Saint Celestine

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**paintedpotato**

How do you deal with Saint Celestine? The more I use her, the more I feel like she is incredibly broken, like beyond any Blood Angels Character broken.

Would you dedicate some fire towards her and hope she doesn't get up the next turn?
Ignore her completely knowing it is wasted effort?
Ensure you take a "remove from play" ability in all of your lists and hope for the best?

Tactically I have just been B-lining her straight into the enemy ranks with little or no support and it seems to work out great. I suppose her biggest bane would be a walker or large unit that had no way of killing her in a single round.

Thoughts?

**DPBellathrom**

thats the thing, you dont killl her. the best thing to do would be to tarpit her with a power blob or a mob of boyz and make sure you can keep her bogged down

like you said, a dready or other walker would be best if you can get one.

**Hückleberry**

Dogpile here with Gaunts or Boyz.

**schadenfreude**

Is she still T3 or T4?

Most walkers run the risk of squishing her only to have her pop back up on a 4+ and contest an objective again.

Ignore her at the start of the game and mid game. Kill or tarpit her at the end of the game. If she's not in a tarpit and the sob player goes 2nd then there is nothing that can be done about her if she pops back up on a 4+ to contest an objective. The best way to handle her in an objective based game is to give the sob player 1st turn, which is a tough sell to DE or an IG leafblower list.

For all the QQ we heard coming out of sisters players they sure do have a potentially nasty and competitive list at 1,500 to 1750.

**spireland**

Scatter dice don't work. I tried...

**Godless-Mimicry**

spireland wrote:Scatter dice don't work. I tried...

Sorry what?

**paintedpotato**

Godless-Mimicry wrote:
spireland wrote:Scatter dice don't work. I tried...

Sorry what?

There was a point were his plague marines didn't know whether you are suppose to go towards Celestine or away from her. Any direction was a valid choice so we I suggested a scatter die. It didn't help.

Here is local security footage taken by a near by gas station of the indecent.
Marines come to pic a fight.

Spoiler:

Celestine emerges from the church, cleansing the impure. (3 go down from her heavy flamer, 3 from melta/plasma shots, and 1 by her blade.)

Spoiler:

The other unit runs for their lives (scatter dice)

Spoiler:

She is too fast and Celestine leaves no witnesses.

Spoiler:

**spireland**

Thanks for documenting my plague marines valiant death..

**Yuber**

Plasma Guns, melta guns, Pfists, multilasers, and assault cannons.

**Ogryn**

What army do you play?

**jdjamesdean@mail.com**

I've always just shot her ... if she gets back up I'll do it again ...

It only takes 1 unit of shooting to keep her down usually and twice dead is generaly gone.

**schadenfreude**

jdjamesdean@mail.com wrote:I've always just shot her ... if she gets back up I'll do it again ...

It only takes 1 unit of shooting to keep her down usually and twice dead is generaly gone.

Unless the sisters player goes 2nd in an objective based game. Then you have a 50% change of her popping up and contesting an objective right on the sisters turn right before the game ends. In a 2 objective capture and control game a 50% chance of losing the objective on your side of the table=50% chance of disaster. Going 1st is a terrible option, and both sides should be trying to go 2nd.

**ruminator**

The glare off the Saint from her non-primed metallic body obviously got into the eyes of your hearty marines and put them off. Insist that abberation is painted before you meet again ...

**paintedpotato**

Yesterday was the first opportunity I got to prime her. The red on the cloak and skirt is about done. I will post progress on my blog (linked on my signature) later. But yes, I had thought to photo shop a painted model in its place.