The Pteraxii equips light for the air. The Skystalker carries a flechette blaster and phosphor pistol for the strafing pass; the Sterylizor takes an incendine flamer and arc maul for the plunge into melee. Both wear protective robes and carry frag grenades. The list keeps the fighter fast and cheap, trading heavier arms for the freedom the jet-pack buys.
The Serberys equips for the mounted sweep. Raiders carry a galvanic carbine for fire on the move; Sulphurhounds take a phosphor pistol and close with arc maul or taser goad. Both wear protective robes and carry frag grenades. The list keeps the outrider quick and self-sufficient — a gun that never stops and a blade for the fighter it overruns.
The Servitor equips to a single task. It carries either a servo-arm for labour and crude melee or a mounted gun — an arc rifle or phosphor blaster — as a fixed weapon-construct, and wears only light robes. There is no choice to grow into: the Servitor is fitted for one purpose and left to it until it is destroyed and mended.
The Sicarian equips for the strike from ambush. Its signature arms are the transonic cutter and the toxin-slick chordclaw, with a transonic blade or arc pistol as alternates, worn over protective robes. Frag grenades cover the approach. The list is built around close, sudden lethality — the infiltrator arrives behind the line and finishes the exchange before the enemy can turn.
The Skitarii Gunner equips around its special weapon. Its centrepiece is the plasma caliver, with an arc rifle or incendine flamer as alternate special loads and a radium pistol as a sidearm, worn over protective robes. The list is a narrow one — the Gunner exists to carry the gunline's heavy punch and place it well, not to fill a second role.
The Skitarii Marksman equips for the single killing shot. It carries the transuranic arquebus and a radium pistol for defence, wears protective robes, and may add an auspex and a photo-visor to strip cover and steady its aim after taking Aim. Frag grenades are its only concession to a nearer fight. Everything on the list serves the long lane and the target already picked out.
The Skitarii Marshal equips as an officer of the line. It may take an arc maul in the melee, a radium or arc pistol as a sidearm and a galvanic rifle to hold the lane, wearing protective robes and carrying an auspex to strip an enemy's cover. Its signature item is the refractor stave-relay, the command-standard that widens its Doctrina aura and re-declares the doctrine mid-battle — the tool of the officer who sets the maniple's cant.
The Skitarii Ranger equips as the standard of the gunline. It carries a galvanic rifle for the long lane and a radium pistol as backup, wears protective robes, and may fit an augmetic limb to shrug off a crippling injury. Frag, krak and phosphor grenades give it an answer to armour and cover. It is a clean, disciplined list — a marksman's kit, with nothing wasted on the melee it hopes never to reach.
The Skitarii Vanguard equips for the advancing firefight. It carries a radium carbine for the rad-tainted volley and a taser goad for the fighter that closes on it, with a radium pistol and protective robes besides. Its signature option is a set of galvanic actuators, the limb-augment that sharpens its obedience to the Doctrina. Frag grenades complete a list built to close the range while still firing.
The Sydonian Dragoon equips as a walker built for one of two roles. As a Dragoon it couches the galvanic-cog taser lance for the charge; as an Ironstrider it mounts the autocannon to shell the line from range. Either way it may fit galvanic actuators to sharpen its Doctrina. Its armour and mount are the chassis itself; the choice is simply which weapon the walker carries to war.
As the maniple's Leader, the Tech-Priest Dominus draws on the deepest list. It may arm itself with an Omnissian axe or arc maul in the melee, a macrostubber or radium pistol as a sidearm, and take frag and krak grenades as it wills. Its signature protection is the refractor field, the invulnerable shroud that keeps the priest — and with it the liturgy — standing far longer than its rank alone would.
The Tech-Priest Enginseer equips as a wright first and a fighter second. It carries a servo-arm for its Rites and its blows, a macrostubber or arc rifle for ranged defence, and may take an Omnissian axe if it means to fight. Its heavy plating comes with the chassis. Frag grenades round out a list built to keep the maniple's machines standing rather than to lead the kill.
The Tech-Priest Manipulus equips as a specialist adept. It may carry a transonic blade or the heavier transonic cutter in the melee, a macrostubber or arc rifle at range, protective robes for cover and an auspex to mark a hidden foe. The list is that of a fighting priest who closes with a shearing edge while the litany runs, narrower than the Dominus but sharper in the specialist's hand.