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By chanting the chant, your warband obtains a +1 leadership bonus, and scares the willies out of its enemies.īlame the Healer – a great blog on Warhammer

Plague Monks carry the holy scroll bearing the Liturgicus Infecticus, the clan’s chant of disease and contagion. Plague Censer Bearers are fielded in a unit of five to 10, attached to a Plague Monk Regiment. Of course, if you want to be a Censer Bearer, you must first have the Black Hunger special skill, but you will gain the special rule Frenzy, doubling your attack. The Censer is a two-handed weapon it will cost you 40 Warp Tokens, but in addition to nauseating your opponents (a big plus in hand-to-hand combat), its fumes will obscure you and make you harder to hit. (And you can bet it doesn’t smell like oranges.) Broken into black shards, it can be burnt as incense in the spiked Censer. Warpstone is solidified dark magic, and a mutagen, sacred to the Skaven. However, this fate is no deterrent to these lunatics who scream prayers of thanks to the Horned Rat even as they die…”Ĭlan Pestilens is a southern clan of the giant rats called Skaven, whose exposure to warpstone has caused them to evolve to near-human form, and grow to about 10 feet in height.Īccording to Tommy Punk, a scholar in these matters, “They have been chosen by the Horned Rat himself as his Disciples of Decay and they are responsible for more deaths than any other Clan, mainly due to the plagues and diseases they have unleashed on the human cities and empires in the Old World.” The cloud of poisonous gas that enshrouds them as they fight often proves as fatal to the Censer Bearers themselves as to their enemies. When the enemy is in sight, they charge, swinging their heavy censers. “On the battlefield, groups of Censer Bearers advance in front of larger units of Plague Monks reciting the Liturgicus Infecticus. These weapons are flails whose spiked heads are filled with burning warpstone incense. Rather, it’s a weapon favored by the Clan Pestilens, and the chap swinging the censer is not a priest.Īccording to Warhammer’s creators, “Only the most deranged and fanatical worshippers of disease are chosen for the honour of carrying a plague censer. In the dark world of Warhammer, a fantasy war game created by Games Workshop in 1983, incense is not for prayer, meditation or setting the mood.