Editing Warhammer 40,000/7th Edition Tactics/Cult Mechanicus (section)

==Tactics==

* '''Bacchanalia:''' Very unsubtle, very expensive, but very strong. Take a squad of Fulgurites, as big as you can manage, and add in a Grey Knight Librarian. Use all the little tricks to cheese your way toward as many Sanctic powers as you can. Done correctly, you will have a unit of 2++ S7/(s10 with invocation of machine might) teleporting Zealots waiting to murder the faces off of anything coming too close. Even the normally meh Voltagheist 5++ save can be augmented to 4++ by Sanctuary and as soon as they wipe a unit, which thanks to Hammerhand they will, they have 2++ and FnP and Fearless and more Deny the Witch power than you can shake a stick at.
** The unit is extremely scary thanks to mountain loads of high Strength, potentially ID, attacks and as soon as they wipe a unit, they will not die anymore. So, they DISTRACTION CARNIFEX at first and if the enemy doesn't manage to bring them down, they will be a very unpleasant Death Star.
** Thanks to the Canticles, they can also deal with any threat. High AV bullshit? Pop ''Invocation of Machine Might'' and watch their strength go up to 10. Tarpits? ''Litany of the Electromancer'' and the Libby's Cleansing Flame will deal with those right quick. TEQs and assorted unpleasantness will simply die to weight of attacks. 
* '''Leafblowers on Treads:''' A Divination Psyker, as high as you can manage, joins a big unit of Kataphron Destroyers with Grav Guns. Prescience gives you a 75% hit rate, Foreboding givs you some of the scariest Overwatch CC sledgehammers can encounter, Forewarning counters the ease with which the Destroyers' 4+ armour is ignored and Perfect Timing gives Ignores Cover to your long-range rape machine.
*'''Cyber Beast'''  One Cohort Cybernetica Formation of Eight Kastelan Robots all armed with Phospher weapons,three Data-Smiths and one Tech-Priest Dominus with Arkan land. Followed by either a Battle Congregation or a Holy Requisitionor Formation. With a block of eight T7 S6 Monstrous Creatures supported by IWND, and 3 Data-Smiths with a Dominus granting four of them split fire, rolling over most forces will be fairly simple. S3 won't even hurt you, and Direct fire Anti-MEQ or ani-Vehicle might just kill the guy hoping to strip a wound off you. Only real susceptibilities are to Instant Death Weapons, D weapons, and Force. 
* '''Their Touch is Death:''' take a Dominus Maniple with Vanguard (sub in Cawl), also take an Inquisitorial Representative from the Imperial Agents book containing an Xenos Inquisitor with Rad (& Psychotroke?) Grenades and Saint Curia's Autopurger, (bonus if you also use the acoyles Chimera (Cawl is Very Bulky but can still fit inside a Chimera somehow) to transport the squad up the field). On the turn someone charges, the enemy has -2 toughness, and must take a toughness test at the I10 step or loose a wound for each test failed, as well as any dataspike etc. attacks (with Cawl that is an additional +2D6 S4 attacks). (Bonus for putting the Pater Radium on the Skitarii Alpha as well).Make sure that you have the Litany of the Electromancer canticle activated as well...

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