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Canoness Veridyan (HQ, Power Rating 3)
Canoness Veridyan is a veteran of countless battles, a shining beacon of purity and dedication. In battle, she leads her Order without fear of death or damnation, her blade tearing through those who stand before her with calculated precision. Veridyan's gaze burns with cold fervour, though her left eye was long ago replaced with an augmetic; networked with the servo-savant that hisses and whirrs at her side, her cybernetic vision identifies and archives every trespass against the Emperor's servants in minute detail. By her command, the Sisters of Battle render such sinners unto His judgement.

1 Canoness Veridyan: M 6"; WS 2+; BS 2+; S 3; T 3; W 5; A 4; Ld 9; Sv 3+

Canoness Veridyan is equipped with: bolt pistol; blessed blade. You can only include 1 of this model in your army.

Abilities

Acts of Faith: See Codex: Adepta Sororitas.

Sacred Rites: See Codex: Adepta Sororitas.

Shield of Faith: See Codex: Adepta Sororitas.

Rosarius: This model has a 4+ invulnerable save.

Lead the Righteous (Aura): Re-roll hit rolls of 1 for attacks made by models in friendly OUR MARTYRED LADY units whilst their unit is within 6" of this model.

Oculus-Recriminator: At the start of any battle round, you can select one active Sacred Rite and replace it with the Spirit of the Martyr Sacred Rite. In addition, at the start of your Shooting phase, this model can record the sins of one enemy unit that is visible to and within 24" of it. Until the end of the battle, when a friendly OUR MARTYRED LADY model is destroyed by that unit, you can re-roll the dice to activate its Spirit of the Martyr ability; if you do so, the destroyed model must target the enemy unit that destroyed it (if possible). Until that unit is destroyed, this model cannot record the sins of another enemy unit.

Warlord Trait

Shield Bearer: Add 1 to the Wounds characteristic of this Warlord. Improve this Warlord’s Save characteristic by 1, to a maximum of 2+ (e.g. a Save characteristic of 3+ would become a Save characteristic of 2+).

Keywords

Faction: IMPERIUM, ADEPTUS MINISTORUM, ADEPTA SORORITAS, OUR MARTYRED LADY

Keywords: CHARACTER, INFANTRY, CANONESS, VERIDYAN

Points Costs

Canoness Veridyan: 75 points

Bolt pistol: 0 points

Blessed blade: 0 points

Automatically Appended Next Post:
Thought it was a shame none of the "limited edition" Sisters of Battle character models actually had their own rules. Might do Amalia Novena and Tariana Palos later.

Canoness Veridyan is a standard OUR MARTYRED LADY Canoness with a Blessed Blade, except she also comes with the Oculus-Recriminator (for +15 points). This is her creepy servo-skull eye, which helps her get properly mad when her sisters are martyred. You can nominate an enemy unit and get a permanent +1 to wound bonus against it if it has killed any of your OML models; you can't nominate another one until it dies, however, so choose wisely and get revenge quickly.

Is that army-wide or just on herself?

Because if it's army-wide... That really dunks on big models. If it's just her, that's fine for 10 points.

 JNAProductions wrote:
Is that army-wide or just on herself?

Because if it's army-wide... That really dunks on big models. If it's just her, that's fine for 10 points.

It's army-wide. On her, it'd be kind of wimpy, though I've just upped the "cost" to 15 and added an aura bubble on Veridyan - like the Jackal Alphus ability.

RevlidRas wrote:

 JNAProductions wrote:
Is that army-wide or just on herself?

Because if it's army-wide... That really dunks on big models. If it's just her, that's fine for 10 points.

It's army-wide. On her, it'd be kind of wimpy, though I've just upped the "cost" to 15 and added an aura bubble on Veridyan - like the Jackal Alphus ability.

Still feels REALLY strong.

For reference, it literally doubles damage on S4 vs. T8.

Even limited to 12" it feels REALLY strong.

