Doesn't it just seem that every army that one faces nowadays is really tough to wound? Nob Bikers continue to be ridiculous, Nurgle's guys take time to chew through.....but even worse than that are Tyranids with Iron Arm....oh my, do they take a some licks.......I know its not guaranteed, but you can guarantee that's the first power that MC rolls on the Biomancy table is a big fat 1....and to make matters worse you can guarantee that D3 is coming up as a solid +3 T......geeez it just gets your goat.......But help is at hand, all is not lost........we got something that's going to hurt none the less....
At the moment most of the web commentary on 6th Ed Psychic Powers has been extolling the virtues of Biomancy and Divination, e.g. Tyranids rolling Iron Arm or of Paladins benefitting from Prescience...
Yet I'm amazed that no one is really talking about Telepathy, it's my personal favourite......both for fun and effectiveness....
Why? Well of the 4 Warp Charge 1 powers available, yes two suck, another is very conditional (anti-fearless) and the good one has only a 25% chance of being rolled with psychic mastery level 1.
The good one Puppet Master, is amazing, every turn having an opportunity to riddle your opponents troops with bullets all fired by one of his own units....imagine...
"Hey Mr Leman Russ battle tank turn your ass around and shoot that blob squad".....
"Hey Loota's why don't you shoot the heck out of the rear armour of that wagon"......
"Hey Mr Vindicare Assassin.....why don't you shoot Mr Draigo with shield breaker".....
Just for the meta gaming potential this has I think its amazing......but heck its only a 25% chance.....
Now if you're a mastery level 2 Psyker well you now have a 50% chance of getting something good.....Invisible death company? Invisible Furioso librarian anyone? or perhaps you've always been jealous of the inquisitions grenades, ever want the equivalent of Psychotroke Grenades? Who wouldn't......
However unfortunately whilst really fun, these are not reliable enough for tournaments......having a 50% chance of making a HQ psyker unit a lot less effective is a considerable risk.....
So how about the Primaris power? What does Telepathy give you?
Psychic Shriek......if successful your opponent tests against their Ld on 3d6, if they roll over their Ld value then they take the difference in wounds.......WITH NO ARMOUR SAVES ALLOWED.....
This bad boy is effectively AP2.......why would anyone take a power like Smite? Smite 4x Str 4 AP2, with separate rolls to hit and to wound this is going to struggle vs. high toughness opponents....
Roll to hit as normal <12" then Psychic Shriek just skips rolling wound.......its auto-stripping wounds off your unit......
OK so attacking a Ld8 Infantry squad might sound tempting, but this power, this power is really going to excel at stripping those T9 Monstrous creatures.....Ld 7 Carnifex take d6 wounds on average, Ld 8 Trygon, you too.....this spell is ideal for anti xenos.......yes F'n'P can still nerf you, yes invulnerable saves are still allowed.....but still.....soften it up with a psychic shriek and then melta bomb its carapace down to primordial soup...
And for all those horrid 2+ save units out there.......ok 5 man Ld9 Terminator squads you feeling confident? How many times have you rolled a 9 on just 2d6.......go ahead take your invulnerables.....Sanguinary guards with no invulnerable save........eeeek......you guys need to be running with a priest as standard ....always!4
Regular Marines or Bike Squads.......you better just stay well out of the 12" range because you'll take a couple of wounds from this unless you pass your 6+ deny the witch....good luck with that.....
So how about 2x Blood Angels Librarians, both with Psychic Shriek, perhaps one with Prescience put him with some hitty, perhaps throw melta bombs on him too....then throw him out of a strom raven anywhere within range of the enemy's toughest units.........nice.....could stop and do the math hammer but for sure this is going to give people some serious headaches.....and people complain about the doom of malantai.......
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