More new Sisters of Battle Warhammer 40k rules are here. Take a closer look at what was just revealed from Games Workshop.
Warhammer Community gave us a deeper look into the faction with a close-up on sub-faction rules, relics, and more. On top of a ton of new plastic minis, here’s what we’ve got coming inside the codex.
If you missed the brand new previewed models, we’ve got them here for you.
As for the army-wide rules, these lay the ground work for the specialized sub-faction rules:
New Miracle Dice Mechanic
The Sororitas Army Set is coming with 12 “miracle” dice that have a purpose in the way the entire faction operates.
These dice are kept to one side and accrued over the course of the battle as certain circumstances are met, and they’re expended to channel the Acts of Faith for which the Sisters of Battle are renowned. Here’s how you generate them…
Miracle dice are a currency that you have to pay in order to perform Acts of Faith. Acts of Faith are these incredible feats done by the Sisters in the heat of battle. But how do you gain a Miracle dice? You’ll net a Miracle die at the start and end of every Battle Round as well as one in each phase as long as one of your units trigger Vengeance, Sacrifice, Purity, or Valour.
Vengeance and Sacrifice look relatively easy to pull off whereas Purity and Valour are so random they can’t really be strategized around.
Each time you earn a Miracle dice, you roll it and add it to your pool, while retaining its score. You can then expend these dice in place of certain rolls (hit and wound rolls, saving throws, and more) later in the battle to ensure you get the exact result you need, when you need it. How about that for your own divine intervention?!
Sisters are getting Tzeentch-level dice modification!
The Sororitas Get Their Own Form of Chapter Tactics
Sisters of Battle are going to have a special table of bonus rules that look to act like Chapter Tactics for Space Marines. The cool thing here is that you can pick one or just roll for two at the start of the battle.
At the start of the battle, you can either pick one of the six Sacred Rites to activate – whichever is most advantageous for the mission or enemy army at hand – or sacrifice your choice to generate two at random to benefit from both!
Spirit of the Martyr is one of the special rules. The neat thing about this is you get to treat your army as if it had a banner standing closeby at all times. Although you can only shoot/fight on a 5+, it’s a brutal effect when it’s army-wide.
The Passion is another rule that you may want to use if you plan on going against an aggressive melee list or you have some heavy hitters yourself. The Passion just gives your entire army exploding 6’s to hit.
Sisters Can Still Deny the Witch Army-wide
From sheer faith in the Emperor alone, they all have a 6++ invuln save (meaning you will always get to roll a dice for a chance to survive aside from mortals). But you will also be able to Deny the Witch. Just remember that you can only deny on 1D6 and it has to be greater than what the Psyker rolled. That means that 98% (not actual math) of the Psychic powers from enemies will be untouchable but you might have some luck against a smite-spam list.
Melee Is Hell During The First Round of Combat
With the Zealot rule coming to the army, it’ll be like they always have a Chaplain nearby for the rerolls. This will be especially brutal for the glass cannons like Arco-Flagellants getting to fight first and rerolling everything.
Previewed Sorirtas Convictions
Bringing in Convictions, which are like Space Marine Chapter Tactics, Our Martyred Lady will be Miracle Dice generators and something like an angry swarm of bees. They’ll be able to gain a miracle dice whenever you lose an entire unit. However, if a unit takes any kind of damage and loses just a single model, the rest of the models all add 1 to the hit rolls. Playing against these girls, you’ll want to make sure you cripple their units only leaving one model left alive in each squad.
This is a shock-and-awe kind of army. You’ll be able to advance and shoot! This is going to be a great army for grabbing objective while still keeping shot output. You can also keep the enemy just out of reach by advancing backward and still shooting. This might tear Orks and GSC apart.
Newly Previewed Warlord Traits
Beacon of Faith (Celestine’s mandatory Warlord Trait): Gives you an extra Miracle dice each turn as long as they are on the battlefield.
Indomitable Belief will be bringing most Sisters units from a 6++ invuln to a 5++ within 6″ of the Warlord. This is basically the Malkaan Feirros rule. However, going off of army composition, the Sisters might be able to make more use of it than Iron Hands.
Two Sisters Stratagems Unveiled
You can essentially swap a CP for a Miracle dice if you need it. You just have to use an Act of Faith ability first. This isn’t the most powerful Stratagem out there but definitely useful to have in your back pocket if you need a fresh roll on a die.
Retributors are also getting a Stratagem that lets them cherrypick bonus rules based on what they’re carrying. While all of them are good, spending 2CP to make a whole squad of multi-meltas 36″range AND adding 1 to damage rolls could be an unsuspected death sentence for enemy vehicles.
Sororitas Relics
The Book of Saint Lucius will play on the aura range of your bearer. However, it looks like it’ll be a perfect match for your Canoness especially.
The Book of Saint Lucius, for example, increases the range of the bearer’s aura abilities by 3” – a perfect choice for a Canoness with a rod of office, which will increase it further to 12”. And if she also has the Indomitable Belief Warlord Trait, even better!
For a bearer using the Litanies of Faith, you get a free re-roll once per turn on whatever you roll for a Miracle dice. (Remember you roll a D6 as soon as you get one and set it to the side for later).
With these rules covered, how do you think Sisters will shape the meta? Will they be better as a standalone army? Or do you think they have a better place being paired with a faction like Imperial Guard?
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