Editing Ahzek Ahriman (section)

====8th Edition====
3 powers and 3 denies with +1 to both rolls. Average in combat (he has a force staff that deals +1D) and his disc no longer provides him with extra toughness and, funnily, instead gives him an extra weakness and benefit by handing Ahriman the {{W40kKeyword|Daemon}} keyword (thus making him a tasty pastry to GK's and possibly Nurgle daemons but also able to be affected by the auras and spells of daemons of Tzeentch). Also, the Black Staff now apparently adds nothing to his psychic potential - it's just the aforementioned slightly buffed force staff. All in all, he's not what he was (and is far more a support psyker than an attack character, contrary to his entire history of having rules) but he also lost 100+pts from his cost to make up for it. Relative to his peers, GW's approach has not left him weaker, but relative to other units in the game and the current bastardisation of psykers, Ahriman is a much weaker unit as a whole. He has a bubble effect, lending to the idea that a better tactic for Ahriman now may be to stick him just behind the advancing gun line in order to ward off anything too nasty with his ability to throw out some mortal wounds and to use warp time for effective counter attacks.