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I had an idea of a martyred Repentia Mistress who's unwillingly placed into the sarcophagus of a dreadnought. Something like a sect of her order is killed while saving an imperial guard world. They find a small spark of life in her and immortalize her into a dreadnought. Eternal Life (well as long as a dreadnought can survive) would be the worst fate a saint would want. Thus, insanity. I could see her model has her ripping said guard into shreds from anger. (Edit: I stopped in her fluff because I couldn't figure this out. Could guard produce a dreadnought to put her in? Or would it have to be a Space Marine chapter or even some techpriests? lol)

I found this all in a notepad from a few months ago, so I decided to finally post it and see what you guys think!

Saint Natalia, The Disturbed Saint
Points: 280
WS: 5
BS: 5
S: 6
F: 13
S: 11
R: 10
I: 5
A: 3(4)

Composition: 1 Venerable Dreadnought (Unique)
Unit Type: Vehicle (Walker)

Wargear:
Two-Dreadnought Close combat weapons, with a pair of neural whips (The additional attack and Initiative bonus is represented in her profile)
Smoke Launcher
Holy Icon

Special Rules:
'Only in Death Does Duty End'
Righteous Zeal
Faith and Fury
Stolen Martyrdom
Final Rest


Natalia Retinue:
Natalia may be accompanied by a squad of Sisters Repentia from the Elites section of the army list. If chosen as a retinue, they count as part of the same choice on the Force Organization chart as Natalia. Smoke launcher will grant the entire retinue a 3+ cover save for the turn.

Faith and Fury: Natalia has a 5+ invulnerable saving throw against any glancing or penetrating hit inflicted upon her.

Stolen Martyrdom: Robbed of a glorious death Natalia has been driven into a mad blood lust. Roll 'Only in Death Does Duty End' with three dice. Natalia will also concede a kill point if she survives until the end of the game.

Final Rest: When Natalia is finally destroyed, she grants +d6 faith points to the army's Faith Point total.

I think this is an EXCELLENT unit. I like Sisters, and I always wanted to use Repentia, but they are rather useless. I still think they are, but this is a cool unit to have.

Is she an HQ? You never specify. Also, why does the smoke give 3+ to her retinue? I know it's meant to cover the vehicle, so is a bit much compared to troops, but it's only concealment.

Other than that, she might be a bit overpriced (what's the cost for a Dreadnought?), but otherwise a great unit.

My mistake, yea, definitely an HQ slot.

As with the smoke launchers, I mean they blast smoke into the are around the dreadnought, who is already sprinting into combat, the repentia running with it would be obscured as well. (To be honest, I just wanted to give the repentia a way to get across the board with some sort of non-crap save, even if it's only 1 turn)

I also always overprice things (at first), so it isn't too over balanced. I based her value at Bjorn the Fel Handed (270 I think) and added 10 to be safe. But might drop it (considering the retinue will cost 200 alone)

Interesting HQ. I was just wondering what could be done to make units like repentia and penitent engines worthwhile.

Heres an idea:

Beacon of His Light
At the beginning of the your movement phase roll a 3d6. Within this radius in inches around Saint Natalia any friendly unit that is susceptible to Holy Rage may chose to ignore this rule until the beginning of your next movement phase. Any units within the radius susceptible to Holy Rage choosing not to do this instead gain a 4+ invulnerable save until the controlling player's next movement phase.

The only problem with your unit is that only fallen space marines have the chance to become encased in a Dreadnaught. Afaik there is no recording of any non-SM character bring placed in a Dreadnaught. Besides, Sisters are like the Grey Knights, they cherish the moment they die in battle for the emperor.