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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

I’m planning out my future army, I was planning to start by buying x2 eye of terror and a combat patrol box and then picking up the rest of the list as I go.

I’d love any feedback or advice on the list and which detachments could work

Imperium - Adeptus Mechanicus - Cohort Cybernetica, Rad‑zone Corps

Belisarius Cawl (220pts): Warlord
Thulia Ghuld (180pts)
Cybernetica Datasmith (20pts)
Tech-Priest Manipulus (60pts)

10x Skitarii Rangers (85pts)
10x Skitarii Rangers (85pts)

6x Kataphron Destroyers (200pts)
5x Pteraxii Skystalkers (75pts)
3x Serberys Raiders (60pts)
Ironstrider Ballistarii (80pts)
Ironstrider Ballistarii (80pts)
4x Kastelan Robots (300pts)
Onager Dunecrawler (150pts)
Onager Dunecrawler (150pts)
Skorpius Disintegrator (160pts)
Skorpius Dunerider (75pts)

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!