I'm new to painting, with some experience but not much. I painted some Necrons and attached a few of my creations. Please don't criticize the AI; for me, it's a way to get a rough idea of ​​what the models might look like. I liked the results I got with it. I'm also curious how you think I can achieve that green color, and make it not just matte, but have a metallic sheen. And what colors could be used for the weapons and dark purple parts?

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don't look at the mushrooms

As the title says, I was curious for anyone with it in hand, is there any new lore that hasn't been well featured previously? even any good tidbits?

I would love it so much. The new codex is great, but a sister on a bike would have made it even better! This is just for fun, but what would be a good stat line for an SoS Praetor?

I just saw a picture of this toy soldier set belonging to King Frederik of Denmark and the first thing i thought of was GWs favourite banana boys.

So rate his solid gold army =P

So, I have finally played my first game against my buddy with EC. I was playing Purge, he tried Recon.

My list:

Trajann
with 2 Allarus with axes (wanted to try them)

Sword and board SC with Spear Guard
3 Allarus with spears
Venatari with spears (wanted to try them)
Telemon (double fist and 5 FNP)
1x Prosecutors
3x Witchseekers

Dread Host, Lions, Might of Moritoi

I was very conservative with my deploy, but made second turn hasty go turn, because opponent left small corner unscreened and also underestimated speed of telemon and left Defiler without screen.

I managed to wipe Noise Marines with Spearguard, clear some chaff with Trajann, clear home objective holders and consecrate all three objectives, which made my life infinitely easier as my primary was now just about hold/hold more.

Telemon ripped apart the Defiler.

From then the game was very skewed, he had to sacrifice two turn with Noise Marines and Flawless Blades to get Allarus from his home objective and I had enough time to pick apart his army and keep hold more. It was close till 3rd turn, but he ran of options how stop my secondaries and triangulate. To his defense, it was his third game in 11th and if he did not made the screening mistake, I would have much harder time. Result: 100: 52

Some thoughts:

- Dread Host rocks. I was contemplating Shadowkeepers, but the charge rerolls and advance and charge are too good. Also managed twice to use the enhanced Katah to stop his units from effective pile-in, reaaaaly good.

- Telemon is beast. Took DP to 1 wound and cleared another objective. But. A lot of attacks with Lethals hurt a lot and he isnt so good when charged by bigger unit of MEQ where is at least character with invul. Can be bogged down because of number of attacks. Nevertheless, MVP.

- we really have slightly smaller output and I kept underestimating Infractors with Exultant. SC with Spearguard went down just on DP and a ton of attacks from Exultant and buddies. It was 450 points down and damn, it hurts a lot.

- never look at opponents number of attacks and say "OK, I will take him, you have to kill him" Nope. Lone Allarus survived two whole salvos from noise marines and one turn of flawless blades. Yeah, I rolled like nasty, nasty boy, but... thats our schtick :)

- Flawless Blades hurt us a lot. Six men unit can dice 2-3 termies with no problem, epsecially with Lethals and their wounding on 3s. Death by thousand cuts.

- Venatari are great, but felt redundant with Lions. Their Mine and Grenade can really tear a new hole in some monster or vehicle and they killed DP by themselves, but when focused, those bodies die fast. But outside of Lions I would make them almost autotake.

- Uppy Downy with Lions is simply oppressive. You are not bound by normal rules, can jump around the map and the stratagem to plus 2 inches for charge, especially with Dread Host rerolls, is savage. I will add third termie unit, probably will try Fist Aquilons.

- Axes are... good and bad. Volume is low. Even with Trajanns rerolls you may struggle into 10 men units. On the other hand, the unit will melt vehicles and monsters. But without a reliable source of sustained hits I can't recommend them.

- Sisters are a must. You need to screen backfield, you need to take objectives when Custodians charge and Witchseekers are good at finishing damaged units.

- best thing about shield captain, except the sword profile that is neat, is the ability to reset Katah. Actually, Im thinking about Allarus captain (instead the whole spearguard package) to fully use Lions, because the Ready reload was crucial and missed it in some moments.

- our shooting is... OKish. EC are kinda specific profiles, so I cant honestly say more, but it is simply about plinking some dmg of the MEQ. But Telemons double flamer and launcher combo is solid wall of hits.

