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Fandex: Eldar | Pathfinders

The Stats:

Pathfinders 100 points (Troops)

Unit Composition: 3 Pathfinders
Unit Type: Infantry
Wargear: Ranger Long Rifle (Range:36", S:X, AP6, Heavy 2, Sniper), Shuriken Pistol
Special Rules: Fleet, Infiltrate, Move Through Cover, Stealth, Scouts, Singular Focus

Singular Focus: By sacrificing rate of fire for focused concentration, Pathfinders are able to maximize the effectiveness of their shots.  Any model in the squad may elect to change their Ranger Long Rifle from Heavy 2 to Heavy 1 until the end of the turn.  In exchange, wounds from that model are allocated by the model's controlling player, not the controller of the targeted unit.

Options:
Add up to 7 additional Pathfinders - 25 points per model
Equip the entire squad with Camoleoline Cloaks - 5 points per model

Camoleoline Cloaks: These cloaks are made of a highly resilient, lightweight material that changes color and pattern to match its surroundings.  They are long enough to cover the entire body, effectively blending the wearer in with his surroundings.  Models with Camoleoline Cloaks have their cover save improved by 2, to a maximum of +2.

Allow me to explain myself:

Instead of Pathfinders and Rangers, I combined them and split the upgrade rationale into wargear.  They're better at hiding because they have awesome cloaks!  The stat line gets one simple change:  BS5.  Sure, the squad only becomes 5 points more expensive, but that was more to counter-balance the loss of 5+ AP1 on the Pathfinders.  The extra shot on the rifle makes these a good value.  Compare them to Space Marine snipers - 25 points more for the squad, twice as many shots and hitting on 2+ instead of 4+.

Camoleoline Cloaks - They still get 2+ cover!

Targeting Spotters - Basically, I wanted to turn them all into mini-Telions.  These things make you sacrifice half of your shooing in order to pick off that Sergeant.

Edit: sonsoftaurus was right about the Targeting Spotters - see the comments below.

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Fandex: Eldar | The Avatar of Khaine

I used to have an Eldar army, but I sold it to help finance my Blood Angels.  Then I decided my blog should venerate the immortal Emperor, so there's not a lot of Xeno heresy hanging out here.  That being said, I have a soft spot for Spess Elfz.  Along with Black Templars, they were the first models I laid my grubby paint brush on.  Even farther back than that, at the beginning of my geekery, I played almost exclusively elves in D&D.  I mean, lots and lots of elves.  Those pointy-eared jerks hold something special in my geeky heart.

When I parted with my Eldar, it was a gaming decision.  Let's face it, Eldar aren't the best army out there.  I wanted a better army, a better-looking army, and one that I could paint from the ground up.  So, the Eldar went buh-bye.   What could have saved them from the cruelty of eBay?  Well, a better codex, that's what.  To that end, I've been working on a fandex.  I'll post units here and there for the next 20 years or a new Eldar codex comes out, whichever comes first.

Here's the first offering:  The Avatar of Khaine.

The Stats:

The Avatar of Khaine 255 points

Unit Composition: 1 (Unique)
Unit Type: Monstrous Creature
Wargear: The Wailing Doom
Special Rules: Eternal Warrior, Fearless, Furious Charge, The Bloody Hand, Inevitable Advance, Inspiring, Molten Body

The Bloody Hand: The Avatar’s hands drip with the blood of its enemies, driving terror into their hearts. The Avatar counts as scoring one extra wound in close combat for the purposes of determining the outcome of close combat.

Inevitable Advance: The Avatar paces across the battlefield, deliberate and relentlessly carving a path of destruction through the Craftworld’s enemies.  The Avatar has the Slow and Purposeful and Fleet special rules, and always rolls 2d6 when running, taking the highest value.

Inspiring: The Avatar is a towering icon of the might of the Eldar, a physical manifestation of their dominance on the battlefield, and all Eldar that look upon it are filled with the fury of Khaine.  Any friendly Eldar units that can draw line of sight to the Avatar become Fearless.  Additionally, any friendly Eldar units within 6” of the Avatar gain the Furious Charge USR.

The Avatar’s presence even inspires even the dead.  Friendly units with 12” of the Avatar may re-reroll the dice to determine if they are affected by Wraithsight.

Molten Body: The Avatar’s body is fashioned from burning iron flooded with glowing magma. Melta weapons and weapons with a Template range have their strength reduced by half and count as AP- for purposes of wounding the Avatar. The fluid nature of the magma also provides the Avatar with a 4+ Invulnerable save.

Additionally, for every wound that the Avatar suffers in close combat, all models in base contact with the Avatar immediately receive a S4, AP- hit as burning magma splashes onto them. Unsaved wounds from these hits count toward the wounds dealt by the Avatar for purposes of combat resolution.

The Wailing Doom: The Wailing Doom is a weapon of immense power that may take the form of a vicious spear, a mighty sword, or a many-bladed axe.  It can be used to project a nimbus of burning psychic energy, using the following profile:

Range: 12” S:8 AP:1 Assault 1, Melta

Allow me to explain myself:

At a hundred points less, the 4th edition Avatar was pricey for what it did. As a single unit for those points, it's not bad, but it doesn't really deliver as an HQ under the current codex paradigm where your HQ should bring something to the table for the rest of your army.  To that end, I wanted something that really exemplified what the Avatar represents to the Eldar.

The Bloody Hand - Come on, this thing is huge, angry, on fire, and coming to kill you.  When it gets to you, you mess yourself in a feeble attempt to fight back and it will probably win.

Inevitable Advance - Slow and Purposeful slows it down, but Fleet with 2d6 speeds it back up.  I didn't want to make it too fast, but I really wanted this thing to pound its way across the field with large strides, a trail of burning footprints in its wake.

Inspiring - the 12" bubble was good, but this thing is the living embodiment of the Almighty God of Murder Everything Right In Its Face to the Eldar, so it stands to reason that if they can see the Avatar, they'll be inspired to murder whatever happens to be in front of them, right in its hapless face.  the bubble reduces to 6" and confers Furious Charge instead, which seemed more appropriate.  The Spiritseer bubble is part of my Wraithsight update.

Molten Body - instead of making it impervious to flamers and melta, I figured that it'd be to leave those weapons with a small chance to wound.  Heck, if ceramite can withstand the heat of re-entry but still get a hole blown through it by melta (albeit not quite as easily), then there's still a chance that it might blow a hole in the Avatar.  Of course, half-strength means that flamers can't touch it.
The additional attacks just made sense.  I mean, this thing is MAGMA, so when you cut it open, shouldn't that hurt you as well?

Daemon - I ditched this in order to give the Eldar at least some chance against the Grey Knights.  The Eldar are supposed to be the most potent psykers in the game, and that means I'm giving them a ton of psykers.  That also means that Grey Knights will pour milk over them and make them part of a well-balanced breakfast, so they don't need their big-ass HQ coughing up even more buffs.