Games Workshop unveiled one of the biggest Adeptus Custodes releases in years. According to the Sunday Preview, the Ten Thousand received new units, a new Codex, and a Combat Patrol on October 17th, 2026, with every new kit legal in both Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy.
Aquilon Terminators. Gyrfalcon Jetbikes. The towering Telemon Heavy Dreadnought. The lightning-fast Pallas Grav-Attack. Plus eight re-released Horus Heresy kits now dual-tagged for the 41st Millennium. Whether you field the golden host in the Age of Darkness or the modern Imperium, here is what launched and why the Custodes have never looked this good.
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Aquilon Terminator Sodality
The heavy hitters. When the Imperium faces its darkest hours, the Custodes deploy troops in Aquilon Terminator armour, some of the most advanced personal protection ever created. This new kit builds six Aquilon Terminators, legal in both Warhammer 40,000 and The Horus Heresy.
Each model can be armed with a Lastrum storm bolter, infernus firepike, or adrathic combi-destructor, paired with either a solarite power gauntlet or solarite power talon. The loadout flexibility means you can build a unit for any threat: Space Marines, monsters, hordes, or armour.
Gyrfalcon Jetbike Sodality
Fast attack. Skirmishing Custodians maintain jetbikes to surge across rough terrain, and the Gyrfalcon is one of the most powerful patterns in service. This set builds two jetbike-mounted Custodians, each wielding a solarite power lance.
The bikes carry your choice of anti-infantry, anti-armour, or anti-monster firepower: a Lastrum bolt cannon for Space Marines, an adrathic devastator for monsters, an arachnus volley cannon for hordes, or twin Corvae las-pulsers for vehicles. Build the unit your list needs.
Telemon Heavy Dreadnought
Engine of destruction. Telemon Heavy Dreadnoughts are the pinnacle of Dreadnought engineering. Each one carries a terrifying assortment of weapons designed to destroy the Emperor's most implacable foes.
The kit includes cosmetic options and weapon choices: one Telemon caestus fist can be swapped for an adrathic desolator, arachnus storm cannon, or Iliastus accelerator culverin. When you need something dead beyond all doubt, you send a Telemon.
Pallas Grav-Attack
Hunter-killer. The Pallas Grav-Attack is a hover vehicle built for rapid-response firepower and devastating hit-and-run strikes. Highly agile and lethally armed, it excels at hunting down fleeing targets or providing fire support where jetbikes cannot reach.
The kit offers a choice between a twin arachnus blaze cannon or a twin Iliastus accelerator fusil, letting you configure the Pallas for anti-infantry or anti-armour roles.
Dual-Game Releases: Warhammer 40K and The Horus Heresy
Every new kit in this wave is legal in both Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. If you play both systems, these units slot directly into your force without modification.
Games Workshop also re-released eight recent Horus Heresy kits in new dual-game packaging: Shield-Captain, Custodian Guard Sodality, Sentinel Guard Sodality, Venatari Sodality, Custodian Dreadnought, Caladius Grav-Tank, Caladius Annihilator Grav-Tank, and Coronus Grav-Carrier. All of them carry datasheets for both the 41st Millennium and the Age of Darkness.
Codex: Adeptus Custodes launched October 17th with 13 new detachments, 27 datasheets (including all the new releases), and updated rules for the golden host. The Codex came in a standard softback, a hardback Collector's Edition with foil cover and ribbon marker, and a luxury Limited Edition with a metal vexilla miniature, lapel pin, wooden dice vault, art prints, and an A2 cloth map of the Imperial Palace.
Combat Patrol: Adeptus Custodes offers a compact starting force: a Shield-Captain, six Sentinel Guard, three Venatari, and a Custodian Dreadnought (buildable as either Contemptor-Achillus or Contemptor-Galatus). It is an entry point or reinforcement for existing armies.
Key Date
| Release date | Saturday, October 17, 2026 |
Also Launching October 17th
- White Dwarf Issue 529, the Halloween Special, with Skaven vs Gloomspite Gitz battle reports, a Halloween hobby gallery, new Ork rules, and King Brodd rules for the Brawlers of Behemat game.
- Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, Journal Tactica: The Battle for the Signus Cluster covers the forgotten war on the cursed world of Kol, with new daemonic Slaanesh rules, a Legendary Mission, two new Custodian Proconsul units, and updated Gyrfalcon Jetbike rules.
- Black Library released Cold Covenant by Peter Fehervari in hardback and a signed Special Edition, plus paperback editions of Auxilia by Russell Zimmerman, Dropsite Massacre by John French, and Apostle by David Annandale.
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