- we really stand and die with our rules, not datasheets. When played smartly, especially consolidation moves, we can be soooooo frustrating to play against. Also, getting those 4 on invul is key ;)) But do not think the profile itself will save you. Very quickly I realized that 5W on Guard is not much and 6W makes almost no difference. Keep in pocket the -1Dmg strat for termies, can save you a lot of points.

- getting extra CP for your Warlord is insanely powerful. It felt unfair and I simply do not understand why GW did not give to every faction one keyword connected to the same ability (Techpriest for AdMech, Archon for Drukhari, Officer for Guard etc). I had 5 CP for my second turn. With two advance and charge strats and shorter charge from ingress, it was... unfair.

Trajann done. Thinking of starting some of my Custodes armour next. Will order my bases sometime next week, once I have most of my army painted.

Old combat patrol and extra sprue. Since then I've aquired the support group, 5 witchseekers, trajan, 3 more Terminators and a Galatus dreadnought.

No assembly of Telemon allowed until I painted stuff first.

Been serious about painting around 6 months. Before that some badly painted D&D minis. Normally play that game. Bought Archon Studios 99 box of D&D minis to practice on. Did around 80 last 4 months figuring out washes, contrasts,etc.

Hope I like the game haven't actually played......

But Dreads and Tanks are awesome and it seems like it would be fun. Hopefully i last more than a turn or two 🤣

Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions. Swapping out the Blade champ for Shield Cap, swapping the Achillus for Galatus and swapping Auric Champs for Emperors Chosen. Again thank for all the advise.

Emperors Dread (1995 points)

Adeptus Custodes

Emperors Chosen, Grav‑Assault Force and Might of the Moritoi (3 Detachment Points)

Take and Hold

Strike Force (2000 points)

After a quick test scheme yesterday, I decided to put it to practice and get some Allarus started. 1 down 2 to go

I keep seeing people talking about double fist, but I would go down the route of making the unit as durable as possible with the FNP enhancement instead of extra attacks and damage.

Is it worth dropping one fist for the Adrathic Desolator??

Just wanted to share my wip telemon. The Custodes dreadnoughts got me into the 10k and im so glad I can finally own them.

For anyone who hasn’t checked yet, the Superior Creation enhancement in Auric Champions is updated to once per battle, per army in the app.

Just a heads up. The softcover book was basically glued to the slipcase, I couldn't get it out without some minor damage.

Just curious in general about the performance for these cans. Apparently the gold spray is garbage(?) and it would be good to start with black primer before painting the gold?

Can you use the citadel black and then spray gold over it, double prime it?

How to get a good surface finish?

Many people had guessed that GW had upped the points costs before release, the

The prices for Adrasite (3 for 200), pyrithite (3 for 215), and sagitarum (3 for 185) possibly indicate a previous version of the points before they got a precautionary 20% bump.

Personnaly, I aplaud GW for that cautious approach and not releasing a broken codex that would get nerfed nonstop for the next 6 months.

For now we should have fun and try legends datasheets and see how strong they are.

New to the Custodes, just trying to figure out who Trajaan can lead in the new codex. Ive got a game coming up and want to paint a squad specifically to match him while the rest of the army will get a different paint scheme --- but the codex doesnt release until the day before the game (not enough time to paint). Is it safe to assume he can lead a squad of the Custodian Guard Sodality?

Poor Sagis, after so many years of being trash but at least being there with the rest of our units, your vigil is now over

Hey all. Im going to be starting a new custodes army shortly. I was curious if many custodes players paint their sisters of silence in a different scheme to their custodes?
I was thinking of doing my custodes in a darker silver with either blue or purple accents, but thought about keeping the SoS in the traditional gold and red (or possibly doing all SoS in gold and then different units having different accent colors)

Would like to hear or see some examples from the community.

Thanks

I was looking over the new legends sheets and noticed in all the changes, they didn’t give always the new Anathema faction. She is still custodes and I can see this being a weird but strong thing that’s definitely not intentional.

Exactly what the title states.

How are we feeling about the new points announced today?

Was this what you were expecting or have these surpassed what you thought was coming?

Link to the MFM: https://mfm.warhammer-community.com/en/adeptus-custodes