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Adeptus MechanicusADMAdeptus Mechanicus

11TH EDITION · PERFORMANCE DOSSIER · THROUGH 2026-W33
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Strength Index · where it wins
AVERAGE
rank #19 of 28 · composite -0.316
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Top players · where it's rated
B-
expert tier · recency-weighted across 5 publications
the comparison layer ›
Win rate · week / patch
43% This week 47% This patch
weekly 97 games · patch 1033 games
the Archive’s tournament pull ›
HOW TO READ THIS PAGE

WHAT DO THE FACET Z-SCORES MEAN?

Each facet number below is a z-score — a comparison to the whole competitive roster this window. Zero is the roster average; +1.0 is one standard deviation above (roughly the top 16% of factions on that facet), +2.0 is exceptional; the scale mirrors going down. The four facets — win rate, top-cut conversion, blowout margin, consistency — combine into the Strength Index composite, weighted on the tier-list page. Top players is a comparison layer: the curated top-player tier list, shown beside the results but never blended into the composite.

PERFORMANCE VITALS THIS FACTION'S TOURNAMENT RESULTS vs THE ROSTER

WIN RATE
-0.55σ
47.3% · 760 games
TOP CUT
-0.23σ
0.8× field share
BLOWOUT
-0.67σ
9.6 avg battle points
CONSISTENCY
+1.08σ
0.032 steadiness
TOP PLAYERS 2.556 (≈ B-) recency-weighted across 5 publications — a comparison layer, never blended into the composite
COMPOSITE Z (DEFAULT WEIGHTS)
-0.316
The blend of the four performance facets at the default weights. Adjust the weights on the Strength Index.

MATCHUPS THIS FACTION vs THE ROSTER · CURRENT PATCH

Best matchups
  • Deathwatch 88% 8g
  • World Eaters 63% 32g
  • Leagues of Votann 62% 39g
Toughest matchups
  • Chaos Daemons 23% 35g
  • T’au Empire 33% 64g
  • Space Marines 36% 59g
Deathwatch 88% 8g
World Eaters 63% 32g
Leagues of Votann 62% 39g
Black Templars 60% 15g
Astra Militarum 59% 34g
Blood Angels 52% 33g
Tyranids 51% 72g
Dark Angels 50% 34g
Adepta Sororitas 48% 27g
Chaos Space Marines 48% 50g
Aeldari 48% 25g
Imperial Knights 46% 39g
Drukhari 46% 26g
Emperor’s Children 45% 51g
Death Guard 44% 34g
Adeptus Custodes 44% 75g
Orks 42% 55g
Grey Knights 42% 24g
Genestealer Cults 41% 17g
Necrons 41% 66g
Thousand Sons 40% 42g
Chaos Knights 40% 20g
Space Wolves 38% 26g
Space Marines 36% 59g
T’au Empire 33% 64g
Imperial Agents 25% 4g
Chaos Daemons 23% 35g
Win rate against each opponent in the current patch, best first — heat-shaded around an even 50% split. Cells from fewer than 5 games are dimmed (small sample); mirror matches are excluded. The full 28×28 matrix is on Quantum.

DETACHMENTS FOOTPRINT & TOP BUILDS · CURRENT PATCH

Detachment Games Prevalence Win rate VP diff
Lords of the Forge 627 61% 48.7% -2
Cohort Cybernetica 248 24% 50.4% -0.1
Rad-Zone Corps 228 22% 46.3% -3.7
Skitarii Hunter Cohort 141 14% 45.9% -6.4
Haloscreed Battle Clade 84 8% 33.8% -4
Eradication Cohort READ WITH CARE 67 6% 52.3% -4.9
Luminen Auto-Choir READ WITH CARE 32 3% 46.4% -8.8
Cohort Acquisitus READ WITH CARE 23 2% 45% -0.4
Explorator Maniple READ WITH CARE 19 2% 44.4% +4.9
Data Psalm Conclave READ WITH CARE 16 2% 50% -4.3
(unresolved detachment) 203 20% 46.5% -0.8
An 11th-edition army runs multiple detachments, and a game counts toward every detachment it fields — so prevalence is a footprint (share of this faction’s 1033 games that ran each detachment) and sums above 100%. 80% of games resolved to a named detachment.
TOP BUILDS — the detachment pairings players actually field (shares sum to 100%)
Build Games Share Win rate
Cohort Cybernetica + Lords of the Forge 243 24% 51%
Lords of the Forge + Rad-Zone Corps 215 21% 47%
Lords of the Forge + Skitarii Hunter Cohort 112 11% 43%
Haloscreed Battle Clade 84 8% 34%
Eradication Cohort READ WITH CARE 67 6% 52%

