Why You Should Collect Custodes - Army Showcase 

"They're bikers and they're here to joust, that's the most 40K thing ever." IMO they come in second to "Drive the baneblade closer, I want to hit them with my chainsword"

It's hard to recommend custodes as your first army, since once you start painting and playing them all other armies immediately seem inferior.

34,000 points and counting for my Custodes army. Fell in love with them at the end of 7th edition and have not looked back since. Echoing some comments in here that all other armies will feel inferior to the 10,000. Enjoying the content, lads!

"every unit does what its supposed to consistently" - Bridger *laughs in d3*

idk why, but this is the best bridger has ever looked/sounded on camera. he's right at home extoling the virtues of his banana boys!

The Astartes are wolves they fight as teams, the custodes are lions they can fight alone but when they fight together we’ll just give up

The Golden Boys at last, I started following this channell becouse you have the BEST Custodes guides

custodes fanboy with a dark angels hoodie. beautiful.

My buddy just got his commissioned custodes and I will definitely be getting some of them :)

Waiting for there 9th edition dex to bring my shadow keepers to the table

i've known about your channel for a while now, but the quality of these last few videos finally pushed me to sub, keep it up 🙌🏼

Thank you for the info! Your overall presentation is incredible! Coupled with tons of knowledge about all things 40k! Love the channel!

I just finished painting my custodians for a RTT this weekend. It was good easy, fun and rewarding. If you need a second army or a initial army to get started custodians are the way to go.

Guys, awesome vid but a little advice. Lay off the fog a bit in the closeup.

Great new format, love your work, guys!

Just starting my custodes!!! So I loved this video, really make me more sure about my decision to join the Ten Thousand

i love these why you should collects! please keep them coming!

Oh! I just had an idea. How about they make the axe more consistent, but change the spear to make 2x the attacks of the model, so they have an anti horde/medium spear and a better than a thunder hammer, Castilian axe. Ya, that would work.

GOLDEN BOYSSSSSSSS I was hoping to see this video pop up on your channel!

I love watching you guys play this army

Thought I was watching PlayOnTabletop for a second there

To your point, my Shadowkeepers army is how I learned to apply the paint techniques I’ve been watching for months. I can see the progression, especially in my jetbikes.

AC will be my first army, thanks for putting together this video!

You had me at "every model is a terminator". I love terminators, they are just so cool to me. I bought custodes this year for actually a reason you guys only kind of touched on. Being a low model count army means that you make less decisions. Lets say every unit interacts in 3 phases (movement, shooting, fight). If you have 10 units, thats 30 decisions a turn. Over the course of a 3 round tournament, that could become thousands of decisions. Having a low model count army reduces the mental fatigue from making all those decisions, allowing you to be more attentive in the later rounds of a tournament. This will of course vary from person to person. Top players are generally less prone to mental fatigue, but in your local RTT's this could make a HUGE difference. This is also especially good, like Bridger said, for newer players. Having to make less decisions yourself means that you can pay more attention to your opponent's. Being able to take your custodes army in your carry on for flights is nice too.

I was able to pick up an awesome second hand Custodes army (around 2300 points) for 185$ around the time of end of 8th edition. It's been really fun having this army available that I can have to let my friends play with if they are new to 40k ( My main army is tyranids). The low model count, high toughness, and great output of this list makes it a great 1st 40k army for players to learn on.

My love for Custodes has no equals. They are by far the coolest of models with the coolest of story.

Love these kind of videos. Will you be doing space wolves and deathwatch?

Just bought 5000+ points a couple weeks ago! Can't wait to start playing them

Thank you guys.

Just ordered my first Custodes model. Blade Champion coming soon

Keep up the great work guys! Deathwatch all the way!!! What a cool way to pimp out the best of all marine factions in one!

the enthousiasm of bridger is great

Worth noting if you have a resin printer, these guys have some of the best "proxies". Like identical to the forgeworld models and really decent with the GW plastic stuff.

Love the video. It's especially cool since I'm just getting into wh40k tabletop (been a fan of the lore for years) and when picking my army I knew I didn't want marines due to not really loving any one chapter ( have since fallen in love with lamenters and iron fist) . So while looking for an army custodes lore had always liked my interest even when they were still stuck on terra. Then. Hear they have finally taken to the sky? Hello emporer don't mind if I do. Needless to say they are going to be my first army. And for added fun, buying straight from gw I can get my 2000 point list for about $700 us and the wife gave me a 1500 dollar limit. U understand why I'm Happy

Nice! Do Blodd Angels when Brian gets back! =D

Yay fully painted models!!

One thing is for sure. The Custodes is the army that you never heard of (or atleast shrugged) during your early days as a 40k fan but then realize it's the coolest army later on.

Why do you do this to me. Ive been thinking about collecting custodes for a while and this made me want them so much more

I've just got into custodes. Love the lore and models, painting mine silver. Picked up just under 2000 points for £200 great cost effectiveness

That T-posed Achillus is horrendous. Love all the rest though!

Only thing I heard that was wrong was how the Custodes view one another in battle. Its not that they dont trust one another, or think theyre better, but how I remember it described was they are so elite and so so intune with their brothers they trust each man to their flank so much they fight as an individual knowing they're covered.

So much truth in here ! Thx

I have been researching which kill team and 40k army to start with and just found this video. Holy cow this is nearly perfect for what I want. Tough, Elite, Heroes, and small sized model count. I wonder how they would look in purple and gold

After painting nearly 5k of death guard I’m thinking of doing custodes. I’m going to buy a box of custodian guard & build 3 as basic for a kill team, a shield captain & a vexilla and go from there!

