The new Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus will be going up for pre-order this Saturday and Games Workshop is giving us some more teasers to hold us over.
Games Workshop just gave us another preview of Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus. Let see what they had to say about forge world Graia.
Graia is the most tenacious of the forge worlds, and every Tech-Priest and soldier of the planet is hard-wired to think only in terms of ruthless, uncompromising logic. Even Psykers find that their magics cannot find purchase on the sheer wall of absolute rationality projected by the Graian forces.
On the tabletop, Graian armis have a handy dogma that helps increase the durability of massed units considerably – Refusal To Yield:
This dogma is great on single wound models, essentially providing them with an additional layer of saving throws, while for high-points cost models, the potential to ignore a potentially fatal wound and keep fighting is very handy indeed. Nearly every unit in the Adeptus Mechanicus codex also possesses a 6+ invulnerable save, meaning that you could be ignoring a third of wounds.
Best Units
Fulgurite Electro-Priests are already a superb unit, capable of dealing huge damage in assault and growing in power thanks to Siphoned Vigour bringing them up to a 3+ Invulnerable Save. With the Graia dogma, a group of Fulgurite Electro-Priests get this save, followed by a second pseudo-saving throw from Fanatical Devotion, followed by their final Refusal To Yield roll. In practice, this means you’ll be saving 83% of wounds from normal sources and 50% of mortal wounds.
Zealous Congregation, a new Adeptus Mechanicus Stratagem, even allows you to fight again, making these worshippers of the Motive Force an even more efficient option.
Skitarii Vanguard also work superbly in Graia army; as we’ve stated above, they’ll be ignoring at least a third of any incoming wounds, while Graia’s unique Warlord Trait means you’ll be able to use these guys as a fairly potent assault unit.
Usually, Vanguard must choose between firing with their weapons or weakening enemies with rad-saturation, but with Emotionless Clarity allowing them to shoot into combat, you won’t have to!
Graia is the army for you if you treasure durability above all else and want some handy insurance against mortal wounds (with the Death Guard around, you’ll need it!).
The new teaser is making the Adeptus Mechanicus look very durable on the table top. This may just be the help that the AdMech needed to become one of the strongest armies. Zealous Congregation seems like it will come in handy when you just need to take one more swing with one of your Electro-Priests to take down an enemy model, and with Refusal to Yield there’s a chance you might be making that attack with a model that should be dead.
Make sure you check back in with us tomorrow when they reveal teasers for forge world Metallica.
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