Interested to see how many people have them ?

Thanks

We have one SoB-player at my club. He uses them fairly often.

 MinscS2 wrote:
We have one SoB-player at my club. He uses them fairly often.

How does he do?

Full army or a mix of sub factions?

I tend to be pretty mono faction but expermenting a bit with Asassins, Bastion - gave up on using the custom painted Knight at the moment.

Nope. Waiting for them to come out in plastic.

I have a fairly big army of them. Like 80-odd Sisters of various kinds and 8 tanks. I also have a bunch of Ministorum units but they're kit bashed plastics mostly.
I haven't bought any new models in 8th though, these models are all from past editions.

I have a single seraphim I picked up for a RPG project.

I have painted a few thousand points of SOB for a friend’s army, which rarely see the table due to his health issues.

I keep on thinking about picking up Celestine, more likely now that I don’t need to get the other 2/3s of the triumvirate box. If Sisters came out in plastic, I’d probably pick up a squad or two.

I have played about 10 games of 8th ed with them and have a large force, But thats b.c i'm mostly an Aeldari Player (DE and Harlequins), I also have a large Tyranids force. So its hard for me to juggle all the armies.

I don't have any model, because I hate monopose models and they really cost too much. But I proxied my SW several times into SoB

Piles of them built up for a WH/DH army mostly back when they were dirt cheap on ebay.

Played them last night against DE but I alternate and mixed other factions in as the lack of core options gets monotonous.

 Blackie wrote:
I don't have any model, because I hate monopose models and they really cost too much. But I proxied my SW several times into SoB

I bought 2k points for like 300$ due to local markets like craigslist etc...

2k+ here

I have many, but not as many as I'd like. Probably around 3k points.

I play Sisters more than 80% of the time.

 Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:
I have many, but not as many as I'd like. Probably around 3k points.

I play Sisters more than 80% of the time.

Will you rebuy the army when they release plastic models later this year (hopefully)?

I own about a Thousand points worth, aiming for 2k points by the Summer.

My main army, probably 3000+ points, well over 100 infantry and half a dozen tanks.

I have over 4000pts painted and they have been my primary army for the last several years.

pismakron wrote:

 Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:
I have many, but not as many as I'd like. Probably around 3k points.

I play Sisters more than 80% of the time.

Will you rebuy the army when they release plastic models later this year (hopefully)?

Well, I'll definitely add a fair amount if they do. I'm still not holding my breath, though.

I'm not going to replace my collection, but I'll keep adding to it.

In 7th I had around 2,500 points, but in 8th I have a feeling it's closer to 2k. That said, I'm not currently using the army because I've been playing mech Sisters in Rhinos since 5th edition (to reasonable success, hordes (particularly Guard and Orks) were always my bane because no blast templates and I never tailored my TAC list to face them) and basically it's grown stale. So my Sisters have entered stasis and I'm working on other projects.

I used to have around 1k of them. Sold them unfortunately, although I can't actually recall ever using them in a game.

I've got about 3500 points worth and it's all painted up. I've had them since 3rd edition and they were the first army I pulled out when 8th started. They've had about a dozen wins and no losses, but I have been playing my other armies more recently. If they ever make plastic minis, I will definitely buy some. Hopefully they will be aesthetically compatible with the existing range, because I will never replace my Sororitas only add more.

Just Celestine and the Twins. I did not bought Veridyan because is very ugly for me, and I have 0 interest in metal sisters, but all the interest and money of the world for plastic ones.

 Mr Morden wrote:


How does he do?

Full army or a mix of sub factions?

I tend to be pretty mono faction but expermenting a bit with Asassins, Bastion - gave up on using the custom painted Knight at the moment.

He does alright.
He's played them for a long time (+15 years) and essentially have 2 separate SoB-armies (close to 10.000 pts I'd say) as he managed to got a good deal on a (second) army some time ago, and decided to buy it and paint it rather than repaint his old army.

More or less always a full army of sisters/ministorum. On occassion he adds adds an Assassin.

A handful of converted models (including one that I use as a Counts As Celestine), Celestine and her girls, and some 3rd party resin girls.

Over the years, I've had a few of the metal ones, but nothing substantial (and they always ended up getting lost...). I had been waiting 11 years now to start a Sisters army until they came out in plastic, since it's apparently been right around the corner since then.

All my Sister's turned into spess muhreens...

But seriously, once they give us some plastic I'd love to start collecting them. Their entire model range is simply too expensive and I'm hoping plastic will drop the price or up the model count.

Waiting on plastics. I bought a few metals back when SoB came out, had a paint scheme, but the effort of cleaning them was too much because GW's quality control at the time was gak.

I own some metal sisters (and Veridyan) but I have never made an actual army out of them. My hate of metal models is greater than my love of Sisters. This is first and foremost a modelling hobby to me, and working with metal is just not fun.

I have been waiting for plastic Sisters for years, and I would definitely buy them if they were ever released.

Dude at our FLGS uses SM scouts with female heads. They look pretty good.

I'd totally buy a box or two if they came out in plastic. I like seraphim and storm bolters.

