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In an eldar army, a ghost axe for wraiths is unweildy, and therefor reduces the weilders initiative to 1 in close combat. Can the spirit Seers potential psychic power Enhance/Drain improve the wraithblades initiative to 2 in order to strike blows before enemies with unweildy weapons?

Unwieldy doesn't care what your initiative actually is. All it deals with is when you attack. Modifiers to a model's initiative have no effect.

Then how are you taking the primaris conceal power from the eldar dex with warlocks?

MarkyMark wrote:
Then how are you taking the primaris conceal power from the eldar dex with warlocks?

What? I think you got the wrong thread.

MarkyMark wrote:
Then how are you taking the primaris conceal power from the eldar dex with warlocks?

I've just replied in the right thread for you bud.

Chrysis wrote:
Unwieldy doesn't care what your initiative actually is. All it deals with is when you attack. Modifiers to a model's initiative have no effect.

As a follow up to this, check out the section at the start of the rulebook describing the differences between modifiers to characteristics and rules that set characteristics to a particular value. In this case the model would have their initiative increased by the psychic power, but then Unwieldy resets it to 1.

 Flinty wrote:

Chrysis wrote:
Unwieldy doesn't care what your initiative actually is. All it deals with is when you attack. Modifiers to a model's initiative have no effect.

As a follow up to this, check out the section at the start of the rulebook describing the differences between modifiers to characteristics and rules that set characteristics to a particular value. In this case the model would have their initiative increased by the psychic power, but then Unwieldy resets it to 1.

This is not the case. Unwieldy does not modify Initiative. Unwieldy makes you Attack at Initiative 1, that is all. You are still Initiative Whatever, but you strike at 1. Multiple Modifiers has absolutely no bearing on this.

On another note: MC's and Walker ignore the "hit at I1" from Unwieldy.
That's the only way to ignore it as far as I know.

Kangodo wrote:
On another note: MC's and Walker ignore the "hit at I1" from Unwieldy.
That's the only way to ignore it as far as I know.

This person has it in one.