User blog comment:DirgeOfCerberus111/Adeptus Custodes Vs. Grey Knights/@comment-4051689-20110821205311

-Comment the deadliest warrior again and i will have your head on a platter. i'm know servant of the corpse-god but i would pick gray knights but for a different reason. I often refrence to black libarary books to help build-up my response to these type of questions. Here, i will be useing the horus heresy novel "The First Heretic" since it is one of the few novels that comment on how they fight or how they communicate. One of the comments i've read on this post states that the Custodes are "just body guards" and are "just trained to be defensive", this is un-true. The custodes have been detailed to fight as a offensive group as well as a defensive group. they are not forever confined to the empereor as proven at during the great crusade, often acted as watchful eyes over legion activitie. as one scene describes the custodes "marching to there xeno foes", a mere five, able to take down an army. (no, these are not primitive xeno. were talking highly advanced indestructable xeno) However, unlike there astartes cousins, they attack individualy and not as a group fighting force (think of five HQs) which is ultimataly there downfall towards the end of the book. And at one point it is described that one custodes kill five astartes within a second, supposing that they've got the stuff. (was going to say "touch" but that would be a corney transformer reference". I would have been custodian on this but what killed it for me was that a group of custodes (a large group) got killed by a group of possesed marines, i'm sorry but if you are highly trained super soldiers and you got your ass kicked by a group of chaos possesed within less than a minute then i prefer grey knights. However, i do feel that GW and other fans and writers seek to undermine the custodes by having weak forms of chaos and xenos kicking there ass and humiliating them(as a way for a writer to say "my fighting force is better than those gold-pompus asses"), at times i feel sorry for them. I mean, what happened to them man? they used to be the most kickass guardians in the galaxy, now there being torn apart around every street block. (I think the almighty dollar and pound have something to do with it)