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Loved the bat rep video. Looks like many heretics were cleansed and xenos were burned. Bad luck with the Saint on the second vid though. That's some bad luck there.

 BlackTalos wrote:

 Celtic Strike wrote:
Hey guys, been away for a while, made a few Narrative Battle reports, I'll post them in here too.

Going to be commenting as i watch but for the 1st game:

What kind of mission was that? 2 objectives closer than 12" or 6" from each other?
Standard Sisters troops Scouting Turn 1? Inquisition allies or Warlord Trait?

Quite confused lol

Lol. 2 Dominion squads, they have scout base.
We were playing Combat patrol missions, On a much smaller table. Don't know where we got them from but they were fun.

@War, the Saint serves as she must. haha. I would've been upset if I hadn't've taken out so much of his army in the battle. As it stood it was one bad roll in anotherwise great game.

 Celtic Strike wrote:

Lol. 2 Dominion squads, they have scout base.
We were playing Combat patrol missions, On a much smaller table. Don't know where we got them from but they were fun.

They do look like fun, start the mission with both Warlords in combat in the middle? Or did i miss that too?

As for the scout:

At 1:30 in the video: "My retributors Scouted up" and at 1:47: "The regular Sister Squad Scouted up here".

Was that supposed to be "moved up" rather than "scouted"? Because as far as i recall, only the dominions get scout unless you got the Master of Ambush trait
That's the only thing i was confused about.

Oh and Vid 2: "Avenger Bolt Canon" not "Vulcan Mega Bolter" lol. They are both S6 AP3 but the flyer has only got 7 Shots, not 15 (i'm sure it was just a name error as you mentioned 7 shots)

 BlackTalos wrote:

 Celtic Strike wrote:

Lol. 2 Dominion squads, they have scout base.
We were playing Combat patrol missions, On a much smaller table. Don't know where we got them from but they were fun.

They do look like fun, start the mission with both Warlords in combat in the middle? Or did i miss that too?

As for the scout:

At 1:30 in the video: "My retributors Scouted up" and at 1:47: "The regular Sister Squad Scouted up here".

Was that supposed to be "moved up" rather than "scouted"? Because as far as i recall, only the dominions get scout unless you got the Master of Ambush trait
That's the only thing i was confused about.

Oh and Vid 2: "Avenger Bolt Canon" not "Vulcan Mega Bolter" lol. They are both S6 AP3 but the flyer has only got 7 Shots, not 15 (i'm sure it was just a name error as you mentioned 7 shots)

In the first mission we had officers who were fighting, if your won you had a small advantage in other games. (Like getting to choose to be attack or defender in the next game, ect)

My 'Dominons' scouted up and the regular sisters moved up there. Is how I should've said it. I just record without writing anything down so I make errors but I'll be more careful in the future.

I only rolled 7 shots, don't worry. lol

Has anyone bought the new campaign book?

 L1ttle wrote:
Has anyone bought the new campaign book?

Nope, but would also like to know what is contained inside.

Just some "sacrificial" side story? or any rules to speak of?



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 Celtic Strike wrote:
In the first mission we had officers who were fighting, if your won you had a small advantage in other games. (Like getting to choose to be attack or defender in the next game, ect)

That's a pretty cool game set-up for tournaments. House rules? I'd be interested in getting a read

We were on page 2! I'm disappointed in all of us.

 deviantduck wrote:
We were on page 2! I'm disappointed in all of us.

Don't just bump it to bump it. If we fall off the first page, we fall off the first page.

(sigh) so after 10 months away from 40k, I find myself being dragged back into the game, restarting sisters and also wanting to do grey knights.(getting a better full time job helped)

Been playing infinity and warmachine/hordes in the mean time, I guess playing other games rekindled my interest in 40k(great so now I have three games eating all my money lol it's not like I've been playing video games like I used in the past)

Has there been any word at all about a hard copy release for sisters codex? I lost my pw on the black library website and nobody got back to me on my request since they don't do password recovery. I'd rather not have to buy it again if there's something on the horizon, though I have a fairly strong idea of what I'd be building anyway.

