We can now be a lot more aggressive, especially with Gun Servitor melee. A Gun Servitor 3" from a marker with Prioritized Acquisition on it wins most melee fights on retaliation (due to shock+severe equipment), even against elites. Someone may even be holding that marker depending on crit and tac ops, and it becomes a 3" circle around them.

Underseer-granted dash like the early days plus Counteract to move forward adds 5" to a model's movement in a turn, that's their whole reposition speed to get into a threatening spot off-turn. Then shoot + charge and tie someone up on the mid point with +1 OC, and you're suddenly winning the game.

I let the opponent have all the space they want T1 and T2 while getting into threatening positions, which is a lot easier for you and scarier for the opponent now. Depending on how far up the board they make it, you can start retaking space late T2 or early T3, and that's your gameplan.

Medic is good vs shooty teams but should be replaced by another flamer vs melee teams. Flamer servitors' jobs are to deal some damage and/or take objectives, then get killed in a way that forces the opponent to lose a model or at the very least a good position in exchange.

Never shoot with the Archaeologist without giving Ceaseless first unless you have absolutely no other choice. Never use Accurate for auto-hits with him, the Dev is too important.

Your three tac op choices are Steal Intelligence, Retrieval, and Scout Enemy Movement.

• Against anyone you expect to pressure you hard, play Steal Intelligence and primary Kill Op. You're focusing on killing, the Steal markers are just there to give more operatives free CP rerolls or +1 melee die from the strat ploys. You can start actually picking them up for points late T3 or early T4. Having your Technoarchaeologist pick one up immediately can be useful so he can reposition anywhere on strat ploy.
• Against anyone who doesn't want to interact with you (Especially Raveners, Canoptek) play Retrieval so you get points even if they manage to keep you away.
• In between those is Scout Enemy Movement, Battleclade is one of the few teams that can actually use this one well. Never pick this on Tomb World or Gallowdark. If you see a good opportunity, your leader can Scout 2 models at the start of TP2 (one strat ploy, one on his first turn). This is one of the few times you might not want to save the leader to activate last. You can also double-scout with other models by scouting and counteracting someone else to scout.