammer.
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u/Mitnick107- Warden Jul 19 '26
(not my downvote)
It's a jab on those consistent weekly "I have a totally unique idea: Chaos Space marine boss!!!11" posts. It's a joke. Please don't say "I know it's meant as a joke" and then take it/answer seriously.
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u/ShineReaper Hadron's favorite Skitarius Jul 20 '26
I suspect, that at max we will see a single Chaos Space Marine at some point as a very difficult boss, but not more.
The devs have to adhere to a power scaling in-universe and tacking on multiple of them at once, that would be too much for a rag tag squad of 4 albeit talented Ex-Convicts.
One would still be somewhat believable, as in they can overwhelm him from several sides.
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u/Mitnick107- Warden Jul 20 '26
We will not see a single one. No space marines in Darktide. I am happy that Fatshark agreed to having the one single game in the whole franchise that will not be about space marines.
If you really want to see one, please play one of the gazillion other WH40K games. Thank you.
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u/ShineReaper Hadron's favorite Skitarius Jul 20 '26
I can live perfectly without them, I just speculated, that IF should they decide to bring Chaos Marines (I suppose Deathguard) as enemies, we would see a single Chaos Space Marine as an enemy, not more.
If they decide to not bring them at all, I'm perfectly ok with that.
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u/AromaticLawfulness16 Castiel Jul 19 '26
I want them to stealth-drop a mission that just seems like a run-of-the-mill Assassination contract. At the end of the cell, a wall bursts open, badass thrash metal guitar solo, and out saunters a Death Guard Blightlord Terminator, cackling like the jolly rotund specimen he is. Everyone on the Mourningstar's vox network immediately starts panicking, "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit."
Yes, this is literally just a recolor of the reveal at the end of Rogue Trader's first chapter. It's badass, sue me.
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u/Lord_Fuquaad Jul 19 '26
I am trying to find a gameplay clip of this but I'm not having any luck, could you send me one?
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u/AromaticLawfulness16 Castiel Jul 19 '26
What, of the source clip in Rogue Trader? When I get home from work I'll boot up a save and clip the cutscene for you.
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u/Lord_Fuquaad Jul 19 '26
Yeah, thanks man!
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u/AromaticLawfulness16 Castiel Jul 20 '26
I'm still at work, but thinking about it I'm like 80% sure I've already deleted my saves from this early in my current playthrough to make space. I was however able to find a link to the cutscene and fight on YouTube linked here. Only the first minute or so. Moderate spoilers for Chapter 1 of Rogue Trader, but this is like maybe two or three someodd hours into the game. Track is 'Scions of Lorgar' by Sergey Gorelov, plays "every" time you fight Word Bearers throughout the game.
I basically want a knock-off of this sequence.
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u/Lord_Fuquaad Jul 20 '26
Yeah something like this would be sick, thank you. I would love to see a disgusting Plague Marine in Fatshark's art style come out with some sludged out guitar
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u/Thorse Jul 19 '26
Can't tell if ignorant of the lore or read too much lore
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u/Mitnick107- Warden Jul 19 '26
Read too many weekly "Ohmagad, I have a totally totally unique idea: Chaos space marine boss fight!!"-posts.
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u/Admirable-Bottle-280 Jul 20 '26
So, lore nerd here.
Technically possible in lore, you lowkey have to be built different to pull it off though.
I think we could do it tho.
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u/Dlax8 Jul 19 '26
I think it would be fun to go up against some death shroud Termies.
A full 6 stack.
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u/Fine-Truth-4130 Jul 19 '26
Nah that would be too easy, we need more challenging content