What I would do is allow her to nominate ONE unit (that has the right Keywords) within, say, 18" to gain the buff. And she gains it herself too. So that way it's better used on an Exorcist or something, rather than just doubling the damage of all your bolters.

 JNAProductions wrote:
Still feels REALLY strong.

For reference, it literally doubles damage on S4 vs. T8.

Even limited to 12" it feels REALLY strong.

That's fair - the Alphus is buffing "to hit" in GSC, which is usually BS4+ going to BS3+. With modifiers capped at -1/+1, he'll never double casualties the way this can. On the other hand, +1 to hit is directly redundant with Our Martyred Lady.

I could just make it a re-roll wound rolls aura, I suppose (still hefty, but less disproportionate). Or re-roll 1s. Or if I really wanted to weaken it, make it extend her Litany aura out to 18" against that unit.

 JNAProductions wrote:

RevlidRas wrote:

 JNAProductions wrote:
Is that army-wide or just on herself?

Because if it's army-wide... That really dunks on big models. If it's just her, that's fine for 10 points.

It's army-wide. On her, it'd be kind of wimpy, though I've just upped the "cost" to 15 and added an aura bubble on Veridyan - like the Jackal Alphus ability.

Still feels REALLY strong.

For reference, it literally doubles damage on S4 vs. T8.

Even limited to 12" it feels REALLY strong.

What I would do is allow her to nominate ONE unit (that has the right Keywords) within, say, 18" to gain the buff. And she gains it herself too. So that way it's better used on an Exorcist or something, rather than just doubling the damage of all your bolters.

Firmly agree with JNA here. +1 to wound is a very powerful mechanic that you generally only see on melee abilities. (Empower, Red Thirst.) Giving a flat bonus to to-hit rolls (per the GSC example) increases the efficiency of an attack against all targets, but it doesn't change the kind of targets your guns are good against the way a to-wound modifier does. Picture, if you will, heavy bolters wounding imperial knights on a 4+ or normal bolters wounding T3 targets on a 2+ and most tanks on a 4+. And with a 12" aura, you're strongly incentivized to castle up most of your army and make a semi-static death blob.

For comparison, drukhari recently gained a 2CP stratagem that lets a single unit wound tanks on a 4+ using their bolter-equivalents. This ability would be giving a comparable (but more flexible and broadly useful) ability to everything within 12", albeit only against targets that have already killed something.

Making this ability target a single squad of allies and herself would still make this ability super useful, but it wouldn't be nearly as likely to get out of control or to encourage castled-up gunlines. For comparable points to a drukhari HQ (and far fewer than most craftworld HQs), you'd have a potent support unit that either wants to hang out in the backfield near some exorcists/heavy weapon squads, or else go revenge-seeking alongside a kitted out squad of short-ranged shooters (normal sisters, seraphim, etc.) Also, is the blessed blade still that super killy relic that sisters used to have? The one that made them more killy than an 8th edition succubus? Might be reasonable to just make that a power sword. For my highly-subjective taste, there are too many special characters that have pimped out extra special melee weapons for no clear reason. ;D

Blessed Blade is not a Relic, it's an ordinary Sister's weapon. A good one, comparable to a Relic Blade, but still not a Relic.

Instead of +1 to wound for the Occulus-Recriminator, which is an extraordinarily powerful ability, might I suggest allowing you to ignore hit and wound penalties (and, perhaps, the effects of Light Cover)?

Alright, new version is up, and thank you for the feedback! It is, uh, totally different.

In this version, the Oculus-Recriminator allows you to always swap to the Spirit of the Martyr Sacred Rite, even if you picked randomly. Veridyan can still give a nasty look to an enemy unit, but doing so just means that, if they kill any of your sisters, you can re-roll the 5+ roll to trigger Spirit of the Martyr (and have to target them). Still army-wide, but a lot weaker.

The main downside, design-wise, is how it punishes enemy play; you're picking a unit and telling the opponent that it's more likely to trigger your free return attacks. That can be fun, too, but it's noticeably more potent against expensive glass cannons than anything else (if you get the chance to use it on them).