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Been reading a lot about sisters in 9th and I think I have a list that I like from both a visual and competitive standpoint. I'm not looking to go full on cut throat but I think this is pretty optimized and utilizes a lot of great sisters units. I h Please let me know thoughts and critiques.

Battalion-Valarious Heart

HQ
Triumph of St Katherine 195
Canoness- Relic – Litanies of the Faith, Warlord – Beacon of Faith 50
Celestine 170

Troops
BSS - heavy bolter 65
BSS - heavy bolter 65
BSS 55

Elites
Imagifier - Heroine in making- Book of St Lucius, Tale of Stoic Warlord trait Indomitable Belief -2CP 45
Preacher 35
8 repentia 120
9 repentia 135

Transports
Rhino 78
Rhino 78

Fast Attack
10 Dominions - 4 Storm Bolters, combi-melta, Simulacrum 147
10 Dominions - 4 Storm Bolters, combi-melta, Simulacrum 147
5 Seraphim - 2 double inferno pistol 95

Heavy
Exorcist 195
Exorcist 195

No Slots
Inquisitor Greyfax - Terrify 90
Repentia Superior 40

2000

I think the list has too many characters in it. You have 625 points in characters alone but only 165 in troops. To squeeze all this together, you had to sacrifice way more CP than you needed too. You are down to like 7 starting. And that is only to squeeze in Celestine. The rest fits in a battalion. My list is similar to a degree. I would drop Celestine or a cannoness and squeeze the lists together. The CP is way to valuable. If you want competitive, you need the third excorcists somehow too. Also, a vindicaire is amazing for the points. Anything past this for me is all preference. It looks good either way though.

Edit:Side note. You may also be light on anti tank. The excorcists help cover that but you have very little to pop tanks outside of assault range

The reason for the second detachment is so it can be bloody rose to make the repentia hit harder but ya I see your point. 7 CP is slim but I figure the repentia and the unit of seraphim could deal with tanks as well.

Im finding that the third exorcist after the point hike doesn't make the list more competitive as it limits my ability to have more bodies to push on objectives early. Dominions seem to fill the roll well now with the pregame move. Especially when they are buffed by celestine, imagifier and the canoness.

Maybe some multimelta on the BSS? I like the inquisitor to terrify the unit repentia attack as the overwatch can typically be deadly.

Thanks for the tips I think there is some things to move around.

Heavy bolters might be nice over multi melta. A melta needs bodies to not get shoot hard. Heavy bolters gives you some range. If you want a separate order, martyred lady is great because as soon as one sister drops, the whole squad hits on 3s. Dominion sister are nice but that load out doesn't threaten much of anything. Characters carrying the load is fine but assassination will be an issue. Slightly different list to give comparison, my 2k list is 2 cannoness with blessed blade, a 8 repentia unit with superior with indomitable belief in rhino, 3x5 seraphim, 3 excorcists, 4x9 sisters with multimeltas flamer, 3 imagnifiers stoic, and a vindicaire. I would keep everything vigilant heart due to you need to survive with a list as small as yours.

So I've combined to one detachment leaving me with 10 CP. Still able to keep celestine with 3 HQ slots available in a battalion and debating on swapping dominions for Celestins to protect all the characters. Dominions are cool with the scout but maybe one dominon and one celestine since you can have up to 6 elite in a battalion

From what I understand, triumph of st kat gives you 1++ extra on shield of faith, as does the celeste model OR the imagifier with a cp for the second warlord trait on her.

But you can't go beyond 4++, so its not like you are making bank wiht a supercastle, if I understand it correctly, you essentially have a 195 point backup to a 165 point model to accomplish the same thing.

So.

What if the triumph became a meleecannoness with some kind of nasty blade, a combimelta, (thatls like 70, ish?), then you had 120 left over to get two more 5 sisters SOB squads with a power weapon in each. Objective grabbers with a smidge more melee than nothing, is all I mean, and a rollerball of a cannoness that can hop in heroically to help them out.

It might make your list feel less vulnearble to obsec loss in the early game.

Dukeofstuff wrote:
From what I understand, triumph of st kat gives you 1++ extra on shield of faith, as does the celeste model OR the imagifier with a cp for the second warlord trait on her.

But you can't go beyond 4++, so its not like you are making bank wiht a supercastle, if I understand it correctly, you essentially have a 195 point backup to a 165 point model to accomplish the same thing.

So.

What if the triumph became a meleecannoness with some kind of nasty blade, a combimelta, (thatls like 70, ish?), then you had 120 left over to get two more 5 sisters SOB squads with a power weapon in each. Objective grabbers with a smidge more melee than nothing, is all I mean, and a rollerball of a cannoness that can hop in heroically to help them out.

It might make your list feel less vulnearble to obsec loss in the early game.

Triumph does nothing for the SoF. Only Celestine or the warlord trait "Indomitable Belief" do that, which is on the 45 pt Imagifier here (with a 9" bubble due to St Lucius"). That said, i'd look at dropping the Superior for another Imagifier if you're staying VH (finding 5 pts somewhere else too). The one bubble isn't taking much advantage of the order trait when you hold multiple objectives, and you really need Stoic on most of the board to dig in successfully. Otherwise, since you're really looking more damage related with the Repentia, you may as well go Bloody Rose instead and at least have most everyone in the list benefit from it more so than a 6+++ only.

Thanks for the correction. I suspected I had that wrong but couldn't look it up (books in car trunk, as usual) and my online source was down.

You seem very on target about a second imagifier though, in late eighth, I watched a lot of friends with marines go into fits trying to shift VH. (Although I personally spent all my time praying that I would hit a VH sisters army, and Never did.)

I have been playing with the idea of dropping a rhino, superior and repentia squad and adding in 3 mortifiers with heavy bolters. With the potential for D2 heavy bolters and having move vehicles do you think this is a good choice? Keeping everything Valorous heart. My only thoughts is mortifiers don't benefit from Convications so no help with ignore Ap-2 unfortunately where the rhino would. I think having a second Stoic Imagifier is going to be key.