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Like the title says. The summoning rule says if you roll doubles or triples you take mortal wounds, but it doesn’t actually call it Perils of the Warp. This comes up because the Thousand Sons now have a stratagem to ignore Perils, and I want to know if it would apply.

On a similar note, in the Death Guard codex, plague weapons reroll 1s to wound. A lot of weapons will just say “plague weapon”, but a few of them spell out “this weapon rerolls 1s to wound”. Are they affected by abilities that affect plague weapons?

Crackedgear wrote:
Like the title says. The summoning rule says if you roll doubles or triples you take mortal wounds, but it doesn’t actually call it Perils of the Warp. This comes up because the Thousand Sons now have a stratagem to ignore Perils, and I want to know if it would apply.

On a similar note, in the Death Guard codex, plague weapons reroll 1s to wound. A lot of weapons will just say “plague weapon”, but a few of them spell out “this weapon rerolls 1s to wound”. Are they affected by abilities that affect plague weapons?

It doesn't call it Perils of the Warp because it is not Perils of the Warp, it's not a psychic test, it has nothing to do with the rules for psychic tests.
What weapons? A quick glance at the codex shows that no weapons say "re-roll wound rolls of 1" in their abilities, but several have the Plague Weapon ability (unless I missed something).Regardless, if the weapon doesn't have the Plague Weapon ability it's not a Plague Weapon.

Ok thanks.

Just looking really quickly, the blight launcher and plaguesword don’t say plague weapon. Looking at the plague marine datasheet.

Crackedgear wrote:
Ok thanks.

Just looking really quickly, the blight launcher and plaguesword don’t say plague weapon. Looking at the plague marine datasheet.

Plagueswords already re-roll all failed wound rolls for the weapon whereas Plague Weapons only re-roll ones.

Blight Launchers do have the 'Plague Weapon' ability.

 Ghaz wrote:

Crackedgear wrote:
Ok thanks.

Just looking really quickly, the blight launcher and plaguesword don’t say plague weapon. Looking at the plague marine datasheet.

Plagueswords already re-roll all failed wound rolls for the weapon whereas Plague Weapons only re-roll ones.

Blight Launchers do have the 'Plague Weapon' ability.

Plague knife also doesn’t say plague weapon. I’m looking at the enhanced edition for blight launcher and it doesn’t say plague weapon. Wouldn’t be the first time the codex was missing something.

Crackedgear wrote:
Plague knife also doesn’t say plague weapon.

Yes it does. Are you looking at the weapon's profile?

 Ghaz wrote:

Crackedgear wrote:
Plague knife also doesn’t say plague weapon.

Yes it does. Are you looking at the weapon's profile?

https://imgur.com/a/p2WNexw

But lists the inherent 'ability' to Plague Weapons.

Weird, p. 75 of the Death Guard codex says that a Plague knife is a "Plague Weapon (pg 68)"

(I snipped out some irrelevant bitz from that page).

Ok so I guess the answer is yes they count as plague weapons because my version of the codex is wrong.

Crackedgear wrote:
Ok so I guess the answer is yes they count as plague weapons because my version of the codex is wrong.

To be fair your version, instead just of saying plague weapon and referencing a different link, lists precisely what a plague weapon does (the re-reoll thing).

 DeathReaper wrote:

Crackedgear wrote:
Ok so I guess the answer is yes they count as plague weapons because my version of the codex is wrong.

To be fair your version, instead just of saying plague weapon and referencing a different link, lists precisely what a plague weapon does (the re-reoll thing).

Right but the original question was if there’s an ability that affects plague weapons, does something not including the words “plague weapon” count, even if it lists what it does?

Also, most of the weapons in the codex actually say plague weapon and then give a description, it just made me wonder because some of them don’t.

Also also, I don’t know if there are any abilities that affect plague weapons, maybe I should have gone with drukhari poison weapons, because that codex does the same thing.

A weapon follows the rules under its own profile no matter what, so if the sheet says that it does something then it does it. However, rules as written, any ability that affects a specific type of weapon (e.g. an aura ability that gives +1 to hit with plague weapons or something) will only affect weapons that are specifically stated to have that type.

In a friendly game you should have no problem getting your opponent to agree that a plague knife counts as a plague weapon but in a competitive environment you cannot rely on that.