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2020/02/03 15:37:30
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I thought the base sisters box also made dominions or celestians?
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2020/02/03 15:42:20
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Been Around the Block
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Grundz wrote:Spoletta wrote:
Celestians can reroll all hits and wounds.
4 attacks per girl at Rerollable 3s to hit and rerollable 3s to wound, with AP-1 multiplied by 9 girls are 14,4 wounds.
The superiors with 5 attacks at AP-4 adds 4 more wounds.
The total is slightly above 9 intercessors killed, 30 boyz/gaunts deleted, 11 wounds on a Leman Russ, a dead flyrant, a wiped squad of 9 shining spears, 10 wounds on a disco lord. There are few things in the game that want to be near that 104 point unit.
ah ha, I missed that their stratagem effects melee as well.
3cp is certainly an investment though for bring it down and rerolls
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does anyone have the dominion box yet?
checking the GW site for contents, it appears that it is just a battle sisters box with a different box (eg, same exact sprues?)
Celestian squad, sisters of battle squad, and Dominion all are one sprue. Here is the kicker. Only have 3 special options, so you can't have 4 of the same special sisters multa or something unless you get 4 boxes.Comes with 1 of each storm bolter, flamer and a multa gun.
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40k Army: Sisters of Battle. 'With Flamer,bolter and Melta do we purge unclean Enemies. With power armor do we turn aside their cruellest blows. With doctine and with Strategy do we win our battles. Yet it is Faith, Sisters, and faith alone that we shall conquer this sinful galaxy.' - Junith Eruita
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2020/02/03 15:44:49
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre
Olympia, WA
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Dominion box is awesome. Four of every special weapon choice. Solid gold
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2020/02/03 15:59:22
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Locked in the Tower of Amareo
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Xfrawg wrote:
Celestian squad, sisters of battle squad, and Dominion all are one sprue. Here is the kicker. Only have 3 special options, so you can't have 4 of the same special sisters multa or something unless you get 4 boxes.Comes with 1 of each storm bolter, flamer and a multa gun.
Eh it has 4 of each special weapon.
And also dominion/celestian box and BSS boxes are 100% identical. It's just webstore entry different. Like with gorkanaut/morkanaut they are split into 2 on webstore but kit is same. Or 4 different mek guns. Or flesh eater court you have 4 different entry for 1 box...
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2020/02/03 16:03:07
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Arch Magos w/ 4 Meg of RAM
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tneva82 wrote:
And also dominion/celestian box and BSS boxes are 100% identical. It's just webstore entry different. Like with gorkanaut/morkanaut they are split into 2 on webstore but kit is same. Or 4 different mek guns. Or flesh eater court you have 4 different entry for 1 box...
thats what I thought, my new boxes are still in the mail.
Bugs me a little that the ret box is the only way to get multi meltas, I'll get CADing asap
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2020/02/03 16:04:08
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Been Around the Block
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tneva82 wrote:Xfrawg wrote:
Celestian squad, sisters of battle squad, and Dominion all are one sprue. Here is the kicker. Only have 3 special options, so you can't have 4 of the same special sisters multa or something unless you get 4 boxes.Comes with 1 of each storm bolter, flamer and a multa gun.
Eh it has 4 of each special weapon.
And also dominion/celestian box and BSS boxes are 100% identical. It's just webstore entry different. Like with gorkanaut/morkanaut they are split into 2 on webstore but kit is same. Or 4 different mek guns. Or flesh eater court you have 4 different entry for 1 box...
heh I guess it does, I been following the manual so much, I didn't look
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40k Army: Sisters of Battle. 'With Flamer,bolter and Melta do we purge unclean Enemies. With power armor do we turn aside their cruellest blows. With doctine and with Strategy do we win our battles. Yet it is Faith, Sisters, and faith alone that we shall conquer this sinful galaxy.' - Junith Eruita
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2020/02/03 16:49:29
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Grundz wrote:tneva82 wrote:
And also dominion/celestian box and BSS boxes are 100% identical. It's just webstore entry different. Like with gorkanaut/morkanaut they are split into 2 on webstore but kit is same. Or 4 different mek guns. Or flesh eater court you have 4 different entry for 1 box...
thats what I thought, my new boxes are still in the mail.
