Sisters Drop pod

[Minigiant]

Hello everyone

 

I am being cheeky with my sisters and using the Space Marine codex. Means I can have drop pods

 

How would you go about making the drop pods look more sistery?

[Willy Pete]

Easiest way, go over to Armorcast website, poke around in their decal section until you find the fleur de lys decals and put a bunch of them on the pod.

[*Furyou Miko]

Put Fleurs on those big flat slab sides, use a bunch of Sisters and Dark Angels bits to decorate it with robed figures, gothic reliefs and the like, and replace the tops of the vanes with church spire type things.

 

You could try looking up drowned churches for inspiration as well.

[sedibear]

To be absolutely fair to you, Citadel Journal #49 contained the Ordo Hereticus Strike Force organization chart.

 

This had Dominica pattern drop pods. So technically, Sisters in Drop Pods are canon.

[*Furyou Miko]

Well, yes, why do you think I didn't tell him off?

[Minigiant]

To be absolutely fair to you, Citadel Journal #49 contained the Ordo Hereticus Strike Force organization chart.

 

This had Dominica pattern drop pods. So technically, Sisters in Drop Pods are canon.

I did not know of this, I have learnt that there is a story where guard use drop pods so it was that way I was justifying the drop pods. Another step along the path of order progression, thank you very much

[Knight of the Raven]

Weren't the sisters pinned upon landing to represent the fact the human body isn't exactly made for drop pods though? Or is that in the roleplaying books which *Furyou Miko loathes?

If I remember Kayvaan Shrike's backstory from that old White Dwarf right, scouts can apparently survive a drop pod descent... but they're still tougher than sisters physically since Shrike only lacked his black carapace then.

Maybe that's why the celestians were wiped out by the Sons of Malice when they dropped on their victory feast... they were all pinned and the marines could kill them at their leisure.

[grendal1989]

Some of the Pegasus Hobbies gothic building kits may be helpful for windows and stuff if you don't mind cutting them up to put on the pod's exterior. Probably only cost effective if you are doing several.

 

Link to one of their "small" kits:

http://www.amazon.com/Pegasus-Hobby-Gothic-Building-Small/dp/B001FFZBJE/ref=pd_sim_21_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=51KAkdaGSSL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=012Z82ZGKM1PYKD0ADQW

[*Furyou Miko]

Nope, the Sisters were not pinned. But the Ordo Hereticus Strike Force list sucked.

 

You could take Inquisitors, Repentia, Celestians, Seraphim, Drop Pods and Deathwind Drop Pods (multi-melta or heavy bolter only).

 

Repentia were single models who attached to other squads. They had no armour and carried a bolt pistol and a chainsword. When the unit they were attached to failed a morale check, they didn't run, meaning that the other unit could not make a sweeping advance and wipe them out.

[Servant of Dante]

Repentia mixing with real sisters makes no sense fluff wise.

[Knight of the Raven]

This specific Citadel journal might have been penned before the repentia's lore was what it is now.

Maybe they were cheerleaders? The other sisters didn't run away because they were too busy ogling the repentia?

[Servant of Dante]

Edit: tried to do faces from my phone. Failed. Fixed it.

[Noeh]

This specific Citadel journal might have been penned before the repentia's lore was what it is now.

Maybe they were cheerleaders? The other sisters didn't run away because they were too busy ogling the repentia?

Lesbian battle nuns with guns, in space, firing micronukes, with mostly/half naked cheerleaders.....This sounds like a bad sci-fi porn movie plot

[*Furyou Miko]

This specific Citadel journal might have been penned before the repentia's lore was what it is now.

Maybe they were cheerleaders? The other sisters didn't run away because they were too busy ogling the repentia?

Yeah, this was actually the first appearance of Repentia in any media. I can't remember the details though, and I lost my pdf archive of the journal. Not managed to get my hands on a hardcopy either

[sedibear]

there are a bunch of hardcopies floating around Ebay, that's where i got mine.

 

You are correct, this is the first appearance of Repentia anywhere.

[Servant of Dante]

Interesting. Where they actually described as kicked out of their order, or just doing serious pennance?

[*Furyou Miko]

I don't think Repentia have ever been 'kicked out' of the Order. They're penitent, but they're still Battle Sisters. They still live in their convents.

[Spacefrisian]

I wonder what part of the Droppod STC they left out when they build them that makes normal humans be not very happy after they have slammed into the ground.

 

Or is this a case of lore not being very clear on stuff

[Servant of Dante]

From the current e-dex ". . . but in the more serious of cases the transgressor may be exiled from the order. These warriors, known as Sisters Repentia . . ."

