Games Workshop unveils dual-logo Custodes box for 40k and Horus Heresy

Games Workshop unveiled a Custodes box that does something the range has not done before: it straddles Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy in one package. The Custodes Support Battle Group, revealed on June 26 as part of The Big Summer Preview, includes four Gyrfalcon Jetbikes, a Pallas Grav-attack and a Telemon Heavy Dreadnought. The set can be used in both systems.

It is the first box to carry both the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy logos. For current Adeptus Custodes collectors, that means more plastic support for units that have spent years sitting in resin, rules limbo or both. For Horus Heresy players, it means a new box that plugs straight into a Loyalist force.

The Telemon is the headline model inside the box. The Telemon is one of the largest Dreadnoughts in the Imperium, rivalling the Saturnine-pattern in size, and each Telemon includes armour plate fashioned by the Emperor’s own hand. That same machine was previously sold as a multipart resin miniature for Horus Heresy at £66.50. The new release moves it into multi-part plastic for the first time.

The plastic Telemon comes with a Telemon caestus and twin neutronium cascade projector, plus Arachnus storm cannon, adrathic desolator and Iliastus accelerator culverin options. It also adds a shoulder-mounted Spiculus missile launcher. The Gyrfalcon Jetbikes keep the emphasis on speed and precision, with weapon choices including adrathic devastator, lastrum bolt cannon, twin Corvae las-pulser and Arachnus volley cannon, while the Pallas Grav-attack is the fast grav-lift hunter-killer carrying heavier firepower than a jetbike can support.

In January, Games Workshop previewed new plastic Legio Custodes units, including Custodian Guard, Custodian Sentinels, a Caladius Annihilator Grav-tank and a Contemptor-Achillus/Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought. In March, Games Workshop folded Custodes into Horus Heresy armies through an Allied Detachment, and in April it followed with more standalone releases and reinforcements, including Venatari and additional grav-vehicles.