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Got third in a 2000 point escalation tourney. Only loss was to a iyandon eldar list in a kill point mission, against a friend who had played against my sister's many times. So the WORST possoble matchup imaginable lol. He had ten units to my 21...

My list.
4x priests stock
Uriah
Saint celestine

3x troops with flamer, storm bolter, plasma pistol and immolator melta

Dominion with combi melta, 4x melta, immolator with melta.
Dominion with flamers and immolator flamer.
9x Seraphams with 2x hand flamer

Exorcist
10x retributers with bolters, combi melta and power maul.

Knight errant

ADL

Beat orks and space wolves.

Okay, so I got the new IA2. Dominions in Repressors got very nice, since you can fire 4 specials and not expose yourself to return fire.

It's true that the Repressor Kit is currently 'Out of Stock' on the site.

I've sent an email asking when it might be back in stock, I'll keep this thread updated on any answers...

D

I've never used the FW kit for mine, so it ain't no thang.

 evildrcheese wrote:
It's true that the Repressor Kit is currently 'Out of Stock' on the site.

I've sent an email asking when it might be back in stock, I'll keep this thread updated on any answers...

D

Some other models (Eldar Vampire Raider for instance) are also out of stock. I've shot em a mail too since I was planning a purchase later this year.. hopefully it's just a new mould.

Got a reply re: the Repressor:

"Hi there.

We are currently making some repairs to the master models for the but we hope to have them available again within the next month.





If there is anything further we can do to assist you, or if you have any queries about the information we have requested or provided, please telephone us.

Regards,
Forge World"

So at least it'll be back. Part of me was hoping it was getting moved over to GW for a SoB plastic release...still I can live with resin repressors

D

What is the general opinion on Condemnor Boltguns? I was thinking about the idea of having a small Psyker kill team with them.

 Unyielding Hunger wrote:
What is the general opinion on Condemnor Boltguns? I was thinking about the idea of having a small Psyker kill team with them.

They're not worth taking. :(

 pretre wrote:
They're not worth taking. :(

Well, that is a little disappointing. Out of curiosity, what are the best options for some "stealthy" sisters, in your opinion?

Define stealthy sisters?

 Unyielding Hunger wrote:

 pretre wrote:
They're not worth taking. :(

Well, that is a little disappointing. Out of curiosity, what are the best options for some "stealthy" sisters, in your opinion?

Dominions with 5 storm bolters? Gives the impression of a special force moving ahead of the main force to do stuff. On the plus side, they're not a bad unit either.
Or you could run a Celestian or Command squad. Both give the idea of 'veteran' units that could be kitted out as stealthy, although I'd give the edge to the command squad.

5 storm bolter dominions? That's not stealth; that's low target priority.

Welp, I got a little confused on just how I wanted my Sisters to act fluff-wise, so I went ahead and tried the Ordo generator, and came up with...this fiasco... So now I have to try and find a few units that can function with this.

Order of...?

Order Type: Minor Order
Order Originator: Order of the Bloody Rose
Purpose of Founding: Strategic Prognostication
Order's Flaw: Faith in Suspicion
Order Demeanor: See, but don't be seen
Primary Saint: Celestian Commander
Deed of Legend: Fought a rebel army and brought an entire sector back to the light of the Emperor
Homeworld: Fleet Based
Rule of Homeworld: Advisory Role
Order Organization: Slight Variation
Order's Strategy: Stealth
Order Divergence: Modified Jump Pack
Method of Worship: Purity of Man
Order's Size: Endangered
Order's Allies: Adeptas Astartes
Order's Enemies: A particular chaos aligned group

About the only thing I know for sure is that I am going to need some dominions...and lots of Sanguinary Guard wings. I am just curious if we have any real other options available for deployment.

Yeah, black color scheme and dominions. That's about as stealthy as sob get.

 pretre wrote:
5 storm bolter dominions? That's not stealth; that's low target priority.

Same difference. Besides, we have nothing with 'shrouded' or 'stealth', so it's a case of 'insert suitable visualisation here'. Doesn't help I've always thought of storm bolters as quieter then regular bolters, especially Sisters ones.

But hey, to each their own. I live in my own reality.

Farseer Anath'lan wrote:

 pretre wrote:
5 storm bolter dominions? That's not stealth; that's low target priority.

Same difference. Besides, we have nothing with 'shrouded' or 'stealth', so it's a case of 'insert suitable visualisation here'. Doesn't help I've always thought of storm bolters as quieter then regular bolters, especially Sisters ones.

But hey, to each their own. I live in my own reality.

HM weird. I always imagined them being louder than bolter, since they fit somewhere between a bolt and Heavy Bolter in terms of range/output

Suppose you could do elongated barrels for that 'silencer' vibe.

D

I think stealthy sisters might be slightly heresy.