Also I love models with wings

I've wanted to start a SoB army since the 3rd edition Witch Hunters codex. I got heartily sick of working with metal minis back in the 1990s, though. So I'm another who will start buying as soon as they are in plastic.

I picked none till plastic, but honestly, I'm considering starting now anyway.

I use Sisters of Silence as temporary proxies more often than I use the actual models, but I do use the vehicles and will definitely get some plastic infantry when they show up.

I've played Sisters as a main army for decades. Collection in 8th is just beyond 2k points, and I do well. They have good survivability, cheaper than SM's, and a few really hard hitting units. My opinion is they have to be played as a combined arms force, not spam a couple of units. They are also not a super alpha strike army as I play them, but a deal with all comers style. Their biggest weakness for me is ranged anti-tank. Multi-melta's are weaker than lascannons but cost more...if repentia ride their transport into CC with cannoness' buff, they can smoke just about anything.

Sisters from day one. I have 8k + of painted Sisters spread out over three different armies. Bloody Rose, Argent Shroud, and the latest which incorporates my original Sisters army (who were stolen out of my car after an event in 3ed but finally came back to me two years ago) that I have turned into a mixed order crusade force that represents all of the six original Orders. I have over 30 painted vehicles in those armies and still over 100 Sisters models yet to be converted and painted and six Exorcists still NIB.

I would be massively surprised if Sisters got a new unit in an upcoming dex, and even moreso if I couldn't convert them from the metals I still have.

Back when I got into the hobby 10+ years ago the SoB metals were already looking dated. I like the art but couldn't be bothered with the miniatures. If they were plastic, which is a much easier material to deal with i'd definitely take some interest. But the art style and quality of the models is 1990s necromunda level and I just don't like em...though i'm sure at the time they came out the were fine.

Have a squad or two plus Veridiyan and Celestine. Mostly waiting for the plastic although I'll probably add a squad or two of the metal sisters to my existing force.

 MinscS2 wrote:
We have one SoB-player at my club. He uses them fairly often.

same here, he plays 90% sisters with a knight.

If they do make them in plastic, in addition to what's released I will buy a squad of metal seraphim just cuz I like how they look.

Sisters were my starting army and my only army. I used to have crons and grey knights but decided to fet out of the hobby. Sold the crons off and the grey knights. When it came to my near 3k points of sisters though, i struggled so hard to bring myself to sell them due to my emotional investment. Put them on ebay, got heaps of followings but took it down when some tossa was trying to convince me to sell them for 200 bucks.
Held onto them and so glad that i did. Added the new Celestine model to the collection as well as a couple of 3rd party models.
Connect a chain to their carry case and its a perfectly good wrecking ball

I have no issue with the modeling side of sisters mostly because i dont like modeling. Its not part of my hobby. I like painting and about 3/4 of my 80 odd girls and various tanks and other ministorum units are fully painted.
In fact i hate working with plastics. I dont like having to put together fiddly plastics and getting rid of mould lines and worry about plastic glue smear. I love the metals. I dont know how people work with plastic.

I have played sisters since they first came out and built up a pretty big army over the decades. I recently just sold a 5k point painted army of them and still have about 3k painted and about 4k in my to do boxes. I love the models ( the look, converting, painting and in the game). I have some pretty large armies and I don't consider any of them my main army, just what I feel like painting or playing at the time. For example, I have been playing alot of SoB and Deathwatch for the last year but recently have been bringing out my harlequins and doing different armies for them and painting up some Admech and Tau. However, my favourite army is probably sisters.

I want to get some, think they could be a fun addition to an Imperial soup army, if just to up the representation. You don't get a race spanning thousands of star systems without some ladies, after all. When I got back into the hobby last year, I had a look at what models I could get from various armies I'd been interested in when I last played (3rd-ish) and saw all the nice new (to me) plastics for my old favourites Blood Angels, Orks, Chaos, Eldar (okay, we've still got a long way to go there) and Tau. There was even a lot of choice in newer armies, and more since, but Sisters are still using the same models as when I left?! I'll wait for plastic.

23% own 2k or more. Good golly. I have a feeling those numbers are not representative of the community at large.

So what if a guy wanted to look at alternative Sisters where would he go?

I would love to say feth it and drop $200 for one squad but I've got my financial limits, which by the way, GW is fast approaching. Even if I were a fly ass mofo making bricks I still wouldn't just plunk down that kind of cash.

 darkcloak wrote:
So what if a guy wanted to look at alternative Sisters where would he go?

I would love to say feth it and drop $200 for one squad but I've got my financial limits, which by the way, GW is fast approaching. Even if I were a fly ass mofo making bricks I still wouldn't just plunk down that kind of cash.

Grishnak makes the best looking SoB alternatives, but good luck ordering them from Russia, and there's only 5 variants (resin).

Dreamforge makes power armored troopers that could be male or female, so give them female heads from another range. They're plastic, which is a bonus. They did make specifically female versions (Panzerjagers), but they're not on their webstore, so good luck finding them. This is probably the best option but lacks any iconography (good/bad). Also, they're having a President's Day sale at the moment, so 20 rifle troops are $40 USD. They also have a plastic APC to sub in for a Rhino.

