Any notes from the designer on wether or not there's some add. information on the "The Temple Tendency"/age of apostasy in this book ???
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New Dark Heresy Designer Diary: Brides of the Emperor
Not until the next Designer Diary, I'd expect.
Cifer said:
I'd assume something between the two positions - certain junior parts of the Sororitas would probably indeed get carried away by their fanaticism, but they're still pretty succesful because of several factors:
-equipment: Ok, they're not up to space marine levels, but they're still heads and power-armoured shoulders above the IG
Their power armour and bolters are explictly said to be SM-grade in their codex. Many flamewars were fought over this on these forums.
Idaan said:
Their power armour and bolters are explictly said to be SM-grade in their codex. Many flamewars were fought over this on these forums.
And some of us would rather not revisit those days, thank you very much.
Idaan said:
Cifer said:
I'd assume something between the two positions - certain junior parts of the Sororitas would probably indeed get carried away by their fanaticism, but they're still pretty succesful because of several factors:
-equipment: Ok, they're not up to space marine levels, but they're still heads and power-armoured shoulders above the IG
Their power armour and bolters are explictly said to be SM-grade in their codex. Many flamewars were fought over this on these forums.
Whjat no-1 said.
Also, perhaps you take grade as meaning the same. Grade is usually a group of ranges. Personally I have no issue with them getting the same stat weapons.
I digress.
Blood Pact said:
On the discipline of the Sisters of Battle. Remember that these ladies go through the same school system that produces Commissars and Storm Troopers, namely the Schola Progenium. Which is like a military boarding school crossed with an orphanage.
The Sisters, while they are fanatics, have more than just excellent equipment going for them. They are brought up in a highly disciplined environment and have training to go with it.
While equating the Black Templars with that sort of pin-headed thinking is arguably even worse. They're not the only Chapter that favours melee, being fanatical doesn't make them automatically stupid, they're still Space Marines.
I'm not saying that they are stupid. I formed my view partly from the way SoBs on the table top game are encourage to get killed by being rewarded with Faith Points. Where a Space Marine would see dying in battle as wasteful, Sororitas might see it as a glorious act of worship bringing them closer to the God-Emperor. While any Space Marine would willingly embrace pain and death as a means to an end, but to the Battle-Sisters, Self-flagellation and Martyrdom are to them are an ends in itself. In fact the Black Templar's parent Chapter, the Imperial Fists were unusual for their acts of self flagellation with their notorious Pain Glove.
A related point is how I view the talent "Pure Faith". A lot of people in the Imperium might be pious, fervent, devout, devoted servants of the God-Emperor, raised from birth to venerate Him etc etc but yet they don't get the "Pure Faith" talent, not even regular Clerics normally get it. So what exactly is Pure Faith and what does it take to get it? I imagine that Pure Faith was a form of mental derangement, an unswerving psychotic devotion in a world where belief echoes in the Warp. In other words, I consider the Sororitas in be not merely faithful but actually certifiably insane. So while SoBs do have good training, that doesn't prevent them from highly self destructive behaviour. Given the bloody meatgrinder human wave tactics practiced in the supposedly professional Imperial Guard, how likely is it that your average SoBs understand the concept of "fall back and regroup"?