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So...ive been playing this game for about the past three years... and i love the wonderful nids that ive been playing...i have about 6300 pts of nids(if i deck everything out) and im looking into starting an army of Sisters...i have a general army list, but im trying to get some feedback on the list i want to run and kinda finalize a list before i begin collecting...that being said, ive been playing proxy games with my buddies using nids and sisters (i run the monstrous horde and i actually started to run out of gaunts to proxy as sisters) and i love the way they play...so..what do you think of this list as a starting 1500 point list for collecting a new order of Sisters??

Canoness- Melta Bombs, Pwr Pistol, Pwr Weapon, Rosarius, Mantle of Ophelia

x2 Battle Sister Squads- (x19) Sisters, Meltagun, Multi-melta, Veteran Superior w/ Bolt pistol, Melta Bombs, Pwr weapon

x2 Seraphim Squad- (x9) Seraphim, Seraphim Superior w/ Plasma Pistol, Pwr Sword

x2 Exorcist- Laud Hailer, Storm Bolter

Aegis Defense Line w/ Quad Gun

Any feedback is welcome....im super excited to start assembling my own Order of Sisters!!!

**Edit
-added aegis and points limit

I would drop the Cannoness, take Uriah and 5x priests, one with litanies of faith. Seraphim are way better with St. Celestine but if you take the Saint then Uriah can't be your war lord.

5x dominions with 4x melta and a combi melta in an immolator are amazing, however if you really want take Seraphim run them with 2x hand flamers.

The large bss squads should be armed with just assault weapons. Furthermore drop all the power weapons, you are pretty much s3 throughout the board.

I think the storm blotters are a waste of points on the exorcists.

Good luck, Sisters are really fun to play.

Thanks...dont even like the power maul..huh?

I find that plasma pistols don't do much for my squads so I usually drop them.

Also, I have melta bombs for every squad, even Seraphims but not Dominions because their wepons are usually enough. There will be times when you are close enough to charge vehicles and the one chance from a melta bomb helps. I have blown up a Soulgrinder this way once before.

Seraphims I prefer smaller squads so that I can have more hand flamers and can take 3 targets instead of 2.

And everything else Rynner said too.

Lord Orwell wrote:
Thanks...dont even like the power maul..huh?

of the "four" imperial armies. The worst in cc are as and am/mt. Their not the worst army at it (that prize goes to the tau hands down) but the sob aren't exactly rockstars at it.

The most I would do is take a chainsword on squad leaders (assuming their free like sm's (I don't play as). And go with that, hq's are a bit better at it so spending a few points on a power weapon isn't a terrible idea, but then your wanting to bubble wrap them in a fast moving unit like seraphim or a convoy of troops transports or something to thar effect

What are you trying to accomplish with your army list? What I see is:

A shooting army will likely out-range you if your plans are to hide behind the Aegis.

An Assault army will easily get to you and out-assault you. And your big blobs will lose assault and get run down.

You have 2 big blobs of sisters that are not fearless and have no rerolls to LD. Priests would help with that.

Seraphim suffer the same LD problem, but Celestine can go with one unit.

Sisters are known for taking lots of melta and flamers. I see 2 MM and 2 Meltaguns.

Celestine or Uriah would probably be better HQ choices for what you're paying for the Canoness.

2 Exorcists are nice, 3 are even better. Since they are your only tanks, they're going to take a beating.

Have WS3, S3 Power weapons ever scared your Nids?

Trebloc wrote:
What are you trying to accomplish with your army list? What I see is:

A shooting army will likely out-range you if your plans are to hide behind the Aegis.

An Assault army will easily get to you and out-assault you. And your big blobs will lose assault and get run down.

You have 2 big blobs of sisters that are not fearless and have no rerolls to LD. Priests would help with that.

Seraphim suffer the same LD problem, but Celestine can go with one unit.

Sisters are known for taking lots of melta and flamers. I see 2 MM and 2 Meltaguns.

Celestine or Uriah would probably be better HQ choices for what you're paying for the Canoness.

2 Exorcists are nice, 3 are even better. Since they are your only tanks, they're going to take a beating.

Have WS3, S3 Power weapons ever scared your Nids?

Nope...power weapons are only scary if they can manage to actually ground my flyrants

and to everyone else, i think i might make a secondary list soon and post that to get some feedback....all your comments make sense, and i really appreciate the help!! ill have to do more playtesting first an see what i like and go from there

Have fun! Hope you'll enjoy yourself playing sisters. I always do, regardless of win or loss.

One more thing that I though of would be to consider some transport options. I have 8 rhinos/immolators and I'm still gonna get more! :p