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

===Heavy Support===
*'''Venerable Land Raider''': YES THANK YOU GW! The solution to your footslogging and vehicle-hunting problems. It's not antigrav like the [[wat|Custodes Rhino that doesn't have rules]] or the [[Coronus Grav Carrier]], but for just 25 points above the price of a standard Land Raider you get some cool additional stuff : BS5, Adamantium Will, Aegis of the Emperor (yes, [[Awesome|your mobile bunker has a 5++ save]]), Venerable and Magos-class Machine Spirit (you ignore the Crew Shaken and Crew Stunned results on the Vehicle Damage chart). Your wargear options are limited to a storm-bolter (5pts), one hunter-killer missile (10pts) and extra armour (10pts but ultimately useless thanks to the Machine Spirit). But this is more than made up for by its inherent superiority to base-line Land Raiders. Twin-Linked lascannons that hit on twos is a great anti-everything weapon and the extra defenses mean it's not completely screwed by the usual vehicle predators (grav, melta, and lance to name a few).
**While it does still have the same issue as every other army that can have a Land Raider (that of having long-ranged weapon on a transport that needs to close in) you're going to need at least one if you're running a pure Custodes force, as you simply don't have anything aside from a Deep Striking Venerable Contemptor that can handle AV13/AV14.  Luckily the extra survivability and extra BS help make up for its shortcomings.