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A great bread and butter trait which lets you kick off the game with a good Miracle dice in hand, and keep up generating a steady stream of Command Points. It’s Stratagem remains the same however the Warlord Trait “Impervious To Pain” now also heals the Warlord each time it performs an Act of Faith. First and probably most importantly if you are a current Sisters player – Embodied Prophecy, Holy Rage, and Deadly Descent have all taken substantial changes, and Storm of Retribution is completely gone.
Potentially spicy stuff, though possibly a little hard to set up – though you get your own turn’s worth of movement and fighting to get in place for it.Sacred Grounds – Shadow Operations: One ADEPTA SORORITAS INFANTRY or CULT IMPERIALIS PRIEST unit can perform the Sacred Grounds action each turn, starting at the end of your Movement phase and finishing at the end of your next Command phase (or the end of the battle), assuming they’re in range of an objective marker you haven’t already consecrated, and there are no enemy units in range. A Leap of Faith is a “No Mercy, No Respite” secondary that rewards up to 12 points for simply using Acts of Faith in either yours or your opponent’s turn. The book was pretty good, too, firmly pushing itself into the top tier in late 8th and early 9th edition.
A Leap of Faith is probably whatever; it’s not that complex to score but capping at 12 gives it fairly low upside, and it incentivises you to play weirdly just to score it.Being able to pack more special weapons on small squads compared to regular Sisters gives them a little bit of a niche, but they’re also in competition with the improved Dominions for your points, and that sadly means they move back in the queue, despite their impressive hats. A decent trait, allowing your Warlord to make the most of any Acts of Faith they utilise themselves, and giving your units room to disengage and shoot – helpful for untangling from melee if necessary.
Attack and Advance and charge – a great trait to give a melee Canoness a little more juice, such as one wielding the Blade of Saint Ellynor or Beneficence. While only being able to go to a 5++ for most things is weaker, you’re definitely still going to want this in many armies. Once you hit ten models it’s either one special and one heavy or two specials, and if you take 20 models that doubles up.Now, just over 18 months later the Sisters of Battle are back with a brand new Codex, new models and a fantastic set of Crusade rules.
The “Faith Is Our Shield” Stratagem has also been improved, now granting a 4+ save against mortal wounds! This is even more powerful when combined with the new Aegis of the Emperor sacred rite, which changes this to an unmodified 5+. This appears to be an attempt to support the incredibly awesome Pious Vorne Blackstone Fortress model.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. Merely ok – too often you’re just not going to really change any maths with this, but it’s nice that it now reaches out to 3″ so that you can leverage it during shooting. We start with the new Sister on the block, High Lord of Terra and Supreme Commander of the Adepta Sororitas Morvenn Vahl herself – and readers, she is off the charts good. There’s 6 of these on offer, with the cheapest being Divine Deliverance at 15pts, while Word of the Emperor is the most expensive at 40pts. Their Conviction continues to allow units to count as remaining stationary but now also grants a single re-roll of either a hit or wound roll when a unit attacks.
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