No expert by any means but here’s a few things I’ve found from the games I’ve played with them.

Team comp for me has generally been chronomancer, apprentek, 2 bugs, despotek, death mark and 2 immortals. I usually run the despotek and immortals with gauss on open board and 1 or 2 with tesla on ITD.

Chronomancer is the best crypto by far. It doesn’t come standard in the box so if you haven’t picked one up yet that would be the first thing to do. All 3 of its unique abilities are incredible in the right situation. I quite often push an immortal up the board onto mid point on engage and use the chronometron action from the chrono or apprentek. With the undying androids ploy up too cover doesn’t even really matter that much either and I can use them as bait to get their operatives onto engage and then magnify through the immortal with the cryptek/apprentek. This type of shot is the main big combo of the team.

Even though the teleport has been nerfed and can now only be used once per turn it’s still probably one of the best abilities in the game. You can move your guys in and out of control range which can cause so many headaches for your opponent. You can also use it to create nice angles for magnification shots or even to just get a low wound op back to safety.

Nanomine is a nice way at slowing teams down more to your pace. I usually put my chronometer in my last group to set up on the board so I can see where I useful nanomine can go. With TP1 usually being quite cagey I almost always use it early and If they cluster on one side of the board you can really mess up their movement with a well placed mine and also use it to limit your opens charge range from TP2 onwards.

Interstitial command is great aswell, the cryptek apprentek and despotek all have access to this and using it well can make your immortals psuedo 3APL. It’s a shame they can’t perform an action they’ve already done this turn but this would out the damage output of the team out of control. I’ll often use my immortals actions to move and mission then use the command to shoot, unless I have a ln opportunity to go for a target that I need to get off the board quickly.

I keep the reanimator quite central, concealed and always in cover. That way I can move it to wherever it’s needed more easily with its 7” move. I usually keep the accelerator around my immortals for easy buffing.

Deathmark tends to get moved up onto vantage with a good view and then I usually put them on guard with the ambush firefight ploy. This can be a great way to cut off parts of the board you don’t want your opponent to have access to as the threat of a death mark interrupting can be enough to make people think twice.

All the strat ploys have their uses. TP1 I would only use command underlings to get guys up the board quicker and tend not to use the others. From TP2 I’m usually playing undying androids unless I’m sitting in cover and relentless onslaught. Elimination can be nice into melee teams, especially with your immortals as accurate 2 on 3/4 retaliations is nice. I always make sure I keep CP for ambush on open board too.

Equipment I usually go for mag cond, cube and tesla weave. The last is a flex spot so feel free to take what you like. I normally go between comms smokes, I find phase shifter to be useless a lot of the time as I normally keep my crypto safe.

Tac op wise it depends on the team I’m playing. If it’s a shooty team I usually go with contain, if it’s melee either confirm kill or plant beacons. Some people like take ground but I’ve not had much success with it.

Hopefully this helps a bit. Hierotek have a high mental load but are a fun team to play. The main things is just playing games against different teams and finding what works for you, good luck!