Spotlight · week of October 26, 2026

New Custodes datasheets, and the Imperium's heroes cost more

The 18 October update brought eight new datasheets, five of them Custodes, and raised the points of some big Imperium heroes. Here's each new unit at its best.

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Aquilon Terminators with Solarite Power GauntletsAdeptus Custodes · 285 pts for 3

Why it's here:New datasheet

New in the data since 18 October, in no tournament list yet, so the dice speak first. Against Chaos Rhino, the kind of target it does the most to.

SWORD: 49
SHIELD: 35
In lists: 0 of 19

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Biggest points changes, October 18

Before and after at the smallest size, with the share of the army's recent tournament lists that take each unit.

Unit	Points	Tier	In lists
Lion El'JonsonDark Angels	▲ +150265 → 415	A	14 of 20
Trajann ValorisAdeptus Custodes	▲ +130135 → 265	S	2 of 19
Venatari with Kinetic DestroyersAdeptus Custodes	▲ +105150 → 255	D	0 of 19
Contemptor-Achillus DreadnoughtAdeptus Custodes	▲ +75155 → 230	B	0 of 19
Shield-CaptainAdeptus Custodes	▲ +70110 → 180	A	1 of 19
Blade ChampionAdeptus Custodes	▲ +65110 → 175	C	9 of 19
Chief Librarian MephistonBlood Angels	▲ +65110 → 175	C	2 of 9
Vertus PraetorsAdeptus Custodes	▲ +65155 → 220	B	18 of 19

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SWORD and SHIELD are our own dice maths, scores from 0 to 100 against units of the same kind. Tournament lists from grimstat-corpus (CC BY 4.0). Videos linked with their creators' own titles. Datasheets load from the community BSData project in your browser.

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