Vigilator Cadre

A Vigilator Mistress posing for the next mission on 'which Sorceror will have his ass carved out.'

As the most senior of the mainstay of the Silent Sisterhood's tactical formations, the Vigilator Cadres are often deployed in battle in order to identify and excise the key components of an enemy force at close quarters. Whether their quarry is a single rogue psyker among a civilian hab-block or a resistance movement thousands strong, they serve to root out the command centers responsible and remove them, allowing the other units deployed in tangent to destroy the scattered resistance. As their nature proceeds, almost all Vigilators are equipped with an Execution Blade or any CQC weapon making them their role and function the complete opposite of the Prosecutor Cadre, with the Null Maiden Cadre being in-between.

In larger detachments, the Vigilator Cadres also provide a greater level of versatility to the frontline assault, and the effect of their sweeping blades on the ranks of a cult rabble or rebel militia is as much a psychological weapon as a direct tool of war. Nor is the weapon itself idly chosen, as since time immemorial beheading ever considered a sure proof of death against the witch and those accursed by dark forces, and often has this in practice proved true, even against those riven with the power of the Empyrean.

As their name implies, the Vigilators' charge outside of direct militant action is often to oversee the collection of the Great Tithe and the escorting, under threat of death, of individuals to the Black Ships.

Tabletop Rules

A Vigilator Cadre cost around 85 pts.

The stats for a normal Vigilator is WS 4, BS 4, S 3, T 3, W 1, I 4, A 1, Ld 8, Sv 3+ whilst their mistress sits at WS 4, BS 4, S 3, T 3, W 1, I 4, A 2, Ld 9, Sv 3+.

Dedicated Transport: A Sisters of Silence Vigilator squad may select a Kharon pattern Acquisitor as a Dedicated Transport.

Options: The Vigilator Cadre may include: Up to five additional Vigilators +12 points each, One model may be equipped with a breaching charge 10 points. The Vigilator Mistress may exchange her Execution blade for one of the following: Powerweapon +5 points, Proteus neuro-lash +10 points. The Vigilator Mistress may exchange her bolt pistol for one of the following: Hand flamer + 5 points, Needle pistol + 5 points, Plasma pistol +15 points.

Unit Composition: • 4 Vigilators • 1 Vigilator Mistress

Unit Type: • Vigilators: Infantry • Vigilator Mistress: Infantry(Character)

Wargear: • Execution blade • Bolt pistol • Frag, krak & psyk-out grenades • Vratine armour

Special Rules: • Psychic Anathema • Fanatic Discipline • Company-Cadre (select one option, see page 248) • Death Mark

The special rules of Death Mark goes as told. After both sides have deployed but before the game begins, if a Detachment contains any Sisters of Silence Vigilator Cadres, their controlling player must declare a single enemy Infantry unit or Independent Character as carrying the Death Mark this game. All Vigilator units in the Detachment gain the Preferred Enemy special rule when attacking this unit or character.