Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Adeptus Custodes (section)

===Pros===

* You like anything close to this: golden armored [[Mary Sue|better than]] [[Deathwatch|the best of]] [[Space Marines|the best of the defenders of humanity]], with the genes of the [[emprah]] himself.

*You like running an army that, to whatever battlezone they deploy, the Administratum will immediately classify as a victory. Even before they get there. Even if they (somehow) lose. Oh yeah.

* You want to build, paint and transport an army consisting of about ~25 models total. This makes moving and understanding the game very easy.

* Your infantry are individually as tough as a hero compared to other armies: T5, 2+/4++, 3W is normal here!
**If you want to you can upgrade that 4++ to a 3++ relatively easily, and still hit like a tonne of bricks.

*You want to have access to the toughest, non-named character in the game (T6, W7, 2+/3++/5++ and rerolls on those saves)... We thought we'd seen His mightiest. We thought we'd witnessed the smashiest and fuckiest character in the game. Then, the War of the Spider raged and we were, oh, so wrong.

*Although not very diverse, they have BEAUTIFUL models with nice armor and weapons.

* You're the personal bodyguards of the Emperor himself!

* Your guys are BIG! Even Marines look like Squats next to you!

* You want to play as Super Space Marines, but don't like the idea of playing [[Grey Knights|teamkilling]] [[Khornate Knights|psychopaths]]!

* You want a shooty army without having them being vulnerable in assault or an assault army that is just as good at shooting. Custodes melee weapons usually come with the profile of a Relic Bolter. If they don't carry a gun, they will have access to some sort of firepower.

* Currently the only Imperium list with [[Jetbike|Jetbikes]]. Not [[Sammael|A Jetbike]], [[awesome|JETBIKES]]. Now Forgeworld has stopped moving slow as fuck we have access to two types of Jetbike!

* They have the biggest [[pauldrons]] you’ve ever seen!!!

* Technically quite good for beginners due to very low model count and a playstyle which isn't exactly hard to master.

* Can be extremely easy to paint - gold undercoat, red capes, and plumes, silver weaponry. And it's not hard to make them look good either - Duncan has great tutorials on Custodes. 

* It's not that expensive to build a Custodes army when compared to quite a few other factions (still expensive but every GW army is). 2000pts worth of Custodes will likely cost you less than a 2000pt Guard, Tau or Tyranid army as examples, and you will certainly save money on paint and glue and your dudes will take less than a quarter of the time to build and paint that a nid/guard/ork horde army would. 

* The Legio Custodes units are finally unleashed upon the Dark Imperium. Of course, this comes [[Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought|with]] [[Coronus Grav Carrier|all]] [[Telemon Heavy Dreadnought|the]] [[Caladius Grav-Tank|goodies]] [[Aquilon Terminator|that]] [[Orion Gunship|entails]].