House Shyeel Arcanists

House Shyeel is best known for its feats of ingenuity in the engineering and production of myrmidons. Unlike other arcane mechanics in the service of the Retribution, Shyeel arcanists are equipped to wade into battle to return impaired myrmidons to the fight. These arcanists train to master both the arcane arts and the practical skills necessary to repair the damaged mechanisms of a myrmidon under fire, manipulating kinetic force for both offense and defense.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Force Barrier
• Template:Repair
• Template:Magic Ability

Weapons

• Multi-Tool - 0.5" reach, P+S 9 melee weapon

Spells

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Weapon Attachment

House Shyeel Arcanists may have a Soulless Escort added to them. His info has been omitted from this article for brevity.

Theme Forces

• Template:Forges of War

Thoughts on House Shyeel Arcanists

House Shyeel Arcanists in a nutshell

A small unit of mechanics who primarily give focus to your jacks. Though the same cost as 3 Arcanist solos they are far more resistant to being killed at range, and are immune to blasts - something that is commonly used to dispatch elusive, but squishy support models. You can also still take the Arcanist solos making them a great bonus if you are running jack heavy.

Combos & Synergies

• Adeptis Rahn - On Feat turn you can get some good use out of their offensive spell.
• Any caster who wants to run their jacks well but still cast spells to.
  • Special mention for Vyros2 who is known for being thoroughly focus strapped. Forges of War theme benefit, the usual gaggle of Griffons and the addition of one or two units of House Shyeel Arcanists along with Arcanist Mechaniks means that V2 rarely, if ever, needs to worry about allocation.
• Arcanist Mechanik - a fair work union; he provides Concentrated Power, while the unit handles out Empower. Or, take the Empower to eleven and max FA of both solo and unit means an additional 9 focus to add to whatever Power Up generated... that's a lot of focus that could make even Convergence of Cyriss jealous, though it is quite points intensive (a rather whopping 20pts all told, but functional lists do exist with this combo).
• House Shyeel Magister - should they be in melee or casting spells? Ideally no, but if there is nothing to repair he will grant veteran leader.
• Helios - You can empower it and it can then pass the focus over to other jacks, or you can fill it back up after is topped off other jacks in range.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• They cost the same as 3 Arcanist solos who do the same job but can spread out more.
• Even with blast immunity, they can still be easily killed by auto-hitting things - most notably collateral damage, continuous effects and electro leaps.
• Because of their cost and function and the reasoning of Concentrated Power for bringing 1/2 Arcanist Solos, there's a fear of support bloat depending on what other solos are taken (i.e. House Shyeel Artificers, Sylys Wyshnalyrr or the Merc/Minion of choice) even if they may be free. There's sometimes a chance of either wasting focus, or overcommitting battlegroup models fuelled up simply because they have the focus to attempt things they otherwise wouldn't.

Tricks & Tips

• Remember, they're not solos; you'll need them to be in formation to be useful.
• Also don't forget to note that Empower is based on CMD RNG, not any arbitrary range, so their Empower has a slightly wider range of effect than the Arcanist solo's.
• Though primarily there to give your jacks focus, don't be afraid to use their offensive spell, especially when Rahn feats.
• 2 giving focus and 1 fixing will run a full jack for your caster quite well.
• Scale your repair needs. Considering the worst scenario, 1 can repair 2 crippled systems on your jack. The AFG is also a fine target for repairing, considering that it is especially well defended against ranged attacks.

Other

Trivia

• Released 2017.04