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The Battle Sister equips as the Order's disciplined line-trooper. She may carry a boltgun, bolt pistol or storm bolter as her mainstay, and a single special weapon — a meltagun, flamer or the anti-psyker condemnor boltgun — to answer heavier threats. A chainsword handles close work; power armour and a preysight are hers to take, and the witch-hunter cadre adds condemnor stake-rounds and blessed grenades. Every pattern of the Holy Trinity is open to her, so the line can be shaped for bolt, melta or flame as the ground demands.

The Canoness arms as befits a warrior-saint. She may take any pistol — bolt or inferno — a storm bolter or combi-weapon, and wields a power sword, power maul or chainsword in the press. Power armour is standard, and the rosarius field is hers alone to raise the Shield of Faith higher. Frag and krak grenades round out the loadout. Her list is the widest in the gang, for the one Leader is expected to answer any threat the line cannot.

The Exorcist's armament is fixed to its role as a fire-support hull. It mounts a multi-melta or heavy flamer and carries krak grenades against armour that closes the distance. It takes no infantry kit and no close-combat arms — it is a vehicle, and its choices are the choices of its guns.

The Novitiate equips light. She may carry a boltgun or bolt pistol, a flamer where the line needs one, and a chainsword for close work; her armour is carapace flak, not yet the power plate of a full Sister, and she takes frag grenades. Her list is deliberately narrow — the initiate proves herself with the line's simplest tools before she is trusted with more.

The Paragon Warsuit mounts a single heavy gun — multi-melta or heavy flamer — and a power sword as its war-blade. Its armour is the suit itself. It takes no grenades and no infantry kit; the choices open to it are those of a command war-engine, not a foot Sister.

The Penitent Engine is armed as a walker of wrath: an eviscerator for the kill it grinds toward, and a bolted-on multi-melta or heavy flamer for the range it crosses. Krak grenades serve against armour. It carries nothing else — no personal kit reaches the condemned soul chained within.

The Repentia carries the eviscerator and nothing to keep her alive but the Shield of Faith. A Repentia overseer bears the neural whip that drives the penitents forward. Frag grenades are the only ranged option, and there is no armour on this list — the penitent goes to her death by her own vow.

The Retributor is built around its heavy weapon: a heavy bolter, multi-melta or heavy flamer, and for the honoured few, the Wrath of Holy Terra relic. A boltgun, bolt pistol or chainsword serves as a sidearm, power armour and a preysight sharpen the firebase, and frag and krak grenades round it out. The heaviest guns in the Order's line are hers to bear.

The Seraphim arms for the strike from above: paired pistols — hand flamer, bolt or inferno — or a flamer, with a power sword or chainsword for the moment she lands. Power armour and, above all, the jump pack that grants her flight define the loadout. Frag and krak grenades complete it. Hers is the Order's mobile list, and the only one that reaches for wings.

The Sister Superior equips to lead from the line. She may take a combi-weapon, storm bolter, boltgun or meltagun to add her fire to the volley, a power sword, power maul or chainsword for the press, and a bolt pistol as a sidearm. Power armour is standard, with frag and krak grenades. Her list is broad enough to shape her to whatever the knot of Sisters around her most needs.

The specialist Champion arms lightly and carries her office in wargear. A boltgun or bolt pistol and a chainsword or power maul are the whole of her weapons; the substance of her list is the tools of her calling — chirurgeon's tools, the Book of St. Lucius, a sacred banner, a cherub, or the Litany of the Unbroken Line. Power armour and frag grenades round her out. She is equipped to sustain the line, not to break it.