Attack and Advance and charge – a great trait to give a melee Canoness a little more juice, such as one wielding the Blade of Saint Ellynor or Beneficence. There are six generic Warlord Traits in the new Codex and most of them have changed slightly from the previous edition.

Now a Miracle dice is gained at the start of each Battle Round and at the end of any Phase in which either an Adepta Sororitas from your army destroys and enemy unit or one of your Adepta Sororitas Character units is destroyed. If you want her flying around the table punting stuff and being a nuisance, she’s clearly much better, but the tradeoff is that she’s barely a buff engine at all any more. Dominions are good again: They’re cheap, they pack a ton of guns, and most importantly they once again allow you to scout move their transport – and now they can bring other units inside of it with them, giving your melee options (like those shiny new Celestian Sacresants) some great forward momentum.Morvenn combines being a killing machine in her own right with force multiplication capabilities matched only by Guilliman.

Aegis of the Emperor improves the Shield of Faith Deny the Witch ability, blocking enemy Psychic powers on a 5+ rather than 6+ meaning your units have a 1/3 chance of stopping all Psychic owers aimed at them! Which you take depends on what you think you need from your chaff – Crusaders are a bit tougher at a 3+/4++, but Assassins now always fight first and have gone to WS2+, giving them at least some chance of punking an enemy trash unit. One significant change up front is that the Geminae now have to accompany her (and they have to die first, similar to Kyganil), and this does create a major drawback up front, which is that this unit is worth 9VP on Assassinate by itself if your opponent manages to take it off the table by the end of the game.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.

You need to make sure you’re putting it where it counts, and make sure you always have enough useful things for your Priests to do. Pure of Will swaps the -1 to cast effect for a +3 to Deny rolls, which is nice and possibly worthwhile if you’re really expecting a psyker-heavy meta (though note that the auto-Deny on a 6 is for unmodified rolls). A reasonably strong trait, Shield Bearer reduces Damage taken by the Warlord by 1 (uncontroversially it specifies a minimum of 1 – more on this in Units later), and also makes the Miracle dice an automatic 6 if you either gain one for Vengeance when the warlord kills something, for Sacrifice in general or a the end of any phase in which the Warlord was destroyed. Potentially spicy stuff, though possibly a little hard to set up – though you get your own turn’s worth of movement and fighting to get in place for it.

Besides those this is a fairly thin section of the rules though – Beacon of Faith takes a massive nerf, generating one Miracle dice which can only be used by your Warlord and which also disappears if not used, while Executioner of Heretics is still worthless. They do pick up a major boost in exchange, however, with the Desperate for Redemption stratagem becoming a vastly improved spin on Final Redemption from the old book.

Like in other codex you get access to ‘flavoured’ versions of the Battle Traits, Agendas, Requistions and Relics but the main draw is the new Trials of a Living Saint mechanic that you’ll be using to chronicle your chosen Sisters of Battle Character’s journey from Saint Potentia to Living Saint (or possiby Martyr).As weapon relics go, this is surprisingly spicy – you might actually do real damage to something that matters. Sacred Grounds is potentially strong, with a number of the maps in the GT pack opening up some high scoring potential thanks to their layouts (particularly worth a look on the Scouring and Vital Intelligence, with 5 objectives outside your deployment zone, though also it’s worth noting that in Scorched Earth there are 6 objectives and none are “wholly” in your deployment zone, instead straddling the line). They’re durable (T5, 4W, 2+, -1D) and dangerous, sporting any of the three classic heavy weapons from the Holy Trinity as a main gun (10pt u