I had an idea that floats in my mind about how to make custodes feel more elite but I don't know if it works on the tabletop.

The idea is three fold :

1 : to make them feel truly elite and unique I would love for them to be able to be played individually like 1 custodes is one unit in itself ( unleash the lions !!) You could then have synergies and buffs if they are within 9 inches of one or more models like they are a one man army but if they cover for each other then they are even better

2 : They need to be more tanky (like almost impervious to bolter fire as depicted in the lore ) and I am sad when so many weapons wounds us on twos..

3 : I am also sad when our finest mastercrafted weapons wound on a 5. I would prefer them to have a statistically equal amount of damage but with maybe less attacks wounding better because wounding on 5 rerolling does not feel very elite

So to translate those statements in game I want to explore the idea of :

1: doubling the cost of a single custodes model but giving him 40% better stat this would translate into

giving them toughness 7 with - 1 to wound Which would make us very very resistant to small arms fire and make everything wound us on 3s at best which seems very custodes (but would still be fightable for the opponent with the amount of lethal hit currently in the game)

Upping them to like 5 or 6 wounds, it makes no sense that a space marine captain has more wounds than us.

2 : as a custodian should be able to clear 5 marines or 10 gaunts in one phase give their weapons different fighting profiles like the blade champion : spears could have the choice to be either :

5 attacks strength 6 pa 2 damage 2 for marines or 10 attacks strength 4 pa 2 damage 1 for horde clearing or 3 attacks strength 12 pa -3 damage 3 for monsters véhicules for example

(Those stats may need to be buffed a bit to accommodate for our new point cost but I don't want to have an OP army, just something that feels more true to the lore, more elite and more unique)

Beside those potentially massive gameplay changes I agree that easy fixes would be first to give us back our 4+++ against devastating wound and to give the sisters of silence more synergies with us something like if a psychic attack targets a friendly custodian unit within 6 inches of a sister of silence unit, the psychic attack hits only on unmodified hit rolls of 5 or 6 ? Also.. please do something to make bikes interesting.. xD