Building a better Cannoness

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**SisterSydney**

Here's my take on the Palatine -- basically a 2A, 2W version of the Canoness who loses Stubborn and access to my homebrewed Relics , but you can take more than two of them because they don't always take a HQ slot:

Palatine: 45 points
The Canoness of a larger Order may select especially experienced Sister Superiors -- or fervent young prodigies -- as her Palatines. These lieutenants assist the Canoness, command small detachments in her absence, and often carry her standard into battle.
You make take a Palatine as a regular HQ choice. You may also take one or two Palatines for each Canoness in your army: These additional Palatines do not use up a Force Organization slot.

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**Mr Morden**

I like it

and would use them

**SisterSydney**

Thanks. The Palatine of earlier editions was a "junior HQ" -- sort of like the Marine chaplain -- and that's the slot if thought the current codex needed filling more than the über-HQ (eg Marine Chapter Master). If you want uberness in my homebrew, you load up the regular Canoness with Litanies of Command and Order Relics, which make her a source of buffs for the army rather than a beatstick herself.

But unlike J3f , I'm starting from the current 6th edition codex rather than trying to rewrite it, which limits my freedom of maneuver (as a tradeoff in hope that more people will be willing to play against my homebrew). Throw out the current codex and you can do a lot more.