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Got one game in so far Rets still are pulling there weights. PEs were insane and the 10 man seraphim squad was incredible. Bc got shot to peices because I hade the models in the wrong formation. Crusaders need to be up front on the march and 5up FnP really seemed to hurt there durability. Been working some old rhino screening techniques and really considering buildibg a list around the fortress. Hoping to get in 5 or 6 more games over the next couple weeks will report back when I have had more time on the table.

Hello everybody!

I just got my hands on a Sisters army last Friday from a collector who was trying to get out of the scene. I am going to be playing my first game with them this coming Friday and was hoping I might run my 1750 list by you guys and get some feedback. I usually run GK's so I'm used to the mid range shooting, but outside of that it's all new tactics and would love some helpful tips on how to best utilize the squads I have set up here. So without further ado... I bring you... The Sororitas Tampaxius (so dubbed by my girlfriend, who partly owns these models as well)

HQ -
- Celestine - 115 pts
- Jacobus with 3x Crusader, 6x DCA Conclave in Rhino with Stormbolter, Extra Armor, and Searchlight - 286 pts

Troops -
- 10x Battle Sister Squad with Meltagun x2, Superior with PW, Combi-Flamer, and Melta Bombs; put in a Rhino with Stormbolter and Searchlight - 216 pts x3 = 648 pts

Fast Attack -
- 5x Dominion Squad with Meltagun x2, Superior with Combi-Melta, PW, and Melta Bombs put in a Rhino with Searchlight - 151 pts
- 5x Seraphim Squad with Hand Flamers x2, Superior with Eviscerator and Bolt Pistol - 145 pts (To go with Celestine)

Heavy Support -
- Exorcist with Searchlights - 136 pts
- Exorcist with Searchlights - 136 pts
- 5x Retributor Squad with 4x Heavy Bolters, Superior with Combi-Flamer and Stormbolter, in a Rhino with Stormbolter and Searchlight - 144 pts

TOTAL - 1746 pts

I have about 40 more Battle Sisters, 15 more Retributors, every HQ model, and 7 more Seraphim available to mess around with. Hopefully there's something solid here I can start to shape. Thank you all in advance for any and all insight provided here in response, it's greatly appreciated.

Yep, looks like a Sisters army.

There's not a whole lot to change because we don't really have many options! Personally I'd ditch all the Stormbolters, the Exorcist searchlights, and the Retributors' Rhino. That'll get you about 100 pts. Ditch the Eviscerator on the Seraphim VSS for Meltabombs, buy a MM Immolator for the Rets, and spend what you have left to build out the Seraphim squad.

If you want another Dominion squad you could do the changes that got you those 100 points, then swap an Exorcist for another HB Retributor squad. That'll give you 150pts free, which can get you a second Dominion squad.

regarding celestine in serpahim. Are you guys sure she gets hit and run from the unit, the wording of independant characters in the special rules section reads like she doesn't get hit and run and the seraphim don't get her specials

The USR entries for both Hit & Run and Fearless say
"As long as one model in the unit has.. "

I second dropping upgrades. Drop the pw, storm bolters on sob and Dom. Keep the evis and get more bodies for seras. Maybe upg ret rhino to immo.

I was just thinking. Seeing as we're looking at a recession in mech, wouldn't we need to come up with an alternate set up for normal sister squads?

Possibly something like one melta and one flamer. My list still needed work from when we changed over from the WH codex anyway. Figured hold out for 6th.

n0t_u wrote:I was just thinking. Seeing as we're looking at a recession in mech, wouldn't we need to come up with an alternate set up for normal sister squads?

Possibly something like one melta and one flamer. My list still needed work from when we changed over from the WH codex anyway. Figured hold out for 6th.

The few test games I've done so far have made me love the Heavy Flamer. Get charged and kill 1-3 (apart from Marines of course) from the flamer alone.

Thats what I'm running them with. Single melta and flamer has worked well in my test lists. It gives me the ability to handle both while keeping the sisters units mobile. Anyone hear anything about them changing the rage on repentia in an FAQ?

Spidey0804 wrote:Got one game in so far ... PEs were insane ...

Can you elaborate on this a bit more Spidey? How many did you run, did you just advance them behind some rhinos for cover, what army did you play against?

