nimal (But mostly tiger, since they get pounce meaning they are clearly better than the other options by a long mile). Bards, oddly enough, don't give out many morale bonuses, only the bonus against charm and fear, the late gained Inspire Heroics and some (good) spells are morale bonuses. This means they make pretty good bards if you use the Chronicler of Worlds (which replaces Inspire Heroics with a non-morale bonus effect) archetype to make an intelligence based Bard. Otherwise they make good Wizard, Magus and Witch as well as most skill monkey classes, especially so for child androids as they get all the benefits of small size with few of the drawbacks.
Examples of androids in Warhammer Fantasy and AOS
Examples of androids in Warhammer 40k
In the 40k lore, mankind once had to wage war against its mechanical creations, Terminator Judgement style but on steroids. After that, humanity is so paranoid of this happening again that they totally forbade the creation of AIs. They create human-like robots though, at least in the sense that their shape resembles a humanoid being. The best exampe of this are the titans, massive war machines that praise the holy human form by resembling the shape of a human (two arms, two legs, a head. That's it. So much for holy human form). In general, though, the Imperium relies much more on cyborgs, both in the way of servitors and the Adeptus Mechanicus. Chaos could in theory create some form of automata, but they rather make chaos s-THINGS! Yes!
Anyway... Outside of Mankind, the other factions that use their own shape to make artificial beings. In general, any faction that's vaguely humanoid builds constructs that resemble human forms. The best example of an android in the traditional sense are the Tau, who use massive amounts of robots and can create AIs good enough to pass as living, thinking beings. The Necrons are a particular case, due to the living Necrontyr used as a platform for the C'Tan to turn them into the mechanical Necrons. Due to this, they are technically neither cyborgs (they aren't living anymore)nor androids (they used to be alive, so they aren't fully artificially created). Automata would actually work closely with them, in the classic Graeco-Latin sense of the word. But I guess this is up to interpretation of what the Necrons actually are.
Famous examples of androids in popular culture
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (or Blade Runner, if you like films more). Humans create artificial humans as slaves, and after a revolt they hunt them all down. This is an interesting case because they are organic beings, but still artificially made, so the definition is just barely apt in this case.
- I, Robot. In the classic Isaac Asimov's short story, there are some robots that could be described as android.
- Metropolis. Mad science creates a robot that resembles a humble woman to bring chaos and ruin to the city.
- The day the Earth stood still. An alien brings a doomsday machine in the form of a human to "peacefully" stop all wars on Earth.
- Terminator. Machines rise against humanity, using human-like assassins to kill the remaining human beings.
- Marvel Comics. Characters like Vision or Ultron are thinking robots in human-like form.
- Megaman. The saga of a little blue android fighting other robots to keep the peace in the world.
- NieR Automata. Cute android fighting other androids not as cute.
- Astro Boy. One of the most important works in manga history, it tells the adventures of a little android that gets adopted after its original creator abandons him.
- Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Second and science officer of both the Enterprise D and E. Throughout the series and movies he displays feats of both superhuman speed and strength, such as dodging a mining laser and fighting the Borg in hand to hand combat.
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