Adepta Sororitas: Bringers of Flame Detachment Guide

Ranged weapons equipped by ADEPTA SORORITAS models from your army have the [ASSAULT] ability, and each time an attack made with such a weapon targets a unit within 6 inches, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack.

That is the rewritten version 1.2 wording; the pack's Rules Updates changed this rule outright, so treat any differently worded description as stale.

Two halves, and crucially they push the same direction rather than trading off:

• [ASSAULT] on every gun in the army means your whole force can Advance and still shoot. This is a mobility rule wearing a shooting rule's clothes.
• +1 Strength inside 6 inches rewards you for using that mobility to close.

So the detachment does not ask you to choose between moving and shooting, which is the choice that usually constrains a gunline. It asks you to run at people while firing, which is both thematically correct for the Sisters and mechanically the strongest thing it could do at 2 DP. A bolter going from Strength 4 to 5 inside 6 inches changes what it wounds.

Read the CP costs carefully. Two of these went up to 2CP in the current pack, which meaningfully changes how many you can fire per turn.

Rites of Fire (your Shooting phase, 1CP). Target one Adepta Sororitas unit that disembarked from a TRANSPORT this turn and has not shot. Until end of phase, each ranged attack against an enemy unit within 6 inches that is also within range of an objective marker adds 1 to the Wound roll; if models are destroyed, one of their units takes a Battle-shock test. Note the two conditions stack: within 6 inches AND on an objective. The pack rewrote this Effect section.

Shield of Aversion (your opponent's Shooting phase or the Fight phase, 1CP). Worsen the Armour Penetration of attacks against your unit by 1 until the attacking unit finishes. Also rewritten by the pack.

Righteous Blows (Fight phase, 1CP). Your unit's melee weapons gain [LETHAL HITS], and destroyed enemies force a Battle-shock test.

Carry Forth the Faithful (your Movement phase, before a TRANSPORT Advances, 1CP). Re-roll Advance rolls for it, and units can disembark even though it Advanced, making a shock disembark move.

Cleansing Flames (your Shooting phase, 2CP). Torrent weapons in your unit gain [DEVASTATING WOUNDS]. The pack raised this from 1CP to 2CP. It is still strong; it is no longer something you fire casually every turn.

Blazing Ire (your opponent's Shooting phase, 2CP). A unit embarked in a targeted TRANSPORT can disembark as if it were your Movement phase and shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, at the unit that shot. Also raised to 2CP.

Three of the six care about TRANSPORT models. That is not incidental: this is a mechanised detachment, and the Immolator is close to a requirement.

Fire and Fury (30 pts). While the bearer leads a unit, add 1 to the Attacks of Torrent weapons in that unit, and all other ranged weapons in it gain [SUSTAINED HITS 1]. The most expensive and the best match for the detachment's identity.

Manual of Saint Griselda (20 pts). At the start of your Command phase, discard up to 2 Miracle dice and add 1 dice showing their sum, to a maximum of 6. A pool-quality converter: two low dice become one high one, which is exactly the trade a shooting list wants.

Righteous Rage (15 pts). Each time the bearer fights, discard up to 3 Miracle dice; for each, add 1 to the Attacks and Strength of the bearer's melee weapons until end of phase.

Iron Surplice of Saint Istalela (10 pts). CANONESS or PALATINE only. Save characteristic 2+ and Feel No Pain 5+. The cheapest here and a straightforward durability upgrade for whoever leads your main firebase.

Enhancement points are dataslate-volatile; confirm in the app.

Retributor Squads are the dedicated heavy-weapons unit and the clearest winners from an army-wide [ASSAULT] grant. The pack also rewrote their Storm of Retribution: they re-roll Hit and Wound rolls of 1, and get +1 to both instead against a unit that has destroyed one of your Sororitas units during the battle.

The Immolator is the transport half, and the pack rewrote its Transport section: at the Declare Battle Formations step you can split a Battle Sisters, Dominion or Sisters Novitiate squad into two units, with specific notes on handling the Cherub ability. Dominion Squads are named in that same clause and had their Righteous Awareness rewritten to a D6 inch reactive Normal move when an enemy ends a move within 8 inches. We do not stock a Dominion Squad box, so we cannot link one.

At 2 DP this is a core, so spend the last point on a specialist: [Chorus of Condemnation](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/chorus-of-condemnation) for the cleanest full shooting army in the faction, [Sacred Champions](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/sacred-champions) to cover the melee gap without competing for models, or [Sanctified Orators](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/sanctified-orators) for a free extra enhancement. All are unambiguously legal, since this detachment carries no tag.

This is SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. Written against the official Adepta Sororitas Faction Pack version 1.2, legal for matched play from 26 August 2026, with Detachment Point costs, force dispositions, Unique Tags and enhancement points from the official Munitorum Field Manual version 1.3, read on 27 August 2026. Adepta Sororitas were part of the 26 August reissue, so the pack was current on the day this was written. Enhancement points are dataslate-volatile; the Warhammer 40,000 app is the final word.