Sisters of Battle returning?

[doctorclockwork]

Apparently White Dwarf will be publishing a codex for Sisters in August? Sweet?

[lanky]

...

[doctorclockwork]

White Dwarf Codex! I'm sure lots of effort will be put into this. I'm guessing it will be "Use Grey Knights, but you can't take Grey Knights, and here are four units of Sisters and an Exorcist rules"

[droofus]

Gentlemen, I have travelled into the future and captured actual footage of Devin's reaction upon reading the new codex:

[doctorclockwork]

That is most casual freakout ever recorded

[droofus]

Which is exactly how Devin would freak out, no?

[lanky]

Sounds about right.

[doctorclockwork]

From Blood of Kittens:

Ok, with that said let us get on with why you are really here some SoB rumors.

As always let us start with the easy ones that pretty much everyone figured was going to happen.

Allies gone
Inquisition gone
Faith streamlined
USRs updated to 5th
Cheaper Unit costs
Inquisition elements gone

So let start with the big one and perhaps most controversial change to Sisters of Battle: Faith

I am amazed reading around the Net how quite few people had great guesses on how the new faith works. One caveat about the faith rules: I only have most of the story so let us hope someone else can pluck the rest from the aether. The only thing that really stays the same is only faith producing units can use faith. Gone is the over and under rules based on model count and gone is faith powers that everyone can use. It is replaced with every unit has its own unit specific act of faith to call upon.

So for instance Repentia Act of Faith allows them to always land an attack even if they are killed before they can swing. They are little bonuses like re-rolling to wound and hit, no USRs. Now this if fine and dandy if you just pop a faith point and bam! power goes off, but not so fast. Acts of Faith require that you roll 5+ to activate . This makes faith much more unreliable… maybe. In addition every unit that can get faith generates 1d6 faith points per turn. This also means that a new faith pool is generated each turn with no storing of past faith. As well faith can be activated in multiple phases of the game, so for instance you can re-roll to hit in your shooting phase or in your assault phase. What is not clear is a few things. Like how many dice can you throw at a single act of faith? How many times can you attempt to activated a power? If you get an act of faith to go off in one phase does it carry over to the next phase? If you fail an act of faith does that mean you cannot try again in another phase? I don’t have the answers, but what do you think?

Random tidbits

All Faith generating units get +6 invul save
All units that can get transports get Immolators or Rhinos
Assassins gone (Death Cult still in)
Wargear with the same names as GK wargear stay and get changed over. (e.g. Psybolt Ammo)
Karamazov gone
Priests in, pretty much same as before.
No change to the general Bolter, Melta, Flame concept of the Sisters

Specifics

Sisters have about 5 HQ choices including Special Characters

St. Celestine: Same price as a Grand Master you get 2+/+4 saves, WS/BS 7 Jump Pack, Fleet, Power Weapons always wounds on 4+ Has the power to come back like GK Thawn if killed.

Confessor: Takes the slot of the old Inquisitors. Cheap HQ (Warboss). Can create a henchman band using most of the henchman found in the GK codex. What makes the Confessor extra deadly is the ability for it to re-roll hits and wounds for her and the squad. This is the translation of the rumor matrix. So think for one second about her and the Death Cult together?

Repentia: Cheaper close to SM cost. FNP, Rage, Fearless, 6+ invul, no transports

Battle Sister Squad: Cheaper 10-20 unit size (no combat squads), but has access to Immolators which begs the question… Immolators either get increased transport capacity or Sisters break the rules concerning model count and buying transports. Multiple acts of faith.

Exocists: Pretty much same as before.

[FaithandFire]

Devin - When you are ready to have your freakout please let me know and I will gladly join you. I was around when we invented that term so I might be able to add something to it!

Gotta have faith, baby. No, wait, that means rolling a 5+ now.....

[snickerdoodle]

I bet the Repentia will actually rock!

[phoenix]

Yeah, 'cause armorless models running across the table totally rock! Wait....

They do have FnP and a 6+ save. That should keep them safe from... maybe not.

[snickerdoodle]

It is just GW's MO, what sucks now is great tommorow. sells more models.

[phoenix]

Great models, though. Worth getting them just for the models alone.