Custodian Guard

When you're most basic line troops are as tough as an Ork's most powerful leaders, than you know that they are going to hurt a lot.

The Custodian Guard are the most baseline troop of the Adeptus Custodes yet despite being troops, these honored Banana Men of the Emprah are still one of his most powerful warriors short of the Primarchs. Whenever a Sunlight gleams from burnished gold, it is a message that the Custodian Guard are striding from the choking fog of war. These warriors make for a fearsome sight, for each is taller and broader by far than a mortal man, a goliath of battle that can snap an assailant’s neck with a single punch. Bullets and shrapnel ricochet from gilded breastplates as the foe tries in vain to land a telling blow, but each of these warriors is armed and armoured with the finest wargear, and they carry the blessing of the Emperor himself. Even baleful magic washes harmlessly from the steely minds of these paragons. With their guardian spears and sentinel blades, they spin, parry and thrust, cutting the enemy down even as the built-in bolters hammer out death from afar. In their mind’s eye they carry judgement, and in their fists they carry death.

As bodyguards of the Emperor, the Custodian Guard are equipped with the iconic Guardian Spears, a Custodes Vexilla, Storm Shields, Power Knives and a Sentinel Blade. They aren't to be directly fucked with.

Tabletop Rules

What do we get after years of waiting? Brutal statlines, plain and simple... First off: this guys have WS/BS/T/S 5 (WS6 on sarge). That's right guys, they are as strong and tough as a Warboss and almost as killy as a space marine captain (in fact, barring having a wound less, the custodes sarge is identical with a bike captain, all while having one more base attack). These beasts rock a 2+ save (and can get stormshields), 2 wounds (like grey knights paladins) and eternal warrior (not like grey knights paladins, suck on it!) all while being cheaper than a paladin squad in ppm. To cap it off, these giant golden bananas have adamantium will and get to deepstrike, and are fearless to boot (though it's not really a problem as they are bulky and are ld10). Their base weapons are S user and AP3 and they have a guardian spear (but you can't have a stormshield with it, Asterion Moloc has the copyright for it) with S+1 (so S6... just like certain chapter master) and AP2 at initiative.

TL:DR I came, I saw, I tore down in meelee.

Alternate view: The custodes are very durable but cost on par with a landraider and lack several rules. Having relentless would allow them to shoot their guardian spears and charge in the same turn, but sadly no luck. Also despite supposedly having the best gear in the imperium, they dont get master crafting (or any natural rerolls of any kind) on their weapons or even GODDAMN GRENADES! Seriously GW.