Don't they get strongly into the "purge it with fire and make it as public as possible" line of thought anyway?

evildrcheese wrote:

Farseer Anath'lan wrote:

 pretre wrote:
5 storm bolter dominions? That's not stealth; that's low target priority.

Same difference. Besides, we have nothing with 'shrouded' or 'stealth', so it's a case of 'insert suitable visualisation here'. Doesn't help I've always thought of storm bolters as quieter then regular bolters, especially Sisters ones.

But hey, to each their own. I live in my own reality.

HM weird. I always imagined them being louder than bolter, since they fit somewhere between a bolt and Heavy Bolter in terms of range/output

Suppose you could do elongated barrels for that 'silencer' vibe.

D

Fair enough. I saw it as they were issued to special forces (Grey Knights, specifically), were of newer, more advanced design (vs the combi-bolter) and were Sisters issue, smaller then Space Marine weapons. But yeah, I can see how it could go both ways.

BoomWolf wrote:I think stealthy sisters might be slightly heresy.

Don't they get strongly into the "purge it with fire and make it as public as possible" line of thought anyway?

In general, but some of the Orders are known for being clinical and tactical, preferring to use their heads. I'm sure they are capable of using stealth when it makes sense to.

I think in a Sisters context being clinical and tactical means preferring melta guns to flamers.


If you want stealthy, you could always take Cypher.

Mavnas wrote:
I think in a Sisters context being clinical and tactical means preferring melta guns to flamers.


If you want stealthy, you could always take Cypher.

And assassins.

Homebrewed Stealth & Infiltrate Sisters if you wanna try them sometime with a willing opponent. Note: gloriously unplaytested.

After testing some builds for a tournament I've come up with a list that I think is balanced, but I'd like some feedback and comment. The list and some notes:

PRIMARY:

Pask (Warlord) Punisher, Lascannon, Multimelta sponsons, Camo
-Leman Russ Punisher (squadron)
Vendetta
Leman Russ Eradicator
Vets, 2 meltaguns
PCS, 2 infantry squads, 2 flamers, 40 Conscripts

DETACHMENT

Saint Celestine
2 Priests, Book of Saint Lucius
5 Sisters, 2 meltaguns, Rhino
5 Sisters, 1 flamer, Immolator with TL Multimelta
5 Dominions, 2 meltaguns, Immolator with TL Multimelta
5 Dominions, 4 flamers, Immolator with TL Multimelta
2 Exorcists

Saint Celestine and a Priest join the 40 Conscripts, giving them Fearless, Hit and Run, and Hatred. These bubble wrap Pask and his fellow Punisher. The other Priest joins the 20 Guard blob giving them Fearless. The Book of Saint Lucius gives all friendly units within 12" auto regroup, so the Vets will stay within 12" of the blob Priest. The Eradicator will stay near Pask, forming a AV14 wall, with the Exorcists and Sisters transports behind them. The Dominions will either Scout first turn or outflank. The 5 Sisters in the Rhino will actually hitch a ride on the Vendetta for last turn objective claiming. PCS will trudge along behind the conscripts to give them orders.
Strategy is obviously dictated by my opponent but that is the main idea, with Pask protected by the Conscripts, who can hit and run allowing Pask to unleash his Punishers. Also Celestine can go off on her own if needed and beat face.
Ideas or thoughts welcome.

Looks good. Swap the sister immo for a rhino toget more meltas for the doms though.

 davidgr33n wrote:
After testing some builds for a tournament I've come up with a list that I think is balanced, but I'd like some feedback and comment. The list and some notes:

PRIMARY:

Pask (Warlord) Punisher, Lascannon, Multimelta sponsons, Camo
-Leman Russ Punisher (squadron)
Vendetta
Leman Russ Eradicator
Vets, 2 meltaguns
PCS, 2 infantry squads, 2 flamers, 40 Conscripts

DETACHMENT

Saint Celestine
2 Priests, Book of Saint Lucius
5 Sisters, 2 meltaguns, Rhino
5 Sisters, 1 flamer, Immolator with TL Multimelta
5 Dominions, 2 meltaguns, Immolator with TL Multimelta
5 Dominions, 4 flamers, Immolator with TL Multimelta
2 Exorcists

Saint Celestine and a Priest join the 40 Conscripts, giving them Fearless, Hit and Run, and Hatred. These bubble wrap Pask and his fellow Punisher. The other Priest joins the 20 Guard blob giving them Fearless. The Book of Saint Lucius gives all friendly units within 12" auto regroup, so the Vets will stay within 12" of the blob Priest. The Eradicator will stay near Pask, forming a AV14 wall, with the Exorcists and Sisters transports behind them. The Dominions will either Scout first turn or outflank. The 5 Sisters in the Rhino will actually hitch a ride on the Vendetta for last turn objective claiming. PCS will trudge along behind the conscripts to give them orders.
Strategy is obviously dictated by my opponent but that is the main idea, with Pask protected by the Conscripts, who can hit and run allowing Pask to unleash his Punishers. Also Celestine can go off on her own if needed and beat face.
Ideas or thoughts welcome.

