After a “short delay” we are back! In the grim darkness of the far future, the Adeptus Mechanicus stands as a bastion of technological prowess, wielding the mysteries of the Machine God to conquer the galaxy. The latest additions to their arsenal, requisitions, battle traits, and crusade relics, offer commanders a wealth of options to customize their forces and lead them to victory in the name of the Omnissiah. These mechanics not only deepen the narrative immersion but also enhance the strategic depth of Adeptus Mechanicus crusades, making them a formidable force on the battlefield.
Requisitions:
The requisitions available to the Adeptus Mechanicus allow commanders to harness the full potential of their technological arsenal:
- Consecrated Remodulation (1RP): Through isolated periods of prayer to the Machine God, commanders can declare themselves struck by new knowledge, reverently dismantling and recombining ancient technology into new forms. This requisition allows commanders to select two Archeotech Treasures and combine them into a new Archeotech Treasure immediately, offering versatility in battlefield adaptation.
- Assemble Archeotech (1RP): Commanders can invoke holy rituals and ancient rites to forge archeotech treasures from the raw components of their arsenal. This requisition requires at least one Power Source and one other type of Archeotech Part. By combining these components, commanders can assemble a new Archeotech Treasure, enhancing the capabilities of their forces.
- Auto-Sermon of Deployment (2RP): Through solemn incantations and benedictions, commanders can empower their tech-priests with legendary archeotech relics. This requisition allows a selected TECH-PRIEST model to be equipped with a piece of Legendary Archeotech, such as the Autocaduceus of Arkhan Land, granting significant battlefield advantages.
- Battleware Reprogramming (3RP): Ruthlessly altering the neural cogitation of cybernetic soldiers and thrall constructs grants commanders the ability to adapt their forces to new challenges. This requisition allows the removal and selection of new Battle Honours for an INFANTRY unit, ensuring maximum efficiency on the battlefield.
Battle Traits:
The battle traits available to Adeptus Mechanicus units bestow unique abilities upon them, reflecting the diversity and adaptability of their forces:
- Tech-Priest Units: From machine savants capable of repairing damaged war engines to hexamathic chorales that unleash sensor-clouding static, each trait enhances the tactical flexibility and survivability of Tech-Priest units.
- Machine Savant: At the end of the battle, this unit can ignore one failed Out of Action test for an ADEPTUS MECHANICUS VEHICLE unit from your Crusade army, ensuring the longevity of mechanized forces.
- Voltagheist Shock: Once per battle round, in your opponent’s Charge phase, this unit inflicts D3 mortal wounds on an enemy unit that selected it as the target of a charge on a roll of 3+, deterring assaults against key units.
- Holy Acquisitor: After winning a battle, roll one D6: on a 6, your Crusade force gains 1 Archeotech Part, enhancing resource acquisition.
- Control Cortex: While this model is leading a unit, you can re-roll Battle-shock tests taken for that unit, maintaining unit cohesion and morale.
- Hexamathic Chorale: Once per battle round, one ADEPTUS MECHANICUS SMOKE unit from your army within 12″ of this unit can be targeted with the Smokescreen Stratagem for 0CP, providing tactical cover for allied units.
- Teleportation Node: At the end of your Movement phase, if this unit is not within Engagement Range of enemy units, you can place it into Strategic Reserves, granting strategic redeployment on the battlefield.
- Skitarii Character Units: Integrated refractor emitters offer enhanced defensive capabilities, while battlefield processing cortexes grant tactical acumen and secutor-class blade implants deliver devastating counterattacks against enemy charges.
- Integrated Refraction Emitters: This model has a 4+ invulnerable save, increasing survivability against enemy fire.
- Battlefield Processing Cortex: Each time you target this model’s unit with a Stratagem, roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if that unit is equipped with an enhanced data-tether: on a 5+, you gain 1CP, enhancing strategic options for the army.
- Secutor-class Blade Implants: Once per battle round, when an enemy unit ends a Charge move within Engagement Range of this unit, roll one D6: on a 2-5, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds, punishing enemy charges and deterring assaults.
- Infantry and Mounted Units: Enhanced bionics provide additional resilience, killcode gear switches amplify melee prowess, and fervent locomotion increases mobility, ensuring that infantry units are versatile and deadly on the battlefield.
- Enhanced Bionics: This unit has a 4+ invulnerable save. If this unit is a BATTLELINE or KATAPHRON unit, it has a 5+ invulnerable save instead, increasing survivability in combat.
- Killcode Gear Switches: Add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in this unit, enhancing close combat effectiveness.
- Fervent Locomotion: Add 1 to the Movement characteristic of models in this unit and add 1 to Advance rolls made for it, allowing for rapid maneuvering on the battlefield.
- Vehicle Units: Sanctified engines offer unparalleled speed, hardened machine spirits defy adversity, and blessed spirits grant resilience, making vehicle units formidable assets in any engagement.
- Sanctified Engine: Each time this unit Advances, add 6″ to the Move characteristic of models in this unit until the end of the phase, allowing for swift repositioning on the battlefield.
- Hardened Machine Spirit: Ignore any or all modifiers to this unit’s characteristics and/or to any roll or test made for it (excluding modifiers to saving throws), maintaining consistent performance in adverse conditions.
- Blessed Spirit: This unit has the Feel No Pain 6+ ability, enhancing durability against enemy attacks.
Crusade Relics:
The crusade relics available to Adeptus Mechanicus characters bestow potent abilities upon their wielders, representing the pinnacle of technological and mystical achievement:
- Artificer Relics: The multiplexed neural inducer grants control over nearby servants, while the kardiocore galvanus enhances movement and charging capabilities, ensuring battlefield dominance.
- Multiplexed Neural Inducer: Once per battle round, while the bearer is leading a unit, you can target that unit with the Fire Overwatch Stratagem for 0CP and can do so even if you have already targeted a different unit with that Stratagem this phase, providing additional defensive capabilities.
- Kardiocore Galvanus: While the bearer is leading a unit, add 1 to Advance and Charge rolls made for that unit, increasing mobility and engagement range.
- Antiquity Relics: The exemplar’s eternity bolsters the offensive capabilities of Skitarii units, offering re-rolls in combat against designated enemies, enhancing their martial prowess.
- Exemplar’s Eternity: At the start of the battle, select one enemy unit. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1, increasing the unit’s effectiveness in melee.
- Legendary Relics: The autocaduceus of Arkhan Land embodies the resilience of the Machine God, granting the power to resurrect fallen allies with a flick of the wrist, turning the tide of battle in the Omnissiah’s favor.
- Autocaduceus of Arkhan Land: Once per battle, when a different friendly ADEPTUS MECHANICUS model within 6″ of the bearer is destroyed, you can roll one D6 at the end of the phase instead of triggering any rules that are triggered when a model is destroyed (e.g. Deadly Demise). On a 3+, set that model back up on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models, with up to 6 wounds remaining (this cannot allow a model to return with more wounds than its Wounds characteristic), providing unmatched battlefield resilience and endurance.
In conclusion, the latest additions to the Adeptus Mechanicus arsenal offer commanders a wealth of options to customize their forces and lead them to victory. Whether invoking ancient rituals to forge new artifacts, augmenting their troops with powerful battle traits, or wielding legendary relics of immense power, commanders of the Adeptus Mechanicus stand ready to conquer the galaxy in the name of the Omnissiah.
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