Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Adeptus Mechanicus (section)

==Specialist Detachments==
Specialist Detachments are a type of Detachment added in the Vigilus Defiant campaign supplement, giving you access to a couple extra stratagems, relics and warlord traits, locked behind a 1CP paygate.
===General stratagems===
*'''Field Commander (1 CP):''' This stratagem bears special mention. For one command point, you can designate a character with a Specialist Detachment keyword and they gain the warlord trait associated with that detachment. Can't be used on named characters or to give your warlord a second warlord trait.

===Cybernetica Cohort (1 CP)===
The robot detachment, somewhat geared for the melee version. Kastelans and their attending Dominus, Enginseers and Datasmiths gain the {{W40kKeyword|Cybernetica cohort}} keyword.

'''Stratagems:'''
*'''Power Surge (1 CP):''' Pick a unit of robots within 3 inches of a Datasmith. They get +3 to charge rolls.
**Deepstrike {{W40kKeyword|Lucius}} Kastelans and give a Datasmith the teleporter relic (so this strat can be used). Your Kastelan drop now has more than 72% chance of making that 9" charge. Activate 'Binharic Override' if you can afford it to double their attacks - it's not like the Datasmith will survive to change their battle protocols anyway.
*'''Strafing Run (1 CP):'''  Use at the beginning of the movement phase on a robot unit with Aegis protocols active. Turns heavy weapons into assault. Great for robots with incendine combustors.
**Use when paired with the {{W40kKeyword|Metalica}} dogma to grant your gun bots around 11~12" of movement while running and gunning at full accuracy. Generally speaking, this is best used to either take and hold an objective without sacrificing shooting or quickly getting away from your opponent if they get too close.

'''Warlord Trait: Adept of the Legio Cybernetica:''' Once per battle, your warlord can repair d6 wounds to a unit of robots instead of the standard d3. Combine it with the Autocaduceus of Arkhan Land so you don't roll a one.

'''Artifact: Doctrine Foreas Servo-skull:''' Robots can attempt to change battle protocol at the start of each movement phase if they are within 9" of the bearer, who DOESN'T need to be a Datasmith, which eases his workload and enables your cheaper Enginseers or durable Dominus to do that job.

===Servitor Maniple (1 CP)===
Kataphron Destroyers, Breachers, Servitors and their attending Dominus and Enginseers gain the {{W40kKeyword|Servitor Maniple}} keyword. Of great value to your Destroyers, and when combined with the discounts to Kataphrons their points efficiency skyrockets.

'''Stratagems:'''
*'''Enhanced Bionics (1 CP):''' Use before the game begins.  One unit of Kataphrons or servitors gains a 5++ invulnerable save. Helps to not lose Kataphrons faster than you can bring them back.
**Doesn't say it's one-use, so you could shield all your Destroyers this way. {{W40kKeyword|Lucius}} Destroyers benefit the most, as they're immune to AP-1 and AP-2 will be wasted on them.
**A Breacher unit using 'Acquisition At Any Cost' becomes 2+/4++. That's simply very hard to shoot off the board, and lascannons aimed at them are lascannons not fired at your actual vehicles.
*'''Noospheric Mind Lock (1 CP):''' One unit of Kataphrons within 6" of a Dominus gains +1 to hit rolls for all its shooting attacks.
**<u>'''Safe plasma'''</u>. It stacks with 'Elimination Volley' so you get Destroyers hitting on rerollable 2+, but you can also use it as means of getting TWO SIMULTANEOUS SOURCES OF SAFE PLASMA. {{W40kKeyword|Ryza}} has it even easier with their cheaper 'Plasma Specialists' strat, and instead of using 3 simultaneous souces you can combine them to get '''SAFE 3D PLASMA'''. Need I tell you that kills Custodes in a single shot?

'''Warlord Trait: Master of Biosplicing:''' At the end of the movement phase, heal a Kataphron by sacrificing a servitor. If none are wounded, resurrect a dead model instead. It comes back with one wound. Do note it only says {{W40kKeyword|Servitors}}, not {{W40kKeyword|Servitor Maniple Servitors}} or even {{W40kKeyword|Adeptus Mechaniucs Sevitors}}. Just {{W40kKeyword|Servitors}}, so {{W40kKeyword|Adeptus Astartes}} and {{W40kKeyword|Astra Militarum}} ones are fair game, including special ones like Cenobyte Servitors! In fact, taking {{W40kKeyword|Astra Militarum}} Servitors is an excellent idea, as their heavy weapons come at a steep discount. 
*THIS is the reason you take this detachment, as dead Destroyers cease to be 50pts losses and regular Servitors graduate from filler to valid Elite choices. But you have to <u>make sure your unit has no wounded models so the dead can come back</u>, so bring the Autocaduceus of Arkhan Land or make your actual warlord a Necromechanic.
*EXCELLENT synergy with the {{W40kKeyword|Agripinaa}} dogma, where you can revive a single model from one unit and replace up to 5 dead Kataphrons from a different unit. Or you could bring back a regular Servitor unit for a single CP, if you can afford to turn them into Kataphrons one at a time.

'''Artifact: The Genecog Corpus''' It's an Omnissian Axe that causes mortal wounds on a 6+ to wound. Not completely worthless in an army with limited access to mortal wounds, but you're still probably better off with a different relic. ''It does lend itself to Ryzan use, who is prone to field Plasma Destroyer formations, though.''