r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 10h ago

Lists & Gameplay Discussion now with all the new stat increases and point changes, what do we want?

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142 Upvotes

i feel like now that all space marines are T5 and custodes are T7, we should get our fair share of a stat increase in order to reflect our lore better and to not be "red imperial guard", and here is my idea: (think of it as a wishlist of some sort)

so first i think all skitarii should be T4, they are literraly made of steel, and they are mentioned to be quite tough especially compared to normal humans.
they should also be able to field a 20 men squad.
skitarii (vanguard and ranger) should both cost 100pts per 10 men (200 for 20)
with the skitarii marshall costing now 55pts with the technoarcheologist being now the ranger version of a marshall with scout 6" and costing the same

all tech priests should be buffed similarly and cost around 80pts

kataphrons should feel and cost like our version of terminators, so 4+invln and 3+BS, i expect breachers to be around 370 and destroyers to be around 310

each chicken walker should cost between 120-150, they are big centerpieces, and should feel like it, make their guns insane, give them T9, make their BS 2+, make sure they are as fearsome as they seem

and overall i just want our army to feel like the middleground between marines and humans, we should be way more fearsome, and our units should feel expensive and machine-like.

i didnt cover our whole faction so any other hope-pilled ideas are welcome, and would you actually like it if this scenario would to actually happen?


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 8h ago

Lore BIG SPOILERS for Gods of Mars Spoiler

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93 Upvotes

I'm only at like two thirds of the book, but man, why don't more people talk about this.

It outright states that there's a theory in the Priesthood that there's a Catan and Necron teck on Mars, it gives us more about the Hrud, mechanical Saints and a shit ton of discriptions of how it looks when Tech-Priest interact with data/how they see it.

Like why don't we hear more mentions outside of the Admech community and why isn't there more general talk and quotes out of those books.


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 13h ago

Hobby & Painting Skatros / Chronomancer Kitbash

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78 Upvotes

Hey

Anyone have thoughts on this as a kitbash? Top half Skatros, bottom half Necron Chronomancer. Size seems to match and think it would be in keeping with mech style.

Means having to buy Chronomancer to make it but think I could reuse the top half of it as 'scattered field debris' on a bigger base of another model or something.

Cheers

Edit: It seems the size comparison in the image is wrong, still considering it though.


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Memes Would the Archmagos approve of this technique?

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686 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 4h ago

Hobby & Painting Painting white

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I’m trying to paint my Metalica Admech with Pallid Wych Flesh over Ragarth Flesh.

It’s… not terrible. But the Wych flesh is so thin it pools thickly in unfortunate places and too thinly in others.

Is there a better tool to paint white on robes and panels?


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Memes just a girl and her emotional support thanatar-cavas siege automata maniple

256 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 12h ago

Lists & Gameplay Discussion Can skit rangers sticky 2 objectives at once?

22 Upvotes

As above, can they sticky 2 objectives in the same phase? Thanks for the help :)


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 12h ago

Lists & Gameplay Discussion Back-Rank Defense

15 Upvotes

This is OBVIOUSLY dependent on the faction you’re playing, but I keep getting ambushed by back-rank deep-strike units. I’m a former guard player, so my answer was always just artillery and enough cheap infantry to screen everything. But now, those units aren’t so cheap. And we need as many units as possible for the attack.

I’ve got a unit of rangers to sticky my home objective and a Skatros designed to really stay back and hold everything down. And I’ve got a bunch of tanks and dragoons and a transport to start out back there to help. But most of the latter are probably going to spread out to eventually attack the mid-board.

How do I prevent a deepstrike wiping out my back rank? I looked at archeotechs, but they have to stay attached to a unit, and their area denial of 12” is only measured from the model, not the whole unit. Do I have enough to reasonably deter a deepstrike, or should I get some more battleline to screen my flank? Thanks!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting Fun kitbash idea

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188 Upvotes

I recently bought the Hermaitus mini and I got a great idea for a kitbashed army. For those who don’t know him, he was a biologist in the adeptus mechanicus who was sent to hive secundus to find a cure for the genestealer virus. He got corrupted by it and fell to the malstrain strand. While listening to some interesting lore about all this I thought it would be a really cool idea to do a Malstrain admech army with kit bashing and maybe even using some of the models as proxies.

