Codex · Adepta Sororitas

Composition4

Identity2

The Adepta Sororitas are the Emperor's zealots made flesh — a line of power-armoured women who answer their own dead with miracles. No Sister is superhuman. She stands a mortal three points of Toughness with a single wound to her name, and yet she holds ground others would abandon, because her survival was never meant to rest on her body. It rests on the innate Shield of Faith, a ward that turns the blade for the truly devout, and on the Faith the Sisterhood gathers each time one of its own is broken or falls. Endure the wound; answer with a miracle.

Every Battle Sister masters bolter, melta and flame, shoots with drilled precision, and runs toward death where others run from it. The three Orders Militant share this same faithful spine — one roster, one pool of Faith, one armoury — and lean it a different way: the disciplined gunline, the penitent charge, the silent hit-and-run. What unites them is the conviction that a Sister's death is not a loss but a coin, spent to buy the Emperor's grace on the field.

The Order of Our Martyred Lady is the Sisterhood at its most unmoving — a firing line that plants its feet on holy ground, endures the first blow, and answers with disciplined fire. Its Sisters carry no thicker plate than any other Order: power armour, a bolter, and the innate ward of the Shield of Faith. Yet they are the hardest force in the Convent to shift, because their strength is not the body but the shared pool of Faith and a refusal to break. Every Sister who falls is inscribed on the Roll of Martyrs and feeds that pool, and every miracle bought with such grief is spent on the guided bolt that finds the heart or the litany that holds the line when it should have fled. This is the Order of the Sundered Heart, which mourns and avenges in the same breath. It does not charge and it does not run; it holds the ground, banks its dead, and out-trades any foe that must come to it. It is undone only by an enemy that out-ranges it, turns its flank, or forces it to move — for a Sister of this Order is T3 and single-wounded beneath her faith, and answers pressure with precision, never with toughness.

Gang Composition2

Credits1500

Leaders1

Champions2

Build Rules

Starting credits: 1500 (converter-wide default)
Exactly 1 Leader (Canoness)
0-2 Sister Superiors / Celestians · 0-1 each specialist Champion (Hospitaller / Dialogus / Imagifier / Dogmata)
Battle Sisters + Retributors the bulk; Novitiates cheap and plentiful
0-1 Penitent-Engine Brute · 0-1 super-Brute (Paragon Warsuit / Exorcist / Immolator)
Backbone: Gangers + Juves >= Leaders + Champions
Champion / specialist / Brute slots unlock with Reputation
No credit is spent to call a miracle — access to the Acts of Faith is inherent to every fighter, and the pool is earned in blood

A starting Sisterhood is built from 1,500 credits and led by exactly one Canoness — the warrior-saint whose command holds the force together. Beneath her the controlling player may field up to two Sister Superiors or Celestians, and no more than one of each specialist Champion: a Hospitaller, a Dialogus, an Imagifier or a Dogmata. Battle Sisters and Retributors form the bulk of the line, while Novitiates come cheap and plentiful. A single Penitent Engine may lumber alongside them as a Brute, and one super-Brute — a Paragon Warsuit, Exorcist or Immolator — may tower above the rest.

The faithful line must be kept full: Gangers and Juves together always at least equal the Leader and Champions, so the gang stays a line of Sisters and never collapses into a knot of officers. Champion, specialist and Brute slots open only as the force earns Reputation. No credit is ever spent to call a miracle — access to the Acts of Faith is inherent to every Sister, and the pool is earned in blood.

Credits1500

Leaders1

Champions2

Build Rules

Starting credits: 1500 (converter-wide default)
Exactly 1 Leader (Canoness)
0-2 Sister Superiors / Celestians · 0-1 each specialist Champion (Hospitaller / Dialogus / Imagifier / Dogmata)
Battle Sisters + Retributors the bulk (the leaned firing line) · Novitiates cheap and plentiful
0-1 Penitent-Engine Brute · 0-1 super-Brute (Paragon Warsuit / Exorcist / Immolator)
Backbone: Battle Sisters + Retributors + Novitiates >= Leaders + Champions
Hold the line: Battle Sisters and Retributors that did not move form the Martyred Line; the Order leans its Faith spend into the shooting + hold Acts
Champion / specialist / Brute slots unlock with Reputation (the Roll of Martyrs — the gang grows by grief)
No credit is spent to call a miracle — the Faith pool is earned in blood, never bought

A starting gang of the Order forms on 1,500 credits around a single Canoness — exactly one Leader, the warrior-saint who plants the standard and holds the line. Beneath her stand up to two Sister Superiors or Celestians and, at most, one each of the specialist Champions: Hospitaller, Dialogus, Imagifier and Dogmata. The body of the gang is its firing line — Battle Sisters and Retributors in bulk, with cheap and plentiful Novitiates padding the ranks — and this backbone of Gangers and Juves must always number at least as many as the Leaders and Champions above them. A gang may take one Penitent-Engine Brute and one super-Brute, whether Paragon Warsuit, Exorcist or Immolator. Battle Sisters and Retributors that make no move in a round form the Martyred Line, and the controlling player leans the shared Faith toward the shooting and holding miracles. No credit is spent to call a miracle; the pool is earned in blood. As the Roll of Martyrs lengthens across a campaign, Reputation unlocks the Champion, specialist and Brute slots — the gang grows harder by grief, not by swelling numbers.