Adepta Sororitas: Champions of Faith Detachment Guide

In your Command phase you can select up to 3 Adepta Sororitas units from your army, including units embarked within Transports. Until the start of your next Command phase, those units are Righteous. While a unit is Righteous:

• Add 1 inch to the Move characteristic of its models.
• Improve their Leadership by 1.
• Improve the Weapon Skill and Ballistic Skill of weapons equipped by Battle Sisters Squad, Celestian Insidiants, Celestian Sacresants and Paragon Warsuits models in that unit by 1.

That third bullet is exactly what version 1.2 rewrote, per the pack's WHAT'S NEW block, and the four unit types above are the current v1.2 list. If you are reading a guide that gives a different list, or omits Celestian Insidiants, it predates this pack.

The detachment also carries a keywords clause: while a Celestian Sacresants unit from your army is not Battle-shocked, add 1 to the Objective Control of Celestian Sacresants models in that unit.

The design is deliberately forgiving, which is why this is the beginner recommendation. The first two bullets apply to any Adepta Sororitas unit you nominate, so even a nomination you later regret still bought you movement and leadership. Only the third bullet is restricted.

All cost 1CP, so a Champions of Faith list can realistically fire two or three a turn rather than saving for one big play. Most follow the same shape: the stratagem works for everyone, and works better for the units you nominated.

Shield of Denial (any phase, just after a mortal wound is allocated). Feel No Pain 6+ against mortal wounds until end of phase, or 5+ if the unit is Righteous.

Path of the Righteous (Fight phase). Pile-in and Consolidate up to 6 inches instead of 3. If the unit is Righteous, those moves do not need to end closer to the closest enemy model, provided they end as close as possible to the closest enemy unit. The Righteous half is the valuable one: it is what lets a consolidation walk onto an objective rather than deeper into a fight you did not want.

Suffer Not the Unfaithful (your Shooting phase or the Fight phase). Righteous-only. Select [LETHAL HITS] or [SUSTAINED HITS 1]; your unit's weapons have it until end of phase. This is the direct reason to think about your three nominations before you know what the turn needs.

To the Heart of Heresy (Fight phase). Improve the Strength of your unit's melee weapons by 1, with a further improvement if Righteous.

Bastion of Faith (Fight phase, just after an enemy has selected targets). Celestian Sacresants only. Subtract 1 from Hit rolls against your unit until end of phase; if Righteous, extend the same -1 to one other non-Battle-shocked Sacresant unit within 6 inches. The only single-datasheet stratagem here, and a good reason Sacresants show up even outside Sacred Champions.

Indefatigable Dedication (Strategic Ploy). Turns a retreat into another opportunity to press toward the objective.

Four, and they cover genuinely different jobs.

Eyes of the Oracle (10 pts). The bearer's weapons have [PRECISION], and each time the bearer's unit destroys an enemy Character model you gain 1CP. The cheapest option, and it partly refunds itself.

Triptych of Judgement (15 pts). Each time a model in the bearer's unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack's BS or WS and/or any or all modifiers to the Hit roll. Note it covers the whole unit, not just the bearer, and it is the answer to stacked to-hit penalties.

Sanctified Amulet (25 pts). Enemy units set up from Reserves cannot be set up within 12 inches of the bearer. Pure denial with no offensive component, so its value swings hard on the matchup. Worth saying plainly rather than rating it in the abstract.

Mark of Devotion (30 pts). Add 1 to the Attacks of the bearer's melee weapons; while the bearer's unit is Righteous, add 2 to Attacks and 1 to Damage instead. The most expensive, and the one that most rewards spending a nomination on the character's own unit.

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

The Munitorum Field Manual version 1.3 lists this detachment with the REVEREND Unique Tag. The Faction Pack's Champions of Faith spread, pages 5 and 6, prints no tag on it anywhere: no banner above the heading, no tag sentence in the rules block. We checked both pages by coordinate for the strings UNIQUE, REVEREND and "tag" and found nothing.

So the tag rests on one official document and is contradicted by the silence of the other. Our policy is to assert the tag and not assert the restriction.

What that means for you. If the tag stands, Champions of Faith cannot be taken with [Sacred Champions](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/sacred-champions), which carries REVEREND in both documents and whose own printed rule forbids a second REVEREND detachment.

> We do not know the answer. Confirm it in the Warhammer 40,000 app before you build that list.

And this is not a hypothetical worry: Champions of Faith is 2 DP, Sacred Champions is 1 DP, so the pair costs exactly the 3 DP a Strike Force budget gives you, and both are thematically "elite champion" detachments. It is the army a player builds by accident. It gets its own page.

Pairing this with anything other than Sacred Champions is unambiguously legal, because no other Adepta Sororitas detachment carries any tag. [Chorus of Condemnation](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/chorus-of-condemnation) adds a jump-pack package for a point, and [Sanctified Orators](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/sanctified-orators) gets you a free extra enhancement, which matters when this detachment already has four you want.

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.