Have to agree with you guys, not liking this one at all.

The one thing I want to have complete control over is my army list.

Once the game starts I dont care, call it the ‘madness of war’ or whatever, I’ll take unpredictable on the chin during a game all day long, but I want to field the army I choose, not on the dice chose for me thanks very much.

Althought that sounds rather interesting I think that this might actually be some what problem to armies that rely heavily to psychic powers like Eldar do. I would say that being able to choose what psychic powers you want to use is part of playing those armies. maybe heavy psuchic armies could have special rule that they can pick they psychic powers without needing to randomly pick them like rest.

I agree. this is too far below the belt…. If I want Smite and Vortex of Doom on my Eplisitory, then i’ll CHOOSE them… i don’t want to fight Deamons with anti-hored Powers, or fave a Tank-heavy army with no destructive power (Might of Ancients, etc…) I hope that NONE of these rumours make it into the 6th Ed book. if it did, players would drop out, GW loses money and until 7th Ed came around, no-one would take Psykers. unless as said in video, ALL Psykers must have UNIQUE powers… then i’ll definately take my DE more often….

While I could tolerate this with something like Orks or Chaos, forces like Eldar and Space Marines shouldn’t have such a random factor to their force selection.

Hmmmm… I only suspect is that this is for non-special Psykers, I imagine they’ll introduce like a Loremaster kind of Psyker, one able to use all powers.

If not, I don’t mind, I hate psykers- I wouldn’t mind seeing less of them doing Blood Lance and Jaws, that Space Pup 4 psyker list is partically good at ruining friendships.

An elegant way of doing random power selection would be to make a choice then roll for it, on a 4+ you get your power otherwise you make a new selection and roll again, this time on a 3+ you get your selection. you could continue in this vain until all powers are chosen. this method would avoid the need for any faqs or lists of powers in the rule book.

Rumors has it in 6th he dies but before he dies predicts that a starchild with all his powers will one day come to unite all humanity against chaos and xenos.

Anyone else spot the Dark Angels book on the table? amazed that you didn’t mention the whole TWO powers that thier librarians get!

anyhows, Orks already have random psychics powers (every turn!)

I think that this rumour was “fed” out to try to find a leak…

What a load of rubbish, the next stage will be when you randomly select who you shoot at. Nice one workshop!

Why don’t you just reprint out the fantasy rulebook with a 40k label on, save you some money there.

I no not like this idea.

I can’t see this one myself.
Take Eldar for a start, A farseer is 55 pts basic and then pays points depending on what psychic powers he has. My Farseer usually comes in at 178 pts.
How would it be possible to write an army list if you don’t know how much your psyker will cost you until you roll for his powers? They would have to rewrite the codex or do I get an extra Vyper because my Farseer didn’t get to spend all his points.
Hopefully this won’t stop people taking psykers, just keep rolling those 12’s 🙂