Arc pistols are a solid pistol choice at 4/5 with AP1 and Stun. Phosphor blast pistols gain No Cover, which can be really useful as well. You can freely mix taser goads or arc maul and arc pistols and phosphor blast pistols.
You now have a master crafted radium pistol plus power sword, and the radium pistol has gone from 2/3 to 2/4 and gained Balanced and kept Rending. However the weapon options have changed, and two of the pistols have been improved. Skitarii are still 6” move, 2APL, Save 4+, and Alphas are 8 wounds. You have to select one of the following Leaders. So you gain a Surveyor and Diktat, in either Ranger or Vanguard flavour, and can then have either four Sicarians and two Skitarii gunners, or three Sicarians and three Skitarii gunners, and then have a couple of Rangers or Vanguard, and need to work out which model to have as your team’s Alpha. You cannot duplicate gunner weapons either, meaning that if you take three you have an arc rifle, plasma caliver, and transuranic arquebus as your loadouts. You can only have one Surveyor and one Diktat operative per team. If you take four Sicarians, you can have only two Skitarii gunners if you have three Sicarians or fewer you can take three Skitarii Gunners. You have to have more Skitarii than Sicarians, which effectively limits you to a max of 4 Sicarians on your team. This new team gives us a much more fleshed-out Mechanicus team in the same way that Veteran Guardsmen are a more fleshed-out version of the Imperial Guard kill team in the Compendium. You give up at least one gunner and one model in all of the Skitarii kill teams you field, and can’t take a purely Sicarian team, but to me, it’s absolutely worth it. AdMech have been rebalanced here, gaining additional specialists with equipment that you had to pay for in the Compendium, more ploys, better equipment and some units – like Vanguard Skitarii – significantly reworked to improve them. So are Hunter Clades any good? The AdMech in the Compendium aren’t terrible (but aren’t super good either) so we’re going to find out if White Dwarf articles are handing out buffs and rebalances to factions in the Compendium. I doubt White Dwarf will continue to give a third of its page count to Kill Team in future issues but it’s a strong first month of White Dwarf support. Kill Team is back, baby! White Dwarf 468 has almost 50 pages of Kill Team content, including an 18-page starter set Krieg vs Orks battle report, 4 pages of designer’s notes, ten pages of background on the Adeptus Mechanicus – including a 4 page fiction piece – and 14 pages on Hunter Clades.
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