Now my favourite is Emissaries Imperators, which gives fight first and Unit within 6' and it can advance and charge. They also have an advance and charge Warlord Trait, pick an infantry The most manoeuvrable Custodes force (even more so with their preferred martial This is so powerful on units that often need to fight first and need the extra movement to get up the board. This with +1 to advance and charge and fall back and charge. The Solar Watch are all about going fast, they most certainly do The stratagem allows a unit to adopt, for 1cp, another Shield Host ability. The re-roll is also super useful on the new Bikes Salvo Launcher), Its real strength is its Stratagem (not that the traits are bad with Grey Knights, Crusher Stampede and Talos running around doing Mortals. The 2 strongest are Emperors Chosen and Solar Watch.Įmperors Chosen allow a 4+ against mortals and 1 reroll to I believe they are all good and whilst they do all have some play, some are clearly much stronger. Oh boy this is where the meat of the codex is.

Hosts, Relics and Strats which turn him into a pretty beastly character. We had seen what he could do before the new book but now he get's the new Shield The humble mention goes to the Blade Champion our new unit. Secondly, their Salvo Launcher has had the D3+3 damage treatment and gives (non-FW Custodes) a real option to crack open vehicles at range. I may be biased as I have a whole Shield Host of them but it's a massive upgrade for them considering all the Damage 2 out there. The 3+ was very 'feels bad' when it spikes and you pass 6/6 saves for example.įollowed shortly by an increase on the Bikes wounds characteristic. He has lost theģ+ invulnerable save but that's feature of 40k at the moment, which I think is Warlord traits, benefits from shield hosts and gains a 5+ FNP. This is a tough one, I don't feel many units have changedĭrastically, what makes them more than the sum of there parts is the shieldįor me the biggest winner is Trajann Valoris, as wellĪs the other captains he received a nice glow up in stats.

Warhammer 40k 9th edition battle report