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Blast from the past...

At least you can tell they spent a lot of thought and effort into that codex and....oh wait....never mind. That's right. They didn't care and just threw out whatever the intern came up with.

Could've been worse, at least some of the units seem to have had an edit pass somewhere.

As much as it stings that we didn't get a real codex and the desperately needed plastic kits those years ago (I even remember the rumours of the kits for tje BSS with veiled superiors which looked great; according to the rumours anyway),I haven't found the WD dex too bad - my only real complaint is the removal of the Inquisitor units, as I was drawn to Codex WH afer reading the Eisenhorn books.

D

Has anyone tried using the new forfications? Like the vengeance weapon battery with battle cannons? Cause I was thinking of using them with av 13 spam.

Saint Celestine: 115
3x10 Battle Sister with 2 flamers and melta bomb in a repressor: 645
6 Seraphim’s with 2 Hand Flamers and Melta Bomb: 140
2 Exorcist Tanks: 270
1 Avenger: 150
2 Vengeance Weapon Battery with Battle Cannons: 170

 Necrosis wrote:
Has anyone tried using the new forfications? Like the vengeance weapon battery with battle cannons? Cause I was thinking of using them with av 13 spam.

Saint Celestine: 115
3x10 Battle Sister with 2 flamers and melta bomb in a repressor: 645
6 Seraphim’s with 2 Hand Flamers and Melta Bomb: 140
2 Exorcist Tanks: 270
1 Avenger: 150
2 Vengeance Weapon Battery with Battle Cannons: 170

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 pretre wrote:

 Marthike wrote:

I remember it used to be just min troops but I guess now I guess you need a lot more troops to take all the objectives in each mission.
I like that list it's pretty much all you can do when trying to spam av13 lol

Doms are probably one of the best unit for the sisters. Not sure if your list is 1750 1850 or 2000 my local meta only goes up to 1750

That's 1750 and you do need troops.

I prefer a mix of Sisters and Guard. I'm running this in a week or two at a 4 round tournament (1850):

Saint Celestine
Battle Sister Squad (10) w/ Multi-melta, Bolt Pistol / Chainsword - Repressor
Battle Sister Squad (10) w/ Multi-melta, Bolt Pistol / Chainsword - Repressor
Dominion Squad (10) with 2x Melta, 2xFlamer in Repressor
Exorcist
Exorcist
Exorcist
Vengeance Weapon Battery (2) w/ Battlecannons
CCS with 4 Melta
Veterans with AC/GL, Chimera (ML/HF)
Veterans with AC/GL, Chimera (ML/HF)
Vendetta

 evildrcheese wrote:
As much as it stings that we didn't get a real codex and the desperately needed plastic kits those years ago (I even remember the rumours of the kits for tje BSS with veiled superiors which looked great; according to the rumours anyway),I haven't found the WD dex too bad - my only real complaint is the removal of the Inquisitor units, as I was drawn to Codex WH afer reading the Eisenhorn books.

D

While I didn't like the SOB tied to the inquisition, those inquisitorial retinues added a whole lot of conversion possibilities that were just plain awesome.

 MWHistorian wrote:

 evildrcheese wrote:
As much as it stings that we didn't get a real codex and the desperately needed plastic kits those years ago (I even remember the rumours of the kits for tje BSS with veiled superiors which looked great; according to the rumours anyway),I haven't found the WD dex too bad - my only real complaint is the removal of the Inquisitor units, as I was drawn to Codex WH afer reading the Eisenhorn books.

D

While I didn't like the SOB tied to the inquisition, those inquisitorial retinues added a whole lot of conversion possibilities that were just plain awesome.

They were also a cheap scoring gretchin unit, which was useful for guarding home objective.

My trio of repressors:



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Group shot. 15 or so guard left to paint.

 MWHistorian wrote:
While I didn't like the SOB tied to the inquisition...

Not sure if anyone noticed, but there's an ]I[ on every Battle Sister's shoulder. I don't think that stands for "Independent".

Also, pretre, sweet Repressors!

Amerikon wrote:

 MWHistorian wrote:
While I didn't like the SOB tied to the inquisition...

Not sure if anyone noticed, but there's an ]I[ on every Battle Sister's shoulder. I don't think that stands for "Independent".

