Mar 8, 2022 · As for your swords / spear split, with 15 guard you would likely be best doing 1 vexilia, 1 Shield cap, 3 shield, 6 spear, and 3 sagitarum. My 2k pt list has 9 melee guard and 5 shooting guard and I am thinking of increasing it to 2 squads of 3 sag each

Aug 15, 2020 · In the Index, you could include shield captains and vexilus praetors in a Custodian guard squad. The Index days are way past us, and are pretty much illegal everywhere. Shield vexilus is fairly popular.

Sep 14, 2020 · Emperor's Chosen improves the invuln save of Custodes Infantry and Bikes by 1. So the 4++ from the Storm Shield becomes a 3++. One thing I noticed was heavy bolters also being improved. If the Saggitarum equivalent also went up it would make them a pretty potent unit, especially at taking down now two wound marines.

Nov 5, 2022 · Custodian Guard with Storm Shields by Crab-stuffed Mushrooms. Sentinel Guard Squad. These are the sword and board Custodes and you can’t mix them with spears.

When coupled with the armoured bulwark of the Storm Shield -- whose protective powers are augmented with a built-in energy-shield generator -- this potent combination allows the Custodian Guard to cut their foes apart while weathering even the most devastating of attacks.

A Shield-Captain of the Adeptus Custodes armed with a Storm Shield and Sentinel Blade. Shield-Captain is a senior rank held by a veteran of the Adeptus Custodes , the elite, superhuman bodyguard of the Emperor of Mankind .

Oct 20, 2024 · During the Great Crusade they were a senior cadre of around ten individuals who formed the Legio's council on war and policy. After the Horus Heresy, the Adeptus Custodes maintain two Tribunes, one of whom serves as master of the Hetaeron Guard. Prefect. The Prefectorate were senior Shield-Captains during the Great Crusade.

Jan 13, 2025 · The Adeptus Custodes were known originally as the Legio Custodes or Custodian Guard. The original Custodians were the first genetically and psychologically altered warriors to appear in the Emperor's armies during the Terran Unification Wars, where they served as the Emperor's personal bodyguard.

CUSTODIAN GUARD If an Adeptus Custodes model from your army with the Leader ability can be attached to a Custodian Guard unit, it can be attached to this unit instead. SAGITTARUM CUSTODIANS In contrast with most warriors of the Adeptus Custodes, the Sagittarum Guard specialise in the slaying of foes at range, laying

Martial katahs allow the warriors of the Adeptus Custodes to deploy stances, movements, war philosophies and lethal skills that enhance their already terrifying martial prowess and focus it against particular threats.