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Here is a list for rating.

I am looking at putting this list together in the near future and was wondering if anybody had any opinions.

I'm looking for a competitive list that will be fun to play.

HQ
Canoness 100
Book of St. Lucius, Blessed Weapon, Jump Pack

Elites




Troops
Battle Sisters Squad 167
9 Sisters, Veteran Superior w/ plasma pistol and Brazier of Holy Fire
Flamer and Heavy Flamer

Battle Sister Squad 134
9 Sisters, Veteran Superior w/ bolter
2 Storm Bolters

Battle Sister Squad 154
9 Sisters, Veteran Superior w/ plasma Pistol
2 Meltaguns

Inquisitorial Stormtroopers 145
5
2 Flamers
Chimera w/multi laser, heavy bolter

Inquisitorial Stormtroopers 120
5
2 Plasma guns
Rhino

Fat Attack
Seraphim squad 175
Sister Superior w/ Eviscerator and meltabombs
4 sisters
2 with twin inferno pistols

995

Cheers

I hardly know where to start...

Ok, first, drop the stormies. This is a small SoB army, you need faith which they aren't giving you (what they are giving your opponent is easy KP's, btw)

Use the points to either:
1. Get more sisters.
2. Mount up your sisters and go all-mech.

And give you canoness SOME protection. A single S6 (or better) shot will wipe out all three wounds. She's only T3!!

True True.

I put the stormies in merely because I have them

I realise they aren't as good but will use them untill i can get more sisters

Anyone else have any input into this list?

I was thinking of putting a unit of retributors in with 4 heavy bolters. I'd either drop the stormies for them, or drop the transports I imagine.

Also, are retributors worthwhile?

Well first off don't ever use storm bolters in sisters. Storm bolters are great if they are the normal weapon like grey knights. But if you have to pay points for at most 2 in a squad they suck. I personally run the sisters with heavy flamer, melta, vet with book, in rhinos with extra armour and smoke. This basic unit costs 209 points. 3 is about the min you want to run, but of course that doesn't leave you with many points. But you can fit in 2 exorcists and a cheap cannoness, or a small seraphim squad and a jump pack cannoness to join them.

Heavy bolters retributors are actually pretty good. Remember to give them enough regular guys so you don't take to many saves against the heavy weapons models. The reason you don't see very many played is the fact that they take up the same slot as the exorcist. Exorcists are the best tank available to the Inq.

10 Retributors with 4x heavy bolters and a vet is consistently my most effective unit (and that includes the exorcist!)

For 184 pts (I think, don't have the army list at work for some reason ) they're an absolute steal. If anything with 3+ or 2+ armour is in open ground, divine guidance wipes them out. For anything else, just blast - volume of fire alone will cause problems.

Thanks for the inout.

I just put an order in from GW US for 2 more boxes of sisters, 2 meltas, 4 heavy bolters and a box of seraphim to add to my 10 sisters and canoness.

I will get to writing a new list shortly and post it up

HQ
Canoness 125
Blessed Weapon, book of St. Lucius, Cloak of St. Aspira, Jump pack, melta bombs

Troops
Battle Sister Squad 164
Sister Superior w/ plasma pistol, book of St. Lucius
9 sisters, 2 with Meltaguns

Battle Sister Squad 154
Sister Superior w/ plasma pistol, book of St. Lucius
9 Sisters, 2 w/ Storm bolters

Battle Sister Squad 167
Sister Superior w/ plasma pistol and cc weapon, book of St. Lucius, brazier of holy fire
9 Sisters, heavy flamer, flamer



Fast Attack
Seraphim Squad 180
Sister Superior w/ power weapon, Book of St. Lucus, meltabombs
4 Seraphim, 2 with twin inferno pistols
meltabombs


Heavy Support
Retributor Squad 145
Sister Superior w/ bolter, Book of St. Lucius
5 sisters, 4 Heavy bolters

That's 935 points. I'm not sure what else I should put in. Perhaps a small unit of stormtroopers or something?
Or maybe bulk up that Retributor unit?

