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I was looking at the new chaos marines codex and noticed that they added the ability for priests to chant prayers in each battle round. This is something that has been a thing in AoS for a while now and I think could really help some factions that don't have psykers.

For the Ad Mech all there HQ are already called priests so it is not difficult seeing them use techno wizardry in the form of prayers.
I can see chaplains getting this and can be useful for black templar players.
For Astra they have the Ministorum priest.
For Tau I could see Ethereals getting something between this and the Invocation of the Elements they already have.
Sisters of Battle already have acts of faith so adding prayers so no big stretch.
Not sure about dark eldar though.

Any other ideas on units that

I’d rather the Dark Apostles just go back to granting rerolls to hit myself.

 Gangland wrote:
I’d rather the Dark Apostles just go back to granting rerolls to hit myself.

So would everyone, because the Dark Apostle's new ability doesn't actually work when he starts the turn in a transport. Which, being an assault-support unit, is most of the time. The old version was reliable. It didn't have a 1-in-6 chance of doing nothing each turn (1-in-3 without the "Dark Disciples"), it didn't stop working if you started the turn inside a transport or in reserves, and you could have multiple Apostles using it at the same time.

The new version would literally work better as a new table of psychic powers exclusive to the Apostle, with a warp charge of 2+, and the Apostle rolling only a D6 to cast one power each round. Dark Disciples allow a re-roll. This is because the new prayers are trying to be bootleg psychic powers, a halfway house between magic and normal auras, and as a result they don't get the built-in design advantages of either. They should just pick one.

The only army to have something remotely similar is the Astra Militarum with its Orders, which are put together much more coherently and (this is important) don't ever fail to work. Random chance is poison to a strategic ability of this sort.

The only other army I could see having something similar are the AdMech, to replace the current, downright weird army-wide Canticles ability with "programmable" auras/orders from tech-priests.

Drukhari could potentially have something similar for the Haemonculus, replacing Master of Pain with a range of different auras or targeted "orders" to represent the different drugs and treatments it has access to... but these would be better-represented as exclusive equipment options anyway (the Ork Runtherd does something similar with its loadouts). And again - shouldn't be allowed to fail.

 KingGarland wrote:
For Tau I could see Ethereals getting something between this and the Invocation of the Elements they already have.

Keep it. Just give us our Jet Packs back.