Thanks!

Not mentioned in the FAQ yet.

May as well post what I have as a list so far. Going to play my first game of 6th with them tomorrow, at 1000 points.

Canoness
Plasma Pistol, Power Sword, Rosarius
SCS
Immolator
Multimelta, Searchlight

SoB - 10
2 flamer
Rhino
HK, SB, Searchlight

SoB - 10
Flamer, Multimelta
Rhino
HK, SB, Searchlight

Exorcist
Extra Armour, Searchlight

Exorcist
Extra Armour, Searchlight


Given how supposedly crappy it has become I'm looking to remove the extra armour from the Exorcists. Don't really remember why I took it in the first place anymore.
The Searchlights were simply because I had the points leftover at the time. It's sort of obvious it could use some work too.

Just pray you dont run into flyers. Played with my crons yesterday and the scythe was a force to be reckoned with.

But yeah, with the way they changed rage I'm hoping that they fix it on the sisters repentia so that I can field some in my list. With the new rage rules they are liable to be a nasty group to deal with in CC. (Specially cinsidering they are one of the few weapons still AP2)

It just hit me......
Buy up one of those cheap 90 point buildings that have the Icarus Las-Cannon and put it behind a ruin. The Icarus has skyfire so any flyers should either give it a wide birth or get smacked down.

Played a small test game with my friend that plays tau.

Rapid fire is great, the fact that the rule book actually says half range now instead of 12" makes him very happy. Moving and shooting is great I don't feel anchored to any one particular spot now, the game feels more fluid instead of everyone stopping and shooting.

At first i hated that fact that nightfighting was in every single mission but after playing with it, it makes more sense to me now. It cuts down on the chances of that first turn alpha strike completely destroying the opposition first turn(I'm looking at you parking lot IG) I suppose it fairly easy to counter with spotlights but that has it downsides, revealing yourself to the enemy, The fact that the turn that it happens is now random I think is fine because it gives you a chance to move around relatively unabated.

Vehicles felt more balanced and it felt like I had a chance to actually use them, where before they got glanced into a unmovable, unshootable oblivion they now had a chance to to participate even if it was snap fire. Taking extra weapons on a exorcist was a good call since the weapon destroyed is random(took a hk missile and storm bolter, gotta protect that launcher as much as possible) Glances are much easier to get but so are cover saves, they are better slightly than our shield of faith but not every army has a free invulvn save on it's models(cept chaos daemons)

Throwing grenades is a blast!(haw haw) regular troops are a threat against vehicles in shooting without meltaguns or melta bombs(w/ sup) I really like krak grenades, I didn't get a chance to try frag, but I'm not of fan of blast weapons + its S3 though I get 10 blast weapons even if S3 would be a nuisance for horde units.

Words cannot express the ability for Saint Celestine to effectively deny 2 VP points, she was an amazing HQ unit in 5th edition but in 6th edition I feel like she still got buffed a little.I have almost no reason not to make her my go to warlord now.

The removing from the front thing is a little akward but I think it's not only easier, it also makes sense to me anyway. The shenanagians with wound allocation really got nerfed it would appear, there is still the Look out Sir but it's nowhere near the level of preposterousness of the wound allocation from 5th. Choosing which wounds get resolved first is nice it gives me the option of reacting to how my opponent positioned his troops wether he put squishes in the front or back or which unit had the higher save. I also like that you have to removed whole models first, yes at times because of the number of different models and depending on whos closest you might have to roll 1 dice at the time but I find this system more preferable to the last one.

I also like a lot of the new missions you have the same odds of giving a KP or VP mission but it feels more varied even though most of them are similiar.

One thing I didn't like are the huge amount of random terrain rules, they feel like a unnecessary hassle unless your playing a fluffy campaign.

I also think its hilarious that every army has access to the same imperial guard type fortifications but it also gives other armies with no other anti aircraft weaponry a chance to fight against flyers. Lol at bloodletters and tryanids firing Icarus lascannons and quad guns, daemons deepstriking in out landing pads or termagaunts manning a bastion or fortress of redemption.

