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I am planning on adding "the shadow in the Warp" on my Hive Tyrant. Now it doesn't state a distance for how far this works or if i need to take a psychic test before using it. Now personaly i figure i wouldn't need to take a test or the opponent could just not use his psychis abilities in his turn, rendering this usless.....

i'm guess that it is in affect all game and covers the entire battle field? This includes; pinning, morale/leadership tests also??

oh, and finally this would null all "perils of the warp" for ALL playings in the game, right?

Nullz all perils of the warp, only effects psychic tests, not leadership tests like moral, pinning, etc. effective over whole board for duration of the game.

Really? not pinning or ld tests, the tyranid player at my local shop said to put it on my tyrant and put "psychic scream" on another tyrant along with 3 zoans and walk up the field pinning units within 18inches with a -4 to their ld/pinning tests and they must use 3 D6.?? wtf?

bastard.....

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Mr.Tangent wrote:Really? not pinning or ld tests, the tyranid player at my local shop said to put it on my tyrant and put "psychic scream" on another tyrant along with 3 zoans and walk up the field pinning units within 18inches with a -4 to their ld/pinning tests and they must use 3 D6.?? wtf?

bastard.....

He was wrong. Shadow in the warp affects the whole table, nullifies PotW and makes ENEMY PSYCHIC tests roll 3d6. Note that it nullifies PotW for you as well

Combining it with the Scream is good because it pretty much means the enemy wont be casting any powers (since they use their LD) and its good for making units fall back from shooting, even if it is done on 2d6. he was correct in that the enemy has -4 to ld (yeah, so, Mr Marine, roll 4 on 2d6. Oh a 7? Fall back ) but incorrect as only Psychic tests use "3d6 discard lowest"

Psychic Scream lowers the leadership of any unit within range by -1 and stack together. So the part about the penalty to the leadership (and therefore pinning) is correct.

However the shadow in the warp ONLY affects psychic tests and nothing else.

ok, i think i got it f*ed up, not him.

but i understand now.....