4/5 stars. The rules are rather good.
Background.
Once held up as the ideal to which all Emperor's Children should aspire to. Eidolon had a bit of a fatal flaw in his own over-confidence. This mutated in time to become arrogance which he would later suffer for. Yet at the time of the Heresy outbreak, he had already had sonic weaponry surgically put into place thanks to Fabius and crossed over the proverbial line, and wielded a warhammer gifted to him by Fulgrim himself.
Strengths.
The warhammer, Glory Aeterna, provides Eidolon with the mainstay of his offensive capability with S=6 hits at AP2 although at a small initiative penalty that you will hardly worry about. With the sonic shriekers, no one will be reacting to his charge though, and the death scream he can emit is nice for both breaching and pinning which will cause problems.
He also comes as standard with a jump pack which means he can get to where he needs to be very quickly indeed. He is almost a perfect leader for a speartip assault in many ways.
Weaknesses.
Not many for a praetor of his calibre except for the points cost - you will be fielding him in larger games, or concentrating a lot of points into high command at lower points.
Overall.
A character killer overall, and good at it outside of the Primarchs. Sure, there are other characters in other legions who he will struggle against, but he really is up there with the best of them when you factor in the Emperor's Children special rules.
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