How to Play Index Adeptus Mechanicus in Warhammer 40k 10th Edition

[@Cheshire020]

I have a special place in my heart for the Admech. The first image I remember seeing of 40k was a bright red Kataphron Breacher staring down the viewer, it's arc claw sparking with energy. It really stuck with me, and it really drew me into 40k.

[@Dragonage2ftw]

That’s awesome!

[@stuartlittledrowning4965]

I feel like all of admechs battleline buffs are just what other factions have unconditionally on their unit cards.

[@coopergoodnight4331]

Exactly. Death riders get better tactica obliquia, barbguants get better searing conflagration, etc.

[@stuartlittledrowning4965]

Why do admech have chaff tier infantry cost higher than scions and battle sisters? The world will never know.

[@RazORKful]

When the datasmith gives the infantry keyword to a kastelan unit...

[@kevins2526]

I've been running a dominus with the stealth enhancement with priests, giving them a 4+ feel no pain and -1 to hit. They absorb an insane amount of shooting

[@ElderLShim]

I've been dying to try this, does this actually mitigate their t3 1W?

[@kevins2526]

@@ElderLShim They absorbed almost his entire guard's army worth of shooting in my last game lol. -1 to wound with a leader also was a huge factor. At one point he started shooting some damage 3 stuff at them, and I rolled a triple 4+ on a feel no pain to save a priest. It was glorious

[@ElderLShim]

@@kevins2526 that's beautiful, can't help but feel like their damage output looks a bit underwhelming though

[@seerproductions9141]

I'm going to have to try this. Just got a Dominus and Belisarius Cawl

[@elpokitolama]

There's a mistake at 33:00 : the Manipulus doesn't have the faction ability And neither do the techpriests dominus&Enginseer, electropriests, Cawl, cybernetica Datasmiths, and Kastelan robots

[@WingsaberE3]

Feel like they key is to just go hard with anti-keyword. Run a ton of vanguard with marshals to give full rerolls and a ton of anti vehicle breachers nearby to give anti vehicle and full rerolls.

[@VT_Jord]

that does sound like a nasty combo to be fair mate, let us know how it goes running that :)

[@stuartlittledrowning4965]

Sounds like that list would get crushed by tyranids or demons.

[@WingsaberE3]

@@stuartlittledrowning4965 yeah sadly the only answer to monsters is the Omni-sterilizer with manipulus. I had a trio of ironstriders with lascannons throw everything they had at a greater daemon and didn’t do a single effing damage. REALLY hoping they get a buff this winter with the codex.

[@protojj117]

I feel like GW forgot about Death guard and Ad mec and rushed them last minute and thats why they suck or the started of with Death Guard and Ad mec then make the rest of the faction high on model glue and didnt want to change DG and Admec to be as good as the rest.

[@TheTronmon]

It's been feeling grim for my toaster boys but you guys made me feel some hope. I see fun combos, and ya it feels like another round of half our units are duds but eh it is what it is. May not win a lot of games but my manipulus will be feared at least.

[@Jaakkoism]

Unit spotlight for admech; so heres an imperial agent you'll want to bring instead of an admech unit. Wish we had enough good units for that not to be the case >_

[@ridgeback8846]

Absolutely great video. Can’t wait to watch more How To Play guides.

[@flips300021]

Indeed, AM are quite a formidable force. Love the daring Yellow. And that Terrain is so lovely, Grim. 😁 👍

[@crafty_android]

This is the most helpful take on admech yet. Good job and thanks

[@alphaprimus7794]

The Rad Bombardment is cool in theory until you realize that there are several armies that gain buffs from either having models killed, getting battle-shocked or just straight up ignore and laugh at it and you are giving your opponent the choice! WHY?! That makes no sense! Case in point, Dark Angels get several buffs if their units are battle-shocked with their whole grim resolve to prevail in the most dire of circumstances. Sisters of Battle get plus to hit and wound if models in their units die, and Necrons just straight up don't fucking CARE as they can just get right back up. For being the Imperium's premier shooting army, it is doing a piss poor job at what it is supposed to be doing. SHOOTING. Nerfing our shooting down to 4+ and requires us to be stationary in an Imperative to get to 3+ is laughable and slap in the face. Vanguards are supposed to be inhuman nightmare-inducing elite cyborg soldiers that leave the battlefields they stride on into desolate wastelands poisoned with radiation, Rangers are Hunter-killers without equal that hunt down the enemy for years and decades just to mercilessly gun them down, but they are no tougher than your average garbage Conscript from the Imperial Guard. And GW really messed up the Keywords for Kastellan Robots; they get the Infantry Keyword once a Datasmith is added to it, which means a unit with Anti-Infantry weapons just fucking wipe these hulking behemoths like it's wet tissue paper! Yes, I am malding and frustrated. The rules team should know better and do better.

