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Repentia

(Unit)

Type: unit

Category: Elites

Categories: Elites

EntryId: 0566-21d7-1f9a-bebf

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Options (2)

Dedicated Transport:

Immolator

Rhino

Squad:

Mistress of Repentance

Sister Repentia

Rules (1)

Act of Faith

An Act of Faith can be attempted immediately before a Sisters of Battle unit acts during a phase; e.g. immediately before the unit moves in the Movement phase, shoots (or runs) in the Shooting phase, or strikes blows in the Assault phase. To attempt an Act of Faith, select the unit and reduce your Faith Point total by 1, then roll a D6 and add the following:




+1 if the unit is led by at least one of the following: Sister Superior, Retributor Superior, Dominion Superior, Seraphim Superior, Celestian Superior or Mistress of Repentance. 




+1 if the unit has been joined by at least one of the following independent characters: Canoness, Ecclesiarchal Confessor, Saint Celestine, Uriah Jacobus or Arch-Confessor Kyrinov. 




+1 if the unit has taken at least 1 casualty. 




Note that all modifiers are cumulative. If the total is less than 5, then the Act of Faith fails. The Faith Point is lost and nothing happens. If the total is equal to or greater than 5, the Act of Faith is successful. The unit immediately gains a bonus and/or special rules until the end of the phase. The nature of the bonus depends upon the unit that is using the Act of Faith, as detailed later.




Independent characters that have the Acts of Faith rule benefit from any bonuses received by the unit they are with when an Act of Faith is used. Similarly, units that have the Acts of Faith rule benefit from any bonuses received by an independent character that has joined the unit when an Act of Faith is used. 
If both a unit and an independent character have an Act of Faith that takes effect in the same phase, you must attempt each Act of Faith separately. 




For example, if a Canoness joins a unit of Celestians then you would require two Faith Points (and two Acts of Faith) to use both the Passion and the Hand of the Emperor Acts of Faith in the Assault phase.

Profiles:

Act of Faith
Spirit of the Martyr: This Act of Faith is used in the Assault phase. If successful, do not remove any models in the unit if they are killed before they have attacked. Instead, place them on their side. After all other models involved in the assault have made their attacks, any mortally injured model placed on its side gets to make a single attack. After these attacks have been made, any models on their side are removed as casualties.

Spirit of the Martyr:

This Act of Faith is used in the Assault phase. If successful, do not remove any models in the unit if they are killed before they have attacked. Instead, place them on their side. After all other models involved in the assault have made their attacks, any mortally injured model placed on its side gets to make a single attack. After these attacks have been made, any models on their side are removed as casualties.

Abilities
Fearless: Fearless troops automatically pass all Morale and Pinning tests they are required to take, and will never fall back. They can however go to ground voluntarily. This special rule is gained by any independent character joining a fearless unit. However, as long as a fearless character stays with a unit that is not fearless, he loses this special rule. If a unit that is falling back suddenly gains this rule, it will automatically regroup at the beginning of its next Movement phase, regardless of all normal restrictions on regrouping. Note: units with the Fearless ability are subject to the No Retreat! rule.
Feel No Pain: If a model with this ability suffers an unsaved wound, roll a dice. On a 1, 2 or 3, take the wound as normal (removing the model if it loses its final Wound). On a 4, 5 or 6, the injury is ignored and the model continues fighting. This ability cannot be used against wounds from weapons that inflict instant death (by having a high enough Strength or a special rule to that effect; even if the model is an eternal warrior). Neither can it be used against wounds from AP1 and AP2 weapons, power weapons and any other wound against which no armour save can ever be taken (like wounds from power fists, Dreadnought close combat weapons, rending weapons that roll a 6, Perils of the Warp, failed dangerous terrain tests, etc).
Fleet: A unit with this rule may assault in the same turn in which it has run.
Rage: In the Movement phase, units subject to rage must always move as fast as possible towards the closest visible enemy. In the Shooting phase, they are free to decide whether to run, but if they do they must run towards the closest visible enemy. In the Assault phase they must always consolidate towards the closest visible enemy. Whilst falling back, embarked on a transport, or if no enemy is visible, they ignore this rule.
Shield of Faith: Models with the Shield of Faith special rule have a 6+ invulnerable save.