Custodes 11th Detachments and Potential (Unlikely) Combos.

Hello, Perfect Single-Celled here.

On my last post everyone's comments were on potential DP costs. Rather than this post there, I figured I would madly speculate pontificate here on what the likely final DP costs on each detachment would be, along with some reasons why they likely are and are not, and what combinations would come out for those reasons.

First, let's look at the Blood Angels as an example. Just like our faction focus, their 2 of 3 single DP detachments have two tags and specify what they cannot join: those being Grace for Legacy of Grace Detachment and Doomed for Wrath of the Doomed Detachment. Now, It is likely that LoG Grace keyword ques to the 2 DP Angel Host, and likewise WoD to Lost Brethren 2dp detachment. This is because we see that the other 3DP detachments that they can potentially que to, Rage-cursed and Angelic Inheritors, do not have the Grace or Doomed keywords. The last detachment, Liberator Assault, is unlikely to have the Doomed keyword as well. Crucially, both Angelic Host and Lost Brethren are not shown in the packet.

Source: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-40000/ (Blood Angels)

What does this mean?

If you look at our faction focus from May: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/1j6efpun/warhammer-40000-faction-focus-adeptus-custodes/

You will see that of the 3 detachments, like the Blood Angels, two have restriction keywords: Lions and Armories. Given that they are both 1 DP detachments, this means that the likely two detachments they que to cannot be 3, which is most likely Solar Spearhead and Lions of the Emperor.

This leads to the final potential Detachment Points and below as to why they most likely can't be more or less than what they are:

MoM (1 DP): Armory tag, cannot combine with Solar most-likely.

Silent Hunters (1DP): No Tags. But this means trouble potentially for Talons as we will see low.

TH (1DP): Lions tag, cannot combine with Lions of the Emperor most-likely.

Solar Spearhead (2DP): specifically cannot be que to MoM. Also bad news for Auric Champions being any less than 2DP, as we will see below.

Lions (2DP): Potentially, Great News. Cannot combine with TH.

Null Maiden (Likely gone): Purgation Sweep is just a repackaged old version of the Silent Hunters' strategem Synchronised Inferno, both giving Witchseeker Cleave 1, with Purgation giving effective cleave 2 into psykers.

Auric Champions (2DP): Unlikely to be 3DP as it targets character and character units only. Cannot be 1DP either. Solar Spearhead grants 3 dreadnoughts the character keyword. The Emperor's Auspice stratagem in Auric Champions grants Characters a 4+++ in the shooting or fights phase. GW will not let you have 2 telemons with -1dmg and 1cp 4+++. Sorry. Crucially, it can stack with MoM as that 1dp Detachment does not turn dreadnoughts into characters.

Talons of the Emperor (3DP): Crucially, the auras from this detachment target all psykana and custodes units, including vehicles, which means your rhinos can give your dreadnoughts a 5+++ against MWs. Yeah, they are not going to let this slow with MoM being 1Dp. Crucially, with Silent Hunters being 1DP, if this were 2DP, you could grenade, shoot with witchseekers through a wall, and then reactive the witchseekers back into the Rhino and move your dreadnought forward. Sorry guys.

Shield Host (3DP): Again, the detachment ability targets all units. Giving MOM Dreadnoughts 4+++ against mortals and TH Terminators stickying terrain and then teleporting out turn 1 for 1CP now going to happen.

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What this potentially allows for combos atm:

Lions + TH, Rapid Ingress Terminator unit turn 1 with +1 to hit/wound and an easy way to get them 6 inches away with rerolling charges. Can then 1 CP reactive behind terrain if shot at.

Auric + TH, Terminator Captain can say F your precision with reduce all dmg to 1 and 1cp 4+++. Ingress him to the terrain objective, turn 1. Turn 2, you golden light a terminator squad behind him, and 1 CP Shoulder the Mantle to join them to him. Crucially, this now allows him to reroll charges of 8 ingress -2 inches of coherency - the captain's base for a 5 inch rerolling charge.

Lions + MOM, Maneuver and Fire targets dreadnoughts. Meaning they can fallback shoot + charge, making it much easier to get your infantry the +6inches. This also comboes with MOM's Telemon dual rapid fire storm cannon Prioritized Eradication strat to ensure they stay inside your range.

Silent Hunters + Solar Spearhead, Your rhinos now scout 6+, have advance and action on terrain, and can grenade. Nice. If the grenade fails, headbutt the thing with Crushing Impact. Do it, you have a 3+++ into MWs anyway. Do they have it? Do it. Do it, you pus**.

Those are the 4 major ones I can potentially see. Let me know if you spot any others.

Cell out. *taps forehead*