Blade Champion Unit Deep Dive - Warhammer 40K 10th Edition 

Like it a lot, super helpfull ❤

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I am not much for doing battle reports because for 90% of people its more about seeing a fun game of Warhammer. That requires both me and the opponent to "put on a show" either in form of commentary or gameplay

So how did it play out for you?

You can build 2 BC models using one BC box and a regular custodian There are 3 swords and 2 heads, and a cool base in BC box

​@@troyanez373thanks for the tip !!

Legacy of Combat should work as the model is still a unit. The Martial Inspiration second paragraph ill be quite frank, i am unsure. It does say "in addition" kinda like its continuing the sentence, so maybe its a no.

Heroic Intervention does not count as a charge. If the requirement for Unstoppable Destroyer (btw dont take this enhancement unless you wanna meme) is to make a charge then it does not work.

@@Rejnols Heroic intervention says that you declare a charge and resolve it as if it were your charge phase. Both of Unstoppable destroyer's abilities trigger when you end a charge move. I don't see any timing restrictions or other rules that would prevent you from using them. Might as well throw this question out here too: would abilities like Lance trigger off of HI?

@@nikolaybogdev3616 no it does not. It says you make a charge move, but do not count as having charged. Read every part of the strat

@@Rejnols the strategem reads that your unit declares a charge but you do not receive any charge bonus this turn , i.e. Fights First (p. 42 of the Core Rules pointing to p. 29 for the Charge Bonus), so technically Heroic Intervention should work with Unstoppable Destroyer, unless it's been ruled otherwise that I'm not aware of.

The wording is part of my confusion - the only restriction HI has is that the unit doesn't receive the charge bonus, which is specifically designated as the Fights first ability. Unless I'm missing some rule or errata I can't find anything that says you don't count as having charged. Ultimately it doesn't matter, as best case scenario it would be a couple of extra damage in a very niche situation, but stuff like that is interesting to me. In my experience with other strategy games, it is when you start to stack up little bonuses like that all over the place that you get a truly overpowered end product, and that is something I feel is sorely missing with custodes currently. The army is very one-note compared to others and doesn't really have any combos to speak of. The only significant ones I can think of are Draxus with guard and disembarking saggitarum from a coronus carrier to get rerolls with their devastating wounds ability and that's rather underwhelming for the points and only once per game. The characters seem to be the main problem as the relevant ones just make the attached unit more effective at what it already does, but don't grant abilities it doesn't already have or can gain through strategems. That's why I really like the BC in particular and the captain on bike (which I think is hugely underrated and can be a powerhouse once again if they ever bring it down to a reasonable price) - they give you extra abilities that actually let you play your army in a different way. Hopefully they fix that with the new detachments and the new model which looks to be a leader. @@Rejnols

No. It is stated in core rules any keyword a leader has his bodyguard shares and vice versa. Therefore any unit lead by a character they will get full re-rolls against.

Your opponents clearly have not read the core rules then! As someone else said if a character unit joins another unit, that unit gets the character keyword

It very much dependent on what your area uses for format. WTC allows him to ignore it forexample

@@Rejnols interesting. I’m mostly at small RTTs so far this year so I guess that’s a small regional sample size.

Its completely up to the TO as there is no official ruling on it.@@amandajames9155

@@Rejnols yes, hopefully we actually get a real clarification on this in the near future

the game isn't only about dealing damage

@@Rejnols so why do u need Trajan? He does not help u to survive, does not help u to move across the board. U anyway can have FF for 2 CP

Fight first is only if you are on an objective, with Trajann its anywhere. Depending on the rule set you play with, Trajann lets you ignore -1 damage, armor of contempt and so on meaning that he is the only leader that can make a unit of Custodes reliably kill a Redemptor Dread. His OC cannot be modified, so even if you fail battleshock you still hold an objective. He cannot be slowed down by Night Spinners. I can keep going but hopefully you get the point@@troyanez373

@@Rejnols anyway useless, tanks can kill redemptor, BC with blade and guard deal 6-8 damage to dread and Trajan oneshot only 8 (against most units BC will do better cause free press against char and d1 blades against swarms) 99% time BC will be faster, there not so many modifiers to dodge (even if ebemy have them he can just use them on an other unit) Trajan do not ignore -1 damage Trajan is just a slow piece of stuff, (both lore and table top) wardens cant kill lots of things, and cant surfive lots of things. OC is important, but BC onece again better with 9 OC Traj (trash) cost 160 more then 3 cust and do less then 3 regular cust Few matchap where Trashan is bit better

​@@troyanez373Trajann is an absolute tank that can take a hammer blow and deliver one back. The blade champion is great and he hits like a truck but he can't take a hit back. Trajann is excellent to hold objectives with wardens, real tough nut to crack. We don't focus on just killing units, we also focus on getting and holding objectives and Trajann is definitely someone you want doing both of those things if you have the points to spare. Every single game I've played Trajann has tanked an obscene amount of damage and has survived far longer than the blade champion ever has