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 Binabik15 wrote:

 Arachnofiend wrote:
Well, there goes all of my excitement. Only a matter of time before the most garish army in the game gets its own codex, I guess...

I think it's funny how the "really, REALLY elite super soldiers better than Space Marines" used to be silver Grey Knights, but now it's all about "even MORE really, really super duper hardcore elite even better than those weak super elite Primaris guys" in ALL GOLD. With Stormcasts it feels like the Sun King's interior decorateur is running the current design team.

What'll be the next logical step up? An army of all Primarchs in DIAMOND armour?!


Not that those Termis look bad or anything, but the bling is getting crazy.

It might have to be, as the next logical step from gold is platinum, but that looks too silvery.

But being termies, they have to be standing with their legs as far apart as possible...

changemod wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 Irbis wrote:

changemod wrote:

Personally I think the FW ones look a lot cooler, but I'll gladly use both.

People like FW ones?

They not only have bad proportions, they have buckethead helmet no human could see through without going chameleon-style cross-eyed. Just compare FW custode terminator head without helmet, the metal bit between lenses on helmet is so wide it would actually cover both eyes. 40K version is so superior in execution it's not even funny.

Ditto with bikes, 30K custodes bike looks like it was made from bent plasticard by someone who got bored halfway and didn't finish it, leaving gap where gun is looking like hole someone forgot to fill. 40K bike not only looks amazing, it makes whole of 30K custode vehicle range look obsolete, irrelevant, lazy, and not really fitting army theme...

And 40k ones are overblinged as usual. Gw really needs to learn more bling does not equal better model. Often opposite.

If your only concern is that their oversized helmet can't maybe have cameras and a HUD, I'm not really seeing the problem.

The bikes I will agree were terrible, that's why I converted my own, assuming Bullock pattern bikes weren't coming.

I thought power armour has auto-senses. not HUDs in helmets? Have they been screwing up the fluff again?

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:

 farmersboy wrote:



I thought power armour has auto-senses. not HUDs in helmets? Have they been screwing up the fluff again?

They are one in the same, Auto-senses is just the 40k name for it.

That's not how auto-senses were described. From the description of Mk 2 armour, the first to have auto-senses -

"The helmet is fitted with automatic sensory devices developed on Mars, which allow the wearer to see and hear as though not wearing a helmet, and, since all information is transmitted to a computer in the helmet before being transmitted directly to the wearer's brain via neural link, it enhances sight and hearing while dampening blinding lights and deafening noises. The wearer is also able to see in the infra-red and ultra-violet spectrums, images can be zoomed in and magnified while noises can be enhanced"

There's also this from Fulgrim -

"Solomon turned as Marius Vairosean removed his helmet and shook his head to clear the momentary disorientation of returning to the employment of his own senses as opposed to those of his Mk IV plate"

That's the whole point of auto-senses. You couldn't fit a HUD inside the helmet, there isn't room. When a Space Marine puts his helmet on he doesn't use his eyes or ears, everything is fed to his brain via the neural link, he doesn't see the helmet, he doesn't look out of the eye lenses. Why would they have something so primitive as a HUD, they're even starting to do away with them today?

 Irbis wrote:

 farmersboy wrote:

changemod wrote:

If your only concern is that their oversized helmet can't maybe have cameras and a HUD, I'm not really seeing the problem.

The bikes I will agree were terrible, that's why I converted my own, assuming Bullock pattern bikes weren't coming.

I thought power armour has auto-senses. not HUDs in helmets? Have they been screwing up the fluff again?

Well, it makes sense, but if they had some sort of sensors feeding vision to brain, why they need lenses at all? Why make weak points in every SM and Custodes plate, if you don't need it?

Also, apparently no one sent auto-senses memo to Phil Kelly, as he has Tau mooks in his fluff perfectly 360 heashot no-sc0pe veteran Terminators through the lenses with zero problems

Most authors over the past 10-15 years have got auto-senses completely wrong.

Np, they don't need lenses at all, but I guess it's the good old rule of cool again. Look what happened to caseless bolt ammunition...

 Galas wrote:

Sunny Side Up wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:


Custodes have been around forever, predating storm casts by... proably some 20 years. If anything one could say Stormcasts where inspired by the Custodes.

No. Custodes have been around for 20+ years as essentially a slightly exotic Imperial Guard regiment guarding the palace on earth, showing their abs 300-style and wearing domed helmet.

Their recent retcon into giant warriors even larger than Space Marines and decked in chunky golden armour is post-Stormcast and possible Stormcast-inspired.

This right here, is somebody that has no idea what hes talking about sputing lnvented nonsense as confirmed canon.
Thats why so many people believe so many things that are just wrong, like chem trails.

The earliest incarnation of the Custodes that I know was the "Emperor's Companions" as they appeared in the novel 'Inquisitor', first published in 1990.

"Squads of tall helmeted Emperor's Companions stood to attention vigilantly, armed with laser-spears and plasma guns, black cloaks aswirl around naked torsos of tattoed corded muscle."

I don't if this is the same in the retconned 2004 version 'Draco', as I only have the original.