Haloscreed Battle Clade: The 11th-Edition AdMech Generalist Detachment

In your Command phase you select a number of Adeptus Mechanicus units by battle size — 1 at Incursion, 2 at Strike Force, 3 at Onslaught — including units embarked in transports. Until your next Command phase those units gain the Halo Override keyword.

Then you pick one Override ability, which every Halo Override unit in your army has until your next Command phase:

• Electromotive Energisation — +2\" Move.
• Microactuator Bracing — +1 Toughness.
• Predation Protocols — the unit may declare a charge in a turn it Advanced.
• Muted Servomotors — the unit has Stealth.

That is a genuinely different army every turn: push with +2\" Move on turn one, brace with +1 Toughness into an alpha strike, then flip to Predation Protocols on the turn you commit. Note the ability is chosen once for the army, not per unit, so the skill is picking the two or three units whose needs agree.

Six, and several are noticeably better on a Halo Override unit, which rewards planning your Command-phase picks around the spends you intend to make.

• Eradication Protocols (Shooting or Fight) — a unit re-rolls Wound rolls of 1, and Hit rolls of 1 too if it is Halo Override. Your default damage spend.
• Targeting Override (Shooting or Fight) — a unit scores Critical Hits on unmodified 5+. Pair it with Lethal or Sustained effects.
• Neural Overload (Movement) — grant an Override ability outside the Command phase. A Halo Override unit takes D3 mortal wounds but can then hold multiple Overrides at once; a non-Override unit takes no damage and gains only the chosen ability.
• Aggressive Impulse (Movement) — a Skorpius Dunerider that has not moved lets units disembarking from it after a Normal move still declare a charge.
• Guided Retreat (Movement) — a unit that Fell Back can shoot and charge, and a Halo Override unit re-rolls Desperate Escape tests.
• Analytical Divination (opponent's Movement) — an AdMech Infantry unit within 8\" of a moving enemy makes a D6\" move, or 6\" if it is Halo Override. Note the exclusion: Kataphron units cannot be targeted.

• Cognitive Reinforcement — AdMech model only, excluding Cybernetica Datasmiths: both Imperatives are active for the bearer's unit. That is the single most valuable effect in the faction, because it makes the Doctrina choice stop being a choice for your key brick.
• Transoracular Dyad Wafers — Cybernetica Datasmith only: attached to Kastelan Robots, that unit gains Halo Override for the whole battle. The catch is that it can no longer be picked by the detachment rule, so it is locked to whatever Override you choose each turn rather than being a free extra selection.
• Inloaded Lethality — Tech-Priest Dominus or Manipulus only: +3 Attacks and +1 Damage on the bearer's melee weapons, which turns a support character into a real threat.
• Sanctified Ordnance — AdMech model only: +6\" Range on the unit's ranged weapons and re-rollable Hazardous tests.

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

• Kastelan Robots — the unit Transoracular Dyad Wafers is written for, and a natural home for +1 Toughness or +2\" Move.
• Skitarii Rangers — cheap Battleline that keeps the army rule's Battleline-proximity clauses live, and turns Predation Protocols into real board control.
• Tech-Priest Dominus — one of only two models that can take Inloaded Lethality, and the obvious Cognitive Reinforcement carrier.
• Kataphron Breachers and Destroyers — heavy firepower that loves an Override, though remember Analytical Divination explicitly excludes them.
• Skorpius Dunerider — the single named target of Aggressive Impulse, and the pack gave it Firing Deck 2 and the Frame keyword.

Take it when you want a complete, self-contained army that adapts turn by turn rather than committing to one sub-faction. It is the most collection-agnostic AdMech detachment: nothing in it demands Robots, priests, vehicles or a particular objective, so almost any box you own has a job.

The honest counter-argument is the 3-DP price. At 2,000 points it fills your whole budget, which means giving up Lords of the Forge, and community consensus around the pack's release was that a 2-DP core plus Lords is often the stronger shape. Haloscreed is the 3-DP detachment that survives that comparison best, but it is a real trade.

Sample gameplan: on turn one, pick your two most important units and choose Electromotive Energisation to push them into position, with an Overlord-equivalent carrying Cognitive Reinforcement so one brick has both Imperatives. Flip to Microactuator Bracing on the turn you expect to be shot, and to Predation Protocols on the turn you commit to a charge. Spend Eradication Protocols and Targeting Override on the key attack, Guided Retreat to disengage without losing a turn of shooting, and Analytical Divination to steal position in your opponent's Movement phase.