Editing Ethereal (section)

== 8th Edition ==

And now, the times have changed again. Model options remain mostly the same as 6th edition: Ethereals are HQ choices which you can theoretically take as your warlord, they can have a hover drone, and they can switch out their S5 toothpick for S3 power butterknives which increase your attack characteristic by one. Though their WS is a nice 3+, they have a 5+ save, 4 wounds, and only T3.

Ethereals have neat abilities that make them at least worth taking on occassion: a 6" aura for allowing units to use his leadership when rolling Morale tests, and and aura buff affect, of which you can choose one per ethereal per phase, until the next battleround. Two of them are utter garbage, which involve -1 for morale test results and reroll advances, which work better on Breachers than anything else.

The juicy ones are the abilities that give reroll 1's to stationary units in the shooting phase, and the other that grants a 6+ FNP to all Battlesuits and Infantry nearby. Kroot and Vespid will never benefit from either, but the latter gives your Riptide a chance to shrug off the mortal wound from the Nova Reactor, adds extra bubblewrap to your Broadsides, makes your troops that much slightly harder to kill, and adds a safeguard bonus to the ethereal if he takes a wound. The former allows your markerlight chain to have insurance in case of a miss, and is especially useful on a Cadre Fireblade or Firesight marksmen. It is redundant after the markerlights go off, but its there if you need it.

All in all they are fairly ok, but the named character ethereals are generally better choices.

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