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I have three IG Psykers, and have been using them lately. Here's the issue I ran into.

I've looked into the rule book and the IG codex, when I roll for the psyker power, do I roll once at the beginning of the game, or each turn?

At the beginning of the game, before you assign them to squads.

Mer.... well that makes me not want to take em... but thanks, appreciate the answer.

Heh, what do you expect for a lousy 12 points? They're really an odd unit. I'll let you decide what I mean by "odd".

Personally, I think the best use for them is twelve points of "Shoot this unit first. No really, it can do scary things. Shoot it first!" Like a lot of obscure units, I think a lot of players get a little twitchy about seeing them on the field, and decide they are dangerous completely out of proportion.
Personally, I think they are pretty much unusable in a competitive sense, but are sort of neat in fun games. The minis are cool at least.

They could have been maybe usefulish if they didn't cost a doctorine to use....

Yeah for some reason they are intimidating. I think its cause everyone plays marines and thier psykers are rediculous. OUrs suck. I did know of the Jedi psyker. Give him that medal that makes them like an HSO then hardened fighters for WS5 and then give them that Force weapon. Heard its effective as a hero killer. Have not tried it myself. Too bad they suck cause the models are so cool. I used to be a bigger fan of the priest personally.

I made said jedi for a fun list but they cost something like 60+ never used him yet