Legio Custodes Lead Games Workshop March Pre-Orders Starting This Weekend

Two months after their January 16 trailer debut, the new Legio Custodes range is finally hitting pre-orders. Games Workshop's Sunday Preview on March 15 confirmed the Legio Custodes Battle Group and the Liber Custodes: The Forcers of the Emperor Army Book both open for pre-order on the weekend beginning March 20.

The Battle Group is the headline item, and it packs a serious amount of plastic. The box contains one Shield Captain with a choice of helmeted or unhelmeted head, six Custodian Guard with 12 helmeted and 12 unhelmeted head options, and six Sentinel Guard with the same spread of 12 helmeted and 12 unhelmeted options. The Dreadnought slot is a dual-kit: it builds either a Contemptor-Achillus with achillus dreadspear or a Contemptor-Galatus armed with a galatus warblade and gravis praesidium shield. The Caladius Annihilator grav-tank rounds out the vehicle side, with a front-mounted weapon choice between a twin lastrum bolt cannon and a twin neutronium cascade projector. Transfer sheets for Dreadnoughts and vehicles are included in the box.

The design approach is deliberately split between two silhouettes. The Custodian Guard represent what Wargamer's Cat Bussell described as "streamlined, agile reinventions of the former design," while the Custodian Sentinels preserve the blockier, more imposing proportions that older Custodes players will recognise. Both aesthetics are in the same box, which means the Battle Group itself covers both camps.

Alongside the models, the Liber Custodes army book brings rules and lore for three distinct forces: the Legio Custodes themselves, the Anathema Psykana (the Sisters of Silence), and the Divisio Assassinorum. Pricing confirmed across regions puts it at $53 in the US, $64 in Canada, $87 in Australia, £32.50 in the UK, and €42 in the EU. Games Workshop also confirmed that 40k rules for these models will be available, extending the Battle Group's utility beyond Horus Heresy tables.

The Glaive Super-heavy Special Weapons Tank is also up for pre-order the same weekend, continuing a run of large-format Horus Heresy vehicle releases that the Sunday Preview described as "more super-heavy Space Marine vehicles" rolling out alongside the Custodes infantry.

The rest of the preview covered a wider spread of releases. A made-to-order window for classic Orc and Goblin Tribes from the Old World rounds out the miniatures side. On the hobby tools front, Games Workshop previewed a new simplified, friction-based painting handle supporting bases from 25mm to 40mm, designed as a budget option for painters running multiple models simultaneously rather than cycling one premium handle between squads. The existing premium handle stays on sale alongside it. A new dice set and tool set also appeared in the preview, with the tool offerings leaning toward entry-level accessibility.

The January 16 trailer was the first public look at this revamped range, and early coverage followed three days later. The March 20 pre-order window is the first opportunity to purchase the new kits, making the Battle Group the single fastest path to the complete new Custodes range in one transaction.