psychic power questions

[wolfman]

More questions I’m afraid. This time it’s for psychic powers. I found the rules for these a bit confusing.

If my flyrant or tervigon takes biomancy powers they can only roll for 1 power and are then unable to use their other powers like leech essence or catalyst?

Same for the zoan, my understanding is he can roll for 2 powers but then not use his warp lance etc?

Thanks in advance :-)

[arnestig]

You can trade your powers for rulebook powers.
If your flyrant has paroxysm and leech essence powers, you can trade these two for two rolls on the rulebook powers.
But you have to trade both.

[wolfman]

Ok, so just to be 100% clear, you don't get to trade base powers (like dominion on a terv) for rulebook powers and also use any extras you pay points for? For example you can't go with biomancy on a terv and pay 15 points for catalyst on top of that?

Also, I take it there is no points cost associated with using rule book powers?

Thanks again :-)

[arnestig]

You do get to trade base powers (like dominion on a terv) for rulebook powers.
If you choose to trade powers on a model, then *all* powers must be traded.

Normally I run my tervigons with all three powers and trade them in for biomancy-powers in the rulebook.

Note that you can choose to select from several different psychic schools.
Say that you choose biomancy and you roll Iron Arm on the first power, then you can opt to roll the next power on the Telekinesis or Telepathy tables.

[infornography]

Terv can trade in dominion, or if the terv bought catalyst it can trade in both powers.

But if the terv traded in dominion it cannot buy catalyst and keep it as catalyst. If you trade in one you have to trade in all.

[coredump]

When building the army list, is when you decide if you are paying/taking Catalyst.

Right before the start of the game, each model decides if it is going to swap out all of its current powers, for BRB powers.

[Obsidorox]

In the case of Zoanthropes remember that you choose to keep the codex powers (blast and lance) or trade for 2 BRB powers for each zoanthrope. You could trade in powers on 2 of them and leave 1 with the codex powers. If you trade them in you can mix and match which tables you roll on (1 biomancy and 1 telepathy for example).

Typically what happens is each zoanthrope in a brood will have different combinations of spells and that's fine. They can all cast something different. The only restriction is they all need to target the same unit for witch fire spells.


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