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The Dread Host is another great close-range option. Their Instruments of the Emperor’s Wraith fighting style is pretty decent with a bonus to AP when within 9″ of the target and having full re-rollable charges making them a good middle ground for a melee-focused force that need to get into melee. Blade Champions are afforded one of the greatest honours amongst the Custodes. After achieving many great deeds, their many names are etched within the Tome Eternal, which sits in the Emperor's own Throne Room. [3] Sitting below Shield-Captains in rank and serve as the second-in-command in Shield Companies, they act as leaders of smaller Adeptus Custodes forces [1]. In battle Blade Champions act as hunters of the highest caliber, seeking out and slaying key enemy commanders and champions in duels. Blade Champions often accrue unofficial bands of companions from within the Custodes and Sisters of Silence, leading them into battle. [3] Probably the default shield host we will see going forward, these saves conferring to Dreadnoughts is just hugely powerful, not to mention the rest of the army as well.

Warhammer Community: How do you Prove Yourself as the BEST of the Best of the Best? Become a Blade Champion! (Posted on 09/12/2021) (Last accessed on 9 December 2021) These warriors are at home in the confusing swirl of battle.Once per battle round, you can re-roll a single saving throw made for this unit. Peerless transhuman warriors contend with a cunning, capable, and prepared enemy in Warhammer 40,000: Shadow Throne.

We’ve already taken a look at this stance, but having both of them in one turn would just be really strong! Gilded Guardians Multiple HQ choices are enjoying a discount, including Valerian and Trajann Valoris himself. If you want to deliver your Custodes to the front lines in style you’ll be happy to see that Venerable Land Raiders and the sleek Coronus Grav-Carrier are falling in price by 20 and 30 points respectively. ANATHEMA PSYKANA Detachment: A Detachment in a Battle-forged army where every model has the ANATHEMA PSYKANA keyword (excluding models with the VALERIAN, AGENT OF THE IMPERIUM or UNALIGNED keywords). The only other Battleline belong to the Sister of Silence. In this army their largest utility is they are a much. much cheaper way to fill out your Battleline. Other Units Allarus Terminators

Add 3" to the range of this WARLORD’s aura abilities to a maximum of 12" (this has already been added to the Voice of the Emperor aura ability below). The rest of the options are decent, but nothing too flashy. Aquilan Shield: Adeptus Custodes Shield Host RulesShield Hosts will be familiar to fans of Adeptus Custodes, but they’ve had upgrades befitting these golden demigods of destruction for the latest edition. There are six in total, including favourites like the Solar Watch, and each has access to unique fighting styles, warlord traits, stratagems, and relics of Terra. This device brings light to the most impenetrable of darknesses, its magnificent gleam so bright that it can strike down foes. EMISSARIES IMPERATUS model only.

The Dread Host is a great example of how all this works. They specialise in the Dacatarai Ka’tah, making them monsters against hordes. If you invoke the Dacatarai Ka’tah as the Dread Host, you can activate either stance at the start of your turn but make use of both. If you then choose to stay in Dacatarai next turn, you may still activate stance two, even though you’ve already had the benefit. Giving core units heroic intervention completely changes the dynamic of opponents ever trying to charge you. The warlord trait option is also pretty great, halving all the damage that warlord would take. Coronus • Caladius • Pallas • Venerable Land Raider • Rhino • Grav-Rhino • Grav-Raider • Grav-Spartan Vexilus Praetors saw quite a few changes. Their statline Leadership is now 11 (was 9) and Wounds is now 7 (was 5). Their wargear options were also changed as they are now equipped with Balistus Grenade Launcher by default and can no longer take the Castellan Axe or Guardian Spear.Aristothes Carvellan - Carvellan is a Blade Champion whose prodigious swordsmanship puts even his fellow Custodes to shame. He is currently leading a Custodes strike force against a vast Genestealer Cult that is active beneath the Imperial Palace, seeking to capture their Patriarch alive.

We saw rumors about the entire army being able to Heroically Intervene, but this is pretty close so we’ll give the rumor a thumbs up. Then they gain some decent defense against small arms fire. Warhammer Community published a decent amount of new 40k rules for the Knight-Centura and more about the Sisters of Silence in the book. Let’s jump into them! Sisters of Silence Knight-Centura Rules Revealed! At a minimum of S6, you will be wounding a ton of armies on 2’s and will even be wounding some vehicles on 4’s. Then, going to flat 2 Damage instead of D3 just makes a ton of sense, it speeds the game up and gives you the average of the dice roll. With AP -3, and the other upgrades, they should be able to whip up on all kinds of armies! D2 and -1Ap isn’t too bad when you consider the fact it’s pistol 2, meaning it can be fired into combat. Also, they mention in the article that every Custodes will have a Leadership of 11. They are going full Spinal Tap on this one! Adeptus Custodes Martial Ka’tahs RulesInstant. The unit that destroyed the enemy WARLORD in the battle in which you completed this imperative gains a Battle Honour. If no friendly units achieved this, claim the reward from the Mortalis imperative instead. These were the 40k codex rules rumors from Reddit that look pretty promising but have not been 100% completely accurate so far. You can include a CUSTODIAN WARDENS unit if its Starting Strength is 3 or 6 models. When forming Boarding Squads, if a CUSTODIAN WARDENS unit has a unit size of 6, split it into two units containing 3 models each. As you might expect for a demolitions specialist, the Reductus Saboteur is equipped with explosives of every description, from blasting and demolition charges to frag grenades. What’s more, before battle is joined, a Reductus Saboteur will saturate the battlefield with remote explosives that they can detonate from afar when the enemy draws near – and they’re especially effective against larger, more cumbersome targets. Behemor - This ka'tah's clinical strikes prevent even the toughest hide or armored hull from withstanding the Blade Champions' blows.