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I collect Ordo Reductor and i particularly like Calleb Decima and his drive for vengeance (a lot of parallels with bushido) and his fluff after the Isstvan 3 atrocity in the shadow wars.
A friend pointed out the fluff of unit 'UR-025' in the blackstone fortress game released a while back which initiated a serious fluff info-binge.
I quite liked its inclusion from a narrative/immersion perspective and as i read its fluff i started to realize that the perfect hiding place for any other men of iron would be taking refuge aboard a Galeass of the Ordo Reductor.

For those who are not aware of the fluff;
In support of this, the members of the Ordo Reductor are given direct sanction from the Emperor as part of their formation and induction to use 'forbidden technology' which can be xenos-based or entirely new designs (photon thruster weapons and the land raider achilles respectively), and i see this as giving a loophole where an Archmagos Reductor could legitimately hide a 'man of iron' on his personal war galeass and never come into scrutiny - they could even allow it to accompany their other forces as a 'data collection unit' just like UR-025s cover story that nobody seems to question.

Would an 'Ordo Reductor Data Collection Unit' be an 'HQ' or 'Elite' choice?
0-1 unit size and special rule 'independent character (unique)' as well perhaps?

You might want to wait for the Dark Mechanicum list in Crusade, since that apparently will have AI themed stuff in it (AI, xenos, and warp were the tech-types mentioned) which could be used to represent something similar.

That would be nice and quite a promising setting for extra fluff - i'd like some stand-in rules for the meantime!
Its 40k profile has most of the stats and rules you'd need for 30k

Cyrixiinus wrote:
You might want to wait for the Dark Mechanicum list in Crusade, since that apparently will have AI themed stuff in it (AI, xenos, and warp were the tech-types mentioned) which could be used to represent something similar.

That sound awesome is this something FW announced?!

Yep. The Heresy 30k forum tends to get pretty good coverage of events curtesy of Pendraig, then this usually gets pasted over on the B@C forum by someone.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/355284-book-9-your-thoughts/page-3#entry5314556

 agurus1 wrote:

Cyrixiinus wrote:
You might want to wait for the Dark Mechanicum list in Crusade, since that apparently will have AI themed stuff in it (AI, xenos, and warp were the tech-types mentioned) which could be used to represent something similar.

That sound awesome is this something FW announced?!

Makes sense. The Kaban Machine is the iconic dark mechanicum creation...