[40k] Relative Strengths

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From wh40k.lexicanum.com ..

On Force Weapons
Large Xenos and Daemons that are resilient to conventional weapons can be slain outright by a single wound, as their body and mind are withered by the unimaginable powers of the Immaterium.
It does indeed seem that while it's possible to banish a demon by attacking its physical form, a powerful psychic attack (like from a Nemesis Force Weapon wielded by a Grey Knight) tends to be more effective.. then again, of course, this would of course depend on the strength of the psychic attack as well.

Shortie's hypothesis seems to fit: the demons are able to hold their physical form together using their warp existence, thus attacking their warp existence directly with psychic attacks is more effective.

Connor MacLeod wrote:A case could also be made in that the fanatical belief and the whole quasi-religious apporach to technology confer some sort of blessing or enchantment on weapons that allow them to damage such creatures...
Fascinating. I wonder where the misguided, dogmatic understanding of the Adeptus Mechanicus ends, and rituals that have have actual effect against warp-spawned entities begins.

While it's true that their quasi-religious view of science and engineering is ridiculous, it's also a fact that the supernatural (the Immaterium and its effects) also exists in 40k. The question is, where is the line drawn?
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Ghetto edit..

Specifically, for the former, I'm referring to things like tech-priests' "prayers of function" spoken while performing "maintenance rituals" which contain actual useful procedures. Then there's the "purity seals" on equipment..
However, it appears that holy oils and micro-inscripted psycannon bolter shells do have a greatly pronounced effect on demons.

At what point do these rituals have actual effect? How real are the machine spirits?
"..history has shown the best defense against heavy cavalry are pikemen, so aircraft should mount lances on their noses and fly in tight squares to fend off bombers". - RedImperator

"ha ha, raping puppies is FUN!" - Johonebesus

"It would just be Unicron with pew pew instead of nom nom". - Vendetta, explaining his justified disinterest in the idea of the movie Allspark affecting the Death Star
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