Multiple Culexes Assassins

[Gentlemanloser]

How many times do thier Animus Speculums shoot?

 

Absorbed Warp Charge;

When firing an animus speculum, first add up the combined mastery levels of all Psyker units, friend or foe, that are within 12" of the Culexus Assassin, and pick up that many dice. You can then add up to 3 more dice to this hand by removing them from your own Warp Charge pool. The total number of dice in your hand is the number of shots the animus speculum now fires.

 

 

The RAI would seem to be that the Culexes syphons off Warp Charges and utilises those to shoot with;

 

Psychic Abomination;

Psykers, friend or foe, within 12" of a Culexus Assassin have -3 Leadership, do not generate any Warp Charge (i.e. they do not add dice to their owning player’s Warp Charge Pool in the Psychic phase)

 

But, if you have say two Culexes Assassins both within 12" of a PML3 Psyker, is there anything stopping *both* Assassins shooting thier Animus Speculums as Assult 3 weapons, and both drawing power from the single Psyker?

[Morollan]

Firing the shots from the first assassin does not alter the number of mastery levels within 12" of the second. If it used Warp Charges then I'd say you could only use them once but it doesn't.

[Raeven]

I think the only thing that would stop it, would be the first one killing the Psyker.

[Gentlemanloser]

I'm thinking of using a couple of Culexes, with some PML3 GK Libbis (and other high WC units) between them, so they can both leech off the combined WC pool.

[Toldavf]

They don't leech charges its mastery levels so yes you can have 2assasins buffed by 1psyker. Psy phase syphon dice to each then run within 12" and give them another 3shots 1libby used like that could hand out 12shots between um easy.

[EnterRehab]

i thought you could only include 1 of each assassin in an army list?

[Gentlemanloser]

Each Detachment contains a single Elite slot, for a single Assassin.

 

None of the Assassins are 'unique' any more.

 

You can use as many detachments in your army as;

 

1: You have the models for

2: can afford the points for

 

You can run an army of nothing but Imperial Assassins, if you want.  An Assassin can even be your Warlord. :)