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Hello DakkaDakka,

A few months ago, I asked for help on an escalation campaign list with custodes, but unfortunately that has been cancelled due to many players having to drop out due to IRL commitments.
But, I still have all the models I purchased for this, and I've learnt of a 1750pts tournament near me in May. The kicker? It's also using the Centurion Rule limits!

So, if you what kind of list can I make with 30 custodes and 10 sisters of Silence, unbuilt and on the sprues, following the centurion limits? This is my list, but is there a better use of my models?


++ The Age of Darkness (Talons of the Emperor) [1750pts] ++

+ HQ +

Legio Custodes Shield Captain [255pts]: Cyber Familliar, Digital Lasers, Melta bombs, Paragon Spear, Praesidium Shield

Legio Custodes Shield Captain [260pts]: Cyber Familliar, Digital Lasers, Melta bombs, Paragon Spear, Praesidium Shield, Teleportation Transponders

+ Troops +

Legio Custodes Custodian Guard Squad [255pts]: Arae-Shrikes, Melta bombs
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear

Legio Custodes Custodian Guard Squad [310pts]: Arae-Shrikes, Melta bombs
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear

Legio Custodes Custodian Guard Squad [335pts]: Arae-Shrikes, Melta bombs, Teleportation Transponders
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear

Legio Custodes Custodian Guard Squad [335pts]: Arae-Shrikes, Melta bombs, Teleportation Transponders
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear
. Custodian Guard: Guardian Spear

++ Total: [1750pts] ++

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What's the centurion rule limits?

And tank based armies might be problem seeing your only way to deal with them is run around chasing them...

tneva82 wrote:
What's the centurion rule limits?

And tank based armies might be problem seeing your only way to deal with them is run around chasing them...

Centurion Rules:

Aesthetically drawing inspiration from Warhammer 40k 2nd Edition, and rules-wise
providing more narrative games where infantry and characters are the focus of
the action. Some units are restricted in this discipline, the narrative shaped by
dense terrain in which tanks and aircraft are not viable, yet the battle is still a
savage tale of retribution and massacre.
Centurion games are played on a 6x4 with more terrain than Frontline games,
using Shadow War missions and a points level of 1500-2000 to represent smaller
actions, insurgency, and tactical skirmishes.
Infantry, Walkers, and Speeders should be the focus of your army and the
following unit are restricted:

Tanks, Fliers, Drop Pods, Superheavies are not allowed.

Bikes, Attack Bikes, Jet Bikes, Artillery, Monstrous Creatures, Leviathan
Siege Dreadnoughts are 0-1 choices.

Note this precludes some Rites of War and Army Lists from Centurion mode.

Well that fixes the worry about chasing tanks over the field though seems bit weird. Even in 2nd edition tanks were often enough seen and were generally center piece models of armies much like primarch is now so that reference to 2nd edition doesn't really fit.

I'd recommend trying to get ahold of a few Sagitarii conversion kits, jetbikes,a Contemptor-Achillius, and/or or a Pallas or two (go down to one Shield-Captain and ~12 Custodian Guard), just so you aren't stuck with an army of melee troops and zero good-AP shooting. You may not have many vehicles to worry about, but even with Custodians there are units you're going to want to keep at a distance (remember that you don't have AP2 unless you get the charge), and resigning your entire army to having a bad Shooting game isn't a great idea.

If you're dead-set on using plastic Custodes only I've had some success making the adrathic spears with minor greenstuff tweaks and sticking a few into your teleporting squads is a really good idea, and if you drop the extra Shield-Captain you should be able to take one of the other squads and make it a Hetaeron squad (shields and some mix of Paragon Blades/Solarite power gauntlets) just in case you run into something like Phoenix Terminators or Firedrakes where you really do want AP2 more of the time than just the charge.