Rumors of plastic sisters

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**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

Not that I believe in it, but I found that through a French forum:
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/showthread.php?47284-Forgeworld-Warhammer-40-000-Open-Day-2014&p=438200&viewfull=1#post438200

I love how Sisters are (supposedly) not part of the “main factions” (anymore?). That means no big update a-la Dark Eldar, if we are to believe this rumor. Only maybe a few tidbits in between releases for those “main factions”.

**angelofvengeance**

Hmm.. Salty!

**notprop**

There's been rumours of plastic sisters since before Jes Goodwin confirmed they had been trying and failing at producing them a few years ago - something to do with their hair?

I hope this happens soon then the SoB fans can quieten down and let the Squat fans have their time in the limelight.

**Lockark**

notprop wrote:
There's been rumours of plastic sisters since before Jes Goodwin confirmed they had been trying and failing at producing them a few years ago - something to do with their hair?

I hope this happens soon then the SoB fans can quieten down and let the Squat fans have their time in the limelight.

It was the robes that are part of their shoulder pads I belive actully. Since it would mean the diffrent arm poses and ush could be be compatable with each other, and thus end up with modles that look to mono poses for a plastic kit.

**Steve steveson**

Plastic sisters... I am sure it will happen one day. Unfortunately that day will probably be when warhammer 40k is a historical wargame.

**UltraPrime**

What, no mention of the plastic Thunderhawk? Can't be a real rumour!

**TyraelVladinhurst**

hm, this could be good. depressing if it doesn't happen, but hey if we get Squats back.....

**SilverMK2**

Given a lot of the new kits, I don't know that I want to see plastic sisters

**KesaAnna**

Sisters squad - 80 dollars

IG squad - 30 dollars

So I figure they will eventually go to plastic, or they will get rid of sisters altogether.

I prefer my metal girls actually.

First , they might, conceivably , if not likely, still be around long after I'm dead. Even the best of plastics crumble after awhile.

Second, when people make snide comments about sisters it doesn't even phase me , because I'm not rich, so my army not only cost me a fortune in money, it cost me a fortune in effort , in desire, in something like love, or at least over-the-top lust , and I know that even if they don't . I know that, and they can't take that away from me. And because they represent so much to me, I love them like I would no other army.

**houshin**

I guess this may be tied in with the Codex: Allies that was supposedly announced at the open day. Would feature sisters and squats.

This is second hand information though (somebody I follow on Instagram and a post on facebook from people at the open day) so take with a pinch of salt. But would make sense if they are planning a new codex that we would get plastic sisters and squats.

**H.B.M.C.**

They could save themselves a lot of trouble and release a single Sisters box that has heavy weapons, special weapons and jump packs/Seraphim weapon options all in one box. One catch-all box that covers every possible type of Sister and they'd never have to think about it again.

They won't, but they could.

**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
They could save themselves a lot of trouble and release a single Sisters box that has heavy weapons, special weapons and jump packs/Seraphim weapon options all in one box.

But making that box would be a lot of trouble. Better spend all the time and effort needed on space marines captains.

**Snrub**

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
But making that box would be a lot of trouble. Better spend all the time and effort needed on space marines captains.

That's a great idea!

You should work at GW.

**angelofvengeance**

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:
hm, this could be good. depressing if it doesn't happen, but hey if we get Squats back.....

Unless there's a massive ret con in the works, I wouldn't get your hopes up about this.

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment...

**Gaz Taylor**

houshin wrote:
I guess this may be tied in with the Codex: Allies that was supposedly announced at the open day. Would feature sisters and squats.

This is second hand information though (somebody I follow on Instagram and a post on facebook from people at the open day) so take with a pinch of salt. But would make sense if they are planning a new codex that we would get plastic sisters and squats.

I was at the open day yesterday and I think the only way Squats will come back is if they could kill them off again. Jez said he would love to do this

As for Sisters, I think what they were trying to say was....

1.) Unless they are able to set up a proper project with the correct resources, it's something we will not see soon. Jez said that he would only commit to them as an army if he was able to focus upon them in the same way he did with Dark Eldar. He would rather wait to do them right, rather then rush them out.

2.) He did insinuate/hint that with the new release schedule, it would be a possible for Games Workshop to look at releasing some new models for the Sisters with rules to support them. He then said that this would most likely be plastic (which is no surprise since this is the material they are releasing everything in)

**H.B.M.C.**

houshin wrote:
I guess this may be tied in with the Codex: Allies that was supposedly announced at the open day...

*record scratch*

Sorry, back up a sec. What was that? More details/information please.

