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

===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.''