Bugs me a little that the ret box is the only way to get multi meltas, I'll get CADing asap
To be fair, I don't really think BSS are the platform for multimeltas.
The Sisters of Battle box comes with 4 of each special weapon, which is really nice. Hopefully this will become the norm, but I wouldn't count on it. It's nice though because it means that you can do 2x BSS with full special weapons loadout from one squad box.
The Retributors box is more normal and comes with 2 of each.
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2020/02/03 17:06:21
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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With the order of advance with no penalty, you spread your meltas/multimeltas out everywhere so they can't be focus fired out of the list
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2020/02/03 17:14:09
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Been Around the Block
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I got a quick question. Make sure I am reading the rules right. I can only have either have 2 special weapon or a heavy and special in a normal BSS? Also can you have multiple orders in your army? Like that squad is in that order and it follows that order rules and the others follow other order rules?
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40k Army: Sisters of Battle. 'With Flamer,bolter and Melta do we purge unclean Enemies. With power armor do we turn aside their cruellest blows. With doctine and with Strategy do we win our battles. Yet it is Faith, Sisters, and faith alone that we shall conquer this sinful galaxy.' - Junith Eruita
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2020/02/03 17:16:11
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Locked in the Tower of Amareo
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Xfrawg wrote:I got a quick question. Make sure I am reading the rules right. I can only have either have 2 special weapon or a heavy and special? Also can you have multiple orders in your army? Like that squad is in that order and it follows that order rules and the others follow other order rules?
Correct.
And you can take multiple orders but if you take them in same detachment all lose order bonus(though order stratagems, relics etc are still usable). To keep those you need to have them on own detachments. Valorous heart battallion, bloody rose vanquard and argent shroud battalion for example Automatically Appended Next Post: Grundz wrote:
With the order of advance with no penalty, you spread your meltas/multimeltas out everywhere so they can't be focus fired out of the list
You would still suffer -1 to hit though. You only ignore the advance part. Not moving part.
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2020/02/03 17:17:12
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Xfrawg wrote:I got a quick question. Make sure I am reading the rules right. I can only have either have 2 special weapon or a heavy and special? Also can you have multiple orders in your army? Like that squad is in that order and it follows that order rules and the others follow other order rules?
you only get to take advantage of the order special rules if the entire detachment has that order, so your army could contain multiple detachments from different orders, no problem, but not one detachment with multiple orders.
regular sisters squads and celestians get one special, one special/heavy, and the leaders can take a combi weapon
dominions can take 4 special
retributors can take 4 heavy
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2020/02/03 17:20:35
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Been Around the Block
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tneva82 wrote:Xfrawg wrote:I got a quick question. Make sure I am reading the rules right. I can only have either have 2 special weapon or a heavy and special? Also can you have multiple orders in your army? Like that squad is in that order and it follows that order rules and the others follow other order rules?
Correct.
And you can take multiple orders but if you take them in same detachment all lose order bonus(though order stratagems, relics etc are still usable). To keep those you need to have them on own detachments. Valorous heart battallion, bloody rose vanquard and argent shroud battalion for example
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Grundz wrote:
With the order of advance with no penalty, you spread your meltas/multimeltas out everywhere so they can't be focus fired out of the list
You would still suffer -1 to hit though. You only ignore the advance part. Not moving part.
Grundz wrote:Xfrawg wrote:I got a quick question. Make sure I am reading the rules right. I can only have either have 2 special weapon or a heavy and special? Also can you have multiple orders in your army? Like that squad is in that order and it follows that order rules and the others follow other order rules?
you only get to take advantage of the order special rules if the entire detachment has that order, so your army could contain multiple detachments from different orders, no problem, but not one detachment with multiple orders.
regular sisters squads and celestians get one special, one special/heavy, and the leaders can take a combi weapon
dominions can take 4 special
retributors can take 4 heavy
Thanks, and can the leader only take a plasma pistol and bolter gun, or can it use plasma pistol and a combi?
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40k Army: Sisters of Battle. 'With Flamer,bolter and Melta do we purge unclean Enemies. With power armor do we turn aside their cruellest blows. With doctine and with Strategy do we win our battles. Yet it is Faith, Sisters, and faith alone that we shall conquer this sinful galaxy.' - Junith Eruita
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2020/02/03 17:22:18
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Xfrawg wrote:
Thanks, and can the leader only take a plasma pistol and bolter gun, or can it use plasma pistol and a combi?
