Cohort Cybernetica: The 11th-Edition AdMech Robots and Vehicles Detachment

The pack rewrote it to read: add 2\" to the Move characteristic of models in Legio Cybernetica units from your army, and unless that unit is battle-shocked, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of its models.

The keyword is the story. Legio Cybernetica is a two-datasheet keyword: Kastelan Robots and the Cybernetica Datasmith. So the rule itself is narrow, aimed squarely at making a Robot brick mobile enough to matter and sticky enough to hold ground.

The detachment's breadth comes from its stratagems instead, most of which target Legio Cybernetica or Adeptus Mechanicus Vehicle units. That widens the list considerably: Onager Dunecrawlers, the Skorpius chassis, Ironstriders and Sydonian Dragoons are all legal targets even though the detachment rule never touches them.

There is an unusual structural quirk here, and you should plan around it: all six of these fire in your Command phase.

• Auto-divinatory Targeting — a Legio Cybernetica or AdMech Vehicle unit's ranged weapons get Ballistic Skill 3+ and Ignores Cover, but can only target units within range of a chosen objective. The pack's own FAQ confirms the Protector Imperative then improves that 3+ to 2+, which is the single best-known interaction in the detachment.
• Transcendent Cogitation — both Imperatives active for one Legio Cybernetica or Vehicle unit until your next Command phase.
• Machine Spirit Resurgent — a below-strength unit re-rolls Hit rolls, and Wound rolls too if it is below half strength.
• Machine Superiority — a unit can shoot in a turn it Fell Back, and ignores modifiers to its characteristics and rolls (saving throws excepted).
• Motive Imperative — +3\" Move and +1 to Advance and Charge rolls for an AdMech Vehicle unit.
• Benevolence of the Omnissiah — Feel No Pain for one Legio Cybernetica or Vehicle unit until your next Command phase.

The consequence is that a mono-Cybernetica list can bank command points it has no way to spend once the Command phase ends. That is the strongest argument for pairing it with a 1-DP support.

All four are Tech-Priest model only, so plan a character around them.

• Necromechanic — once per battle round, when a save is failed for a friendly Legio Cybernetica or AdMech Vehicle model within 12\", change that attack's Damage to 0. On a Robot brick this is the difference between losing a model and losing nothing.
• Lord of Machines — once per turn, an enemy Vehicle within 12\" takes a Leadership test: pass and it is -1 to Hit this phase, fail and it cannot shoot at all.
• Emotionless Clarity — a friendly Legio Cybernetica or Vehicle model with Deadly Demise that dies within 12\" inflicts its mortal wounds automatically.
• Arch-negator — the cheapest of the four: Anti-Vehicle 4+ on the bearer's own ranged weapons.

(Points come from the Munitorum Field Manual and move with updates; confirm in the app.)

• Kastelan Robots — one of the two Legio Cybernetica datasheets, so the +2\" Move and +1 Objective Control land exactly where the detachment intends.
• Cybernetica Datasmith — the other. Note the pack made it a Support character, removed Infantry and added Vehicle, with a Data-severed ability that reverts it to Infantry if there are no Kastelan Robot models in its unit.
• Onager Dunecrawler — an AdMech Vehicle, so it is a legal target for every one of the six stratagems even though the detachment rule ignores it.
• Skorpius Disintegrator — the mobile gun platform that most wants Auto-divinatory Targeting and Machine Superiority.
• Ironstrider Ballistarii and Sydonian Dragoons — cheap Vehicle bodies to soak up Command-phase buffs.
• Tech-Priest Dominus — carries any of the four enhancements.

Take it (2 DP) when your list is built on a Kastelan Robot brick backed by vehicles. The rewritten rule makes the Robots genuinely mobile and genuinely sticky on objectives, and the stratagem suite is one of the strongest defensive toolkits in the faction: Damage-to-0, automatic Deadly Demise, Feel No Pain and modifier immunity all in one place.

Its weakness is timing, not power. Every stratagem is a Command-phase spend, so you must decide your whole turn before you have seen a single dice roll, and you have nothing to react with afterwards. That is precisely the gap a 1-DP support fills, which is why Cohort Cybernetica plus Lords of the Forge was the most-discussed AdMech pairing when the pack landed.

Sample gameplan: deploy a Kastelan brick led by a Datasmith, with a Tech-Priest carrying Necromechanic within 12\". In your Command phase, decide the turn: Motive Imperative to reposition, Auto-divinatory Targeting into an objective-holder (running Protector so the 3+ becomes 2+), or Transcendent Cogitation on the brick that is about to do the work. Push the Robots onto the middle objective where +1 Objective Control wins the tie, and hold Necromechanic for the first big failed save.