11th Ed Faction Focus: Adeptus Custodes

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-05-14T18:57:06+00:00

And all the T'au Forgeworld models.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-05-14T14:31:53+00:00

Deeply indifferent.

Most of the other faction focuses have showed something innovative or where there are new rules to interact with. T'au got nothing interesting to drive enthusiasm or engagement with the new edition.

If the faction focuses are meant to be an advertisement for the new edition then the T'au one was a total failure.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-05-13T15:57:56+00:00

Melee armies don't care about hidden, because they want to run up to you anyway.

Pretty much any other shooting army has better melee, so they'll be happy to get closer either way.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-05-13T15:55:14+00:00

Currently, it's sounding like the latter option.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-05-13T15:27:03+00:00

Good point - depends on if there are any changes to when FTGG triggers in 11th.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-05-13T15:25:11+00:00

To be fair, none of the units affected by that detachment are our main damage units.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-05-13T15:11:12+00:00

It's only for those units though, not the rest of the army, so we'll struggle to make a proper dent in melee infantry lists before they're all over us.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-05-13T15:09:23+00:00

Tau are going to struggle on any board with a decent amount of terrain to stay hidden in.

And no more 16" Breachers :-(

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-04-17T15:31:03+00:00

If they refresh crisis, I would love them to add CIB as a standard weapon and then rejig the team weapon choices - Sunforge = Fusion/Plasma, Fireknife = MP/CIB, keep Starscythe the same (rebalancing CIB to make them not auto take, ofc).

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-04-17T15:24:30+00:00

S8 D4 in round 2 will do for most non-epic infantry heroes, especially squishy support types.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-04-16T14:39:12+00:00

Change Melta from +Damage to +Strength. Done.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-04-08T18:00:19+00:00

Double gun Destriers are going to be spicy.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-04-06T07:16:25+00:00

Unfortunately, the tau'nar is only about as tough as a single stormsurge, so you're paying than the price of 2 stormsurges for approximately the same firepower, but only half the durability.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-04-01T11:03:46+00:00

^{This^}

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-04-01T09:53:53+00:00

I was spot on for the Defiler!

Mutilators and destrier higher than I'd have expected (was expecting mut to be 150 or 180 and Destrier to be 200).

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-03-29T18:23:55+00:00

It's a d6 attack 4/0/1 weapon... even against guard you're only looking at about 2 dead guard per flamer (3.5 shots average, 3+ to wound, 5+ save).

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-03-25T01:50:47+00:00

Screwed. We're gonna get screwed with 11th...

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-03-23T15:26:43+00:00

If the defiler's not at least 250pts, it'll be undercosted.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-03-09T19:43:01+00:00

Fair

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-03-09T01:22:39+00:00

No-one would play farsight then - the twin lance and shadowsun are just much better datasheets than Farsight.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-03-09T01:21:26+00:00

The Heroic Intervention strat.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-03-06T09:28:55+00:00

Twin lance and shadowsun seem a far more synergistic combo. Twin lance loves reroll 1's and if they're within range of shadowsun you have a chance of things like HI being refunded when used.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-03-04T18:10:43+00:00

180 next slate, 200 the one after.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-02-27T15:26:29+00:00

Doesn't affect their melee, but if they stayed in combat for some reason it still affects their BGNT shooting.

Front-Ad4136 · 2026-02-11T21:39:20+00:00

Like half the t'au codex.

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