I dont think the combi and pistol are mutually exclusive, but you could only fire one or the other so i'm not sure why you would
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2020/02/03 17:32:57
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Been Around the Block
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Grundz wrote:Xfrawg wrote:
Thanks, and can the leader only take a plasma pistol and bolter gun, or can it use plasma pistol and a combi?
I dont think the combi and pistol are mutually exclusive, but you could only fire one or the other so i'm not sure why you would
I thought it would one for range and one for short. normal BSS has both bolt pistol and bolt gun
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40k Army: Sisters of Battle. 'With Flamer,bolter and Melta do we purge unclean Enemies. With power armor do we turn aside their cruellest blows. With doctine and with Strategy do we win our battles. Yet it is Faith, Sisters, and faith alone that we shall conquer this sinful galaxy.' - Junith Eruita
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2020/02/03 17:53:14
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Humming Great Unclean One of Nurgle
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Xfrawg wrote: Grundz wrote:Xfrawg wrote:
Thanks, and can the leader only take a plasma pistol and bolter gun, or can it use plasma pistol and a combi?
I dont think the combi and pistol are mutually exclusive, but you could only fire one or the other so i'm not sure why you would
I thought it would one for range and one for short. normal BSS has both bolt pistol and bolt gun
Except in short range, the Plasma part of your Combi has two shots instead of the pistol's one.
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2020/02/03 18:11:44
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Arch Magos w/ 4 Meg of RAM
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Xfrawg wrote: Grundz wrote:Xfrawg wrote:
Thanks, and can the leader only take a plasma pistol and bolter gun, or can it use plasma pistol and a combi?
I dont think the combi and pistol are mutually exclusive, but you could only fire one or the other so i'm not sure why you would
I thought it would one for range and one for short. normal BSS has both bolt pistol and bolt gun
the advantage of pistols is that you can still fire then while in melee, and they are very cheap compared to the full gun
for example a plasma gun can fire twice at 12" or once at 24, a plasma pistol only fires once at 12" but is also only 5pts and can be fired in melee
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2020/02/03 19:14:52
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Been Around the Block
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Grundz wrote:Xfrawg wrote: Grundz wrote:Xfrawg wrote:
Thanks, and can the leader only take a plasma pistol and bolter gun, or can it use plasma pistol and a combi?
I dont think the combi and pistol are mutually exclusive, but you could only fire one or the other so i'm not sure why you would
I thought it would one for range and one for short. normal BSS has both bolt pistol and bolt gun
the advantage of pistols is that you can still fire then while in melee, and they are very cheap compared to the full gun
for example a plasma gun can fire twice at 12" or once at 24, a plasma pistol only fires once at 12" but is also only 5pts and can be fired in melee
Couldn't I have all 3 ? powersword, plama pistol, and a combi melta?
Says, The sister superior, can additionally be equipped with a meele weapon or exchange the bolter gun for melee.
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2020/02/03 19:35:48
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Would be wasted points. The plasma pistol's shoot in combat comes up so rarely not worth it. Have either combi weapon or plasma depending on how much points you want to pay
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2020/02/03 21:18:38
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Monster-Slaying Daemonhunter
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Grundz wrote:
With the order of advance with no penalty, you spread your meltas/multimeltas out everywhere so they can't be focus fired out of the list
You'll still have the -1 to hit.
I feel like if you're Argent Shroud, you really want to have normal meltas. They actually benefit if you can advance without taking the -1, and the advance will go further to bring them in range.
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2020/02/04 00:29:53
Subject: Re:Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Sister Vastly Superior
Germany - Bodensee/Ravensburg area
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While planning out my squads and the way I'm going to build my 20 sisters from the BSS in addition to the 10 old metal sisters and 12 mono-pause battle sisters from the army box I have, I decided to go for a converted Retributor squad of 4x Heavy Flamers (yis, incoming Ebon Chalice player!). Originally I planned to convert up a unit of Retributors with 4 Multi-Meltas, but I felt uncomfortable with how few spare bolter models it was going to leave me with (for playing bigger squads of BSS than the usual 5 from time to time... or getting more BSS units on the table altogether), not to mention how difficult it'll be to MM-convert models other than the two models originally intended for the HB.
