Horus Heresy General /hhg/

Speaking of Custodes, finally finished the Ixion Hale I got for Christmas. Such a gorgeous model, painting him was pure joy. The wait has been well worth it.

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Nice custodes user, got better pic of them ?

That's some damn fine work there.

Not particularly interesting but I'm waiting for a big FW order to come in.

Since we are talking about custodes, does anyone use Warder? I kinda like the color scheme more than the standard gold but i haven't seen many army of Warder

Nobody likes snowflakes, user.

Dark or blood angels ? I'd say dark angels, because of the two predator for an ironwing list

The amount of custode players would seem to render that statement false.

Snowflakes among the snowflakes, then.

Can Jump Pack infantry ever enter a rhino or a drop pod?

Nope

You may want to use greenstuff to bulk up the torsos just a bit, but they should work

Bingo. Waiting on some Laser Vindicators, more rhinos(there's three in the pile of "to spray", and some other juicy bits.

Out of curiosity, how did you narrow it down? The Drop Pod insignia?

I have a few models painted in the scheme to accompany my main force; when I use them I just run one as a Captain with the other five as Hetaeron(spear equipped, mind you).

Others who use the scheme typically just run them force normally since its presumed the Warders are just a specialized Custode section.

Pic not mine but related.

Yup, the drop pod narrowed the legion to two, and blood angels aren't renowned for their mechanised warfare

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Oh well, no wings/jump pack for my Argel Tal Praetor then. I'm messing with a mostlyGal Vorbak themed list with the WB RoW.

That's a grey knight torso I think, very modified.

Is the Land Raider Phobos even worthwhile in 30k? I have a pair of them but I’m worried they’re largely overshadowed by most other vehicles.

They're still heavily armed and armored transport vehicles, and are even part of certain ROWs, so why not?

If you don't need 25 seats in a Spartan, it's perfectly good, and in a squadron you can drop an augury web proteus into the mix. Also, it's not impossible to still do small primarch, just put the primarch and other characters into one phobos while the unit you intend to have the primarch with rides in the other. Then, when you get to your destination, disembark, join the characters with the unit, and assault as one blob.

Thanks user. Here are some pics, they're a bit better but my camera and ambiant lighting are very shitty.

WIP Aquilon

Those guys are glorious user !

How did you do the gold?

>phantom of the imperial palace

Beautiful work user. I love that head, it fits perfectly with the rest of the model

That's some lovely custodes here, mine sadly don't compare

Is it Talons posting time?

1) Basecoat with Warplock Bronze
2) Multiple layers of a custom mix of Vallejo Glorious Gold and (7/8) and Vallejo Metal Color Gold 77.725 (1/8). The later doesn't really show desu, it just makes the former slightly less redish.
3) Shading with multiple layers of Agrax Earthshade or with airbrushed Dryad Bark.
4) Lighting with Vallejo Silver

I'm not entirely satisfied with the result but they are my first minis with so much gold and I haven't painted since 5th edition, so I guess it will get better after some training.

Did we ever find out about why this Custode is white?

He is from the Legio /pol/stodes

very nice! Much closer to the FW gold that I prefer.

He's the Grand Wizard.

Ambassador embedded with the Salamanders.

Thanks, I think I'll try your painting out on a WIP World Eater.

Is the Ironwing interesting to play?
Any dreads in there or in the plans?

He's a special public-relations custodes, who dispenses light-coloured confectionery to terran children.

It's not finished yet, user, not with thoses godawful gems.

I've got a couple, yeah.

I've not had a lot of battles under my belt and none in person but it's a different style of play than I'm used to so I find it exciting. I never thought about using smoke launchers until I played it.

I'm playing about with the idea of throwing a bunch of mortis boxnoughts with Autocannons in to take full advantage of Tank Hunter.

Trigger warning: some anons may find this image upsetting.

Can someone explain to me why Battle for the Abyss is so loathed?

Is there a way to run Phosphex Mortars or Medusas without being called WAAC/Cheesy?

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What would you guys consider must-haves in an Emperor's Children collection?

And which units would you avoid?

>Reactor offline
>Sensors offline
>Weapons offline
>All systems minimal

>What would you guys consider must-haves in an Emperor's Children collection?

Base cannon.

Some dude on youtube asked the guys at the Open Day and was told that the Codex contains a few different color schemes; as an example black-armored custodes guard their relics and warmachines while the white-armored ones protect their gene-labs or some such.

One unit of Phoenix Terminators for a display case.
Avoid everything else, especially playing the legion.

Why the shit do people get so mad about Hetaeron Deathstars? Shit is usually 1000 points you can beat up with S10.

I literally killed one with 2 Vindicators and 20 Tacticals last game.

