Necron Rules Queries

[jaqenhgar]

OK so after the game vs Rob's Grey Knights my overlord with mindshackle scarabs got into combat with his Dreadknight. The Dreadknight failed his Ld test and proceeded to attack himself and I thought he could instant death himself after wounding with his force weapon. Rob disagreed so we ruled in game that he wasn't ID'd.

Having looked around and re-read the wording of the mss rules, it looks like there is some disagreement, in fact the INAT FAQ (yeah I'd not really heard of it either - it's an independent FAQ not affiliated with games workshop I think) says that you can ID yourself with a force weapon as long as you haven't used up all your psychic powers for that turn. However the consensus seems to contradict this since the rule states you can use the abilities of the weapon, but the ID thingy is a psychic power channeled through the weapon and not actually an ability of the weapon itself.

So I think Rob was right and a psyker can't be foced to ID himeself via mind shackle scarabs.

There is an exception which is that if a group of psykers (ie a Paladin squad) has already activated their force weapons in the assault, then any wounds caused on the squad by a mss-controlled member of that squad will cause instant death.

All got that? Great! Simples.