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Ok so I was trying out a Rune Priest spam list and my opponent was playing CSM. His DP cast Warp Time and he was within 24" of 2 of my Priests. Will this allow me to make 2 rolls @ 4+ to stop the power? General thought at the store was no, and there was mention of Hoods only allowing one attempt per attempted power use even if you had multiple Libbys. However this is just a radius effect and not actually a hood targeting the Psyker using the power so is it the same. As I said my store will probably continue to play it as no, and I am ok with that I am just curious to see what others think.

RAW you can but you'll get funny looks for doing it.

yeah, you can use as many as you want. runic weapons are NOT psychic hoods but instead are only similar. they don't have an opposed leadership roll and there is no limit in the codex, rulebook, faq, or errata that says you can only use one to negate a power. they're actually worse than psychic hoods since the SW librarian's leadership is 10 and they only negate on 4+. if i'm going up against an IG or DH or WH psyker with their leadership of 8-9, the normal psychic hood is actually better statisically. i'm guessing that is why they specifically left out the "only one per power" limitation since each one is individually crappier.

You can use as many as you want.

Try adding Njal to the mix as well...you can have 3 4+ rolls and his 3+....

Warboss I don't know what you are talking about.. I'd trade my librarians hood for the staff in an instant, the majority of psykers in game are ld 10 and if you both roll the same the opponent can still use his ability.

RAW You should be able to use all runic weapons which are in range...

Twalks wrote:Warboss I don't know what you are talking about.. I'd trade my librarians hood for the staff in an instant, the majority of psykers in game are ld 10 and if you both roll the same the opponent can still use his ability.

RAW You should be able to use all runic weapons which are in range...

you're partly right in that i forgot you have to beat the roll to negate it with hoods instead of with a tie. you're partly wrong in the majority part. IG primaris psykers? ld 9. IG psyker battle squad? ld 9. DH/WH inquisitor? Ld8 (can be increased by one with retinue) grey knight justicars? 9 4th edition marine librarians? (DA, BA) ld 9. Ork Zogwort? 8 Wierdboys? 7 (although they can use mob rules but i rarely see people field them inside squads). eldar warlocks? 8. there are plenty of ld10 psykers but the majority that you actually encounter (ratio for instance of warlocks to farseers in an eldar army and vanilla DA psykers to ezekiel) will be less.

Sure there are some, the majority are still LD 10. All chaos space marine pskers, daemons, and other marine chapters are all LD 10. GKT and non elite inquisitors also fall into this category.
The majority of psykers are still LD 10, while there are a few which are less, there are not that many.

i'd disagree that the majority are 10 but that's not the purpose of this thread so i'll just agree to disagree.

Overall how does Rune Priest Spam working?
Is it winning battles?

i've fielded 4 in a 2000pt battle and they're worth the points (especially if the opponent doesn't use a psychic hood or the eldar stones). basically, i dictate the movement of 4 enemy units via murderous hurricane. if he wants to move them, he has to take a dangerous terrain check. if he wants to assault, he's got to take another.

Additionally the 4 4+ saves, or usually 3, means that seer councils are unable to be fortuned so often - 3 in range means a 1/8 chance of getting the power off

Throwing njal in just makes things nastier!