Editing Warhammer 40,000/9th Edition Tactics/Apocalypse (section)

====[[Sagittarum Guard|Sagittarium Custodians]] pg83====
[[File:Ss8MUVw.jpg|270px|right|thumb|Carrying those combi assault heavy bolters like they were normal bolters. Puts their strength into perspective.]]
The custodes assault bolter squad are in a weird position. They cost 1 point more than a normal custodes (paying 1 point for their gun), or the same if you give them misericodias to make them surprisingly dangerous in melee. They have a assault heavy bolter with a combi disintegrator attached (remember, you can fire both at once). They are also custodes so they’re really hard to kill, and being troops they can hold back line objectives.

However, their ranged attacks are a bit meh. They’re only heavy bolter ranged (36”) which is a lot in normal games, but can’t do much in apocalypse, and even with the combi feature they’re still only assault heavy bolters, and as such they struggle to wound stuff. They don’t shoot fast enough to kill hordes, don’t have enough ap to deal with marines (minus the beam option) or the strength to hurt any vehicles. And there lies the problem, you’re paying a lot of money for something which performs far better in melee than it does at range. However, give them a lot of infantry which is charging an objective they will hold that objective, and they do have very nice models.

*1 Adrastus Bolt Caliver
*+1 Misericordia

50pts

+3pts Misericordia

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! - !! - !! Warhound !! Warlord !! Heriophant !! Phantom !! Baneblade !! Land Raider !! Rhino !! Imperial Knight !! Guilliman !! Custodian !! Guardsman !! Space Marine
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! Weapon !! Stats !! T8 W50 2+/5++ RInvuln, 2 VS !!  T9 W120 2+/5++ RInvuln, 8 VS !! T8 W34 2+/5++ !!  T9 W60 3+/4++ RInvuln !! T8 W26 3+ !! T8 W16 2+ !! T7 W10 3+ !! T8 W24 3+/5++ vs ranged !! T6 W9 2+/3++ !! T5 W3 2+/4++ !! T3 W1 5+ !! T4 W2 3+
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| Adrastus Bolt Caliver (Bolt Volley) || 36" Assault3 S5 ap-1 D2 || (0.13)'''0.55''' || (0.13)'''0.55''' || '''0.55''' || '''0.83''' || '''0.83''' || '''0.55''' || '''0.83''' || '''0.83''' || '''0.55''' || ('''0.41''')'''0.83''' || '''1.38''' || ('''0.83''')'''1.66'''
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| Adrastus Bolt Caliver (Disintegration Beam) || 15" Assault1 S5 ap-3 D3 || ('''0.18''')'''0.55''' || ('''0.18''')'''0.55''' || '''0.55''' || 0.41 || 0.69 || 0.55 || 0.69 || 0.55 || 0.27 || (0.20)0.62 || 0.55 || (0.46)1.62
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! - !! - !! - !! - !! - !! - !! - !! - !! - !! - !! - !! - !! - !! -
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| Misericordia || Melee4 S5 ap-1 D1 make 1 extra attack with this weapon. || 0.37 || 0.37 || 0.37 || 0.55 || 0.55 || 0.37 || 0.55 || 0.55 || 0.37 || (0.55)0.56 || 1.85 || (1.11)1.11
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