Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Codex: Adeptus Custodes

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Calistus is the art of keeping up relentless fire while advancing against the enemy. Stance 1: Each time this unit Advances, roll one additional D6 and discard one of the results. The bearer has the following ability: ‘ Halo of the Torchbearer (Aura): While a friendly EMISSARIES IMPERATUS unit is within 3" of this model, it can ignore any or all modifiers to its Move characteristic, Advance rolls and charge rolls.’ The HQ section provides you with three flavours of Shield Captain, Knight Centuras, the new Blade Champion and a trio of Named Characters. Despite being ambivalent on some of what’s here, the core mobility tools are good enough that this is probably one of the Hosts with the highest chance of seeing serious play. The new book really encourages you to try out lists which go heavy on Custodians of various flavours, and the mobility on the table that the Solar Watch can inject into that plan is pretty unique. Emissaries Imperatus

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Your bog standard Deep Strike ability, given a fancy name for ease of use on Stratagems etc. (which we fully endorse). Auric Weapons If your Crusade force includes TRAJANN VALORIS or any other SHIELD-CAPTAIN units and you are not currently on an endeavour, you can claim Magisterium Lex Ultima before a battle. If you do so, you must commence an endeavour for your Crusade force. This entails a collection of objectives (known as imperatives) that you must attempt to complete in sequence over a series of battles. Doing so will earn you Endeavour Rewards, however, failure will bring about a Dishonour! Their traits give them access to increased Armour Penetration and more chance to guarantee those vital charge moves. Their Stratagem is one of the most unusual in the book, and works both within it and in soup. It allows you to turn all your Aquilan Shield CORE units into Bodyguards for a designated Imperium INFANTRY Character, preventing them being shot as long as there’s an Aquilan Shield character within 6”. Given the disincentives on soup in this book there aren’t that many obvious uses of this, but one thing you can do is brutally ruin the day of the Thousand Sons by running a Knight Centura out in front of your army and having her just stand there flipping people off and eating Smites. A new Battle Report featuring a classic clash between Sylvaneth and Nurgle forces also graces your screens this week, while the Warhammer Vault begins to illuminate the last moments of the World-That-Was with the first book in the End Times series.Listen to the tale of one of Ciaphas Cain’s greatest adventures in an all-new audiobook format with The Emperor’s Finest, as the legendary commissar joins Space Marines of the Reclamators Chapter in a daring mission aboard a xenos-filled space hulk. Custodes have one main plan, and it’s one they perform very effectively – march towards the enemy, seize objectives, kill anyone who stands in their way. Custodes usually want to strike for the mid-table in force, leaning on their defences and powerful melee capabilities to take control of some objectives, then holding onto them in the face of pretty much anything. While that’s going on, their more mobile or independent elements like Vertus Praetors, Venatari and Dreadnoughts can be causing mayhem on a flank, either pushing aside weaker forces or soaking up enough of the opponent’s assets that the main wedge goes unchallenged.

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How glorious do you like your heroic forces? Somewhat glorious? Very glorious? Extremely glorious? Do you prefer to rely on finely honed martial prowess and ornate weaponry rather than weight of numbers or primitive artillery? And do you want to play an army where you’re only going to need thirty models at the absolute maximum? The main appeal here is definitely the Warlord Trait – a Bike Captain built with it is the toughest thing you can create in the whole book. That may not quite be enough to get this host into competitive builds, but it’s certainly very funny– and if a few Forge World options do end up getting the Auric tag on their guns then double Salvus suddenly looks far spicier. Solar Watch This is a datasheet ability that is present on all INFANTRY and BIKER Custodes units, and works like a sort of hybrid of Marine Doctrines and Necron Command Protocols. A Ka’tah is a fighting style the Custodes have developed for specific situations, and there are six detailed in the book. Each Ka’tah has two different Stances, each of which provides a bonus to all relevant units, and over the course of the game you can activate up to five Stances for one turn each.

Use this Stratagem before the battle, when you are mustering your army. Select one ADEPTUS CUSTODES DREADNOUGHT unit from your army. Shield Hosts: Shield Hosts are massively powered up from their debut in War of the Spider, now acting as true subfactions and providing powerful detachment abilities in addition to Warlord Traits, Stratagems and Relics. The Emissaries Imperatus bring the word of the Emperor to the galaxy, or in more recent times hosts of augmented Space Marines ready to join recalcitrant Chapters. They are unstoppable when they set their minds to a goal, represented by them Fighting First at all times, and being able to ignore hit and wound roll modifiers. That makes facing these a stark challenge for melee armies in particular, as they’re going to take swings at you every time a fight breaks out, and can bypass some flavours of defences. If they’re on an Action plan then their Conservai Ka’tah also ensures they can always reach their goal, though as mentioned when talking about Ka’tahs, this isn’t one you’re super motivated to double up on.