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This won't happen but it should. GW should transfer the FW 30k mechanicum units to 40k and make them in plastic. Now you have players that play 40k that can also play 30k. Similar to how demon players can play AOS and 40k. You potentially open the door to more 30k players or 30k players to move to 40k. Also you're costs are low as you have the molds and designs already so no RD/creative design dollars are spent. Just need some rule changes. Here's my long list:

Doctorina imperatives replace the canticles we have now - all units can use them as.
Canticles are the our Strategems.
Give back vehicles and unit upgrades that were removed.
Give back relics

HQ - Move the following to HQ's
Cybernetica Data Smith at 50ppm
-- if he is near any automata units he offers them bonuses or programming changes
-- Can fix automata - restore lost wounds
Tech-Priest Enginseer - Same as Above but for vehicles
- All HQ's get 4++ and can purcahase a FNP update
- TPDominus and Cawl can fix both automata and vehicles as well as heal multiwound infantry
- TPD has 4 attacks and costs 120pts
- Cawl costs 200 and has a 4+ FNP ability

Troops
- Should get the FW options for Peltasts and Hoplites - priced appropriately
- Rangers should go down to 8pts per model
-- Should get a scout rule
-- Plasma Caliver should be 3 shots again
--Arquebus - cheaper by 5pts
- Vanguard stay at 10ppm
--Rad saturation rule back to 6"
- Omnispex - 5pts
- Data-teather - 5pts
- Move Breachers to Elite
- Move Destroyers to Heavy
- Bring in Mechanicum Thallax Cohort from 30k as heavy automata troops

Elite
- Both electro priests at 10ppm
- Remove servators. make them special units that HQ's can take ---similar to tau drones.
- Sicaran Infiltrators - 12ppm - Give neurostatic aura back its old rules, affecting BS, WS, A and LD. Make it 6" again. Give them upgraded bionics 5+ inv
- Ruststalkers - 12ppm - Add 1 attack to each model - Give transonic weapons back the wounds of 6 are AP -3 and everyround after the 1st are always ap3. Give chord claw back the rule that it wounds on 2+ give it ap -1 and on a 6 to wound it does it's wound + 2 mortal wounds.
- Both Rust stalkers and Infiltrators get dune strider rule back - Add 3" to all movement.
- Move Engineseer to HQ
- Get Castellax Class Battle-Automata from FW in here as an Automata unit as well as the Domitar Class Battle-Automata Maniple as a big elite Automata
- Kataphron Breachers - 30ppm, 6" move, gain 1 attack and advanced bionics 5++
-- Heavy arc rifles S7 - 20pts
-- Torsion cannon - 15pts
-- Arc Claw - 5pts
-- Hydraulic claw 15pts - AP-4

Fast
- Give both Ironstrider and Dragoon - base costs of 50ppm
--Give both units incense clouds and dunestrider rule mentioned above
-- Both should have master bionics - 5+inv
-- Radium Jezzail - give ap -2 and each wound does 2 wounds as well as the existing rule that on a 6 it does a mortal wound - Make this gun 15pts
-- Taser Lance at 10pts and does -3 Ap the turn it charges
-- Cognis rule change - Make it don't take the penalty for moving and firing heavy weapons and adds 1 to shooting at units with fly.
-- Give the auto cannon -2 ap
-- Make twin cognis lascannon 40pts
- Give them the 30k Ursarax Cohort Fast attack automata

Heavy
- Give them the 30k Thanatar Class Automata from 30k - Big Heavy artillery automata
- Kastelan Robot Maniple - 100ppm
--Heavy Phosophor Blaster - Does 3dmg
--Fists - 25pts
--Incendine - 25pts - 2d6 auto hits
- Dunecrawler - gains 1 wound.
-- Icarus Array - now 60pts
--- Icarus auto cannon gets -2
--- Gatling Rockets go to heavy 10
-- Neutron Laser - 50 pts
-- Cognis heavy stubbers 5pts
- Kataphron Destroyers - 30ppm, still only moves 5" and advanced bionics 5++
-- Heavy grav cannon gets 6 shots again
-- Phosphor blaster 10pts - gets ap-2
-- Cognis flamer - 15pts - does 6+d6 attacks in overwatch
-- Plasma Culvern - 30pts - D3 dmg std. 3dmg overcharges. Bearer takes a mortal wound instead of dying.
- Give them Krios Battle Tanks
--Standard Battle Tank - similar to predators
--Krios Venator - tank killer
- Give them the Karacnos Assault Tank - similar to landraiders

Flyers
- Give them MECHANICUM VULTARAX STRATOS-AUTOMATA - since nurgle got them....FFS
- New mechanicum flyer - Cross between a vulture/Valkyrie and a covus blackstar

Dedicated Transports
Give them the Triaros Armoured Conveyer - light transport
Give them the Macrocarid Explorator - Heavy Transport

LOW
Mechanicum Ordinatus Ulator/Sagittar
Imperial Knight variants


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Dream Admech Army List
HQs
- Cawl
- Tech Priest Dominus
- Cybernetica Datasmith
- Tech-Priest Enginseer

Troops
- Rangers
- Vanguard
- Peltasts
- Hoplites
- Thallax Cohort Automata

Elite
- Corpuscarii Electro Priests
- Fulgurite Electro Priests
- Sicaran Infiltrators
- Sicaran Rust Stalkers
- Kataphron Breachers
- Castellax Class Battle-Automata

Fast
- Ironstrider
- Dragoon
- Ursarax Cohort Fast-Attack Automata

Flyers
- VULTARAX STRATOS-AUTOMATA
- New mechanicum flyer

Heavy
- Kataphron Destroyers
- Kastelan Robot Maniple
- Thanatar Class Automata
- Dunecrawler
- Krios Battle Tank
- Krios Venator Tank Hunter
- Karacnos Assault Tank

DT
- Triaros Armoured Conveyer
- Macrocarid Explorator

LOW
- Imperial Knights
- Mechanicum Ordinatus Sagittar
- Mechanicum Ordinatus Ulator