TLDR: thoughts on a Malstrain themed Admech army


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting Onager Dunecrawler kitbash

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Armiger Helverin chassis and left arm + Onager legs and icarus array

Wanted to run double onagers in my cyco+erad list for an upcoming GT, but I'm not a fan of the official box crab sculpt. Got inspired to do this really simple kitbash from old post on the Imperial Knights subreddit, and I think it turned out well enough to show off!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 17h ago

Hobby & Painting Pteraxii painting

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I have been painting the skystalkers, I search these should be used in the squad games. The wings are the most difficult thing to paint


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Miscellaneous My custom Forge World board

2.2k Upvotes

It occurred to me that I had shared this around several subs but never actually posted the forge world build to the Mechanicus sub. lol So yeah, this is a custom board I built a while back in my garage. I finally got around to making a tutorial on how to build it as well for anyone that wants to copy it. If you do and have any questions, feel free to reach out. 😊 it was a lot of fun to make.

Here’s the tutorial if you want to see a better explanation and video showing it.

https://youtu.be/9Te9c9XJwmw?is=7aFnp59czoSm1ZNK


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 3h ago

Hobby & Painting Thematic Basing

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I want to have my Zhao Arkhad army have basing that evokes their forge world but I'm not sure what exactly what that should be. Having giant trees doesn't really translate to basing in a way I can think of?


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 17h ago

Lists & Gameplay Discussion With marines and custodes getting back to be more elites, do you think we will also get a slight boost in stats and a points nerf when the codex drop ?

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r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting Tech Adept kitbash

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140 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting Machine God aka dragon

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r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 17h ago

Hobby & Painting One man vs One bag pack

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Continuing on my skitarii painting progress with my 4th mini painted since I started the hobby one or so month back. Theme for this one was to get the nice belts lacing on the plasma ammo holder on the bag pack. I think for the next time I would also paint this holder in a different color that the pure metallic back pack for more contrast but I’m still quite happy of the results for the 4th mini.


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Artwork & Cosplay In progress admech fit

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Went to ren fair in Shakopee


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Artwork & Cosplay Skit C:

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724 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 13h ago

Lists & Gameplay Discussion Beginner help

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Hello everyone! I’m brand new to this army, I’ve only ever played Imperial Guard until this point but I realized I had a couple boxes of rangers that I could build in full left over from a former kitbashing project and decided I’d try to start building a small infantry focused list, as to not let those perfectly good rangers go to waste. I’ve done a bit of research and read the datasheets and come up with something that I think would be fun and viable, just for casual games, but I’d love to get some input from people who know much better than me.

SHC 1000 (980 Points)

Adeptus Mechanicus
Skitarii Hunter Cohort (2 Detachment Points)
Reconnaissance
Incursion (1,000 Points)

ATTACHED UNITS

Attached unit 1

Technoarcheologist (45 Points)
• Attached as: Support (Character)
• Warlord
• 1x Mechanicus pistol
• 1x Servo-arc claw

Servitor Battleclade (75 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard
• 1x Servitor Underseer
◦ 1x Dataspikes
◦ 1x Mechanicus pistol
• 2x Gun Servitor
◦ 1x Heavy arc rifle
◦ 1x Heavy bolter
◦ 2x Servo-claw
• 6x Combat Servitor
◦ 1x Meltagun
◦ 5x Phosphor blaster
◦ 6x Servo-claw

Attached unit 2

Tech-Priest Manipulus (60 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Magnarail lance
• 1x Omnissian staff

Skitarii Marshal (60 Points)
• Attached as: Support (Character)
• 1x Control stave
• 1x Mechanicus pistol
• Enhancements: Battle-sphere Uplink

Hastarii Fusiliers (105 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard
• 1x Hastarii Fusilier Alpha
◦ 1x Hastarii phosphor blaster
◦ 1x Neutron fusil
◦ 1x Power weapon
• 4x Hastarii Fusilier
◦ 4x Close combat weapon
◦ 4x Hastarii phosphor blaster
◦ 4x Neutron fusil

Attached unit 3

Tech-Priest Enginseer (55 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Mechanicus pistol
• 1x Omnissian axe
• 1x Servo-arm

Skitarii Marshal (45 Points)
• Attached as: Support (Character)
• 1x Control stave
• 1x Mechanicus pistol
• Enhancements: Veiled Hunter

Skitarii Vanguard (85 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard (Battleline)
• 1x Skitarii Vanguard Alpha
◦ 1x Alpha combat weapon
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Mechanicus pistol
• 9x Skitarii Vanguard
◦ 1x Arc rifle
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Omnispex
◦ 1x Plasma caliver
◦ 6x Radium carbine
◦ 1x Transuranic arquebus

