The Horus Heresy, a spinoff game set in Warhammer 40,000's past, will introduce mixed gender units of the Legio Custodes in the coming months. During a Warhammer Preview event hosted on various streaming channels, Games Workshop showed off a host of new Legio Custodes miniatures, several of which featured female head options. Most notably, the elite Shield Captain miniature features a female head and was explicitly called out at being a female unit during the preview event.
The Legio Custodes are the Emperor of Mankind's bodyguard and were recently confirmed to be a mixed-gender army in the most recent edition of Warhammer 40,000. This marks the first time that the army has explicitly shown to have female units, although one could imagine that the heavily armored figures could be of either gender underneath their large helmets and breastplates.
Also revealed during the show were several tanks for the Legio Custodes, as well as winged Venatari, and a Liber Custodes rulebook containing both lore and rules for using the army in the most recent Horus Heresy edition. All of the miniatures revealed in today's video are made of plastic, transitioning from resin and metal miniatures used in earlier editions of Horus Heresy.
While these miniatures are made for the Horus Heresy game, Adeptas Custodes players can sub in these miniatures in games of Warhammer 40K, provided they have a corresponding unit.
