Vs. Sisters of Battle v6.1

[yoritomo]

With a new tyranid codex come a new versus thread for Sisters of Battle. The purpose of this thread is to discuss how our new codex can deal with this army in general. This is not a place to post army lists for review. This is a place to discuss what units work against the Sisters of Battle, what units we should watch out for, tactics and army builds we expect to see when playing Sisters of Battle, allies they usually take, and questions you might have before or after fighting a Sisters of Battle opponent.

Fair warning, the versus threads will stay on topic at all times. The moderating staff reserves the right to move or delete any post they deem off topic, incoherent, flat out wrong, or confusing to read (i.e. out of context due to previous posts being removed). This is a serious discussion geared towards people who want to play better against the Sisters of Battle, so let's act like it.

[LordPathos]

Meltas...meltas and flamers everywhere...

[Deleted]

Don't most armies basically deploy and auto-win against sisters? I've only ever seen a sisters army at games day XD

[WestRider]

They have problems, but in the hands of a good player, a Sisters Army can actually be pretty nasty. Lots of Melta and Flamers, and Exorcists can toss out a truly scary amount of firepower with some good rolls. And the way Priests work now, you can actually put together some pretty decent Counter-Assault Units, which definitely helps.

[GuardDog78]

I play against SM,SW,Eldar, DE, Orks, Templar, Necrons, Nurgle, Thousand Sons and SoB w/IG allies.
Besides Eldar/DE...the SoB with a small IG contingent consistently prove to be some of the tighter games against my 'nids.
Like Westrider said, in a good opponents hands, that AP1, flamers and power armor squads up to 20 models can be very effective.

[pyrozerker]

Just played against sisters a few days ago I think i was the only one that beat him in this league we're playing in.
I used a Flyrant and crone to pop his many rhinos as my fexes cleared the squads.
Guants managed to run free cuz he was more worried about all the MC so they wear able to hold Objs
The flamers did hurt when they managed to get in range but usually they were dead before they could get it off.
As far as meltas... my Venomthrope Paid for himself I saved 3-4 wounds that would have no saves if he wasn't next to fexes(Shroud) that or you need feel no pain(Catalyst).