Bladeguard Veterans

Sword and shield, in an army that mostly shoots. These are the veterans in heavy plate who close the distance and hold the middle of the board while everything else stays back and fires: a broad shield carried high, a master-crafted power blade held ready, and enough heraldry worked into the armour to mark them as first-company material rather than line troops. The look is deliberately knightly, which is the whole appeal of the unit — a medieval silhouette dropped into a far-future setting without the joins showing. This is a proxy sculpt at standard 28mm heroic scale, pitched for tabletop use, so the detail is cut to read from arm's length across a board. It suits anyone building an elite melee unit for an Imperial force, and painters who like a shield face as a canvas for chapter iconography and freehand.