Yes im sure its been asked somewhere before, but now with the new books such as ascenscion and deathwatch whats the stats sisters power armour, not house rules but official numbers. I want to do units of sisters and want them in full gear, not some bitsa armour scrabbled together from whatever equiptment pages.

There is nothing offical yet...well just have to wait and see if FFG does somthing.

I imagine that taking the stats for Ignatus-pattern Power Armour and calling it SoB power armour should work. Both are military-grade power armour, after all. The differences can be entirely cosmetic.

Snidesworth said:

Pretty much what I've thought. Figure that the more prevalent Sororitas armor will often lack the "commonly inlaid Hexagrammic Wards" that an Inquisitor's armor would have, and I think we've about got it.

-=Brother Praetus=-

Just my take. But the Witch-hunters Codex specifically states that Sororitas Power Armor has the same protective value as Astartes Power Armor, but does not provide the increase to Strength, since sisters can not bio-mechanically merge with their armor in the same way that Space Marines can. Just sayin' ...

I would basically take Ignatus Power Armour and convert into Light Power Armour so

7 AP, +10 S no size increase and add Hexagrammic Wards.

Thanks guys nice quick responce, im really suprised though that FFG's hasnt put it in, they put the class in even marine armour and seem to skip sisters armour especially after this long and you have armour for imperial guard but none for sisters so if you want to do a decent inquisitor imp guard and sororitas force landing on a planet, which wouldnt be unusual you have stats for nearly everthing else in the game but one set of armour, which you'd thing they could just say errata here ya go missed it out in one of many books here the stats and bobs ya second cousin twice removed.

trixyblue said:

Heh, heh ... true. Same thing I've been wondering about.

Hang on a tick, I just realised there's a Sister NPC and her honour guard in the Red Wake adventure at the back of Ascension. Adepta Sororitas Light Power Armour = AP 7 all around. They have micro-beads, respirators and photo-visors listed under Gear as well, so I imagine that those are incorporated into the armour. I also imagine that they'd have the much longer power supply of a non-civilian pattern.

Snidesworth said:

Touche. I guess that is now the official line on Sororitas armor. Okay, that works. Not what I would have done, but whatever.

Yeah i saw that Snidesworth, but i didnt think that would be the armour because as Sister cat said straight from the miniatures book, read it myself more times than i wish to think, its basically same protective values as marine armour without the additional funky add ons.

So the sisters have a good weapon and good armour, they sit in between the imperial guard and the space marines, it'd be a pity if they lumbered them with some lame armour.

Admittedly, it's light power armor designed for use by the Sororitas. This might be their standard stuff; or could be their "play nice and be dilpomatic" armor, and not their "we are dropping into a hot LZ with Chaos Sorcerers and Dæmons a plenty to cleans and purge" prime battle armor. We may yet see something with a little more oomph for them.

<ShruG>

At least, I would like to think so...

-=Brother Praetus=-

trixyblue said:

Yeah, I'm guessing they decided to "nerf" them (Sororitas), since so many people screamed bloody murder. But ... canon-wise ... I just don't see it.

Now that they've upp'ed the power-level to such a degree, you would think they would do so universally. I think I may be missing something here.

Yeah you and me Sister Cat.

Brother Praetus said:

You beat me to it. There might be several different patterns of power armour used by the Adepta Sororitas, both in terms of within a single convent and between multiple ones. Each suit is unique, to an extent, with the older ones being relics in themselves. The miniatures for the Sisters in the tabletop game are fairly homogenous in appearance, but I'll be damned if every suit is actually identical.

Brother Praetus said:

Good point. I will withold judgement until later. Just can't see the reasoning here. Maybe I'm too much of a "tech, tech, tech" gamer. But I like to think that's not so.

Adeptus Sororitas Power Armour:

Locations Covered: All
AP: 7
Kg: 40
Avail.: Extremely Rare

Special:
When wearing atleast the arms, legs and chest pieces it adds a +10 to Strength.
The suit has an integral backpack powersource which lasts for 5 days of continues activity.
A respirator, vox, microbead and photo-visor (Dark Vision)are installed into the helmet .

Some suits are etched with Hexagrammic wards which allows for protection against Warp attacks and some Psychic Attacks that normally ignore armour, this does the make the suit more expensive thus harded to obtain (Near Unique), these suits are atleast good quality.

Or you could just take the best power armor in the game(8 armor), make it best quality, and then take off the strength bonus. Or wait till DW and strip the strength and maybe any other bizzare bonus it has.Don't get stuck on official, thats the major advantage of the pnp rpg, you change, build, break, destroy, etc... whatever you please.

I would add only one thing about the strength. Remember that according to fluff and tabletop Sisters are still able to fire a heavy bolter without bracing (at least as well as a Space Marine Devastator), which is achieved rather thanks to the servo-motors of their armour and increased strength it provides. So I would say their armour still has this +20 strength bonus (as this is the principle with power armours), and I've always thought that light power armour is rather for Imperial Guard Officers or similar figures. As far as I know, Sisters of Battle have fully-capable power armour, yet they do not possess Black Carapace (like Space marines) that allows them to treat it as another skin. Moreover, Sisters's power armour is not so bulky - that is why it doesn't provide so much protection in Dark Heresy terms as Space Marines' one, 'cause if it was so bulky, a Sister would have problems with moving as her body frame is obviously much smaller than that of SM.

Reilly said:

I guess it's up to the GM, at least until FFG clears it up. I treat Sororitas Power Armour as having 8 on all body parts, and Astartes Power Armour as having 10-11 on all body parts (thanks to the bulk and Black Carapace), even 12 in case of Veterans. But still, both these kinds of power armour provide the user with +20 strength for me.

Some fancy, unofficial rules hanging up on Dark Reign.

http://www.darkreign40k.com/weapons-and-armour/adepta-sororitas-equipment-2.html

Tweak as you see fit.

Artemesia said:

Yup. These are what my GM used when I was running my Sororitas. To be honest, at DH power levels, she was borderline broken. But now that we have Temple Assassins and Lords of Change running around, I think she'd be about right.

Snidesworth said:

Agreed.

-Cynr

When I had someone express interest in playing a Sister (on the militant path, no less) I gave the player an option:

Pick one of the following: 1) Best quality carapace armour. 2) Good quality light power armour. 3) Regular quality power armour. Either power armour option to include a military power supply.

Admitedly this was NOT for a rank 1 character. The characters in my game range from rank 5 to 8 right now, so new characters do not start at the bottom anymore... (At least for this campaign.). I hand new characters a set amout of XP and then allow them to "gamble" with insanity and corruption points to gain more starting XP.