Love how we can see brian pointing a gun at your head forcing you to be positive in the reflection of your glazed over eyes

Sorry Bridger I can hear the contempt for this book in your voice with each word. 😥

The person who, when this was written at the very start of the edition, looked at Bikes and said "These need to go UP." needs to not work for this team anymore.

Bro is struggling trying to find a bright side

I hate custodes but even I feel bad for the players. No army should get this kind of treatment. What makes it worse is the magnificence of the orks codex coming out side by side. My condolences.

My bikes are still going to sit on the shelves. They have 1 job: - Salvo launcher get twin-linked (for the love of the emperor it's 2 rocket pods on each side of the bike, it's MADE to be twin-linked) - Quicksilver Executions works on regular movement (like the Deffkoptas). That's it ! That's all they need ! I just want to see some variety in lists and not the usual "here are 15 wardens and 12 allarus with their 3 blade champ".

Why do I suspect that the author of this Codex started on it right after finishing the Mechanicus Codex? 🤔

Yet another reason why sticking to the print a book 6+ months in advance and refuse to touch the rules afterwards approach is an absolutely terrible way to handle the game imho GW is a multi billion dollar company… they need to either hire more than 3 people to write rules for their game that makes them the vast majority of that dragons horde and people need to stop carrying water for sub par services The ability to complete miss the mark on rules clarity and narrative coherence is astounding…

Tbh the idea of running 14 super elite lone characters does sound extremely like custodes in lore. But the problem is that gw doesn't want to commit to giving them proper stats. As it is they might be sufficiently hard to remove, but just don't threaten anything bigger than a minimum size battleline unit of marine degree eliteness

Bridger, my brother in the emperor's light, do you need a hug? This was a rough release, sending good thoughts your way and thanks for the review.

The smallest army to play to begin with and yet GW fcked up with no one solid detachment.

This seemed as a hugely painful experience

We vote with our money, and I won’t buy this codex!😢

You missed that the Shield Captain on bike ability is nerfed as well. Can only do a move if the models unit have fought now. And think there are some strats against MW that you can only use from attacks, not from Grenades/Tank Shock, Doom bolt, aso. Imo worst Codex so far. Hope they get the Drukhari and DG treatment, if things are to bad.

cant wait to see how you try and keep this positive LOL. its really that bad. gw must be purposefully releasing bad books on purpose at this point

Thank you Bridger for the overview of the codex. Great job. I do not play Custodes myself, but I like them and my buddy collects them, so to be able to discuss it with him, it was great.

Pouring one out 😔 sorry we couldn’t celebrate our books equally but I hope there’s still some fun stuff in here long term. Auric champions seems neat, talons seems pretty decent too

The army rule is a pure nerf if you consider the sheer amount of book keeping that tracking what you chose for each and every unit will be.

I do think the mess caused by the changes to Dev Wounds really mucks up how this initial read through of the book feels. That said, GW totally missed on the power fantasy that I associate with Custodes, which is a terrible shame.

I think if they errata Auric Champions to say "character units" as opposed to the current "character model" it will be become more viable.

Custodes is essentially hero hammer, 3x Blade Champions with their warden body guard, 1x Captain to sit with some guard on an objective, 1x grav tank and allarus for days

24:25 Contemptor Dread not changing is so disappointing :( It's such a bad unit which desperately needed a workover.

The codex that destroyed a company.

This is a great format, hope you do the same type of vid when Chaos Space Marines come out

They massacred my boys, not just their rules but the lore too. Im sorry for you Bridger...

All they have to do is keep the original Dev. Wounds rule of causing mortal wounds, but at the end you add 'Mortal Wounds caused by any attack(s) that triggered the Devastating Wounds ability can only be applied to one model per attack' In other words, if a Damage-2 weapon triggers Dev. Wounds, then the resulting 2 Mortal Wounds are only applied to a single model. BOOM. FNP's against Mortals now mean something and you no longer have to make a stupid exemption for Dev. Wounds specifically.

can it be the same sisters unit giving out that buff for multiple big boy squads? if so then that detachment talons of the emperor isnt as bad as i thought. i figured to get the max value u use 1 to 1 ration for sisters of silence and custodian chunkies

“Put a chick in it and make it lame!” -Eric Cartman as Kathleen Kennedy

I much prefer codexes starting weak and being buffed over time, when compared to getting an BROKENLY OP codex that powercreeps the whole game.

So in 9th edition the most played custodes sub-faction was the one with a 4+++ save versus the mortal wounds. The archetype of tough low model count elite army was what the majority of customers wanted. Some people working on 10th realized this, and made this the main faction ability. Taking that away took away the identity in the faction people were looking for. A tough elite army. They should have left that faction rule for shield host detachment. Martial mastery should get folded into a faction rule for Ka'tah and is an army wide 1/battle ability. Much like how most of the custodes units have a 1/battle ability on their respective datasheets.