So thinking about that, the high price AND the fragility of a 4x MM Ret squad (making additional bolter sisters a must in order to survive), I thought about just building the two MM models in addition to the Superior and two bullet catchers.
So essentially this:
Retributor Squad [6 PL, 104pts]
Selections: 2x Armourium Cherub [10pts]
2x Retributor [20pts], 2x Boltgun,
Retributor Superior [10pts], Bolt Gun + Bolt Pistol + Chainsword
2x Retributor w/ Heavy Weapon Multi-melta [32pts]
So, 104 points for two MMs with 3 bullet catchers that can still pump out 4 shots on the first turn or on turn 2 when they are hopefully in melta rule range. Probably not worth spending the two CP for the extra range and damage on (particularly not past turn 1), but compared to a bigger 4x MM squad they are much cheaper, MUCH less threatening and thus much more likely to be ignored, while also being easier to hide or get into cover. Also high survivability for the meltas through a high number of ablative wounds (with regards to the size of the squad, of course).
They are easy to slot into an army, while still helping to spread out and diversify the AT ability of a list. Heck, you can even throw an extra model with a simulacrum in there for good measure (119 points total then).
I'm definitely going to give them a spin. Worst case I only 'wasted' two models which I'll still likely find some uses for down the road.
Watcha guys think?
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2020/02/04 02:00:55
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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tneva82 wrote:Would be wasted points. The plasma pistol's shoot in combat comes up so rarely not worth it. Have either combi weapon or plasma depending on how much points you want to pay
Well it makes her shooting at 12 stronger too since she could shoot with everything
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2020/02/04 02:07:15
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Oberron wrote:tneva82 wrote:Would be wasted points. The plasma pistol's shoot in combat comes up so rarely not worth it. Have either combi weapon or plasma depending on how much points you want to pay
Well it makes her shooting at 12 stronger too since she could shoot with everything
You can't shoot Pistols & other weapons at the same time - you have to choose between a model shooting all their Pistols or all their other weapons.
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2020/02/04 02:07:46
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre
Olympia, WA
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grenade...or pistol...or everything else.
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2020/02/04 04:20:16
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Sword-Bearing Inquisitorial Crusader
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Not necessarily tactical... it used to be in previous incarnations that the sisters were aligned with the Ordo Hereticus. This edition in particular the Sisters seem to be more in fighting Chaos and Daemons (eg the Battle Sanctum, Blazing Piety Strat, Brazier of Holy Fire, Sacred Rose Relic, etc).
I mention because I used to be a purist when it came to “Ordo alignment”, but it seems justified now to take Ordo Malleus inquisitors (Coteaz, Rex) where before I would only have considered Grayfax (and for a while back several editions I even used Karamazov).
Anyone else noticed the shift?
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2020/02/04 06:55:52
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Oberron wrote:tneva82 wrote:Would be wasted points. The plasma pistol's shoot in combat comes up so rarely not worth it. Have either combi weapon or plasma depending on how much points you want to pay
Well it makes her shooting at 12 stronger too since she could shoot with everything
You can shoot all weapons unless one is pistol or grenade. You could shoot 10000000 bolters or 10000000 pistols if you could carry that many. You can't shoot bolter and pistol though Automatically Appended Next Post: davidgr33n wrote:Not necessarily tactical... it used to be in previous incarnations that the sisters were aligned with the Ordo Hereticus. This edition in particular the Sisters seem to be more in fighting Chaos and Daemons (eg the Battle Sanctum, Blazing Piety Strat, Brazier of Holy Fire, Sacred Rose Relic, etc).
I mention because I used to be a purist when it came to “Ordo alignment”, but it seems justified now to take Ordo Malleus inquisitors (Coteaz, Rex) where before I would only have considered Grayfax (and for a while back several editions I even used Karamazov).
Anyone else noticed the shift?
Not really. Rooting out CHAOS cults is part of their job. Though Inquisitors being Inquisitors any ordo has authority to get sister support if need be
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2020/02/04 10:01:11
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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I plan to run Greyfax just for her model. It's IMO a beautiful model and definitely needs an A+ paint job like Celestine.
