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With the opening of the Great Rift and the sundering of their Emperor's realm, new crusades brimming with Battle Sisters have struck out across the galaxy to bring judgement with flame, blade, and bolt. If you play with very heavy terrain that might change as you can still get access to Advance/Charge from the new and improved effects of a Repentia Superior (who also gives a mighty +1 to wound), but they have to apply it in the Command Phase so can’t when emerging from a Transport. Each blessing has two parts; the first is an always-on ability, while the second is a “Miraculous ability” which can be used once per game – they’re activated in your Command phase and then last until your next Command phase. This is a powerful ability to have available, especially since Paragon Warsuits are CORE – a Canoness babysitting a set of these and turning off re-rolls on turn 1 or 2 can potentially keep them alive and firing a turn longer.
Morvenn combines being a killing machine in her own right with force multiplication capabilities matched only by Guilliman. Potentially hilarious for blasting psykers off the table, but probably not a worthwhile use of your relic slot in an all-comers list.A really strong trait – possibly the most powerful of the six on offer – which gives you a lot of flexibility for a mobile shooting army. Purity and Valour have both gone; the removal of Purity also knocks on to the list of Acts, with you no longer being able to use an Act of Faith to substitute for a Deny the Witch test, presumably to remove the possibility of an auto-dispel.
As a general note before we jump into units, there are a few consistent equipment changes across this book.Rather than a chance of a mortal wound when your opponent kills a model, you instead get to straight up fight on death if you haven’t swung yet, making removing this unit with a charge a terminal prospect for all but the most durable of enemies.
When starting out your Crusade you’ll select an Adepta Sororitas Character to be marked for Sainthood and that Character will gain the Saint Potentia keyword. They exist outside of the control of the regular Imperial military, instead representing Ecclesiarchy as a faith in arms – and faith is the watchword here, because the Sisters really, truly believe, and in Warhammer belief is a very powerful thing.There are six generic Warlord Traits in the new Codex and most of them have changed slightly from the previous edition. This is really good on the Sacresants in particular, and is likely to help push them into a lot of lists. The main losses for them come in surrounding changes – not being able to easily boost them to a 4++ means they’re fully locked in to being glass cannons, and losing access to an Advance and Charge stratagem means their reach out of a Rhino is considerably smaller. Outside of the Named datasheets, you’ve got your three generic HQ choices, the Canoness, Palatine and Missionary.
A decent trait especially for big blocks, where losing no more than 1 to Morale ever can be potentially helpful, and for keeping Miracle dice flowing. You have a mighty three Priest options in the Elites slot – two re-badged existing models (the Preacher and Dialogus) and the new Dogmata.Essentially, small units of these are still great line infantry, and there’s a real angle on going big in the new book. Of the absolutely new stratagems, Defenders of the Faith seems like a clear high point – one of the weaknesses of Sisters is their low Toughness, and being able to negate that is helpful for keeping them on the table. The book was pretty good, too, firmly pushing itself into the top tier in late 8th and early 9th edition.
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