**Yodhrin**

Squats? What the blazes is that all about, and also, did nobody bother to cover the 40K open day? Can't find a writeup anywhere, just stuff from beforehand about what FW would be selling there.

**Gaz Taylor**

Yodhrin wrote:
Squats? What the blazes is that all about, and also, did nobody bother to cover the 40K open day? Can't find a writeup anywhere, just stuff from beforehand about what FW would be selling there.

Squats is a running joke where there used to be a army of space dwarfs called squats but they were killed off about 15 years ago by GW. It used to send some of Games Developers into a rage when asked about them, but it has become a bit of a joke now.

He's what I wrote on another forum....

me wrote:So yesterday I went to the 40K Open Day and went to both seminar sessions, and I just thought I would mention a couple of things that came up over the course of the day.

New Stuff
Frankly, there was nothing new apart from a few things from Forgeworld. They could only discuss what has been released, which in this case was about Santcus Reach. There wasn't many questions about this in the seminars I was in apart from a discussion about campaigns.

The Release Schedule
They spoke a little bit about the Release Schedule and why they have switched to a weekly one, with Phil Kelly saying he was amazed they haven't done it before. This allows them at the studio to bring out more content and pick up different things, rather than concentrating on an army block at a time and trying to shoe horn things into the release.

If you read between the lines, you can see this is one of the reasons why we now have unbound armies in 7th edition as it allows them to work on something which they get an urge to do and then release it, instead of sitting on the idea for a few years. The impression I got from the seminars that a lot of the content was driven by the writers/sculptors now and would be based upon things they wanted to work on.

They briefly touched upon things which might happen. For example, somebody asked about Sisters of Battle and Jez said while he would love to do something for them he wasn't sure it is something that would happen soon as an army, as he would really want to commit to the project like he did with Dark Eldar. He didn't rule out a Dataslate and possibility of a plastic kit but not sure if this is him thinking aloud and is something he wants to do, or if it is something he is working on. A few more things that were mentioned....

Timeline - The usual timeline question was brought up (by GW as a warm up question). Will the timeline move forwards? No as they like the tension that is being built up at the moment. They will however look at past battles and explore those more with new models and formations/lists. The Eye of Terror campaign was mentioned and it was asked why they backtracked the story. The answer was they liked how we are at the cliff edge and not sure what could happen but it looks grim, but they also said they weren't happy with how players could submit fake results.

Primarchs - Somebody asked about the 'missing' Primarchs and Daemon Primarchs and Phil said if you looked at the Chaos background now, it was a possibility of the Daemon Primarchs appearing more due to the path Abbaddon is forging to try and expand the Eye of Terror past Cadia. So there is a chance they might bring out something covering a battle where a Daemon Primarch appears....

Speed Freaks - This was said quite a few times, so I suspect we may see something about them coming out at some point

Eldar Exodites - Another something they would love to do and is a bit closer to being reality due to new release schedule and if one of the sculptors were really interested in it

Missing Models - Somebody asked about missing models such as the special characters from the Nid codex. Jez pointed out that technically they weren't missing but the reason they weren't included was because they didn't want people buying a codex and wanting to use something from it they couldn't buy from the store. However he did say that good ideas weren't thrown away and they do get looked at again. I took this as a hint we may see a model at some point and some rules. Somebody did say what about Farseers on Jetbikes, but they glossed over this which is not surprising considering the Chapterhouse legal battle!

Freedom of 7th Edition
There was a discussion about why they went down the route of making 7th edition as open as it it now and it bubbled down to the fact that they wanted to empower you the gamer to have fun. Jes Bickham spoke about his experience at a Throne of Skulls and how he had brought a Imperial Knight army and stomped over everybody and said he was pleased he did well at the event, he didn't really enjoy all of his games due to him just whitewashing his opponents. He then spoke about how when playing a game you are entering a social contract and how it would be a good idea to be considerate for your opponent about what you both want from the game. You want to use a filthy list but your opponent doesn't? Does this mean that you will both get an enjoyable game or maybe you should both think about what you want from the game?

And this is one of the reasons why they went down the freedom route. They want you to be able to create scenes from the books or come up with crazy scenarios, but also play really competitively if you want to. It's all down to you to decide what you want from the game.

Games Day
Games Day is a thing of the past now but they are running something called Warhammer Fest! It's basically Games Day but over two days, with Golden Daemon being held on the Sunday. Tickets are £20 each day and it's on 18th/19th October and being held in Coventry.

