Talk:Psychic Awakening

So what happened to the Death Guard?

So does "The Greater Good" include Death Guard or not? And if does not, why did GW include the Tau vs DG story before announcing the rest of the matchups? --Alumno Alumno (talk) 01:14, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

The way they described it, it sounded like it wouldn't but right now I'm no more sure of it than you are. It did say the book was covering three different war zones, so that might explain the discrepancies. --Newerfag (talk) 06:10, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

According to GW's facebook, "The Greater Good" does not include the Death guard. Why they included the story is anyone's guess, but mine is that they did it to trick those who play Death Guard into getting excited for it. -- Triacom (talk) 06:09, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Well this is starting to look like a shitshow.

You're supposed to say something after the section header, genius. --Newerfag (talk) 21:02, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

"Remaining Factions"

I wanted to ask if we seriously needed this section, given the exact same information is already put near the top of the article, under the table of contents. We can always break the book summaries off into a seperate section if we need to do so. --86.15.101.166 18:37, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Probably not, I don't see why we should list it twice. -- Triacom (talk) 18:41, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

I was wondering which factions were missing and had to do go through the images and search google to see if I understood all of them correctly to be sure, I thought others might like to know without having to decipher 40k icons. Necrons, Harlequins, Deathwatch, Death Guard, Adepta Sororitas and Adeptus Custodes are left if you go from the image of which factions would feature in the Psychic Awakening supplements. *Adepta Sororitas were technically in Faith and Fury, though got no rules as the codex wasn't out yet, so there's a chance they may not get involvement in another book. - Pirate

Those same factions are highlighted in Bold, Mr Pirate. If they have rules, then the name of the book that faction's rules are in (or going to be in) are listed right next to them. They're also not in bold.--86.15.101.166 18:51, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Don't mind me, just being blind. - Blind Pirate

The Sisters of Battle not having rules update is a good catch, Blind Pirate. I had presumed Faith and Fury was their book. As for the section, I added it when I realized I didn't recognize several of the icons and had trouble finding them. After doing so, I figured listing what factions are in what book would be useful to someone. KiTA (talk) 03:34, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

The section up top is fine KiTA. I was saying we really don't need the exact same information twice. That said, Sisters are an odd duck, given their big army box came out the same weekend as Faith and Fury, but their model line didn't start releasing until sometime between Blood of Baal and Ritual of the Damned, which is why someone added a "kind of" to their section.--86.15.101.166 10:50, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Death Guard

• In what promo material for PA Greater Good were the Death Guard featured? Angry Pirate (talk) 18:53, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Here you go. -- Triacom (talk) 18:55, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

It literally says they give up agains the Death Guard to go fight the Imperium. I don't see the problem from GW's side. Angry Pirate (talk) 19:31, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

First of all, it's still promo material, making what I wrote on the page accurate. Secondly, it ends in a cliffhanger where Shadowsun is fighting a losing battle against them and we don't know what will happen, yet in the book she's out of that fight and the Death Guard have vanished. Thirdly, could you point out to me where it says that, because I don't recall anywhere "It literally says they give up agains the Death Guard to go fight the Imperium." Could you point that out to me? -- Triacom (talk) 19:37, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

‘Thus,’ Commander Shadowsun spoke on, ‘I have come to a decision. We cannot stop the Death Guard this side of the Startide Nexus. After dozens of battles, our fleets are too damaged. Our strength has depleted to a point that we cannot halt this incursion any longer, if we still want to secure the expansion of the Nem’yar Atoll. We are now forced to choose, and we choose the latter. We are trusting in you, our comrades beyond the Nexus, to counteract the Death Guard threat.’ Angry Pirate (talk) 20:57, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

"We are trusting in you, our comrades beyond the Nexus, to counteract the Death Guard threat." In other words, they're leaving it on the cliffhanger that the main Tau are about to fight the Death Guard, they didn't give up fighting them. -- Triacom (talk) 21:21, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

But it isn't relevant to the story they are telling in PA GG in any way is it? I'm sure Black Templars have a crusade or two not fighting Heretics, but rules for it wasn't included in PA F&F either. Until it is confirmed DG don't get anything why make a controversy out of nothing.

It was the first promo material for Greater Good, so why would anyone think it's unrelated? I also did include a mention that GW said they aren't ruling out giving the Death Guard something, we just have no clue when that will be. -- Triacom (talk) 21:33, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Khorne and Slannesh

I just realized there's no faction icon for Khorne or Slannesh. Khorne I totally get (Psychic awakening, the only thing I could see would be Blank Berserkers and eh, no?) but Slannesh... Hm. They seem to be pushing Death Guard pretty hard as the front facing chaos force (easier to sell to normies than "the berserker god" or "the hermaphrodite god/dess of kinky sex" I guess) but they still added the Thousand Sons. Just an odd observation. KiTA (talk) 11:30, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Speculation? If there's anything, we'll most likely see the stuff for Khorne and Slaanesh with Engine War, albeit for their respective Chaos Demons. For Mortals it's less of a given since the World Eaters and Emperor's Children haven't been given the Death Guard or Thousand Sons treatment yet.--86.15.101.166 16:00, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

So Faith and Fury apparently isn't the Sisters of Battle Book.

From GW on Facebook. SoB are getting PA rules in a different book. Reddit post about it, GW Facebook post where it's mentioned in comments. Imgur mirror. "3d ago" would be 2/12/2020, btw. KiTA (talk) 23:24, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

RE: Pariah, and to Whom --it Refers

Did I misread the reveal? Looked like the Pariah book is one thing, only mentioned alongside the Stern reveal, and then that Harlequins and Deathwatch would get their rules in a White Dwarf issue, under a different heading, titled "even more Psychic Awakenings". Seems to me that Pariah isn't going to be about Deathwatch or Harlequins, making it a Sisters / Necrons book after all. --122.61.38.182 22:34, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

There was a lot of speculation based purely on the title and who had yet to show up in the prior books. As of today's reveal it seems most likely that Pariah is just a reference to Kyganil since he's getting a release alongside Stern. --Shermanruss (talk) 01:18, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Why the White Dwarf treatment?

So why are Deathwatch and Harlequines getting their updates on a White Dwarf issue instead of a proper book? Do we have any idea of the reason for the snub? --Alumno Alumno (talk) 21:26, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

My theory is that Wu Flu kinda caused everything to be shook up. That is, I imagine they were originally going to get a proper book, but with everything being pushed back, and their rules development and playtesting being disrupted, they are pushing them out like this so they can move on to whatever they have planned post-PA (8.5 / 9th edition?).

It's likely that'll have an impact on all the books from here on out. I'd be more surprised if their quality didn't take a hit as a result.--Newerfag (talk) 17:57, 13 May 2020 (UTC)