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Updated for 6th.

 SisterSydney wrote:
Someone should write up Pradexes for 6th. We haven't had her since, what, the 1990s?

This is my 6th Edition take on her:

HQ: Saint Praxedes of Ophelia VII Unit: Points Per Models Unit Type WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv Saint Praxedes 125 1* Infantry (Character) 6 7 4 3 3 6 4 10 2+/6++ Wargear: Special Rules: Boltgun Acts of Faith Melta Bombs Sacred Rites Frag Grenades Independent Character Krak Grenades Fearless Sceptre of Vengeance Shield of Faith Power Armor Irresistible Charge Cloak of St. Aspira Inspirational Leader Purity Seals Cloak of St. Aspira: The Cloak of St. Aspira increases the wearer's Armour Save characteristic by +1 (already included in the model's profile). Purity Seals: Purity Seals confers the wearer and any unit they are attached to the Fearless special rule. In addition, Purity Seals allow the wearer and any unit they are attached to to pass their Deny the Witch rolls on a 4+. Sceptre of Vengeance: The Sceptre of Vengeance is a power mace with the following profile: Weapon: Range Str. AP Type Sceptre of Vengeance - User+3 2 Melee, Armourbane, Unwieldy, Concussive Sacred Rites: St. Praxedes adds +2 to her or any unit she is attached to Act of Faith roll instead of the usual +1. Irresistible Charge: On a player turn in which St. Praxedes assaults, at the beginning of the Fight sub-phase prior to the Initiative 10 step, choose one enemy model locked in the same combat as or in a challenge with St. Praxedes and roll a D6. On the result of a 1, nothing happens. On a result of 2+ add her Strength. If the total is greater than the Strength of her opponent, her opponent immediately is reduced to Initiative 1 until the end of the following Assault phase. Inspirational Leader: Any Sisters of Battle unit within 12" of St. Praxedes may add +1 to their Leadership characteristic for any Morale or Pinning tests. As long as St. Praxedes is locked in close combat, any Sisters of Battle unit within 12" of St. Praxedes may instead use her Leadership characteristic of 10 for any Morale or Pinning tests. Additionally, on a player turn in which St. Praxedes assaults, she and all models in her unit add +1 to their Weapon Skill characteristic until the end of that phase (even for disordered charges).

Wow, that took a couple hours, referencing C:SoB 2nd Edition, BRB 2nd Edition, C: SoB 5th Edition, and BRB 6th Edition. Aside from some language clean up, and preferred word choice of GW's, I think it came out nicely. I did have to tweak the Sceptre and Irresistible Charge a bit to make them work better with the fluff of the mace itself and 6th Edition assaults/challenges.

I tried to keep her as close as I could to her original rules. I dropped her down to T3 from T5 to fit current SoB/human stats. For the Sceptre and Irresistible Charge, I took both the fluff parts and the rules part and mixed them together to better fit 6th Edition and balance. If one wanted to stick more to her original RAW, drop Unwieldy from the Sceptre and have the Charge halve WS as opposed to the pseudo-Concussive effect.

That's a lot of work you put in -- thank you. Four suggestions:

1) Someone who knows better than me should look over costing -- I find that very tricky for SCs.

2) "Irresistible charge" seems, ironically, like the kind of thing that would slow down play because it's fairly complex -- and since it only comes up rarely, it might be easy to forget to do it at all. I'd suggest giving her a Hammer of Wrath attack (ie one executed before the usual initiative sequence) at the Mace's strength.
Furious Charge (+1 S) and/or Rage (+1 A) are charge bonuses well worth considering too.

3) Given her fluff -- braining a Hive Tyrant and all that -- either she or the Mace should have Monster Hunter. I'd argue for the Mace itself, because...

4) ... I'd like to see the Mace of Pradexes as an Ecclesiarchy relic, one that Pradexes must use if she's in your army but another Canoness could use if you set your game after her death. My fluff explanation would be that, after her heroic last stand to protect the evacuation, the planet underwent Exterminatus; when Pradexes' grieving Sisters returned to the scoured planet to place a monument at the site of her death, they found her mace miraculously intact amidst the devastation and brought it back. Now it is a revered relic of the Sisterhood, given to only the most worthy and trusted champions embarked on urgent missions against Tyranids, Daemons, and other Monstrous Creatures.

No, she's too over powered

Her original stats were Ws 5, Bs 5, S 3, T 3, W 3, I 4, A 3, Ld 10, Sv 2+ 130 points


I can see her getting a +1 boost in Ws, Bs, and I, though

Deny the With on a 4+? Sounds like Space wolf territory, will you settle for a 5+? which is still better than what the sisters have now.

