Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Adepta Sororitas Battle Sanctum

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Add a brazier of holy flame (once per battle mortal wound overwatch) or a null rod (can’t be affected by psychic powers and -1 to enemy casts within 18″) Looks like the codex in the Army Box was the collector’s edition- bonus! Sisters Wave 1 Release: Dice & Datacards Blade of Admonition: Replaces a Blessed Blade, S+2 AP-3 D3 . Perfectly decent, but not that much of an upgrade over the basic blade. B

Painted up with Contrast paints or washes you could emulate the look of stained glass on this! Sisters of Battle Exorcist Special equipment and the Deadly Descent stratagem push them considerably beyond that. Two models in the squad can swap to either inferno pistols or hand flamers, and both options have some serious attractions, giving you some spike damage out of deserves against targets of various sizes. The melta option has always been good, but the extra range on hand flamers in the new edition leaves them looking really pushed – because Descent lets them effectively shoot twice, you can squeeze 8d6 flamer shots out of your 83pt squad, and have those at AP-1 if you’re in the Rose. Stapling that kind of threat onto a unit that is already kind of fine just for objective play is an exceptionally good deal, and the fact that you can use Descent to remove enemy screeners to open up your other deep strikes is just gravy. These are a good unit with multiple valid builds, and see lots of play as a result. Dominions And we have a few spare parts on hand to further toy around with after we've completed the Battle Sanctum. You remember the blind we had to cut off from one of the wall sprues? That comes in handy, if you want to cover the sides, or maybe the lower blind of the balcony.We had seen these Images of new Sororitas units. Now we have a closer look at the painted and unpainted versions of them as well! The Bloody Rose have proven themselves to be the strongest of the Sororitas subfactions. The gap between them and the other options has closed quite a bit in the move from 8th to 9th, but that’s very much because of the other factions getting better rather than the Bloody Rose getting worse. Great Board Presence: Sisters have a wide variety of infantry options, pretty much all of which are sturdy and competitively priced, letting them control the board and objectives very effectively If every model in an INFANTRY unit is on or in an Area Terrain feature with this trait, then it can either Hold Steady or it can Set to Defend (see below) when an enemy unit declares a charge against it.

While reliable shooting is cool, the most effective use of these is definitely on things that provide a straight binary success/failure, most notably on pulling off 9″ Zephyrim and Repentia charges from Deep Strike or Strategic Reserves, or firing the latter a long way across the board with a maxed out advance which they can follow up wtih a charge thanks to Holy Rage. The additional consistency with which you can deploy these two units is a big contributor to their effectiveness, and the fact that they can do this is critical for those playing against the Sororitas to bear in mind. If you don’t take a brazier or null rod, swap the chainsword for a power sword or blessed blade (d3 damage S5 power sword) Warlord Trait – Terrible Knowledge: Your first free start of the round Miracle dice of the game is an automatic 6, and you gain d3 CP. This gets quite a bit more useful in 9th than it once was – most of the Ecclesiarchy weirdos are kind of terrible, but Death Cult Assassins are seeing use as random objective/Action dorks, and being able to squeeze them into a patrol without using slots is genuinely helpful in some lists. Sacred Rites

Penitent Engines

St. Katherine is coming on two “squad-sized” sprues, and mounts on a custom textured base that appears to be the 120mm large oval. To be sentenced to arco-flagellation is to become little more than a weaponised, utterly berserk killer. Over the course of a long, painful process, the convict’s mind is wiped, replaced only with an uncontrollable urge to mete out violent destruction upon their prey.

The generic relics are one of the few places in this book where things end up a bit mediocre, and even here you have several strong ones. The Book of St. Lucius makes it into almost every army, and the Litanies of Faith are always going to add value if you take them. Why there needed to be three different irrelevant defensive boosts for Canonesses will remain a mystery for the ages. Units Desperate for Redemption (3 CP): Sisters lost their fight twice Act of Faith, so now they have the run of the mill 3CP fight twice but with limitations; in this case it only works on Repentia, Penitent Engines and Mortifiers. The price on this is very steep sufficient that you should be aiming to avoid needing to use this, and Repentia and Mortifiers both have a habit of killing most of their targets with one swing, and often die if they fail. Still OK sometimes. B Actually thats not a terrible idea. Its printing money! Why aren't they making them? Those new little bunkers are cute and all but they aren't as grand as those cool marine statues! Or even those weird buttresses with little statues on top. Really they should be showering us with that terrain. I'll buy it. And I'm a woman with at least 5 full tables of terrain at home, 2 of them Imperialis! Here is an assembled Rhino with what looks to be pre-production resin casts, that was on display along with its plastic upgrade sprue.These aren’t as powerful as Doctrines so it’s not as important to keep the army pure in the abstract, but they’re certainly still good and the first on the list, Hand of the Emperor, means that melee strategies gain a lot from this being active. Brutal melee threats pulling off improbably long charges out of Strategic Reserves or Deep Strike is a massive headache for your opponent to have to work around, and adding 1 to your “rolls” lets you pull this off with weaker dice from your Miracle pool. Higher mobility across the board is also just generically great.

Shane’s build brings brutal melee board control to the table, passing up on Mortifiers and Exorcists to go for a full-blown infantry horde list, with just a single Rhino and a Battle Sanctum breaking up the serried ranks of Bloody Rose Sisters.You roll an unmodified 1 for a Morale test taken for a unit with the AoF ability (without performing an AoF to do so)