Valorous Heart

This Order offers your army a 6+ feel no pain, which you all know I absolutely love when playing my leviathan Nids, but on top of this, you get an army-wide buff of ignoring -1 AP against ranged AND melee weapons! It doesn't even end there; if you include an imagifier in your list (which I would never leave home without), that model has access to 3 different tales.

- Tale of the Faithful: This ability allows all friendly order units within 6 to re-roll Deny the Witch attempts. This isn't a bad ability to have, and we will revisit why later in this article.

- Tale of the Warrior: Add 1 to the strength characteristic to all order units within 6. This is great as you are already quite resilient, ignoring -1 AP on all your sisters, but now with preachers and missionaries, you're able to start stacking attacks on your sister units and now gain access to +1 strength!

- Tale of the Stoic: The best for last, this tale is the must include in your sisters list regardless if you are running valorous Heart or not. This gives all units within 6 ignore -1AP. Now that doesn't seem so good because you already have that right, however this buff STACKS!!!! with Valorous Heart. This makes a tide of sisters, which are incredibly cheap, such an insane army to shift, making them in my mind one of the best defensive armies in the game. The ability to be able to sit in cover and almost always have your 2+ save with a 6+ feel no pain is honestly too good to look past.

What if you want to take more than one of those Tales? Usually, the +1 strength and an additional ignore -1 AP are a solid combination. Don't worry; there is a stratagem to take two tales on the same imagifier, which is beautiful, meaning you won't always have to fork out the extra 45 points for a second imagifier if you are pushed for points.

Now that we have briefly touched on why the core of your army being Valorous Heart is so formidable, this does not mean ruling out other Orders. There is quite a lot of play with the Bloody Rose and even Our Martyred Lady.