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

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These simply set out some basics for army construction; the Decree Passive restricts you to one CANONESS and one MISSIONARY per Detachment, and stops you having more CULT IMPERIALIS PRIEST than ADEPTA SORORITAS CHARACTERS in a single detachment. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A reasonably substantial buff from the prior book, where this was re-roll 1s to hit – +1 to wound is a much less common effect in this army.

Either is a fine pick, and the new way that the Ecclesiarchy Battle Conclave rule works means that you’ll sometimes end up taking one of each. Celestine gets a significant revamp, being re-focused squarely towards a brawling role rather than a buff unit.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 Blessings of Sebastian Thor grant 2 sacred rites to the bearer’s unit instead of 1, while the Simulacrum Sanctorum imitates the Venerated Saint stratagem from the previous codex. Stern and her Harlequin bodyguard form a unit of two models, with wounds first being applied to the Aeldari. There are six generic Warlord Traits in the new Codex and most of them have changed slightly from the previous edition.

Costing only 1CP you choose an Adepta Sororitas Warlord, Saint Potentia or Living Saint to become a Suffering unit. The first is a generic ability that the character gains, such as adding 1 to the Strength and Damage characteristics of that character’s melee weapons in the case of “Rapturous Blows” or allowing the character to force an enemy unit within 3″ to fight last in the case of “Word of the Emperor”. Replaces a condemnor boltgun with one where the stake mode that has a bonus point of AP and does a flat 3 mortal wounds to psykers instead of the normal d3.There’s also an apparent typo in their points as things stand, which claims they’re 240pts per model on a fixed unit of 3.

There’s a mix here of buffs and nerfs; Wrath of the Emperor goes down to AP-1 and Litanies of Faith becomes once per battle round instead of once per turn, but the Iron Surplice now gives +1 wound on top of its previous effect.

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. There’s also a few more bits of Keyword admin – the OUTCAST and SANCTIFIED keywords are two flavours of the standard “can go in any detachment without breaking it”, while CULT IMPERIALIS is the keyword for all the MInistorum stuff in the book, and can be included in a detachment without stopping it being an ADEPTA SORORITAS detachment (as can Agents of the Imperium). The paired Miraculous ability makes it so that a CORE or CHARACTER unit in range can an enemy unit’s Leadership by 1 for each model they destroy with a ranged attack, to a maximum of -3.

On some maps there’s still value there, as if you’ve built a steamroller of a list that wants to surge towards one objective then hold it tight, this lets you focus on that to the exclusion of most other things and still pick up a 15 as long as you’re in position by the end of your second turn. Which you take depends on what you think you need from your chaff – Crusaders are a bit tougher at a 3+/4++, but Assassins now always fight first and have gone to WS2+, giving them at least some chance of punking an enemy trash unit. That’s obviously instead of a (pricy) fight twice, but lasting till the end of a phase wasn’t really this unit’s speciality. 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. These Aura effects include things like preventing enemy units from using invulnerable saves to preventing enemy units from benefitting from any re-rolls.She no longer has the RR1 wound aura (though keeps the hit re-rolls you’d expect of a Canoness) and her defensive aura has changed, in line with a general move away from invuln stacking.