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DAKKA BINGOOOOO!

"SoB codex right around the corner"

I mean...come on guys, this is the ohsomany-time that people claim a SoB codex is "already fully written" and could be released "any time"?

Also...natfka.

 AnomanderRake wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Actually, I personally don't doubt that there are a half dozen 'complete' Sister of Battle codices laying around the Dev Team office.

Just seems like the sort of thing they might do to break a writer's block. Throw cack at a project nobody cares about and see if any of it sticks to give their brains a break from trying to make Flayed Ones work with only rulebook USRs.

There are a lot of 'complete' Sisters of Battle Codexes lying around. I know SisterSydney has one, I know I have one...

That's not what Miko meant and I'm pretty sure you know that.

The idea was that a complete codex may exist because it could be something that's fiddled with now and then just to change pace so the rules team doesn't get burnt out.


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 Sigvatr wrote:
DAKKA BINGOOOOO!

"SoB codex right around the corner"

I mean...come on guys, this is the ohsomany-time that people claim a SoB codex is "already fully written" and could be released "any time"?

Also...natfka.

I can only count 1 time that rumors of Sisters models were made (and not just wishlisting taken as rumor) and they obviously didn't pan out (whipple rumors and the like). That said, the past rumors about Sisters getting codex releases have been on spot on so I don't see a reason to claim that every Sisters rumor is false.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
not a bad thing though.

Very true, much like a forum he gives us a consolidated location to find rumors which is the main reason I go there as it cuts down on how much digging I need to do to keep up on things.

Yeah, poor Natfka gets alot of hate on Dakka for some reason. He makes it very clear that he's just passing on what is sent to him and rarely ever claims the rumor is accurate. He also doesn't try to take ownership of the rumors he passes along. I think the only recent rumor he has flat out said himself was accurate was the AdMech codex rumor.

Maybe it is a sisters of battle!!! for Fantasy and not 40k! The Holy Sisters of Jesus Franz...

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Actually, I personally don't doubt that there are a half dozen 'complete' Sister of Battle codices laying around the Dev Team office.

Just seems like the sort of thing they might do to break a writer's block. Throw cack at a project nobody cares about and see if any of it sticks to give their brains a break from trying to make Flayed Ones work with only rulebook USRs.

There are a lot of 'complete' Sisters of Battle Codexes lying around. I know SisterSydney has one, I know I have one...

That's not what Miko meant and I'm pretty sure you know that.

The idea was that a complete codex may exist because it could be something that's fiddled with now and then just to change pace so the rules team doesn't get burnt out.

I know. My point was that if random folks on the Internet can come up with playable Sisters rules in their spare time the barrier to GW releasing the official ones isn't them not having the rules, it's the models. Show me pictures of the models and I'll believe we're getting a new Sisters release.

 ClassicCarraway wrote:
Yeah, poor Natfka gets alot of hate on Dakka for some reason. He makes it very clear that he's just passing on what is sent to him and rarely ever claims the rumor is accurate. He also doesn't try to take ownership of the rumors he passes along. I think the only recent rumor he has flat out said himself was accurate was the AdMech codex rumor.

Natfka may just pass on what is sent to him, but that is no different than Darnok passing on what is sent to him or Steve the Warboss passing on what is sent to him. He is the source because he is the first real name in the chain. The reason he gets flak from people like me (and I certainly wouldn't call it hate) is that he refuses to admit that he is a monger and then deletes any comments who question his accuracy while posting about how inaccurate the rumor tracker is.

for me, at the end of the day, rumors are just fun speculation. given how closed lipped GW can be any rumors more then 2 weeks from release tend to be pretty... unreliable. and GW's proven that they can actually pull off complete suprises, such as the GK codex. which actually caught most of the rumor sites off guard

BrianDavion wrote:
for me, at the end of the day, rumors are just fun speculation. given how closed lipped GW can be any rumors more then 2 weeks from release tend to be pretty... unreliable. and GW's proven that they can actually pull off complete suprises, such as the GK codex. which actually caught most of the rumor sites off guard

But they aren't just fun speculation.