How are your local areas dealing with the plethora of allies options and dataslates/formations, is your area strictly the army by itself or pretty open about add-ons? I like my mono sisters but I'm stoked by the idea of adding a small detachment of GK or vice versa.(Got tired of playing namby pamby eldar, played them for 14 years, finally going full imperium, GK will be my first "marine" army)

 Dervos wrote:
Has there been any word at all about a hard copy release for sisters codex? I lost my pw on the black library website and nobody got back to me on my request since they don't do password recovery. I'd rather not have to buy it again if there's something on the horizon, though I have a fairly strong idea of what I'd be building anyway.

No, there hasn't.

There's a forgotten password link right on their site though: https://www.blacklibrary.com/Login.aspx?login_action=5

How are your local areas dealing with the plethora of allies options and dataslates/formations, is your area strictly the army by itself or pretty open about add-ons? I like my mono sisters but I'm stoked by the idea of adding a small detachment of GK or vice versa.(Got tired of playing namby pamby eldar, played them for 14 years, finally going full imperium, GK will be my first "marine" army)

I tend to run a lot of mixed armies to get the most out of all of my collection.
Running SOB/SW tomorrow at a 3 round tournament.

 pretre wrote:

There's a forgotten password link right on their site though: https://www.blacklibrary.com/Login.aspx?login_action=5

Omg thank you so much, i dont know how i missed that

 pretre wrote:

I tend to run a lot of mixed armies to get the most out of all of my collection.
Running SOB/SW tomorrow at a 3 round tournament.

O that's awesome, now I just got to actual build a collection

Goodbye money it was nice knowing you.

Managed to get sight of a copy of Leviathan today....

More Sisters stuff than I thought (no rules obviously) - some new artwork and resused old, quite a bit of fluff and they seem to be very much a formidable force in the book even scenarios based around them with pics of models!

Do they live to the end? I've seen some pages of fluff where they kick chitinous Tyranid arse and survive, but I don't know if they make it through to the end of the book without getting stuffed in the fridge.

 SisterSydney wrote:
Do they live to the end? I've seen some pages of fluff where they kick chitinous Tyranid arse and survive, but I don't know if they make it through to the end of the book without getting stuffed in the fridge.

 SisterSydney wrote:
Do they live to the end? I've seen some pages of fluff where they kick chitinous Tyranid arse and survive, but I don't know if they make it through to the end of the book without getting stuffed in the fridge.

I don't believe any of the Imperials survive the campaign. It's not so much stuffed in the fridge as Fought to the last.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 SisterSydney wrote:
Do they live to the end? I've seen some pages of fluff where they kick chitinous Tyranid arse and survive, but I don't know if they make it through to the end of the book without getting stuffed in the fridge.

I don't believe any of the Imperials survive the campaign. It's not so much stuffed in the fridge as Fought to the last.

Well, you could argue that if they all died just to make the Blood Angels seem more badass when they finally stop them, then it would be a fridge-stuffing... although more egalitarian since the Guard went down too.

Posted over on the Blood Angels thread - I tried to start a thread about Sisters in the Sheild of Baal Supplement but some guy got it locked

Neronoxx wrote:

 Smitty wrote:

 evildrcheese wrote:
Pah, all of you people who don't embrace the obscene bling that is the organ missile launcher are heretics as far as I'm concerned and should be burnt accordingly.



D

A little bit of putty and plastic or brass tubing you can make your own organ if you want. I did my first that way. Not the best job, but I think it turned out pretty well. I tiled the organ in an attempt to make it look more like a weapon. The Icons are charms from Hobby Lobby.

 SQRT(-2) wrote:

 evildrcheese wrote:
Pah, all of you people who don't embrace the obscene bling that is the organ missile launcher are heretics as far as I'm concerned and should be burnt accordingly.



