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Just a couple of quick (possibly obvious) questions relating to GKs

Can GKs activate their force weapons "for free", or do they still need to have an unused psychic power - ie if a unit of GKs with PWs is allowed 1 psychic power per turn, can they assault - cast hammerhand - and then activate their force weapons? I presume no

What if theres a second IC psycher in the unit? Can the unit cast hammerhand and the IC activate all force weapons across the squad or only for himself? Does this differ if the IC hammerhands the squad and then the squad activates everyones force weapons? I presume theres no difference between these two versions and in both cases everything is hammerhanded, and everything has an active FW (assuming all psychic tests go through).

For the first question, no. You need an unspent psychic power to activate ID. The second, I'm not sure, but I think (and I'm probably wrong here), if the IC is at a higher initiative then, he could activate ID for the entire unit he is with. If he is at a lower Initiative then the squad (and the squad hammerhanded), then he would not be able to.

If the group does not have a character with a higher psyker level then they ONLY get 1 psy power so they cannot due hammer hand and insta death. If they have a libby or someone with a psy rating of 2, 3 etc then they can ctivate more then one power. Also the only way they can do one roll for the entire squad is if the model used as the power focus has brotherhood of psykers otherwise they each have to make a test.

Eeps wrote:Just a couple of quick (possibly obvious) questions relating to GKs

Can GKs activate their force weapons "for free", or do they still need to have an unused psychic power - ie if a unit of GKs with PWs is allowed 1 psychic power per turn, can they assault - cast hammerhand - and then activate their force weapons? I presume no

No, GK can still only use one psychic power a turn. Activating a force weapon is using a psychic power.

What if theres a second IC psycher in the unit? Can the unit cast hammerhand and the IC activate all force weapons across the squad or only for himself?

No. The ICs don't have the "Brotherhood of Psykers" rule so they can't activate the GK force weapons.

Does this differ if the IC hammerhands the squad and then the squad activates everyones force weapons?

Yes this works as hammerhand affects the entire unit. After that GK use "Brotherhood of Psykers" to activate their force weapons.

As above. It is still a separate psychic power, as defined on page 50 of the BRB, just "Brotherhood of psykers", which GKT / Strike Squads etc have, lets one test activate all of their powers.

An IC can only ever activate HIS force weapon, never a unit he is attached to, as he lacks BoP

So yes, it makes a difference - to get the +1S AND the squad having ID weapons the IC wold have to cast hammerhand and the unit cast ID, potentially automatically if they take a brotherhood banner.

There is one unt which CAN do both, but it requires the Justicar special character Thawn to be there - he has Mastery 2, so he can cast Hammerhand without using up the "squads" psychic power for that turn