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Question about Rune Priests


RastlinD

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I am playing a flying circus list soon and need some clarification on the interaction of Rune Priests and psychic powers.

 

First, if I am reading the entry right for Runic Weapons, no matter what type of power is used if it is within 24 inches the Rune Priest gets a chance to deny the power, even if this power does not target his unit.

 

My second question is if I have multiple Rune Priests within the 24 inch range do they each get a chance to negate the power with their Runic Weapon or do I only get one attempt.

 

Thanks!

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Yes, they can nullify any Psychic Power that is cast by a Psyker within 24" on a 4+ (except Njal, who does it on a 3+).

 

It is one attempt per Psychic Power, so multiple Rune Priests don't allow multiple attempts to nullify.  However, more than 1 Rune Priest means that there won't be much of the table they can't cover with their field of "Denied".

 

Note that the attempt to Nullify the power completely stops it from going off, rather than acting as a deny the witch which prevents the target from being affected.  Also note that the Nullify attempt replaces Deny the Witch, it isn't in addition to it.

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my understanding was the the runic weapon was in addition to a deny the witch, so if a psychic shooting attack was targeted at a unit next to the rune priest, he could attempt to block it with the runic weapon, and if he failed the squad could then deny the witch.

 

but yes it does work on any power, not just targetted ones. Good fun to troll gk players who have a banner in their squads to auto activate force weps "my force weapons are automatically activated" "my rune priest says no, did you enjoy wasting those points on your shiny banner?" :p

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GW FAQ'd it to be one attempt to stop any given power.

 

There was a time, briefly, wherein you got a Runic weapon denial role, then a deny the witch role, then a wolf tail talisman roll, then a runic armor invulnerable save against a single AP2 power...

Life is much simpler now.

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