Editing Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Mechanicum (30k) (section)

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*'''[[Anacharis Scoria]]''' Awww yeah! Brand new Dark Mechanicum Archmagos Dominus from the new book! At his price of 275 points comes with a great statline (WS/BS/S/T/I of 5, 4 W, 3 A, 2+/3++), your basic Archamagos Dominus ruleset supplied with Eternal Warrior, Relentless and Adamantium Will, two Archaeotech Pistols, Machinator Array (so yeah, he's T6) and his AWESOME CCW - The Vodian Sceptre, which inflicts D3 AP 2 auto-wounds (or cuts 1 HP from a vehicle) for each successfull hit (these wounds ignore FnP and don't allow It Will Not Die rolls). As masterful Dominus he has his own Cybertheurgy - The Rite of the Beast, which is cast with -2 modifier and grants every model in targeted unit (except for joined Magi, as Cybertheurgy only affects models with a Cybernetica Cortex) +1 to their Initiative, Move and Charge distances, and re-roll of failed hits in assault. The downside is that when the power loses its effect, every model must roll a D6, losing a wound on roll of 1 with no saves allowed.
**If all of that is not enough for you, for 40 points he may purchase his special Xanathite Abeyant, which gives him +1 Wound (yes, 5 Wounds!!!), +1 Attack, Move Through Cover, It Will Not Die, Hardened Armour and a photon thruster, which can be fired in addition to all other shooting attacks. Tired of your warlord being slain by [[Sigismund| a certain relentless champion of death]] or [[Primarchs|posthuman demi-gods]]? Rejoice my friend, you now have one of the most fearsome motherfuckers in the whole 30k setting. The Xanophane Tyrant is tougher than most Primarchs and his Vodian Sceptre and Machinator Array make him an absolute beast against anything from vehicles to hordes. Just remember Scoria is NOT FEARLESS and thus may be killed by any successful sweeping advance.... supposing your opponent can dish out more damage than you, of course.
**His Warlord trait allows all Cybernetica-Cortex units to make Sweeping Advances and Run, and if they're outside Control range, they must move towards the closest enemy unit, charge it, and try to Sweeping Advance.
**He may also take The Homonculex - an Arlatax Battle-automata which gets Paragon of Metal and Rage, but if Anacharis dies, it is removed from play. Emm... Cool, I guess??
*'''Magos Dominus''' What the average neckbeard has become by the 30th millennium. Comes with a cortex controller, laspistol and [[power weapon]] base; they're essential if you want to be actually able to control your robots. Can be upgraded to an Archmagos for a better statline and Relentless (probably a good idea, since several of the cooler weapons they can take are heavy or salvo). As well as pistol weapons to replace the laspistol, you can take things like Irrad-Cleansers, Conversion Beamers and Photon Thrusters on top of it (letting you keep the extra attack it grants).  Non-weapon upgrades that may come in useful include the Abeyant for an extra wound, It Will Not Die, Move Through Cover and Hardened Armour; the Machinator Array, an old-style Servo-Harness that grants two extra Power Axe (rather than Power Fist) attacks and has an [[Inferno Pistol]] rather than a plasma pistol; the Mechanicum Protectiva, which as well as being a shout-out to the old [[Iron Hands]] Iron Father grants a 4++ save, which can be improved to a [[3++ is the New Black|3++]] with the Cyber-Familiar (which also lets you re-roll one characteristic test per player turn).  They can get expensive quickly, even though a baseline Magos is only 65 points, but you can quickly make them into rock-hard beatsticks that will wreck face in both shooting and close combat. Can use Cybertheurgy powers (Ld 9, 10 for the Archmagos Dominus).
**They can also be used as a Magos Reductor, for taking with the Ordo Reductor list (as a HQ in place of Decima), who loses the Cybertheurgy powers, but gains a variety of other rules including rad grenades.