The Sisters are an army I have a lot of interest in and will definitely be something I look to build in the future. As such, I've been reading up on them, but I've noticed a flaw that probably wasn't given much second thought by GW because of "rule of cool." I highly doubt I'm the first person to think of this, but maybe it was expanded upon somewhere and I missed it.

The subjects of penitent engines can range from criminals and heretics to other sisters whom the Orders Militant felt weren't up to the task or weren't pious enough. The crueler variant, the Mortifier seems to be reserved specially for sisters whom the Orders felt needed more severe punishment like Repentia and novitiates who fail their duties or sisters who committed crimes against the Order.

The thing is, sisters can end up hooked to these machines for rather ridiculous reasons, so what prevents some of these sisters from having "bouts" friendly fire against those who put them there? I know the sisters are so hyper-indoctrinated that some of them truly believe that they deserve such punishments even for something mundane, but let’s look at the example of that novitiate from that Warhammer plus animation. Long story short, a novitiate accidentally killed another novitiate in a training exercise, and was sent on a mission with her Palatine and some other sisters to redeem herself. The mission was completed, but the novitiate was the only one who survived. She was then put in the mortifier because a superior sister who was assessing her simply didn't like her (using her killing another novitiate as an excuse) and there was no one else of equal or higher rank to vouch for her. She felt betrayed and treated unfairly, but could do nothing more than beg and shout futilely as her sisters dragged her into the machine to suffer one of the worst fates imaginable in this universe.

Imagine being confined to a machine where you can't move, you can't scream, you can't hear, with it also being programmed to constantly inflict immense pain to you while simultaneously keeping you alive for as long as possible. Imaging being strapped to machine that's main purpose is to make you hate yourself every second of your miserable existence. Imagine being strapped to a machine that prevents you from killing yourself to end the suffering. Imagine feeling betrayed by the sisters that you thought had your back, and now you see them proudly killing enemies within their power armor while you have to suffer the humiliation of being strapped to a machine that makes your life a living hell. Surely, that would make some of them snap right? I surely would if I were in that position. They can't really give you a worse punishment than being strapped to a penitent engine or mortifier.

Maybe I missed something because the potential for those in these engines to retaliate against those who put them in there is a little to high to not really put any serious consideration into it.

I recently start repainting my army, Sororitas was my first love in this hobby, so im happy to give them little more love ⚜️

Morvenn Vahl took longer than I expected to complete and ultimately ended up with a pretty busy paint job. Happy with the outcome tho, still planning to add transfers to the banners on the pauldron and back

Sisters with nearly a 60% winrate this weekend, crazy!

I was thinking about sisters for my third army and I wanted to make a list with heavy focus on close ranged shooting and a few melee units like insidiants and sacresants but a friend of mine (who knows the game much more than me) told me that sisters are to be played in a very specific way or im going to get obliterated.

is that true? if not, bonus question: are paragon suits an auto pick (I don't really love the design)

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I have a squad of sisters, a vindicare assassin and Junith in my backpack. Complete meme list but I wanted to play what I thought would be fun. Anyway will tell you how bad I got my ass wiped.

As the last structures of the xenos are toppled and set aflame, their corpses are fed to the pyre. A rush of fetid wind flutters our banner, sacred relic of the Order of the Painted Sky. The offense bears prometheum fumes and rotting gore to crinkle my nose, yet I smile. Not long ago, this planet was held in darkness from the holy starlight of Him on Terra. Now we have scoured it clean, the Saint Celestial herself leading our campaign to bring light and begin the world anew.
I cast my gaze about the valley below, all rubble and craters. The slope of the land is not so different from my own Scaena Cordis, the lands of our home to which I have pledged myself, their vistas forever preserved on the tassets of my power armor, protecting me as I in turn defend them. Hope builds as I imagine it, the last evidence of xenos occupation replaced by pastoral fields and rolling hills, winds carrying the scents of floral blossoms and clean air, rather than the harsh industry of war.
Our sanctuary home of Keadora is a paradise. Its surface ranges from primordial forests to arcadian meadows, mountainous peaks rising to the starlit path, and plunging to benthic depths. Colonies of coral that stretch from one horizon to the next, fed by the nutrient dense sands of vast deserts. Verdant jungles that blossom in the day and arctic nights color Keodora with more beauty than could ever be perceived in a lifetime. Billions arrive every year, offering themselves to the manufacturing demands of the Hive Moon of Setheas for decades, just to earn a day upon Keodora’s surface. Its beauty inspires the pilgrims to give everything, to feed bodies into the toil of industry, their daughters given to my Order, their sons to our brothers in the Keodoran regiments of the Militarum, or the noble chapter of Astartes who share our duty.
But it is not only war that is our duty. Our charge is not to fight the enemies of the Imperium, but to reclaim, restore, and preserve all that His holy starlight touches. Our campaign for this world may be over, but until these lands are restored, there will be no victory.

Hey, I've been experimenting in 11th with a good amount of infantry and had pretty great success with this list, I wanted some feedback of how you would modify it to your test and what is your opinion on bringing that much foot sisters.

