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Is mental onslaught the perfect counter to knights?


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So I was having a look at all the leadership modifiers cult get access to, and with them mental onslaught seems fairly op: if you put a patriarch next to a clamavus, and cast mental onslaught on an imperial knight that's had the horror (from Tyranids) and Terrifying visions (from imperial guard) and you're rolling at ld 11 Vs ld 6: that's 72 mortal wounds on average if you use a command reroll. The psychic powers are all at least 18" range, so you don't have to get too close either. Does This need a nerf in an FAQ?

So I was having a look at all the leadership modifiers cult get access to, and with them mental onslaught seems fairly op: if you put a patriarch next to a clamavus, and cast mental onslaught on an imperial knight that's had the horror (from Tyranids) and Terrifying visions (from imperial guard) and you're rolling at ld 11 Vs ld 6: that's 72 mortal wounds on average if you use a command reroll. The psychic powers are all at least 18" range, so you don't have to get too close either. Does This need a nerf in an FAQ?

If you combo that with the locus' -1 that knight is dead and has no way of stopping it, maybe it'll need an FAQ but maybe we'll be the ultimate anti knight list

I have heard a rumour that it is going to be FAQ'd to Ld Characteristic not just Leadership. SO it would be based on unmodified leadership. But for now, yes Mental Onslaught is amazing and we should use it against knights as much as possible >:) 

I find it funny that this is possible....but for it to be possible you need at least 3 detachments, getting off 3 powers and having all the relevant characters in just the right place to do so. Its a great trick but I feel it relies on too much.

take 10 aberrants with an abominant and they will do the work just fine. We can buff them out the wazoo also with +1 Str from iconward relic, Clamavus, Primus, Might From Beyond and other WT and relics but then were getting into my original issue with the Psychic Onsluaght

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