Shield-Captain

A Shield-Captain. If you can't tell, he is the one who is so BALD AND FEWLISH!

Shield-Captains are often leaders of a Custodian Squad of the Emperor's personal bodyguards. They are not to be confused with the Companion who are the BFF's of Big Daddy G and are much more more limited to 300. The Shield-Captain is much more general in a sense in terms of military engagement. They are the equivalent of the vanilla Space Marine Brother-Captain, but of course in the Custodian's sense of things, the Shield-Captain is several orders of magnitude more powerful and rapetastic than the mentioned former.

Shield-Captains are so named because of the distinctive Stormshields they carry (Although Stormshields can also be carried by more normal Custodian Guards and the Shield-Captain can opt to not carry the shield) which is an ornate, master-crafted shield in shape of the Aquila symbol. They are also distinctive by being mostly helmetless, following the Space Marine tradition of high ranking personals not wearing helmets cause helmets are for pussies. Other than that, Shield-Captains are armed with either the iconic Guardian Spears or the more ridiculous Sentinel Blade and Power Knife.

Tabletop Rules

Shield-Captains are extremely powerful individuals, already more so than the ridiculously tough-to-the-balls Custodian Guards. The basic stats for a Shield-Captain are: BS/S/T at 5, WS at 6, I at 5, A and W at 4, Leaderships of 10 and a 2+ Sv. These monsters of a man can literally bench-press Ork Warbosses like Grots and come equipped with all the standard Custodes weapons which can turn a Grey Knight Paladin into Swiss cheese.

The only downside is that, like the Custodian Guard, the Shield-Captain lack master-crafting and grenades as well as costing as much as a Land Raider.