My big problem with the Mechanos has always been their lore: to the right the Mercurians and Infernals are punching each other in the face, to the left the four horsemen of the apocalypse are riding about killing all the elves while the world slowly slides into a physical hell plane, behind a dead ancient wizard is trying to take over the underworld in a coup de'tat while souls are casually walking out of it and rebuilding their long-lost civilizations, in front sun-worshiping vampires are duking it out with the reborn god of winter, and the Mechanos stand there in the center of it all clenching their fedoras and insisting that religion is delusion.
Frankly their lore looks like a bad Chinese knockoff of the Grigori, and I'd much prefer it if they were either removed from the already-sizable list of civilizations that can't adopt state religions or at least had their secularism refluffed as freedom of religion. But that's just my personal tastes, obviously, and has little bearing on their gameplay itself, which I haven't looked at.
Frankly their lore looks like a bad Chinese knockoff of the Grigori, and I'd much prefer it if they were either removed from the already-sizable list of civilizations that can't adopt state religions or at least had their secularism refluffed as freedom of religion. But that's just my personal tastes, obviously, and has little bearing on their gameplay itself, which I haven't looked at.