I can not stress though, they were really cagey about discussing what could be coming out or will be coming out. For example, one of the seminars was called 'Project X' and the reason it was called this was because originally it was going to be called 'Santcus Reach' but they were told off because it named dropped about a upcoming release (they advertised the seminars weeks before). They apologized that the name 'Project X' was a bit misleading but it was so they could discuss the recent release of Santcus Reach and Stormclaw (which nobody really asked about apart from a bit of a discussion about campaigns).

**H.B.M.C.**

So Project X was just them not wanting to talk about something that, by the time of the event, was already out and everyone already knew about it?

How typical. It's like that Games Day UK from a while ago where the cabinets of upcoming releases found themselves filled with all the new Skaven releases that had come out a week or so earlier.

**Yodhrin**

Wow, that sounds incredibly lame. Thanks for enduring it on our behalf

**Gaz Taylor**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
So Project X was just them not wanting to talk about something that, by the time of the event, was already out and everyone already knew about it?

No. They wanted to talk about it but they couldn't call the seminar 'Sanctus Reach'. The seminars were advertised way before the release and they weren't allowed to call it Sanctus Reach and opted to call it 'Project X'. The problem was that people took this as they were going to discuss things coming out later this year, rather than a discussion about how they developed Sanctus Reach (and they did appologise about this). It was briefly talked about but not many questions came up about it. They did say the reason Space Wolves were chosen for the new boxed set, was because somebody had sculpted a wolf lord model and they all thought it was cool.

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Yodhrin wrote:
Wow, that sounds incredibly lame. Thanks for enduring it on our behalf

Too be honest, I did enjoy it as it's nice seeing that the guys who make GW games and models are really enthusiastic about them. I think they would love to discuss things more but are reluctant as people often take somethings as gospel and moan if it doesn't come out. For example, a sculptor is working on some concepts for a new unit for Eldar and brings them along to a show and gets asked about them. This gets all over the internet and becomes "Eldar are out soon" and at the next few shows the sculptor gets moaned at that nothing came out, when all he wanted to do is show off some cool things. Another reason, is that GW are really secretive now due to the rise of competitors (Mantic Games, Privateer Press) and the whole fun and games with Chapterhouse.

**houshin**

Gaz Taylor wrote:
houshin wrote:
I guess this may be tied in with the Codex: Allies that was supposedly announced at the open day. Would feature sisters and squats.

This is second hand information though (somebody I follow on Instagram and a post on facebook from people at the open day) so take with a pinch of salt. But would make sense if they are planning a new codex that we would get plastic sisters and squats.

I was at the open day yesterday and I think the only way Squats will come back is if they could kill them off again. Jez said he would love to do this

As for Sisters, I think what they were trying to say was....

1.) Unless they are able to set up a proper project with the correct resources, it's something we will not see soon. Jez said that he would only commit to them as an army if he was able to focus upon them in the same way he did with Dark Eldar. He would rather wait to do them right, rather then rush them out.

2.) He did insinuate/hint that with the new release schedule, it would be a possible for Games Workshop to look at releasing some new models for the Sisters with rules to support them. He then said that this would most likely be plastic (which is no surprise since this is the material they are releasing everything in)

Thanks for the clarification. Probably also the reason more of news sites aren't talking about this.

That is the problem with the information that seeps out of these events. It is always some-ones interpretation of what was said and then it was my interpretation of the interpretation.

**Kid_Kyoto**

So yeah... no news.

Maybe someday they would like to do Sisters and they seriously could but not right now.

6 different wizard towers, walls o'dead Cadians and one-off SM captains have priority.

**SilverMK2**

Gaz Taylor wrote:
Another reason, is that GW are really secretive now due to the rise of competitors (Mantic Games, Privateer Press) and the whole fun and games with Chapterhouse.

It is probably more to do with New Line not being impressed that GW released images of the Trolls from LotR prior to the movie coming out... so now they don't tell no one nothing

**Erasoketa**

Some day...

**streamdragon**

I will believe in plastic sisters when I hold them in my hands, not a second before.

**Captain Blood**

streamdragon wrote:
I will believe in plastic sisters when I hold them in my hands, not a second before.

I assume that excludes the plastic gunner on the immolator?

**TyraelVladinhurst**

YAY! Eldar Exodites! Now all that'd be needed are the Eldar Harlequins and for the shoddy Imperium; the Adeptus Arbites

**scarletsquig**

If you're lucky they may place a SoB corpse on one of the upcoming Tyranid sprues, but that's a bit of a long shot.

**ShaneTB**

I was at the seminar and agree it was heavily implied that something Sisters related was in the pipeline.

This conversation was part of the new supplement angle. It lets them release new units without a revisit of the current codex, allowing for a more dynamic and quicker release schedule.