Swooping Evasion gives a Crimson Hunter Exarch a 5+ invulnerable save, and at the point you’re putting one in your list the extra premium here for BS2+, an extra wound and an invulnerable save is fine just on rate. The mind of an Asuryani warrior or Seer is like a bright beacon in the murk of realspace, a guiding light which enables a Ghost Warrior to perceive the world around it. It is common practice for a Wraithlord to be accompanied in battle by a Spiritseer, an expert in matters ethereal who steers the Ghost Warrior to ever greater feats of destruction. 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. Traveling Players allows you to bring a Harlequin Patrol with no penalty, with some deeper integration that gives you wide flexibility in accessing things like Warlord traits

Wraiths are mostly terrifying but expensive, though Wraithlords may have some pretty efficient builds.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.

Making good Battalions has always been a challenge for the Asuryani, and this book is no different. Guardians and Storm Guardians both go up to 4+ saves, get AP on their weapons, and conditional re-roll 1s to hit (Defenders if they’re holding an objective, Storm Guardians if their target is), and that’s all neat, but a starting price tag of 90pts for ten Defenders, going up by at least 20 if you bring a platform, makes them pretty pricey for what you’re likely to get out of them. Storm Guardians are slightly cheaper, and bringing their fancy new Serpentscale Shield gives them some good anti-shooting defences, but that’s also 20pts meaning a squad jumps to 100. It feels like filling out armies with these is going to need you to take a Webway Gate, and at least there being able to reliably dump ten Storm Guardians onto an objective on turns two and three might be worthwhile, but it feels like in both cases the platforms could maybe have borne starting at a lower price.Summoned into being by the necromantic processes of the Asuryani Spiritseers, only a true hero of the Aeldari people has psychic power enough to animate the gigantic wraithbone shell of a Wraithlord.

If the animating spirit specialised in fire support, the Ghost Warrior's energy core will instead be rerouted to power a devastating array of heavy weapons that sprout from its shoulders or are carried in its huge fists with all the ease that a Dire Avenger wields a Shuriken Catapult. However, the Wraithguard suffer from a phenomenon known as "Wraithsight" which alters their perception of the world from that of mortals, and causes them to react more slowly to changes on the battlefield. As a result, they are often led by spiritseers, Eldar psykers who specialize in guiding and summoning the souls of the dead. The Wraithguard are also fearless in battle due to the nature of their bodies and undead souls. [2] The most feared and wrathful of the Wraithguards are known as Wraithblades, specializing in close-quarters combat. [3] Hunters of Ancient Relics – Action and Shoot army-wide, good in a Windrider-heavy list with the above.

Silks’ Method

I’m still working on expanding the army. My next goal is to get it to 1,000 points, and I’m almost there. I’d like to push it beyond that, if my friends and I don’t get distracted, which is a distinct possibility – venturing into the Mortal Realms has been mentioned more than once… It’s been a while since I painted Biel Tan minis (what with last year mostly being a year of skeletons) but happily the last one I put together is one of my very favourites, and shows off my current technique nicely. Autarch. Credit: Wings Autarch. Credit: Wings For combat a Wraithseer is always equipped with a Wraithspear and Wraithshield, and may also arm themselves with a Bright Lance, Scatter Laser, Eldar Missile Launcher, Starcannon or D-Cannon. Their psyker abilities are also quite potent, allowing them to assist friend and hamper foe. Wraithseers have been known to cloud their enemies' minds with the terror of death, enliven the spirit stones of ghost warriors around them to inspire fresh vigour, and alter fate to protect themselves and their charges. [1] Known Wraithseers This newly imbued Spirit Stone can then be bonded with the wraithbone of a large robotic construct. The merging of an Aeldari soul and machine results in the birth of a powerful Ghost Warrior.