 

This is what I was thinking of

[Servant of Dante]

Good point. Maybe the cogboys actually came up with something new for the space marines during the crusade*ghasp*

 

Or does the fluff specifically say that drop pods are from an STC?

[Spacefrisian]

Lore states any vehicle in the 40k universe comes from an STC and those who made these stuff get very upset if something is changed. Original Droppds have bars where a humanoid is supposed to go in and be hold down, 5 to be exact (talking about the original Forgeworld version).

 

The tech guys not being happy comes from the time when Spacewolf Ironpriest stuck 2 Lascannons on top of there Predators instead of the Autocannon. That was almost borderline heresy in there eyes.

[*Furyou Miko]

Razorbacks are not an STC design. They're retrofitted Rhinos. So are Predators, I believe, although with intent rather than make-do.

Bolters... are not an STC design. The Great Crusade AdMech apparently invented them because they couldn't make Volkites fast enough.

Heck. Leman Russ Battle Tanks are not an STC design. Nor are Vindicators.

Given the number of lasgun patterns in the galaxy, it's highly unlikely that lasguns are an STC design.

The vast majority of supposedly STC designs in 40k are actually just retrofits so old that their origins were buried under cultish red tape, because none of their creators wanted to be known as 'that guy who profaned the STC'.

[Spacefrisian]

My original Imperial armour volume 2 force of the Astartes and Inquisition might have a different oppinion, i might need to check up on it all. But the Predator is definatly a STC thingie, hence the note on tech guys getting mad at them Wolves for putting a different gun on it (that one is even in those older SW dexes)

[*Furyou Miko]

OK. I now have a copy of CJ49 in front of me.

I misremembered some things. The OHSF list was actually based on the Chapter Approved rules - it predated the Witch Hunter book! It may even be one of the first ever mentions of the Ordo Hereticus as an organisation.

The army list was thus;

HQ

1 Inquisitor

0-1 Canoness

0-1 Celestian Superior

Celestian Bodyguard

Elite

0-1 Vindicare Assassin

0-1 Calidus Assassin

Troop

Celestian Squad.

Fast Attack

Seraphim Squad

Heavy Support

Deathwind Drop Pod (Dominica Pattern)

Interestingly, they could elect to arrive via deep strike without actually having drop pods equipped - the drop pod gave them special deployment options and did not deploy by deep strike.

Drop Pods at the time were fliers. They deployed at the end of the enemy movement phase, had infinite movement, and AV12. At the end of the enemy turn, they 'landed', becoming immobile, open-topped AV10 vehicles that you could just walk out of an shoot, assault, whatever normally as though disembarking from a stationary vehicle.

Their Celestian Bodyguards were 1 superior + 3 celestians minimum instead of 4, so they could fit in the 5-capacity drop pods of the time.

Inquisitors could only have terminator armour if they were deep striking on their own, not if they were in drop pods. Heh.

The list was specifically limited to no Heroes of the Imperium allies (this included, at the time, all inquisitors, techpriests and assassins).

They also got a bonus Act of Faith, which gave them Pinning.

The book also included advice for modelling the Strike Force. Unfortunately, their advice for making Dominica Pattern Drop Pods basically involved buying Space Marine drop pods and painting them black and red.

The Repentia were not actually part of the OHSF.

A member of the Sisterhood may be stripped of all rank and rights, reduced to a Sister Repentia. They are banned from Holy Service and may suffer other castigations in the form of frequent physical punishment, enforced fasts and confinement. These idnividuals often attach themselves to Imperial crusades, throwing themselves into the thickest of fighting in an effort to purge themselves of their sins and gain absolution: even if it is only granted on their death.

The Sister Repentia is a new troop type available to Sisters of Battle players as part of their Priestly Delegation, and to Space Marine and Imperial Guard players in the same way as Preachers.

Interestingly, they're described as still retaining parts of their power armour and uniforms. They had a 4+ save as a result (must be why the C:WH ones had a 4+ save as well).

In addition to remaining in combat when their squad broke, they actually generated a faith point every time they win a close combat after the squad they're attached to breaks.

The modelling suggestion to make a Repentia was to base her off an Escher ganger, give her a leg swap with a heavy weapon Sister, sculpt on a shoulderpad, give her a Sisters powerpack and file her punk hair down to a stubble.

[Servant of Dante]

Interesting. I have a sisters chapter approved army list for third edition that also predates the witch hunters codex, but it is only sisters. I have it in one of the compilations so I don't know which issue of white dwarf its from.