Example: The Fantasy 9th Edition and Round Base rumors are actually driving economic change right now. (I.e. people are selling armies and not buying new stuff because of the rumors). That's not just fun speculation.

Could GW end it by being more open about things? Sure. But since we're stuck with GW's info policy, knowing who is full of gak and who isn't is important.

People who react to initial rumors are honestly overreacting in my book. We're 5+ months out from a release for WFB and people are jumping ship before every/anything is really confirmed.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
People who react to initial rumors are honestly overreacting in my book. We're 5+ months out from a release for WFB and people are jumping ship before every/anything is really confirmed.

Completely agree.

Hell Pancake Edition proved that for me. Initial rumors are as "true" as the fake ones you can wish list for or tell for a lark until proven otherwise.

well now we just got to wait and see what happens.

I am going pop faith "New sob" codex. Goes off.

GW rolls for their 1++ save.

Why would the Sisters players want a new codex? Do we really want them to be nerfed some more?

I'll keep what we have, along with the metal Sisters. Don't all SoB players know what Hope leads too?

Purge it from your minds....

New models and new Sisters > old codex and a slowly dying model range.


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From Jared van Kell on BoLS (take extra salt):

Adeptus Sororitas are due this year but from what is being said it sounds like it is going to be as part of a box set similar to Shield of Baal.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
New models and new Sisters > old codex and a slowly dying model range.


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From Jared van Kell on BoLS (take extra salt):

Adeptus Sororitas are due this year but from what is being said it sounds like it is going to be as part of a box set similar to Shield of Baal.

A "starter box" with Sisters of Battle in it? Instead of some kind of Space Marines? NOW I need an ocean's entire worth of salt.

 fox-light713 wrote:

@Sororitas
After the featuring in the Shields of Baal Campaign i think its possible for a near Sororitas release. The Codex is complete and can be released every time. More rumors do not exist at the moment.

I highlighted the part where this is most probably a false Rumour. Who has NOT thought that?

But we can all keep wishing... I know i am...


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 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

From Jared van Kell on BoLS (take extra salt):

Adeptus Sororitas are due this year but from what is being said it sounds like it is going to be as part of a box set similar to Shield of Baal.

A "starter box" with Sisters of Battle in it? Instead of some kind of Space Marines? NOW I need an ocean's entire worth of salt.

I don't know... They keep complaining about "model design".

2-part clip-together Plastic Sisters would be the easiest way to model them in the poses they want.

Still Buying the box? Probably.

 dracpanzer wrote:
Why would the Sisters players want a new codex? Do we really want them to be nerfed some more?

Nerfed? From what I've seen, the consensus was that it made them more effective, overall. Between that and the fact that GW has recently been writing them well, there's a good chance that a new codex would be allright.

primalexile wrote:Maybe it is a sisters of battle!!! for Fantasy and not 40k! The Holy Sisters of Jesus Franz...

That would be the Sisters of Sigmar, then?

 BlackTalos wrote:

I don't know... They keep complaining about "model design".

2-part clip-together Plastic Sisters would be the easiest way to model them in the poses they want.

Still Buying the box? Probably.

Oh don't get me wrong, I'd buy it pretty damn fast even if they were clip together, I just find it, even then, a bit too salty for my taste. Ah well, let's wait and see.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
New models and new Sisters > old codex and a slowly dying model range.


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From Jared van Kell on BoLS (take extra salt):

Adeptus Sororitas are due this year but from what is being said it sounds like it is going to be as part of a box set similar to Shield of Baal.

A "starter box" with Sisters of Battle in it? Instead of some kind of Space Marines? NOW I need an ocean's entire worth of salt.

That. Would. Be. AMAZING.

The current 'dex is actually damn close to perfect given the limited model range, the only units in need of a buff are Canoness, Penitent Engines, Repentia and Celestians (which, thankfully, aren't key units so the Dex functions quite fine). I would hope that a new Dex wouldn't mess around too much because it wouldn't take a lot to throw everything out of whack.

Well as we know already the entire thread is a Salt mine...

