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Sisters are my primary army- the only army of any size I've actually painted. I always had this idea that the Holy Sisters would be kept separate from the more unsavory elements of the Adeptus Ministorum army list, and I'm trying to figure out how to do it in 8th ed. This is going to sound more rulesy than backgroundy, but the rules are just the prelude to the background question, which is what I'm more curious about.

The way the army operates tactically is to form 3 battle groups. Ideally, each battle group consists of:

Priest + 9 Arcoflagellants
Mistress + Imagifier + 8 Repentia
1 Penitent Engine

For the record, the Imagifiers are converted repentia; they have some of the decorative pieces from the imolator kit secured to their backs with some fine chain. This way the Imagifiers don't violate that gritty penitent feel. Right now, I only have two repentia units and one arco unit, so I can't put the full thing on the table yet.
The build below is based on the models I have, not the idealized list above.

So here's how I have to break it down:

Ministorum Spearhead: (255 total)
HQ Priest (Counts as Jacobus?) (100 pts)
3 x Penitent Engine (165 pts)
1 x Arcoflagellants (6 models) ( 90 pts)

Sororitas Vanguard: (261 total)
Canoness (45 pts)
Mistress (40 pts)
Imagifier (40 Pts)
8x Repentia (136 pts)

Sororitas Vanguard: (261 total)
Canoness (45 pts)
Mistress (40 pts)
Imagifier (40 pts)
8x Repentia (136 pts)

777 pts.


This nets me an additional 9 CP, for a total of 12, which isn't bad- there are six possible martyrs in the army, which leaves six rerolls for imagifiers. In this variation, each battle group has a commander, since I decided to take an extra canoness so that I could run 2 Vanguards for more CP. In order to get from their detachments into battle formation, the priest tells one of his Penitent engines to accompany one canoness and a second to accompany the other. And to get back to the background part of the post, that doesn't sound terribly unfluffy, because it's basically adding a single model to a detachment in order to form the battlegroup. But the point is that I'm growing toward the ideal; it will be different when all those sisters have to work with arcos and priests as well as the PE's. So the question is whether or not it's fluffy for battle groups to consist of models from multiple detachments- especially when the factions don't exactly synch up within a battlegroup. Or whether it would be more fluffy to have the detachments themselves be the battle groups?