{"id":863541,"date":"2026-09-28T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863541\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:02:10","slug":"your-first-look-at-13-new-adeptus-custodes-detachments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/863541\/","title":{"rendered":"Your first look at 13 new Adeptus Custodes detachments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where selecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer-community.com\/en-gb\/articles\/nbdkvr51\/15-new-ork-detachments-let-you-build-your-perfect-waaagh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orks detachments<\/a> is a chaotic free-for-all and choosing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer-community.com\/en-gb\/articles\/zcobdkzh\/your-first-look-at-15-new-space-marine-detachments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space Marines detachments<\/a> is more regimented and orderly, the Adeptus Custodes sit somewhere between the two. Only one group of their detachments has a Unique keyword, while the rest can be chosen freely to boost units like Dreadnoughts, Terminators, or Sisters of Silence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six of the 13 detachments available in the Codex have the Unique: Shield Host tag, five of which are themed after one of the main Shield Hosts laid out in the lore section.* The Aquilan Shield, for instance, plays a more defensive game, focused on occupying objectives and whittling down the enemy as they\u2019re forced to come to you, while the aggressive Dread Host charges forwards as fast as possible to brutalise their foes in close combat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/40k_custodesdetach-sep28-spread-0fi3ggjwxr.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One thing you\u2019ll notice \u2013 probably because we mentioned it on Friday \u2013 is that the Shield Host detachments each have a favoured ka\u2019tah in addition to their detachment rule. These give additional effects when the corresponding ka\u2019tah is activated, so if you activate Dacatarai for your units while using the Dread Host detachment, those units will re-roll 1s to hit against non-Monster\/Vehicle units and reduce the pile-in and consolidation moves for engaged enemies by 2\u201d \u2013 giving them a serious advantage over larger enemy units that now can\u2019t get all of their warriors into engagement range.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry about scuppering your tactical options, though, as having a favoured ka\u2019tah doesn\u2019t prevent you from using any others. It\u2019s just a bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where selecting Orks detachments is a chaotic free-for-all and choosing Space Marines detachments is more regimented and orderly,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-863541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}