But it just sounds very GW-like to make a 2-part clip-together plastic Sister boxed set to keep people happy rather than actually make a Plastic kit (read "normal" kit) of a Squad.

Sisters are mentioned in the new books? Did they not get obliterated this time, as per typical GW writing? :|

I'd love to see a new Codex, and updated models (the first one is possible, 2nd...yeah....probably not). They've got a unique niche for sure, but after slowly returning to 7th, it seems they're underpowered in a big way.

ncshooter426 wrote:
Sisters are mentioned in the new books? Did they not get obliterated this time, as per typical GW writing? :|

I'd love to see a new Codex, and updated models (the first one is possible, 2nd...yeah....probably not). They've got a unique niche for sure, but after slowly returning to 7th, it seems they're underpowered in a big way.

I still don't own the 2nd campaign book, but they were awesome ass-kickers in the "Leviathan".

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

ncshooter426 wrote:
Sisters are mentioned in the new books? Did they not get obliterated this time, as per typical GW writing? :|

I'd love to see a new Codex, and updated models (the first one is possible, 2nd...yeah....probably not). They've got a unique niche for sure, but after slowly returning to 7th, it seems they're underpowered in a big way.

I still don't own the 2nd campaign book, but they were awesome ass-kickers in the "Leviathan".

SPOILER ALERT:
If you plan on reading Shield of Baal Books, this is not for you.
Adepta Sororitas point of view for the campaign:

 BlackTalos wrote:

Spoiler:

it seem quite a lot got through it. Don't forget, from our point of view:
Quite a large part of the Sisters force got on the leaving transports, end of book 1. This "escape fleet" in Book two seems to make it: It looks like they left no Void-Capable ships behind, which means the ones that could, Warped away. These "left-overs" (i'm sure Sisters would have checked Void-capability of their Ships) are then collected by a BA force.
THEN the ones left on-planet get "rescued", where they're down to about 90%+ Losses it seems. And escape with their Flesh Tearers pals

I'm more or less with dracpanzer on this. If sisters are reborn you can expect an almost entirely different feel for them. I really do not want a repeat of what happened with Grey Knights when 99% of my metal Knight models had to pay extra for their force halberds when the new plastics and codex came out. Even though they had an initially powerful release codex, they are nerfed to kingdom come now.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

From Jared van Kell on BoLS (take extra salt):

Adeptus Sororitas are due this year but from what is being said it sounds like it is going to be as part of a box set similar to Shield of Baal.

That's not a good sign:

Jared Van Kell - Total rumors: (2 TRUE) / (16 FALSE) / (0 PARTIALLY TRUE/VAGUE) - NO RUMORS PENDING


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 Troike wrote:

 dracpanzer wrote:
Why would the Sisters players want a new codex? Do we really want them to be nerfed some more?

Nerfed? From what I've seen, the consensus was that it made them more effective, overall. Between that and the fact that GW has recently been writing them well, there's a good chance that a new codex would be allright.

Yep, he's pretty wrong.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
A "starter box" with Sisters of Battle in it?

Oh, come on. Now we're moving into cuckoo land.

 BlackTalos wrote:
They keep complaining about "model design".

2-part clip-together Plastic Sisters would be the easiest way to model them in the poses they want.

Still Buying the box? Probably.

Space Hulk-like "snap fit" models would just duplicate what they already have designed. Which would be fine.

But the idea that GW is doing a starter box? Ha. If that happens, I'll buy one.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

primalexile wrote:Maybe it is a sisters of battle!!! for Fantasy and not 40k! The Holy Sisters of Jesus Franz...

That would be the Sisters of Sigmar, then?

Who were Mordhiem only and are now discontinued. I've got a warband for them though.

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:
The current 'dex is actually damn close to perfect given the limited model range, the only units in need of a buff are Canoness, Penitent Engines, Repentia and Celestians (which, thankfully, aren't key units so the Dex functions quite fine).

Well, the sad thing is, making one's HQ can be pretty fun, and very powerful (even if very expensive) characters are always nice to play with. We are stuck with terrible HQ.