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As the title says,

Can a Paladin Squad use it's Brotherhood Banner in the same turn they activate Hammerhand?

Please explain your response.

 Akaiyou wrote:
As the title says,

Can a Paladin Squad use it's Brotherhood Hammer in the same turn they activate Hammerhand?

Please explain your response.

Not sure what a Brotherhood Hammer is, but if you meant Brotherhood Banner, then it depends on how many warp charges they have.

It takes a warp charge for Hammerhand, and a Warp charge to activate the Force property on their NFW's.

Nope. (unless by some unusual circumstance your paladins are mastery level 2 for some reason) However any ICs that have not yet expended their warp charges completely that have joined the squad may benefit from the banner however.

So independent characters can activate ther brotherhood banner carried by the unit they joined?

Or do you mean that if the paladins activate the banner (thus not using hammerhand) an IC in the unit counts as also having his own FW activated without needing to take a psychic test for himself?

Not quite, the banner itself doesn't need to be activated. (it's effects are continuous and constant.)

However the effect of 'automatically passing it's Psychic test to 'activate' it's force weapons' needs to be done on a per model basis for any ICs in the unit. (so they need to have warp charges available to do so, but provided the do in fact have them success is automatic).

If i may also offer a tactical suggestion: It'd probably be better in a lot of cases to have an attached IC manifest the 'hammerhand' if it is required rather than the paladin squad as a whole.

So lets say I attach Draigo to a unit of paladins.

Both draigo and the paladins use hammerhand to become Strength 6.

Let's assume they are fighting a monstrous creature.

Does the entire unit count as having their force weapons activated automatically? Since Draigo is Mastery Level 2?

Will only draigo count as having his force weapon activated upon inflicting a wound himself?

Or how exactly would this all work?

Using your example: Only draigo would/can have his force weapon activated in that scenario.

Normally, you activate force weapons on a per model basis. Multiple psykers, multiple checks, individual passes or failures.

The 'Brotherhood of Psykers' USR changes this for the paladins themselves, allowing them to collectively count as one psyker with a mastery level of 1 and spend one charge to activate all of their (the paladins) force weapons with one Psychic check.

Draigo would count as being part of the Paladin unit and therefore benefit from the banner; but you'd still have to expend one of his own warp charges to activate his personal weapon since he does not have the
'Brotherhood of Psykers' rule.

Draigo could have joined the squad, cast Hammerhand, and then the squad could have used the Brotherhood Banner to activate their Force Weapons. Draigo would need to use a seperate Warp Charge to activate his, but any model that is in the unit may autopass his Psychic Test to activate a Force Weapon. They must still have been able to take the test in the first place however.