Unit Type: Infantry (Character)
Unit Composition: 1 Confessor or 1 Missionary

Wargear: Flak armour, laspistol, close combat weapon, frag grenades, krak grenades, rosarius

Special Rules: Martyrdom, War Hymns, Zealot

Conclave Commander:
For each Confessor and/or Missionary in your army, you may take one Ecclesiarchy Battle Conclave. Such a conclave may take a Deliverer Assault Ark as a Dedicated Transport.

Master of Penitents (Confessor only)
The Ministorum grants its Confessors authority to bind and loose its dreadful engines of penance.
If a detachment includes a Confessor, Penitent Engines may be taken as Elites choices in that detachment, as well as Heavy Support choices.


Options:
May replace laspistol with one of the following:
- Autogun - free
- Bolt pistol - 1 pt
- Boltgun - 1 pt
- Plasma gun - 15 pts
- May take melta bombs - 5 pts
A Confessor or Missionary may take Purity seals: 15 points
A Confessor or Missionary may take items from the Melee Weapons, Ranged Weapons and Ecclesiarchy Relics lists.

A Confessor or Missionary may take a Chariot of Fire (q.v.) as a Dedicated Transport.

One Confessor per detachment may take Litanies of War:

Litanies of War: 40 points
The greatest of Confessors can inspire miraculous brutality. Their hymns of holy hatred rise above the roar of battle and orchestrate the scattered faithful into a single choir of destruction.
A Confessor (not a Missionary) may take one and only one of the Litanies of War listed below. Once per game, at the beginning of an appropriate phase, he may attempt to invoke the Litany by taking a Leadership test. If he fails, nothing happens and the hymn is lost. If he succeeds, the hymn affects all Imperium of Man units within 6", and the effect described lasts until the end of the current phase.

Anathema:
The Confessor pronounces a dreadful curse upon a particular evildoer, which his followers then execute.
The Confessor may use this hymn at the beginning of his side's Shooting Phase or of either side's Assault Phase. Designate a single enemy model within the Confessor's line of sight to be anathematized. All friendly units within 6" of the Confessor gain the Preferred Enemy special rule towards the anathematized model and its unit until the end of the phase.

Fear No Evil:
The Confessor's contempt for death inspires undying courage.
The Confessor may use this hymn at the beginning of any phase. All friendly units within 6" gain the Fearless special rule until the end of the phase. Any affected unit that was Falling Back immediately regroups, regardless of what phase it is, and may move, shoot (or run), and charge normally this turn.

The Fear of the Lord:
The Confessor fills his followers with the terrible wrath of the God-Emperor, and His enemies quail.
The Confessor may use this hymn at the beginning of either player's Assault phase. Until the end of the phase, every friendly unit within 6" gains the Fear special rule and is immune from Fear itself.

Thy Sisters' Keeper:
Filled with love for their comrades and hatred for the enemy, the faithful protect each other with withering crossfire.
The Confessor may use this hymn at the beginning of the enemy's Assault Phase. If any affected unit is charged, any other affected units may fire Overwatch just as if they were the targets of the charge themselves, except that no template weapons may be used. Remember that no unit can fire Overwatch more than once per turn.


Far more ferocious than ordinary priests and largely independent of the normal hierarchy of Cardinals and dioceses, Confessors and Missionaries are wide-ranging holy warriors. Backed by their personal battle conclaves, Battle Sisters seconded from the Adepta Sororitas, and ad hoc Frateris militia, they carry the Emperor's Light into the darkness -- whether that darkness is a world light-years beyond human space, a rebellious Imperial planet, or a nest of heretics down the street from their cathedral.

Both these characters are based on the Ministorum priest. The Confessor's stats are lower than in the White Dwarf codex because I don't want a generic HQ to outshine Uriah Jacobus and I don't want a non-Sister to outshine the Canoness as a combatant (which I suspect is why the codex writers toned downed Jacobus). The Missionary simply exists to provide a second-tier HQ for smaller games or to back up your primary HQ character.

Compared to the Priest, the Confessor has +1 WS (+10), +1 BS (+10), +2 W (+20), +1A, (+10) +2 Ld (+10), each a 10-point improvement per Ovion: +60 points
+15 points for War Hymns on a 3-wound, WS:4, Ld:9 model instead of a one-hit wonder
Total: 100 85 points

The Missionary has +1 WS (+10), +1 BS (+10), +1W (+10), +1A (+10), and +1 Ld (+5): +45 points
+10 points for War Hymns on a 2-wound, WS:4, Ld:8 model
Total: 80 70 points

Note I'm giving them Martyrdom for free. Also, I originally upped their cost for being higher-Leadership, more-survivable platforms for War Hymns -- but that made the generic Confessor's cost equal to Uriah Jacobus, who has crazy more wargear and special rules, so I dropped that.

