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Hi all.
Want to get into playing sisters as its an army I have never played in my entire life.
Wanted to start small with a 1k list, so here goes.
Looking for a solid list, but nothing cheesy.

Saint celestine - 135

Battle sister squad: min size, 1 melta, 1 flamer.
Immolator with multi-melta - 135

Battle sister squad: min size, 1 melta, 1 flamer.
Immolator with multi-melta - 135

Seraphim squad: 5 members, power sword and 2x hand flamers - 110

Dominion squad: 4x melta, combi melta.
Immolator, multi-melta - 175

Exorcist - 135

Exorcist - 135


Leaves me at around 950 points, so 50 more to play with.
Any ideas please?
First ever list with them, so all help is appreciated.

Replace the Meltas in the Sister squads with Heavy Flamers. Other than that I don't know anything about Sisters in this edition, but I would look at a Canoness instead of Saint Celestine maybe?

If you took the Canoness instead, drop a Power Sword from the seraphim and you could get another min sized Sisters squad with flamer/heavy flamer/immolator or.....

Take the Canoness/Drop Power Sword/Drop the combi melta out of the dominion squad and take min squad of dominions with 4 melta guns and take a rhino as there transport.

At that point switch the Rhino from the Dominions with one of the Battle sister Immolators.

Just my 2 cents.

A lesson I learned very early on with Sisters was to specialise squads: all Flamers or all Meltas. Mixing does not work well.

Seraphim are a shooty unit, not assaulty (a rule for the whole army). Power Swords are not worth it. I would take Meltabombs instead.

Nah, Cannoness is pretty useless under the current rules. She used to be fun, but got nerfed HARD. Celestine with Seraphim is the only decent choice now.

Cheers guys.
Just realised I typed in the exorcists at 10p more each, so that's 70 to play with.

May make 1 battle unit flamer, heavy flamer and one metlta, multi melta.
Stops dual use then.

Also, if I drop the power sword and combi melta that brings me to 95 points saved, so close to another sisters unit in a Immolator.

I might suggest a slightly different loadout on the immolators. The one with the flamer squad leave the same but the one with the melta squad, make it a flamer variant to help protect the squad versus horde some.

You also might want to think about imagifiers as well.

Being new to sisters (never looked at them until now)
I really have no knowledge of how they work best, so any and all ideas are more than welcome.

On a side note, would an assassin mesh well with them or is it more of a draw back to the list?
I had the idea of a Culexus or vindicare in my mind to help remove annoying targets.

If you want the troops to be well rounded I would leave the melta and take a heavy flamer over flamer as they are both assault. Otherwise I would take 1 squad with heavy flamer and flamer and combi flamer, and the other squad 2 meltas and 1 ccombi melta. The dominions you may want to put in rhinos or The IA transport so they have hatches to shoot out of if you do not disembark right away. Another thing with my Dominions I give them the Laud Hailer on the vehicle for 10 pts it allows you to reroll leaderships and acts of faith for that all important "ignore cover" act of faith. Even though they are LD8 or 9 (with vet superior) I have failed it plenty where I do not leave home without them on the dominion vehicle unless I am super strapped for points. Other things I try to put dozer blades on my vehicles to help avoid the dreaded '1' for dangerous terrain roll.
Good luck with Sisters. The new edition has not been kind to St. Celestine. I typically run a Cannoness with priests in a min sister squad for more punch. Cheers.
Since the seraphim can have 2 pistols I usually give the sergeant a plasma pistol and leave the bolt pistol to give them more kick in shooting. If I am running St. Celestine I utilize her for my CC kill but on weak squads.

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