Re psychic powers

[countkrojaer]

Hey everyone, I will just kick this off by asking a very very noob question:

If you have more than one psyker in your army, does the smite roll go up differently for each psyker model or just everytime a smite roll is made by any model, army wide?

Eg. So my Hive Tyrant needs to roll a 5+ for my first smite of the game and it fails. Next my zoanthropes want to roll smite. Do my zoanthropes have to roll a 6+ as its the second smite attempt of the game whether the tyrant was successful or not in its roll; or do the zoanthropes need to roll a 5+ because each unit has its own smite progression?

Thank you!!

[dkng]

From Core Rules:

SMITE
Smite has a warp charge value of 5. Add 1 to the warp charge value of this psychic power for each other attempt that has been made to manifest this power by a unit from your army in this phase, whether that attempt was successful or not. If manifested, the closest enemy unit within 18" of and visible to the psyker suffers D3 mortal wounds. If the result of the Psychic test was 11 or more, that unit suffers D6 mortal wounds instead.

MANIFESTING PSYCHIC POWERS
When you select a PSYKER unit to manifest psychic powers, you select one psychic power that unit knows and attempt to manifest it. With the exception of Smite, you cannot attempt to manifest the same psychic power more than once in the same battle round, even with different PSYKER units. The same PSYKER unit cannot attempt to manifest Smite more than once during the same battle round.

There is no „unit progression”, only round progression so each consecutive cast is more difficult to manifest, no matter what unit is casting it.

[countkrojaer]

Hey, thank you. So..... if I wanted to cast smite in battle round 2 say, it would be better I cast it with my zoanthropes first so that they have more chance of making the roll at 5+ as they do more damage and then straight after do my Hive tyrant on a 6+.

In battle turn 5, does that mean that if I have 3 psykers still alive, and I have used smite every battle psychic phase for each one of them, then it may be un rollable?

Does the smite roll requirement increase if smite is failed that turn? Does it only increase on successful rolls?

[Bohxim]

May 22, 2022 12:49:35 GMT countkrojaer said:

Hey, thank you. So..... if I wanted to cast smite in battle round 2 say, it would be better I cast it with my zoanthropes first so that they have more chance of making the roll at 5+ as they do more damage and then straight after do my Hive tyrant on a 6+.

In battle turn 5, does that mean that if I have 3 psykers still alive, and I have used smite every battle psychic phase for each one of them, then it may be un rollable?

Does the smite roll requirement increase if smite is failed that turn? Does it only increase on successful rolls?

Zoans after everything else cast, as they have a higher chance to succeed with the higher difficulty smite tests (+3 to cast if min squad)

The smite difficulty increase is only for that phase. So it'll reset to success on 5+ next battle round. Same for battle round 5

[dkng]

Each consecutive attempt requires a higher roll, it doesnt matter if the previous one was successful or not.

I dont mean to be rude but that was clearly written in the rules fragment I pasted above.

[countkrojaer]

Thanks for all help and as a new player it helps to have the rules broken down more clearly in layman terms, even if "clearly states" something that is in a particular excerpt.