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I think they just got the answers they wanted and the thread took on a life of its own without them.

 Vindicare-Obsession wrote:
While reading over it I noticed that the canoness had the ability to gain perferred enemy......
Has anyone thought about running her with heavy weapon squads so that they can benefit?

Her act only works in the Assault phase.


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Yeah, a couple of us more prolific sisters posters took this badboy over a while back.

Well that makes it a bit hard to pass on to retributers huh?

Yeah, it was briefly thought of about 20-30 pages back and then shot down. :(

It would've been nice to have that in the shooting phase. You might see more of her in lists then.

Maybe... lol. Only as an ally on Guard blobs though.

Thats right. I keep forgetting you cant throw your character into any allied units, only battle brothers.

Hrm - alright, let's try this - get some advice / thoughts and such

My Sisters of Battle Force, The Order of the Twilight Blade is going to be made purely from repentia, I like the model, especially the Eviscerator, the army will be for a bit of fun, but hopefully not die TOO horribly.

Primarily an Allied Detachement, expanding into a 1500+pts army, I intend to convert all the troops out of repentia (Battle Sisters being mandatory troops, they will be made from Repentia models)

My initial force will be:
HQ:
Uriah Jacobus, Protector of the Faith (Converted from: Grey Knight Inquisitor with Null Rod
ELITES:
1 Squad Repentia (9 Repentia + Mistress) (Mistress and her awful model replaced by a converted Repentia)
TROOPS:
1-2 squads of Battle Sisters (10 each, converted from Repentia) Either mounted in Rhinos or accompanied by Immolators (Magnetised to be rhino / immo, with all options magnetised too)
Heavy Support:
3 Penitent Engines

(everything links because why not and I'm bored!)

Expanding it would be a simple matter of another 2 squads of Repentia and 6 more Penitent Engines. (this would rack up to 1750-1850pts)

What I would like to know, is how people think it'll do as a force allied to Dark Eldar and Tau, and as a standalone army?
(Also if folk think it'll look awesome or not )

I think its going to be a very difficult conversion for one. If you are going to use it I would say use it with Tau or DE because Tau will give you that long range covering fire while DE will get into CC early with enemy shooters.

 Ovion wrote:
My Sisters of Battle Force, The Order of the Twilight Blade is going to be made purely from repentia, I like the model, especially the Eviscerator, the army will be for a bit of fun, but hopefully not die TOO horribly

Primarily an Allied Detachement, expanding into a 1500+pts army, I intend to convert all the troops out of repentia (Battle Sisters being mandatory troops, they will be made from Repentia models)

I have no idea how you're going to get power armor and bolters onto repentia convincingly, but share pics when you do.

My initial force will be:
(everything links because why not and I'm bored!)

I would add some fast attack as it is one of our best slots.

What I would like to know, is how people think it'll do as a force allied to Dark Eldar and Tau, and as a standalone army?
(Also if folk think it'll look awesome or not )

It should look good, but keep in mind that we are Desperate Allies with DE and Tau, iirc.

Yup, Desperate Allies with both Tau and DE.

Aaand I wasn't planning on giving them power armour, just the gun(s), which should be a lot easier to get to look alright.

The idea is, they were captured by the Dark Eldar and so have been tortured mercilessly, driven to fight as slaves on the battlefield, etc. (tempted to make the Repentia Mistress' from Haemonculi even.)

Hardened Gnarlskin is supertortured flesh that's hardened to the point it confers a 3+ (6+*) save, so I was just going to claim the Battle Sister Repentia had that


OH, and of course the BIG question I forgot - what loadout should I put on the BSS squads ><

 Vindicare-Obsession wrote:
While reading over it I noticed that the canoness had the ability to gain perferred enemy......
Has anyone thought about running her with heavy weapon squads so that they can benefit?

That's interesting... Im currently running a List with just one Ret squad in it but it would be cool to play test and tell us how it worked out for you... Rending on a 3+ and PE on a 3+... Then put here on a Quad cannon or something like that LOL sounds fun!

 Ovion wrote:
Aaand I wasn't planning on giving them power armour, just the gun(s), which should be a lot easier to get to look alright.

The idea is, they were captured by the Dark Eldar and so have been tortured mercilessly, driven to fight as slaves on the battlefield, etc. (tempted to make the Repentia Mistress' from Haemonculi even.)

Hardened Gnarlskin is supertortured flesh that's hardened to the point it confers a 3+ (6+*) save, so I was just going to claim the Battle Sister Repentia had that

Not a fan of this. This means that you will have two sets of repentia on the board and some will have a 3+ and some won't. This makes for a very bad opponent experience. Friendly games? Maybe. Games with a stranger or tournament? No.

True... though most all my games are local friendly matches, and I somehow doubt this list will EVER go to a tournament... maybe I'll try and sculpt some armour on them then...
Maybe the barky-flesh that normally represents Hardened Gnarlskin so that they at least stand out some. They were at the very least going to be painted differently and have the guns - but, it's not too much more work at the end of the day.

We'll see how that plays out.

Anyone feature any lists heavy on Ecclesairy Priests? Reviewing their CC capabilities and their special rules Im thinking about doling them out like tic-tacs

The problem with the priests as far as I can tell, is how incredibly expensive points wise they are.

Yep. That's why I generally don't take them.

 Vindicare-Obsession wrote:
Anyone feature any lists heavy on Ecclesairy Priests? Reviewing their CC capabilities and their special rules Im thinking about doling them out like tic-tacs

I've tried them out, but I haven't found much use for them. To make it worthwhile on a BSS you basically need a blob, and at that point you might as well be getting Kyrinov. Our only ally whose units priests can join (IG) already have their own priests, so no need for them there. They make Reps pretty amazing in cc, but they remove fleet - That's a trade off I am very leery of. I ran my Reps like that at first, but it was too limiting in the move phase. Conclaves come with their own better priest... So really I'd be looking at using them to shore up a second or third BSS blob or Celestians. So when someone convinces me to use Celestians or BSS blobs I'll work my priests in

A 50-model IG Blob with five Priests would make for some fun times. Throw in Krak grenades and call it the Duke Nukem unit. Actually, someone already did that - Stelek on Yes the Truth Hurts.

The IG Priests are the better deal, it must be said, but putting Uriah into the mix changes everything!

That's an expensive blob!

Yes but can you imagine the possibilites? A bunch of guardsmen screaming "Who sucks in close combat now?!"

If you're going to go balls out like that, make sure to attach Jacobus and put Straken within 6".

Why are we putting so much effort and points into making guardsmen a cc unit?

 Vindicare-Obsession wrote:
Why are we putting so much effort and points into making guardsmen a cc unit?

Because we can

For funsies.

Because no one expects charging Guardblobs fixing bayonets and going for the slash and strike. Straken, Jacobus and toss a Lord Commissar nearby for a side order of stubborn to put some more iron into the spine.

lol I think we're up to about 1000 points now.

Straken passes on stubborn and we dont even need stubborn because Jacobus is fearless (Which now spreads to the unit )

You have that backwards. Straken is Fearless and not an IC. Jacobus is Stubborn and gives +1 Attack and FNP.

Ugh. Yes yes. I dont have the internet dex up so this is going off the top of my head. My bad.

How many attacks at what strength are we running now?
Are we able to fire special weapons out of a chimera? If we are then I'm getting some guard allies so that I can chimera my Retributers.