Could I get some people's opinions on what equipment (armor and weapons) the Sister of Battle is wearing on the cover of The Inquisitor's Handbook and then also the Sister illustrated in color on the beginning page of the Adeptus Sororitas career dressed in black and red.

Is this equipment listed in the Inquisitor's Handbook or is it in Core rulebook?

Thanks

-ashe-

Well the thing is that as long as she it working for an Inquisitor I have been playing it as if she was his responsibility, now that means that he will have to equip her with any kickass gunnery that she would need to do her job (being a militant that basically makes her a strong arm). Had he been back in a monestary fortress she whould have been handed a power armour, bolter and all that upon reaching the Militant rank, but now she is left to fend with what she can loot, be awarded by her boss ect. Now that said, in most cases I think the Inqusitor would want to use the fact that he has access to a warrior that is only a small gen-enhanced step down from one of the Astartes and hand her some nice litte tidbits to play with. The Adepta in my game has full power armour and bolter ect. Now that does mean that she kicks a mean ass in a fight, but then again the guardsman is running about with the powersword from the Purge senarios so shes not the only one.

The trick is to make sure that her and the guardsman doesnt leave the others behind in a fight, distribute threats evenly ect, also power armoured girls have a tendency to get targeted my twistbrutes carrying heavy stubbers .

Now mind you this is just my rantings on the subject as a Game Master not the universal truth about how to run your game.

Good view, but isn't a Adeptus Sororitas actually still within the order?

I thought I remember reading that the Sister returns to the order during the freetime/ downtime between the Inquisitor's missions/ tasks.

So the Sister in a group of Acolytes would still be assigned the apprpriate equipment from the Order as her rank would warrant, right?

-ashe-

Yes, she would, but only if she actually has downtime in which to return to her order. Most of the campaigns that I run and/or play in have very little "6 months go by" unless we have a huge gap between sessions and are essentially starting fresh.

Anyway, I'd say just plain 'ol power armor, bolt gun, bolt pistol for kit. If she is really high rank and has continually shown her worth as a markswoman, perhaps an angelus bolt gun...only because it's hard to find a good reason to use one of those things and they are SO COOL it's a shame not to have them around. =]

So what is the armor and the equipment for the colored illo of the Sister at the beginning of the Adeptus Sororitas career chapter in The Inquistor's Handbook?

-ashe-

I'll be giving my Sororitas player Light Power Armour and a bolter when he hits militant.

At the end of the day Light Power Armour is how I see Sororitas armour and no matter what sources people start spouting my way, Light Power Armour is the way I'm staying. I shall not be swayed on the matter. While I'm the GM, its my game, and they play by my rules.

Considering the player will be getting almost 10k of equipment free, it's not as if he has a right to moan about it either.

I'll be balancing this with my other Tech Priest player by giving him 10k worth of bionics and mechadentrites of his chosing... cos I'm just so **** nice!

(I'm also doing it so I have an excuse to throw bigger, meaner things at them!)

Well I threw a Power Armour at my girl (and yes shes a girl girl and its her first character ever so I decide to be nice) and gave it a military grade powercell as well (so you dont have to worry about those pesky 1-5 hours), a bolter, a bolt pistol back up and a chain sword. The helmet also have an auspex , vox, nightsight and so on.

Read Faith and Fire, its not a very good book, but it does have some insights to the whys of the adepta.

Let's see...

The title page one I'd interpret as a boltgun and either carapace or rather slim power armour - I'm leaning towards carapace.

Assuming we are referring to the same pictures (I've got the softcover b/w IH), the career picture on page 41 (white-haired scarred Sororitas with an Imperial >I< rosary in her left hand and a gun in her right) gives me pause... the backpack screams Power Armour, but the rest doesn't look bulky enough - indeed, the chest/belly part looks almost fabric-like (as much as you can tell with a b/w picture) and while I could accept the arm pieces as PA, the thighs don't look bulky enough by far. So I'd say carapace armour again. The grenades on her belt could be pretty much any type. The pistol... I don't know. I'd say autopistol, because the rounds in the magazine don't look like bolts.

