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Doing a campaign with a friend with progressing characters, so I thought I'd be fluffy and use Farsight.
I used the Farsight Enclaves fluff as basis for these.

Shas'Ui "Shoh" Shovah[60pts]
WS3 BS4 S3 T3 W1 A2 LD9 SV4+ IN(ch)
Pulse Rifle Markerlight Combat Armor Photon Grenades
Split Fire
Supporting Fire
Rising Star: Shoh's unit rerolls 1s to hit and wound. In addition they have stealth.
Observe and Adapt: At the start of the controlling player's turn: Declare one of the following: (Lasts until start of next turn.
Chargers: Overwatch at BS2
Shelterd Targets: Declare one enemy unit with LoS. Unit rerolls cover saves if shot at by Shoh's unit.
Anti-Armour Protocols: The weapons unit Shoh's unit become heavy 1 and gain rending.

Broadside Shas'Vre Shovah "The Young Executioner"[90pts]
wS3 BS4 S5 T4 W2 I2 A2 Ld9 SV2+ IN(ch)
Broadside Battlesuit
TL Heavy Rail Rifle
TL Plasma Rifle
Advanved Targeting System

Extremely Bulky
Supporting Fire
Monster Hunter/Tank Hunter
View from Above: If a friendly Tau infantry(not broadsides) is wiped out within 12" of Shovah's unit, it must take a Ld test with a -1 penalty for each unit destroyed within 12". If the test is failed, the unit becomes BS2 in their coming shooting phase.

XV8 Shas'Vre Shovah "The Vigilant Shield"[100pts + Systems]
WS3 BS4 S5 T4 W3 I2 A2 Ld9 SV3+
Crisis Suit Shield Generator
Supporting Fire
Very Bulky
Defiant Protector - Shovah automatically passes LoS! rolls. When normally unable to, Shovah can perform a LoS on a 3+
In addition Shovah has Eternal Warrior and FNP(5+) for LoS wounds.

I don't get the conditional Eternal Warrior, that makes no sense.

So only when he is protecting someone is he immune to getting gibbed by a lascannon, but if you just shoot him with a lascannon, he gets gibbed?

Makes no sense, gameplay or fluff wise.

 curran12 wrote:
I don't get the conditional Eternal Warrior, that makes no sense.

So only when he is protecting someone is he immune to getting gibbed by a lascannon, but if you just shoot him with a lascannon, he gets gibbed?

Makes no sense, gameplay or fluff wise.

Eternal Warrior doesn't make any sense. Don't try to assign rationale to a rule that prevents you from dying instantly.

 curran12 wrote:
So only when he is protecting someone is he immune to getting gibbed by a lascannon, but if you just shoot him with a lascannon, he gets gibbed?

Worse of all, this is actually canon! Farsight can survive horrible injuries... as long as he is protecting someone else with his own body!

I know Dakka has a lot of hate for Eternal Warrior in self-made characters unless you're a Space Marine where it's just wargear anyone can buy.

Here was my rational: You're Paying 100pts for a 66% chance to Survive a Krak Missile or Lascannon wound allocated on a character. On the off chance it gets through, it's only a 2 wound model. Iridium Armor with Stimms accomplish the same thing for less than half the cost. The only real place this will make a difference is with Force and special ID causing weapons.

Also Crisis Units are 3 suits max excluding ICs. So shots from 2/3 directions would completely nullify this rule.

If even that's too much, then I guess I'll talk to my opponent before dropping it.

Finally, a naked human, Yarrick has Eternal Warrior whereas A mech with a soul-sucking sword doesn't, logic has no real place in 40k.

Cool idea. I wish they had put this sort of thing in the Enclaves book

I like the progression, these rules seem acceptable in my opinion.

Sounds awesome to me!