The second punisher without Pask will be a lot less effective. I'm not sure what it gives you. Since you're rerolling 1s with that unit the more traditional choice is the one with the plasma gun + plasma sponsons for 5 plasma blasts. Since it can shoot at a different target than Pask's Punisher, this lets you deal with other light vehicles/heavy infantry while Pask deals with whatever you want. Also gives the unit slightly more range than Pask's 24".

Flamer doms seem kind of pointless. I mean you have a unit that can already ignore cover for a turn, and probably won't live much beyond that. Anything 4 flamers are a threat to, you already handle well enough with Pask and his squad mate. The other dominion squad with only two melta guns also seems like a waste. 2 shots won't really guarantee you're popping anything. If you really want a 4 flamer unit, I'd say get retributors with 4 heavy flamers, toss in a priest and a few extra bodies and a simulacrum. They won't be as fast as the doms, but they will be able to shift infantry off an objective and then hold it with rending heavy flamers.

Yeah flamer doms are a little redundant in so much as they ignore cover all the time, sure dropping 4 flamer templates on a unit will hurt, but with access to 2x flamer or flamer+heavy flamer in the standard 5 (wo)man battle sister squads you really should be going for ignore cover meltas.

If you can maybe put the BSS in immolators and the Melta doms in rhinos so they can shoot out the top hatch.

I really like the idea behind the list, nice mixing of IG and SoB.

Could you scramble enough points for a SoB priest with lots of faith and some IG priests to go with the conscripts? Auto passing war hymns gives the conscrpts some teeth.

D

So, I am trying to make a different kind of sisters list just to see how it will do. While I am fully aware that it is going to get curb stomped by any semblance of a competitive list, I would still like to see how well it does. Our FLGS has a 1,000 point tournament coming up and I want to field penitent engines and possibly repentia sisters. Since I am running PE's, I am envisioning something more akin to a Kan wall, so I am wondering if I should just make this an all foot list.

With that in mind, I have the following available:

4 Peninent engines (was trying to get 6, but sigh)
2 x 10 Repentia sisters (with mistress)
1 x 9 repentia sisters (no mistress, would have to convert or acquire one)
7-9 priests of varying equipment
1 Uriah
1 St. Celestine
1 Canoness (alas no command squad though)
Enough sisters with meltas, flamers, Heavy Flamers, Multimeltas, and Heavy bolters to configure something.
Handful of seraphim (5 painted and ready to go, 10 more some assembly required)
I also have an assortment of Exorcists, Immolators, and Rhinos.

I was leaning towards 2 squadrons of 2 PEs backed up by 2 BSS squads, each with a priest. St. Celestine and a Ret Squad would round things out. But, I am throwing this out to other minds. What would you do with this mess of overly expensive metal models to make it work?

Thanks in advance.

If you're going to run PE, you need to put immediate and hard pressure on your opponent. Foot isn't going to do that.

PE Squads
Dominions with melta in Rhinos/Immos/Repressors
BSS with melta/HF in Rhino/Repressors
Retributors with HF in Repressor?
Celestine and Seras

Just run the whole thing at your opponent turn one and hope for the best. You should have enough targets to cause targetting issues and MAYBE your PEs will actually get to assault.

I don't have my codex in front of me, but going from memory, I think I can field something like:

St. Celestine
2 Ministorum Priest
2x Battle Sister Squad with Heavy Bolters
2 x Dominion Squad (4 meltaguns) with TL MM Immolators
5x Seraphim with hand flamer
3x Penitent Engines

Priests go with the two BSS squads to keep them fearless as they camp on backfield objectives. Heavy bolters give them some range to reach out and touch someone.
The remainder march forward to serve the Emperor.

Or should I ditch the priests and scrape up some points for rhinos for the two BSS?

It's not horrible.

I'd still try to get vehicles for the BSS though rather than the priests. They're going to get chewed up otherwise.

I agree. I will play around with the points when I get home (going from memory right now). It definitely has a chance to wreck face if it gets a chance to shoot first......

So, I played around with some numbers and here is what I came up with:

Canoness with Litanies of Faith
Battle Sisters x 5 (2 flamers) with Immolator TL MM
Battle Sisters x 5 (2 flamers) with Immolator TL MM
Dominion Squad x 5 (4 meltaguns) with Immolator TL MM
Dominion Squad x 5 (4 meltaguns) with Immolator TL MM
Penitent Engine x 2
Penitent Engine x 2

As I said, not expecting to do all that well, but maybe I catch someone napping....