On the other hand, the sisters could use a Sisters of Silence type character

your idea of Sacred Rights, i don't think the sisters need help with acts of faith rolls (+1 for HQ, +1, for unit leader, +1 for casualties, is a roll of a 2+) the sisters need more faith points, though



sydney has great ideas too.

something i found searching the net: old stats from 3rd edition, want to update her for 6th?





Helena the Virtuous
Pts WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv
120_ 4 _4 3 3 2 3 3 10 3+/4++

Wargear : Master-crafted Boltgun, Frag grenades, Rod of Grace(power weapon), Purity Seals, Rosarius, Mantle of Ophelia
Retinue. Helena must always be accompanied by a Celestian retinue
Faithful. Helena adds 3 Faith Points to the army's Faith Point total, however if she is killed the Sisters lose D6 Faith points, to a minimum of 0 (this does not prevent later generation of faith)
Adepta Sororitas.
Holy Radiance. A squad with any model within 12" at the beginning of their turn will automatically regroup, subject to normal restrictions.

shadowsfm wrote:
No, she's too over powered

Her original stats were Ws 5, Bs 5, S 3, T 3, W 3, I 4, A 3, Ld 10, Sv 2+ 130 points

Unless she had stats from prior to the 2nd edition C:SoB, then no, those aren't her stats. Her stats were in that codex:

M 4, WS 6, BS 7, S 4, T 5, W 3, I 6, A 4, LD 10, Sv 2+ @ 122 points including wargear.

shadowsfm wrote:I can see her getting a +1 boost in Ws, Bs, and I, though

I didn't boost her stats at all, and in fact reduced her T from 5 to 3. Everything else I kept the same.

shadowsfm wrote:Deny the With on a 4+? Sounds like Space wolf territory, will you settle for a 5+? which is still better than what the sisters have now.

Did you read what Purity Seals did from C:SoB from 2nd Edition?

C:SoB 2nd Edition wrote:...If the character is targeted by a psychic attack, they will be unaffected on a D6 roll of 4+.

I did my best to keep her to her original form from C:SoB as best I could in a 6th Edition environment.

shadowsfm wrote:your idea of Sacred Rights, i don't think the sisters need help with acts of faith rolls (+1 for HQ, +1, for unit leader, +1 for casualties, is a roll of a 2+) the sisters need more faith points, though

Scared Rites were essentially the SoB AoF, prior to them being AoF and St. Praxedes added 3 to that roll. Again, changing to how AoF work now and what boost she gave then, adding 2 instead of the normal 1 did not seem unreasonable and jives best with what she did back in 2nd. Look at the current rules and stat line for St. Celestine, what St. Praxedes brings to the table and for how much seems pretty damn reasonable. She's still T 3 and no EW, and she won't be coming back like St. Celestine. Hell, she didn't even have an Invul save and I only gave her one through the Shield of Faith as opposed to just giving her a 4++ for no good reason.

oh never mind, I must have got my information from an unreliable source http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/sisters-battle/199985-saint-praxedes-ophelia-iii.html

Howdy, not to toot my own horn or anything but I recently finished a 6th edition Sisters codex with Saint Praxedes AND a SISTERS of silence character.

Here's the link to the file: http://anjetto.deviantart.com/art/Codex-Sisters-of-battle-6th-edition-376913355

And the link to the thread where it was discussed: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/532508.page

If you don't wanna read the whole codex (Complete with Relic gear and a warlord table along with a redone 'Faith' system - hint, hint) I'll just post Saint Praxedes right here.


Saint Praxedes: 190 Points
WS5 BS5 S3 T3 W3 I5 A3 LD10 SV2+ Unit type: Infantry (Character)

Wargear: Anointed armour, Infernus pistol, Frag and Krak grenades, Rosarius

Special rules: Independent character, Stubborn, Furious charge, Inspirational leader, Titanic strike, Eternal warrior, Puritanical Zeal, Adamantium will, Faithful (The Fury)

Warlord Trait: Know the Witch The Warlord and her unit the 'Hatred' and 'Preferred enemy' special rules.

Inspirational leader: Grants all friendly units from 'Codex: Sisters of battle' within 12'' the 'Stubborn' special rule.

Puritanical Zeal: An army where she is your Warlord may re-roll a single set of charge dice once per turn.

Titanic strike: In lieu of making normal combat attacks she strikes the ground. All models in base contact with her receive a single S:5 AP:3 hit with the 'Concussive' special rule.

Act of Faith (The Fury): Grants her and her squad +1 Initiative and the 'Move through cover' special rule.

RELIC WEAPON: Scepter of Vengeance/ Mace of Praxedes
Range: Melee
S: +2
AP: 3
Type: Two-handed, Psy-shock*

Will just have to take a look

she looks good, though my advise is the act of faith could be worded better, for example, when to roll for the faith test and if this is two separate acts of faith or not