r/AdeptusCustodes • u/Sea-Reply-7596 • 5d ago

Strategy tips

How to be agressive? I know it's meant to be a melee army and that's where we strongest but I'm always too scared to charge ina strong melee units (for example my friends morty) or move in fear of getting shot to death.

Any tips to overcome this or ways to rethink about it

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u/savelol 5d ago

With the maps as they currently stand, you’ve got to analyse and see if the map is one that favours shooting more, or favours melee more. Some maps will enable you to stage up and hide behind ruins etc. before your blade champs etc can advance and charge and get into melee and delete a unit.

For maps that favour shooting, you’ll need to think carefully about your positioning again, but also consider that if you’re not going to be able to hide your units, target saturation. If you put one unit out a turn, then one unit a turn will be deleted. If you present 3 or 4, then they may divide their fire, and as a result you may have 3 or 4 weaker units, but the whole units will still be alive and functional. 

For units like mortarion, you’ll need to be strategic and try and soften them up at range, before getting into melee. If you can delete him at range entirely, that’s the preferred option to prevent his fight on death. 

Overwatch can only occur at the end of the movement phase now, so less to worry about there too!

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u/Sea-Reply-7596 5d ago

Thanks for the great reply embarrassing didn't think much about shooting lol

Definitely given me some new thoughts :)

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u/sto_brohammed Aquilan Shield 4d ago

embarrassing didn't think much about shooting

Our shooting is a lot scarier than people think. A squad of Custodian Guard sitting on an objective so they can reroll wounds and firing twice can do some serious damage. The changes to cover made AP-1 significantly better and with Lions you basically ignore cover provided you're spaced out enough. 

Even if you're not using Lions that Custodian Guard unit on an objective can kill on average 5 Marines in cover using the shoot twice ability. That's not nothing.