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

== General tactics ==

*'''Grease Monkey HQ:''' A dominus with the Autocadeus and Necromechanic warlord trait can repair 1d3+1 damage a turn while rerolling the number of wounds healed. Add in the Tech-adept stratagem to repair a model twice for extra benefit. Then, park your Dominus next to a high priority target such as an Onager or a unit of robots and watch your opponents frustrations.
**This plus a Knight Crusader is almost broken in lower level games. Take some cheap Ranger Squads with Arquebuses (Arquebi?) for character sniping and an Enginseer for +3CP. That buys you three turns of 4++ for the Knight as well as 4W repaired. Or use an IG superheavy like the baneblade, and slap the raiment relic (for repair rerolls) on the priest. A huge firebase, getting repaired by 4-8W per round, and still useful when locked in CC. Unless your opponent brought '''''nothing but Lascannons''''', they're fucked.
*'''Drill Baby Drill:''' The addition of the Termite opens up a huge list of options for inclusion. A handy group of units to cram in would be two Enginseers and a ten man squad of Secutarii Hoplites or Peltasts. Alternatively, you can cram 2 five-man squads of any of the following; Vanguard with 2 special weapons, Ruststalkers, or Electro-Priests. 
**Two squads of vanguard give you access to four Plasma Calivers. Combine with a Dominus or Benediction of the Omnisiah for added accuracy. Add in the Plasma Specialists stratagem if you want to be mean.
**take Ruststalkers with transonic blades or Hoplites combined with an Enginseer carrying the Omniscient Mask. Then add in Incantation of Machine Might. Now both units are hitting on 3+, reroll all misses, with the rustalkers packing str 6 and the hoplites packing str 7. If you want to be really mean, give your Rustalkers the Ryza Forgeworld trait and let them reroll wound rolls of 1.
**You can pull off similar shenanigans as above, but using Fulgurite Electro-priests. You need to substitute the Prime Hermeticon Warlord Trait for the Omniscient Mask, but you end up putting your warlord at greater risk. To compensate, consider swapping to a Dominus and equipping them for melee with either the Pseudogenetor, the Pater Cog, or the Red Axe - or a Manipulus, with the Pseudogenetor on top of his usual D6 tentacles.