u/MarkCarlo2003

A bit if a late post (meant to post it on the last 100 Kanojo Sunday), but oh well, here it is.

Part 2 of the 100 Text Post special

Well we finally made it to the ultimate milestone, literally feels insane that I have dines this text post series for more than 2 years by now (started sometime in April 2024), thanks for the amazing support this series has gotten from you all these years.

I’m still not sure if the way I decided to set this 100 Batch special up is the proper way of doing it, but as of now the plan is to make one text post for each individual girlfriend interacting with Rentaro in some shape or form, just to meme their dynamics with each other. The first 10 slides of this batch is dedicated to best boy Rentarou, while the rest will be dedicated to the girls in chronological order of introduction.

Also, before anyone asks, this won’t be the end of the text posts series, and I have already finished batch 140 by now, so we have almost an entire year left of text posts to go through

Hello there once again fellow members of the Ten Thousand, I’m back again with another 1 DP detachment, this time one focused on the utilisation of Sword and Board Custodian Guards and Shield-Captains. I really love the look of Sword and Board Guards (especially the new HH models), but they always feel so much weaker than their spear counterpart, so I made this detachment to counteract that.

This 1 DP detachment has the “Take and Hold” disposition and is designed to “take” and “hold” objectives. It has the SHIELD tag and can’t be taken, as you can probably guess, with the Shield Host detachment (so no stacking the -1 to hit stratagem with Testudo Formation Enhancement).

Some notes:

The Detachment rule, Shielded Retinue, only gives Feel No Pain 5+ to the character model, not the entire unit. This is mainly to counter [Precision] attacks and give our leader models some better survivability. The idea behind it feels pretty obvious, a giant wall of shields wielded by the Emperor’s finest warriors should be able to make it harder for enemies to target those under the Adeptus Custodes protection.

The “Testudo Formation” Upgrade enhancement is based on the shield wall formation commonly used by Roman legions back in ancient times. The idea is that they all gather in such a way that it is a lot harder for their opponent to actually get a hit on them, the shield wall blocking most attacks (flavour wise). To balance it out I put a limitation on it, that the unit needs at least four Praesidium Shields equipped to work, whether one of those shields come from a Shield-Captain, a Vexillia bearer, or a “normal” Sentinel Blade wielder is irrelevant. The same holds true for the “Raised Shields” Stratagem.

I appreciate all of the critique on my previous post and tried once again. This time I changed the detachment rule (Advance and Charged turns into [ASSAULT] on mounted units ranged weapons) and turned the old rule into a stratagem instead. Gave it the Disruption force disposition due to it being a very speedy detachment, while also trying to make it less attractive as a secondary detachment to add to Lions of the Emperor detachment (being locked into Disruption is not something everyone like).

Hopefully this is a bit better and more balanced

The name is very much based on the "Lions of the Emperor" detachment, I think it fits well enough, considering the heavy eagle centric iconography the Imperium have, but it doesn’t roll of the tongue quite well enough. So if anyone has any better ideas for names, I’m very willing to hear you out.

I am not a good player by any means, so I have no idea if this is completely buster or not, so I’m also very open for stuff to update/change.

One last post before we hit the big 100, completely insane that it is so close now. I’m unsure but I think there will be a one week break between now and next batch (just to finish the 100 batch special)

It has been fun, but I think it is finally time to end this series, there probably are some more allied units we could go through but it isn’t fun if we stray too much away from the actual Adeptus Custodes models.

One of the best parts about Draxus is that a majority of my friends plays Xenos factions, so the +1 to hit rolls has been really useful to me (basically giving my Guard unit Ignore Cover )

This is just the standard” no-name inquisitor, Draxus will be another day. I haven’t necessarily seen THAT much use of this unit/model, but I myself have used it in some smaller games and found it surprisingly useful

A bit of a late post, but it is finally here

Time for some bonus models, mainly the allied units that often join our golden legion lists (no worries I won’t go through every single Knight/Agent/Titan)

With the Venatari Custodians out of the way, we have finally gone through the entire Adeptus Custodes range. This is not necessarily the end of this little series and we could probably do some bonuses with allied units.