However, you have to consider this in the context of the expected buffs as well- Craftworlds have access to both Empower and Doom, and combined the two of them mean that swords will wound anything 75% or better, no matter how high its toughness value. While this can’t always be presumed to be in effect, they’re still a relevant consideration and I think tilt the calculation significantly towards the swords.

Hey guys Cavalier here, commission painter for Frontline Gaming and co-host of Splintermind the Dark Eldar podcast. After a long, long time of playtesting I thought I’d share my five favorite units to use with the new Ynnari. To get specifically into Wraithblades and trade off with CWE the thing I like about them is you dont need 3-4 different expensive characters having to get psychic powers to get them to do their job. Also unlike the CWE you really dont want to take 10 blades with a 3-4 characters buffing them. You really only want 1 unit with the Visarch standing near them and a strat on standby to get re-roll wounds and a single psyker to give them (and anything within 6″ which is huge) a 5++ if you went with dual swords.Druhkari Wyches certainly get a buff from Ynnari (although I think army wide Str4 for them from Cursed Blade is arguably better). Kabals get objectively worse as they are primarily shooting based and lose their obsessions. Harlequins give up very little to become Ynnari (although losing access to their stratagems is a bit of a hindrance, as is giving up the move twice spell, the solitaire, and ignore overwatch potential). Whether those versions are better than the pure versions is debatable, but I think a good player could pilot either version to victory. However, I don’t know if the Ynnari buffs to these two factions will do much to change their competitive ranking. Harlequins, whether Ynnari or pure, are still harlequins. What’s more, the overall army bonus just feels niche beyond all reason. Eldar and DE both tend far more towards shooty units (and DE isn’t even permitted to bring its most effective melee units in a Ynnari detachment), and the latter’s PfP makes the bonus to hit from Soulburst entirely redundant. The axe and shield seems such a no brainer, am I missing something??? Not only is the 4++ a massive thing in these latest editions of leafblower 40k, it's a cheaper build!?!?!? I keep expecting that too change. (Maybe it has and I missed it? Strengths: Anyone that has ever used Wraithblades knows that they are super tanky. At T6, 3W, 3+, 4++ (using the shields) - that alone makes them very tough to shift. I have been running a big squad of 10 of these things, and it's been fun watching my friends struggle to deal with them. The new dex added to this tankiness by giving them -1D... this is phenomenal. Many weapons in the game, certainly combat weapons, are D2 and D3 - so the -1D to each Wraith takes things that would need to wound them twice up to three times to kill one, and things that would normally outright kill one to now needing to wound them twice.

It’s a classic case of: build an army around them, you’ll be disappointed; use them to fill a niche and they’ll do wonders. From the stoic ranks of the Wraithguard to the towering war machines known as Wraithknights, the formidable Ghost Warriors are only used in times of desperation -- for there is a greater darkness about them. They are a walking reminder that, for the Craftworld Aeldari, death offers no release from war and bloodletting. Though every Asuryani craftworld will at some point be forced to call upon the souls of their fallen heroes to fight once again, one of the craftworlds particularly noted for using large numbers of Ghost Warriors and necromantic Spiritseers is Iyanden. Hey bud thanks! Yeah Wyches are a natural. They are a bit over looked currently (although they out performed other Drukhari at LVO) but I’ve loved them all edition long. But Footslogging them is really tough in a Ynnari list. You really need the anti-infantry support of the Venom. Stormies aren’t bad on foot because they are so low-priority and if you are going up against Orks and Genestealer Cult (or any mass assault on the regs) you can equip them flamers and take advantage of fights first and not worry too much about it.Only in times of dire need, when large armies are required to avert disaster, and the living are not sufficient to fill the Asuryani's ranks, do the Ghost Warriors march into battle as a single force, for it is considered blasphemy to disturb so many Aeldari souls. Should an impenetrable bastion need opening up, or swathes of Imperial troops need holding away from a sacred, ancient temple, the Ghost Warriors offer their craftworld a whole new level of resilience and firepower. edition is out in the wild, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. Today, we take a glance at the biggest losers of the late stages of 8th Edition. Can they reclaim the galaxy and/or the top tables with the new Edition? Absolutely not, but we’re going to talk about them anyway! More importantly though, they can actually do something with their Psychic Phase now! The Wraithseer’s interaction with the psychic phase is bizarre, one of the many rules in the Forge World Indexes that was a complete hot mess, and was restricted to powers so useless that unless you had Wraithblades it was often better to pass on casting them than to risk a perils. Once you have selected an eligible unit to declare a charge, you must select one or more enemy units within 12" of it as the targets of that charge. The targets of a charge do not need to be visible to the charging unit. Only in times of great need are the Asuryani dead stirred from their slumber in the Infinity Circuits and brought to battle.

In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them. Today we take a look at the Craftworld Iyanden, a craftworld devastated by Tyranid Hive Fleets and whose forces now consist more of Agreed about the Visarch being overpriced. Yvraine seems okay (can’t stand her model, though). I’d quite like to give the Yncarne a go but he seems absurdly expensive compared to stuff like Daemon Princes. The Wave Serpent is a must for these guys. A single unit of 5 with a Serpent with Vectored Engines (advance on T1 to get a -1 to hit) was really great. The Serpent is also great for just jumping out, assaulting units like tanks and the like to shut down return fire in subsequent turns. Also it can be used to help trap units in combat without support from the Wyches. The only time I had trouble getting SfD to trigger was when we were playtesting against FW Custodes and I was playing pure Reborn CWE. When you have blasters and blast pistols dotted across your army, or are using Harlies with fusion and haywire it really mitigates a lot of ahat (which are awesome with Ynnari as the combat abilities of the bikes really spike). Yes you are giving up a lot of CW stuff (and things I think should have translated over) but again you are getting stuff like re-roll wounds, hitting on 2’s re-rolling 1’s and fight first which are major game winning abilities especially against horde combat armies like genestealer cult, orks etc. Howling Banshees? I don’t think you listed a single thing that wasn’t already available to them via normal Eldar.The thing with Wraithblades is you are trading the defense from CWE (which takes a lot of successful psychic tests on expensive characters) for excellent offense. Dont get me wrong, Doom is great. But Ynnari have access to 2 combat versions of doom, one thru strat, one thru psychic powers and if you go Harlies you can use a Troupe Master to get even more doom with his re-roll wound bubble (and Harlies hitting on 2’s re-rolling 1’s with the Visarch, re-rolling wounds without any strats or psychic powers are excellent). The great measure of control afforded by this gestalt mind gives the pilot mastery over the construct's psychically-powered weapon systems and affords the war machine an acrobatic grace that belies its massive size.

The helm-crested Wraithblades can be made with either a pair of ghostswords – there are five different pairs in the set – or with a ghost axe and forceshield.

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Third, again, as a DE player, if I go Ynnari, I can again field kabal and cult units without actually losing my detachment traits. This is actually a fairly big shift for me to wrap my head around… I can take a venom of warriors and of wyches and still benefit from the fight first SfD… But the important thing is, the Thousand Sons and Grey Knights are indeed both getting a new codex in the coming months! In fact, you can take a look at their stunning covers right here.