I feel like it opens a huge amount of modeling opportunities though since GW wants us to take fortifications. In our armies

So I'm in the process of stripping and repainting/basing my entire SOB army and have the opertunity to rearm my sargents and some other models. What is everyone's thoughts on double pistols for sargents in battle squads? I'm thinking of trying out double plasma pistols for fun. also is it better to go axes on sargents over the swords.

Yes Petre I'm doing the axes/swords on my DCA and axes on crusaders.

I've played a single game with double plasma pistols with all my Superiors and double Inferno Pistols with my canoness. The game ended with me having 12 VP and my opponent having only 3 VP. Double Plasma works well with a regular sister of battle squad due to them being able to use their act of faith to reroll 1's to hit and thus not suffer get's hot. This also allows me to get two flamers instead of a flamer and melta which helps me survive charges or even stop them.

I am liking the idea of the return of my Horde Sisters now. It's suddenly much more viable. I played with ONE tank in my army for so long that I never even bothered thinking about them much.

Now that charge ranges are better, I now have pistols and the rules on defensive fire make bigger units better units, This is just screaming out for me to give it a whirl the old fashioned way. Imagine 36 Bolter shots and a couple flamers going off in defensive fire! Yeehaw. Assault THIS, you mongrels.

I do worry about the AP3 powerweapon thing though. If we didn't have so many Meltas in our army, I'd cry about it.

Overwatch fire has been less than impressive so far, apart from the flamers, really. Not to mention some armies (i.e. marines) laugh at flamers.

"Narrative terrain" is just another way of saying "Ignore the terrain rules if they are too complicated". Lol. i think there will be a lot of "narrative terrain" battles. Just a guess. =)

@not_u: are you sold on the scs? It's a lack luster points sink. I hate to beat the same drum, but Celestine is even better now.

As well, you have a lot of upgrades which could be better spent on another unit.

It was more of I what I had on hand at the time. Figured if I was to get more stuff, I'd get the list structured properly first.

Was tempted to get a living saint, but it just didn't fit with the rest of the list before. Guess now that a hybrid of mech and foot would likely be better than pure mech she could fit in. As for the upgrades, it just shows I have no idea.

More or less when we got the WD dex I sort of shelved them until more recently. Though I sort of want to keep the list pure sisters still, I do have a Macharius around somewhere I could use in place of Uriah. Hell this art is how I picture the wings on a Living Saint would actually be.



What upgrades would you suggest?

The living saint is insane, especially at low points.

If you drop the extra armor, HKs and SBs, that's 80 right there. If possible, Celestine + a small seraphim squad would treat you well in the place of the canoness and scs.

The scs suffers from the wrong load out/ faith act in the wrong FOC slot. All the characters are better than a canoness and cheaper.


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I think female conversions for Uriah and Kyrinov are perfectly acceptable and help you go pure sisters.

Looks like building a saint is going on my to do list then.

pretre wrote:The living saint is insane, especially at low points.

If you drop the extra armor, HKs and SBs, that's 80 right there. If possible, Celestine + a small seraphim squad would treat you well in the place of the canoness and scs.

The scs suffers from the wrong load out/ faith act in the wrong FOC slot. All the characters are better than a canoness and cheaper.


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I think female conversions for Uriah and Kyrinov are perfectly acceptable and help you go pure sisters.

that's what I did for mine, I'll throw some pics up when I get the chance

n0t_u wrote:Looks like building a saint is going on my to do list then.

Yeah, well worth it. Show pics when you finish.

Whenever it is I get to it, I did just get some more Daemons.

n0t_u wrote:Whenever it is I get to it, I did just get some more Daemons.

Resist the temptation of chaos!

Build the harbinger saint, you know you want to

Yeh, I do have that lazy concept of it.

Hey, if I can pull it off, I have faith that you can too.

I feel odd posting this now since the conversation has moved on. But I wasn't able to get back to the computer until now and just wanted to say thank you to all who posted feedback to my earlier post.

I've cut all the SB's on the Rhino's and and ditched the PW's. Then switched out the Retribs from the Rhino to the Immolator with Multi-Melta, and threw melta bombs into the Seraphim squad. All in all it was exactly what I needed to do... trim the fat and add in those little essentials.

I'm playing my first battle here tomorrow evening, I'll let you all know how it goes come Sunday. Thanks again for being so friendly to a new comers, hope to contribute once I get a better feel for the army in general and in 6th edition.