Sing a song of praise: today’s Grotmas Calendar Detachment is none other than the Champions of Faith for the Adepta Sororitas.
When a truly vital mission must be completed, the Adepta Sororitas assemble their most skilled and pious warriors. Whether they muster in the marshalling cloisters of a holy shrine, aboard a dropship thundering through hostile skies, or even upon the open field of war amid fountaining explosions and heaped corpses, these hand‐picked champions of the Imperial Creed halt long enough to kneel as one and pray to the God‐Emperor. Only once they have sworn irrevocable oaths to the Master of Mankind, promising they will die before failing him, do they advance. Bound by the promises they have made and sure in the knowledge that they are the finest exemplars of their order, these Champions of Faith stride out with unshakeable purpose and fiercely focused determination to prevail no matter the cost.
This Detachment focuses on the most devout of the devout, the Celestians. Their Righteous Purpose adds 1 to the OS of Celestian Sacresants, and lets players discard Miracle dice to make Battle Sisters, Celestian Sacresants and Paragon Warsuits Righteous. While a unit is Righteous, it is braver, it moves faster, and it fights harder, for the glory of the Master of Mankind.
Righteous units are rewarded for their devotion elsewhere in the Detachment as well: for example, the Mark of Devotion adds 1 to the Attacks characteristic of the bearer’s melee weapons, but while they are Righteous, it adds another Attack and a point of Damage as well, making any Character into a threat to be feared.
To the Heart of Heresy succinctly describes the purpose of this Detachment – to take the purity of the Sisters of Battle and use it as a torch to burn out evil at the source. This Stratagem grants additional Strength to your units in the Fight phase, and additional Armour Penetration as well if they are Righteous.
Prayers up, for we remain in the mood of holiness tomorrow – it’s the time of the Blood Angels.
