Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Aeldari: Avatar Of Khaine

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Tim’s Avatar offers a progression from the blistering, lava-like skin to the scorched silver of the armour, culminating in a beautiful focal point – a bright white plume of hair atop a dappled head crest.

Its a shame he’s not a bit closer to them in terms of power, cause I’d love to have a grand throw down, but I guess it makes sense. Beyond heads and weapons there’s no other build options, though; you aren’t going to be posing the model any differently without some real conversion work. I think the biggest issue for most players is they try to run him up the field and play him aggressively, aiming to get into melee ASAP. Beyond that, the Avatar comes with two different defensive abilities that give it a modicum of resilience, even if it isn’t exceptionally so.The result required is determined by comparing the attack’s Strength (S) characteristic with the target’s Toughness (T) characteristic, as shown below. The little belts around his torso are also quite fiddly, particularly where they join to the chest piece. The print quality is top notch, they were cleaned up perfectly too, straight out of the box - glued to base, primed and painted within a few hours.

When a unit disembarks from a TRANSPORT model, set it up on the battlefield so that it is wholly within 3" of that TRANSPORT model and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models. The Warhammer Community preview showed off the various head/weapon options, so we won’t dwell on them too much except to say that yes they are all incredibly cool. Aroused from his throne of smouldering iron, the Avatar of the god of war and murder leads the warriors of his craftworld to battle.Use appropriate colors, such as Retributor Armor for golden details like the sword or White Scar for the hair and scrolls. Unfortunately despite being an incredible model the remaining manifestations of the Eldar God of War is just mediocre of the battlefield. First off, it’s only any use in melee- so unless it’s within ~16″ of you, you can pretty safely ignore it and/or walk away. I do have play with a healthy amount of screening units, like Storm Guardians and units he wants to be around like Scorpions (to great success I might add) so perhaps I could do it.

Should you choose to take the Avatar into combat he will prevent nearby infantry from taking morale damage. An Avatar is the term normally applied to the physical form that the spirit of an Aeldari god has managed to possess and animate in realspace. Third, although it does benefit from character protection, it is also a melee unit- and that means that it has to get in real close to do any work, so if you’re making the Eldar army come to you, it shouldn’t be hard to make the Avatar the closest target once it charges something.

He’s on the tier of the stronger Marine characters like Chapter Master (excluding the likes of Reece’s Smashfucker), not the big beasties like the Swarmlord and Greater Daemons. He can ace a high wound unit in one round of combat, particularly when hitting a character that has been jinxed. When doing so, each model in the charging unit must end its Charge move closer to one of the units selected as a target of its charge. When the Ritual of the Young King reaches the moment for awakening the Avatar, the other Exarchs will gather in the antechamber of Khaine's shrine and form a circle around the Young King, softly chanting. It does get a single shot at range, but while it might strip a few wounds off a tank, it’s not going to completely ruin your day.