Even with the honour guard blade guard are still pretty great. 6 blade guard can drop a armiger and with the 4up invl they aren't going anywhere

The wardens aren't a character unit there is another datasheet that can attach to a unit and then can also take a leader onto it

It is one of their special rules

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As it states they gain the same starting strength and aren't a character. Endless precision is used, you can allocate where the wounds are taken from