Canoness needs frags for assaulting into cover. Bulk up that Retributor unit. You need the extra wounds so you don't have to assign wounds on your heavy bolters as often. I personally like 8 girl total seraphim squads. It gives you the most versatility in using faith. (you can use both offensive and defensive faith easily at 8 models). And power weapons are kind of weak when they are S 3. I give my seraphim eviserators for the extra strength and armour pen.

Definately max your Retributor squad. After one game you will find it has gone to the top of your opponents target priority list, so make sure you have the extra bodies to cope with the casualties!

Drop the Stormbolters, too. By the time the whole squad is in range to get 2 shots each, your Stormbolters are no more effective than normal bolters, so why bother?

If you can, put your other squads in rhinos, or failing that, use your spare models to make them bigger. Sisters need to close with the enemy, so you need either enough speed to get you their, or enough bodies to cope with getting shot while you run!

Battlekai wrote:Battle Sister Squad 154
Sister Superior w/ plasma pistol, book of St. Lucius
9 Sisters, 2 w/ Storm bolters

Storm bolters are a waste. Either go with flamers, melta guns, or just save the points.

Fast Attack
Seraphim Squad 180
Sister Superior w/ power weapon, Book of St. Lucus, meltabombs
4 Seraphim, 2 with twin inferno pistols
meltabombs

A couple of things with this squad. The magic number is in fact 8. With 8 girls in the squad you can use both offensive and defensive powers, you can take a few casualties without losing all your teeth and you have enough teeth that you can really do something once you make it to hand to hand. With any less, you are just kind of wasteing your time. So work out some points to bump this squad up to 8 at least. The other thing is that all those melta bombs are kind of pointless if the inferno pistols kill the tank first. So either drop the bombs and count on the pistols killing the tank or drop the pistols and just count on the melta bombs killing the tank. Taking both is overkill.

People will kill me for saying this, but I love a bulky 10 man squad of PAGK. They have 20 Storm Bolter shots that make decent support fire and can back the sisters up in melee really well. I have yet to regret taking a squad. Finally, they don't use a HS slot like retributors.

Updated it a bit. And no, I'm not gonna drop the storm bolters I like having one unit that can still pump out 4 shots while on the run.

It looks like a solid list for friendlies to me. Just posting it up for some final thoughts.

HQ
Canoness 120
Blessed Weapon, Book of St. Lucius, Cloak of Saint Aspira, Jump Pack

Troops
Battle Sister Squad 175
Vet Superior w/ Book of St. Lucius, cc weapon and plasma pistol
9 sisters, 2 meltaguns

Battle Sister Squad 140
Vet Superior w/ Book of St. Lucius, cc weapon and bolter
9 sisters, 2 storm bolters

Battle Sister Squad 157
Vet Superior w/ book of St. Lucius, Brazier of Holy Fire, bolter
9 Sisters, flamer, heavy flamer

Inquisitorial Storm Troopers 70
5 Storm Troopers, 2 plasma guns

Fast Attack
Seraphim Squad 175
Veteran Superior w/ Eviscerator, bolt pistol
4 Seraphim, 2 with twin inferno pistols



Heavy Support
Retributor Squad 163
Veteran Superior w/ storm bolter, auspex
6 Retributors. 4 w/ heavy bolters

You can't kill tanks at range.

Tanks are very powerful in 5E.

Just something to remember.

Yeah Stelek, I agree with you there.

Going to be really struggling against tanks at range. Probably gonna have to rely on cover etc to get me there.

So looking to make this list 1500 points, I'm wondering what I should add. Perhaps another sister unit or a few celestian squads. Possibly 3 exorsists? Possibly a guard platoon.

Not too sure, what works well with an army like this? Perhaps go mechanised?

Sister armies can do just about anything they want to.

Pure Sisters cannot kill heavy tanks at range. It's just the way it is.

IG support will do it for you though.

So do anything you want to, it's very difficult to analyze an army at 1000 points because it really isn't an army yet.

When inducting guard into my army, I can take a guard HQ can't I?

I was thinking about just taking a suicide squad of plasma gunners and a lascannon heavy support team.

I don't have the codecies on me at the moment. Is it legal?

No you can't take a guard HQ nor a lascannon heavy support team...