The Mechanicum Advanced Reaction is really interesting, when a unit targets a unit containing any independent character, all Mechancum units within 12″ can fire back at them before the shots are made! This is amazing, just keep in mind that any Automata units are not eligible to make reactions, and so Castellax and Thanatar cannot take advantage of this (Though later in the book there is a way of enabling this…) HQ While this resets once the combat is over, this can give an Archmagos some bite in a prolonged combat! The Science of Slaughter gives the Warlord a cumulative +1 WS and S each turn they are locked in combat after the first one. It also gives the unit they join +1 WS and BS and +3 I and M when making reactions. The Logic of Victory gives the player an extra reaction in each phase of the following turn as long as the warlord did not shoot or was engaged in combat. In addition they get to make two reactions in the movement phase In the book we get a trio of Warlord Traits:Ī Soul of Cold Iron allows friendly units within 6″ to still move and charge while pinned but only make snap shots. We also get reference to Core and Expanded lists again, essentially this means that any profiles related to models that can no longer be purchased will be included in a PDF on Warhammer Community and will still be fully “legal” to use in games – basically this book just contains units that can be purchased, while more unusual stuff that may be from existing collections or new units that may require conversion can be downloaded.Ī nice thing about starting a Mechanicum force is that you could use it as an allied contingent to an Astartes force – you can simply pick up a HQ and a Troops choice and use this in conjunction with an existing force as you slowly grow it in size Warlord Traits and Advanced Reaction We do get a nice tease that future supplements may contain an alternate army list for the more “unusual” offshoots of the Mechanicum once they had fallen to Chaos…Īs with the other Liber volumes, The Mechanicum army list uses the same Crusade Force Organisation Chart as used by the Legiones Astartes, however both the Titan Legions and the Knight Households also have their own Org Charts that we will talk about a little later in the review. Traitor players do not need despair though, as we do get a number of profiles for named characters than pledged for the Warmaster, but the makeup of their armies is very much in line with the orthodox Mecanicum at the time the Heresy erupted. This book also contains the “Standard” variations of these forces – while the traitors went down a different path during the Horus Heresy and eventually became the Dark Mechanicum, this book contains rules for the forces at the very dawn of the Horus Heresy. It’s worth starting here with the fact that this book actually contains 3 different army lists – The Tagmata Mechanicum (The fighting forces of the Mechanicum, think cybernetic soldiers, robots and deadly vehicles) The Questoris Households (The Knights of the 31st Millennium) and the Titan Legions (The mighty god engines of the Adeptus Titanicus). We have also done a full review video to accompany this written post, which you can check out below or over on YouTube Massive thanks to Games Workshop for sending us a free review copy of Liber Mechanicum to review and investigate prior to release! If you would like to support the site then why not order your copy of Liber Mechanicum through our affiliate Element Games and save yourself money too. We’ll be checking out how the army is constructed, taking a look at the units and talking about the 3 army lists contained within. In this post we will be diving into the new Forces of the Omnissiah Army Book with our Liber Mechanicum review. Hosts of robotic machines and cybernetic soldiers armed with arcane and esoteric weaponry march upon their enemies as the forces of the Taghmata Mechanicum, Questoris Households and even the mighty engines of the Titan Legions get their rules for the new edition of Warhammer The Horus Heresy in Liber Mechanicum, up for pre order today!
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