Guardian Defenders

Aeldari datasheet · 11 models — 90 points

Guardian Defenders are versatile support troops capable of unleashing withering hails of fire from their shuriken catapults. They also man anti‐grav Heavy Weapon Platforms that can be fitted with various powerful guns to sunder enemy armour or mow down swathes of infantry.

Statline

	M	T	Sv	W	Ld	OC
GUARDIAN DEFENDER	7"	3	4+	1	7+	2
HEAVY WEAPON PLATFORM	7"	3	4+	2	7+	0

Ranged weapons

	Range	A	BS/WS	S	AP	D
Bright lance	36"	1	3+	12	-3	D6+2
Missile launcher – starshot	48"	1	3+	10	-2	D6
Missile launcher – sunburst [BLAST]	48"	D6	3+	4	-1	1
Scatter laser [SUSTAINED HITS 1]	36"	6	3+	5	0	1
Shuriken cannon [LETHAL HITS]	24"	3	3+	6	-1	2
Shuriken catapult [ASSAULT]	18"	2	3+	4	-1	1
Starcannon	36"	2	3+	8	-3	2

Melee weapons

	Range	A	BS/WS	S	AP	D
Close combat weapon	—	1	3+	3	0	1

Abilities

Fleet of Foot

This unit can perform the Fade Back Agile Manoeuvre without spending a Battle Focus token to do so. It can do so even if other units have done so in the same phase, and doing so does not prevent other units from performing the same Agile Manoeuvre in the same phase.

Crewed Platform

When the last Guardian Defender model in this unit is destroyed, any remaining Heavy Weapon Platform models in this unit are also destroyed.

Unit composition

• 10 Guardian Defenders
• 1 Heavy Weapon Platform

Keywords

Infantry, Battleline, Aeldari, Guardian Defenders, Guardians, Grenades, Asuryani