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The Novitiate Superior is ably supported by a number of specialist squadmates who really could only find a place on the battlefields of the 41st Millennium. Take the Novitiate Exactor, the only “covert operative” in history to dual-wield neural whips. With the armor base coated, it’s time to paint the details. Use smaller brushes to carefully paint the different elements of the model, such as the robes, weapons, and accessories. Here are some suggested paint colors for the details: Even more fun is their upgrade sprue, which houses enough parts to make 10 distinct kinds of operative, ranging from the relic-bearing Novitiate Pronatus to the Novitiate Exactor with her twin neural whips.
Novitiates don’t just have Acts of Faith, they get some pretty good ploys as well. Acts of Faith mean that you won’t be spending your CPs on rerolls, and this gives you more CPs to spend on ploys that tend to range from decent to excellent. Strategic Ploys The Novitiates are Battle Sisters-in-training, full of youthful zeal and a burning desire to prove themselves worthy of joining their power-armoured comrades. Their main sprue can be used to assemble a full team equipped with either autoguns or autopistols and razor-sharp swords, led by an experienced Sister Superior.
Final Thoughts
Reveal it when a friendly model is incapacitated within 2” of an objective marker, the next two times a friendly model is incapacitated within 2” of that objective marker, score a VP. Along with this magnificent boxed set, you can also get dice sets for the two kill teams. Surely, the Chaos/Aeldari gods (delete as appropriate) will smile upon your rolls if you’re using the correct dice? The Corsairs dice have the symbol of the Eldritch Raiders on the ‘6’ ( Prince Yriel ’s buddies) while the Chaos Space Marines feature a Legionary helmet. Thundercloud: It feels like you can’t re-roll a re-roll should just be a blanket rule, because there’ll be other edge cases like this come up and this way people know not to try it. Novitiates have some rather nice pieces of equipment, as well as the standard grenades. You can have up to two Icons of Faith and they give you a free Act of Faith once per game. Some of our other favorites are the Adamantine-Weave Suplice, which gives you a 3+ save, and the Sainted Reliquae, which gives you a Faith Point each time the bearer scores a critical hit, making it a good fit for your Duellist. Reliquarius (I'm not sure why she has the best banner in the game(This is what I've heard other players say) why is shooting on a 4+ when a operative dies near her so good if it's kinda swingy and what operatives are best to keep near her to get a good use out of this)
Blessed Rejuvenation (2 Faith Points) – When an operative is activated they may regain d3 lost wounds. This is a great way to take an operative from wounded to injured, however its random nature risks it being wasted. At the end of the day it is better to spend faith points to guarantee you stop 5 damage from a plasmagun than trying to heal your way out of it later. TheArmorOfContempt: A great change, one of the issues with Kill Team has been that some teams have equipment options that are simply auto-takes over others, and the Chastiser has been one of the biggest culprits. Upping the cost seems like a smart move, although it might of been more thematic to keep it cheap, but have mortal wounds occur for each die you choose to re-roll. Novitiates come with a strong set of useful equipment, so strong in fact, that one item in particular was so good that it amounted to a team-wide reroll 1s to hit ability. This item had its cost doubled in a balance data-slate, but is that enough to give the rest of the inventory a chance to shine? The model just has an autopistol, but it’s got a solid ability and unique action. Novitiate HospitallerI’d rather they’d made Terror Troops an ability on Reivers and not cost anything, it would have shown them some love.
Another melee build, this time with a big flaming Mace of the Righteous, which is 4 dice, 3+, 5/5, Inferno 2 and Stun. This gives you power weapon level damage output which also Stuns a model and sets it on fire. She also provides two buffs to friendly models, helping them re-roll defence dice and re-roll 1s and 2s for friendly operatives when they fight. Novitiate DialogusA Novitiate Superior with +1APL from the Dialogus can charge, fight with a power weapon, and shoot with a plasma pistol, then chain activate one of the aforementioned operatives with Lead By Example. This is a combo with frightening damage potential! Novitiate Kill Teams come with (10) operatives, one of which must be the Novitiate Superior armed with either: a Boltgun, or Power Weapon and Bolt/Plasma Pistol. The further 9 operatives must be taken from the following: Blinding Aura– For two faith points when an enemy model shoots, select a friendly model more that two inches from them. That operative is treated as being in cover. This is good for trying to save the bacon of a model in the open. Vengeful Strike (3 Faith Points) – Retain a normal hit as a critical hit. A step up from Guiding Light, but the most expensive of the Acts.