[@TheHinni1234]

How have your games been going with them just out of curiosity?

[@FarseerB1rdy]

@@TheHinni1234 Probably not even had a game.

[@williambailey118]

Yes. We also all read the Goonhammer review. That being said, I've played five pick up games and won three. The army feels solid.

[@alphaprimus7794]

@@williambailey118 Against what armies did you play? What was your army composition? What was their army composition? How many points was the game? How did the Imperatives feel and play?

[@williambailey118]

@@alphaprimus7794 Two against tyranid. One against marines. One against death guard. One against custodies. 1500 point games. A few units of vanguard. One unit of rangers to sticky objective my home. Two neutron dune crawlers. A 6 man unit of breachers . Tech priests, the Manipulus bomb. Four shooty bots . And dragoons. Imperatives felt fine. Use conquer when you need a key unit to go somewhere and still wanna shoot. Default to protector otherwise. Keep your big stuff in your deployment zone for the secondary benefits. Fun games.

[@Highlaw]

Dominus seems better for Steriliser. 12" flamer is cute, but 24" on Dominus means no rounds go without shooting his deadly weapon, which has a more consistent amout of shots to boot (always 6 shots of Dev wounds from Volkite + 4 normal shots from Phosphor) which is exactly the same amount of average shots the Manipulus has with his flamer at half the range, and considering you'll take Dominus on a unit of Breachers he has full rerolls, so he'll barely miss shots despite not having a Torrent weapon.

[@WeOnlyEatSoup]

A super flavorful old school 40k special ability were Cawl got to summon primaris would be so fire lol Im sad I missed those days

[@johnryan8985]

As upset as everyone seems to be with admech... there is still a unit releasing this year. Chances are its good so you buy it..... and maybe 18 of them. I just started playing so i cant be upset, but am hopeful. As a publicly traded company it makes sense the new unit coming is something we all have to purchase and a lot of.

[@jackcanox4015]

Nah that's not a guarantee at all! Most times it's an hq that comes out and it's rarely the best thing ever, it can happen eh like with desolation marines but even that was just one broken unit in a box with 4 new units so...yeah not everything is broken on release. The problem with the admech codex is that the index is shit...objectively shit and the codex sadly has already been printed for the winter release (their printing cycle is 6 months) so they won't have any time to fix it sadly.

[@johnryan8985]

@jackcanox4015 what list are you running? I've been doing good with: 18 breachers 2 vanguard units 2 manipulus 1 dominus 1 knight castellan 1 vindicare Master annihalator Omni-sterilizer

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Thank you for another great faction analysis!

[@marcovizzari2126]

maybe i missed it, but i didn't hear anything about the kastelan robots. what about them?

[@captnweasle]

My brother and I are beginners and he really likes the concept and miniatures of Admech, but as i was looking for models and their releases I noticed that their codex is from 9th edition and almost 3 years old as are many models. Im wondering wether it should be better to wait for a refresh before investing heavily into these "old" designs. What do you think?

[@benmendelsohn1759]

What do you think about the Secutarii Peltasts and Hoplites upgrade kits of the Skitarii?

[@veameal9725]

My friends listen to this detachment/Army rule overview during 40k Saturdays on repeat because they found it so funny. :/ Hello AJ - I will always hate your 100+W Lich Guard!

[@mrthomas2847]

I would love a another legendary adeptus mechanicus or like a special skitarii marshal or a special ruststalker/infiltrator hero

[@billysipe5040]

I want a better transport.

[@mrthomas2847]

@@billysipe5040 add it to the list!

[@duelisticnature6901]

Did a match yesterday against necron (1365 points because thats all ive built so far). Was a close match with 1 vp difference victory for necron. The BS4+ really really stinks, but all the shooting profiles on admech slap SUPER hard. They always have enough strength, AP and damage to give pause to any unit. Its really gated behind the BS4+ missing you tons of shots. Was hilarious to see his 240pt (20 necron warrior) blob just disappear with 18 mortal wounds from a perfect rolled manipulus + omni sterilizer (80pt total). Boy was he battleshocked for a moment.

