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Working on a tourny list in a couple months and trying to fine tune a fun yet competitive sisters list. See below and let me know your thoughts.

HQ
Canoness - Blessed Blade, Rapturous Blows, Mantle of Ophelia, WL Trait Blazing Ire -1CP
Celestine and Geminae
Morvenn Vahl - Warlord, Righteous rage

Troops
5 BSS
5 BSS
5 BSS - Multimelta

Elites
10 Sacresants - 5 halberd, 4 Mace, Spear
Hospitaller - Book of St lucious -1CP
5 Repentia
5 Repentia

Fast
5 Dominion - 4 Storm Bolter
5 Dominion - 4 melta, combi-melta
5 Seraphim 2 double hand flamer, plasma pistol

Heavy
Exorcist
3 Mortifiers - Anchorite
2 Mortifiers

Transport
2 Rhinos

The rhinos premove up with dominions and repentia. Sacreceants lead the mid board with beatstick canoness and vahl and chain in Celestine who protect her from being targeted. I know the exorcist isn't ideal but I love the model and it can either hide or distract. BSS hold objectives.
Thoughts?
Thanks

skycapt44 wrote:
Working on a tourny list in a couple months and trying to fine tune a fun yet competitive sisters list. See below and let me know your thoughts.

HQ
Canoness - Blessed Blade, Rapturous Blows, Iron Surplice of St Istaela, WL Trait Blazing Ire
Celestine and Geminae
Morvenn Vahl

Troops
5 BSS
5 BSS
5 BSS - Multimelta

Elites
10 Sacresants - 5 halberd, 4 Mace, Spear
Hospitaller
5 Repentia
5 Repentia

Fast
5 Dominion - 4 Storm Bolter
5 Dominion - 4 melta, combi-melta
5 Seraphim 2 double hand flamer, plasma pistol

Heavy
Exorcist
3 Mortifiers - Anchorite
2 Mortifiers

Transport
2 Rhinos

The rhinos premove up with dominions and repentia. Sacreceants lead the mid board with beatstick canoness and vahl and chain in Celestine who protect her from being targeted. I know the exorcist isn't ideal but I love the model and it can either hide or distract. BSS hold objectives.
Thoughts?
Thanks

Immediately drop the hospitaller for a Repentia Superior. A list like this is FAR too aggressive for the Hospitaller to get meaningful value. You don't have the longevity for her to make anywhere near as much difference as the massive damage/speed boost the repentia superior has, does.

Not a huge fan of the Melta Doms. Stormbolter Doms are very good into Admech and Drukhari and are quite a bit cheaper. Sure, only 1 gets blessed bolts but they don't necessarily need that. Not a huge diffence but could get you 2 more repentia.

9 times out of 10 Mantle is a way better defensive relic than Surplice. On a Rapturous Blows+Blessed Blade Character, almost everything you're likely to be fighting will have at least 2 if not 3 damage attacks. If you wanted Surplice I think Beneficence+Word of the emperor would be better and then you just scoop up medium size infantry units with her.

Finally, the Exorcist will be an anchor to drag behind you. It's not the worst unit in the game but against most armies it'll cost 2CP per turn to shoot until you stop caring if it dies. Retributors are just so much more efficient. They also tend to be more durable, in practice. Yes T7 on a vehicle really IS that bad.

Yes I'm inclined to agree about the Mantle trait. I think swapping that out will be the way to go.

I too was on the fence about melta doms but I really felt I needed a little more anti tank in the list. I'd consider using the storms over the melta. Having two storm units is likely better to ensure I can use the strat if I lose one.

I get the repentia superior but with my repentia in the rhinos I don't see her keeping up.

I agree the Exorcist isn't Ideal but I think due to the fact i love the model so much I may have to keep it around even if it gets popped early. Less things shooting my mortys and rhinos.

The Hospilator can keep the canoness alive, bring back some sacrecents and give that blob of goodness a 6++ so even if I do save 3 or 4 sacs and raise 2-4 back she should pull her weight. I was wondering about the dogmata as well over the hospilator.
Thanks for the tips I will certainly swap the canoness relic and look at getting the doms more storm bolters.

skycapt44 wrote:

HQ
Canoness - Blessed Blade, Rapturous Blows, Iron Surplice of St Istaela, WL Trait Blazing Ire
Celestine and Geminae
Morvenn Vahl

If you have Morveen Vahl, she must be you warlord. Since MV has Blazing Ire as her trait, there is no way to give that to your Canoness

You can spend one CP to give another character a WL trait which is how the canoness has it. Vahl is the WL and has righteous rage as default. I made some changes, see below:

Bloody Rose Battalion

HQ
Canoness - Blessed Blade, Rapturous Blows, Mantle of Ophelia, WL Trait Blazing Ire -1CP
Celestine and Geminae
Morvenn Vahl - Warlord, Righteous rage

Troops
5 BSS
5 BSS
5 BSS

Elites
10 Sacresants - 5 halberd, 4 Mace, Spear
5 Repentia
8 Repentia

Fast
5 Dominion - 4 Storm Bolter
5 Dominion - 4 Storm Bolter
5 Seraphim 2 double hand flamer

Heavy
5 Retributors - 4 multimelta, 2 cherubs
3 Mortifiers - Anchorite
2 Mortifiers

No Slot
Hospitaller - Book of St lucious -1CP
Repentia Superior

Transport
2 Rhinos

1997pts