Adeptus Mechanicus: Serberys Raiders

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For the Thousand Sons most of our units can either Teleport or be put into the Webway, but there are a few units where PL changes are worth noting and the changes to Daemons may also be important. The Citadel Journal 21 (1997) - Adeptus Mechanicus Detachments: Skitarii Tech-Guard of the Forge Worlds All Skitarii models (other than the Terrax, Secutarii Hoplites, and Secutarii Peltasts) have the Doctrina Imperatives ability. So long as you have at least one model alive in your army with the Doctrina Assembler keyword (i.e. a single Tech-Priest of any type or a Skitarii Marshal) at the start of the round, then units with the Doctrina Imperatives ability have access to the buffs (and debuffs) from one of the four different Doctrina Imperatives at your disposal. A Psychomancer cryptek leads the force, with a unit of 10 Necron Warriors and three Scarab Swarms making up the durable centre. The real killing work falls to a Lokhust Heavy Destroyer, three Ophydian Destroyers, five Flayed Ones, and two huge Canoptek Doomstalkers. Many of these units recently received the CORE keyword as part of the Balance Dataslate , and enjoy a new lease of life**. Dedicated Transports are +1: except the Land Speeder Storm, which is unchanged and Impulsor which is, predictably, +3

And because this faction isn’t complicated enough, there are a couple ways of manipulating Canticles. First and foremost, you have Mars, which grants the Canticles of the Omnissiah ability to all Skitarii units. Yes, this means you are applying two sets of buffs to your Skitarii. Yes, this makes them very powerful. Yes, it’s good and complicated, go try it! Additionally, there are three ways of manipulating Canticles for individual units: Belisarius Cawl‘s Lead in Prayer ability, as well as a Mars-exclusive strategem, and a strategem that is available to any Tech-Priest. This means you have a huge variety of options each turn to plan around. It’s August 10th and as promised, Games Workshop updated the Warhammer 40,000 app (well, the Android version anyways) and published a PDF with new PL values for all of the game’s units. While normally competitive games use points instead of Power Levels, these changes still have far-reaching consequences beyond casual play and Crusade: Several rules in competitive 40k, such as the new Strategic Reserves rule, the Daemonic Ritual Summoning rules for Daemons, and some stratagems all use Power Level as a factor. I was hoping to use them as character snipers or kill securers to clean up what's left of light infantries, but I am doubting my initial thought now. Karandras comes down by a point, while Fuegan and Maugan Ra both go up 1. Mostly this is shuffling stuff for Crusade. Warhammer Community: Tridents, Harpoons, and Very Large Spears: Learn to Fish with these Aquatic Imperial Knights (Posted on 17/12/2021) (last accessed 17th September 2023)edition is on the way, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild and the Faction FAQs released, now’s a good time to start taking a look at what’s changed for all of our favourite armies. Today, Cyle “Naramyth” Thompson is looking at the Adeptus Mechanicus. One of the factions most impacted by any shifts in PL values is Chaos Daemons – both summoning and the Denizens of the Warp Stratagem rely on units’ Power Levels to determine the difficulty/cost of use. The big thresholds we’re worried about here are at the 8 CP to 9 CP jump, where Denizens starts costing 2 CP, and anything that drops a bigger daemon’s PL lower and closer to 10.5, the average roll on 3D6. The other big thing we’re going to find out is whether there are now units that cost less CP to put in Strategic Reserves than to put into the warp with Denizens. Spoiler: There aren’t, but the drops on Khorne Dominion Squad went up by 1PL for a 10 woman squad (5 PL for 5, 8 PL for 10). This is part of a pattern of 10 model squads getting a price hike while the 5 models that come with all the juicy special weapons go unchanged. In the case of the Dominions it’s somewhat justified as a lot of their weapon options went down in cost, but the first 5 Seraphim that come with 4 inferno pistols cost the same as the last 5 seraphim, who come with just bolt pistols. Firepower– AdMech have incredibly efficient shooting, some of the best in the game. From the lowly Skitarii Ranger to the towering Ironstrider Ballistarii, and all sizes in between, this army has a lot of point-efficient ranged weapons.

In a straight shooting match, there are few armies that can go toe-to-toe with AdMech. For Admech has a simple way of stopping some big mean greenskin from tearing them a structurally superfluous new data-port: use a gun. And if that don’t work, use more guns. The Adeptus Mechanicus are the guardians and smiths of the vital technology within the Imperium. Helping to make and maintain the war machines and arcane weapons that are part of every aspect of Mankind. The Skitarii are the holy warriors of the Adeptus Mechanicus, blessed soldiers that are very loyal to the priesthood of Mars and fight to the last man to protect and help reclaim the lost technologies this secretive faction desire and provide the Imperium of Man to help bring victory on the battlefields throughout the Universe. Providing some of the very best and deadliest weapons the Mechanicus has to choose from, the Skitarii wield the devastating power of Mars in the name of the Ominissah. The big concerns with Astra Militarum are going to be around putting units into Strategic Reserves. The faction’s major Troop choices – Infantry Squads and Militarum Tempestus Scions – were unchanged, so that leaves tanks to talk about, and most of those either didn’t change or didn’t change enough to matter. There are only two changes that immediately jump out when looking at the Imperial Guard:

Serberys Sulphurhounds

Kataphron Destroyers down to 7PL from 10PL for 3 models. Note that unlike for Kataphron Breachers, this PL reduction doesn’t change the CP cost of the Fresh Convert strategem or how it can be used. This is because resurrecting 3 Destroyers still costs 2CP, and resurrecting 6 Destroyers (the max) still costs 3CP. Necrons are another faction that didn’t really need a lot of help from Strategic Reserves, but both of their vehicle-based teleporting options (Monoliths, Night Scythes) are risky and overpriced, so there’s potentially some value in putting a few units into Strategic Reserves. Whenever Space Marines go to war, they strike hard and fast, and the Shieldbreaker Strike Force is set up to do just that. With enough Troops to hold down objectives, an elite cadre of veterans can focus on bringing down their toughest foes in bloody close combat. I got a box of raiders a couple of weeks ago and built them as raiders instead of sulfur hounds, mainly because I liked the idea of calvary snipers. I used them twice so far in the game, but they have not been performing point-worthy or effectively.