[@xhossxonex6441]

I love the admech but yeah the major downside is almost everything requires a 4+

[@DJammyRasta]

It's nice to see some positivity about the army in the sea of despair that is the internet.

[@AllThingsCubey]

They literally called rad bombardment one of their favourite detachment abilities and forced positivity about it. It's literally the worst detachment rule in the game, which BENEFITS half the armies Admech might face, and does absolutely nothing to most of the rest. This is a GW sponsored video. They started thanking GW, and then they outright lied saying rad bombardment is "very high impact" and "makes your opponent think a lot." These are straight up lies. This ability is so bad that Richard Siegler is on record saying he wouldn't take a detachment rule at all if he had the choice. This entire video is fake, forced positivity, for a GW sponsorship. It amounts to marketing and distraction from the issues the army faces. Do not take anything said here as genuine.

[@FarseerB1rdy]

@@AllThingsCubey Good old Siegler. What a guy.

[@williambailey118]

​@@AllThingsCubey I'm still not sure why people keep saying its useless. A) It only ends up benefiting a very small number of armies, not half, and that "benefit" still comes at the cost of dead models. B) MANY of the secondaries require you to snag objectives either in your deployment zone or nearby ones in no man's land, so if your opponent chooses to "ignore" it by battle shocking all of their units the first round they're going to get scraped on secondaries (I've seen it happen in two different games already). C) Chip wounds is chip wounds. It doesn't put out the number of wounds as, say, really optimized abilities like Oath of Moment, but across my games I've seen it hit four to ten mortals over the course of a given game. All to say, it pressures the opponent and limits their scoring potential first turn and chips away at them all game.

[@PX6DEVASTATER]

@@williambailey118 It's awful because it gives all of the decision making to your opponent, the controlling player has zero interaction with the ability.

[@williambailey118]

@@PX6DEVASTATER Yeah, but it’s kind of a choice between tree bark and a shit sandwich. Get thumped on the head or lose the ability to contribute to secondary scoring. It’s kind of a nice choice to give opponents

[@dominicchammas549]

Hey guys, another great guide, Sunday we managed 3hrs at the local shop the boys where absolute troopers

[@VT_Jord]

thank you Dominic :)

[@kevins2526]

Unfortunately, for some reason the Manipulus aka Potato Head doesn't have the Imperative Doctrinas ability, so he can't advance and shoot his insane cannon. Also wouldn't put him with electropriests unit because the Lethal hits don't interact well with the Devestating Wounds ability. Edit: If he joins a unit that has Doctrinas, I guess he'd be able to advance and shoot then?

[@MarketResearchReading114]

From a goonhammer article it seems that if the priests join units the terminology states "The unit" gains the doctrina buff, so they do get it.

[@Smoestar87]

Can you stack the Pteraxii Sterylizors ability (Searing Conflagration) on the same target unit? So if you hit the same target with two units of Sterylizors, can you reduce their moves by 4” (2” x2)? If so, you could grind some units to a halt

[@davido6628]

Doctrinas being locked to deployment zones is annoying. Now you need to always have the DZs mapped out, ANNOYING! Should take effect vs Objectives instead

[@95bever]

Cawl has the epic hero keyword and thus cant take enhancements :/

[@michaeljacobs2860]

What is the maximan amount of serbyrys raiders can you now run in a 2k list

[@xhossxonex6441]

You can only have a maximum of 3 units with the same data card

[@manuelriemensperger4624]

What about the big old robots?

[@AllThingsCubey]

They're over-costed, badly. They require leadership tests just to use their buffs from the datasmith. They lost 2" of movement, 1AP on all weapon profiles, and lost half their attacks to the "twin linked tax" if you have doubles of the arm weapons modelled. They hit on 4s with no way to gain re-rolls other than 1s from Cawl, maybe... Basically they suck, hard. The Goonhammer rant makes some very good suggestions for how robots should have been written to work.

[@christianhunt4999]

Step one, burn $2,000

[@xhossxonex6441]

Yup, I bought a combat patrol then realized I needed another $240 worth of other units to get me to 500 points

[@YeaItsMeMatt89]

Better at warhammer 40k than all your friends?! Want a near impossible victory?! You're in luck!!

