if she dies first, due to being required to take wounds because she was the first damaged, then when she dies she is tethered to the location of the surviving geminae and can’t just set up freely elsewhere. As Farseers grow older, their minds become so intertwined with the wraithbone core of their craftworld that their physical bodies slowly become ever more dormant. When the time has come they go to the Dome of Crystal Seers that exists within every craftworld and join the crystalline bodies of the Farseers that came before them. Exarch powers are now the Asuryani’s paid upgrade option, with three choices for each Exarch shrine that you can buy for points. Same deal as always with these – each unit can only have one, each one can only be included in your army once, and an extra rider here that you can only ever upgrade one Crimson Hunter to be an Exarch, because they are very much on the naughty list after what they did in 8th Edition. Once you’ve eliminated them, though, be prepared for a timed battle with a much larger army before you have ol’ Farseer Skyrunner step under the yellow arrow. Blessing: Will of Asuryan has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, select one friendly < CRAFTWORLD> ALAITOC ALTANSAR BIEL-TAN IYANDEN SAIM-HANN ULTHWÉ YNNARI ASURYANI CORE or < CRAFTWORLD> ALAITOC ALTANSAR BIEL-TAN IYANDEN SAIM-HANN ULTHWÉ YNNARI ASURYANI CHARACTER unit within 18" of this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase:

FFG Card Doom from the game Warhammer 40,000 - Conquest (last accessed 8 May 2016) Doom, card descriptionRules for constructing an Asuryani army, including one that draws on the strengths of the Ynnari (which we’ll look at later today). If that type of roll involves one D6 (e.g. a hit roll), do not roll a dice; that roll is treated as an unmodified roll of 6. Those of great age typically retreat into the Dome of Crystal Seers where their bodies begin to mutate within this peaceful retreat into a form of psychically-reactive crystal. This transformation is believed to be caused by a Farseer's constant exposure to the chaotic energies of the Warp. Horrify (Malediction): Select one enemy unit within 18" of this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase:

There are also a bunch of relic weapons, and honestly you probably just don’t take these – they’re better than they were in 8th, generally, but none of them are transformational to a unit’s capabilities like some of the above are. Will of Asuryan seems pretty weak to me as Eldar have other ways to mitigate Leadership if you need it.

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Mentioning other units in the context of synergies and army building is of course permitted (even encouraged). This week's entry are: During their gradual process of transmutation, a Farseer takes root amongst the trees of the biodome and eventually turns entirely into a humanoid form composed of crystal. In this state, their spirit is freed into the structure of the craftworld itself where it is preserved forever within the psycho-conductive Wraithbone Infinity Circuit. Fortune, Executioner and Mind War still largely do what they’ve always done with minor tweaking – Fortune lets a unit ignore wounds on a 5+, good on the Avatar or a big bomb unit, Executioner is a very powerful Witchfire power that gets a bit of a targeting sidegrade (no longer hitting Characters with nine or fewer wounds at all, but now otherwise being freely targetable within 18”), and Mind War remains a funny but not actually good way to construct hilarious hypothetical combos to blow opposing Characters’ heads off. Burning Heat gives Fire Dragons the eye-catching bonus of automatically wounding within half range, but it’s hard enough to set up that you might just end up taking Blazing Fury for extra range instead.

That leaves Rangers, now forward deploying and with some anti-charge tech in the Wireweave Net , as your cheap Troops option. That’s fine , especially with Phantasm to redeploy as needed. You probably want access to a couple of units of these as a Craftworld player, and 3×5 lists probably do happen. Neither of the other two look terrible, but neither feels like they do enough to get the nod over these four (or some of the Craftworld-specific options). It’s nice to have good choices at last though!

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The rest of this section is fine, but not spectacular. Foot Autarchs have some cool builds, but aren’t any cheaper than bike ones if you take a mobility option, meaning Sunstorm probably leaves them in the dust. They also have the bizarre issue, as in Eldritch Omens, where the Autarch that’s on the cover of the codex isn’t a legal build. Yriel and Illic both still do some OK things, but Yriel is a foot Autarch with no mobility tools, and Illic is too highly priced to be a draw. Finally, if you just want the cheapest relevant HQ possible in some sort of skew build (or are going hard on Wraiths), Spiritseers exist. Both the Eldar standout special rules have been previewed on Warhammer Community, and both look decent. Finally, Mind War is your “assassination” power. It targets an enemy character within 18″ and has both you and that player roll a die and add it the model’s Leadership, with the target suffering a mortal wound for every point by which your total exceeds theirs. Although it can only hit characters (unlike effects such as Purge Soul), Eldar have a variety of ways to manipulate Leadership values and can easily tilt the dice in their favor to snipe off a key support model or bring down a nasty combat character with ease. Farseer Skyrunner, Warlord, Seer of the Shifting Vector, Spiritstones of Anath’lan, Guide, Doom, Will of Asuryan – 120