Sacred Standard of the Order

[Kros Morotho]

...is it worth it, or am i better to take the regular standard and use the extra points to give the Canoness a mantle?

[CaptainHelion]

"Worth it" is kind of a hard thing to say. The Sacred Standard of the Order is a nice upgrade for what it gives, but what it gives isn't entirely excellent for Adepta Sororitas, over the regular Blessed Banner. Rerolling Fear, Morale and Pinning is great, but +1 attack doesn't really mesh with anything in our codex, except the Battle Conclave. There are builds that can make the most of the +1, but in general, probably not.

I'd definitely take the Mantle of Ophelia on your Canoness, because Eternal Warrior is fantastic on a T3 Warlord. Suddenly you can actually survive a sizable portion of the fire coming your way.

[WarriorFish]

Standards are sadly a bit odd in most cases as the +1A isn't all that useful as Helion says. They look cool though so I usually replace a standard soldier with them in a CS for looks :P The Mantle is good but again as Helion says good is relative to what you want and can spend ;)

[Servant of Dante]

40 points is more than I'm willing to pay for what the sacred standard gives. You can make it work, but the issue I had was getting the command squad into close combat alive.

 

In any case, I never run a Canoness without a Rosarius and the Mantle of Ophelia, but I like to also give her an Evicerator and drive her up the field :P