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. Apply thin layers to build up the color gradually and ensure the black basecoat still shows through in areas for a realistic effect.

GW does commit you pretty hard to the blood and fire theme, which is mostly being built into pieces without any of the obscured details being sculpted; given that we’ve had recent models like Abbadon with entire areas of sculpted detail that should, if built normally, never be seen, it might have been nice to do the same here and leave it a little more open so that hobbyists had some freedom to use the base model and switch up the theming. The sacrifice of the ancient mythological Aeldari culture hero Eldanesh, who allowed himself to be slain by Khaine rather than serve the war god and bring all of the Aeldari under his dominion, is still honoured amongst the Craftworld Aeldari when they need to go to war. The Avatar of Khaine– the literal embodiment of the Eldar god of war, given physical form by a ritual sacrifice. It’s not always easy to make 1-to-1 comparisons across codices, but it really seems to lack any significant advantages compared to them while actually having worse synergy within the book.

If you want to run one in casual games I think you can do pretty alright with it, it’s just not up to spec when it comes to taking top spots at tournaments. Choose this monstrously powerful HQ option for your Aeldari army and unleash devastation upon your enemies with the fiery representation of a shattered god, accompanied by three head options and three cosmetic variant weapons.

In this unboxing and review, I’ll take a closer look at what you can expect from this magnificent kit. That is very problematic, because while the Avatar is faster than some other MCs, it’s not particularly fast overall and so will struggle to be where you need it to.The Avatar increases potential max squad cap to 24 and vehicle cap to 30 (bear in mind that you will need additional Webway Gates to accompany the increase) and halves production times at Webway Assemblies and Aspect Portals. 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.

The result is the maximum number of inches each model in that unit can be moved if a Charge move is possible. They are always fun but usually I find its the other units like D scythes and seer council that shift the balance. Lastly, the Khaine Awakened ability lets us ignore morale and reroll charges with any Craftworld units that are within 12″ of the Avatar; twelve inches is actually a pretty big bubble in the scheme of things, but since morale generally isn’t a huge issue for Eldar it’s not as exciting as it might otherwise be. Rerolling charge distances is a cute trick, but it’s not often gonna tip a game and Eldar have a lot of ways to scoot around the board already; the extra 2-3″ of charge distance you get off the Avatar probably isn’t going to make a huge difference in the scheme of things compared to using Quicken, a jetbike, a transport, etc. If either the Leader unit or the Bodyguard unit in an Attached unit is destroyed, the Starting Strength of the remaining unit is changed to be equal to its original Starting Strength.Marko uses lush purples and fluorescent reds to create an eldritch, shimmering contrast that really sells the supernatural power of this fearsome warrior.

These bonuses only last while the Avatar is alive, so many players choose to leave him in their base. They sacrifice a powerful eldar ( the young king, leader of exarchs) then a long psychic ritual, the result is a war god with unholy bloodlust tearing gak up on the battlefield.EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, all melee attacks made by that model have the [PRECISION] ability. When you are satisfied with the results rolled, those remaining dice become your Fate dice for the battle.