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Title pretty much says it all. I am curious to see what everyone's opinion is about using a psychic discipline that, while it has some pretty cool powers in it, will result in a lot more perils of the warp issues. I was thinking of letting Ezekiel take Sanctic powers to give my DA a boost in an upcoming tournament. I will be running a Librarius conclave, so I will have other powers too.

Well, I only use Sanctic on my GKs, and never use Sanctic on my non-GKs, because perils on any doubles rather than on 6s sucks.

SJ

What jeff said....Ive always wanted to use it for my orks and green tide...But not havent done it yet since i have only one weirdboy

I've done it with eldar and rune priests. It's worth the risk when it works...which is most of the time. Perils doesn't scare or bother me much at all and the reward is usually game changing...

that's my .02

The ork table is just better than sanctic daemonology. +2 str is better than +1a (in most circumstances) but only marginally so, and the rest of the powers are either redundant or better suited for orks. The sanctic primaris is useless, even against many daemon lists, whereas you can generally rely on the ork primaris to at least pay for the cost of the weirdboy.

Malefic sounds like it would be better. Perils won't matter as much when you become a Daemon.

Fluffy? no - but hella fun!

I use it with my Shadowseers every once in a while.

Strength 5 Harlies Yaaay.

Depends on your list and what you're playing.

Sanctuary is gold if you've already got a 3+ (Stormshield) or 4+ (Tzeentch Termies/TSons/Forewarning/Sigil/Iron Halo/etc).

Gate is nice if you've got the smaller quad sizes to manage it (ie not orks or cultists) and the shooting to make use of it, or just to get out of a bad position or capture an objective.

Hammerhand can make any unit a real threat in CC, doubly so for stuff with power weapons. The lowly powersword is pretty good at str 6 ap3.

Cleansing flame is pretty decent if you've got the mobility (pod/DS/Gate)

Vortex is a desperate last resort, but can be quite handy.

Overall, the utility powers are all WC1, so minimal perils risk with 2 dice at 75% to cast and no risk at 50% to cast using 1 dice.

It's even better with the DA conclave, since you can just burn the guys who didn't roll anything good to cast Sanctic powers and still have them available even if he perils' himself to death.