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!

In this series, I will review one unit at a time, picking them randomly.

So let me spin the wheel again and see what I get:

Adeptus Mechanicus, Belisarius Cawl

10th Edition Codex

Belisarius Cawl is an Archmagos of the Adeptus Mechanicus, he is a ranked as a Dominatus Dominus, one of the few of this rank on Mars. Second only to Oud Oudia Raskian, the Fabricator General of Mars who is one of the High Lords of Terra.

On the Battlefield, there is no-one higher in rank from the Mechanicus than Cawl as the Fabricator General is something like a building...

Cawl himself has also left much of his humanity behind. He counts as a Monster in game for purposes of movement. The little bits of organic parts he has left are nestled amongst masses of cybernetics and robotic components.

He is worth 150pts... let's see what you get for this value!

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 8 (Super tough! Like Castra Ferrum Dreadnought level Toughness)
Save 2+/4++(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 10
Ld 6+
OC 3

Weapons

Ranged:
Solar atomiser
18" Range D3 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S14, AP-4 and 3 Damage Each with the Blast Rule and Melta D3

This is a mean gun, with a medium range. S14 means easy wounds on most heavy vehicles. D3 shots against a single target or against a squad the Blast rule will give you +1 shot per 5 enemy models rounding down.
AP-4 means that even a 2+ save is reduced to 6+.

Melta D3 means you roll a D3 and add it to the 3 Damage per shot when in half range of 9". Ouch!

Melee:

Bellisarius is actually a bit of a menace in combat. He has his main axe attacks and then Extra Attack profiles meaning ALL of them hit, you don't have to choose. So big or small targets or in combat with both, he can split the appropriate attacks to the relevant targets.

Cawl’s Omnissian axe
4 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S8, AP-2 and 2 Damage These are pretty much Space Marine Power Fist attacks.

Mechadendrite hive
2D6 Attacks (randomly between 2 and 12 strikes), Hitting on 3+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each. Extra Attacks

Arc scourge
4 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S5, AP-1 and 1 Damage .Extra Attacks, Anti-Vehicle 4+ and Devastating Wounds.

This means the Arc scourge will Critical Wound a Vehicle on a 4+ and the damage ignores armor and invul saves with Devastating Wounds. The attacks need 6s to wound non-vehicles for Devastating Wounds.

Scary set of attacks that could deal a fair amount of damage to most non-combat elites, definitely will put a dent in a vehicle!

Abilities

Self-repair Mechanisms

In the Command Phase, Cawl regenerates D3 lost Wounds.

Mechanicus Bodyguard

Though he is a Monster type, when Cawl is within 3" of friendly Adeptus Mechanicus units, he gains Lone Operative. This means that you cannot select him as a target for shooting if you are more than 12" away.

Canticles of the Omnissiah
Finally, Belisarius has the Canticles ability which is the same as Magnus the Red and Abbadon the Despoiler in that he chooses one of three abilities at the start of the Battle Round and that ability stays active till the next battle round!

The Canticles of the Omnissiah are:
Shroudpsalm (Aura)
Friendly Ad Mech units within 6" have Benefit of Cover. So you take Cover with you!

Mantra of Discipline (Aura)
Friendly Ad Mech units within 6" add +1 to leadership tests and Battle Shock tests!

Invocation of Machine Vengeance (Aura)
Friendly Ad Mech units within 6" re-roll to Hit rolls of 1.

Overall, Cawl's attacks are fair for his points, his toughness and defensive rules are great for what he does. I feel that Invocation of Machine Vengeance would be great when paired up with certain units that maybe cannot get the same sort of buff in another way.

I will need to review more Mechanicus units to see!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Alphabetical List

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Knights	War Dog Brigands	#30
Chaos Knights	War Dog Executioners	#31
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
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
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
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	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Knights	Armiger Helverin	#22
Imperial Knights	Armiger Warglaive	#43
Leages of Votann	Brôkhyr Iron-master	#27
Leages of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leages of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18