Gaurdian

Eldar Guardian Page

Guardians are the standard troops that make up the bulk of the eldar forces in the forty first century. They are ordinary eldar that have been trained to fight and they are called to arms whenever the craft world is in danger.

Guardians are generally overlooked by many gamers, this could be for a number of reasons.

They are more expensive to collect due to their low points cost.
They lack the glamour of the aspect warriors.
They have little space devoted to them in the codex.
They have no characters or special characters.

I hope to redress the balance a little with this page. The eldar guardians are to the eldar what the imperial guard are to the imperium, so it does make sense for them to have some kind of command structure. This will be more flexible than that of the imperial guard and will not extend to such a high level, as the farseer is the standard commander for craftworld forces.

Squads Guardian Squad Leader- A guardian squad may be lead into battle by a highly experienced and skilled harlequin squad leader. This guardian has been a veteran of many campaigns and he/she may have once been an aspect warrior. In fact, these squad members are often 'women' eldar who have given up their warrior lives (usually as howling banshees) to follow a more peaceful path. These warriors are a very important part of the eldar defensive forces and are involved in the crucial role of organizing the guardians of the craftworld quickly in times of need.

	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Basic Points Cost
Guardian Squad Leader	5	4	4	3	3	1	5	1	9	13

Weapons- Lasgun

Armour- Mesh Armour

A guardian squad may include a guardian squad leader. The squad leader counts as a squad member and is not considered to be a character model. The usual rules apply concerning the armament of the squad. The guardian squad leader may not take any wargear cards.

Characters

Guardian Lieutenant- A guardian lieutenant is the highest rank available within the guardian forces. It bridges the gap between the mighty farseers and the guardian squad leaders. This is a position of great importance as it is very beneficial to the farseer to be able to delegate tasks to subordinates.

	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Basic Points Cost
Guardian Lieutenant	5	5	5	4	4	2	6	2	10	28

Weapons- None

Armour- Mesh Armour

Your army may contain one guardian lieutenant for every three guardian squads (and multiples thereof) it contains. The guardian lieutenant may lead armies of up to a maximum of 1500 points, provided that at least half of the points cost of the army is from guardians (including squads, characters and special characters, anti grav platforms and guardian piloted vehicles) and that the army does not contain a farseer, exarch, phoenix lord or avatar. The guardian lieutenant has a strategy rating of three.

The guardian lieutenant may take additional equipment from the assault, special, grenades and armour sections of the army list. He may also take up to one wargear card.

Special Characters

Guardian Lieutenant Haxen- Haxen is an experienced guardian lieutenant from the Ulthwe craftworld. He has fought many times under the famous eldar farseer, Eldrad. He is an expert strategist and he is well known for leading daring raids against the enemies of the craftworld. He employs lightening speed in his attacks and often enemy commanders do not know what is happening until it is too late. Due to his many successes in battle he is greatly admired by the eldar guardians under his command.

	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Basic Points Cost
Guardian Lieutenant	5	6	6	4	4	3	7	3	10	72

Weapons,

Laspistol (1 point)
Power Sword (6 points)

Armour,

Mesh Armour
Refractor Field (6 points)

Your army must contain three guardian squads in order to take Haxen. He may lead armies of up to a maximum of 2000 points, provided that at least half of the points cost of the army is from guardians (including squads, characters and special characters, anti grav platforms and guardian piloted vehicles) and that the army does not contain a farseer, phoenix lord or avatar. Haxen has a strategy rating of four. In addition, If Haxen is in your army, when rolling to see which side goes first you may roll two dice and choose the highest score.

Haxen may also take up to two wargear cards. These must always be a scanner (1 point) and digi lasers (6 points).

TOTAL COST including weapons and wargear = 92 points

Eldar / Warhammer 40k / Home