I thought automatons were anathema in the Imperium.

No. Strong unshackled AI is (Abominable Intelligence). There's plenty of AI around such as Land Raiders, Titans, in (at least marine) ships, etc. They are are designed to be interfaced with a human to control them usually and they don't act too independent without a human. This goes all the way down to weak AI as seen with servitors.

Oh and the AdMech has an entire wing devoted to automta, the Legio Cybernetica.

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In the case of robots, the intelligence is even more limited. They basically get sets of rules about what actions to perform before the battle. Even then, a tech priest is in constant contact with the machines and will autodestruct any that malfunction.

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Ah, I see. I was overestimating how independent they were. Thanks for the explanation!

Mhm, nice changes, altough I like my sentinels. Nevermind, when will this 3.23.2 come out?

Both robots and Sentinels come in units of 4 and they perform similarly so you shouldn't see a huge difference there. Just pretend they are sentinels

I've sent my intended changes on to the ERC and I'm waiting to hear back before releasing 3.24

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Is there scope to have other variants of robots added in the future?

There are no plans to add more robot variants to the AMTL list or the Skitarii list. For AMTL the focus is on the titans not the robots and there's already fairly good range of options for support formations.

With Skitarii, the two versions we have already cover shooty and choppy. Adding more would start to step on the toes of other options or just be redundant.

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I assume there's space for specialist lists though for the more esoteric factions in the mechanicum such as legio cybernetica and Ordo Reductor, yes?

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Hope to see conqueror in those lists as 'back in the day' was a right monster vs armour

hi,

the stats for hydras dont seem to be on the pdf, - i couldnt find them anywhere in a game yesterday

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yeah, I didn't have space for them at the time. The stats are the same as the IG hydras. I thought I had a note in the PDF about that.

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hi

one more thing, can the ark battleship act as a transport? how does it get formations on the ground?

Transport (40 Infantry or lv and 20 av
or War Engines plus 4 Tetrarch Landers.
Praetorians and Rapiers take two slots per unit,
War Engines require one slot per dc.)

thanks

**** another question,

does the emperor titan get all these weapons or a selection of them?

Plasma Annihilator
Hellstorm Cannon
Defense Laser
Quake Cannon
4x Battle Cannon
Teritary Arms
Leg Bastions
90cm
60cm
90cm
90cm
75cm
(15cm)
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4X mw2+, Titan Killer (d3),
Forward Arc, Slow Firing
10bp, Forward Arc
AA4+ / mw2+, Titan Killer (d3)
3bp, Macro-Weapon, Fixed Forward
Ap4+ / At4+
Extra Attacks (+2)
counts as Corvus Assault P

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The Ark needs a Tetrarch lander to transport troops to the group and the Tetrarch is only found in the cataphractii list so it can't use the transport option right now. It's on there for when the cataphractii list is finished.

Imperator: Yes, they get all the weeapons.

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cool thanks!

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