Luminen Auto-choir: The New 1-DP AdMech Electro-Priest Detachment (11th Edition)

Two clauses, one for each kind of Electro-Priest.

• Friendly Corpuscarii units' ranged attacks have Lethal Hits.
• When a friendly Fulgurite unit has fought, that unit heals D3 wounds.

The Corpuscarii half is straightforwardly good: they already put out a large number of shots, and Lethal Hits converts that volume into wounds against targets their Strength would otherwise struggle with.

The Fulgurite half is more awkward, and it is worth being blunt about why. The heal happens after the unit has fought, which is the point in the turn where you have already found out whether the unit survived. On a full-strength unit it does nothing; on a unit that got shot to pieces before it arrived it is too little. It is a real effect over a long grinding game, but it is not the payoff a Fulgurite brick actually wants.

The printed page also carries the UNIQUE: DATA-PSALM banner and states in its own rule text that this detachment cannot be taken with another DATA-PSALM detachment.

Three, all 1CP, and collectively they are the best part of the detachment, because they address exactly what has always held Electro-Priests back: getting there.

• Chant of Electrotraction (your Movement) — when a friendly Electro-Priests unit is selected to make an advance move, that move does not stop it being eligible to declare a charge. Advance and charge for a unit that has wanted it for years.
• Momentum Feedback (opponent's Shooting) — after an enemy that targeted a friendly unengaged Electro-Priests unit has shot, that unit makes a surge move of up to D6\". It punishes shooting your priests and quietly closes the gap for free.
• Echoes of the Conduit Wars (your Shooting or the Fight) — when a friendly Electro-Priests unit is selected to attack, its attacks against a unit within range of an objective can re-roll hit rolls of 1 and wound rolls of 1. The condition sounds restrictive but rarely is, because most things worth killing are standing on a point.

Two, both Tech-Priest model only, which means you need a character to lead the priests.

• Voltagheist Reliquary — enemy units cannot target the bearer's unit with snap shooting attacks. Snap shooting is where out-of-phase and reactive fire lives, so this is how a priest block stages in the open and walks into a charge without being shot at the moment it commits. It is the more valuable of the two.
• Electromiasmic Brazier — the bearer's unit has Stealth. Straightforward, cheap, and more relevant in 11th edition than it used to be given how cover now works, but still a modest effect to pay for.

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

• Corpuscarii Electro-Priests — the half of the rule that actually pays: Lethal Hits on top of their built-in volume of shooting.
• Fulgurite Electro-Priests — the melee half, healing D3 wounds after they fight; built from the same kit as the Corpuscarii, so one box serves either build.
• Tech-Priest Manipulus or Enginseer — carries either enhancement, since both are Tech-Priest only, and leads the priest block forward.
• Skorpius Dunerider — the transport that gets a Corpuscarii block up the board fast enough for Lethal Hits to matter; the pack gave it Firing Deck 2 and the Frame keyword.

Take it (1 DP) if you genuinely field Electro-Priests and want them to be more than a novelty. Nothing else in the faction supports them this directly, and the stratagem suite fixes their real problem, which was always arriving on your terms rather than the opponent's.

Be clear about two constraints before you commit. First, it is narrow: outside Corpuscarii and Fulgurites the detachment does approximately nothing, so if you own one box of priests this is not the pick. Second, the DATA-PSALM tag blocks the obvious combination. Data-Psalm Conclave is the other detachment that buffs Electro-Priests, and it also carries DATA-PSALM, so you can never stack the two. That is a deliberate design decision, and it is the single loudest criticism levelled at this detachment: the pairing everyone wanted is the pairing that is forbidden.

What it does pair with is any 2-DP core that says nothing about priests: Skitarii Hunter Cohort, Rad-Zone Corps, Cohort Cybernetica or Explorator Maniple. In those lists the priest block runs on its own detachment's tools while the core buffs a completely separate half of the army.

Sample gameplan: run a large Corpuscarii block in a Dunerider with a Tech-Priest carrying the Voltagheist Reliquary. Disembark and shoot into an objective-holder to cash Echoes of the Conduit Wars. Use Chant of Electrotraction on the turn you want to advance and still charge, and take the free D6\" from Momentum Feedback every time your priests are shot in the open. Keep the Fulgurites for the grinding fight where the post-combat heal actually accumulates.