Thanks Bridger. The only Custode player I trust.

this is the first codex I've simply not bought for one of my armies since I started playing in 7th edition because this is just a joke. There's nothing fun in this codex. A sisters of silence detachment doesn't work because the units are trash atm, same with the mixed detachment. Just kill the sister-half of the army and boom, no detachment rule in effect. I also don't own enough character models to make an army of them and I'm not going to either because that's stupid. I'm just going to play custodes as they are pre-codex, simple as that. See you in 11th

For the emperor, like Cadia, we stand strong Bridger and my fellow custodians.

I feel like you take one unit of axes now to deal with d-1 models, because without trojan doing jack about them you simply won't be ever able to kill them otherwise

Army book of Contempt

Another outstanding release for OnePageRules.

Allarus are indeed able to deep strike turn 1 if they start on the board and you got second. Units that go into strategic reserves after the battle has begun are not restricted by Strategic Reserves Stipulations

Allarus captain is nearly unremovable for one phase in auric champions. With 9w you need to make him fail 9 saves, with 4+fnp strat that's 18 saves failed, assuming invun that's at least 36w passed on a t7 model so lets optimistically assume assume 3+, that makes it 48hits which with bs of 3+ would make it 64 attacks at s8+ ap3 (2 ignore cover) That's more than knights can take

Damn custodes out here gonna be playing with no detatchment

Am I right in thinking that in tournaments you can only use codex datasheets? If so where is the anti tank shooting coming from for custodes?

Ok then, i'm looking for melee army as my secondary army. My first choice is custodes. Now, after i see this.... Do i should trust in custodes or start to build Obeisance Phalanx(Necron) or Annihilation legion as my melee one instead ( My main army is necron but i built it to range army)

shield captain on jetbike, sweeping advance is not the same. it now requires the unit to have fought that phase to activate.

Allarus Can arrive turn 1. See FAQ. Arriving from Strategic Reserves in the First Battle Round: Abilities that allow units to be set up in the Reinforcements step of your first, second or third Movement phase using the Strategic Reserves rules treat the current battle round number as being one higher than it actually is in the first battle round only, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

I don’t know why GW doesn’t do digital codexes. How can you release an out of date rule book. Plus you don’t have to print anything. So many benefits. If you want paper they could make special edition codexes with more lore etc

I'll do my part to play as many games as possible just to contribute to having a sub 40% win rate.

"A lot of different opinions about it" is a really interesting description of universal despair and anger lololol.

Art of War thinks the Null Maiden Vigil is the worst detachment in the game, and that it isn't close.

There are the new rules for the combat patrol?

Dark Angels, Admech and now Custodes?

The only thing I don't understand is no battle tactis in auric champions

Don't mind me, I'm just here for the salt

Good job Bridger. Like to here y'all opinions on the Codexs in these videos

Small comment on Shield Host, You do get BOTH benefits when you pop it, you don't pick between them!

What happened here? How did this come out at the same time as the Ork codex?

Archeotech Amunition on a 5+1 Allarus Squad with ignore Cover Enhancement. You wreck Knights etc in shooting alone and a 20 brick of necrons will puff with sustained. Before you killed a Knight in one combat Phase with 5+1 and Slayer of Tyrants. Now you pop this, glad my Termies still work 😆

Vertus Praetors doing 2 mortal wounds when flying over a unit on a 2+ hurts when you know the 100pt Eldar Hornet gets 6 dice and on a 4+

Banana boys got wrecked

What's up with the hyper optimism? If it smells like shit, it's probably shit.

Cannot make +1str and ap strat free since you have an enemy unit as a target the strat aswell. Cpt only lets you 0CP which targets your unit

You made me a bit more hopeful for the mixed detachment rules honestly. If they give us back our Dev wounds resist then I think that'll be the detachment for me.

I am happy in this book the got rid of the "if you play melee armies into custodes you just lose rules". like tons of fight first mechanics but they should of added buffs elsewhere.

It's ok to say that your disappointed in the Codex and the lackluster treatment The Custodes got. We are allowed to feel disappointed. No new units, no new Epic Hero, downgrade in Army rules, and fundamental change in playstyle. I mean this really sucks, I despise the underwhelming treatment they got compared to Orks that they pushed out next to. I am not a fair weather Custodes player, so I still am getting the codex and playing them, but this feels just so disappointing. Could we have at least gotten Valdor ffs, that would have been a nice piece to hold on to why Ork players get to rave about their F***ing awesome Codex. GW....seriously this took all the hype I felt away and almost all the wind out of my sails. Looks like I will be rowing to victory's(Maybe) shorelines. 😞

so they condensed games workshop and forgeworld to have them under one website but they still don't put those models in the main codex? -_-

I shall raise a glass in honor of your suffering Bridger! As well as to you fellow comrades of Custodes! 🍺 I have simply enjoy this hobby best by collecting the "cool" models that interest me and not worry about TTG unless my roommate wants a casual P4Fun match on weekends. Recent events from GW has really been quite concerning in making further investments in this hobby. 😨😥

Man, I just spent like 2 grand on a new custodes army. Much sadness

It feels bad when a codex changes so much from the index, for sure. But I think Custodes will be okay. Their stat lines are still incredible.

