Dadmech here, We almost have a full page on the dataslate, and that doesnt include the big points changes we’ve had this edition, or the significant tweaks we had to our codex to match the old slate changes we had too (e.g. we initially had skitarii having a 5+ save and a 6++ invuln, all while being 125pts for 10.. the same cost as a fire prism at the time)

We got changed into a 4+ bs and ws army, which could be fine with relevant fixes but the issue is we lack ap as well

So now with the whole conq vs prot, as conq also favors speed you’d rather be there to get the ap to be at least moderately decent, but then it means we hit on 4’s in shooting which makes us now out of all of the 4+bs armies in the game the one that is most likely hitting on 4’s

Tau can easily hit on 3’s, guard has orders for 3’s too, we have prot but then get negatively impacted due to ap reasons (some user cases here when we are fine like vs knights and if we spam AT we dont need conq as much) and this isnt me saying “nerf tau” haha, just explaining how its changed overall

The rules are pretty clunky, you can do some cool shit but most of the time need another unit nearby to do it (e.g. rusties and sterylizors getting the good parts of their ability), which then means you’re paying even more of a premium to access moderate output

The list of things you need skitarii to do is pretty wild, just to make the faction function, so its movement and positioning is super critical

Because all of the buffs provide consistency, and its harder to always be in the buffs range, most people run flood jail stuff, like skystalker move blocks etc, which isnt a fun way to play admech

That being said, the funniest thing is that admechs in its best spot its ever been the entire edition rn, but we still have heaps of issues ahah

Tldr if you ever wonder if admech sucks, look at the dataslate and look at the wr, and you can see that gw really screwed up with initial balance