Also, pretre, sweet Repressors!

Nor does it stand for the Inquisition. It actually symbol of Adeptus Ministorum.

Are you going to replace those with the Rhebok APCs or just have 6 Repressors?

Also did you ever hear back from them on the shipping for multiples?

So I had a couple games yesterday figured i'd post something about them.

500 pts vs. eldar:

Celestine tanked about 50 S6+ shots during this game, went down about 3 times and came back up every time.

750 pts vs. tau:

Celestine tanked something like 200 shots during this game. One turn alone some outflanking kroot were in range of an etheral and shot something like 80 shots at her and her unit. She survived that with her unit mostly intact. Eventually went down to a railhead i believe, but came back up 2 turns later.

She's got to be the best HQ in the game.

I also played against my favorite Necron opponent. (arch nemesis) First game St. Celestine had her Seraphim killed off and got tar-pited by endless scarabs.
Second game, her and the Necron Lord got into a huge slap fight that went on until the end of the game. No winner.

 Malkyr wrote:
Are you going to replace those with the Rhebok APCs or just have 6 Repressors?

Also did you ever hear back from them on the shipping for multiples?

I magnetized the penitent shields on the front and the dozers are removable so they can go back to being immolators. I will eventually replace them with Rheboks. The shipping is per each so they are basically 19 pounds each. Which is still a pretty good deal. Works out to a little less than $90 for 3.


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war wrote:
She's got to be the best HQ in the game.

If not the best HQ, definitely the best Warlord.

A couple of questions about St. Celestine:

When she dies do you get to keep rolling every turn thereafter to see if she gets back up? Or once you fail the roll once is she dead.

Also did the model ever come with wings? Or has it always been the cape?

Keep rolling every turn until she gets back.

She never came with wings but it was a popular conversion.

Ok thanks. I figure when starting a Sisters army that needs to be my first purchase!

Are Ebay, Bartertown, and the GW website the only places to get Sisters stuff now? My LGS and the discounted online retailers I know of don't have any.

 Malkyr wrote:
Ok thanks. I figure when starting a Sisters army that needs to be my first purchase!

Are Ebay, Bartertown, and the GW website the only places to get Sisters stuff now? My LGS and the discounted online retailers I know of don't have any.

Direct and second-hand are the only ones. No retailers have them that I am aware of.

sometimes I will get lucky and find one in the back of a shop with a hundred years of dust on top of the box. If you do find something like that keep the dust on the top and ask for a discount on the figure that clearly isn't selling (blow the dust off while you ask the question). So far it has worked twice for me.

 Necrosis wrote:

Amerikon wrote:

 MWHistorian wrote:
While I didn't like the SOB tied to the inquisition...

Not sure if anyone noticed, but there's an ]I[ on every Battle Sister's shoulder. I don't think that stands for "Independent".

Nor does it stand for the Inquisition. It actually symbol of Adeptus Ministorum.

I thought the Ministorum symbol was what they wore on the chain around their waists and the shoulder symbol was the "I" of the Inquisition.

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That's the symbol on their shoulder and the symbol of the AM.

Except without the big skull and the pointy ring.

Took a 500 point fluff list to Games Day and the Sisters of the Ebon Chalice performed well. They assisted the Dark Angels against the forces of Chaos during one of the "demo" games. I took a list of pure sisters with bolters and flamers:

Canoness with combi-flamer
Command Squad (6) with Blessed Banner and flamer
BSS (10) with 2 flamers
Seraphim (5) with 2 hand-flamers

Fortunately, the immediate enemy consisted of zombies (20), cultists (10), chaos spawn (3), and Typhus. A Ravenwing squad was on my right flank to occupy the Defiler. My left flank was left open to the Chaos terminators when the DA terminators had a catastrophic deep strike.

At the end of 4 rounds, two surviving Seraphim were holding an objective against the defiler while Canoness Jondar stood toe-to-toe with Typhus (the Emperor's grace was with the sisters as Typhus kept self-inflicting wounds with his manreaper.) The BSS was destroyed by the Chaos terminators and the Dialogus fell the zombies.

In the end the Sister of the Ebon Chalice gained 3 points (for the objective) and only surrendered 1 point (loss of BSS.)

