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 Orlanth wrote:


Keep in mind that warriors reduce damage received by 1, and many times they are also under a -1 to hit aura and -1 strenght aura.

what gives those?

I wrote up a report of last week's battle... I took a Valorous Heart brigade and a Bloody Rose battalion against 2000 points of Sautekh Necrons with a Tesseract Vault. I think it ties in with our conversations about Exorcists and Sacred Rites, plus it was a fun, swingy game. Text plus photos plus a little narrative:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/785908.page

 MacPhail wrote:
I can imagine a couple small Celestian squads getting you through that difficult Turn 1, and Divine Intervention as a backup if the dice don't go your way or your opponent brought tons of Eliminators... although that strat on T1 will eat all your Miracle Dice and still maybe not be worth 2CP.

Protecting my Canonesses and Imagifiers is not a problem typically since I do use Celestians as a part of my core list, it’s more so keeping Celestine alive since I don’t bring Geminae. The eliminators also have that “get charged retreat 6” rule” that can be really annoying.

One thing that I am not in any doubt of is that the Bloody Rose Canoness is an amazing value. She's been so good with relic chainsword and inferno pistol that I had to convert and paint her. There's more pics in the painting contest thread, and I always appreciate feedback.

 MacPhail wrote:
One thing that I am not in any doubt of is that the Bloody Rose Canoness is an amazing value. She's been so good with relic chainsword and inferno pistol that I had to convert and paint her. There's more pics in the painting contest thread, and I always appreciate feedback.

Spoiler:

That's the wrong model for a sister with 8 s4 attacks

I'm looking for suitably impressive chainsword to represent the relic chainsword. Regular one looks just too wimpy.

honestly, i like the Bloody rose cannoness with the relic, the reroll to wound/charge trait, and the brazier of holy fire (you can use it and throw a grenade since it isn't shooting).

braziers can also target units in combat, or characters without need for targeting rules. It says "select a unit within 12" and everything else like this ignores character rules.

 frgsinwntr wrote:
honestly, i like the Bloody rose cannoness with the relic, the reroll to wound/charge trait, and the brazier of holy fire (you can use it and throw a grenade since it isn't shooting).

braziers can also target units in combat, or characters without need for targeting rules. It says "select a unit within 12" and everything else like this ignores character rules.

Good for over watch too. Played a game as sacred rose with the relic brazier it did some work

Here comes another one, this time against Raven Guard.  Complete with pics and battle report!!!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/185402052000929/permalink/662266237647839/

 Jancoran wrote:
Here comes another one, this time against Raven Guard.  Complete with pics and battle report!!!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/185402052000929/permalink/662266237647839/

Awesome batrep and congrats on the win.

We’re his Invictors able to get into your lines or did you kill them first? Also, epic charge by Celestine. I imagine 18” move and advance followed by a 12” charge to get into his Eliminators.

 frgsinwntr wrote:

braziers can also target units in combat, or characters without need for targeting rules. It says "select a unit within 12" and everything else like this ignores character rules.

am I missing something that they only trigger when firing overwatch, which wouldn't be against units in combat or typically characters

 Grundz wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:


Keep in mind that warriors reduce damage received by 1, and many times they are also under a -1 to hit aura and -1 strenght aura.

what gives those?

I dont know, you have messed up the quote function. I didnt write that.

 Grundz wrote:

 frgsinwntr wrote:

braziers can also target units in combat, or characters without need for targeting rules. It says "select a unit within 12" and everything else like this ignores character rules.

am I missing something that they only trigger when firing overwatch, which wouldn't be against units in combat or typically characters

"[...] when firing Overwatch or chosen to shoot with [...]"

They aren't just for Overwatch only.

Yeah, be careful when you read that.

 davidgr33n wrote:

 Jancoran wrote:
Here comes another one, this time against Raven Guard.  Complete with pics and battle report!!!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/185402052000929/permalink/662266237647839/

Awesome batrep and congrats on the win.

We’re his Invictors able to get into your lines or did you kill them first? Also, epic charge by Celestine. I imagine 18” move and advance followed by a 12” charge to get into his Eliminators.