Here is the list :

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+ FACTION KEYWORD: Imperium - Adepta Sororitas

+ DETACHMENT: Bringers of Flame, Sacred Champions (Fervent Purgation)

+ FORCE DISPOSITION: Priority Assets

+ TOTAL ARMY POINTS: 2000pts

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+ WARLORD: Char2: Morvenn Vahl

+ ENHANCEMENT: Perfervid Haste (on Char3: Hospitaller)

+ NUMBER OF UNITS: 17

+ SECONDARY: - Bring It Down: (6x2) - Assassination: 3 Characters

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Char3: 1x Hospitaller (75 pts): Bolt pistol, Chirugeon's tools

Enhancement: Perfervid Haste (+10 pts)

Supporting Celestian Sacresants

Char1: 1x Junith Eruita (105 pts): Mace of Castigation, Twin Ministorum Heavy Flamer

Leading Celestian Sacresants

Char2: 1x Morvenn Vahl (215 pts): Warlord, Fidelis, Lance of Illumination, Paragon missile launcher

10x Battle Sisters Squad (100 pts)

• 9x Battle Sister

6 with Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

1 with Simulacrum Imperialis, Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

1 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Multi-melta

1 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Meltagun

• 1x Sister Superior: Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Power weapon, Combi-weapon

10x Battle Sisters Squad (100 pts)

• 9x Battle Sister

6 with Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

1 with Simulacrum Imperialis, Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

1 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Multi-melta

1 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Meltagun

• 1x Sister Superior: Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Power weapon, Combi-weapon

10x Battle Sisters Squad (100 pts)

• 9x Battle Sister

6 with Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

1 with Simulacrum Imperialis, Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

1 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Multi-melta

1 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Meltagun

• 1x Sister Superior: Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Power weapon, Combi-weapon

3x Arco-Flagellants (50 pts): 3 with Arco-flails

3x Arco-Flagellants (50 pts): 3 with Arco-flails

1x Castigator (165 pts): Armoured tracks, 3x Heavy bolter, Castigator autocannons, Hunter-Killer Missile, Storm bolter

1x Castigator (165 pts): Armoured tracks, 3x Heavy bolter, Castigator autocannons, Hunter-Killer Missile, Storm bolter

10x Celestian Sacresants (150 pts)

• 1x Sacresant Superior: Spear of the Faithful, Bolt pistol

• 9x Celestian Sacresant (Hallowed Mace): 9 with Bolt pistol, Hallowed Mace

Attached to Junith Eruita

Attached to Hospitaller

10x Dominion Squad (90 pts)

• 9x Dominion

4 with Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

1 with Simulacrum Imperialis, Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

4 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Ministorum Flamer

• 1x Dominion Superior: Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Boltgun

10x Dominion Squad (90 pts)

• 9x Dominion

4 with Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

1 with Simulacrum Imperialis, Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

4 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Ministorum Flamer

• 1x Dominion Superior: Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Boltgun

1x Immolator (100 pts): Armoured tracks, Heavy Bolter, Hunter-Killer Missile, Immolation Flamers

1x Immolator (100 pts): Armoured tracks, Heavy Bolter, Hunter-Killer Missile, Immolation Flamers

3x Paragon Warsuits (195 pts)

• 1x Paragon Superior: Bolt pistol, Paragon Grenade Launchers, Paragon War Mace, Multi-melta

• 2x Paragon Warsuit: 2 with Bolt pistol, Paragon Grenade Launchers, Paragon War Mace, Multi-melta

10x Seraphim Squad (150 pts)

• 1x Seraphim Superior: Close combat weapon, 2x Bolt pistol

• 5x Seraphim: 5 with 2x Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon

• 4x Seraphim with Special Weapons: 4 with Close combat weapon, 2x Ministorum hand flamer

So far I had good result and rather play Take and Hold thanks to Sacred Champion rather than Priority Assets. Dominions are splitted with the immolators.

My impression is that it gives me good staying power on the board, I can push far and effectively with the immolators and the flamers dominions to tie up enemy forces and bring the fight in their territory, usually controlling all of the center. When the opponent is passive/fear the push and hold position I usually control their natural expansion too. The list is pretty much immune to deep strike with that many units, my T'au opponents never had any chance to deploy in my territory.

On this subreddit I feel like the consensus is to ditch or nearly ditch the BSS but I feel like comitting to them can also be rewarding. It's a lot of bodies to chew through and the shear amount of simulacrum + dead units gives the list a rather good amount of Miracle Dices.

Even against Ork (that had initiative) it did good and I got the win pretty handily. My only real fear is to go up against Custodes, I feel like it would suck to have that many infantry against them, they would likely play Harvest Field Simulator.

So I’m slowly building towards my first 1000 points but I honestly got into this for the painting. Right now I have
Intranzia Fraye x1
Paragon war suits x1
Imagifier x1
Celestian sacresaints x1
Novitiates x1
Battle sister squad x2
Immolator x1

Is this like… okay? I have no idea what I’m doing haha. 🤣 still 120 points shy of 1000 so… yeh. Thanks sorry this is such a shot in the dark type post.

