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Lords of the Forge

Adeptus Mechanicus detachment

Lords of the Forge

<i>When battle looms, many Tech-Priests don their war forms, replacing more delicate mechanical appendages with steel-shod bionics that incorporate auto-repair subrout…

48.8%
win rate
328
games
46%
faction share

Detachment ability

always on · no CP

War-form Mantles

Friendly <k>Tech-Priest</k> models have: <ul><li>4+ <b>InSv</b>.</li> <li><b>Feel No Pain 5+</b>.</li></ul> Friendly <k>TECH-PRIEST</k> models have the following ability:

Baffling Data Screed: In your Shooting phase, when this unit is <b>selected to shoot</b>, if this unit is not <b>battle-shocked</b>, you can use this ability. If you do, roll one D6:
<li>On a 2+, select one enemy <k>VEHICLE</k> unit within 12" of this unit. That enemy unit makes a <b>battle-shock roll</b>, with -1 to that <b>battle-shock roll</b>. A unit cannot be selected for this ability more than once per turn.</li> <li><u>Or:</u> On 2+, those ranged attacks do not prevent this unit from being <b>hidden</b>.</li>

Full wording ▾

<i>When battle looms, many Tech-Priests don their war forms, replacing more delicate mechanical appendages with steel-shod bionics that incorporate auto-repair subroutines. Some also outfit themselves with narrow-band screed casters. These project streams of incomprehensible code that overwhelm the cogitator cores of enemy vehicles and baffle augury.</i>

Stratagems

3 · every one costs 1 CP

Movement

1CP

Overloaded Safeguards

Your Movement phase, when a friendly <k>Tech-Priest</k> unit is selected to make a <b>fall-back move</b>.

That move does not prevent your unit from being <b>eligible to shoot/declare a charge</b>.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Monster · Tech-PriestFull rule ▾

Target: That <k>Tech-Priest</k> unit.

Shooting

1CP

Holy Avarice

Your Shooting phase, when a friendly <k>Tech-Priest</k> unit <b>starts an action</b>.

That <b>action</b> does not prevent your unit from being <b>eligible to shoot</b>.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Monster · Tech-PriestFull rule ▾

Target: That <k>Tech-Priest</k> unit.

1CP

Scriptural Prognosis

In your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly <k>Tech-Priest</k> unit that is within range of an <b>objective</b>.

Attacks that target your unit have -1 <b>AP</b> until that enemy unit has attacked.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Monster · Tech-PriestFull rule ▾

Target: That <k>Tech-Priest</k> unit.

Fight

1CP

Scriptural Prognosis

In your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, when an enemy unit targets a friendly <k>Tech-Priest</k> unit that is within range of an <b>objective</b>.

Attacks that target your unit have -1 <b>AP</b> until that enemy unit has attacked.

Epic Hero · Character · Infantry · Vehicle · Monster · Tech-PriestFull rule ▾

Target: That <k>Tech-Priest</k> unit.

Enhancements

2

EnhancementPtsWhat it does
TL-4ø930<k>Tech-Priest</k> model only. This model has the following weapon:
Vingh’s Wafers of Dynamism25<k>Cybernetica Datasmith</k> model only. At the start of the first battle round, if this unit is an <b>attached unit</b>, this unit has <k>Mobile</k> until the end of the battle.