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I'm not sure whether Sisters of Battle would favor transports or gunships. I lean towards a Stormtalon variant, likely with different weapon options in addition to the expected religious iconography.

Default armament should be a twin heavy bolter. It can be replaced by a twin Ministorum heavy flamer or a single multi-melta (no extra cost), in keeping with the holy trinity of bolter-flamer-melta. I'd supplement the guns with some missiles similar to what Morvenn Vahl is using: a choice between 2 anti-armor shots or 2d6 anti-infantry shots with the Blast rule.

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I'm not sure sisters really do aircraft. They seem to have pretty packed training/prayer schedules. Adding pilot training on top of that might not be practical, and power armor probably isn't ideal for a human pilot either.

Maybe there's a subfaction dedicated to sororitas pilots similar to how the order hospitaler attaches its members to more conventional orders?

As for what they'd fly... Assuming they have their own planes at all (rather than relying on the navy or non-sororitas ecclessiarchy), I imagine they'd use essentially the same things you see among the guard. Aquila landers, valkyries, vendettas, etc. Those are designed for human pilots (afaik, the stormtalon is designed for astartes pilots who can endure more intense maneuvers), work just fine for other unaugmented human soldiers, and sticking to standard patterns means they're easier to maintain than some super special model only used by the extremely rare members of the sororitas.

In Dawn of War: Soulstorm they had Lightnings

 Lord Damocles wrote:
In Dawn of War: Soulstorm they had Lightnings

I need to go back and play that! Do you recall whether they were piloted by sororitas? Could they have been non-sororitas that just happened to be the sisters' faction's air unit?

Wyldhunt wrote:
As for what they'd fly... Assuming they have their own planes at all (rather than relying on the navy or non-sororitas ecclessiarchy), I imagine they'd use essentially the same things you see among the guard. Aquila landers, valkyries, vendettas, etc. Those are designed for human pilots (afaik, the stormtalon is designed for astartes pilots who can endure more intense maneuvers), work just fine for other unaugmented human soldiers, and sticking to standard patterns means they're easier to maintain than some super special model only used by the extremely rare members of the sororitas.

Sororitas have Rhinos and other vehicles using the Rhino chassis, so clearly they are supplied by the same forgeworlds as the Space Marines.

Mind, this doesn't mean they couldn't have the same aircraft as the Guard. And besides, Valkyries belong to the Imperial Navy and are merely seconded to the Guard, so you could simply make the Imperial Navy some sort of cross-faction auxiliary, similar to Imperial Knights and the Officio Assassinorum. (It would just be a tad frustrating for SoB players to have to cope with BS 4+ when they're used to BS 3+.)

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-Guardsman- wrote:

Wyldhunt wrote:
As for what they'd fly... Assuming they have their own planes at all (rather than relying on the navy or non-sororitas ecclessiarchy), I imagine they'd use essentially the same things you see among the guard. Aquila landers, valkyries, vendettas, etc. Those are designed for human pilots (afaik, the stormtalon is designed for astartes pilots who can endure more intense maneuvers), work just fine for other unaugmented human soldiers, and sticking to standard patterns means they're easier to maintain than some super special model only used by the extremely rare members of the sororitas.

Sororitas have Rhinos and other vehicles using the Rhino chassis, so clearly they are supplied by the same forgeworlds as the Space Marines.

I'm not sure that tracks. AFAIK, not every rhino in the galaxy comes from the same forgeworlds. But my point was more that the stormraven (afaik) has only ever been mentioned to be used by marines. Which suggests to me that they might not be well-suited for unaugmented humans. Plus, didn't the 5th edition BA and GK codices make a big deal about the storm raven being a newfangled experimental design that they were basically fieldtesting for the mechanicus? I know that's been retconned so that other chapters can use them, but I'm not aware of any fluff extending their use to humans. But I'm happy to be wrong.

Mind, this doesn't mean they couldn't have the same aircraft as the Guard. And besides, Valkyries belong to the Imperial Navy and are merely seconded to the Guard, so you could simply make the Imperial Navy some sort of cross-faction auxiliary, similar to Imperial Knights and the Officio Assassinorum.

That's pretty much how I pictured things working. Plus the possibility of the ecclessiarchy's deep pockets paying for their own private airforce. I think they just had some random navy guy landing an aquila lander towards the end of Mark of Faith.

Aren't they banned from having (combat) aircraft by the Decree Passive?

Arvus Lighters and Aquila Landers are civilian aircraft and were the sisters official flyers options in 6th edition IIRC.

(the avenger was also available, but explicitly called in as navy support)

In terms of full-on gunships the sisterhood / ecclesiarchy likely have a number of guncutter-type craft. Armed orbital transports similar in size to thunderhawk gunships but without the overtly militaristic attachments (like turbolasers).

And the Basilius Lander, converted cargo hauler superheavy transport (not a real model :p)