Legio Custodes Rules & Boxed Set Coming To Warhammer 40,000
March 11, 2017 by brennon
The world of Warhammer 40,000 is soon to be graced by the might of the Legio Custodes who are getting their own little 'Army Box' and some rules to go along with them from Games Workshop.
The boxed set will be available soon as well as the rules which will come in a physical form and digital via Black Library. The set gives you a few options for the tabletop with a Landraider, Rhino, Contemptor Dreadnought, Legio Custodes Space Marines and then some Sisters Of Silence to top it off.
In the words of Games Workshop, they have come to stop the Gathering Storm personally.
Will you be snapping this set up?
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I wonder what the rrp is? Looks like a good set
Looks great. As do the plastic Tartoros termies and MkIII Power Armour that are coming.
You would need to be insane to buy the 20 mkIII marines box for £60 when the Prospero Box that has 30 MkIII marines, 5 Tartaros Terminators, 5 Custodes, 5 Sisters of Silence and 2 Characters for £70 – 80 delivered or £95 ish in a gw store and has been available since November.
The only thing I can think of, is if you wanted to add to the Prospero boxed set, and only really needed 1 more squad.
But yeah, I think when you take into account what you generally get in these boxed sets, you get pretty good value.
Depends how much…
Looks good based on what we can see but I reserve judgement when I see bigger picture of those.
It’s the same models as were in Burning of Prospero, close up pictures can be seen here
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Burning-of-Prospero-ENG
bigger pictures of the Custodes / Sisters are here:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Burning-of-Prospero-ENG
The (fairly wooden) contemptor dreadnought is here
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/horus-heresy-contemptor-dreadnought
but was first released as part of the Betrayal at Calth Set
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/The-Horus-Heresy-Betrayal-at-Calth-Book
I’m curious to know how much the set will cost, but those are some damn nice figs.
£125 is the euro price I believe @hunter82
I’ve got the main models through the Prospero box. Nothing new in the Land Raider and Rhino so these would really need to be good value to be worthwhile. Forgeworld transfers may help make them look a little more interesting than the standard 40k tank, but think I’d rather have half as many of the forgeworld vehicles / dreadnought if I was going for this force. Just painting the standard land raider gold feels half-arsed and isn’t going to do it for me. I might look for the rule-book out of the set on ebay though. Doesn’t look like there… Read more »
Recently their bundles have been good value, discounted over buying everything separately
With the kit, they could have included a custodes icons sprue that could be stuck on to the vehicles at the very least.
An icons sprue would have required development. This box takes items that are already available and bundles them together.
Interesting… this may point to the Sisters getting an official release as well.
The sisters of 30k sisters of silence are from the prospero box and are a bit different from the the 40k Sisters of battle, but the sob in plastic are due out, and I’d imagine this would follow on from the Celestine release in the Gathering storm I Triumvirate box.
Well, things could get interesting with how GW would try and fit SoB into the current storyline. As the military arm of the church of the emperor, SoB might have a very rocky relationship with the risen primarch. They would likely venerate him as the risen son of their God, but RG comes from the old-School “emperor is not a god” school of thinking. At best RG would see them as misguided fools, but a weapon he could not turn away in such desperate times. It will be interesting to see how the religious side of the imperium deals with… Read more »
I’d imagine that RB would be initially highly skeptical of the SOB, but would take great interest in their demonstrable battle record whilst trying to apply a logical explanation for the tangible results of their Acts of Faith. If nothing else the likes of Celestine and her predecessor Risen Saints would challenge his perspective, even more so when he can technically be counted amongst their number….
I wonder what side of the insane new GW ‘super high/super reasonable’ pricing scale this set is gonna fall. Looks interesting, and as far as all the sharks that have been jumped recently this is probably the most inoffensive.
My guess is £95 for the box. What do you think?
Definitely more towards reasonable if that’s the pricing.
I have to say I am just not into these at all, it’s all that blingy gold armour, it just looks a bit silly to my eye.
Paint them a different colour then?