Originally the "Litanies of War" were "Litanies of Command" for the Canoness, but I decided their "cleric buffs the party" quality fit the Confessor better and gave him something special.
They are very roughly costed on (1) Ovion's rule of thumb that adding one special rule to one unit is worth 10 points (except for Fear @ 5 pts, and immunity from Fear without fearless I figures should be the same) and (2) the assumption that you'll probably be able to get 3-4 units within 6" of the Confessor, but (3) each hymn only works once and has a small chance of not working at all, so they deserve a slight discount.

Unit Type: Infantry (Character)
Unit Composition: 1 (Unique)

Wargear: power armour, bolt pistol, frag grenades, krak grenades, melta bombs
Praesidium Protectiva, War Hymnal

Ecclesiarchy Relics: The Sceptre of Vengeance
This extraordinarily destructive mace was ancient when Saint Praxedes wielded it on her day of martyrdom. Years later, the Order of Our Martyred Lady sent a team to recover it. One of the few survivors was the young Jehanne -- and none other has borne it since.
Strength:+2, AP:2, Melee, Concussive, Monster-Hunter, Smash

Warlord Trait: Inspiring Oratory

Special Rules:
Act of Faith, Independent Character, Martyrdom, Shield of Faith
Fearless, Preferred Enemy (everything), Zealot

Act of Faith: Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
The Preceptress mouths a wordless prayer before stepping boldly into reach of the enemy's greatest weapons.
One use only. This Act of Faith may be used at the beginning of either player's Assault Phase or at the beginning of the enemy's Shooting Phase. If successful, Preceptress Jehanne gains the Eternal Warrior special rule until the end of the phase.


"I sat there -- I don't know how long -- staring at the relic we'd recovered and at the bodies of my Sisters. Thinking about the things that were still out there. I think I was waiting for some kind of revelation, some vision of Saint Praxedes, some voice of the God-Emperor in my ear. Finally I realized I wasn't going to get one. I was alive. I had a weapon. I had an enemy. What more did I need?"
-- Preceptress Jehanne in a sermon to Sororitas novices

During the Second Tyrannic War, as Hive Fleet Kraken scuttled and swarmed over the face of the sacred planet Okassis, Canoness Praxedes of the Order of Our Martyred Lady personally led the defense. Killing a Hive Tyrant by her own hand, she led her forces deep into the horde to buy time for the evacuation.
Years later, with Kraken defeated and new clues as to Praxedes' final resting place, the Order dispatched a reconnaissance force to the ravaged planet. Their mission: to search for relics of Praxedes, now declared a Saint. Their intelligence told them the Tyrannids would have scoured the world of life and then moved on. Instead, they awakened horrors waiting dormant underground, seemingly left by the Hive Fleet to ambush anyone returning to the planet. Only a handful of Sisters fought their way through to the ruined manufactorum where Praxedes had made her last stand. Only one of them fought her way out alive, wielding Praxedes' mace, the Sceptre of Vengeance: a young Sister Superior named Jehanne.
Bright and outgoing before Okassis, Jehanne spoke little of her experience after. She gave the Sceptre to the Order's reliquary and humbly returned to her normal duties. But a legend grew around her recovery of the relic, and her battlefield conduct displayed a new-found fearlessness, coupled with a savage genius at finding the most dangerous enemy and destroying it. When a Tyrannid attack on the Shrine World of Butlerian convinced the Order's leaders to retrieve the Sceptre from the reliquary, there was fierce debate over who should bear it into battle -- but in the end, instead of many more senior Sisters, the Canoness chose Jehanne.
Many expected Jehanne to die gloriously like Saint Praxedes: Instead she lived and won. "I did not surpass the Saint," Jehanne insisted when some hailed her as a new Praxedes. "I benefited from a much better tactical situation -- and from her blessing."
Today, Jehanne is a Preceptress, commanding a thousand Sisters of Our Martyred Lady -- a rank equal in prestige and power to the Canoness of many a minor order. Yet she is still the humble, haunted woman who survived Okassis. Her speech direct, her armor unadorned, her trappings no richer than the youngest Battle Sister's, Jehanne is nevertheless unmistakable for the great mace she carries and her powerful effect on all those she commands.

