Legiones Astartes – Castellax-Achea Automata

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• Castellax-Achea Automata 140 pts

Never ones to squander their Legion’s ranks in bloody attrition or vainglorious frontal assaults, the Thousand Sons Legion, and indeed their Primarch, had long acknowledged the usefulness of the unliving might of battle-automata as obedient, resilient and ultimately expendable shock assault units. As with every other facet of warfare, the use of such battle-automata was something the Thousand Sons believed they could improve upon with the application of their psychic arts as a method of control and perhaps direct augmentation, freeing them potentially from the need for the techno-arcane lore of the Mechanicum to be directly called up in these machines’ construction and fielding. That such research had long been considered a ‘heretek anathema’ to the Mechanicum was a factor ignored, as was so much else in the Thousand Sons’ hubris, and with the secret assistance of nearrenegade elements from the isolated Forge World of Zhao-Arkhad, their early experiments had yielded fruit in the form of a custom-designed Castellax variant of their own specifications in the last years before their censure, a fact that came as a deadly shock to their attackers as Prospero fell.