While not competitive, it was lots of good fun, and the Sisters looked good on the field, fluff and all.

So as a new Sisters player what Dedicated Transports should I pick up first?

Should I be after Rhinos, Immolators, or Repressors?

Which ones will be the best bang for my buck until I eventually own them all?

Buty the Immo kit but don't glue the turrents on so you can run them as Rhinos or Immos depending on your list to start with I'd suggest...

Played my 5th game last night and squeaked a win against Tau. It was The Relic with Hammer and Anvil set up. All those high S weapons really put the hurt on me - he was nearly always wounding on a2+ and it tok me 3 turns to get rid of half his marker lights and the one's he had left were connected to his warlord and hitting on a 2+ so he was still stripping cover and increasing his BS.

Celestine really carried me throughout the game, if it wasn't for her I probably would've been tabled by T3 but she kept coming back and soaking up fire. I only managed to win because i kept a bss squad in a rhino with my Rets and then made a mad dash for the relic and we had to end the game at he end of T5 anyway. If it had contintinued I'm not sure I could've held it but a it's still a win

The lowcpoint of my game was probably my exorcists which pretty much whiffed every round of shooting - one round I got 7 shots between my 2 exorcists (about average) and every shot missed. Rets were pretty good as usual - seraphim were okay but the bss puled their weight when they got involved and obviously won me the game by grabing the relic at the end.

It was a good match but Tau are a hard match up for Sisters, you really need to try and get rid of the markerlight units as fast as possible but even that is easier said than done. I pretty much ignored the riptide throughout and yes it did put some serious hurt on me I tried to stay focused on getting his markerlights and troop choices.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
Buty the Immo kit but don't glue the turrents on so you can run them as Rhinos or Immos depending on your list to start with I'd suggest...

Played my 5th game last night and squeaked a win against Tau. It was The Relic with Hammer and Anvil set up. All those high S weapons really put the hurt on me - he was nearly always wounding on a2+ and it tok me 3 turns to get rid of half his marker lights and the one's he had left were connected to his warlord and hitting on a 2+ so he was still stripping cover and increasing his BS.

Celestine really carried me throughout the game, if it wasn't for her I probably would've been tabled by T3 but she kept coming back and soaking up fire. I only managed to win because i kept a bss squad in a rhino with my Rets and then made a mad dash for the relic and we had to end the game at he end of T5 anyway. If it had contintinued I'm not sure I could've held it but a it's still a win

The lowcpoint of my game was probably my exorcists which pretty much whiffed every round of shooting - one round I got 7 shots between my 2 exorcists (about average) and every shot missed. Rets were pretty good as usual - seraphim were okay but the bss puled their weight when they got involved and obviously won me the game by grabing the relic at the end.

It was a good match but Tau are a hard match up for Sisters, you really need to try and get rid of the markerlight units as fast as possible but even that is easier said than done. I pretty much ignored the riptide throughout and yes it did put some serious hurt on me I tried to stay focused on getting his markerlights and troop choices.

D

Sounds rough. I got tabled last time I played against them. Sister's are getting left behind with codex creep. Next time I'll try a stronger Immo list with a lot of outflanking and cross my fingers.

 evildrcheese wrote:
Buty the Immo kit but don't glue the turrents on so you can run them as Rhinos or Immos depending on your list to start with I'd suggest...

Buying aftermarket most likely so not sure if this is an option yet. It may very well be worth direct ordering the Immolator kits though.

Does an Immolator without the turret on actually look like a Rhino? Or would I have to magnetize the whole top plate somehow?

It's just a Rhino chasis with a turret... so yes, yes it does.

Either magnetise the raised plate the turret is on, or just take the turret off and replace it with a standard Rhino Hatch.

Should be posting some photos of my force soon after a recent expansion to bring me up to slightly over 3000 points worth of painted models, 4500 if you go unpainted.

But on a tactical note, how are people finding the battle cannon battery? Are they worth the 150 points (would be trading places with a Dom squad for me most likely)?

I figure even if they are bound to shoot at the nearest target, placing them far apart means I can make some dangerous lanes of fire and better control the battlefield. Plus it is an AV14 big gun that should hopefully draw a fair deal of attention away from my BSSes and Seraphim.