Exemplar Warder Elias Gade

A decorated war hero of the Exemplar errants, Warder Elias Gade leads his team of pious knights on crucial missions into enemy territory. Operating far from the Protectorate of Menoth, Gade relies on a lifetime of battlefield experience and his unshakable faith to secure victory. The whistling of his blessed crossbow bolts have presaged the deaths of countless unbelievers, and by his hand many more will fall.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Advance Deployment
• Template:Pathfinder
• Template:Call to Sacrifice
• Template:Prey
• Template:Quick Work
• Template:Sniper
• Template:True Sight

Weapons

• Heavy Crossbow (x2) - 10" range, POW 10 ranged weapons.
  • Template:Magical Damage
  • Template:Blessed
• Bayonet (x2) - 0.5" reach, P+S 9 melee weapons
  • Template:Weapon Master

Theme Forces

• Protectorate
  • Template:Exemplar Interdiction. He gains Aegis in this theme.
  • Template:The Creator's Might. He gains Reposition [3] in this theme.

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can use this model in the Template:Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Feora is leading the army.

Thoughts on Elias Gade

Elias Gade in a nutshell

Gade is a potent combat solo. With Advance Deployment, Pathfinder, Prey, Sniper, True Sight, and a pair of magical crossbows, both of which are rocking Weapon Master bayonets, the good Mister Gade is built for one thing: dealing death. Specifically, Gade deals death to his Prey no matter where they might try to hide and with terrifying accuracy. He is Exemplar Interdiction's tool for dealing with ranged stealth solos such as Eiryss.

Combos & Synergies

He requires little to no support from other Errants or even his warcaster. And is thus an auto include in both Exemplar Interdiction and Creator's Might, because he fill a niche no other model fills in those themes.

• Exemplar Errants - Only available in Exemplar Interdiction, but they are a great at keeping him alive thanks to Call to Sacrifice.
• The Exemplar Errant Seneschal gives him Unyielding, for all that is worth.
• High Exemplar Gravus keeps him from getting knocked down or made stationary and can take his soul when he dies.
• Severius0 can push his RAT to effective 10 (12 with aim) with two POW13 blessed shots against his Prey target. But even just RAt 8 against non-Prey targets is amazing. Which, when paired with True Sight, makes him a very efficient solo hunter. In return Gade is an excellent model to trigger Road to War with, thanks to Sniper.
• Visgoth Juviah Rhoven & Honor Guard - If you ever encounter something with a defensive rule True Sight does not ignore, Rhoven can upgrade it to Eyeless Sight instead.

Caster synergies

• High Exemplar Kreoss - He can pop his feat an knock down a bunch of models which Gade can pick of with his crossbows.
• Grand Exemplar Kreoss - Give him Tough while in his command range
• Grand Scrutator Severius - He also has Eye of Menoth for extra damage and accuracy, as well as Vision to keep him alive.
• Feora, the Conquering Flame - Incite is best taken advantage of by guns, and obviously Gade has two of those! With Sevy0, that's a casual +3/+3 to his offences.
• Feora the Forsaken - She is all about her tally of big hulking warjacks, so Elias is a great insurance she does not lose on scenario by being a fast scoring and contesting piece. Him triggering Road to War for her makes this combo even better.
• Anson Durst, Rock of the Faith can get use out of him to unjam his jacks ad hold areas, while providing him increased survivability in return, ARM18 is not going to turn him into some unassailable tank, but it helps against blasts and bounces, it might save you one call to sacrifice and it's for free.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Outside of his Prey target, he doesn't hit that much harder than his Exemplar Errant brothers. He is purpose build to hunt Single Wound Infantry and solos, so unless you player on a lot of buffs, don't expect him to crack ARM.
• His only survival mechanic outside of Creator's Might, where he gains Reposition, is killing models in units which tend to serve as your front line.

Tricks & Tips

• Although he's mainly a ranged combat solo, he's still a weapon master in melee and hits as hard as a Knight Exemplar in melee against his Prey target - he can do a surprising amount of damage on the charge (although don't expect him to live through the next turn if you do so).

Other

Trivia

• Released in an Insider article 2017.10
• Didn't go through CID before his initial launch.
• During the Exemplar CID, he was given Desperate Pace, but before the end of the cycle, it was replaced by Sniper.