Adepta Sororitas Size and Organization

[ArisenHemloc]

Alright, this is something that is both what I've wanted to know and also for a more practical reason. The Space Marines have their Company's yeah? Made all the same (roughly) with about 6 Tacticals, 2 Assaults and 2 Devastator, with command elements and transports/support. The Guard have Regiments which are broken down into Companies and then into Platoons, all roughly the same design too (Strong core of their main element whether they be tanks or infantry with command elements and support weapons).

 

The Sororitas are far more vague. The structure is more similar to a regiment and can draw some parallels from the Space Marines. Order (Chapter)>Preceptory (Regiment)>Commandary (Company)>Mission (Platoon). It's not that cut and dry I know, but that's not what I wanted to ask particularly. We know the Sororitas break down like above is for the rough sizes for deployments. Like 200 Sisters is called a Commandary and 1000 is a Preceptory and the Order is the whole Order (Minoris or Majoris). 

 

My question is the organization/logistics/make up of a typical Battle Sister army. Not in 40k Tabletop terms, but in Lore. The example of what I'm looking for is like a Space Marine Company. Captain, Chaplain, how many squads, etc. If there is a diagram or visual representation for it, that would be ideal.

 

The reason I ask is more that an RPG group of mine, one of our GMs is making a RPG system for commanding a large scale deployment with us as the military commanders. For example, one guy is Captain of a Space Marine Company, another two are Regimental Commanders (One is a Death Korp, the other an Armored Regiment) and I'm the Sororitas. The GM and I were trying to find information as to the rough make up of a Preceptory or Commandary.

 

If this has been answered, I'd be more then happy for links or even just simple pictures or even some goods ideas.

 

My personal take is it's like a more flexible Space Marine Company, but not as monumental as a Guard Regiment.

[Servant of Dante]

I don't think there is any fluff on this. I'd say do whatever you think fits the mission. Remember that Seraphim are not just jump infantry, but the most veteran sisters (think Terminators). I'd imagine any Commandery size or higher (Commandery is probably 50-200, and a Preceptory is anywhere from 201-1000, 50 being more of a headcanon number) would have a good mix of units, with the largest portion being standard Battle Sister Squads. A very large group might have a Palatine or two beneath the Canoness Preceptor or whatever. The Sisters don't seem to have regimaented companies like marines, so I'd say the mission/Commandery/Preceptory would have whatever mix of units made the most sense for the mission at hand (or if they didn't have a choice, whatever units were available).

[Eddie Orlock]

For my own campaign crunch applications I chewed at this a couple of years ago around here. I think some headcanon consensus was reached?

So, the force is drawn from the substantial strength of a Preceptory (Regiment) which is divided into Commanderies (Battalions) which have various Missions (Companies and smaller) subdivided off from them as required.

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I further suspect the implication is that a 'Mission' isn't a useful organizational level, but it's a bit more like 'KampfGrupe', an ad hoc collection from available for application.

The only diagrams I've seen are either at the very highest or lowest levels. As in 'The AS is divided into two convents, each with three major military orders and some sundry minors ... [redacted] is comprised of squads lead by a Canoness, each squad is comprised of between 4 and 19 sisters and their superior'. Whole lotta ellipsoidal void in the middle there.

 

To fill the need for diagrams, in the absence I'd probably appropriate OTAN's approximations but that's just because I live in a member state and lots of other wargames use the same symbology.

[A.T.]

From the 3e book -

 

A mission is however many sisters it takes to perform a specific objective - one or more squads to recover a relic, escort a cardinal, etc. Drawn as required and disbanded afterwards.

 

Commandery is a term used for an organised sub-unit of sisters, up to around 200 individuals, either a garrison or a force broken off from a larger order to wage war (your typical tabletop force)

 

The preceptory is a subsidiary force of a larger order - basically when a given sororitas organisation grows too several thousand in number it will split off these preceptories to form new covenants.

 

 

There is no fixed organisation to any of this, a given preceptory will have as many or as few seraphim, celestians, and other specialists as have risen through the ranks and can be equipped. The only formal battlefield formation that has been mentioned in the rules is the old Convocation of Wrath - but that really just translates to 'sisters with flamers'.