Grey Knights need their own codex

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**Majesticgoat**

Kanluwen wrote:
Justicar Alaric wrote:Just to clear up a point about GK psychic powers and who uses them.

1. Their powers suck end of

2. Although all GK's are psychic it is at a very low level and most of their ability is directed towards maintaining their shield of faith. Most grey knights are not powerful enough to direct an aggressive psychic force. Brother Captains channel the pyschic power of their whole squad to cast holocaust simply because they are more experienced having been elevated to their current rank, Grand Masters are in effect company commanders and as such are far more experienced in directing what powers they have and as such are able to manifest these powers without having to call on the presence of a whole squad.

3. GK's are nowhere near as powerful as SM librarians until they have had many years to master their latent psychic abilities, if they were too powerful they would not be as effective at fighting against daemons because they would be easier to take over.

Negatory.

All Grey Knights go through Librarian levels of training before they're ever permitted on a mission.
In addition, they have to undergo the same rituals that Librarians and other sanctioned Psykers go through to ensure protection against possession. And it gets better from there, given that the Aegis suits are built with Daemonic possession in mind and incorporate wards against such an occurrence.

What source is this from? They for the most part subconsciously maintain a Shield of Faith and enhance their Nemesis Force Weapons and in being able to do so need to have significant latent psychic potential. Potential mastery of various psychic skils versus psychic potential may be where we need to make the distinction that a GK is not like a Librarian. Almost all of the Grey Knights in the Grey Knight novels only had passive psychic ability as described by Justicar Alaric in the quote. There was only one character in the omnibus that, when siphoning the collective faith of his brothers, could use Holocaust.

**Pyriel-**

Also, Heavy Weapons? The last thing we need is a 'shooty' GK army.

Why not, the CC orks can be decked out to be one of the games most powerful shooty armies.

The time for a GK codex or at least a new rule set for them is long over due.
The GKs are the single most underpowered and overpriced miniature (troop or fast) in the entire game of 40k.
If anyone out there wished to claim otherwise I´d really like to see some proof of that.