While datasheets have had minimal changes, there are some important tweaks here and updates that may make you give a unit a second look. Those are important metrics to remember when driving your opponent crazy with the cheese of having Skitarii Vanguard with -1 to be hit, saving on 3+, and a 4++ invulnerable save. There are 18 potential Archeotech Treasures to reconstruct, but these aren’t the only remnants of Humanity’s glorious past on offer. It feels like its niche ends up being “all-rounder shooting” – the abilities aren’t locked as hard to specific Keywords as some other Detachments, and handing out re-rolls, Lethal Hits and Sustained Hits with relatively minimal overhead means you’re generally pretty good at withering the enemy away. The bulk of these Stratagems are melee buffs, with a couple of defensive buffs thrown in the mix to help your units fall into melee.

Park your shiny new Sydonian Skatros on top of the tallest terrain feature, and get 6” of free movement before the game starts.Mighty armies of robots, Omnisirah cults and deadly warmachines march against the enemies of the Imperium, bringing their high tech weaponry to bare. This last one would be great, except that it not only costs 2CP, but it also can only be used on friendly units that disembarked from a transport this turn. As ever, the first half of the book covers the lore, where players can find out just who the Adeptus Mechanicus are, how they operate and loads of information about the various units.

This is extremely good on the big brick of Breachers you are still absolutely running, especially if you’re also packing in a Master Eradicator to double dip on those juicy 6s. The army consists of Manipulus Skand, a unit of Vanguard, a unit of Sulphurhounds and a unit of Pteraxii Sterylizors. We’ll be having a full deep dive into what all of these detachments do, and delve into the awesome narrative Crusade content later in this review. This book also contains a one-use code to unlock Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus content in Warhammer 40,000: The App.Their stratagems all just make their robots/vehicles better so if you are into rolling around with vehicles and robots this is the detachment for you. Note: Similarly to Codex: Necrons, we are currently unaware of what the final points for the Adeptus Mechanicus will look like on release.

This is relatively unique and can potentially be very nasty, especially if you’re going second and are able to react to your opponent each turn by picking whichever objective they’re currently trying to hold. The Cohort Cybernetica provides you with seriously powered-up Kastelan Robots , while the Tech-priests of the Data-psalm Conclave exhort the Cult Mechanicus to eradicate their foes. Those two stratagems also let some of the unsung heroes of the codex shine in ways that could catch your opponent off guard. Instead, we got a good-for-your-army Lone Operative that doesn’t do a whole lot for the army other than being in the back where it can’t get shot.Meaning you could potentially shoot it three times in a single battle round, and kill an average of sixteen marines.

Sanguinius faced Fulgrim and won, Dorn charged Horus Ascended…and soon regretted it whilst Sigismund took not one, but two heads (Eidolon and Abaddon). Good clean fun, and there’s an additional upside – if you target a Battleline unit with it, you can tag the effect onto a nearby non-Battleline Skitarii unit for free. Luminescent Blessing gives a 4+ invulnerable save to a single unit in the enemy Shooting phase and works on any CULT MECHANICUS unit, acting as a massive durability buff for units lacking a good invulnerable save. Today we’re looking at the upcoming 10th edition Codex For the Adeptus Mechanicus, unpacking the new rules, and talking about how they change the faction.Congratulations, you have 59 ranged attacks, Lethal Hits, full hit rerolls (reroll everything that’s not a 6), at AP-1. We get a really fun Crusade section in the book that really leans into the fact that the Adeptus Mechanicus are often fighting because the battlefield is a source of Archeotech, or they believe the force they are fighting has got access to knowledge or technology that they want to take back to properly investigate. At the start of your Command phase, pick an objective marker to become your Acquisition objective marker. This is presumably because the old version would have been jaw-droppingly stupid on the Sydonian Skatros, and it’s still kind of OK on either a Manipulus or volkite Dominus if you have the points, but less mandatory. The Adeptus Mechanicus see a large number of changes from their Index incarnation – in total, more than we saw for Codex: Space Marines and Codex: Tyranids.