Adepta Sororitas: Sacred Champions Detachment Guide

Friendly CELESTIAN units' attacks have +1 BS and WS.

That is the entire rule, and its simplicity is the point. A flat, unconditional +1 to hit with both ranged and melee attacks, with no once-per-turn cap, no nomination step and no positional requirement, for 1 Detachment Point.

Which units are CELESTIAN? Two, and the same pack version is the reason for both:

• Celestian Sacresants, who had CELESTIAN added to their keywords in the pack's Rules Updates.
• Celestian Insidiants, one of the pack's three new datasheets, who had CELESTIAN added in the v1.2 WHAT'S NEW block.

So the detachment's whole buff lands on exactly two datasheets. That is the trade you are making at 1 DP: an excellent rule with a very narrow target list. If you do not own Sacresants, this detachment does close to nothing for you.

Every stratagem here names CELESTIAN SACRESANTS specifically, not CELESTIAN generally. Your Insidiants benefit from the detachment rule and from nothing else in the detachment.

Sanctified Blows (Fight phase, when a Sacresant unit is selected to fight, 1CP). Your unit's melee attacks have +1 A and S. Stacked on Holy Quest's +1 WS, this is what turns a durable block into an actual hammer.

Faithful Fortitude (any phase, when a Sacresant unit suffers a mortal wound, 1CP). Your unit has Feel No Pain 5+ against mortal wounds until the end of the phase. Mortal wounds are the standard answer to an armoured melee brick, so this is the card that closes the obvious counter-play. It triggers on the first mortal wound rather than needing to be called in advance.

Unflinching Determination (your Movement phase, when a Sacresant unit is selected to make an advance or fall-back move, 1CP). Your unit's ranged attacks gain [ASSAULT] until end of turn, and that move does not prevent the unit being eligible to shoot or declare a charge. Note it covers both advancing and falling back in one card: a Sacresant unit can disengage from a fight it does not want and still charge something it does.

Writ of Compunction Upgrade (20 pts). CELESTIAN SACRESANTS unit only. This unit has +1 OC. Objective Control is what converts a durable melee unit into actual scoring, and this detachment's disposition is TAKE AND HOLD, so the enhancement and the role point the same way. It goes on the unit, not a character, which leaves your character enhancement slot free.

Perfervid Haste (10 pts). ADEPTA SORORITAS model only. This unit has +1 inch M. The cheapest and least restricted option here, since it is not limited to CELESTIAN models. On a melee force that has to cross the board, an extra inch compounds every single turn.

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

This detachment's own printed rule says: "This detachment has the REVEREND tag and cannot be taken with another REVEREND detachment." That much is first-party and settled.

What is not settled is which detachment that restriction bites on. The Munitorum Field Manual v1.3 lists [Champions of Faith](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/champions-of-faith) with the same REVEREND tag. The Faction Pack's Champions of Faith spread prints no tag at all. Two official documents disagree, and we assert the tag but not the restriction.

> We do not know whether Sacred Champions plus Champions of Faith is legal. Confirm it in the Warhammer 40,000 app.

It matters because Sacred Champions is 1 DP and Champions of Faith is 2 DP, so the pair costs exactly the 3 DP a Strike Force budget gives you. The arithmetic lands on the one army whose legality is open. That collision gets its own page, and we never suggest the pairing in either direction while the question stands.

Everything else is fine. No other Adepta Sororitas detachment carries any tag, so pairing this with [Bringers of Flame](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/bringers-of-flame), [Penitent Host](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/penitent-host) or [Army of Faith](/40k/armies/adepta-sororitas/detachments/army-of-faith) is unambiguously legal. So is running it alongside two other 1 DP detachments, because carrying a tag is not the same as sharing one.

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.