Adepta Sororitas: Chorus of Condemnation Detachment Guide

Friendly ADEPTA SORORITAS INFANTRY FLY units gain Condemnatory Psalms: in your Shooting phase, such a unit can select one visible enemy unit within 12 inches, and that enemy unit is condemned. While a unit is condemned, that unit has +3 inches detection range.

Read that again, because it is not a buff to your shooting. The effect lands on the condemned enemy, and it makes that enemy easier to detect. This is a spotting detachment. The payoff arrives through the two stratagems that key off your angels and Exorcists working together, and through anything else in your army that cares about detection, not from the detachment rule doing damage on its own.

What that means practically: taking this detachment without the pieces that exploit it leaves you with a 1 DP rule that marks one enemy unit a turn and little else. Bring the Exorcist.

All three cost 1CP, which means you can realistically use two of them in the same turn.

Inspirational Battle Canticles (start of the Command phase). Target one friendly ADEPTA SORORITAS INFANTRY FLY unit or one friendly EXORCIST unit; select one friendly battle-shocked Adepta Sororitas unit within 6 inches, and it is no longer battle-shocked. A battle-shocked unit has Objective Control 0, so this is a scoring stratagem, not a morale one. It is the reason to park an Exorcist or a Seraphim squad near your objective holders.

Harmonised Exorcism (your Shooting phase, when a friendly EXORCIST unit is selected to shoot). Target that Exorcist; select one unit visible to and within 9 inches of a friendly ADEPTA SORORITAS INFANTRY FLY unit; your Exorcist's ranged attacks against it have +1 to hit. Note the geometry: the 9 inches is measured from your angels, not from the tank. Your Seraphim are forward observers. The Exorcist stays safe.

Devastating Reprise (your Shooting phase, when a friendly EXORCIST unit has shot). Target one friendly ADEPTA SORORITAS INFANTRY FLY unit; select one enemy unit excluding MONSTER and VEHICLE units that was hit by those Exorcist attacks; your FLY unit's ranged attacks against it gain [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].

The sequence is fixed and worth rehearsing: angels get within 9 inches of the target, Exorcist shoots it with +1 to hit, then the angels shoot it with devastating wounds. Two stratagems, 2CP, one dead infantry unit. The MONSTER and VEHICLE exclusion on Devastating Reprise is the limit: do not build your anti-tank plan around this chain.

Only two, and both are cheap.

Symphonic Payload Upgrade (10 pts). EXORCIST unit only. This unit can re-roll rolls to determine the A of a weapon. The Exorcist's signature weapon has random attacks, so this is the difference between a wasted turn and a real one. At 10 points it is the default pick.

Clarion of Urgency (15 pts). CANONESS WITH JUMP PACK model only. At the end of your opponent's Fight phase, if this unit is unengaged, you can place it in strategic reserves. A genuine escape hatch for a character who has done her work deep in the enemy half, and the reason the jump-pack Canoness rather than the foot version is the natural warlord here.

Enhancement points are dataslate-volatile, so treat both numbers as a planning aid and confirm in the app.

Seraphim are the core INFANTRY FLY unit and do all three jobs: condemn a target, act as the 9 inch observer, and collect the devastating wounds. Zephyrim are the melee-leaning alternative, and the pack rewrote their Embodied Prophecy ability so they now pick [SUSTAINED HITS 1] or [LETHAL HITS] each fight, and get both if they charged that turn. A Canoness with Jump Pack carries the Clarion. And at least one Exorcist is effectively mandatory.

At 1 DP this is a specialist you bolt onto a core. The natural partners are [Bringers of Flame](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/bringers-of-flame) for a full shooting army, [Army of Faith](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/army-of-faith) if you want the stratagem chain to connect reliably rather than occasionally, [Penitent Host](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/penitent-host) for a split-threat game, or [Champions of Faith](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/champions-of-faith) as a general core. All four are unambiguously legal, because Chorus of Condemnation carries no tag at all.

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.