Psychic powers from rulebook - how does it work for Eldar?

I'm not quite clear on how this works. In the Eldar FAQ it says that a Farseer, including Eldrad, can use the psychic disciplines in the rulebook, and for each psychic power purchased from codex:Eldar, generate a new power from Divinatipon or Telepathy.

Does that mean I can pay for Mind War (which is the cheapest power) and swap that for prescience? Effectively, I'm getting a better Guide (12" instead of 6" range) for less points.

you still need to roll on the new powers chart IMO so you may not get the power you wanted (i think).

spunkybass wrote:

I'm not quite clear on how this works. In the Eldar FAQ it says that a Farseer, including Eldrad, can use the psychic disciplines in the rulebook, and for each psychic power purchased from codex:Eldar, generate a new power from Divinatipon or Telepathy.

Does that mean I can pay for Mind War (which is the cheapest power) and swap that for prescience? Effectively, I'm getting a better Guide (12" instead of 6" range) for less points.

Yes, I believe that's the case. You still need to buy psychic power from your codex and swap it for power in the rulebook. Your idea is what exactly what I planned to do, buy cheap swap for better one

Thanks. Prescience is a Primaris power, so it doesn't matter what I roll

Looks like all Eldar Farseers think alike.

My next question is, if i buy a spirit stone, that'll make my Farseer a Lvl.2 caster right? This is bcuz Eldrad is considered a Lvl.3 caster due to his spirit stone gear as stated in the FAQ.

I believe that is correct, sir

DE is considered as a battle brother for Eldar. In the BRB, it is stated that battle brothers can benefit from each other's psy-powers among other things.

I know that Prescience can affect any friendly models/units both Eldar & DE.

Can a DE unit now benefit from Fortune?

i think so

Yes you can. Benefit from fortune.

Although it will be a bit unfluffy... the whole reason they are in the webway is to hide their physic presence from he who always thirst... which is why in my allied list his abilities will be mainly for him and the enemy

By that logic, Tau and Space Marine can benefit from Guide and Fortune too. Not all psychic powers or abilities benefit battle brothers, ie. IG orders & Sanguinary Priest FNP & Furious Charge which were FAQed to only affect units in their own codex. If it is specified "friendly units" and no FAQ corrects it, then yes battle brother benefits from them.

Depending on your interpretation of the rule, if you believe GW intended Fortune/Guide that states it only affects "Eldar unit" to be mean Dark Eldar units too, which in my view is almost as unlikely as my markerlights able to help Space Marines or Eldar.

AznJake wrote:

By that logic, Tau and Space Marine can benefit from Guide and Fortune too.

But only Dark Eldar are battle brothers with Eldar...

Oops, I overlooked Space Marine.

Then again, Eldar are battle brothers with DE and Tau...

Are Flyers/Flying MCs immune to psychic shooting attacks?

Don't think so, unless it's blast or template

So, it means that my Farseer Mind War/Psychic Shriek a zooming MCs, izt?

But if need to roll to hit will still need a 6 to hit unless the psyker has Skyfire rule.

ouch! mind war doesn't need to hit... neither does life leech...

good spot din!

All witchfire powers need to roll to hit for it's effect to work. Life leech(Biomancy) is a witchfire power.

You can Mind War a tyrant without rolling to hit, just be careful of casting psychic powers within 12" of SotW then.

This is unrelated to Eldar, but since its about a similar case, i'll just put it here instead of opening another thread/new topic.

Yes, Mind War is auto-hit. And the same can be said with SW's JOTWW & BA's Bloodlance.

Phew..for a moment there I thought Flyers/Flying MCs r gonna be nigh untouchables.

Comments?

I don't think the consensus is that both Flyers and Flying MCs are OP, it's mostly just Flyers.

The powers you listed, only the bloodlance damages flyers, Flying MCs just have swooping to add to their survivability.

However, flyers beat flying MCs pretty much since shooting one initiates a grounded test not even wounding, where else there's no such weakness for flyers.

Other than that, there's really not much to talk about the powers affecting flying MCs, there's really nothing new if you ask me.

Ok, back to Eldar psy-powers.

Next - is about Overwatch & psy-powers.

So, say a unit charge my Farseer/Warlock, then Farseer'll Mind War the powerfist guy & Warlock will inflict d3 S5 AP4 auto-hits.

A beam-type psy-power will also hit automatically. How I wish my Farseer can cast JOTWW as Overwatch.

Sorry, If I seem to always try to contradict the possible ideas that arises, but I'm actually just helping by seeing whether it is valid to do so. If not, I'll still do my research but won't raise any possible mistakes as that would just be "to argue for the sake of arguing".

According to the rules, it would seem psychic powers could be overwatched, except when we look more closer.

Page 21, under Resolving Overwatch, last sentence before Overwatch Restrictions.

Paraphrasing: "Weapons and models that cannot fire snapshot, cannot fire Overwatch."

Page 13, under Snap shots, last sentence.

Paraphrasing: "Any shooting attack that does not use a Ballistic Skill - such as the Necron Monolith's portal of exile - cannot be 'fired' as a Snap Shot."

In my opinion, any psychic power that doesn't use BS cannot overwatch/snapshot, such auto-hits and template/blast powers. However, anything that does use BS can do so, ie. witchfire powers, smite, psychic shriek etc..

Well, maybe Mind War will be subjected to debate regarding Overwatch, but Warlocks' Destructor can definitely be fired during Overwatch.

Page 52, 2nd last paragraph: "Template weapons can fire Overwatch, even though they cannot fire Snap Shots."

**Off topic again..Damn! I just realised that a full 15-orks Burna Boys can potentially hit up to 45 x S4 AP5 auto-hits on Overwatch!!

I'm not arguing the validity of Warlocks' Destructor , sorry if I didn't mention the exception to template shooting attacks.

But first and foremost, I doubt whether psychic powers can be used in for Overwatch. As of in the 6th ed. rulebook, all psychic powers are separated into types and each of them are "manifested" in a specific phase. As for witchfire powers, it is manifested on the psyker's shooting phase.

This then questions the fact whether such powers can be used outside of that phase, ie. during overwatch. As of now there's nothing that states shooting attacks can only be used in the shooting phase, likewise nothing that states witchfire powers are allowed or disallowed during overwatch.

I've also looked at other forums discussing this particular problem, they have not a reached proper conclusion as they are still much divided in opinion and a FAQ is needed dearly for this matter.

On a related note, can a psyker Death or Glory using his power?

Back to Warlock Destructor on Overwatched, I think it's allowed as it's always on and psyker never needs to cast for it. In effect it's simply a shooting weapon, very much like shooty gifts Chaos Daemons get.