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So what azrael does? He costa 225p, he is not that special (costs as much as ghrazkull thraka, wow good spelling ) but i think chapter banner is really awesome and 4+ invurenable save to his squad can be really useful. So is he worth it and if not and i still want to use him, How should i use him?

If you're playing apoc, get him and stick him in a unit of vanilla honour guard.

Otherwise, leave him at home--he's really nothing special. 5 Attacks is good and solid and he'll make one squad a little tougher, but otherwise he's only ok. He needs to be combined with artificer-armoured models (or Death Company) in order to really shine.

When new FAQ came out and 3+ inv. are availble he loses purpose to be in normal games. In apoc maby to spend some points.

How many points do you play? What is your army theme? What does your army list look like?

Seriously, just asking people to assess a unit's worth in a vacuum will just lead to plenty of contradicting advice; help us help you by helping us.

L. Wrex

He used to make a mess of lightning claw terminators a much tougher unit, but now you have to weight it against Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields.

Compared to a 225pt Dante he is not worth it.

In a codex of mostly overpriced special characters, most of whom have an apparently random and utterly non-synergistic set of stats, wargear, and special rules, Azrael is a worthy Grand Master, being even more overpriced and random than the others.

He's meant for CC, but has a combi-plasma and no Relentless, so he'll probably never use his gun. He gives his whole unit a 4+ invulnerable save, but the only decent CC units in the DA army can fairly easily get a 3+ already.

I'd consider putting him in a LR with LC/LC termies (maybe one with heavy flamer) or Veterans, but you're still talking about paying way over the odds. There's just no real situation where you're not better off spending those 225 pts on almost all of another 235 pt 5 thunder hammers, 1 Cyclone, terminator squad.