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Just theorycrafting some Stratagems i'd love to see added to the Custodes toolkit. Feel free to give commentary.

Name - Evasive Maneuvers
Cost - 2 CP
Effect - Play this stratagem when an (ADEPTUS CUSTODES) unit with the (FLY) keyword is chosen as the target of a ranged shooting attack. Until the end of the phase, the target squad is -1 to hit.
Commentary - Custodes Bikes are currently hamstrung by the fact that its easy for armies to focus them down. An additional measure to try and get survivability out of them, for 2 CP may help address this issue. Also, at least in lore, Custodes minds make everyone around them look like they're moving in slow motion.

Name - Golden Bulwark
Cost - 1 CP
Effect - Play this stratagem in the shooting phase or the fight phase on a unit of (ADEPTUS CUSTODES) (TERMINATORS), until the end of the turn, this unit ignores the first 2 points of AP for incoming attacks.
Commentary - Custodes Terminators are undoubtedly the beefiest terminators out there bar none, and still you cannot find them on a table. This helps give survivability to a maligned unit which otherwise is fairly priced for what it can do.


Peerless Strikes
Cost - 1 CP
Effect - Play this stratagem in the fight phase when an (ADEPTUS CUSTODES) unit from your army is elected to fight. Until the end of the phase, you may re-roll the results of damage dice for that unit.
Commentary - One of the biggest thorns in a Custodes player's side is d3 damage rolls. This stratagem at least for a phase for 1 unit, allows a degree of consistency for our extremely expensive combat specialists.

Looks pretty good, I also have one to put forward:

Adrastus Fusilade
Cost - 1CP
Effect - Use this stratagem when selecting a unit of Sagittarium Guard to shoot. Until the end of the phase treat the Bolt Volley profile of the unit's Adrastus Bolt Calivers as Rapid Fire 3 instead of Assault 3.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Looks pretty good, I also have one to put forward:

Adrastus Fusilade
Cost - 1CP
Effect - Use this stratagem when selecting a unit of Sagittarium Guard to shoot. Until the end of the phase treat the Bolt Volley profile of the unit's Adrastus Bolt Calivers as Rapid Fire 3 instead of Assault 3.

I like the idea. Would it make more sense though to possibly do a general 'shoot twice' stratagem, keyed to infantry so the grav tanks can't abuse it?

 iGuy91 wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
Looks pretty good, I also have one to put forward:

Adrastus Fusilade
Cost - 1CP
Effect - Use this stratagem when selecting a unit of Sagittarium Guard to shoot. Until the end of the phase treat the Bolt Volley profile of the unit's Adrastus Bolt Calivers as Rapid Fire 3 instead of Assault 3.

I like the idea. Would it make more sense though to possibly do a general 'shoot twice' stratagem, keyed to infantry so the grav tanks can't abuse it?

I'm generally not a fan of shoot/fight twice stratagems, particularly with the combos I've commonly seen them used with (ie. Obliterators with VotLW). Adding this into Custodes means Jetbikes will be putting out 24 Bolter shots each, and even Agamatus units could do 8 Laspulsar shots each. While not as breaking as the Obliterator example I'd rather not make it a generic shoot twice one.

 Valkyrie wrote:
I'm generally not a fan of shoot/fight twice stratagems, particularly with the combos I've commonly seen them used with (ie. Obliterators with VotLW). Adding this into Custodes means Jetbikes will be putting out 24 Bolter shots each, and even Agamatus units could do 8 Laspulsar shots each. While not as breaking as the Obliterator example I'd rather not make it a generic shoot twice one.

Append the above suggestion with something like, "If the firing unit contains models armed with weapons of S6 or greater this stratagem costs 2 CP instead of 1."

 Canadian 5th wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
I'm generally not a fan of shoot/fight twice stratagems, particularly with the combos I've commonly seen them used with (ie. Obliterators with VotLW). Adding this into Custodes means Jetbikes will be putting out 24 Bolter shots each, and even Agamatus units could do 8 Laspulsar shots each. While not as breaking as the Obliterator example I'd rather not make it a generic shoot twice one.

Append the above suggestion with something like, "If the firing unit contains models armed with weapons of S6 or greater this stratagem costs 2 CP instead of 1."

I did mention that the stratagem would only apply to infantry, so we shouldn't have to worry about jetbikes, at least in this specific instance.

 iGuy91 wrote:

 Canadian 5th wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
I'm generally not a fan of shoot/fight twice stratagems, particularly with the combos I've commonly seen them used with (ie. Obliterators with VotLW). Adding this into Custodes means Jetbikes will be putting out 24 Bolter shots each, and even Agamatus units could do 8 Laspulsar shots each. While not as breaking as the Obliterator example I'd rather not make it a generic shoot twice one.

Append the above suggestion with something like, "If the firing unit contains models armed with weapons of S6 or greater this stratagem costs 2 CP instead of 1."

I did mention that the stratagem would only apply to infantry, so we shouldn't have to worry about jetbikes, at least in this specific instance.

You're right, had a brain-fart there and assumed it was just all non-vehicle units.