During this great cataclysm, treasure troves of knowledge and artifice were lost, annihilated in the fires of treachery, and even Mars itself became a boiling cauldron of internecine strife.ĭuring the Heresy, the loyal elements of the Mechanicum reformed into the Adeptus Mechanicus. This alliance was shattered during the Horus Heresy, as half of the Mechanicum was lured to the cause of the traitors by Chaos’ promises of forbidden, arcane technology. In exchange for providing the ships, arms, and armour needed by the great warhosts of the Imperial Army and Legiones Astartes, Mars was offered control of the human technology it recovered. When the Emperor first conquered Terra and initiated the Great Crusade, Mars was brought into the Imperium as a vassal state. A precious few of these would survive, seeding new Forge Worlds in the image of Mars – each of which would go on to develop their own cultures and variants on the Martian Creed. Throughout the long Age of Strife, Mars sent out explorator fleets in a blind attempt to regain contact with lost human colonies and build new dominions. Cybernetica Datasmiths inload their Kastelan Robot charges with new war codes, while Kataphron Destroyer servitors rumble forwards on heavy tracks to bring immense weapons to bear on the foe.Īncient Martian explorers settled the first Forge Worlds Talons of Pteraxii Sterylizors descend on bionic wings to scorch their foes with cleansing flame. On the tabletop, this is represented by – arguably – the coolest model line in all 40k: quad-limbed Onager Dunecrawlers sporting huge Neutron Lasers march to war, thronged on all sides by masses of irradiated Skitarii Vanguard infantry. They abhor the alien for its deviance from the holy human form, but spend their unnaturally extended lives purging their bodies of weak flesh and replacing it with cold metal.Īn Adeptus Mechanicus army is a holy crusade of fanatically devout warriors, wielding arcane superweapons that rain the wrath of their beloved Omnissiah onto their enemies. They are the custodians of mankind’s technology and knowledge, yet these invaluable secrets are cloaked in ritual and mystery. Nevertheless, our guide should give you a firm grounding in both their techno-mystical lore, and their powerful complexity on the modern, 9th Edition 40k tabletop.īut who are these confounding, chrome-limbed enigmas? Though the AdMech prize logic and calculation, and deride emotion, they are driven by a fanatical devotion to the cult of the Machine God.

Warhammer 40k 9th Edition’s Adeptus Mechanicus faction might be the most inhuman, contradictory offshoot of the human species in the Dark Millennium of Warhammer 40k – and their newest rules are far from child’s play.

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