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While Belisarius is a very decent support character, he's the only character we have and most AdMec armies are pretty much forced to take him to be competitive. With that in mind, I've tried to homebrew some other characters to add a bit of flavour to the other forges.

Lucius - Explorator Lithius - 140pts

WS3+ BS2+ S3 T3 W5 A4 LD10 Sv3+

Equipment
Power Sword
Power Armour
Arc Caster - Assault D3, Range 18", S6 Ap-1, D3 Damage. You may re-roll wound rolls when targeting a vehicle with this weapon.

Sunburst Shield - Lithius has a 5++ Invulnerable save. In addition, at the start of any phase, you may boost the shield to a 2++ Invulnerable save for the remainder of the phase. If this is done, every time the save is passed the closest friendly LUCIUS INFANTRY unit within 6" suffers a Mortal Wound. If there are no such units within range when the save is passed, it automatically fails.

Special Rules
Focus Fire - At the start of every friendly shooting phase, select a friendly LUCIUS unit within 12". That unit may re-roll 1's to wound for the rest of the phase.

Explorator Protocols - If Lithius is controlling an objective where the number of victory points gained is randomised, this number always counts as 3.

Master of Machines - As per Tech-Priest Dominus.

Keywords - INFANTRY, ADEPTICUS MECHANICUS, LUCIUS, TECH-PRIEST DOMINUS, CHARACTER


Metallica - Lux-89 - 200pts
Rebuilt by the forges of Metallica after the events on Orestes Prime, Lux-89 dominates the battlefield, laying down sweeping fields of fire, his superior mechanisms allowing for the coordination of whole battalions simultaneously.

WS3+ BS3+ S7 T7 W6 A4 LD9 Sv3+

Equipment
Kastelan Fists
Twin Heavy Phosphor Blaster

Special Rules
Kastelan Primus - Any unit of METALLICA Kastelan Robots within 6" of Lux-89 may add 1 to any hit rolls when targeting the same unit. Additionally, Lux-89 may be used instead of a Cybernetica Datasmith when determining a METALLICA Kastellan Robot unit's Battle Protocols. Finally, if Lux-89 is on the battlefield, then once per game a friendly unit of Kastelan Robots may use the Binary Override strategem without the use of a command point.

Keywords - VEHICLE, ADEPTICUS MECHANICUS, METALLICA, KASTELAN ROBOT, CHARACTER



Ryza - Techmaster Quitos -
Techmaster Quitos emphasises the Ryzian doctrine of engineering and innovation. Foes that dare to face him find themselves immolated by the Corium Caster, utilising rare isotopes from an ancient Terran reactor abandoned for 20,000 years.

WS3+ BS2+ S5 T5 W5 A3 LD9 Sv2+

Equipment
Corium Caster
Refractor Field
Power Axe

Corium Caster - Choose one of the following profiles every time you use this weapon.
Alpha - Pistol 2D6, Range 6", S4 Ap-, 1 Damage. This weapon automatically hits its target. Wound rolls of 6+ inflict 2 Damage instead of 1.
Beta - Assault 5, Range 12" S6, Ap-2, 2 Damage
Gamma - Assault 1, Range 24", S8, Ap-4, D6 Damage.

Special Rules
Rad Saturation - As per Skitarii Vanguard
Master of Machines - As per Tech-Priest Dominus
Self Repair Mechanisms - As per Tech-Priest Dominus

Master of Radiation - At the beginning of each shooting phase, select a unit of RYZA Skitarii Vanguard within 6". This unit adds +1 to it's wound rolls until the beginning of the controlling player's next turn.

Keywords - INFANTRY, ADEPTICUS MECHANICUS, RYZA, TECH-PRIEST DOMINUS, CHARACTER.



These characters aren't meant to be competitive, just a fluffy addition to add some character (quite literally) to the other forges.

Thoughts?

More effort here than the codex lol

Personnally I'd like to see skitarii Alphas split off and made into characters and provide specific buffs. Such as Vanguard Alphas providing a buff for vanguard and nothing else. Maybe reroll wounds of 1, seeing as how that's not in there.

I'm not a fan of using named characters, but if they are really good how could you not

A Skitarii Alpha would be nice, FW had one as part of their 7th Ed lists, heard they're redoing them as part of their next IA book. A transport would be nice as well while they're at it.

Glad you like the characters though.

I did a custom Skitari alpha / HQ slot a while back after being inspired by a heroic vanguard Alpha who held an objective for 2 turns after being charged by 3 Wulfan with thunder hammers ....
those turns meant my opponent couldn't get a secure and a defend objective.

I rolled 6+ invulnerable saves for days ... im pretty sure I made 5 in one roll my opponent laughed as it was all in good fun ..... and i put some space wolf bits on the models base.

Skitari prime Points 100 + Wargear

Mv 6" WS2+ BS3+ S4 T4 W4 A3 LD9 2+ AV4+ 6+ Inv

<Inspired mechanical Perfection > All units within 6 which share <Forgewold> keyword may utilise this characters leadership for moral checks [stolen Inquisitorial buff]
<Forgeworld> Your choice.
<heavy Bionic reinforcement > Years of repairs & enhancement after vicious combat have left the prime more machine than man , grants a 5++ feel no pain

Wargear Options
Gamma pistol 6 points
Macrostubber 2 points
Omnissian Axe 2 points
Powerfist 12 points
taser goad 8 points

He isn't a tech priest, other people have to put him back together after battles, he can be repaired like any other multi-wound model, but he hasn't got mechadentrites
to do the job for him and he's not capable of repairing units, Stat line/cost is based on the datasmith , and we all have spare datasmiths ;-)

Any ideas for a character that specifically supports non-gunline strategies? I think Delphan Gruss from FFG’s lore could be a good character, but I’m trash at creating statblocks for 8e and I don’t have the codex.

Well If you get lucky someone might take it upon themselves to do it ;-)