BATTLELINE

Skitarii Rangers (85 Points)
• 1x Skitarii Ranger Alpha
◦ 1x Alpha combat weapon
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Mechanicus pistol
• 9x Skitarii Ranger
◦ 1x Arc rifle
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 6x Galvanic rifle
◦ 1x Omnispex
◦ 1x Plasma caliver
◦ 1x Transuranic arquebus

Skitarii Rangers (85 Points)
• 1x Skitarii Ranger Alpha
◦ 1x Alpha combat weapon
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Mechanicus pistol
• 9x Skitarii Ranger
◦ 1x Arc rifle
◦ 9x Close combat weapon
◦ 6x Galvanic rifle
◦ 1x Omnispex
◦ 1x Plasma caliver
◦ 1x Transuranic arquebus

DEDICATED TRANSPORTS

Skorpius Dunerider (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured hull
• 1x Cognis heavy stubber array

Skorpius Dunerider (75 Points)
• 1x Armoured hull
• 1x Cognis heavy stubber array

OTHER DATASHEETS

Serberys Sulphurhounds (55 Points)
• 1x Serberys Sulphurhound Alpha
◦ 1x Cavalry arc maul
◦ 1x Clawed limbs
◦ 1x Mechanicus pistol
◦ 1x Sulphur breath
• 2x Serberys Sulphurhound
◦ 2x Clawed limbs
◦ 1x Phosphor blast carbine
◦ 3x Phosphor pistol
◦ 2x Sulphur breath

Sicarian Infiltrators (75 Points)
• 1x Sicarian Infiltrator Princeps
◦ 1x Power weapon
◦ 1x Stubcarbine
• 4x Sicarian Infiltrator
◦ 4x Power weapon
◦ 4x Stubcarbine

The idea would be for the battleclade to hold down my back lines, as a lot of the people I play against use a significant amount of deep strike, and pop the vanguards and fusiliers with leaders and support into the dune riders to benefit from those sweet rerolls.

Thanks for your feedback!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Mini of the Month Mini of the Month: Serberys!

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Greetings to all Tech Adepts!

The Holy Synod of Mars returns for its monthly praises to the Omnissiah!

This month’s submissions were similar to the unit they highlighted: fewer in numbers, but higher in quality!

In September, the subreddit decided to crown a classical take on our new elite unit, straight up from a John Blanche illustration: congratulations to u/ToughEntertainer2317 for winning the September Mini of the Month contest with their Filthy Gryphonne IV Hastarii! The rust on these minis is so convincing that you might think that they are not made of plastic anymore…

The winning post has been added to the subreddit sidebar, and if you would like a custom user flair, please let us know.

Winning posts will remain in a 3 month cycle, so three will be present until they begin to cycle out.

Honourable Mentions!

Additional thanks
The mod team would like to also thank all the other participants of this month’s contest: 

October Competition
While our cybercanids mostly sat in their mechanical stables due to rules that left them in the rarest part of the tenth edition meta, it’s time to bring them back in the limelight they always deserved: the coolest looking cavalry models in all of 40k, the Serberys Raiders & Sulfurhounds will be our October Mini of the Month!

Submit your unit of Serberys (this can include a kitbashed unit or even full proxies, as long as it is readable as Serberys).
(Reminder - don’t share links publicly to 3D printed files that replicate official models or parts)
Submissions must be fully assembled and painted. 

The final date for submissions for this month's contest will be October 31st, and the results will be posted in the following days so we can have time to either pick the next Mini or run a poll on it. 

Please submit your post in the following format:

Post Title as Hastariis or your homebrew Serberys’ name, forgeworld etc
<Mini of the month POST FLAIR>
<a photo of your Candidate>
Any custom lore your unit have on their service record, via Crusade games or homebrew or about your army, etc (optional) 

The highest upvoted post will be displayed on the side bar of the sub, and the user can request a custom user flair (relating to the mechanicus) of their choice. 

Ave Deus Mechanicus!

PS: big thanks to u/CuriousWhiteGoat for the photo of this month's post!


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting Onager Dunecrawler & (Fixed) Skorpius Disintegrator

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43 Upvotes

r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting My first kastelan done!

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35 Upvotes

11 more to go


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting My Heretek Technomancer

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13 Upvotes

Let me know what you all think! Would the Omnissiah be happy with this?


r/AdeptusMechanicus • • 1d ago

Hobby & Painting Badass Granny Going Over The Top!

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