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Summoning Daemons in Warhammer 40K 7th Edition

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Warhammer 40K Daemon

One of the news about Warhammer 40K 7th Edition gleaned from the recent White Dwarf “previews” was the new lore of Daemonology. From the wording, this psychic discipline is actually two: the  evil Malefic and the good Sanctic. The former, presumably, summons daemons, the latter banishes them.

My, like many people, assumed that most psykers on the side of the Emperor would hold to the latter only. A new White Dwarf “preview” refutes this assumption.

#1 – Daemon-Summoning Dark Angels

From the White Dwarf, as seen on Dakkadakka.

Beware the Daemon

The advent of Daemonology has caused many moral quandaries in the White Dwarf office, not least for our Adam Troke. A staunch Dark Angels collector, Adam found himself allowing none other than Grand Master Ezekiel himself to use Malefic Daemonology powers in one of our test games – all in the interest of research and playtesting, of course:

At the tail end of a tense battle against my Tyranids, Adam found Ezekiel reduced to a single Wound, with victory slipping out of reach. Desperate to crush the last bioforms of the ravening Hive Fleet Eumenides, Ezekiel damned his own soul and sacrificed himself to summon a Bloodthirster of Khorne – a dreadful gambit but one that won the day for the Dark Angels, as the Bloodthirster ultimately broke the back of my Hive Tyrant over one gore-slicked knee.

#2 – Thoughts?

Wow.

Warhammer 40K will truly never be the same again?

How does this work (or not) with the allies-matrix, allegedly one of the few remaining rules, even in “Unbound Armies”?

Nobody knows (yet). I guess everybody (except for Tyranids) better stack up on some Daemon-miniatures?

Let me know what you think!

Z.

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  • geektinker

    Follow the money trail. Why would GW object to players of most armies buying models of demons? Also, I doubt Ork players would need them any more than Tyranids.

    • Bobthemim

      I worry about that..

      Orks is the next codex (most likely) after 7th hits.. I am betting the hardest hitting units will cost a ton of points, as people will want to spam them..

      or it will be a sguiggoth that costs the players £70

  • Hive Senteniel

    “the Bloodthirster ultimately broke the back of my Hive Tyrant over one gore-slicked knee” Well it doesn’t necessarily say that the Dark Angel player controlled the Daemon. Maybe it has a weird NPC-style ruleset (Ex: Moves X inches to the nearest enemy unit). On top of that it literally says it’s a playtest game so these rules may be the development of the actual rules (which are not present in the paragraph)

    • Bobthemim

      they never put playtest rules in WD, and if it was a mission specific one, they would say so.

      It looks like “summon daemon” is a thing.

      Wonder if Tau will get it.

      • Hive Senteniel

        “Adam found himself allowing none other than Grand Master Ezekiel himself to use Malefic Daemonology powers in one of our test games – all in the interest of research and playtesting, of course” it sounds (At least to me) like they’re describing a playtest game. Not the rules just the playtest process and the real rules have yet to be revealed.