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I've been considering makeing a Sisters of Battle army and liked the look and concept behind the Sisters Repentia. However thier 3 toughness and the fact that they always have bottom of the inititive scare me a little. I would be greatful for some adive on how to use them efftively.

Cities of Death is the only situation I can think of. Otherwise, their lack of a save makes them easy meat.

Not even cities of death are they any good....

killteam...even then...just for looks.

Posted By Pariah Lord on 11/03/2006 10:46 PM

 I would be greatful for some adive on how to use them efftively.

Paint them up very nicely and hope that you win best army.

Use them as chainsaw weilders in a nice horde of zealots.

Posted By bigchris1313 on 11/05/2006 11:57 AM

Posted By Pariah Lord on 11/03/2006 10:46 PM

 I would be greatful for some adive on how to use them efftively.

Paint them up very nicely and hope that you win best army.

Why did you say that? Now EVERYONE will do it!

He asked for advice on how to make Repentia useful. The only other way is to not buy them, which saves you money.

Run them into enemy armor or CC units who would normally go first in CC anyway.

Yes, they're toughness 3, but they're also strength 6 with power weapons and effectively fearless. I'm a tyranid player and I made the poor choice of deepstriking my Trygon into Sisters Repentia. Sure, I killed about 5 of them, but they raped me by the second assault round.

Wayfarer is correct above. Most SoB armies are shooty. The Sisters Repentia are very powerful if you play to their strengths.

I have never seem them work for anyone. One of the worst units in SoB army.

I tried very hard to make them work, but it is too costly for such a fragile unit. Pity, the models are very nice...

ForceVoid

Sisters Repentia:

toughness 3

4+ armor save

Moves 6 assaults 6

1 base attack, 2 on the charge

eviserator, so strength 6, going at initiative 1

for 20 points.

Really, it seems to me that these girls are waaaay too overpriced to be usefull as an assault element unless they're lucky enough to run into something really juicy like a squad of terminators or a dreadnought or something.

I'm no Sisters player, but I just can't see how Repentia can be made to work... I mean, people complain about Arco Flagellants too, but I've at least seen those tear things up fairly often when they're used... They're just so random. Repentia,on the other hand, I can't really see any up side at all.

No, their not.

Their T3, SV4+ models that strike last with one attack at 20pts a model. A squad of 10 is oevr 200pts.....oh and did I mention they always have to move closer to the enemy?

You can field better options for 200pt unit...

Untill the SoB get a revision the SR are pretty damn useless. You can try many things, it's gonna take a very creative player to use them sucessfully.

Posted By Ferro on 12/08/2006 9:32 AM
Yes, they're toughness 3, but they're also strength 6 with power weapons and effectively fearless.

They're also swinging last, so the few models that make combat will see their numbers further reduced before they can even swing.

Repentia are a bad choice...

BYE

It really depends on what you think you'll be facing in combat. They can be quite good for a counter charge. Marines and such will always have higher initiative, and for me its worth it to lose 4 or 5 if I can wipe out a tooled enemy assault of vehicle unit. I've also used arcos, but I don't like how unreliable they can be and that they can die because of their own augentations. The repentia get the holy rage roll and stick them with a priest and you have significantly improved your chances for carnage. Lets be frank, every assault unit the sisters have are fragile in one way or another. They're not supposed to excell in combat, and units like repentia, arcos and penitent engines are as much fluff flavour if not more so than viability. Now I'm not saying they're easy to use, far from it but with a bit of finesse they can smash anything big and scary your sisters might fear excepting hords of course. I like the penitents more than repentia, but thats one less exorcist. I the repentia in my 2000 pt Black Templar army. A priest with an eviscerator leading 12 repentia and a mistress can make a big mess. If my opponent fires on them than it only makes my 2 20 man assault units on foot that much more effective. I also use 2 units of 15 sisters in the same army, so its really a case of lesser evils. Present your enemy with several large targets and its really in his best interests to focus on one.

If their 4+ was invulerable then I could see them being worth it. As they are now they get shot down before they make combat.

The problem with repentia is that the rest of the codex is so darn good that there are many better ways to spend 200 points and/or an elites slot. Isn't a squad of arcos around 200 points? And they've got the toughness and save to make it into combat, even if they're garaunteed to die and not be scoring (heck, they don't count as scoring even if they live...).
cheers

a problem one of my fellow players had is the lack of control over sisters CC units-repentia, flagelants, penetants etc all go berserk and charge the nearest enemy unit even if they can't hurt it....he ended up getting rid of all of them and going with more mechanised sisters in rhinos with heavy flamers  and meltaguns.

If they had 2 base attaks I'd be happy, though the 4+ inv save would be good as well (and make a tiny bit more sense than a 4+ armor save). All the same, I have used 18 w/ Mistress in my marine army a few times. Honestly, they're there to take up points and look cool, though they did ok in one game vs. iron warriors. They managed to advance through a wood, slam into a CSM unit and then stick around grinding through units until game end. Not so sure that would happen twice

But hey, got 2 boxes of mostly-nekkid crazy chainsaw chicks for $35, so meh.

- Boss Salvage

Posted By Will on 12/08/2006 11:20 AM
I have never seem them work for anyone. One of the worst units in SoB army.

Arco-flagellants are worse.  At least the Repentia don't kill themselves just getting to the enemy. 

Posted By Vito on 12/11/2006 5:11 PM
Untill the SoB get a revision the SR are pretty damn useless. You can try many things, it's gonna take a very creative player to use them sucessfully.

well said

Run them up behind smoke launching extra-armored Rhinos/Immolators, and put a Priest in the group for re-rolling those hits in the first round of combat (the only round of combat the enemy will survive, assuming they make it there).

They need to be 15 pts each, with 4+/5++ save.