Games Workshop Warhammer 40k - Codex V.9 Adepta Sororitas (En) [Personal Computers]

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You gain 3pts at the end of your turn if you control this marker, and an additional 3pts if you control it at the end of the battle. If, for some reason, you feel a chain-flamer wielding zealot fits your Sororitas theme better than the extremely antiquated metal models you can definitely pick this up, and loaded this way she’s surprisingly deadly for 30pts. It now provides Light Cover to Adepta Sororitas units wholly within 6”, which is not nothing for Paragons or Sacresants (and there isn’t really any other source of this in the book), but is a bit of a pain to keep set up and impractical on larger units.

We’ve got Codex Grey Knights and Thousand Sons on the horizon (and the Craftworlders themselves will make an appearance at some point I’m sure) so having a 1/6 chance (1/5 with the appropriate Sacred Rite) of preventing anyPsychic power with all of your Sisters of Battle units will be a great help.

Inspiring Orator has also gotten some boosts, which gives +3” to hymns or Command abilities, and also grants an aura that allows CORE units within 6” to ignore the Combat Attrition penalty for being below Half Strength. The other thing might be to use this against the upcoming T5 Ork Boyz, but bear in mind that if you try and do that confusing things around slow rolling start happening, as the enemy can prioritise pulling models from the (small) radius. Sanguinius faced Fulgrim and won, Dorn charged Horus Ascended…and soon regretted it whilst Sigismund took not one, but two heads (Eidolon and Abaddon).

She’s thus very far from idle even when she hasn’t hit melee yet, and is extremely good once she does. Coming after Celestine with anything less than overwhelming force probably isn’t going to stick, and watching the light die in your opponent’s eyes as you undo 3VP of Assassinate scoring on turn 5 is probably quite good fun. Besides those this is a fairly thin section of the rules though – Beacon of Faith takes a massive nerf, generating one Miracle dice which can only be used by your Warlord and which also disappears if not used, while Executioner of Heretics is still worthless. It didn’t get much better from there, with a long drought punctuated by White Dwarf and digital-only rules, and absolutely no changes to their model range even as other armies neared the 100% plastic mark. Suffering and Sacrifice allows you to force an enemy unit to direct all of its attacks against a specific target.

This is really good on the Sacresants in particular, and is likely to help push them into a lot of lists.

Notably, you now only get an additional Miracle dice from it each Battle Round rather than each turn, and the ability to perform an extra Act of Faith is gone, replaced by the rather less potent ability for the Triumph itself to always count as having all six Sacred Rites active. No longer allows all units within 6″ to re-roll hits and wounds, instead can choose a Core or Character unit within 6″ to re-roll hits. They now function as a unit of two models on the battlefield, with a special rule that means Kyganil always has to take wounds first, and essentially that unit has all the special abilities each had separately before combined plus a key boost for each of offense and defence. Better internal balance: Coming on the heels of the Vahl comment above this might appear contradictory, but it’s still true. Pure of Will is very similar as well, but now adds 3 to Deny the Witch tests rather than subtracting 1 from enemy casting attempts.She’s probably the standout but is also the most expensive, and one of the low-key best design achievements in this book is that you can genuinely imagine taking any of these three units in the right list – no mean feat for direct competitors in the same slot. With basic Battle Sister squads going up to a maximum of 20 models in this book (yes, really, check out the Units section below), this is a potentially powerful option for shoving a brick of Sisters onto an objective and giving your opponent a significant headache when trying to remove them.