Like the other divisions of the Horus Heresy the civil war within the Mechanicum was vicious and brutal, but in the end the loyalists were on the side of history and the traitors were cast out, becoming the Dark Mechanicum while the remaining loyalists formed the Adeptus Mechanicus, a successor state to the original Martian empire. His deputy, Fabricator Locum Kane, stayed loyal. The Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal, the highest-ranking member of the Mechanicum, was swayed to Horus’ side. A faction of the Mechanicum never really took to the alliance with the Imperium, and when the Horus Heresy split the Imperium in half the Mechanicum experienced a similar split. The Emperor was fitted into the Ad Mech’s cosmology as an embodiment of the Omnissiah, and peace and joy reigned. After the Emperor’s formation of the Imperium, the Mechanicum agreed to join the Great Crusade, not as a subject but as an ally – the Mechanicum would retain sovereignty over its Forge Worlds, in return for supplying the Imperium’s engines of war. While the Emperor was fighting the Unification Wars on Terra, the Tech-priests were sitting pretty on Mars, organised as the Mechanicum – an entirely separate empire. In the lore, the Adeptus Mechanicus are an interesting piece of the Imperial puzzle. It’s a good time to worship the Void Dragon Omnissiah. As we approach the end of 8th edition, Engine War has just been released, and the Tech-priests have seen a flurry of model support – the Tech-priest Manipulus, the Skitarii Dunerider and Disintegrator, and then a whole set of new kits released alongside their Psychic Awakening book. A decision driven more by marketing and what would be manageable to release in the then-weekly White Dwarf (yes, really), but it did the job of getting Ad Mech back into the game. They then more or less disappeared from the game, with a few scattered markers – a Cult Mechanicus symbol here, a metal Tech-priest Enginseer there – until 7th edition saw them re-released in the slightly weird format of two separate codexes, Skitarii and the Cult Mechanicus.
The Adeptus Mechanicus have a long history in 40k, having appeared all the way back in Rogue Trader.
With the release of Engine War, we’re taking a look at the cybernetic warriors of the Adeptus Mechanicus and how to paint them, with several methods and schemes. In our How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at different armies of the Warhammer universe, examine their history and heraldry, and look at several different methods for painting them.
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