D

A little bit of putty and plastic or brass tubing you can make your own organ if you want. I did my first that way. Not the best job, but I think it turned out pretty well. I tiled the organ in an attempt to make it look more like a weapon. The Icons are charms from Hobby Lobby.

Rock'n'Roll. A true believer!

Is the Leviathan book work picking solely for the SoB content? Are their any Imperial formations (I.e guard) or is it only Nids rule wise?

D

 Dervos wrote:
How are your local areas dealing with the plethora of allies options and dataslates/formations, is your area strictly the army by itself or pretty open about add-ons? I like my mono sisters but I'm stoked by the idea of adding a small detachment of GK or vice versa.(Got tired of playing namby pamby eldar, played them for 14 years, finally going full imperium, GK will be my first "marine" army)

Personally, i think that a pure Sisters force lacks S4+ AP3. You have more than enough S4-5 AP5-4 stuff around, as you do S8 AP1. One set to deal with hordes/low T/low Armour stuff and the other for TEQ/Vehicles and MC. We are missing the MEQ cleaner. One of the hardest counter to any pure sister army would be a Space Marine MSU List IMHO.

So as allies, i would suggest "Something to deal with that 10-man Tactical Marine Squad". If they can do more than that, it's just bonuses. Alpha-strike Units and "tanky" Units are good for the Sisters:

- SW Drop-pod assault/ Thunderwolf Cavs. Turn 1 Pain so that your sisters can "set up shop"
- Inquisition / GK / Imperial Knights. They can take the pain for 1-2 Turns (IK probably 3-4 Turns), same as above: while sisters deploy

My choice at the moment: Knight Acheron LoW for my Sisters. Only supported them with a Knight Errant in played Games so far, and the Bullet-magnet does its work.
I can only imagine the S7 AP3 Hellstorm to be exactly what i needed making space for the Blob and Rhinos

[edited because I somehow managed to lose my original post...]

SQRT(-2) wrote:
A little bit of putty and plastic or brass tubing you can make your own organ if you want. I did my first that way. Not the best job, but I think it turned out pretty well. I tiled the organ in an attempt to make it look more like a weapon. The Icons are charms from Hobby Lobby.

Beautiful alt-Exorcist. Call it the Saint Katyusha pattern?

BlackTalos wrote:Personally, i think that a pure Sisters force lacks S4+ AP3. You have more than enough S4-5 AP5-4 stuff around, as you do S8 AP1. One set to deal with hordes/low T/low Armour stuff and the other for TEQ/Vehicles and MC. We are missing the MEQ cleaner. One of the hardest counter to any pure sister army would be a Space Marine MSU List IMHO.

So as allies, i would suggest "Something to deal with that 10-man Tactical Marine Squad". If they can do more than that, it's just bonuses. Alpha-strike Units and "tanky" Units are good for the Sisters...

If your opponents are Forgeworld-friendly, you don't need allies, just an Avenger.
If your opponents are homebrew-friendly, please try my Vindicta tank -- basically a Vindicator that replaces the Demolisher with an Avenger Bolt Cannon -- and tell me how it plays.

 evildrcheese wrote:

 SQRT(-2) wrote:

 evildrcheese wrote:
Pah, all of you people who don't embrace the obscene bling that is the organ missile launcher are heretics as far as I'm concerned and should be burnt accordingly.



D

A little bit of putty and plastic or brass tubing you can make your own organ if you want. I did my first that way. Not the best job, but I think it turned out pretty well. I tiled the organ in an attempt to make it look more like a weapon. The Icons are charms from Hobby Lobby.

Rock'n'Roll. A true believer!

Is the Leviathan book work picking solely for the SoB content? Are their any Imperial formations (I.e guard) or is it only Nids rule wise?