[@frenziedgrunt]

Still waiting to see you take on the Guard lol

[@VT_Jord]

it is coming mate, Mike will be going through them soon

[@socialreveluv5428]

The video is a bit too quiet for me. I always get earraped when ads appear.

[@ElderLShim]

This whole video feels like a huge attempt to make ad mech sound more balanced and stronger than they actually are. There are a huge amount of negatives with this army, which you basically never touched on, and any time you did, you would say something like "but that's happened to a lot of armies". No it hasn't? I notice that you thank GW for 'enabling' you to make this video? Almost feels like someone from GW is holding a gun to your head off screen 🤣 But all in all I applaud your efforts to make the admech seem even remotely viable in 10th compared to other armies!

[@VanguardTactics]

We have to thank GW legally for preview access. But we try to discuss constructive ways to run an army or faction rather than comparing them to other indexes. Reason being is that if you play the faction we want players to have take things they can focus on and implement into their lists.

[@ElderLShim]

@@VanguardTactics that does make sense, as an admech player I do enjoy listening to what you think are the units to highlight. Although in my opinion, you don't talk about the negative aspects of the army (of which there are many). If players want to be able to play a faction, I think it's crucial that they also understand how not to play it, and what units to avoid

[@jannloneke8366]

@@VanguardTactics "Constructive" doesn't have to be one-sided and neglect the issues with a fraction in a review. I do like both your channel and the video, but when it did end without a single word on the flaws of the current index and without discussing a big chunk of the units ive been a little... suprised. Not what id expect from a channel catering towards competetive play.

[@caspian9439]

I don’t think it’s that deep tbh. Just an enjoyable highlight to a sweet faction. Fair that they could have touched on the negatives but at the end of the day I think people go into these vids for a nice summary of some new stuff 🤷‍♂️

[@xommul79]

There was an imperial knights one of these I watched and now it’s vanished. What happened?

[@VanguardTactics]

we have decided to re make the video will be out in a few weeks, but we are going to use knights on stream tonight at 7PM

[@xommul79]

@@VanguardTactics thought as much but I thought I’d gone mad as I couldn’t find it anywhere. I’m was second guessing if it was you guys or someone else. Look forward to it but Knights just got spanked hard

[@rykercabler9756]

Still upset that Primus doesn’t come with Belisarius!

[@scalitus7964]

This Here need a Update 😊

[@dalekilpatrick6456]

Just waiting for WorldEaters......

[@VanguardTactics]

on it mate, we will get it out as soon as we can :)

[@maxblade1155]

U just wait for 11th edition,see ya in 3 years

[@40kWarpHeroes]

i played mine right into a box that I put in my garage. the only way to make this army good is to use allies

[@James-db6po]

Spoilers, you don't

[@ajtame]

This

[@TheMacjoni]

Back to the shelves boys, this army is useless

[@Benjamin-xv9le]

You put some really awesome looking miniatures on the field. Then you lose.

[@neurocog7150]

But you have some awesome looking figures. Seriously though, real talk, if you have fun then that’s what mattered

[@ekosandvic7598]

Right. You don't. You just become a tier whore instead I guess.

[@TheBoboni]

"DON'T"

[@DarrinSK]

I'm not playing this game until they fix admech

[@latralus46and2]

Throw your worthless Skitarii Rangers blocks at your opponent's army and hope to knock their models off the board. That's about it.

[@moggelito100]

there is gonna be alot of doomposting crybabies in this comment section kek

[@FarseerB1rdy]

You weren't wrong.

[@TheMacjoni]

Maybe if admech wasn't nerfed into oblivion... all pros are saying the same thing, maybe it's for a good reason. Still playing them but sometimes it is frustating when comparing units and abilities and I'm not playing and paying a lot of money to get frustated. All our hopes are in the codex, we'll see...

[@FarseerB1rdy]

@@TheMacjoni you'll be fine mate, you're Codex is fairly soon. Keep the Faith!

[@jannloneke8366]

@@TheMacjoni Just Spam Breachers, Ironstriders and Dunecrawlers - will be enough for most LGS tournaments.

[@AllThingsCubey]

​@@FarseerB1rdyNarrator: "all, in fact, would not be fine, once he got his codex."

[@corporalcrimson3295]

Well this is outdated now