Well thanks! Yes his Invictors slammed into some Argent Shroud, through a gap in the left flank building (which they weathered) and then when they retreated he chased down my excorcist, twice. But it was degraded and didnt kill it. Siege drills finally managed to make a 10.5 inch charge into it and kill one really late in the game.

Yes, 18" advance as it says and the charge was about 9.5 inches for celestine. Twas goood times!!!! She then ganked the two Thunderfires eventual and a third Elininator squad. She never died which was cool. Scored me the bonus point all day long.

How is everyone converting or getting Power Mauls?

I dont have any good ideas.

That's a good question. What are people doing outside of the one in the Retributor Squad box?

I haven't really felt to much need for powermauls. But I try to stay consistent withave my superiors like if I don't use any power swords I'll let my opponent know the power swords are power mauls

Power Mauls.

1. Chaos Warrior maces straight up work.

2. Take a Simulacrum Imperialis standard pole you are not using, cut it down and use a mace topper from any of many fantasy kits

I am not too bothered though. The Maul is superior but doesnt make much difference. few characters can have it and the only one who has any close combat weight who can have the maul is the Celestian Sister Superior. It would be nice to have on a Zephyrim or Canoness.

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:


"[...] when firing Overwatch or chosen to shoot with [...]"

They aren't just for Overwatch only.

I was under the impression you needed a valid target in order to be chosen to shoot with, like charging, but I'd have to poke at the rules

Incognito15 wrote:
How is everyone converting or getting Power Mauls?

I dont have any good ideas.

I've been planning on using chainswords and greenstuff over the teeth to make them look like big clubs, and then when I get to painting give htem a lightning effect somehow idk. But I don't know yet, I haven't properly converted yet...

Incognito15 wrote:
How is everyone converting or getting Power Mauls?

I dont have any good ideas.

Not everyone will be running them - so look for a Sisters player running barebones squads and trade for them.

I like the one on the palatine enforcer in necromunda.

Are power mauls Order dependent, or do they have value outside of Bloody Rose? I've always liked the ones on the Black Knights sprue, although they may not scale well.

Power mauls, look at mechanicus, they have mauls in their boxes and lots of bits for sale online.

That relic chain sword needs to reflect it's power. I'm thinking of a darth maul style with double sided chain blades.

 MacPhail wrote:
Are power mauls Order dependent, or do they have value outside of Bloody Rose?

Power Mauls are good for any order on Celestian superiors, but they're definitely much better on BR with the AP-1. The thing is, it's most liekly that BR is going to have the setup to be able to use an axe wielding superior best, since for the axe you need the imagifier nearby to make it S5. But Mauls you don't have to have that, they're always S5.

Either way, BR will make better use of either of them.

skycapt44 wrote:Power mauls, look at mechanicus, they have mauls in their boxes and lots of bits for sale online.

That relic chain sword needs to reflect it's power. I'm thinking of a darth maul style with double sided chain blades.

No offense intended, but that's stupid. The 2-bladed sword concept is absurd, silly, and impractical looking.


I've got a GK greatsword on one of my canonii, and a axe on another one. I'll probably eventually make a new one with a 2-handed sword either taken from a repentia or from another eviscerator wielding model.

Incognito15 wrote:How is everyone converting or getting Power Mauls?

I dont have any good ideas.

I have axes on some of my sisters [], generally made by taking SM Power Axes and cutting off the blade of the power sword and gluing their axe haft where it used to be. Should work for mauls too.

 Melissia wrote:

Incognito15 wrote:
How is everyone converting or getting Power Mauls?

I dont have any good ideas.

I've been planning on using chainswords and greenstuff over the teeth to make them look like big clubs, and then when I get to painting give htem a lightning effect somehow idk. But I don't know yet, I haven't properly converted yet...

I dont like this idea, maybe it is how you worded it. I would like to see it to know more, but I dont see how you can convert one to the other. Are you looking to make power paddles to beat people with?

Found this though

I actually had an idea on how to make a blessed weapon that looked cool when a friend of mine did it.

Take the imagifier mini, lop off part of the staff above the hand, and put the blade end of a power sword on it.


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Just got permission to post the image of what I meant.

He's a great kitbasher.

 Orlanth wrote:
Power Mauls.

2. Take a Simulacrum Imperialis standard pole you are not using, cut it down and use a mace topper from any of many fantasy kits

So am I.