Legio Custodes – Telemon Heavy Dreadnought

A hail of enemy gunfire serves to keep any warrior’s head down, and some weapons are designed specifically to suppress the foe. Only the most steadfast of troops will continue the advance when all they can hear is the whistle and crack of gunshots and the screams of the fallen.

Whether by dint of superior skill or exemplary wargear, some warriors are better able to place strikes on enemy weak points. Such attacks can fell even the most powerful foes with a single well-placed shot.

The Legio Custodes Trait is used in the following Legio Custodes datasheets:

The Loyalist Trait is used in the following Legio Custodes datasheets:

Transport vehicles are designed to balance armour and capacity, attempting to mount the most protection without compromising how many warriors they can carry. Yet, some warriors are plated in such imposing armour or even spawned in such an aberrant nature that they occupy far more space than any regular fighter. Such warriors are mighty in both power and stature, but prove more difficult to ferry into battle.

Some warriors are either so preternaturally tough, so bitterly intransigent or so favoured by fortune that they can survive almost any attack. Devastating close combat strikes and huge explosions all fail to bring down this warrior in a single hit and only repeated attacks can end their rampage.

Warriors trained to break the foe’s lines are often at the forefront of their host, but are ill-suited to holding ground in the face of an enemy counter-attack.

• If an attack made for a Unit that includes a majority of Models with the Vanguard (X) Special Rule causes the last Model in an enemy Unit that is Controlling or Contesting an Objective to be Removed as a Casualty.
• If a Unit that includes a majority of Models with the Vanguard (X) Special Rule has at least one attack made for it in a Combat that results in one or more enemy Units that had at least one Model within 3" of an Objective at the start of that Assault Phase either Falling Back from Combat or being Massacred.

This datasheet has War Engine Battlefield Role. Full list of Legio Custodes units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:

Heavy beams and armour-piercing cannon rarely inflict superficial damage, but always blast and break the hull of their target. Such weapons are superior tank killers, their sheer power prized over lesser weapons when the objective is to apply maximum damage without concern for finesse.

Template weapons shoot clouds of fire, gas or other lethal substances, rather than shells or bullets.

The Smokescreen (see Smokescreen Advanced Reaction) Trait is used in the following Legio Custodes datasheets:

Many troops and even vehicles are fitted with an array of deployable defensive measures, ranging from high-tech sensor disruptors, to chaff dispensers and even simple smoke grenade launchers. Despite their variety, all have the same simple purpose: to hide the users from the enemy.

• The Active Player continues to resolve this Shooting Attack as normal.
• All Models in the Unit for which this Reaction was declared gain a 5+ Shrouded Damage Mitigation Test against any wounds, Penetrating Hits or Glancing Hits inflicted during any Shooting Attack made in the same Phase in which this Reaction was declared.

Smoke Launchers

Many armoured vehicles utilise countermeasure devices for protection and concealment. Whether these launch simple projectiles that surround the vehicle’s hull with concealing smoke or employ more complex payloads capable of disrupting enemy targeting devices with infra-red strobes or disruptive radiation signatures, all find use during the Age of Darkness.

The Smokescreen (see Smokescreen Advanced Reaction) Trait is used in the following Legio Custodes datasheets:

These massive engines of war are unlike the soulless warriors of the Mechanicum, for at their heart rests a mortal warrior whose instincts and experience guides their steel body on the field of battle.

• When targeting a Unit that includes any Models with the Walker Type, the effects of the Poisoned (X) Special Rule only trigger on a Wound Test with a result of a ‘6’ before modifiers are applied, regardless of the value of X for that variant of the Special Rule.
• A Model with the Walker Type may attack with all Weapons they have in each Shooting Attack they make, including as part of a Reaction. Note that this does not allow Weapons that do not have the Assault Trait to be used to attack as part of a Volley Attack.
• In Step 1 of the Resolution Sub-Phase, when deciding how many Models a Player controls in a Combat, a Model with the Walker Type counts as a number of Models equal to that Model’s Base Wounds Value.

Volatile fuel, overpowered reactors or dangerous munitions can cause some war engines to explode when destroyed. Such explosions can prove devastating to friend and foe alike.

The wargear of many Legiones Astartes warriors and war machines incorporates a variety of targeting and stabilisation systems, enabling larger weaponry to be brought to bear even at close ranges.

Some weapons cleave flesh with ease, inflicting terrible wounds that no mortal toughness can resist. Though of less use against armour and steel, such munitions are capable of tearing bloody holes in the ranks of advancing infantry and stalling any attack in its tracks.

Designed to pierce the armour worn by heavy infantry, some weapons have gained a fearsome reputation on the battlefields of the Floras Heresy. While many such weapons are rare or temperamental in use, the sheer power of their attacks more than makes up for this.

Spiculus missile launcher

Intended to break the lines of the foe or to hold the most dangerous of positions, heavy troops trade speed and manoeuvrability for indomitable toughness and stubborn tenacity.

• A Unit that includes only Models with the Heavy Sub-Type gains a bonus of +1 to its Cool Characteristic for Checks to avoid gaining Tactical Statuses.
• A Unit that includes any Models with the Heavy Sub-Type may not Rush.
• A Unit that includes any Models with the Heavy Sub-Type only uses its Movement Characteristic to determine how far it moves as part of a Set-up Move, not Movement and Initiative totalled.

Blasts of exotic radiation, malignant scrap-code or other targeted attacks can render the systems of complex war engines vulnerable without penetrating their armour. While such weapons are less likely to leave their target as a broken ruin, the deleterious effects of their attacks can render even the most powerful war machines impotent.

Telemon caestus

When fired, neutronium cascade weapons emit a combination of baleful energy and exotic radiation of such intensity and instability that any target left standing risks continued molecular collapse.

Vile toxins, exotic radiation and all-consuming chemical agents all sap the abilities of warriors in the field even as they kill them. Most terrible are the effects of phosphex, choking the life and strength from those it touches, or the fleshcorroding properties of the dreaded life-eater virus.

Twin neutronium cascade projector

Some weapons are so heavy that, while they can be fired on the move, are more powerful when properly braced and made ready before shooting. Warriors on the battlefield must use their judgement to decide when speed is required and when the full firepower of their arsenal must be unleashed.

Arachnus storm cannon

Adrathic desolator

Some weapons feature augmented motility and enhanced targeting systems, able to track and lock onto fast moving targets with ease.

Iliastus accelerator culverin

Paired Telemon caestus