40K: Deathwatch Faction: Hidden In Plain Sight
Games Workshop just dropped a big hint regrading the future of the Deathwatch in Warhammer 40,000.
This weekend GW released this new set of Adeptus Astartes Psychic cards:
Warhammer 40,000: Adeptus Astartes Psychic Powers $16.50
A set of twenty-eight datacards detailing four psychic disciplines usable by any Space Marine Librarian (even a Space Wolves Rune Priest – these are for every Chapter!), each consisting of seven psychic powers:
The Librarius Discipline, allowing the channeling of fury into devastating psychic assaults;
The Technomancy Discipline, allowing the manipulation of weapons, machines and machine spirits;
The Fulmination Discipline, allowing control over electricity and magnetic forces;
The Geokinesis Discipline, allowing control and manipulation of the battlefield and battlefield terrain.
Some sharp eyed readers, noted the Space Marine factions listed across the top of that QUICK REFERENCE CHART”. See anything unusual there?
- Space Marines
- Blood Angels
- Dark Angels
- Deathwatch
- Grey Knights
- Space Wolves
For the record, there is currently exactly ONE Deathwatch Librarian that is legal for Warhammer 40,000 use.
Jensus Natorian, of the Blood Ravens from the Deathwatch Overkill boxed game.
Now does anyone think GW would bother to make a new faction category for the new Astartes psychic powers just to cover Jensus’ White Dwarf 40K rules – or to lay the groundwork for an upcoming DeathWatch codex that folks have been salivating for since January?
I know where I’d bet my money…