Warning: Not safe for work… But now this is the only way I can see custodes…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9w_uoUHgiE&list=PLyiDf91_bTEgnBN0jAvzNbqzrlMGID5WA&index=8
Best 40k thing I’ve seen in ages! 😀
Might consider it depending on price. Those gold tanks have to go though. I’d reverse the colours so mostly red with some gold panels.
Hmmm… is this just a re-boxing? Seems we’ve seen most of this before. I keep looking for sci-fi stuff I can use in other worlds, but am always disappointed by GW.
Afraid so.
I’d be surprised if very many of the sets are used as set as intended, but a land raider or rhino (probably without their normal decal sheets) are the kind of vehicles that most people will be able to use somewhere. If you are playing the Custodes though, I imagine that most of your forces are going to be coming from the breaker’s yards of ebay.
I don’t see why them bundling existing models together into a (probably) discounted set is so disappointing.
I thuink the problem is two fold. (1) the super orange gold they used and (2) the fact that the infantry are so ornate, while the vehicles are very plane but still plated gold. It be like if you saw a solid gold Toyota carola.
look good shouldn’t the landraider be the 30K FW one.
The Proteus land raider that forgeworld do is a complete resin kit, (it doesn’t have resin parts stuck on a plastic phobos chassis like they do with the deimos rhino to make it cheaper and comes in at £90) If these are part of the gathering storm 40k narrative, probably the land raiders and rhinos would be phobos and mars pattern respectively so it would work that way. For 30k Custodes have their own vehicles and dreadnoughts – I’m not sure why these would be replaced for the ones in the box from an narrative perspective, I’m presuming this is… Read more »
No because it’s not a 30k set – it’s a 40k Gathering Storm set which means that 40k equipment is fine. The most interesting point is how the Sisters of Silence and Custodes contribute to the story
The sisters of silence are a weird thing to be included in this box as their last appearance if 40k lore was M32.
Their anti-psyker abilities (they are psychic blanks) are the reason that they are included in the Prospero campaign (and thus the set, to counteract the thousand sons psykers)
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Sisters_of_Silence
They appear in the recent Gathering Storm book where Guilliman fights Magnus
I think they were just included in Gathering Storm so that they could release them in this set.
#Retcon
They were released with the Burning of Prospero box, which makes sense as they were always part of that battle.
It makes sense to enable people to use the same models in 40K, especially as the lore only had them disbanded. It never said anything about them never being able to be formed ever again.
Welcome to Lexicanum! Log in and join the community. Sisters of Silence From Lexicanum Jump to: navigation, search Imperium Portal A Vigilator of the Silent Sisterhood The Sisters of Silence, also known as the Silent Sisterhood, were the anti-psychic militant arm of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica during the Great Crusade, and were internally referred to as the organization’s Departmento Investigates. Its ranks consisted entirely of Blanks. Contents [hide] 1 Overview 2 Communication 2.1 Sign-Language 3 Organization 3.1 Ranks 3.2 Cadres 4 History 4.1 The Sisters of Silence in the 41st Millennium 5 Equipment 6 Notable Sisters of Silence 7 See Also… Read more »
The last comment didn’t work out as intended, but you can see the lore here:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Sisters_of_Silence
Yeah, its not like GW ever retconned anything for a model sale….
I want everything in this aside from the contemptor so I’ll pick it up
As I’ve said elsewhere, I’m disappointed they chose not to design and include a small sprue of ornaments you can glue onto the Rhino and Land Raider. GW seem to be moving away from inspiring people to convert there models, and then we see this boxed set? This boxed set requires conversion to truly look magnificent, specially that Contemptor.
Such a sprue does not currently exist. I do agree that I would love to see GW produce more conversion sets however this bundle the exists purely to get the Sisters of Silence and Custodes out to retail; there has been relatively little development for this box beyond a couple of rules sheets. Adding a sprue of conversion parts would have cost money to develop and delayed getting the models to retail.
Bundle seems like its a reasonable price, unfortunately the non-imperial style vehicles is the biggest draw for me, well that and the nice forgeworld dreadnoughts. So essentially I would only be interesting in the troops buying prospero would be a better option for me, once bits I don’t want get resold, definitely better.