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2020/02/04 14:28:29
Subject: Re:Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Ragnar Blackmane wrote:While planning out my squads and the way I'm going to build my 20 sisters from the BSS in addition to the 10 old metal sisters and 12 mono-pause battle sisters from the army box I have, I decided to go for a converted Retributor squad of 4x Heavy Flamers (yis, incoming Ebon Chalice player!). Originally I planned to convert up a unit of Retributors with 4 Multi-Meltas, but I felt uncomfortable with how few spare bolter models it was going to leave me with (for playing bigger squads of BSS than the usual 5 from time to time... or getting more BSS units on the table altogether), not to mention how difficult it'll be to MM-convert models other than the two models originally intended for the HB.
So thinking about that, the high price AND the fragility of a 4x MM Ret squad (making additional bolter sisters a must in order to survive), I thought about just building the two MM models in addition to the Superior and two bullet catchers.
So essentially this:
Retributor Squad [6 PL, 104pts]
Selections: 2x Armourium Cherub [10pts]
2x Retributor [20pts], 2x Boltgun,
Retributor Superior [10pts], Bolt Gun + Bolt Pistol + Chainsword
2x Retributor w/ Heavy Weapon Multi-melta [32pts]
So, 104 points for two MMs with 3 bullet catchers that can still pump out 4 shots on the first turn or on turn 2 when they are hopefully in melta rule range. Probably not worth spending the two CP for the extra range and damage on (particularly not past turn 1), but compared to a bigger 4x MM squad they are much cheaper, MUCH less threatening and thus much more likely to be ignored, while also being easier to hide or get into cover. Also high survivability for the meltas through a high number of ablative wounds (with regards to the size of the squad, of course).
They are easy to slot into an army, while still helping to spread out and diversify the AT ability of a list. Heck, you can even throw an extra model with a simulacrum in there for good measure (119 points total then).
I'm definitely going to give them a spin. Worst case I only 'wasted' two models which I'll still likely find some uses for down the road.
Watcha guys think?
I think that is a clever setup for multi melta retributors, for all the reasons you mention. Also makes it less painful when they are inevitably killed.
In a similar way, I'm giving combi meltas to a few of the forward BSS-squads. Partly to make it a bit more bothersome to destroy all my anti tank. Partly to give me the opportunity to spend a good MD on damage.
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2020/02/04 15:53:29
Subject: Re:Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Mellon wrote:
I think that is a clever setup for multi melta retributors, for all the reasons you mention. Also makes it less painful when they are inevitably killed.
In a similar way, I'm giving combi meltas to a few of the forward BSS-squads. Partly to make it a bit more bothersome to destroy all my anti tank. Partly to give me the opportunity to spend a good MD on damage.
I'm really tempted to do an inferno pistol in every squad, forever.
short range charges are risky with miracle dice
if you take the rite that allows a unit to shoot or swing when it dies, close combat is double risky when you get plugged with a MD on the charge unless you charge from a risky distance, then plugged AGAIN with a MD when the superior dies if they get the shot off.
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2020/02/04 18:50:48
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Sword-Bearing Inquisitorial Crusader
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BR Seraphims with Inferno Pistols would have AP-5, is that something that would ever come into play? I know Eliminators with Camo cloaks are 1+, so would the AP-5 IPs negate that save?
Also, in the case of Seraphim using the Deadly Descent strat and Marines using their Auspex Scan strat, who shoots first? I’ve looked for an answer and can’t find one, other than in other cases the active player decides... is that correct?
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2020/02/04 19:33:20
Subject: Sisters of Battle 2019 Codex Tactics
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Humming Great Unclean One of Nurgle
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davidgr33n wrote:BR Seraphims with Inferno Pistols would have AP-5, is that something that would ever come into play? I know Eliminators with Camo cloaks are 1+, so would the AP-5 IPs negate that save?
Also, in the case of Seraphim using the Deadly Descent strat and Marines using their Auspex Scan strat, who shoots first? I’ve looked for an answer and can’t find one, other than in other cases the active player decides... is that correct?
They'd get a 6+.
And Centurions are both popular and 2+ with no invuln. Their save would be negated by AP-5.
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