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 Lockark wrote:
Here is my question.... If I wanted the "updated" sister's rules, do I have to own a Ipad?

If I don't own one, am I gak out of luck?

Nope any ereader or program that will read ePub or mobi works.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
So, from which Order do the Order of the Bloody Rose comes from ?

Are you really going to keep trying to argue fluff in a rumors thread?

Here's the point (since you keep missing it):

All Sisters of Battle can trace the lineage of the order they belong to back through any parent orders all the way to the the Brides of the Emperor, and the from there to the Daughters of the Emperor on San Leor without breaks in the chain.

It doesn't matter if we know whom exactly came from whom, just that is how it is. That's an established point of fluff and the only point I've been trying to make so kindly stow the posturing already. Orders aren't founded randomly, nor just because there is a large number of orphans somewhere. There is an actual process and a method to all of it and if you don't like that, fine. But in the future if you don't like some piece of fluff take it up with GW instead of trying to pick my sentences apart like this is YMDC. There is no gray area here, and it's not a debate. This is a key point in the Sisters fluff that seperates them from the Marines people compare them too all the time. We have dozens of Marines who can't trace their lineage anywhere, but every single Order can. That's the way it is, just deal with it.

Back on topic: I am going to be a little sad if we end up seeing pre-orders on Saturday for a digital only product.

EDIT: For some reason it wasn't quoting things correctly.

As for Sacred Rose and Bloody Rose, if memory serves, they were formed from Sisters within the existing Orders who revered Mina and Arabella respectively. So they can indeed trace their lineages

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:So, from which Order do the Order of the Bloody Rose comes from ?

The Valorous Heart and the Martyred Lady.
The Convents Prioris and Sanctorum were split twice in their history - once in M36 by Alexis XXII, and once in mid M38 by Deacis VI who also ordered the convent buildings expanded to house 15.000 Sisters each. The Orders of the Bloody Rose and the Sacred Rose were created in the 2nd partition.

Although it might be inadvisable to look to the "Big Six" when discussing the Minor Orders, as there are some differences between the latter and their maternal Major Orders.


My own Minor Order is a more or less ship-based offspring of the Argent Shroud - silver armour, white robes with a red stripe on each sleeve and the lower section. Their icon is a stylised crimson sword surrounded by a spiked halo; a not so subtle reference to the Venus symbol:


It's a bitch to paint on the sleeves, but with a very thin brush and a steady hand it worked out nicely.

Troike wrote:Hmmm, don't know if she's getting nerfed, but I checked the Canoness page and saw that Palatine is in the stats. Was that always there? I would've remembered that, I think.

Ditto.

But I don't trust my memory all that much when it comes to such things. Curses - for a moment I almost thought we might get our Palatines back.

pretre wrote:Marik is an established rumor source, so probably by 'little birdies'. (Of course, he is also 1/10 so might want to take it with a pinch of salt.)

Manchu wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Marik is an established rumor source, so probably by 'little birdies'

Yep -- according to your scorecard he's one true to ten false.

That's the problem with not having a dedicated, reliable rumour source. I have to take the bits and pieces I get from the birdies I hear from, sift through the stuff that doesn't sound true and hope what's left over is potentially good. I'd rather post the plausible stuff I hear that not share anything at all.

I talked to the person who told me this again, he wouldn't say anything more than he already had but did say that Finecasts were indeed incoming (Celestine, Kyrinov, Canoness, and Repentia were the ones he mentioned by name) and single plastic kit that make Battle, Dominion, Retributor, or Seraphim squads. He could be simply rumour-rehashing, dunno.

I guess we will see soon.

Marik Law wrote:

That's the problem with not having a dedicated, reliable rumour source. I have to take the bits and pieces I get from the birdies I hear from, sift through the stuff that doesn't sound true and hope what's left over is potentially good. I'd rather post the plausible stuff I hear that not share anything at all.

Seriously? Rumors are unreliable for a reason, they're not.always facts.

True enough SoloFalcon. Some people get lucky enough to be in the know anyways though.

I was just reading Death Company from a Black Library purchase on my Barnes and Noble NOOK as a test run. I am enjoying the read just now, and I will purchase any electronic reader only codices that are relevant to my armies in support of our cause, if incase the rumor is true about producing hard cover versions. Just doing my part.