SCORING POSTURE WIN RATE BY MISSION · CURRENT PATCH

How this faction scores across the five mission postures — the bar fills to its win rate, with the mid-line marking an even 50%. Read over the current balance patch; postures under 30 games are marked thin.

RECENT FORM TOURNAMENT RESULTS THIS WINDOW · 2026-W33

This window (singles): 47.3% win rate over 760 games.

Podium finishes this window — faction-anonymous, identified by placing and event:

The condensed composition behind these finishes is in TOP LISTS below.

TOP LISTS CONDENSED COMPOSITION OF THE BEST-PERFORMING LISTS THIS WINDOW

The lists behind this faction’s strongest finishes this window — identified here by placing, event, and field; the complete list lives at the source on BCP. Composition is condensed to datasheets and points; no rules or profile text.

#25
Summer of War GT
42-player field
View on BCP
Haloscreed Battle Clade Priority Assets 2000 pts
Characters
  • Tech-Priest Manipulus [Sanctified Ordnance]70
  • Belisarius Cawl220
  • 2×Tech-Priest Enginseer55
Datasheets
  • Kataphron Destroyers200
  • 2×Skitarii Rangers85
  • Ironstrider Ballistarii280
  • 2×Onager Dunecrawler155
  • Servitor Battleclade65
  • Sicarian Infiltrators155
  • Sicarian Infiltrators75
  • 2×Skorpius Disintegrator170
#28
EG Grand Slam 40k GT 2026
36-player field
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Lords of the Forge and Rad-Zone Corps Priority Assets 2000 pts
Characters
  • Tech-Priest Manipulus [Peerless Eradicator]80
  • Tech-Priest Enginseer [TL-4ø9]85
  • Belisarius Cawl220
  • Sydonian Skatros [Radial Suffusion]75
Datasheets
  • Kataphron Destroyers200
  • 2×Skitarii Vanguard85
  • Skitarii Rangers85
  • Skorpius Dunerider75
  • 2×Hastarii Fusiliers115
  • 2×Ironstrider Ballistarii160
  • Pteraxii Sterylizors80
  • Serberys Raiders60
  • 2×Sicarian Infiltrators75
  • Skorpius Disintegrator170
#29
ELBCOAST CUP 24
31-player field
View on BCP
Lords of the Forge, Rad‑zone Corps (War-form Mantles) Priority Assets 2000 pts
Datasheets
  • 3×Skitarii Rangers85
  • Servitor Battleclade65
  • 2×Sicarian Infiltrators75

WHAT THE WINNING LISTS RUN UNITS IN THIS FACTION’S UNDEFEATED & ONE-LOSS ARMIES · 2026-W33

Across the 18 Adeptus Mechanicus armies that went undefeated or one-loss this window, ranked by how often each unit appears. Faction-anonymous — the lists are counted, never attributed to a pilot.

“Winning” here means the pilot finished undefeated (X–0) or one-loss (X–1) at a 5+ round singles event with a field of 16 or more. Share is the fraction of those 18 lists that included the unit; a datasheet run in multiples still counts as one list. No rules or profile text — unit names and counts only.

EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVE EDITOR’S READ — INTERPRETIVE, NOT MEASURED

EDITOR

Editorial perspective coming. The Editor’s analysis of this faction’s current competitive position will appear here as the dossier program rolls out.

CROSS-LINKS RECAPS, METHODOLOGY, DIRECTORY

RECENT TOURNAMENT RECAPS

METHODOLOGY

Data: the Archive's first-party BCP pull, edition-lifetime through 2026-W33. Facet z-scores are computed across the competitive roster on the singles subset; top-player tier is the comparison layer, never blended into the composite. See methodology for the exact definitions.