If you have been wondering that the new 40k Admech rules are going to be from Engine War, GW finally previewed a new wave of teasers!
Warhammer Community revealed even more rules for the Adeptus Mechanicus as we close in on Engine War’s official release. For the first time ever, we’re able to see new custom faction rules, Warlord Traits, Stratagems, and more. Take a look at everything with us.
What’s Coming Inside Engine War Exactly? Details Hidden in Plain Sight!
Of the content within the pages laid out, we know we’re getting Stratagems, name generators, datasheets, updated points, customizable Forge World/Knight Households, and more. It’s difficult to tell what some things are based on their title in the Table of Contents alone. But we have all of that from above to look forward to!
For starters, Engine War is going to be the Psychic Awakening Book with the most amount of points printed yet. We’ve seen Primaris characters make their way to Blood of Baal and Ritual of the Damned, but Ad Mech is getting a handful of new units with all their points. That means for the Ad Mech players wanting to use their new toys, this book is going to be pretty important.
It also looks like they’re getting two pages worth of Warlord Traits and Stratagems as well as maybe some kind of update to the Canticles of the Omnissiah.
Adeptus Mechanicus Getting Custom Forge World Rules
Engine War introduces the option for you to create your own forge world for your Adeptus Mechanicus force to hail from. You then get to select a primary and secondary ability to make a new dogma for your world.
They’ve probably broken two tables down in Primary and Secondary rules to help keep things balanced. Some are probably way more powerful than others and wanted to keep players from picking the top rules always.
Radiant Disciples is really strong. But where it’s usefulness falls off is that it’s only for INFANTRY. If your Skorpius Disintegrators and Dunecrawlers turned a S8 melta into a S7 laserbeam, that would be ridiculous.
Omnissiah’s Shield is another good one to use in conjunction with Radiant Disciples if you want your Infantry to stick to the board as much as possible. However, you definitely wouldn’t pick these if you’re planning on using a heavily-mechanized force.
Admech Getting New Forge World Canticles
If you want to stick with the main Forge Worlds, there are some new Canticles coming your way. For Mars, Panegyric Procession is pretty disgusting. This is almost equivalent to the Iron Hands Devastator Doctrine bonus. Ignoring heavy and increasing the Strength by 1 will be able to give the army a brutal turn of being able to crack open armor.
For Stygies, Plea of the Veiled Hunter is basically the Ultramarines Chapter Tactic with a mechanical reskin. Still good nonetheless.
New Holy Order Warlord Traits
Whichever forge world your forces are from, you can now join in the political machinations of the Adeptus Mechanicus. If your Warlord joins one of the four Holy Orders, they will be able to select the associated Warlord Trait. Each Holy Order gives you a choice of three abilities to select at the start of one of your turns. Throw in your lot in with the Magi to get these abilities.
A Warlord Trait with three abilities for you to select is already a solid bonus. But giving you the choice of exploding 6’s to hit, rolling charges, or rolling 2D6 and picking the highest to advance is something that any army can use. This is more than likely going to be a hot pick. Just remember- don’t build a list around this guy because Snipers will be all over him like stink on $@*%.
Two New Stratagems Revealed
This is a 1CP “turn off your Chapter Master rerolls” or a 1CP “turn off your Chaplain Litanies”. This should most certainly see play. For 1CP, turning off an invuln aura or any kind of reroll is huge.
For the Skystalkers (S3 assault 5 guns), you can pop a CP and have a unit become “suppressed”. This is a slightly worse rule from what the Primaris Suppressors have as they turn off overwatch. However, subtracting all the hit rolls from a suppressed unit is decent in the right circumstance. It can hurt armies like Tau, Orks, and Guard who have 50/50 or worse BS
A Deeper Look Into The New Serberys Unit
We saw earlier that the leader of the squad has an Archeo-Revolver which is enough to blap a regular Primaris in the face. The only downside is that you can only have one in a squad. At least, that’s what it’s looking like still perhaps?
Even if you advance, you can still fire your pistols in the unit, which is pretty solid. But nothing game-winning.
This is pretty sick. Admech are getting a fast cavalry unit that can also force characters to keep their heads down. You’ll be able to run up on an objective while slapping a character a few ranks back in the enemy’s deployment.
Moe Archaeopter Rules Revealed
Honestly, this probably isn’t going to come up in very many games. But at least if you NEED it, you can give your dudes on the frontlines a higher leadership.
This rule is going to shut down Autocannons, Stalker bolt rifles, Avenger Gatling Cannons, Burst Cannons, etc. that are normally used to chip wounds off of armor. Way more useful than the command uplink.
While we’re still waiting on even more rules to be revealed on these units, they’ve got some spice headed their way for sure.
What do you think about the new Holy Order Warlord Traits? Are the Stratagems that were previewed going to be strong enough to shift the meta?
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