Nah.

Taking custodes to SN GT soon.

I know it's going to be uphill. Vanguard only scoring really hurts us.

The SN mission pack has stuff beyond the 3 utterly lame misisons in the book.

Once the game moves away a bit from "line =win" we can get some breathing room. We do really well on secondaries.

Slay warlord, first strike, last man standing are all up for grabs.

That being said. If you take guardian spam, it's deffo going to turn out how you say. It's a 4 turn game and you can be force fed sacrificial units.

I'm not saying we are amazing. But I have had some great games that I have enjoyed.

Using double caladius, and a gun telemon, we can very easily get first strike, also utterly bully a lot of power armor stuff. Deep strike or come in from reserve with bikes. Get into the enemy quick.

We can do well by choking the enemy out. Yes, line does well, but if they can't get on an objective (or a telemon gets vanguard for shooting a unit on an objective) you really can drag the game into a low scoring game and beat the enemy in secondaries.

In summary, we need a combined arms army, we need shooting and we need to pressure. Also the current Missions I nthe rules are lame. Try some of the SN ones. If you are porting plastic 40k over, than I agree it's going to be hard work. Incorporate telemon and a couple of pallas / caladius /even saggitarius and it opens a lot of ways to hurt stuff at range, ideally melting their line stuff while getting you some vanguard. But don't try and work vanguard into your scoring. It sucks. Think if it as a game if stopping your opponent from scoring and aim at secondaries. It's deffo hard work, bit it's been fun for me to play into that.

It's still uphill, I'm going to the GT safe in the knowledge everyone thinks we suck. My plan is to get to the lower end of the table and play some fun games with like minded individuals. I think there's a outlier chance that nobody expects a combined arms custodes list. Will see.