GW Retro: 1997s Original Sisters of Battle Codex
It was 1997 and a young Gav Thorpe penned the original Codex Sisters of Battle. Come take a look at the very first Sororitas 2nd Edition army book turning 21 years old this year.
Welcome to the BoLS time machine to the era of early tabletop awesomeness. This week, we take you back to the heady days of Warhammer 40,000 2nd Edition! Time to let the the Daughters of the Emperor take out the flamers and start burning the heretics – Gav Thorpe style! Enjoy this trip through the mists of gaming time.
Codex Sisters of Battle (2nd Edition)
Army List
This book contains a complete army list for using a Sisters of Battle army. Further special rules and equipment is included.
- Adepta Sororitas Army List pg 48
- Using the Army List pg 48
- Size of Game pg 48
- Characters pg 48
- Army Commander pg 49
- Veteran Sister Superiors pg 49
- Multiple Characters in Units pg 49
- Squads pg 49
- Support pg 49
- Allies pg 49
- Special Characters pg 50
- New Models pg 50
- The Wargear Lists pg 50
- Wargear Cards and Relics pg 50
- Adeptus Ministorum as Allies pg 51
- Mounted Models pg 51
- Wargear List pg 52
- Army Selection pg 53
- Characters pg 53
- Canoness pg 53
- Veteran Sister Superior pg 54
- Veteran Seraphim Superior pg 54
- Missionary pg 55
- Confessor pg 55
- Preacher pg 56
- Squads pg 57
- Battle Sisters Squad pg 57
- Seraphim Squad pg 58
- Frateris Militia Band pg 59
- Support pg 59
- Rhino pg 59
- Adepta Sororitas Immolator pg 59
Special Rules
- Special Rules pg 43
- Relics pg 43
- Sacred Rights pg 45
- Adepta Sororitas Immolator pg 46
The first Sisters army box. circa 1998
Background
- The Adeptus Ministorum pg 4
- The Horus Heresy pg 4
- The Founders of the Faith pg 5
- The Temple of the Saviour Emperor pg 5
- The Adeptus Ministorum Grows pg 5-8
- The Age of Apostasy pg 8
- Path to Damnation pg 8
- Descent into Anarchypg 8
- High Lord Vandire pg 9
- The Reign of Blood pg 10
- Daughters of the Emperor pg 10
- Sebastian Thor pg 11-12
- The Wars of Apostasy pg 13
- The High Lord Falls pg 13-14
- Reformation pg 15
- The Ecclesiarchy Reborn pg 15
- The Trial of Sebastian Thor pg 15
- The Reformation pg 16
- Image of Sisters at war pg 17
- Organisation of the Ecclesiarchy pg 33
- Schola Progenium pg 33
- Missionarius Galaxia pg 34
- Frateris Clergy pg 34
- The Sisterhood pg 35
- Frateris Militia pg 36
- The Imperial Creed pg 37
- The Redemptionists pg 37
- The Imperialists pg 37
- Brethren of the Light pg 38
- Heresy pg 38
- The Plague of Unbelief pg 39