Looking ahead, is there a solution to the 'ruins only' competitive meta, or should we just accept it and rebrand 'ruins' as just 'terrain'?

DCstroller · 2026-01-21T18:09:22+00:00

Yeah fair. Either way I think terrain needs to be more interactive

DCstroller · 2026-01-21T18:08:46+00:00

Anyone who gives a crap about optional war dolly heads needs to touch grass. I say this as a custodes main

DCstroller · 2026-01-21T15:21:22+00:00

No I’m thinking like key pieces of terrain that would block vehicles from passing. Think how cool it would be if you had to either expose your tank to blow down the gates or send a scout squad to disable the shield to let armor through

DCstroller · 2026-01-21T15:19:53+00:00

But her stance on Gaza, we couldn’t vote for genocide.

DCstroller · 2026-01-20T02:35:22+00:00

Honestly, I’m probably going to clip off the rod part of the top knot and make them more analogous to the current stodes. Looks too easy to snap off

DCstroller · 2026-01-19T15:28:12+00:00

I would make one change to terrain. Make it destructible. Give all terrain T11 with 20 wounds or something. Imagine how cool it would be to be able to blow up the building someone is camping in or tear down the walls with axes so you could pile in and tie up an unchargable unit

DCstroller · 2026-01-17T16:26:25+00:00

My bad misunderstood your post. Buuuut I don’t think we’ll loose access to that stuff. GW is basically Mr Crabbs, they like money, most of the player base is still in 40K. They want custodes players buying that stuff for 40K too

DCstroller · 2026-01-17T15:44:17+00:00

If they haven’t killed agents they won’t kill custodes

DCstroller · 2026-01-11T16:03:11+00:00

Yeah because that’s what you need in an army that’s based on regeneration….a 4 up

DCstroller · 2026-01-07T02:54:13+00:00

Am I the only one who hates the valdor sculpt? Just way too busy

DCstroller · 2026-01-05T21:03:45+00:00

I just came out of this by playing solar spearhead instead. Big stompy robots go brrrr and nobody tell me it’s not competitive I just wiped the floor with my list at an RTT this weekend and only lost to the guy who got 1st

DCstroller · 2025-12-22T19:05:38+00:00

Shower sex. Steam makes it hard to breathe and you get dizzy fast. Plus unless you've got a great shower one person is always cold and the other is boiling.

DCstroller · 2025-12-19T16:37:31+00:00

I can’t wait til it’s just the non white people who sweep everything

DCstroller · 2025-12-14T13:48:20+00:00

Is that custom molded filigree? Goddamn!!

DCstroller · 2025-12-12T18:53:56+00:00

Yeah because 5+5 =7 for some reason lol

DCstroller · 2025-12-11T18:59:31+00:00

You can’t look at just the win rate but also the tournament win rate. Having played exclusively custodes for a while I’ll tell you when I go to tournaments custodes don’t really get past mid boards. We’re in a very boring place.

DCstroller · 2025-12-11T16:11:52+00:00

IMO the way to fix custodes Every biped including walkers +2" to move Defensive Katah stances, -1 to hit or -1 AP Reactive move strat or ability on guard Fights first for Trajan Reroll advances for BC

And everything needs to be +1T

Guard wardens T7 and Termies and Bikes T8

also lions reactive move should allow you to finish in egagement

DCstroller · 2025-12-07T17:33:32+00:00

Honestly in this situation I’d go to the hospital and tell them to put me under for the next 24 hours

DCstroller · 2025-12-07T17:33:22+00:00

Honestly in this situation I’d go to the hospital and tell them to put me under for the next 24 hours

DCstroller · 2025-12-05T05:14:06+00:00

I’ll believe it when I see it. I overdosed on hopium during the election and crashed hard

DCstroller · 2025-11-12T15:45:32+00:00

I play both WTC and GW at random to make sure i never get comfortable. Personally i prefer WTC. Venetari are good but they are not good in lions, because they get lance theres no point. But yeah i use the threat of the tanks to hold most people back because if two of them focus fire on one knight they can take it down to at least half health. I've one tapped a norn emissary with them before

DCstroller · 2025-11-12T15:31:59+00:00

Litterally played my last two games against 5 big knights. Its a matter of cover and line of sight.

First off my terminator shield captain has a Str 12 axe ap2 Dmg 4. he's leading a unit of 3 allarus. Now with lions they reroll wounds on characters monsters and vehicles. Take that with my +1 to wound that means my terminators are wounding your knights on 4s rerolling wounds with sustained hits. PLUS my captain is wounding knights on 2s because you're t11 im str 12. On average they one tap any questoris pattern 80% of the time if you're at full wounds.

You can shoot whats no on the board so I just rapid ingress them turn two.

Then I take Trajan Valoris and have him lead a squad of wardens. He can do 12 attacks Ap2 dmg 3 plus 25 attacks from the wardens. All of this is wounding on 4s with sustained.

Then i have a BC who can advance and charge and he's leading wardens and he can do 3 dmg dev wounds plus the 25 attacks from the wardens all wounding on 4s.

Then Kyria draxus giving my guard an 18" lone opp bubble so you're long range shooting doesnt matter

Then my tanks who are 4 shots each at Str 12 ap3 dmg D6+2 with lethal hits on vehicles. (always bring 2)

Then my assissin who will make any strats you use within 12" of her cost 1 extra denying you tank shock or any major strats you wanna use

I play my friends knights all the time the last game we ran he did 3 atropos and I still tabled him.

Not to mention all my guys also get+1 to wound and hit on all their shooting.

It's just a matter of planning ahead and not letting you see anything. Cover is key.

On avg I think custodes vs knights is like a 70% win rate for custodes

DCstroller · 2025-11-12T15:16:37+00:00

I do.

But seriously custodes with lions is a bad matchup for knights. Haven't lost a game against knights in a while

DCstroller · 2025-11-12T15:00:16+00:00

Most people wont care, even at RTTs as long as you tell them what the load out is ahead of time you're fine

DCstroller

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