It's the white Custodes that guard the relics and genelabs. The black ones guard the secrets of the Custodes.

youtube.com/watch?v=9IuocyX6JKA

If you actually put that helmet on it doesn't fit because of the eagle head on the iron halo

Play Death Guard or Iron Warriors respectively. Anyone who calls you out for playing units iconic to your legion is a shitter.

>What would you guys consider must-haves in an Emperor's Children collection?
Loyalty.
loyalist EC > literal trash > traitor EC

When the bullets start flying around, he won't give a damn about that eagle.
nice quads

No-one is mad about Haeteroi?
People are justifiably mad about the Caladius, certain Telemon builds and Agamatii spam. Possibly also about the Shieldbune, but that is an edge case.

>only vehicles are a coronus and Emperor's marital aid
>only dread is the vanilla Elite one
>only one squad of 3 bikes
>spear haeteros
>equal number of sentinels and guardians
>no tribune, because I got a navigator, knights-errant and a mandatory SoS HQ

Time to suck ass.

Don't forget to fill all HS slots with footslogging Sagittarum.

What the hell, all these models are gorgeous, which is not what I'm used to seeing on this board.

WHAT PACTS DID YOU MAKE ANONS

Clearly you haven't seen the latest in the continuing trend of cape-blankets. Face it, the glory days of FW are gone.

I did what I had to

Guys, if anybody in here is interested in brainstorming asome theoretical fixes to the Talons of the Emperor army list, some user made a thread with a bunch of neat ideas.
I know there are a bunch of Custodes players in here and we could do with some more suggestions, so get in there.

Custards are so boring. Gold is such a boring scheme

This is the power of LOYALTY.

>having things so close to the edge
>mfw

>Emps favorite children were so enslaved mentally that they would never question said enslavement

Thanks Emps!

If Custodes are supposedly Emperor's finest they should have the best equipment right? Why in that case don't they have volkite guns attached to their lances that are probably the best weapons besides grav guns.

Because Emps had invented Custodes before he signed the treaty of mars?

Volkites are prone to breaking, need constant maintainance and are annoying to operate. A bolt weapon can be burried in a acidic swap for ten millenia and still work fine, ammo is availiable every where, can take a shitload of powerful ammo variants, is accurate to long ranges and can be fixed on the fly.
A second, more practical answer is that the boltgun is part of their iconic look that they had decades before Volkite was even a idea in anyone's brain.

yet moloc has a laser spear, said to be a custodian weapon so its not like there isn't preexisting fluff about them having laser sticks.

Moloc is a single model made, like, six years ago by FW with a single line of fluff stating that it might be a custodes spear.
The overall idea behind the custodes' weapons is from Rogue Trader.
I know which fluff I'd stick with.

...yes, and? Obviously not even FW gave enough of a shit about that rumor to include a weapon like it in their own ruleset for the Custodes, i.e. the guys said weapon is supposed to be from.

Volkites are Mars tech while everything they Custodes use (should) be made on Terra. The description for a lot of their equipment sources them to Terra. Even their disintegration beams are Terran DAoT tech withheld from Mars.

Don't know how it works in 40k, when they use Land Raiders and there's Admech logos on their bikes.

I was talking about their painting. Way to project.

But yes, I'm #slimteam all the way.

They probably have certain tech they’re willing to share or have specialty priests working on them. It makes perfect sense since their artificers need to be highly trained in multiple aspects.

There's the Terran clans, though. If they can build grav-tanks and bolters, they can maintain them as well.

FW marine sculpts have always been terrible with their soft detail and bizarre proportions. They’ve only ever been good at vehicles and robutts.

Honest question here.

If you saw someone playing 3 Telemon Dreadnoughts what would you be thinking?

"what a man of taste and style"

>Well, dude is committed to his theme.

>sure is crazy how he's running three things that are each rarer than a primarch

>A sodality of Telemons? What a nice nod to the lore!

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"What are these people doing in my house?"

:'(

They could barely keep 10k Custodes equipped during the GC, and the Siege of Terra might have killed some or all of them, then comes ten thousand years of knowledge loss that did affect Terra as well. I'd be surprised if the gun-clans are still rolling on without dying out or being assimilated into the Red Priesthood to at least some degree.

I can’t tell if this is ironic or not

Then my job here is done.

>influx of proxy army 40k players to the HH after calth/prospero boxes
>OP Custodes get a carbon copy army into 40k
wow the next year of this game looks promising

So how does force org work in this game

Have you considered using your brain?

New Word Bearer player from the thread the other day here. Got my Betrayal at Calth, painting everything now. What should I grab next? The Mhara Gal or Gal Vorbak? Or some demons?