zoanthropes casting multiple smites?

[jdot]

ok so ive done some looking around but havnt found any recent forums that address my specific question. 

ok so to preface, if my understanding of the rules are correct, when manifesting a psychic power out of a unit containing multiple psykers, you must nominate a specific model within the unit to actually manifest the power.  and to add, rules regarding this state that "a psyker may only attempt to cast the same psychic power more than once in a turn".  so if you were to have a squad of 6 Zoanthropes, granting 2 powers per turn, could you choose 1 zoanthrope for the first smite and a second for another smite without violating that rule? or does that rule apply to whole units as well as individual models?

[killercroc]

No, when you pick a zoan in the unit that's only to measure range and where Perils originates from, not a single model in the unit cast the power, so unfortunately you cannot cast smite twice from a second model. Basically GW dropped the ball with Zoans and all you get is extra MW for having more in the unit. Logically it would make sense each Zoan gets to cast, but it's not the case.

Hell it use to be you could only have 3 Zoans in an army entirely so the fact that now it's basically unlimited is an advancement.

[1b2a]

One thing you can do is if you get the reroll psychic hive fleet, you can choose a different zoanthrope model and reroll with it too, since it says each model may reroll psychic tests.

[No One]

killercroc said:

Hell it use to be you could only have 3 Zoans in an army entirely so the fact that now it's basically unlimited is an advancement.

...It used to be 1-3.

[dranzyl]

Propably 0-3 (i dont think you were ever forced to have at least one)

I think what he meant was that zoans used to be single model units (not even brood of 1, just one). If there was even a confusion.

[killercroc]

Yeah that's what I was referring to, back when they were 0-3 and you'd take up to 3 but they were never a unit. Good old living artillery, back when you had to buy Synapse as a power.

[LordPathos]

Was that a 3rd edition thing? Zoans had 0-1 back in 4th but all synapse creatures nowadays had it then too.

[killercroc]

Zoans were like that in both 3rd and 4th, it was basically cost-pasted from the 3rd ed book to the 4th ed book.