Editing Warhammer 40,000/7th Edition Tactics/Adepta Sororitas (section)

====Ecclesiarchy Relics====

Your priests / canoness can take one of the following, with the exception of one banner. Only one of each Ecclesiarchy Relic can be taken per army.

*'''The Book of St. Lucius:''' 5 points, all friendly units, '''your Sisters and allies''', within 12" automatically pass any Fear or Regroup tests they have to make. Presumably this includes if they're under 25% so it could be useful for a backfield unit that wants to catch fleeing units.
*'''The Litanies of Faith:''' 15 points, the key to sisters CC shenanigans. Everyone in the unit automatically passes Act of Faith and War Hymns tests. Extremely useful if you don't have an IC for higher leadership, what with Priests being leadership 7 and all. Best used on a Conclave Priest, since they won't have the option of an LD9 Veteran Superior to help them out with LD tests. If you don't have a Simulacrum at least, however, it's usefulness is somewhat questionable.
*'''The Cloak of St. Aspira:''' 20 points, reroll failed armor and Shield of Faith Invulnerable saves. A little on the pricy side and doesn't let you reroll saves from your [[Rosarius]] (which you bought, right?).
*'''The Mantle of Ophelia:''' 25 points, Eternal Warrior. Your girls are T3, so this should be the first buy for your Canoness, if you are using one.
*'''The Blade of Admonition:''' 30 points. +2 Strength, AP3 and Master Crafted, Canoness only. Solid against MEQs. Shitty against TEQs.
*'''The Mace of Valaan:'''  25 points, +2 Strength, AP4, Concussive, Master Crafted and gets Armorbane and Fleshbane when there are models with Daemon special rule within 6", Priests only. Combined with the Priest's ability to smash, it becomes deadly (either 4 attacks on the charge at ap2, or 1 attack at Strength 8 ap2). Combined with zealot, your cloth wearing little fanatic becomes the bane of terminators everywhere. Somewhat situational, but you'd be surprised how many armies have Daemon units. (Including one that's an ally of convenience...and the daemonhost from the inquisition)
*'''The Sacred Standard of the Order Militant:''' 40 points, Sororitas Command Squad only. Gives ALL Friendly units within 12" +1 Attack and lets them reroll failed Morale, Fear and Pinning test. Expensive as all hell, but could be worth it if you're running a front lines Sororitas Command Squad. Keep it near a Battle Conclave or Sisters Repentia and laugh.
** '''Note:''' That's all FRIENDLY units, not all Friendly Adepta Sororitas units or any other restrictions. All. Friendly. So if you're taking an Imperial ally, this or the book is definitely something you should consider, if for no other reason than to make your backfield basically impossible to break. It could also make Repentia or something like allied Blood Claws or Grey Hunters put out a positively terrifying number of attacks.

The following are also called Ecclesiarchy Relics, but are only available if you took Saint Celestine...which is fine for us, since she's from our army. Still, these can be taken by a bunch of different armies (since anyone who allies Celestine in can take them) so some of them aren't very good for us.

*'''Skull of Petronella the Pious:''' 30 points, bearer and all models in their unit get a 6++ save. This is probably a little too expensive in general, and for a Sisters army it's exceptionally pointless since we all have a 6++ already.
*'''Blade of the Worthy:''' 30 points, take a leadership test at the beginning of each fight subphase. If you fail, it's a Power Sword. If you pass, it gets +2 strength and AP2. Solid stuff, especially for Space Marines since it's AP2 at initiative (and how often are you gonna fail LD10?) but Sisters don't care about their I, so they'd probably benefit more from an Eviscerator.
*'''Castigator:''' 15 point pistol, S4, AP2, ignores Invul saves. Practical? Yes. Hilarious? Yes.  Also functions as a way to let Characters take advantage of Gunslinger.
*'''Font of Fury:''' 10 points, 1 use only, range 8 large blast with Poisoned 4+, 2+ against Chaos stuff. Could be good on a front line Priest (the look on your opponent's face when you huck it from a Repressor will be hilarious) and it's cheap, which is good.
*'''Shroud of the Anti-Martyr:''' 35 points, Eternal Warrior. Uh, we have this for 10 points cheaper, so it's clearly for other armies. Still, solid stuff for Space Marines who don't have easy access to Shield Eternal.
*'''Devsalle's Holy Circle:''' 35 points, grants the bearer a 4++ and here's the big one: a 12 inch bubble where guys can't choose to Deep Strike, and if they scatter into it, they automatically Mishap. This is BRUTAL on a backfield Priest or Dialogus, since not only does it make a small-ish bubble where your enemy won't be able to drop their Deep Strikers, but unless they have no-Scatter Deep Strikers, the bubble is even bigger, since they won't want to scatter into the first bubble. Oh, and that includes Drop Pod, just so you know.
**This one is a particularly good buy for Inquisitors, since they don't get Invuln saves.