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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

Also this has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.

I should have started when 10th edition launched!
410 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #97, I am still 313 reviews behind!

Picking them randomly, let me spin the wheel again and see what I get:

Adeptus Mechanicus, Corpuscarii Electro-Priests

10th Edition Codex

Corpuscarii Electro-Priests are a crazy and cooky bunch of Mechanicus fanatics who have modified their bodies so they become literal Pikachus. Filled with something (from their belief system) called the Motive Force, they run around the battlefield with no shirts on and zapping those that get close enough with their electrostatic gauntlets.

They are a bit of a funny unit, I feel that it is their job to be annoying and sacrificing themselves like the crazy fanatics that they are!

They are 70pts for a unit of 5 or 140pts for a unit of 10.

The kit is $58 to purchase for 10 of them.

Let's see their stats!

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 3
Save 7+/5++/5+++(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 1
Ld 7+
OC 1

So human toughness with a 5+ invul and a 5+ Feel No Pain to shrug off at least some of the wounds coming in.

Weapons

Ranged:

Electrostatic gauntlets
12" Range, 3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5, Ap 0, 1 Damage each
Pistol, Sustained Hits 2 (this means a roll of a 6 to Hit, scores another 2 hits!)

Melee:

Electrostatic gauntlets
3 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S5, Ap 0, 1 Damage each
Sustained Hits 2

Abilities

Electro-shock

The usual "slow-down" effect that we see on a lot of units, like the Barbgaunts with Disruption Bombardment or the Cthonian Beserks Subterranean Explosives.

So a unit hit with their shooting attack, -2 Movement, -2 to Advance and -2 to Charges.

However...

Thoughts

What I do not like about this ability on this unit is that they only have a 12" range. Basically pistol range, charge range. It is too late to slow him down. The other units with similar abilities have at least got a 24" range. This means that the reduction of movement have a decent chance to slow the enemy down.

Instead of that ability, I would have had the Electro-shock ability cause the enemy to always strike last of something like that.

To slow a unit down until the next turn means that you don't really plan on charging the enemy with the Electropriests OR you don't intend to really utilize the ability.

Unless perhaps the enemy unit is extremely powerful and they stun an enemy AND move block them, making themselves a sacrificial unit to stop the enemy.

Possible...

That makes 7 Adeptus Mechanicus Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 23.33% Completed! The total Completed on 9.98% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Alphabetical List

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Knight-Centura	#54
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain	#61
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armor	#70
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Adeptus Mechanicus	Belisarius Cawl	#53
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
Aeldari	Guardian Defenders	#64
Aeldari	Maugan Ra	#87
Aeldari	Night Spinner	#65
Aeldari	Shadowseer	#80
Aeldari	Prince Yriel	#92
Astra Militarum	Kasrkin	#60
Astra Militarum	Tank Commander	#90
Astra Militarum	Wyvern	#81
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Black Templars	The Emperor's Champion	#63
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Gabriel Seth	#66
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Blood Angels	Sanguinary Guard	#93
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82
Chaos Knights	Knight Abominant	#94
Chaos Knights	War Dog Brigands	#30
Chaos Knights	War Dog Executioners	#31
Chaos Knights	War Dog Huntsman	#77
Chaos Space Marines	Abbadon the Despoiler	#50
Chaos Space Marines	Haarken Worldclaimer	#41
Chaos Space Marines	Khorne Lord of Skulls	#37
Dark Angels	Asmodai	#16
Dark Angels	Azrael	#17
Dark Angels	Belial	#4
Dark Angels	Deathwing Knights	#20
Dark Angels	Lazarus	#62
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Death Guard	Malignant Plaguecaster	#71
Deathwatch	Corvus Blackstar	#72
Deathwatch	Proteus Killteam	#57
Deathwatch	Spectrus Kill Team	#73
Deathwatch	Veteran Bike Squad	#84
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
Genestealer Cults	Hybrid Metamorphs	#58
Genestealer Cults	Reductus Saboteur	#33
Grey Knights	Brother Captain	#25
Grey Knights	Grand Master	#48
Grey Knights	Strike Squad	#51
Imperial Agents	Callidus Assassin	#9
Imperial Agents	Culexus Assassin	#69
Imperial Agents	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Knights	Canis Rex	#76
Imperial Knights	Armiger Helverin	#22
Imperial Knights	Armiger Warglaive	#43
Imperial Knights	Knight Castellan	#83
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Iron-master	#27
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Thunderkyn	#78
Leagues of Votann	Cthonian Beserks	#86
Leagues of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leagues of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Orks	Zodgrod Wortsnagga	#89
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
Space Wolves	Arjac Rockfist	#68
Space Wolves	Fenrisian Wolves	#91
Space Wolves	Wolf Guard	#74
T'au Empire	Breacher Team	#88
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
T'au Empire	Pathfinder Team	#79
T'au Empire	Razorshark Strike Fighter	#95
T'au Empire	Stealth Battlesuits	#67
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Raveners	#96
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85

Thank you for reading!

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