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1: Is an Anointed Weapon an upgrade for a weapon, or another weapon in its own right?

2: How do Null Rods and Unguents of Warding work against persistant psychic powers, such as Veil of Tears?

3: Does Sanctuary prevent the whole squad from firing or assaulting, or just the psyker using it?

4: Can the Eversor fire the Needler part of his Executioner Pistol more than once?

Thanks,

Valkyrie

Valkyrie wrote:1: Is an Anointed Weapon an upgrade for a weapon, or another weapon in its own right?

2: How do Null Rods and Unguents of Warding work against persistant psychic powers, such as Veil of Tears?

3: Does Sanctuary prevent the whole squad from firing or assaulting, or just the psyker using it?

4: Can the Eversor fire the Needler part of his Executioner Pistol more than once?

Thanks,

Valkyrie

1) Weapon in it's own right.
2) Null Rod says any psychic powers whatsoever, so that includes ones that do not need a test or are persistent. Unguents of Warding will allow him to negate the effects of a Persistent psychic power on a 4+.
3) If the Unit moves, the Psyker counts as moving. Not 100% sure on Shooting.
4) RaW yes. A lot of people whine and say no though.

Ok thanks Gwar!

Rather than start a new thread, I'll stack on a Daemonhunter question.

These questions regard the Culexus assassin (p.27 Daemonhunters).

The Animus Speculum adds +1 to its assault value per psyker w/in 12". What would happen if the psyker was w/in 12" of 2 Wave serpents containing 10 warlocks each?
That's a 2 part question.
1a) Does the psyker need to be on field or can you measure from the Hull of the vehicle?
1b) Can the assault Value of the weapon exceed 10?

Once his comrades destroy a Wave Serpent, and he assaults the Warlocks, can he choose which psyker to assault? Can he then use Life drain on whichever model he pleases (the one with embolden for example).

2a) Can he assault any warlock in the squad? (not just the closest)
2b) Can life drain target a specific psyker? Doesn't need base contact either right?

Say things worked out differently, and those Warlocks are now shooting the Culexus. If there are 5 Destructors in the squad, and one fails it's LD test to fire a psychic test at the assassin (Etherium). Can the rest still fire on him, even though the one can no longer target him, and any weapons that are not firing need to be declared before the squad is fired?

3) Can Etherium prevent specific models in a squad from firing? Is this even a question, or am I over thinking it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Iboshi2 wrote:
The Animus Speculum adds +1 to its assault value per psyker w/in 12". What would happen if the psyker was w/in 12" of 2 Wave serpents containing 10 warlocks each?
That's a 2 part question.
1a) Does the psyker need to be on field or can you measure from the Hull of the vehicle?
1b) Can the assault Value of the weapon exceed 10?

1a) The answer you seek is found on Page 66 of the BRB, last sentence under Embarking (yeah, such an intuitive place I know). For 1b, yes, it may. Only Non-Armour Value, Non-Save Characteristics (i.e. WS, BS, S, T, W, I and A [Applies only to the base number of attacks]) are capped at 10. Nothing else is.

Once his comrades destroy a Wave Serpent, and he assaults the Warlocks, can he choose which psyker to assault? Can he then use Life drain on whichever model he pleases (the one with embolden for example).

2a) Can he assault any warlock in the squad? (not just the closest)
2b) Can life drain target a specific psyker? Doesn't need base contact either right?

He may choose to assault any Warlock in the squad, but he may only ignore Non psykers to get into BTB with a psyker. In Short, it cancels each other out and he must assault the closest Warlock. As for Life Drain, it does not say you can specificaly target a model, it just mentions being in close combat with a Psyker. I would call a result of "BatGak Crazy old Rules" and house rule this one, though from a RaW perspective it looks like it can go onto any psyker he is in combat with (so the opponent may choose)

Say things worked out differently, and those Warlocks are now shooting the Culexus. If there are 5 Destructors in the squad, and one fails it's LD test to fire a psychic test at the assassin (Etherium). Can the rest still fire on him, even though the one can no longer target him, and any weapons that are not firing need to be declared before the squad is fired?

3) Can Etherium prevent specific models in a squad from firing? Is this even a question, or am I over thinking it?

You are over thinking it It says the UNIT takes a Ld test, so you only take 1 Test for the Unit. If it passes, they can all fire/. If they fail, they can target a different unit. In the case of Non Shooting Attack Powers, each individual Psyker makes the LD test.

Thanks Gwar!, also in an attempt to make the 3rd question more complicated, how does Emolden help the warlocks out? Would they have to roll a LD test to use Embolden for a rr?

"Embolden is Available Permanently" and it does not target the Assassin, so he would not have to take a Ld test.

Thank You.

You can still shoot with the squad when Sanctuary is on. This power to me is more for Inquisitors, and I see this as you might when you open the front cover of the Daemonhunters Codex. He is surrounded by thousands of Daemons pouring from the warp. Slap up sanctuary and everyone in your squad is blocked from being seen or assaulted! Which means, as long as you keep passing the Sanctuary, your unit just fires into the crowd without a chance of being hit back.

Some call this broken, as in.. how do Daemons win then? If they can't break in. And to that I say.. well, it's a psyker using it, so if he fails his test, you win, this doesn't save any of his other units, so ignore him and wait for him to slip up by not using it.

Needler can always fire as far as I'm concerned because there is no quotation of it being otherwise. It is not referenced like the bullets under the Vindicare's heading.

My question is, since the Aegis was used to take out minor psychic powers, and minor psychic powers no longer exist (FAQ)... does that mean we get not natural block to Psychic attacks? We MUST take a Psychic hood to block powers?

Bloody 'eck you guys run me ragged don't ya!



The Aegis still works as written against normal Psychic powers. Roll a Dice, add LD and if that beats the Psykers Ld+D6 roll, the power fails. Note you can use The Aegis OR a Hood, not both.

If the Daemonhost rolls a "Warp Strength" result, do you roll seperatly or together for the Strength and Toughness changes ?

Valkyrie wrote:If the Daemonhost rolls a "Warp Strength" result, do you roll seperatly or together for the Strength and Toughness changes ?

Together. Roll 1D3 and add the result to both S and T.