Achillus dreadnought

 

Coming hot on the heels of the Caladius I've done an achillus dreadnought, one of the ancient warmachines of the Legio Custodes in which one of the fallen guards of the emperor fights on beyond death, wielding an upscaled version of their iconic guardian spear

Custodians get their names from history and religion, so which better for a dreadnought than Lazarus, the leprous man resurrected by Christ?

I converted a dead world eater from goliath and chaos bits for the base

Battle for Infernus & Hades

 

With the boys I've recently started a 40k campaign based in Armageddon. In our first game the adeptus custodes attacked Infernus hive, controlled by a renegade knight house of the adeptus mechanicus

With both sides deployed on opposing corners the custodes got first turn

Killing an enemy armiger with concentrated firepower

The knights answered taking over some objectives

And blowing the caladius up, who suffered from the fresh painted model syndrome 

Then the reserves finally arrived

And the custodians made their first charges taking down a crusader knight

A desperate salvo failed to kill the newcome land raider in the knights turn

But a cerastus lancer freshly arrived from reserves killed a pair of aquilon terminators

Yet another armiger fell to the warden's axes

And the game ended with a slight victory for the custodes 21 to 15 points

The second game played just yesterday was against the imperial guard, a classic steel legion army full of armoured fist squads with leman russes in tow attacking the ruins of Hades Hive

Undetered by the mass of enemy combatants the custodians moved swiftly as the eagle and blew a basilisk while bringing the tank commander to half an inch of death

The guard answered in king, but a combination of strong saves and strats meant just one biker died

On turn 2 the massed custodian reserved teleported into the battlefield

Taking over yet more objectives

And wiping out all russes

Even the blade champion pitched in, chopping up a chimera with the rendax ka'tah

Turn 2 of the guard meant that their reserves also got to the battlefield, but again the golden plate of the custodians prevented them from suffering any telling losses

The battle ended thus in a far easier victory for the custodes, 30-5 this time round

Custodian guard sodality

 

The new custodes range refresh has provided us with great models, in my opinion the most beautiful custodians yet, so I couldn't resist bagging a box of spear armed custodian guard.

Dressed in regal capes and far more ornate than their predecessors I'll play these as wardens in 40k

Painting was quite easy actually: first I did the red cloaks and plumes and then the golden armour and details. The most time consuming aspect was as ever all the jewels they wear, something I really enjoy and have little chance to do while painting chaos, empire or cyberpunk minis

The models were great so I only converted one to turn him into a vexilifer armed with axe and bolter (castellan axe in-game)

Caladius grav tank

I really liked the new custodes and I took the chance to get one of their grav tanks, an elegant and sleek warmachine that will provide long ranged firepower to the golden ranks of the Emperor's praetorians

Imperial ogre

 

Once a soldier in the Ostermark army, Oglok lost his job when the comet destroyed Mordheim and all the royal court. Today he makes his trade as a mercenary, putting his sword to the service of any warband that can pay his price.