Editing Warhammer 40,000/7th Edition Tactics/Adeptus Custodes (section)

==Detachment==
'''Golden Legion Task Force''':
*'''Compulsory''': 1 Troops
**'''Optional:''' 2 Troops + 1 Elite. Do note that Venerable Land Raiders are Dedicated Transports in addition to an HS option. Yes, this means your entire army can be used with this detachment and there's next to no reason to not use it, unless you cannot afford 3 squads of Custodes and the Dreadnought.
*'''Restrictions''': All your units must be from the Adeptus Custodes faction.
*'''Command benefits''':
**'''The Emperor's Chosen''': If you field the maximum number of units choices in your Detachment, all said units within 6" of at least another unit from the Legio Custodes faction can re-roll invulnerable save rolls of 1. ''You basically trade tactical mobility for a bit of resistance. Nice for your guys with shields, not that powerful for your regular spearman.''
**'''From Golden Light They Come''': Units that deep-strike only roll one die for deviation distance and can re-roll any result on the Deep Strike Mishap table. Technically means that with a nearby servo-skull, they don't scatter at all
**'''Right Hand of the Emperor''': You can re-roll any result on the Warlord Traits table if the Golden Legion is your Primary Detachment. ''Because Impregnable Mind against Tau is rather sad.''
:The main reason you'd use this is to turn your Shieldstodes into super Cataphractii Captains, and because Deep Strike heavily mitigates their low mobility so a bonus to that is wonderful.  That said if you're playing a smaller game where taking the 4 units isn't ideal, you're better off using the Combined Arms Detachment which is still possible, so long as you use one of the following special characters: Saint Celestine, Belisarius Cawl, Grand Master Voldus, Inquisitor Greyfax and/or Cypher.  Granted all of these characters are quite expensive, however none of them are more expensive than even a single unit of Custodes and now you don't have to get the dreadnought too.
*Do note that if you just want to use the Custodes as allies, you'd be better off with one of the listed characters and a unit or two as a part of the Allied Detachment.  This way the Custodes gain objective secured and with their rules and statline, they're not going anywhere.  It's not like you can't buy them good transports from whoever you're allying with anyway, so with a force that small both The Emperor's Chosen and From Golden Light They Come will not come into play at all.