Male sisters of battle? or Brothers of battle could they exist

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**orkylooter**

I know the topic is strange but is it possible for sisters of battle organization to have a male group
i know it would be pretty much space Marines but it would be an ally force for IG

**Vindicator#9**

Grey Knights?

**Lloldrin**

No. I don't have my codex handy. But there is no male force within the sisters of battle. Just as there are no female space marines.

The Grey Knights are an inquisitorial force, so are the sisters. But they are the arm militant for different ordos.

**orkylooter**

but since they dont have gena seed would it be as contaveral

sorry for spelling mistakes

**Valhallan42nd**

The sisters of battle exist because the Ecclesiarchy are forbidden to have "men under arms". As a legal dodge, they armed orders of Sisters, as they were not men.

So, no.

**orkylooter**

well that sucks

**Lloldrin**

You could have a power armored force, but they would not be a part of the sisters of battle.
The entire story of how they were created is a bit more than I can be bothered to type atm. But they come from a girls-only cloister, they fought as a personal guard of Vandeire during the age of apostasy(called the brides of the emperor). To realizing they'd been tricked by Vandeire, killing him, ending a civil war. Changing their name back to "The Daughters of the Emperor". They are very much an all-girls club

**Emperors Faithful**

Males and Females both come from the Schola Progenium. Females are trained to be sisters of battle (or another order) and Males are trained to be Storm Troopers and even later Commissars.

The Ecclesiarchy was banned from having an army or using "men-at-arms" after the Age of Aposition. They got around this by incorporating the Sisters of Battle.

**Kilkrazy**

3,000 years ago during the Recondite Schism the cathedral world Brown's Faith on the edges of the Eastern Abyss disassociated itself from the Ecclesiarchy, proclaiming them heretics.

So popular was the church locally that it was able to convert several dozen systems including a forge world producing Mk.V power armour.

With a fanatic population at their command, the church leaders formed an army clad in power armour and bearing cleansing weapons of flame and heat.

Today they fight loyally for the Emporer, and are feared by Chaos legions on a hundred worlds, they are... The Monks Of Mayhem!

People said you couldn’t make it up but I just did.

**Zio**

Ha ha ha, glorious, Killkrazy! In a nearly infinite galaxy, the posibilities for random goodness and creativity are nearly limitless. This should be remembered whenever wondering, "could there be..."? =)

**garret**

If i remember correctly SOB are a loop hole.
something somewhere said the Ecclesiarchy (spelling?) could not have "MEN OF ARMS".
So they have sisters in arms
i could be wrong though.

**Emperors Faithful**

Well Space Marines ARE also known to each other as 'Battle Brothers'...

**Valhallan42nd**

Kill Krazy is correct, one can do what they want. You could also say that it's a secret elite Inquisitorial force, or you can say it's a mechanicus force, or whatever else. If you do such a counts as, it's up to you to make it clear to your opponent what is what.

I'd still prefer to stick to established fluff.

**Manchu**

Well, I've expected it would happen. And here it is.

**Raxmei**

There's no reason in principle why it couldn't happen. It is not done for reasons that have already been discussed, but it is possible to do it. There are currently no known mass armies of unaugmented men wearing power armor.

That said, the Inquisition has access to power armor and so does obviously the Adeptus Mechanicus. The skitarii are notoriously poorly described, so some forges might field them with power armor. Then when they deployed in support of the tech guard you'd get something vaguely resembling power armored troops fighting alongside guardsmen.

**Emperors Faithful**

I suppose it could be some sort of Inquisitors Private Army.

**Inso**

If you were desperate to have a small army of power armoured humans (not space marines) then why not build an army using Inquisitor stats (the elite ones not the HQ ones), giving them all powered armour at cost. It will be a very powerful but very expensive force but you could say that the army has been gathered together as a sort of Inquisitorial crusade.

Alternatively, you could build it using SoB rules and have a powerful inquisitor in charge. Use all the rules but change a few names and have the army as an inquisitorial training army...the high level inquisitor has become so upset by the lack of martial prowess of his initiates that he has armed and armoured them with the best equipment so that the initiates can't use lack of equipment as an excuse for their failings...now they need bravery and faith to set them above their brothers...

**Tyyr**

"Monks with guns," doesn't have nearly the maniacal glee inducing resonance of "Nuns with guns."

**ArbitorIan**

Of course, you could build an army of power armoured religious "Brother of Battle" and give then access to Faith Points and all the rest.

Just set your army before the 36th Millenium. The Sisters of Battle and the whole 'loophole' only came about because of the Ecclesiarchy's use of the Frateris Templar in the Age of Apostasy. Just make a Frateris Templar army set in M35...!

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Frateris_Templar

**Cryonicleech**

Perhaps they could be the mad, mad experiments of a rogue Inquisitor, who secretly trained a regiment of Brothers in power armor.

**Zio**

I like the rogue mechanicus army idea!

**tigonesskay**

I read somewhere that the male version of the SOB's existed (I think they were called the Brother templar or something like that) but then thet were disbanded.

**Lexx**

A brothers templar force would be fun but hard to really make it stand out from the other imperial armies. You'd realistically end up with imperial guard with a 3+ save looking like wannabe marines. Nothing stopping you using the witch hunter codex and making your own male counts as models though. Lots of scope for conversions/unique models.

**SagesStone**

Just play Ordo Xenos counts as Witch Hunters?

**CadianXV**

Not power armoured, but there was rules for 'Zealots' floating around- essentially religious nuts to use as cannon fodder.

**Orkeosaurus**

Space Marines are already monks in space, so making a slightly different kind of monk in space would be kind of redundant.

The AdMech Skitarii would be the most likely candidate for a force of unmodified (to the degree that Space Marines are) male troops equipped with power armor and bolters. Some sort of Lord Commander honor guard or Inquisitorial/Rogue Trader task force could be equipped in such a manner as well.

**Mad Monk's Mekshop**

Vindicator#9 wrote:Grey Knights?

exactly

**Grimm**

Sorry, but I think the word Sisters answers your question.

**Klawz**

FTR, SMs are hermaphrodites. At least, that's what my friend says, and he reads the SM codex in his spare time.

**Orkeosaurus**

I think your friend may be "taking a piss on you", as the British say.