Editing Warhammer 40,000/9th Edition Tactics/Adeptus Mechanicus (section)

== General tactics ==
Forge Worlds usually dictate what kind of list to run (see that section). But, basically, there are natural synergies between Forge Worlds and list templates.

* '''Mars''': Gaining Canticles for your Skitarii units, a free re-roll per unit (great for low rate of fire and powerful guns like the Neutron Laser and Cognis Lascannon), and Wrath of Mars on units that throw out a lot of shots (Infiltrators, Vanguard, etc.).
** Works well with the Skitarii Veteran Cohort, as this army of renown allows units to retain <forgeworld> keywords, so you're getting a lot of buffs on your Rangers and Vanguard.
* '''Stygies''': Protecting transports for our CC techno-priests.
* '''Ryza''': Plasma kataphrons, and going all in with melee.
* '''Lucius''': Making your basic troops in bricks of twenty impossibly durable for their cost. Easily the best forgeworld when it comes to running you multiple twenty man bricks of basic troops in.
* '''Graia''': infantry spam with 6+++ is decent, though the shooting in CC is the reason to run this Forge World and an infantry spam list.
*'''Agripinaa''': Kataphron spam lists are best, since you get both the canticle to shoot/fight on death, but also the recycle servitors for dead kataphrons.
*'''Metalica''': There's a natural tendency to run infantry spam, but one could argue that a shooty Mars-like list should work well since the main tactic here would be to use the fall back and shoot WT. The difference, obviously, is that you cannot castle up and just delete things off the board. Instead, you will want to move that blob around and have your WL out in the front-ish lines. Why? Because the Metalica canticle gives your enemy -1 to hit within 9" (including melee).
*'''Rad-Saturated Forge World''': Scarifying Weaponry and 10 or 20-man bricks of Vanguard with the Omnispex and one/two Plasma Calivers each, backed up by an Exemplar's Eternity/Firepoint Telemetry Cache Marshal. Make sure to bring some vehicles, too - that boost to your rad-troopers may be nice, but it won't do shit against anything with T6 or up.