It even has an Enhancement that lets you grant a unit you are leading with Scout 6” and Infiltrate, which is always a good set of bonuses.

Simply take this on a Tech-Priest, park them on a nearby Acquisition objective, and get an extra CP each turn on a 4+.

Serberys Raiders, who have long been a staple in Adeptus Mechanicus armies, are now packing AP-1 on their melee, which makes advance and charge an appealing option for them (and they refund the CP on a 5+ with their Enhanced Data-Tether). Priority Reclamation gives your units a 6″ consolidate move as long as you move closer to your priority marker. The Rad-Zone Corps assails the enemy with radioactive bombardment, and this makes their deployment zone a really bad place to be.

Auto-Oracular Retrieval gives a unit +1 to wound on ranged attacks against a target enemies within range of your Acquisition objective. Even without +1A, Breachers are threatening enough as long as they have some buff Skitarii huddling nearby that this makes charging a unit really hard – the failure case of just getting snipped to death is real for pretty much any target, especially as this detachment provides a +1 to Wound melee stratagem. Ignore modifiers remains a very powerful rule, handing this out alongside Fall Back and shoot really makes this stratagem shine. Overall they had five different detachments, and while they don’t feel so much as Forgeworlds like the Marine detachments felt like Chapters, they do really push armies to be built in specific ways. Have you ever had an opponent target your units with a shooting attack, and you wished you could politely say no?

Internal balance hasn’t changed from the index: Kataphron Breachers are still your MVPs with their access to full hit rerolls and amazing weapons. An absolutely essential part of this detachment is the Infoslave Skull stratagem, which lets you take a second Acquisition objective marker. And the last enhancement is a utility that will absolutely take your opponent off guard, Battle-Sphere Uplink . And if you regulatory come up against some scary vehicles Master of Machines can stop them from shooting at all!

For another wild combination of abilities, Clandestine Infiltrator grants both Infiltrators and Scout 6”.They also have some really good enhancements, such as the ability to turn the damage of a failed save on a Cybernetica or Vehicle unit to 0 once per battle round, which can keep these units in the fight against some of the more powerful weapons in the game. For millennia, the Tech-Priests—whose flesh has long been supplanted by steel—have safeguarded humanity’s technological relics, enshrouding their work in sacred rites. I always just wondered if they made a Dark Mechanicus book would it be this annoying to play against? The Dunerider has had a bit of a rework and now has a cool fire support rule where if it scores any hits against a target, the unit that has disembarked from it gets to reroll wound rolls against that same target.

And Kataphron Destroyers, Sicarian Ruststalkers, and so many others remain on the shelf because they don’t have a clear role in the army. In this one you get the choice of one of two abilities at the start of the game, either give all your Cult Mechancus weapons +1 AP at half range (Which works really well with Breachers armed with Arc, giving them 4 shots at AP -3 at close range!

Those days are long-gone my friend, but the Skitarii Hunter Cohort is a flashback to those blessed and cursed days. A veteran Machine Savant can repair even the most broken war-engines, and long hours spent scouring records for hints of buried technology can hone whatever mechanical olfactory sensors a Tech-Priest has in place of a nose, making them a Holy Acquistor – an expert at snooping out lost archeotech. Park your shiny new Sydonian Skatros on top of the tallest terrain feature, and get 6” of free movement before the game starts. Outside of Data-Blessed Autosermon the standout option here is the Temporcopia , providing Fights First.