First Custodes codex I flat out refuse to buy. Screw GW's rules team.

So best unit in book is a rhino?

First time I've seen the book cover that closely. Even that looks bad. It looks like someone is cosplaying a Custode using boxes that were folded a little and sprayed gold.

The thumbnail for this video looks like it says Adeptus Lustodes. Makes me think they're the Emperor's Escorts.😂

As a DA player I feel your pain. Seems GW’s chef for this codex has the same idea with regard to removing flavor from Armies.

Fs in the chat boys

GW needs to sell more custodes models to custodes players. the only ways to do that are release new models or make existing models cost less points. Its classic GW. well see the points costs being lowered in 2 weeks.

Custodes 14 shield captains vs 13 war dog match

Look at me! Look at me... You are the T'au now.

new to 40K on the table top and I just finished my Custodes army. I see why we love the hobby but hate GW now.

its never been more over

as a custodes players first thing is first i dont play competitively so i cant say much about that but i been waiting for this hero hammer side of the army and i finally get the try and play this side of the army i am very hype about this BUT as a custodes player i also understand the doom and gloom and its hard to see what was and what is now but it can be fixed it seems but i also understand the frustration that some mite have. i think it sums it up about the general opinions on the book, as this review took not even half as long as the ork one which was sitting right next to this video the whole time, its sad i see the frustration but some times armys will be good and sometimes they will be bad do what you can and just have fun with it run arround with like 12+ solo chara and see what happens XD maybe it will all work out XD.

I can feel your pain bro...literally ear the hurt in your voice

Saw this and put my custode list up for sale. RIP.

I do not care for allegory in my grimdark

I have never seen anyone sweat so hard, trying to be positive, but knowing its aaaaaaal fucked. I laughed so much wathcing that poor guy sweat!

They wrote this codex the 1 april ....

I put on a backtrack because it was pretty sad to watch without something like lo-fi or something, dw bridger have hope the blood angels book looks better than this

I am looking forward to seeing my Golden Boys with a 25% win rate very soon! This book is an absolute travesty!

But what does he think about the Female Custodes being cannon…?

So basically nobody buys this and everyone keeps playing with the old rules?

We finally got a good cover… Downhill from there.

The custodes got screwed big time.😂 And the Orks got the W.

I do not miss 40K at all…. But I do miss watching Titans every week.

Cool review. 👍Thank you for sharing it. 📖

Isn't it consensus in tournaments that going back in strategic reserves still allow you to be placed T1 if you have deep strike?

"I think he is..."fine".." "I think it is fine, it is..okay?" "It is like a salad..without garnish.." You look like you are looking at pictures of dead classmates when you look at the nerfed character sheets.

Admech: Trash T’au: not great, but at least fun Custodes: somewhere between Admech and T’au C’mon World Eaters you’re my last chance for an army with a good codex

The problem(s) with the codex goes in so many directions thats is barely possible to keep it short. Basically the only good things to me are the female custodes in the lore and the names of the detachments. But there it stops. While it makes some fluffy sense for a sister detachment, its waaaay far too stretched to work from a hobby or gameplay perspectives. There are 2 kits for its… i would love a sisters detachment but then highlight them in the edition and give them like 2 or 3 new models (bikers, lone operative assassins, apothecaries, jumppack ones; there are so many possibilities). How the rules are written (apart from talons which makes theoretically makes sense but is still kinda weak) Custodes don‘t feel like Custodes. The concept of Auric Champions could have been sooo great. It would have made them in a way even closer to lore. These unstoppable arcanealchemic machines but countable in numbers by 2 hands. But the dissonance in design and fluff is just way to big. It looks like it was just randomly compiled by AI with no real ludonarrative direction.

2 minutes in and already talking about a needed FAQ is not a great sign lol

The way GW dumped on there fanbase and lore is astonishing

I’m trying to stay positive. Every single detachment suck. There really isn’t silver lining. AND they are more expensive. I don’t know who to play and lose with, my Custodes or Marines.

As a Death Guard player, you have my condolences sir. 10th edition is just cold wet garbage all around. This is the Christmas we all got brussel sprouts instead of the firetruck we asked for. 😕

If it is really that bad then they will fix it. Rules are always temporary