For anyone who would like to know more about their lore, politics among High Lords and the return of the Sisters of Silence, then Emperors Legion is a great book/audiobook. The narrator for the Sister Aleya is really good :)

Love my Custodes. Hope their 9th codex has them ignore all modifiers to hit. Always on 2's because they're just that good. No permanent Trans-human but -1D would be great, Definitely need to add to their attacks charateristics.

You know Bridger, you really suit red. Come winter we want to see that hoody in every video!

I'm newer to Warhammer and was going to collect Necrons since i bought the starter box.... But then I saw the Custodes Gold and Red and just how badass they looked. I'm now 1750 points in. Please send help. Allarus Custodians are my favorite. I love being surrounded by 2 squads of like 5 units, and just being like "I spend my CP to Release the Lions" and just go ham on them. Also, controversial opinion: Wardens are better looking than the regular guard. But totally agree on the don't buy Wardens lmao. I just say "yeah they're Guards" since I built them with spears. They just look better and are easier to build imo. Plus that red cloth around one half of their body, so badass and regal. But i did buy a box of guards to make them all into storm shields so when i make 4 man squads of Guards, I use my 3 Wardens with spears, and throw in one Guard with the Sentinel blade and Storm Shield.

I wish I was quicker on the draw, still trying to get some FW custodies, specifically sags and termies

I switched to Custodes from orks. I love the Custodes play style. There is almost no dead weight in a Custodes list and everyone can do tons of work.

great collection, whats your opinions on shadowkeepers?

Okay, I'm sold. Stodes it is.

Waiting for the Grey Knights one! Great video series!

I don't need to hear why I should collect but I'll listen to your opinion on why I already do

I'm new to WH40k and I want to go Custodes. What's a good army (unit composition) to start with? Like, I'm still learning about the units and don't know which ones to avoid and which ones to include in my army.

I can convert every space marine I have collecting dust! 😂 Get some shoulder , heads,, and the wepons you want and you get some amazing models... especially with the dominus box set? (Guessing the name here)

I'm painting custodes now.

Does anyone know the music that plays at the beginning?

That intro OOOOOOF

Just waiting for FW to restock tbh

Hope tyranids are next

"I think I mistakenly bought wardens - don't buy wardens" I bought wardens yesterday. Why shouldn't I buy wardens? xD

Man I love the soundtrack of this series pls tell me what it’s name??

Oh a video from Tabletop Titans! *clicks video and proceeds to instantly go deaf to the intro music*

Army is cool, but the hoody is great!

No honorable mentions to the Fabulous Custodes of TTS?

What books are those ?

Can y'all do imperial guard next?

I love guard of all chroma

Just wish their vehicles and dreadnaughts looked a little bit cooler.

That vehicles from behind where i can buy it? I cant find single one T_T

I want the new codex to be a true Talons codex, where you can mix Custodes and Sisters in 1 squad like the the Crusader squads for Black Templars

It's a tough call for me between Custodes and Blood Angels.

Come for the corn dog bikes stay for the cone heads leave for the price of forgeworld

I just thought. Why not have sisters of silence with heavy ranged weapons as well? I want prosecutors as troops, but if they filled a few hole that custodies have, that would be perfect for the new talons book

Custodes are the best........maybe not their dex options, but hey we’ll get an update some day.

Isnt this the music GW use for necromunda previews

Fan number one wearing a Dark Angels sweater...

I love my Custodes, but I see a common unit not present. The guard unit with a melta on the spear. I own and will be using deep striking or air drop in front of a poor vehicle. Why is it no one uses 5 melta deep strike more often. I made one using kit bash. the other 5 from forge world.

Did I miss the sisters of silence?

“I accidentally bought wardens don’t buy wardens” Me:(Looks over to box of wardens)FU-

I love my Custodes. Unfortunately I don't get to play them often as my game club is small and the other players are all convinced Custodes are broken and won't play games against me if I play them.

Needs some Silent Sisters.

Love the content, but one small complaint - the into had way too much “glitch” and “wobble” effects. I couldn’t focus on the minis that the intro was trying to show off because all the after effects got in the way. A little here and there is great for the mood, but it took away from the feel with the amount used.

whats the lore with custodes. are they able to make more? how long do they live for. and are they all dieing out from old age?

They're cheap when it comes to making an army due to their Hyper-Elite status, and they're very easy to paint due to most of each model being gold. Combine that with their T5 W3 Sv2+/5++ (4++ if battle-forged) and S6 AP-3 DD3 A3 means they are terrors in melee.

Glorious Golden Banana Boys

I have 4000 points worth of Death Guard about half painted. Told my wife I wasn’t getting any more Warhammer. Now I have to figure out how to order a new custodies army without her knowing…. Don’t judge.

These freehands tho

I was broke... Then i noticed its only 600 bucks. That's a whole other level for me. :o

Custodes as a super elite army would actually be on the cheaper side to collect and play. Unless you want those sweet Forgeworld models.

I truly love the aesthetic of the Custodes. I'll get some eventually but it's a shame their so iconic in gold. I try to make my armies unique but to paint Custodes not gold would ruin them for me I think..tricky decision.

Love the Custodes but it needs units from Forgeworld from which I refuse to buy anything.

Why should I not buy wardens?

"Because they're gold, and gold is the color of winners" - The Emperor of Mankind Also.... Why aren't they all naked?

Venatari are 2+ guys, with tarsus buckler

What bugs me about Custodians is that they supposedly cant get corrupted because they are made to be uncorruptable. But half the Primarchs were corrupted, so are Custodians stronger than Primarchs or why were the Primarchs not made uncorruptable?

But they just announced grey knights! Platinum > Gold

Whats wrong with wardens?

Don't shit talk the Custodes, the Emperor left now own damn palace, that's on him.