Games Workshop Brings New Plastic Custodes to Warhammer 40,000 and The Horus Heresy

Games Workshop is bringing fresh reinforcements to the Emperor’s golden warriors with a new Custodes Support Battle Group, alongside a Horus Heresy supplement exploring the Legio Custodes’ role in the infamous Burning of Prospero.

The Custodes Support Battle Group contains three units that have been updated as new multi-part plastic kits: four Gyrfalcon jetbikes, a Pallas Grav-attack and a Telemon Heavy Dreadnought. The figures have been designed for use in both warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, allowing Custodes players to field the same miniatures in battles separated by 10,000 years of Imperial history. You’ll need to be quick though, as the Custodes Support Battle Group is a limited release, so avaialble only whilst stocks last.

Telemon Heavy Dreadnoughts are some of the largest Dreadnoughts deployed by the Imperium - rivalling the massive Saturnine-pattern in size. They are also amongst the rarest, and each is said to include an armour platee fashioned by the Emperor’s own hand. The weapons they carry are usually only seen on much larger tanks and war engines.

This new multi-part Telemon Dreadnought comes with its full complement of main weapons, each boasting an elaborate and tricky-to-spell name befitting the Emperor’s guradians. You can choose from a Telemon caestus with twin neutonium cascaed projector (for crushing foes in combat), an Arachnus storm cannon (for taking on all comers), an adrathic desolator (for slaying Terminators), and an Iliastus accelerator culverin (for obliterating Space Marines).

Its finely wrought chassis has been upgraded with additional decorations befitting the greatest Custodian heroes, and it also mounts a powerful Spiculus missle launcher on its shoulders.

Agamatus Sodalities prize the Gyrfalcon-pattern jetbike for the immense power of its plasma-boosted engine, which allows the nimble craft to carry both a heavily armoured Custodian and a potent ranged weapon in the hull. So armed, these fast attack units screen the main Custodian force and strike at the enemy’s flanks, simultaneously preventing encirclement and reaping a bloody toll on their battle lines.

Each of the four jetbikes included in the Support Battle Group box can be equipped with one of four (also elaborately-names) weapons - an adrathic devastator, a lastrum bolt cannon, a twin Corvae las-pulsar, or a new Arachnus volley cannon - and can have the rider holding their power lance or leaving it stowed.

Based on the same grav-lift technology used by Coronus carriers and Caladius tanks, the Pallas Grav-attack is a blisteringly fast hunter-killer armed with weapons heavier than can be carried by jetbike Sodalities. This rapid strike vehicle can shred enemy armour with a twin Arachnus blaze cannon or blast elite warriors to bits with a twin Iliastus accelerator fusil - your pick of which nestles neatly under the cockpit.

Accompanying the new miniatures is Warhammer: The Horus Heresy - Journal Tactica: Prospero Burns - Judgement of Valdor, a new softback supplement focusing on one of the Legio Custodes’ greatest deployments outside the Siege of Terra.

The book explors the Burning of Prospero, when hundreds of Custodians under Constantin Valdor descended on the Thousand Sons’ home world alongside the forces sent to bring Magnus the Red to account. Particular attention is given to the assault on Tizca, the Thousand Sons’ dence of their world and the Custodes’ encounters with the increasingly dangerous forces of the Warp.

Judgement of Valdor isn’t purely a background book, however. It also adds new scenarios, additional rules and units, alongside a new Cohort Foctrine, Legendary Mission, and rules for Adjutorum Sodalities, specialist retinues that can support a Custodes Shield Host. The book also includes a Daemons of Tzeentch army list, that brings Screamers, horrors, and more to the battlefields of the Age of Darkness.