I am mad at GW over the treatment of the Sisters of Battle. I have read posts about people claiming that there will be new plastic sisters, which I would definitely buy some of, or just any new sisters models. But I have tried not to get too excited by others, I mean it has been a long long time since GW has done anything with the Sisters of Battle.

When there was news of the Sisters of Silence, I thought maybe these would be something that could be turned into Sisters of Battle. Maybe in a few months or a year GW would release a kit using the same base with some new pieces to make Sisters of Battle.

Then I saw the Sisters of Battle banner on the front page of the website and my hopes went up.....only to be dashed when I clicked on it. Only one new character model, and the troops have simply been repacked into groups that they can charge more for.

It makes me mad that GW can release these other new groups and release standalone codexes for them. Groups like the imperial knights, cult mechanus, skiitari but they can't do anything for the Sisters of Battle. The sisters don't even get their own codex anymore, instead they get put in with some of these same groups that got their own codex recently.

I will be writing to them to complain (for what good it does) but have been advised to wait unitl the book is offically out.

The problem isn't that Sisters aren't in their own Codex. They were part of Codex: Witch Hunters in 3rd Edition and were kicking ass as a subfaction all the way through until 5th. The problem is that they've just never been given any real attention by GW - when they were good, it was by accident, and when GW decided they needed an "update" they handed the job to two people who didn't have a fething clue what made the Sisters attractive to players or even how they worked as a tabletop army, and in addition had a track record of producing gakky rules that continued into the White Dwarf reprint.

What annoys me is that Sisters are such a unique, colourful faction. There's so much potential there, both in terms of fluff and crunch, but GW just doesn't bother with them, preferring to rehash the same gakky "Spess Mehrens" archetypes over and over again. That's what annoys me.

I agree that the Sisters of Battle are very interesting. I picked up the original codex at the end of the 2nd and several models at that time. I also picked up the codex Witchhunters a few years later that included them. I really liked that first codex and the backstory to the Sisters of Battle. And that was my point that GW doesn't bother with them, the company keeps them around but doesn't do anything for them. Instead GW releases new factions that include a few models, and then repeat and release another new faction with a couple of models. I wish they would show more attention to some of the factions that have been around, in this case the Sisters.

bbekins wrote:
I agree that the Sisters of Battle are very interesting. I picked up the original codex at the end of the 2nd and several models at that time. I also picked up the codex Witchhunters a few years later that included them. I really liked that first codex and the backstory to the Sisters of Battle. And that was my point that GW doesn't bother with them, the company keeps them around but doesn't do anything for them. Instead GW releases new factions that include a few models, and then repeat and release another new faction with a couple of models. I wish they would show more attention to some of the factions that have been around, in this case the Sisters.

Give it time. Your anger will fade to sorrow. Then eventually you will become used to the neglect. You will watch Games Workshop launch new factions, new games, as the selection of metal Sisters dwindles lower every few months. Did you know there used to be 5 or 6 pages of Sisters models on GW's web store? There were two different versions of each special weapon. A wide variety of Superior loadouts. The Blessed Banner was merely an alternate Simulacrum. Now we are down to one of each thing, and no more. And now they take from us Saint Celestine.

You will hear rumors of plastic infantry, and dismiss them as erroneous, because the past 10 such rumors over the previous 5 years amounted in nothing. "I'll believe it when I see it," will become the mantra you adopt. Those who do not understand will consider you rude. Those of us who also know will instead take those words at face value, a sullen statement of fact that these rumors are frequent and have never amounted in anything.

There will eventually be no more hope. Your faith in Games Workshop will die entirely.

When my friend recently told me there were Sisters preorders, my heart fluttered, half in hope, half suspecting disappointment.

Then I saw they were just metal squad sets, I sighed, and uttered quietly, "Figures." Because it is what we are used to.

You will write GW e-mails, pleading for assistance. They will tell you patience and hope. You may accept their words at first, believing your words to have swayed them. Then months go by. A year. Two. Still nothing.

Eventually you will become like me. Bereft of hope. Secure at last in the knowledge that the ultimate fate of the Sisters will align with the Squats, only a slower, more torturous end.

The banner above the Sisters section on GW's site should read, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."