As for ingame items, I'll probably be throwing all of my players a massive bone at or around their fourth career rank. The Moritat assassin will get a power sword, the Sororitas bolter and Power Armour, the guardsman some kind of heavy weapon and possibly (depending on career tree) a few rookies to command around and the adept an office with aides that can take over the time-consuming number-crunching and data-mining parts of research for her (and something else, though I'm not sure what it will be right now...).

The Asgardian said:

I'd say that both are wearing either Light Power Armour or Power Armour from the core book. As for weaponry, the sister at the start of the 2nd chapter is using a boltgun. The Adepta Sororitas typically use the Godwyn-Deaz pattern boltgun, but since there are no specific rules for it you're best off going with regular boltgun stats in the core rulebook. As for the one on the front cover I'd say it looks like a Storm Bolter/Flamer combi-weapon, which you'd have to homebrew since no stats exist for the former.

On the cover, that looks like a Fill-in-the-blank-pattern bolt gun to me (not a bolter flamer combi... it only seems to have one barrel and no fuel canister). As for armour, if can go either way as carapace or power armour. Her helmet looks like the standard AS power armour helmet though.

The sister on page 41 is wearing AS power armour. Yes, it doesn't make sense for it to be that thin, but then again, Space marine PA doesn't make a whole lot of sense either (for being crazy muscle-bound fellas, they tend to have some skinny little thighs!) The AS power armour tends to be way to slim in order to show off the curves of the sister. The corset is added to give her a bit of femininity as well as sex appeal. These were aesthetic decisions made by the artists and modelers to make a cool sexy figure, not represent something with a great degree of in-game logic.

Front cover-Power Armor and carrying a bolter. However the bolter to me looks like it's a similar make to a Marine bolter yet modified as a "Special weapon" for use by the sister. This could be a possibility. Nothing says that modified "marine style" bolters don't exist or are used as a semi-heavy and/or special ordinance weapon. Then again it could all be artistic styling. The armor at least would be standard and expected for any fully inducted militant sister.

Page 41- Carapace armor combined with an environmental suit (hence the backback and re-enforced top) with cloth embelishments. As I recall not uncommon for certian arms of the Sororitas as well as lower level militants. She of course carying a boltgun.

ClockworkGecko said:

Actually it's Sororitas power armour as has been said and she's carrying a Godwyn-Deaz pattern bolter.

At least according to the Codex Witch Hunters where that picture originates.

Adepta Sororitas power armor, in the colors of the Order of Our Martyred Lady, and a bolt gun. Standard issue wargear for the Sisters of Battle. I have a 40K Witchhunters army, though mine is based on the Order of the Sacred Rose.

So it is power armor or light power armor?

-ashe-

I would say power armor

Sororitas Power Armor

The power armour worn by the Battle Sisters of the Orders Militant is based on the same archaic systems as that worn by the brethren of the Adeptus Astates. It provides the same degree of armoured protection, yet must forgo the more advanced life-support systems and strength enhancing abilities used by the Space Marines, as the Sisters of Battle are not implanted with the Black Carapace that allows the Astates to interface fully with their own armour.

- Codex Witch Hunters, page 19

If it affords exactly the same protection as Astartes power armour then it'll have the following values: Head 10, Arms 11, Body 12, Legs 11. And grant the usual +20 Strength bonus.

This is going off the stats for Brother-Sergeant Agamorr in Purge the Unclean.

In our game a SoB would get (we don't have any but have determined how we would handle it).

At rank 4 (militant) they get a suit of light power armor. At rank 6 it is replaced by a suit of regular power armor. Also at rank 4 they get a boltgun they will provide ammo as well but the toon has to go get it from a convent (usually easier said than done) so toons would normally have to provide it.

We ignore the artwork as it shows (in most cases) fantasy female armor.

Snidesworth said:

Ah, but he wears Artificier Armour, doesn't he?

Wouldn't artificer armor just be best quality armour?

In 40k it gives 2+ armour which is on par with Terminator armour, not Power armour. While it is believable that there are many levels of 'artificierity', the ones in tabletop, and probably the one Agamorr wears are much better than regular Power armour.

Idaan said:

Agreed - consider that Ork Mega Armour (Creatures Anathema, page 103) confers 14 points of armour to some locations. With that in mind, it becomes abundantly clear that the finest examples of Artificier Armour (which aren't that much less resilient than Terminator Armour) are significantly better than just "best-quality Power Armour".