Paragon Warsuit

Looks like the Dreadknight had a daughter the whole time.

"If its out time to die, it's our time. All I ask is, if we have to give these bastards our lives, WE GIVE THEM HELL BEFORE WE DO IT!!!"

– Matrix Revolutions

The Paragon Warsuit is a new unit released on January 2021. A device that straddles the line between Power Armour and Mecha. The Paragon Warsuit has garnered...well...let's just say that we have now a metric fuck ton of Memes now.

How has it come to this?

The thing you are seeing here is the new Sisters of Battle elite unit. It is the first new sister unit since 2003 and it seem to carry on the Imperium's glorious tradition of strapping a fucking baby carrier and pushing them onto the front lines. Seriously, what the fuck is up with GW's habit of giving the Imperium fucking baby carriers? First, we had the Dreadknight, then the Invictor Tactical Warsuit and now this. Thanks to this fiasco, we can finally conclude that the design of the Dreadknight may not be Matt Ward's fault after all, go on our Spiritual Liege, you're redeemed for now on this case.

And yes, we did not have a typo up there. Ask any sisters of battle player and they will tell you the sisters of battle have never been one of game workshops favored armies and have over the years received very little support. As such from the Witch Hunter codex released in 2003 the sisters of battle have not had one totally new codex option not counting the Repressor, which was forge world not base codex, or special characters. Even the 2020 release had only Zephyrim and Mortifiers as new units, and both were variants of existing units, the Seraphim and Penitent Engine respectively. As such the Paragon Warsuit is the first 100% original, not based on any existing unit so-we-can-sell-two-unit-kits option in the sisters line up in almost two decades. . .and... look at it.

As you know, everyone and I mean everyone has taken the piss out of this thing. From comparisons to either the infamous Dreadknight or Ellen Ripley's loader suit in Aliens, to Neckbeards projectile vomiting on the horrendous design choices such as where the Sister's feet is meant to go, and even folks laughing their asses off over the fact that after decades of SOB players bitching for new armor, they finally got it in the form of a discount Centurion warsuit.

Suffice to say, this literal walking ergonomic nightmare has become the butt of jokes at the Sisters' expense. But at least both Sisters and Grey Knight players could finally find something to bond over.

The funny thing is that, if GW wanted to give the sororitas some form of heavy support, they could have just gone for other, more plausible options. We do know that regular humans can don terminator Armour, we have many examples of inquisitors doing just that, and considering how wealthy the Ecclesiarchy is, getting a special body of terminator-clad SOBs wouldn't be that implausible, even if they don't have the advantage of a black carapace.

That said, just putting a SOB in a de facto terminator suit isn't really original now, is it? And neither would be putting her into a warsuit akin to the Invictor Tactical Warsuit. Same thing can be said about a dreadnought-like design, plus a sister would rather martyr herself on the battlefield than be put in such a shell. If you see the SOB Dready as a punishment, then it's redundant to have the Penitent Engine or the mortifier ((Both also serve a better purpose to actually repent since they a) inflict pain to the pilot and b) are so weakly armored you have a better chance of actually dying and be absolved)) And C) if you give it thicker Armour (Like seen on one picture in the gallery) the suit basically looks like a tiny Titan, which would also be so VERY unoriginal.

So really, they would have, you know, just design the warsuit better. Surly GW is capable of doing that, as demonstrated by the Castigator Tank or the Celestia Sacresant. Both designs aren't completely "new" but bring enough changes to make them look awesome.

The Paragon was even mocked by the Regimental Standard [1], comparing it very unfavorably to the Sentinel. It says a lot that some of the biased points they make are actually legitimately valid, such as the fact that there’s no risk of dropping a Sentinel’s weapons in combat when they’re bolted to the chassis itself, and that (Armored) Sentinel pilots have actual head protection.

Equipment

The Paragon Warsuit is equipped with firepower to rival a Space Marine Dreadnought. Their left arm incorporates a Heavy Bolter, Heavy Flamer, or Multi-Melta which is augmented by shoulder-mounted secondary weapons consisting of either twin Grenade Launchers or Storm Bolters. Its right arm wields a melee weapon consisting of a large Paragon War Blade or Paragon War Mace.

Since the grenade launcher and the mulitmelta have the SAME range, any vehicle has the potential of reciving up to 16- 22 wounds a turn (Altough you probebly need some miracle dice to pull this off). And this is before it gets into melee!

The paragon war mace is good for smashing vehicles and monsters with its S+4 AP -2 D3 although the -1 to hit makes this a little bit unrelieable. The paragon war sword has a better AP (-3) than the mace but it´s S bonus isn´t enough to really hurt vehicles or anything with a high T. It´s D is also by 1 point weaker than the mace, so it´s better used to slice up MEQ and with it´s additional attack it does this job very well.

So if you want to smash some Tanks: Go with the war mace-multi melta- grenade launcher variant, and watch the big guys bend over like the little bitches they are.

If MEQ are your problem: Unleash your war sword- heavy bolter- grenade launcher Paragon and enjoy throwing them down from their high horse.

If GEQ´s are buggering you, mow them down like weed with your war sword- heavy flamer- storm bolter variant. ((Although you could take the grenade launcher here as well, since it has higher S and DS, but than again, it doesn´t have rapid fire for more Dakka at 12")

As you see the storm bolter kinda takes a backseat to the grenade launcher in S and DS so it´s up to your preferences which one you use (Bear in mind though, that the grenade launcher does cost points compared to the integrated storm bolter)

Now the Paragon is not the best designed suit, but if it reaches melee, the poor idiots who failed to bring it down are quite screwed.

Gallery

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  GW's fetish with baby carriers truly mystifies us.

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  Some anons quick photoshop proves that even /tg/ knows how to make better models than GW.

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  HONK HONK!

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  Truly indomitable. Bet you can't unsee that now.

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  Trust us, you don't wannna know.

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  Even Eldrad is in agreement. This shit makes the Eldar War Walker look good.

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  Original character, donut steel.

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  Yeah its basically the Loader from Aliens but all 40k'ed.

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  The baby carrier's baby carrier.

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  Cheeki Breeki edition...

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  ...And suddenly grimdark fanart explanation.

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  Dem legs.

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  Emprah knows how much kitbashing and painting skill will take to achieve this, we are not sure if they have a back-exoskeleton, use special fibers or those are cybernetic arms, and we can skip over the mechanized high-heels.

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  We leave to the skillful and elegan/tg/entlemen this grand challenge of kitbash and painting.

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  And of course the new major character has to be in one. At least the personal one looks decent.