Adepta Sororitas: Hallowed Martyrs Detachment Guide

Each time an ADEPTA SORORITAS model from your army makes an attack:

• Add 1 to the Hit roll if that model's unit is below its Starting Strength.
• Add 1 to the Wound roll as well if that model's unit is Below Half-strength.

This is an army-wide rule with no unit restriction and no nomination step, which is precisely why it costs the whole budget.

And it has an honest downside that most write-ups skip. The rule does nothing in the first exchange of the game. Every unit starts at Starting Strength. A list that trades well and never loses models never turns its own detachment rule on. You are buying a comeback mechanic, and the price is that you are worst in the opening rounds and best when you are losing bodies.

That also makes it the detachment with the clearest interaction with the army rule: every destroyed Adepta Sororitas unit hands you a Miracle dice, so casualties are already paying you once. Here they pay you twice.

Six, and all but one cost 1CP.

Divine Intervention (any phase, 1CP, Epic Deed). Target one ADEPTA SORORITAS CHARACTER just destroyed. Discard 1 to 3 Miracle dice; at end of phase set the model up unengaged, as close as possible to where it died, not part of an attached unit, with a starting strength of 1. Roll one D3, adding 1 per dice discarded; the model has that many wounds remaining, up to its starting number. You cannot select Saint Celestine, and cannot target the same character twice in a battle. The pack rewrote this stratagem's Target and Effect sections, so this is the current wording.

Suffering and Sacrifice (start of the Fight phase, 1CP). Target one ADEPTA SORORITAS INFANTRY or WALKER unit. Until end of phase, each enemy model within Engagement Range must select your unit as the target of its attacks. Also rewritten by the pack. Read alongside the detachment rule, this is doing two jobs at once: it protects something else, and it deliberately damages the unit you nominated, which is how you switch The Blood of Martyrs on.

Righteous Vengeance (Fight phase, 1CP). Re-roll melee Hit rolls, and re-roll Wound rolls too if the unit is Below Half-strength. The same conditional as the detachment rule, stacking on top of it.

Spirit of the Martyr (Fight phase, 2CP). Each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if it has not fought this phase, do not remove it; it fights after the attacking unit finishes, then is removed. The most expensive card here and the one that converts casualties most directly into damage.

Sanctified Immolation (any phase, 1CP). One ADEPTA SORORITAS VEHICLE with Deadly Demise that was just destroyed inflicts its mortal wounds automatically instead of rolling. A guaranteed parting shot from a dying Immolator, Exorcist or Castigator.

Praise the Fallen (your opponent's Shooting phase, 1CP). A unit that just lost models can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, targeting only the unit that shot it.

Saintly Example (10 pts). When the bearer is destroyed, you gain an additional D3 Miracle dice. The pack's FAQ confirms an Imagifier can re-roll those extra dice before they enter your pool, which is a real and useful interaction.

Chaplet of Sacrifice (25 pts). At the end of your Command phase, if the bearer is on the battlefield, re-roll 1 Miracle dice from your pool and return it showing the new result, or up to 3 dice if the bearer's unit is below Starting Strength. The best pool-quality tool in the faction, and it gets better exactly when the rest of the detachment does.

Through Suffering, Strength (25 pts). Add 1 to the Attacks, Strength and Damage of the bearer's melee weapons, or 2 if the bearer has lost one or more wounds.

Mantle of Ophelia (20 pts). CANONESS or PALATINE only. Each time an attack is allocated to the bearer, change its Damage characteristic to 1. A hard damage cap rather than a save, so it works against exactly the high-damage attacks a save would fail against.

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

The rule needs bodies that can drop below Starting Strength and keep fighting, so Battle Sisters Squads are the engine: a ten-Sister squad that has lost four models is exactly the unit this detachment was written for. An Imagifier converts your stream of casualty-generated Miracle dice into usable ones, though note the pack moved her from Leader to Support. A Canoness carries the Mantle or Through Suffering, Strength and is a valid Divine Intervention target.

The Triumph of Saint Katherine is worth its own note: the pack rewrote its Solemn Procession ability so a Miracle dice gained at the start of the round is not rolled and simply has a value of 6 while the model is on the battlefield. Guaranteed sixes are a large upgrade to a pool. Flagging one wrinkle honestly: that datasheet's wording says "battle round" while the army rule's own section says "turn". We report both rather than reconciling them; the app is the place to settle it.

No pairings are listed on this page, and that is not an omission. At 3 Detachment Points this fills a Strike Force budget on its own and cannot be combined with any other detachment. If you want a second detachment, you want a 2 DP core instead.

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.