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I use a Shadowforge farm girl with a shotgun to stand in for Jacobus (She's "Saint Jackie").

Other than that, my priests are converted from Dark Eldar. Kind of. They're not really finished.

Actually, I'll work on them now!

(another question: People talk about using the dakkabanner inside a transport. Can we do the same with the Sacred Standard of the Orders Militant? Hide it in a Repressor or an Immolator and measure from the tank's hull for its radius).

I'm using Mordheim Sisters of Sigmar. Had a bunch from back when Mordheim first came out, but then again, I'm still using Necromunda Spyars for Inquisitors.

SJ

Mordheim SoS, Escher from Necromunda work well for female.
Necromunda Redemptionists, Warrior Priests from WHFB, Mordheim priests, Flagellants, etc all work for male.

New sororitas player here

Just played my first battle with the codex, in à 400 and something battle vs chaos.
We played with 1 hq and troop compulsory. I ended up with à ten member SBS with 2 priests and St. Celistine with seraphims.
THE opponent had 2 squads of cultists, onze unit of chosen with à lord. And to top it of, she had a hellbrute.

Turn 1 we Both moved up.

Turn 2 Celistine and Co. Jump next to cultists and burn them all. Bss lose a gril to a Shotgun from a cultist champion. He gets to rol a boon and gets some extra close combat killyness. Celistine charges The lord in the cultist unit, and flubs in challenge.

Turn 3 celistine and Co. Get jumped by the chosen, only celistine and one flamergirl lives to tell the tale. Lord dies in combat.
My SBS kill the seconde cultist unit. Celistine and her girl hit and run.

Turn 4 flamers kill all but two chosen, they are dismissed in The following charge.

The rest of The game is us running away from The brute. Wich kills Some with fire.

Conclusion: celistine and Co. Are awesome. And i need to remember to use my AoF beause i forgot them all.
I'm liking this army so far. And can't wait for round two.

Ps. My priest are converter DKoK.

Thanks for the report!

Sounds good.

In the future, remember your Battle Sisters all have krak grenades, so if you can get someone behind the Hellbrute, you have a small chance of killing it.

As mentioned the Empire Flagellants is a great kit also has maces in which is useful.

D

Coming soon....


The return of SabrX and his Immo-spam Sisters!


Against....


Daemons....


....and against....



Mechdar!


Stay tuned....

Oooh, looks fun

 BlackTalos wrote:
In light of my upcoming tournament, and my first time (if i don't get a test game) using Jacobus+Priest+Canoness(Eviserator) in a Blob of 20 Sisters, how do players having used them before go about it?

Do you sit them snugly on a objective back/midfield?
or do they unrelentingly push forward mid-field?

I'd move them up as well. The only other thing I do is to advance near difficult terrain. If you can't get the charge, at least let the opponent charge you with Init 1. But if he has frag grenades, I guess don't bother.

Yeah makes sense... I just had the feeling that the blob walking up like that would be a huge fire magnet and not much would be left turn 2-3.

I guess that as long as Exos and other MSU drive around wreaking havoc it draws most of the attention away?

Bolters aren't that scary, so... heh. Nobody respects them like they deserve!

My experience so for is that my opponents priorities the other units which are further ahead like seraphim and dominions. So the slower foot slogging blobs are usually spared. They do get the occasional whirlwind but 3+ save is pretty resilient. And it takes quite a bit of firepower to make a blob combat ineffective.

Yeah, i'm often surprised when players "run because only bolters are in range"... Whenever my holy bolter is within 24" of anything it gets to shout, and sometimes it's quite surprising how effective they actually are. Never played a blob but i'm sure 20+ shots is going to hurt anything not AV11+ or T8+ :p

Farseer Anath'lan wrote:
Not tactics per se, but what models are people using for their priests, specifically female ones? I have some priest models, but am thinking about trying to make my force entirely female. Any help? Thanks.

I've long planed my force as entirely female. I recently finished the ultimate evolution of my female crusader project (to be found here) and I've been looking for compelling designs for female priests, so, yeah, also eager to hear what people are doing on that front.

 BlackTalos wrote:
Yeah, i'm often surprised when players "run because only bolters are in range"... Whenever my holy bolter is within 24" of anything it gets to shout, and sometimes it's quite surprising how effective they actually are. Never played a blob but i'm sure 20+ shots is going to hurt anything not AV11+ or T8+ :p

And since you have Jacobus inside, you can afford to be charged. So the opposing unit will have to take 20 bolter shots, take about 40 overwatch and then contend with almost 50 attacks. If the opposing unit doesnt have Frag grenades and you are in terrain, that's even better. I've taken down a Bloodcrusher unit charging the blob (about 7-8 IIRC) and left one Bloodcrusher to strike back. Unfortunately, he rolled snake eyes for his break test.....

 milkboy wrote:
My experience so for is that my opponents priorities the other units which are further ahead like seraphim and dominions. So the slower foot slogging blobs are usually spared. They do get the occasional whirlwind but 3+ save is pretty resilient. And it takes quite a bit of firepower to make a blob combat ineffective.

Multiple targets. As said, the Dominions are in their face, the exorcists are raining death on them, etc. You can ignore them and focus on the blob but then the rest of your army is loving it.

You were very lucky then.

WS3/4vs WS5 (of the crushers), hit half of those 50, so 25
Then S3 vs T4, wound bout a third, so bout 8 and a bit.
He fails 2/3rds of his saves, so bout 5 1/3

That's 2 dead crushers (3 wounds each)

My experience with the blob is (and it could be my meta) is that the sisters and Uriah do very little in close combat and I rely on a few heavy hitters (priests, Coteaz, etc..) to do the heavy lifting.