This has put me in such a terrific mood all week! So exciting. Been saving money in my Sister jar(my gaming money jar) and ready to buy ASAP. Been waiting too dang long for no word over the years. Not nearly long as pretre and others and yall's faith out the wazoo, props to you guys.

I don't want to seem like a Negatron, but there's a touch too much optimism in this thread about a possible plastic kit release. Yes I'm excited we're getting an update, yes I'm surprised that there's gonna be a Sisters themed paintset but do I think we'll see finecast/plastic models, I'm afraid not. At best we might see blisters and vehicle kits in GW stores for a while to support the dex update. I do think we'll get plastic kits eventually but I'd probably default to the answer of 'Atleast a year away'.

Of course I'd love to be wrong and see new kits sooner but for now we'll have to be content with the update. Which will hopefully be anny day now!

D

Being brutally honest i expect that this codex update will just be that, a codex update, definitely no new models, and no other support from GW in stores, only the re-vamping of their section on the GW site. If they manage to put all the old models up on their site id be impressed (seraphim superior still missing from Uk site)!

If there is anything more than this ill be very surprised and happy to be wrong

 scrunty wrote:
Being brutally honest i expect that this codex update will just be that, a codex update, definitely no new models,

We know! I don't think that anybody was expecting new models with this. If there were new models, we probably would have heard about them by now.

It'll take them quite a fair bit of work to make all of those plastics, and then they'll want to wait for a good time to do so financially. We probably won't see them for a year or so, yet.

http://pinsofwar.com/codex-adepta-sororitas-cover/

Looks like the 19th

Arrgh, that's two bloody weeks away! :(

I do really like that cover art, though. It suits the Sisters nicely. And it seems to be a new piece of artwork to boot, nice to see them putting in the effort and not just recycling older artwork.

The GW: Digital Editions Facebook page just announced f they get a hundred new likes they will release info on the SoB codex

https://www.facebook.com/GamesWorkshopDigitalEditions/posts/168633373331503:0

Well I've hit the Like button.

The good news is I'll definitely have money by then to afford it. The bad news is I've got to wait two weeks to buy it.

I did my part



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even though we apparently already have a pic of it.

And here's the cover:

I'm suprised they commisioned new artwork for it.
I don't expect any new minis for them in the near or middle future though.


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It's very nice though.

From the GW Digital facebook Page:

It's certainly based on the White Dwarf Sisters of Battle Codex, but with new additions to bring it in line with the new books. Things like Warlords table, new Ecclesiarchy Relics and an Altar of War.
There's also new artwork and an expanded background section.

Altar of War? weeee!

Pssst: http://www.blacklibrary.com/Digital-Goodie-Bag.html

Relics and an alter of war sound very cool. Maybe its better than I thought.

Gah, no! I can't start gaining hope here.

Guys, i recently visited the facebook site as well and they added a little comment on what to expect inside the digital codex:

"It's certainly based on the White Dwarf Sisters of Battle Codex, but with new additions to bring it in line with the new books. Things like Warlords table, new Ecclesiarchy Relics and an Altar of War.
There's also new artwork and an expanded background section."

So it is seems we will see the expected relics but for the more experienced SoB players: What is an Altar of War? Was there something similar before or is it something new?


edit: Hehe someone was faster than me.

Seriously. I honestly think GW will be surprised at the sheer volume of people wanting this.

 Evil Lamp 6 wrote:

Seriously. I honestly think GW will be surprised at the sheer volume of people wanting this.

QFT

 btldoomhammer wrote:
What is an Altar of War? Was there something similar before or is it something new?

Basically new missions. I don't think Sisters have had any before (but Marines are onto their second book of them!).

beast_gts wrote:

Basically new missions. I don't think Sisters have had any before (but Marines are onto their second book of them!).

For a moment I thought Sisters would get this:



I still want to kitbast it with a Rhino.

I always thought that the little guy was about to have a bad day when the griffin lowers the hammer.

beast_gts wrote:

 btldoomhammer wrote:
What is an Altar of War? Was there something similar before or is it something new?

Basically new missions. I don't think Sisters have had any before (but Marines are onto their second book of them!).

There was one in the WD that contained part 2 of their codex. I expect it to be a reprint of that.