>>5593496Conversely, chronomancy and the motive force works clearest absence of psychic energy. In our case, psychic energy is like poisoning an engine with water. Or a more accurate analogy, background radiation interfering with electronic function.
You see this with Orikan who complains about his future vision being blunted and fogged up by Warpstorms or Ork WAAAGH fields.
Not that I suspect Lorgar is or even would flood an entire subsector with a Warpstorm.
That comes laterAnyway, yeah, it is cheating. But honestly, the Machine God himself approves of cheating so long as victory is achieved and efficiency maintained. For he is the God of Efficiency and practicality, honor and sentiment are the trappings of flesh. The acquisition of knowledge, and the banishment of heresy, comes before all other concerns.
Still, I don't see a reason we should cheat if TalOS is of such firm faith he believes he can best Lorgar even with the warp on his brother's side and it makes more sense here that he wouldn't. Lorgar hasn't unlocked much of his psychic ability yet anyway.