They are also slow and easily avoided (terrain plays havoc since I usually have to spread out to avoid being barraged to death).

They are very fun if you can get Coteaz with Precognition. Re-rollable 2+ with 20 sisters to serve as extra wounds is harder to kill!

You forgot about reroll hits and reroll wounds, plus all the jacobus and priest attacks. (Assuming he runs it the way I run it, Jacobus and 3-4 priests one with litanies, 2 with mauls). It chews through stuff pretty easy.

True, but even if he kills twice as many.. 4-5 crushers left will chew him out just as quick, given they're built to kill 3+ save infantry.

 Shandara wrote:
True, but even if he kills twice as many.. 4-5 crushers left will chew him out just as quick, given they're built to kill 3+ save infantry.

Jacobus gives you a 5++ with reroll from Hymns. And each crusher loss is a lot bigger than a sister loss. Those crushers are toast.

He was striking at Init 1 because he charged through difficult terrain. Else I probably wouldnt have killed so many. I has Jacobus and two other priests. So got three hymns running.

But it was moot because the Daemon snake eyes for morale test brought everyone back.


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From this experience, although anecdotal as best, have gotten me quite taken with a sisters blob.

Yeah, they do good work. I've only had them eliminated before doing anything once and that was my fault (didn't move them forward). They still bought time for the army though.

The Sisters only stand a chance if the crushers have to go through terrain and even then if they have enough crushers they'll deplete your blob most of the way.


So yes, they'll win if:
* you are all in terrain
* you are all bunched up they can all strike right from turn 1
* he doesn't have skull cannons to take away your cover
* he doesn't challenge (he should always have a herald or a at least a unit sergeant) to take out some of the priests after the sergeant in turn 1
* he doesn't have the Grimoire on it.
* you kill a few beforehand

Sisters have counter-attack. Double the number of attacks in the first round. You also didn't include overwatch.


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Also, 20 sisters is:
19 Normal Sisters (1 att + 1 Counter Chrg) - 38
1 Sup (1 att, 1 extra wp, +1 ct chg) - 4
Jacobus (3 att, extra wp, +1 ct chg) - 5
Priests (2 att, extra wp, +1 ct chg) - 4 each

So...
42 Sisters attacks
5 Jacobus
12 Priest Power Maul

So what are your guys thoughts on allies and transport swaps?

I've been toying with the concept of AS + Raven Guard.

The basic premise is that you swap the SOB squads into the drop pods and the raven guard go in the immolators to give them scout.

For example: 1850 AS + RG

100 pts SM HQ (your choice)
135 pts Celestine
155 pts - 5 X Sob 2 X melta, melta bomb, combi melta, immolator multi melta
155 pts - 5 X Sob 2 X melta, melta bomb, combi melta, immolator multi melta
115 pts 5 SMs 1X melta, drop pod
115 pts 5 SMs 1X melta, drop pod
175 pts - 5 dominions 4 melta, combi melta, immolator multi melta
175 pts - 5 dominions 4 melta, combi melta, immolator multi melta
175 pts - 5 dominions 4 melta, combi melta, immolator multi melta
125 pts exorcist
125 pts exorcist
125 pts exorcist
100 pts Thunder fire cannon
100 pts Thunder fire cannon
100 pts Thunder fire cannon

That's 5 scouting multi melta immolators and 2 Drop pod SOB squads.

Or all out alpha strike:

100 pts SM HQ (your choice)
135 pts Celestine
155 pts - 5 X Sob 2 X melta, melta bomb, combi melta, immolator multi melta
155 pts - 5 X Sob 2 X melta, melta bomb, combi melta, immolator multi melta
155 pts - 5 X Sob 2 X melta, melta bomb, combi melta, immolator multi melta
155 pts - 5 X Sob 2 X melta, melta bomb, combi melta, immolator multi melta
115 pts 5 SMs 1X melta, drop pod
115 pts 5 SMs 1X melta, drop pod
115 pts 5 SMs 1X melta, drop pod
115 pts 5 SMs 1X melta, drop pod
175 pts - 5 dominions 4 melta, combi melta, immolator multi melta
175 pts - 5 dominions 4 melta, combi melta, immolator multi melta
175 pts - 5 dominions 4 melta, combi melta, immolator multi melta

7 scouting multi melta immolators, 4 drop pods and 30 melta guns

You're right, forgot about counter-attack.

So yes, they should kill 1 by overwatch, and lose about 5 in combat and then get finished off by round 2.

I'll concede they'll get trounced if you're all in cover, all in range to strike and the daemon player doesn't have characters or skull cannons.

Now back to the scheduled program...

20 sisters, jacobus, 3 priests with mauls, 475 pts
47 attacks at S3 WS3/4, 35.25 hits after re-rolls
12 attacks at S5 WS3, 9 hits after re-rolls

35.25 hits at S3 vs T4, 19.58 wounds after re-rolls
9 hits at S5 vs T4, 8 wounds after re-rolls

so 27.58 wounds total,


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deFl0 wrote:
The basic premise is that you swap the SOB squads into the drop pods and the raven guard go in the immolators to give them scout.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you can't start in a BB's DT. So no drop pods. You can start outside the immos and jump in first turn but that doesn't give you scout.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you can't start in a BB's DT. So no drop pods. You can start outside the immos and jump in first turn but that doesn't give you scout.

Where do you see this in the 7th edition rules? You have a page # or quote? I may have totally missed it, but I gave it a pretty good look last night.

Under the transport section:

"The only limitation of a Dedicated Transport is that when it is deployed, it can
only carry the unit it was selected with (plus any Independent Characters that
have joined it). After the game begins, it can then transport any friendly
Infantry unit, subject to Transport Capacity and other special exclusions, as
explained in the vehicle’s entry."