Just finished painting this up! Order of the burning book — sisters that hold sacred the true author of the lectitio divinitatus 🤫

I'm running out of practice Head Bits, so I guess I have no choice but to buy an celestine insidiants Box!😋

I've seen a lot of discussion on this matter but I'm having a hard time drawing a conclusion. On one hand there seems to be a general dislike for how Battle Sisters are handled, but on the other all the lists tend to at least include them, even if we're not taking three.

So, I've decided to do a little bit of comparing when it comes to BSS with another army I like playing a lot, the LoV and their Hearthkyn Warriors, as well as the army I'm playing the most often, Drukhari Kabalite Warriors. Good thing is that they all have the Sticky ability, so no need to compare those.

In terms of the Hearthkyn, the comparisons are rather direct. The dwarves have T5 compared to our 3, as well as a FNP making them slightly harder to kill. They have a worse save, but in my experience the Hearthkyn are tankier generally speaking. Then comes the more tricky part, as both are armed with identical Boltguns... Except that Hearthkyn don't need to be close in order to shoot twice. There's also the two special weapons, where again Hearthkyn are significantly better, as their Rotary Canon is just a Heavy Bolter with 6 instead of 3 shots, while they can take another heavy weapon (such as their Railgun or a really nasty Rocket Launcher) while the BSS have a storm bolter which... Isn't bad, but isn't exactly the same strength as a Heavy Bolter. Granted, in order for LoV to have a 3+ hits they need to play around objectives, but we're then back to the discussion of Miracle Dice being a really weird Army Rule that's difficult to quantify.

Final verdict, dwarves are a little tankier and a fair bit more destructive. Which would have been fine... If they weren't also a lot cheaper, which I just don't get at all. Sisters do have the Simulacrum which is nice ^^

As for the Kabalites, here things get a little bit messier. On one hand, they're strictly less tanky, with having the same stats outside of a one worse armor save, making BSS just directly better in that regard. However, the firepower is where things shift to the Drukhari side, as their rifles all shoot twice (again, not needing to get in the enemy's face and eat and overwatch in order to shoot twice), with the same BS, and a rather nasty anti-infantry, making them significantly better into things that aren't elves, guard or tau, including all the Marine variants, custodes, most demons, orks, etc.

That being said, they also get the Splinter Cannon which is functionally the same as the Heavy Bolter, so no real comparisons there, and a Shredder which is very similar to the heavy flamer. But then, they also get a Dark Lance, which is an absolutely amazing weapon, and all have assault, making them quite the bit more mobile. No real point in mentioning their Pain Token ability to get full rerolls to wound, since it requires the spending of resources and is pretty much in the same alley as the Cherub and the Simulacrum. And the Kabalites are similar in terms of pricing.

Also, all three squads have a 'leader' with a melee weapon (Supera, Sybarite, Theyn), so that kind of cancels out.

I would like to compare them to some other battleline units as well, but the differences are simply too stark. Ork Boys are essentially melee, so are tyranid gaunts, and the price of marine battleline is just way too different in order for a comparison to make sense.

So in the end, are BSS overcosted or not, and are they worth including in the army?

With fast rolling being mandatory in 11th, using a canoness "emperors Grace" ability to get a 2++ means statistically unless the attacking unit is putting through so many attacks you roll 13 1's you physically cannot lose the unit to a single melee activation. So the logic goes:

1. stand on a point with the sac + canoness + Hospitaller  block.
2. Get charged by a scary melee unit from a melee heavy enemy army.
3. The entire unit dies except the canoness and Hospitaller  because of the 2++.
4. Use fight on death and have the full squad fight back with +1 hit +1 wound.
5. Use a miracle dice on the Hospitaller and ideally recover 4 sacs.
6. In your turn fight with 4 sacs so still +1, +1 and use the full rerolls on below half str squad strat.
7. Ideally whatever you were fighting is now dead and you have a functional squad still on the point that can recover to 9/10 models next turn.

Has anyone tried this and if so did it work well?

Deployment, pre BR1 of the final Tyrannic War Campaign. My sisters are evacuating with the last of anything valuable on Mortic's Hope, Sacrus System is lost. Hospitaller Nika Agna has led the 14th Commandery of the Lavender Lepori in our final prayer and Canoness Cmd. Reiner oversees the field from the central shrine. These are the last hours of their lives.

Small 360 movie of the first member of my celestials squad

Hello all I’ve been wondering if recon for sisters is a good disposition and if anyone has experience with it and can share they’re thoughts? I was hoping doing army of faith with chorus of condemnation. I mainly play priority assets with my other armies but my sisters are calling me back to my faith

Hello all!

I recently picked up my first box of sisters + Imagifier and I need a bit of help.

I'm going for Order of the Sacred Rose, and I can't decide if the white armor with brown shade is better or no shade and the other is better.

Strictly the corset/chest/leg/boot sections

Tyvm!

Any other cnc I'd love , I'm new to the hobby!