After decades stuck in the lore and nowhere on the tabletop, the Aeldari Exodites are finally getting models. Games Workshop's Big Summer Preview revealed the dragon-riding space elves as a new boxed set for Kill Team, the company's small-scale skirmish game of a few models a side rather than a full army, and for long-suffering Aeldari fans this is the reveal of the show.
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Start organising for freeA quick refresher for the uninitiated: the Exodites are the Aeldari who saw the Fall coming and fled through the Webway before their civilisation collapsed, settling wild maiden worlds and riding great dragon-like beasts called drakesteeds. They have been name-checked in Warhammer 40,000 fiction for years without a single official miniature to their name, so seeing them sculpted at last is a genuine event.
The box gives you a squad of Exodite Dragon Masters, which build as one of three roles: Clanblades who wade into close combat, Stonesingers who throw out psychic powers, and Leystalkers who provide the ranged firepower, alongside smaller Drakolithe beasts. Facing them is a warband of Ork Beast Snagga Boyz and Squighog Boyz who have crashed the party to hunt big game. There is a lore dossier and 20 branching Joint Ops missions to play through, and the Dragon Masters can also be built as lance-armed Dragon Knights with full rules for Warhammer 40,000, so this is a foothold for the army rather than a one-box curiosity.
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Find events near youGames Workshop says pre-orders are coming soon, though no firm date has been set. If you have been waiting years for lizard-riding Aeldari, the wait is nearly over.
Sources: Warhammer Community | Wargamer
