Ebon Chalice

 Order Conviction – Daughters of the Emperor: Gain a 5+++ against Mortal

Wounds. In addition, when performing an Act of Faith you can discard an
additional dice to make the dice you used a 6.
 Warlord Trait – Terrible Knowledge: Your first free start of the round Miracle
dice of the game is an automatic 6, and you gain d3 CP.
 Relic – Annunciation of the Creed: Relic condemnor boltgun. S5, AP-2 Dd3,
can character snipe PSYKERS and does straight damage 3 against them.
 Stratagem – Cleansing Flames (2CP): Use when a unit from the order
shoots or overwatches. You automatically roll the maximum number of shots
on any flame weapons they are using.
The Ebon Chalice Order Conviction is very powerful in the abstract, but in practice
on the table the diminishing returns from it are too great to make it worth going wide
on this order, and because of how powerful various aura abilities in the army are you
generally want to unify around two orders at most. We do think there would be room
for a small detachment of Ebon Challice loaded with some big guns to exploit the
ability to line up sixes just whenever, but it’s not enough to build an army around.

What is extremely good is the Warlord trait, so much so that either minimum sized
battalions (sometimes with Celestine in the other HQ slot) or even mixed
detachments containing a single Ebon Chalice Canoness see plenty of play. Getting
a guaranteed six in your Act of Faith pool is great, and coming with d3 command
points as well is fantastic. The fact that this trait is so powerful also, paradoxically,
holds the conviction back, as it’s providing a similar effect (reliable access to a 6) at
a lower cost and more broadly (as you can use the dice for any aura).
Both the relic have the potential to be extremely funny but the normal play is to use
the Canoness from this faction as a backline objective holder also carrying
the Litanies of Faith, so they don’t see much use.
8th Edition is littered with subfactions that people basically only want for their relic
and/or trait, and the Ebon Chalice has definitely joined that group with a vengeance.