I can't decide whether to go a bright color for the electoos, or a darker color. If I go bright, I probably need to darken the skin around it.

Thoughts?

Doesn't this rule mean that the tech priest still gives Kastelans infantry, but vehicle is taken away when the bots dies?

Just finished these baddies up last night. Ready to blast some [REDACTED]

Hello! I had been doing some reading and I saw some things. I realized later these were part of inspiration behind the adeptus mechancius so I thought I would sit down and write blog post about it! The blog post Link will take you to it! But you don't have to go there, the whole post is below. I focused only on two source of inspiration the developed into admech, what others can you think of? (Also I really enjoy the books of warhammer, but I could have gotten some of my details wrong, please correct me if I did.)

The Adeptus Mechanicus—or AdMech, as they’re more commonly known—is, in many ways, one half of the Imperium. You could spend all day talking about the political situation of Warhammer 40,000 and how the AdMech are technically a foreign power that has become so deeply integrated with the Imperium that the two are almost inseparable.

But I’m not here to write about politics.

I’m here to talk about the literary roots of the faction.

The Adeptus Mechanicus draws inspiration from several different sources. Some influences are subtle, while others are impossible to miss. Today, I want to focus on the two of the bigger inspirations.

The first comes from the early sections of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation.

For those unfamiliar with the series, Foundation follows humanity after the collapse of a vast interstellar empire. The Foundation itself is an organization created to preserve human knowledge so that the coming dark age would be far shorter than originally predicted.

There are some obvious parallels to Warhammer 40,000. The setting also looks back on a lost golden age—the Dark Age of Technology—whose wonders have largely vanished. The similarities aren’t exact, though. Mars, the home of the Adeptus Mechanicus, wasn’t established as a repository of knowledge in quite the same way the Foundation was.

The biggest inspiration comes from one of the early stories. The Foundation expands its influence over neighboring worlds not through military conquest alone, but through a religion centered on technology: the Church of the Foundation. Its priests wear red robes, its “miracles” are simply advanced technology beyond the understanding of those witnessing it, and its faith is built upon science.

To me, this is one of the clearest inspirations for the Adeptus Mechanicus. You can see it in the imagery, the priesthood, and the idea of technology being treated with religious reverence.

The second major influence is Frank Herbert’s Dune.

This one is obvious in hindsight, though it’s often less noticeable because it influences the background lore more than the faction’s aesthetic.

In Dune, humanity fought a great war against thinking machines in the distant past. The Butlerian Jihad ended with artificial intelligence being outlawed, shaping civilization for thousands of years afterward.

Warhammer 40,000 borrows this concept almost directly. During the Dark Age of Technology, humanity also fought a catastrophic war against artificial intelligence. In the aftermath, the Adeptus Mechanicus came to view AI as “Abominable Intelligence,” a technology so dangerous that its creation is considered one of the greatest heresies imaginable.

This fear of AI is perhaps the most obvious inheritance from Dune.

The two settings, however, solve the problem differently.

In Dune, humanity develops Mentats—people trained to perform calculations and analyses that computers once handled.

The Adeptus Mechanicus takes a far darker path.

Instead of replacing computers with exceptionally trained humans, they replace computer components with actual human beings. Servitors, lobotomized workers, and cybernetically enhanced priests become living machines. It’s a wonderfully grim solution that gives the Adeptus Mechanicus much of its signature body-horror aesthetic.

Of course, these aren’t the faction’s only influences. You can see traces of cyberpunk, classic science fiction, religious imagery, and plenty of other sources woven into the AdMech’s identity.

But if you’re looking for two major roots of the Adeptus Mechanicus, it’s hard to argue against Foundation and Dune.

And with that, I think I’ve rambled enough.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed this look at the literary roots of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Please for the love of god give us rules buffs for mounted units and Fulgerites

Battleshock from rad bombardment no longer wears off at the end of battle round 1 automatically!

I got all my AdMechs together and took a great Picture!

I’m fairly happy with the overall look but the cloak is a bit uneven and the transonic blades are rough, kinda dreading the rest of the unit now (any advice on those maybe?)

We both love Kittos art, obviously.

Its chocolate

Basically my list went up by 10, so i had two options, equip one ironstrider with auto cannons, or just put my two serberys raiders in one unit. For some reason the second option made me smile.

Can i use the Archmagos on Abeyant as Cawl if i build it as the non named character one and i place it on a 105mm x 70mm oval base? If so, what could i sue to fill the empty space on the base?

Got the snippers to a dunecrawler and did some heavy battle damage. Love how it turned out!

I started my Cawl paint and build and thought “The Joy of AI” was an appropriate title for the book he is crushing. Pretty happy with how the letters the title turned out.
I turned the book when I glued it down so you can still see the “AI” on the cover.
Anyone else have fun with this part of their Cawl model?

I got to go to Warhammer world today after a nice UK cruise, my lord is it beyond words. I brought my mother with me on the cruise as a birthday gift and thanks and she came with me to Warhammer world too, even she who doesn't understand what Warhammer is was stunned by all of the dioramas on display.

So here are some of the photos I took of the displays, also I was finally able to get my hands of the HH Myrmidon Destructor Host set. All of the stores near my home in Canada were sold out of them, so I had to get it from the source itself.

Now what to use them as in 40k...

I posted the WIP picture last week, wanted to show you all the finished product. Can't wait to put this fully magnetized Skorpius to use!

Hello Adeptus Mechanicus, I have a question for you. So I’m getting a Leviathan Dreadnought for 40K, and my friend suggested I add two Techpriests to the base, escorting this holy relic into battle. My question pertains to this: which models do you think would work best? I’m thinking of having them hold incense burners and stuff like that, but I’m unfamiliar with the Models that would work.

2 more and my Kastelan army will be complete. Not the meta but I love them.

Enginseer, done!