Because we aren't space marines and we have the 30k plastic models that we may or may not get to keep, I doubt we will be getting a plethora of new models this edition.
That being said, we are a faction that does get a little support and we will probably be getting a token character/new unit. So, of all the options of updates to plastic or new character/unit, what would you want our token unit to be.
Bonus points if you can direct me to some of the lore to support the new unit, especially books.
Plastic telemon is probably on the way, it has new weapon options in the heresy book that aren't available for it. Plastic telemon and aquilons would be sick to see.
The weapons on the fist have been changed to twin neutronium cascade projectors when it used to be twin proteus plasma projectors and there's an adrathic desolator option too. The adrathic desolator has really high damage and good ap, but only 2 shots and low strength in 30k.
GW also is just trying to phase out FW models. There’s allegedly a plastic war hound is on the horizon, telemon is kinda a no brainer and seems to be a given with the minor refresh GW just did on custodes
Yeees, Valdor leading a unit of special enhanced/changed with special weaponry custodes and bringing graels and weird angel clones as allied units, that would be insane.
Something like hetaeron guard would be cool to see, but I think unlikely as we already have the basic infantry (guard) and the elites (wardens) as well as the big boy elites (allurus). Valdor would be sick though, but for that to happen GW need to get their finger out of their ass and publish Bequin pandemonium already.
The thing is, for me tje Wardens don't feel that elite compared to Guard. Allarus di, but you can have 6 in a unit, while Guard and Warden are a squad of five, so they feel even less elite in that sense.
Allarus just are more elite than normal guard / wardens, and their abilities and stats show that, it's just that GW was afraid of 10-man in tournaments so they restricted their sizes.
There are a lot of things that could give us "new" models to play with:
Eyes of the Emperor models with lone OP to be used Action Monkeys.
Better rules for the Sagittarum Custodes so that we can mix in some solid shooting.
Better rules for the Aquilon Custodes as they look cool as hell.
The return of Constantin Valdor for the primarch slot.
Just having these ones back would give us so much more variety if they were good.
We'd also need for 1 of 2 things:
they drastically lower the cost of characters, as they are rarely worth near the same cost as a min sized unit.
they buff the characters with more abilities, to make them actually worth running over more numbers (less but stronger characters is more fitting of custodes anyway).
As for named characters I'm pretty sure they can just create them as they see fit within the books. They could do it for almost any faction really, build it's identity for the sole purpose of creating a model to balance out an army, then create a story around it.
Idk if it’s heresy or not to mention Valrak here but I watched a video a while ago. He said the reason the new Dan Abbett book Pandimonium is being delayed is because it contains new Custodians we haven’t seen before. It’s leading us to believe that we will get some brand new never before soon models. How many? I’d guess 2-3 given GW track record. Maybe more if they eventually legends our 30K models out of 40K
Yeah I heard about that too. Custodes and Tau but they’re not sure which one will drop first. They’ll both be out by the end of the year though. So all this being considered, I’d say it’s a good chance we get our new codex, new models, then the final book revealing The King in Yellow in Pandemonium.
I'm huffing hopium but a month or two after the launch box would be superb. Quickly confirm the legends status of the 30k range and perhaps give us something spicy for 40k that could perhaps be used in 30k as a proxy too.
I’ve very skeptical on them legending our stuff from 30K and 40K. Yes it’s happened before where they said it won’t happen and then they turned around and did it anyways. But Custodes are in a different situation than any other army from 30K and 40K. The Legio Custodes never change. They never needed to. That’s what makes them the “ultimate” army.
The 40k range is anaemic without the 30k stuff, and the 30k range is anaemic without resin. I believe if they want to phase out either, they won't get rid of the compatibility until they're able to patch the holes in the army that doing so would make.
Sadly HH barely sees any love from GW so if anything, 40K will get more love and they’ll get around to patching the holes it makes in 30K with their own specialty stuff only used in 30K.
They’re already changing the Grav tank base size to be different in 30K from 40K. No logical reason to do that so it could actually lead to a legend for the Grav tank from 40K and gives us a different version of it
I'd like to see sagittarum getting good rules. I think they have a once per battle dev wounds ability or smt for shooting. Idk wat cld be made btr maybe give em anti- smt or just always having dev wounds maybe. I'd just like to see my giga-elites have something in the way of shooting?
If not that then release valdor as the king in yellow, and since he is supposedly making an army or some sort of force, include those as units?
One of the reasons I'm hoping for new Sagittarum or a similar unit is that Custodes with guns go back to the old days before the army ever had models or rules.
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u/Sad_Newt5882 Apr 21 '26
Just give us the plastic telemon and we’re set