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

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The six sprues in this set cover a total of 134 plastic pieces. Every sprue is included once, besides the one covering the parts of the octagonal design is in there twice. How utterly incredible is the Triumph of Saint Katherine?! Whether you’re a painter looking for your next centrepiece project or a gamer in search of a powerful lynchpin around which to form your army (or both!), look no further than this stunning centrepiece. You won’t even have long to wait – you’ll be able to get ahold of all of these stunning new units early next year. The Acts of Faith special rule is one of the most powerful in the game, giving you access to a pool of pre-rolled dice that you can use instead of making a roll once per phase. Access to this ability is based on whether the rule appears on a unit’s datasheet, which it does for every Adepta Sororitas unit except Mortifiers and also on the Crusaders datasheet. Miracle Dice A very important thing to bear in mind as an implication of this is that whenever you lose any models in a unit with AoF, roll the morale test! Normally people just shortcut and don’t bother rolling tests they can’t fail, but it still technically happens, and now gives you a free chance to earn a Miracle dice in the morale phase. It also makes pulling off a wrap/trap/kill in the enemy fight phase extremely valuable as it earns you an extra die. Performing an Act of Faith

Battle Rites (1 CP): Select a Sacred Rite that is currently active and randomly roll a rite to replace it, re-rolling if that rite is currently active. Good if you find yourself having rolled for rites and ended up with a double, but with a couple of duds on the list (and some really good ones) rolling randomly is going to be very rare. C Censer of the Sacred Rose – Gives you 1 miracle dice at the start of each turn (yours and your opponent’s).

Sisters of Battle Exorcist

At 55pts, that sounds pretty decent, but unfortunately the FAQ about Foritification deployment kind of dealt this the kiss of death. It’s a fairly massive piece of terrain, and you have to deploy it >3″ away from any other terrain features (other than hills). On the smaller, denser tables that 9th encourages, this means you’re at real risk of not being able to deploy it at all in a lot of games, and won’t be able to put it anywhere useful in many others. It looks like the Battle Sanctum was indeed a terrain piece lying in wait. The key giveaways are that once it’s set up, it can’t move and you can throw Infantry dudes and dudettes inside to man the walls. It’s only Power Level 3, and it costs 50 points. Sisters of Battle Battle Sanctum While Bloody Rose gets the most use in competitive lists, Valorous Heart comes a close second (and is the default for shootier armies), and lists combining the two with each doing what they do best are pretty common. Our Martyred Lady You can tell that the Hospitaller had her cool little religious pendant in her hand changed some with her face fully open under her hood.

Righteous Rage – Your warlord can re-roll any or all dice of a charge, and whenever they charge or heroic intervention they re-roll wounds for that phase. Lets you build a serious murder machine with the Blade of Admonition or (especially) Beneficence, and frequently worth it on that basis. B+ Last but not least we have the pure army “Doctrine” style effect for the Sisters of Battle. As long as your whole army is Adepta Sororitas or Adeptus Ministorum (i.e. drawn from this book) units with the Sacred Rites ability (all SORORITAS units except mortifiers) gain a bonus. The possible exception to that is if you construct a list that only presents armoured hulls/vehicles to the enemy, which in concert with Mortifiers and Rhinos you can probably pull off. Saturating the board with Imagifier-protected tanks does plausibly start to look quite good. 9th does also incentivise you to include one unit that can safely sit on a home objective blasting away, and these aren’t awful in that role, but most players are just using Mortifiers for that. When re-rolling a dice roll, no new Miracle dice may be used and the number and values of any Miracle dice that have already been subbed in the dice roll remain the same for the re-roll (i.e. you can’t re-roll the Miracle dice if you suddenly decide you don’t like the result). First seen with a Bane-type mask and special Sororitas object in her right hand, it looks like the model was tweaked once more and painted up.This ability is common to almost all ADEPTA SORORITAS units in the army except Mortifiers. Models with this ability get a 6+ invulnerable save. In addition, one model in the unit can attempt to Deny the Witch once per turn, but the roll is taken on 1D6. A Miracle dice is not a modifier, so the result counts as an “unmodified” roll of the number showing you selected if that’s relevant. Finally among the sometimes-valid ones, Aegis of the Emperor is very good in the right matchups, and feels like a strong consideration if you’re up some of the popular Daemon lists or a soon-to-be-unfortunate Grey Knights player. The basic 1d6 Shield of Faith deny will rarely do much by itself, but adding this makes it much more likely to actually help, and makes life tough for armies trading off smite spam. The incoming multipart Seraphim combine the dynamic airborne poses you’d expect with a swath of optional extras. Of course, the holy trinity of bolter, flamer and melta is represented, as is a brand-new kit option – the elite combat-specialists of the Zephyrim. Sisters have had so much love put into them, each model looks like it could be a character in their own right.

Imagifier [3 PL, 45pts, -2CP]: Heroine in the Making, Relic: Book of St. Lucius, Tale of the Stoic, Tale of the Warrior, Venerated Saint, Warlord Trait: 5. Indomitable Belief Acts of Faith (AoF) run off Miracle dice. As long as your army contains at least one unit with the ability, you gain them in the following ways: Death Cult Assassins getting the nod as the latest “bad” unit to be kind of worth it for Action/objective purposes. The last bits for the statue are the wings and the halo. Depending on your gaming needs, you might want to magnetize the wings or even leave them off, if you intend to travel with your terrain. Otherwise, add them as they make for a great and impressive pose. giveth and 9th taketh away. Compared to many Fortifications breaks the mold by at least being sort of useful, and slotting a Fortification Network into your army is way less of a challenge in 9th. In terms of rules it’s 55pts for a piece of area terrain with ruin traits that you can place, and additionally, if any MINISTORUM (not just SORORITAS) units are within 6” at the start of each battle round you generate a miracle die. Ministorum units within 6” also get +1 Ld, Chaos units get -1 Ld.Here you can see her scale better compared to the rank and file sisters. Junith Eruita on the Pulpit of Doom Exorcists are fine, but like a lot of previously strong vehicles they suffer a bit from how pushed infantry alternatives (in this case Retributors) are in 9th. Their main missiles are pretty indimidating, firing 3d3 S8 AP-3 d6 damage shots, and they have an appealing T8, but they run you 195pts and don’t quite line up against Retributor squads with extra bodies at that price. They’re far from a bad unit (especially as Valorous Heart with an Imagifier), and 9th letting them move and shoot without penalty is a nice upside, so you do see them played, but in a reverse of our previous edition advice, you should probably buy yourself some Retributors first.