D

Only glanced through the managers copy but I am getting a copy for the fluff but there are NO new rules for anything other than Nids - there are a couple of scenarios that allow you to play out some of the described Sisters actions but I did not see any cool rules for the books heavily featured Canoness Magda Grace etc - sadly :(

 SQRT(-2) wrote:

 evildrcheese wrote:
Pah, all of you people who don't embrace the obscene bling that is the organ missile launcher are heretics as far as I'm concerned and should be burnt accordingly.



D

A little bit of putty and plastic or brass tubing you can make your own organ if you want. I did my first that way. Not the best job, but I think it turned out pretty well. I tiled the organ in an attempt to make it look more like a weapon. The Icons are charms from Hobby Lobby.

I approve!

DCAs and Celestine are our way of dealing with normal MEQ squad, but yeah we're missing a high RoF AP3 or better weapon.

Mavnas wrote:
DCAs and Celestine are our way of dealing with normal MEQ squad, but yeah we're missing a high RoF AP3 or better weapon.

With the sheer amount of AP1 that a typical sisters army can field, is a lack of AP3 a problem? 3 Exorcists and 3 Dominions sporting meltas are a fairly common load out. Granted, it is generally overkill putting that much str 8 ap 1 into an MEQ squad, but if you absolutely, positively have to have that unit destroyed overnight....

 Green is Best! wrote:

Mavnas wrote:
DCAs and Celestine are our way of dealing with normal MEQ squad, but yeah we're missing a high RoF AP3 or better weapon.

With the sheer amount of AP1 that a typical sisters army can field, is a lack of AP3 a problem? 3 Exorcists and 3 Dominions sporting meltas are a fairly common load out. Granted, it is generally overkill putting that much str 8 ap 1 into an MEQ squad, but if you absolutely, positively have to have that unit destroyed overnight....

Yeah, he's just wrong on this one. We don't need AP3 because we have plenty of AP1.

Went to that BAO Style tournament this weekend. About 20-24 players. Brought my SOB with TWC list. Played 3 Marine players.
First, Imperial Fists with Bikes, Grav Cents, TFC, the FW tall dread, rifleman, Eternal Shield Bike Lord and a knight. Tabled him by turn 3. Full points.
Second, White Scars (Bikes with Melta or Grav, Khan, Sicaran) with Guard (Blob, Yarrick, Wyvern). He conceded on Turn 3. Full points.
Third, Salamanders with Pods (6 pods, 1 command squad, 5 troop pods, LOTD squad, TFC) and Castigator. Game timed out on turn 5 with me getting 8 of 10 points (couldn't kill Vulkan and he got first blood).

I don't think my lack of AP3 hurt me.

I have had similar experiences against power armored lists. Sisters simply decimate them. Most players are not used to the sheer volume of AP1 that is in their face (Dominions) as well as from far away (Exorcists).

I have found drop pod armies to be the most difficult to deal with, but space marines do not scare me.

Drop pods are hard, but a good castle and counter-assault can take care of them.

IMO AP3 RoF weapons are not really something most SoB armies need. There is after all a high RoF AP1 weapon filling most SoB HS slots.

The biggest problem my SoB struggle with is board control. ie a good melee threat so that my army doesn't just collapse to a couple of well placed multi assaults. This is where TWC, Imperial Knights, etc. come in and give you better board control elements.

Another issue can be getting units into position for the alpha strike, for the units other than doms. This is one of the reasons that issodon and SW can be such nice secondary detachments. They let you put units near targets or objectives at the start of the game rather than risk having their AV11 transport blown up and left trying to foot slog where they are needed.

 ansacs wrote:
The biggest problem my SoB struggle with is board control. ie a good melee threat so that my army doesn't just collapse to a couple of well placed multi assaults. This is where TWC, Imperial Knights, etc. come in and give you better board control elements.

That's why I like my Canoness + Celestian + Priests squad. They do surprisingly well in melee with the 2 priests granting re-rolls to wound and re-rolls to save. The Canoness and Priests have 4+ Invuls and the Canoness and Celestians are still wearing Power Armour. Eviscerators on the Canoness and Priests means armour saves are not a worry either.