At a glance
- Type
- Legendary Lord
- Battlefield role
- Ranged monster and Nurgle spellcaster
- Content pack
- Total War: Warhammer III (base game)
- Race
- Nurgle
- Faction
- Poxmakers of Nurgle
Availability
Content pack: Total War: Warhammer III (base game). Immortal Empires ownership
- Included with Total War: Warhammer III. Select this Legendary Lord in Immortal Empires or The Realm of Chaos when starting a new campaign.
- Included with the Total War: Warhammer III base game. Ku'gath leads the Poxmakers of Nurgle in Immortal Empires and The Realm of Chaos; Thrones of Decay and the Glottkin pack are separate purchases.
The Poxmakers of Nurgle
Choose Nurgle and the Poxmakers of Nurgle for Ku'gath. His faction uses plagues and Nurgle's distinctive recruitment systems. Immortal Empires offers a sandbox campaign; The Realm of Chaos supplies the separate story setting.
Prepare your recruitment pool before an offensive. Nurgle's building cycles and available troops matter when replacing losses. Campaign disease can support a military plan, but an army still needs enough strength to win the battle it reaches.
Select Nurgle and the Poxmakers of Nurgle in Immortal Empires for Ku'gath's sandbox campaign. His army uses Nurgle's recruitment pools and plague systems. The Realm of Chaos places the same lord in the separate Ursun story campaign.
Military buildings cycle through stages and add troops to the recruitment pool; economic and defensive buildings remain static. Infections support military construction and can rush a cycle. Before declaring war, inspect both the troops available now and the buildings that will supply your next reinforcements.
Support the sustained fight
Ku'gath fights from a palanquin carried by Nurglings and can attack from range as well as cast spells. Keep friendly units between him and threats that would tie him down or focus their attacks on his large body.
A Nurgle line benefits from support concentrated around an important engagement. Use smaller daemons to occupy space, protect the lord and give his spells time to matter. Letting the enemy's missiles fire freely throughout a long fight can undo that advantage.
The maker of new plagues
Other Great Unclean Ones spread existing diseases; Ku'gath pursues new ones. His background ambition is to produce a contagion capable of afflicting even gods. The vats and alchemical equipment around him make that obsession visible.
His character role differs from a fast attacker such as N'Kari or a direct melee centrepiece such as Skarbrand. Build the army around the slower engagement you intend to fight.
Blessed Symptoms and plague brewing
Ku'gath's speciality is combining Blessed Symptoms in the plague system. The plague web changes the combinations available over time, so choose a disease for the next operation: sustaining a friendly force and weakening an enemy can call for different symptoms.
Recruitment health depends on local Nurgle corruption. A newly raised regiment may need recovery before joining a hard fight. Leave a safe place to rebuild and avoid treating an instant addition to the army as a fully prepared replacement.
What the plague-father is for
Ku'gath and the Poxmakers come with the base game. Use him when the plan is a slow army, a ranged monster, and plagues built from many Blessed Symptoms at once. Tamurkhan, from Thrones of Decay, collects chieftains. Epidemius, free in patch 5.0, scores infections as they spread. Festus does Nurgle’s work inside the Warriors of Chaos.
The writer’s account sends him after Grand Paraoxus into Grand Cathay, where he is Zin-Fa the Ever-Pustulent, and it records the failed task at Zhufbar and the centuries in the Forge of Souls. That is background. The Immortal Empires map is not required to reenact Zhufbar.
Sources
- Immortal Empires DLC Ownership Guide — SEGA — support.sega.com
- Thrones of Decay: Introducing Tamurkhan — Creative Assembly — community.creative-assembly.com