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This means that you can have both Radical Inquisitors who summon Daemons and Chaos Space Marines who can hunt down and kill them. All other psykers (except for Tyranids, which get neither one) can use both, but get perils when they roll doubles. Likewise, Daemons (and Sorcerers with the Daemon USR) can use Malefic powers like any other, but can never take Sanctic powers. Sanctic powers are usable by Grey Knights like normal (but barred from Malefic). New psychic discipline: Daemonology, which is split into Sanctic and Malefic. Witchfire/psychic shooting attacks are done in the psychic phase too, and no longer make the psyker count as having fired a weapon. Your opponent gets d6 warp charge dice during your psychic phase as well (roll once for the both of you). Not sure if this will mean that it is a power taken automatically with the weapon. Force Weapon activation now counts as a psychic power. (It can now also be used to nullify enemy blessings as well as offensive powers.) Expect Tau and Necrons getting a rule either in errata or core rules to deny. Deny The Witch now takes place here and requires Warp Charges to work, so having at least one psyker in your army seems like it’ll be necessary.

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Feel free to roll as many Warp Charge dice as you want for each psychic power you cast, but rolling more dice runs a higher risk of Perils of the Warp. First you add up all the Mastery Levels of all your psykers, then add d6 to that the total is how many Warp Charge dice you get this turn. It’s pretty much the Magic Phase from Fantasy, back to use after 2E. the First Company of a Space Marine Chapter). But on the bright side, it also allows you to field fluffy armies legally (e.g. Like an army made up of nothing but HUNDREDS of cheap troops models (like Grots/Cultists etc.) for the tarpit to end all tarpits, or an army consisting entirely of super heavy vehicles. The potential for abuse with Unbound lists is obvious- as long as the units themselves are legal, the allies chart is followed, and the point limit is adhered to, literally anything goes. Where Kill-Team lies within this mayhem is yet to be determined. However, using the FOC to make a “Battle-Forged” army list allows you to reroll Warlord Traits and lets you control objectives even if an enemy scoring unit is within range of them (unless they also happen to be Battle-Forged). You can ignore the Force Org chart if you wish, resulting in an “Unbound” army list.

It’s likely they knew that there was going to be an edition change while they were writing Space Marines, as such Tyranids and Astra Militarum might have been written to the 7th ed rules. They’re not rewriting any of the codex’s they just wrote (Chaos Marines through Astra Militarum). The rulebook is being written by Jervis Johnson, Robin Cruddace, and Simon Gran. So, let us all once again see what will new edition bring us.

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