6th Edition rumors and Sisters of Battle

[A.T.]

Psst, with Jacobus and either Pedro Kantor or an allied chapter banner nearby repentia can get to 6A each on the charge. Plus FnP (while now 5+) is supposedly only ignored by instant death - that is huge for repentia as it lets them slam into things like MC's and terminators and kill them much faster (due to less dying) than currently.

Chapter banners are squad only, Pedro has an aura but I seriously doubt that transfers across in anything except highest level alliances.

I'm guessing that rage +2 attacks mean instead of the +1 for charging ... either that or Matt Ward slipped a little something in for his Death Company. As I mentioned above the extra casualties from snapfire and small arms means that you'd be lucky to break even with the new FnP/rage.

They could make decent allies though, something to wave at the inevitable deluge of terminators if power weapons are AP3

[ikbuh]

Running into MCs would probably still be instant death considering they are T3. Same for dreads unless they are all shooty.

[ikbuh]

I hope you guys like troops because at 2000 points, you are forced to take 4 of them as well as 2 HQs, so choose wisely. Once you get the crap out the way, that only leaves us about 1000 or so points to fill up on our 0-6 Fast and Heavy slots or take allies.

[Kobes]

I hope you guys like troops because at 2000 points, you are forced to take 4 of them as well as 2 HQs, so choose wisely. Once you get the crap out the way, that only leaves us about 1000 or so points to fill up on our 0-6 Fast and Heavy slots or take allies.

Are Baal Predators an option? Eg the flamer theme.

[A.T.]

I hope you guys like troops because at 2000 points, you are forced to take 4 of them as well as 2 HQs

Meh. Celestine, 1 troop, an exorcist or rets, and doms or seras. Allied to something else.

I'd be tempted to say 'screw you GW' when it comes to allied levels for sisters/templars and sisters/henchmen/OH inquisitors.


Speaking of exorcists - the sisters anti-tank has really gone down hill. Rumours are that vehicles are not damaged by glancing hits beyond hull points so landraiders/russes/etc are all but indestructible beyond 12" - the areas where vehicles are more vulnerable now (mass medium strength shots, glance on an x+, high power blasts, vector strikes, etc) are all things the sisters do not possess.

[Kobes]

We might see more use of flamer template weapons, unless iam mistaken with the BS1 Snapshot thing.

[ikbuh]

Exorcists have a 50% chance to explode anything they Pen. I'd say we're good at the medium range armor. It's the heavy stuff that will give us problems.

I was debating going with 4 Flamer ret squads just for that reason. Force 4d3 auto hits when they get charged plus whatever they hit normally. It's not much, but it could prevent an assault from certain things depending on how much it actually clears out.

My problem with Allies is that I have Sisters and Daemons. Not much ally action going on there.

[Kobes]

I have been trying to wrap my head around that as well, i also wanted to have Daemons in my SoB army, but its not an option.

Alternatly i was thinking about some other options.

-Use Sisters with Chaos codex instead of WD dex. Chaos Sister style.
-Use Sisters with WD dex, count Daemonettes as Dark Eldar wyches. Pirate Sisters style.

[A.T.]

Exorcists have a 50% chance to explode anything they Pen. I'd say we're good at the medium range armor. It's the heavy stuff that will give us problems.

Oddly someone I know on facebook just posted the same thing ... but AP1 has always been 50% chance to destroy a target, little change there.
The difference now is that their glancing hits are far less meaningful.


TBH I quite like a number of the rumours from a broad core rule balance sense, but from a game balance perspective it's looking like a train wreck - all the failings and excesses of ward, cruddace and the rest about to be magnified and sisters are just getting the short stick of it.

[ikbuh]

Yea, I feel the same way, AT. On the whole, the rules are actually pretty good, or seem to be, but the idiocy and ill thought out short comings of the sisters codex mean that we are in trouble. I like the idea of running 4 flamer dominions, as well as full squads of retributers. Flamers because of the free hits when they inevitably eat a charge, and the rets because if how good rending is against transports. If you pen, that's even better because you get +1 on the damage roll.