Canoness: 65

Wargear (non-unique)
Melta Bombs: 5
Praesidium Protectiva*: 25
War Hymnal*: 20
Subtotal: 30 50

Stats & SRs:
Change Stubborn to Fearless:0
AOF grants Eternal Warrior (unusually powerful): 10
Preferred Enemy (everything): 10
Zealot: 15
Subtotal: 35 15

Sceptre of Vengeance
Start with Eviscerator (NOT with a power mace): 30
Remove 2-Handed: 10
Add Concussive: 10
Start w/ Power Maul: 15
Smash: +15
add Monster Hunter: 10
subtotal: 60 40

Unit Type: Infantry (Character)
Unit Composition: 1 (Unique)

Wargear: frag grenades, krak grenades, rosarius, melta bombs
Blessed Armour, Book of Acts

Ecclesiarchy Relics: Firelock and Frostbite
In the desperate battle to defend the White Cathedral of Ix, Minerva smashed open the reliquary containing these ornate archeotech weapons and wielded them against the heretic foe. After the victory, she kept the matching sword and pistol as presents from the grateful Cardinal she had rescued. Whether the Cardinal actually consented to their donation is unclear.
Firelock: Range 24" S:8 AP:1 Melta, Pistol
Frostbite: S:User AP:2 Melee

Warlord Trait: Strategic Genius

Special Rules:
Act of Faith, Independent Character, Martyrdom, Shield of Faith, Stubborn
Acute Senses, Scout

Act of Faith: Sacred Mission
The Canoness-Marshal meditates deeply over her battle plan before selecting some of her followers for a special task.
One use only. This Act of Faith may only be during deployment, immediately before placing units in Reserves. (Note this is an exception to the normal rules about when Acts may be attempted). If successful, one unit in Minerva's detachment gains the Scout and Acute Senses special rules.


"As the Emperor wills and I have foreseen, the heretics have advanced into the southern valley. The Guard artillery shall hold its fire until the traitor vanguard is across the bridges and decisively engaged with the Templar blocking force. Sororitas task forces Ophelia and Terra shall remain in defilade until I order the pincer attack. Razor Rose is in reserve. Am I understood? If you think it's too embarrassing to ask questions now, in front of the whole staff, imagine how embarrassed you'll be if you don't ask and I end up executing you for botching your bit of the plan."
-- Canoness-Marshal Minerva at the Battle of Issus Valley, Kasserine V

Minerva Ender, Baroness Blanchette, entered the Schola Progenium at the relatively late age of seven. The sheltered only child of a noble Administratum family, she had been orphaned when Chaos cultists assassinated her parents the year before. After protracted legal battles over who would have custody of the orphan -- and of her vast inheritance -- her relatives agreed it would be best if Minerva took advantage of her orphanhood to enter the Schola, which just happened to require renouncing her fortune. They appeased their consciences by making a sizable donation to the Ecclesiarchy to ensure she would given special privileges, which ensured her fellow students hated her from the start.
Haughty, brilliant, and spoiled, Minerva survived a series of beatings -- one of which left her in a coma for two weeks -- which ended only when she killed two of her classmates with a stolen kitchen knife. She was nine. The Schola staff gave her forty lashes and a month of solitary contemplation, but afterwards her fellow students largely left her alone.
Minerva spent the next three years bringing her combat skills up to the level of her academic ones and was chosen as a novice of the Adepta Sororitas. She was successful in her novitiate, albeit unpopular, and was inducted into a Minor Order, the Grey Sisters, where the Canoness soon took her on as an aide.
Three years later, heretic rebels staged a surprise attack on the convent. The first cannon salvo killed the Canoness and the entire command staff -- except for Minerva. Crawling from the rubble of the headquarters wing with a concussion, three broken ribs, and no armour, Minerva used her -- unauthorized -- knowledge of the Canoness's code keys to take command. By the time the Grey Sisters realized the person directing the defense had no authority to do so, they had held off the heretics long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
The relief force came from the Order of the Razor Rose, the local Cardinal's elite quick-reaction force. Their Canoness, Pallas Athenne, took one look at the surviving Grey Sisters and absorbed them into her own Order, placing Minerva in command and promoting her to Palatine on the spot. (Pallas was grossly exceeding her authority, but the Cardinal backed her action). Minerva proved her worth in one campaign after another, and when Pallas died in battle ten years later, she left a sealed letter naming Minerva as her successor.
Since then, Minerva has made the Razor Rose the linchpin of the sector's defense. Her Order routinely forms the elite core of task forces drawn from multiple Sororitas orders, the Imperial Guard, and even Space Marines -- typically Black Templars but on one memorable and awkward occasion a company of Space Wolves. So deft is her diplomacy with the Imperium's often-rivalrous branches, and so impressive her record of success, that the Segmentum High Command awarded her the rank of Marshal in the Imperial Guard. Resplendent in her elaborate battle armor, with her pistol Firelock and sword Frostbite in either hand, she dominates the battlefield by force of intellect and relentless will.

Canoness: 65

Wargear (non-unique)
Rosarius: 15
Melta Bombs: 5
Blessed Armour*: 35
Book of Acts*: 15
Subtotal: 70

Unique Relics:
Firelock: multimelta (10), change from Heavy to Pistol (10)20
Frostbite: power sword (15), AP:2 (+10)25
Subtotal: 45

Stats & SRs:
Scout: 10
Acute Senses10
Custom AOF: Scout & Acute Senses to any unit (unusually good), may only use during deployment (unusually restrictive): 0
Subtotal: 20

TOTAL: 200