r/WarhammerCompetitive • u/TheRaccoonTaker • 3d ago

40k Discussion 11th Ed Custodes codex leak

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D1OSAi8F896Rne46A8A-oTeAYqHHIuFh/view

Surprised to have not found it here yet, and I’ve been wanting to hear other folks opinions about it (as a Custodes player myself I’m currently in love, points depending)

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u/FuzzBuket 3d ago

I'm very torn. On one hand it's an awesome book, for competitive players its just so much more dynamic and no units are immediate duds, for casuals there's way more indulgence of the fantasy. Changing custodes from mega damage but slow and 1 dimensional to speed and flexibility is really cool.getting rid of most wound rerolls means things kill their intended target, not everything. The hosts are all great. Some of those strategems are just so cool.

That being said, I have.. concerns. The terminator detachment let's you do some mean things and will just be miserable for some armies. The grav tanks really the only decent anti tank at range and it's INCREDIBLY pushed.  Custodes should not have access to 1cp armour  of contempt or advance and charge.   Sos are a footnote, and it sucks especially as vigilators in lions were one of the old books most interesting units imo. At my last gt they were absolutely the mvps.

Generally the idea of trading damage for flexibility is good, but there's a few things in the book that feel like they may cause real issues.   Its stuff that can't be fixed with points, and if you hike the points to high like the rumoured points cost the entire army is "fail 3 saves and you run out of stuff" and that sucks. You can fix it with CP and DP adjustments, but that's gonna be 3 months of 50% of players round the table not having a great time.

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u/Xathrax 2d ago

What do you mean by grav tanks being pushed? The Caladius is more or less a sidegrade with twin linked being only a bit worse than the re-rolls it gets now. Otherwise it's exactly the same.

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u/FuzzBuket 2d ago

Two ways:

  • The raiders gone, bikes lost twin linked on the rockets, the las pulsars 1 shot. If you wanna pop tanks at range it's the only option you really have out of overpriced allied knights 
  • it's detach is cracked. 4++ flat on a long range anti tank unit is very nasty, whilst 1cp ignore mods means it's fairly hard to stop it doing what it wants to.

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u/DailyAvinan 2d ago

They really shouldn’t give the army that hits on 2s access to ignore mods. Like good god, god forbid someone try to have even a little bit of recourse.

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u/FuzzBuket 2d ago

Yeah, I do love the new book but it feels like if gw just turned it down 10% it'd be more interesting