Raging Heroes is making a SoB substitute army, but they're still fulfilling their KS that funded them, so expect a delay before you can even order them. Resin, and probably not cheap.

You could build GW Sisters of Silence as SoB, but you're still looking at $10 CAD per mini, which defeats the purpose.

Wargames Exclusive makes a few models (fairly pin-up-ey) for some variant character models.

Eisenkern Valkir assault troopers from dreamforge. Switch out the heads for bare female heads or not!Sisters helmets and you got something that imo looks better than the actual SoB.

 darkcloak wrote:
So what if a guy wanted to look at alternative Sisters where would he go?

I would love to say feth it and drop $200 for one squad but I've got my financial limits, which by the way, GW is fast approaching. Even if I were a fly ass mofo making bricks I still wouldn't just plunk down that kind of cash.

It's not $200 per squad, it's more like $50USD.

I would start a SoB army if they came out in plastic, but until then I just can't stomach it. They are the only other army I would start, most likely.

 John Prins wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
So what if a guy wanted to look at alternative Sisters where would he go?

I would love to say feth it and drop $200 for one squad but I've got my financial limits, which by the way, GW is fast approaching. Even if I were a fly ass mofo making bricks I still wouldn't just plunk down that kind of cash.

Grishnak makes the best looking SoB alternatives, but good luck ordering them from Russia, and there's only 5 variants (resin).

Dreamforge makes power armored troopers that could be male or female, so give them female heads from another range. They're plastic, which is a bonus. They did make specifically female versions (Panzerjagers), but they're not on their webstore, so good luck finding them. This is probably the best option but lacks any iconography (good/bad). Also, they're having a President's Day sale at the moment, so 20 rifle troops are $40 USD. They also have a plastic APC to sub in for a Rhino.

Raging Heroes is making a SoB substitute army, but they're still fulfilling their KS that funded them, so expect a delay before you can even order them. Resin, and probably not cheap.

You could build GW Sisters of Silence as SoB, but you're still looking at $10 CAD per mini, which defeats the purpose.

Wargames Exclusive makes a few models (fairly pin-up-ey) for some variant character models.

The Grishnak models look great, but in addition to the lack of poses, they're also tiny and scale poorly with modern GW models.

Well, in our group, nobody runs Sisters.
Its a pity but nobody got attracted from the metal models.

Friend of mine loves the faction, but won't touch the metal minis (both ugly and costly). The moment it goes plastic, however...

Have been playing Sisters since they came out in 2nd. Love the army but swore off GW since 2008 until they make plastic SOB. 8th ed sucked me in though. But I justified it since they did make the plastic saint who is great.

A friend of mine started out with sisters years ago, he quickly switched to guard due to the complete lack of support. He has a large army now that could have been SoB. I've wanted to start a Sisters army for over a decade but haven't for the same reasons.

A few squads. Do I use them for 40K? Nope, the last time they were in a battle was perhaps 15 years ago. But I use some of the models nowadays either for the Zombies!!! or for the Doom boardgame.

SOB force
HQ: Principalis
Core: 10-woman SOB squad
Assault: Two 5-woman seraphim squads
Transport: Rhino

Their power armour was painted green and their hair a fiery red as would be fitting for a bunch of serious witch hunters. They were used once in a battle to fight alongside my catachans as allies.

Do I wish/hope/pray for plastic sisters? Wake up people, GW will never revamp the whole line. These few new models that were released are purely intended as soup components or for collectors.

The only 40k army I have is Sisters, about 2000 points I guess.
Played literally just one game of 8th, and it was yesterday. It was pretty nice, mostly because my opponent was.
I don't think I played a game of 7th.
If plastic Sisters are release I would certainly go back to playing a lot more I guess.

Celestine and the Twins for now. Depending on how much I like the plastic range, I may expand that in the future.

Never had any interest in SOB. I find their army concept to be verging on nonsense. Not the bit about ladies though, that’s fine. It’s them all having power armor when no other humans short of inquisitors can get their hands on it that is silly. Yet someone we have entire armies of nuns in human sized power armor. But the tempestuous scions are stuck with carapace?

I have owned a Sisters of Battle force since they originally came out. Squad of Seraphim, three full squads of Sisters, a couple of characters and a pair of Rhinos and a pair of Immolators (the metal ones).

But then again, I may be odd as I can field a Necron force whose troops are all metal, including Destroyers and Scarabs.

4x battle sisters+ superior
4x seraphin +superior
10x repentia +mistress
Exorsist
Immolater
Gathering parts for another immolater/rhino
1 whitch hunter inquisitor (use as cannoness)
4x priests (if you still count them)
No conversions

Id buy plastic, if plastic gets released and metal prices drop id buy both.

Yeah, I would totally add some plastics if they came out- providing GW doesn't change the design or scale.

I have Celestine
2 Immolators
3 battle sister squad (proxied with Sisters of Silence)
I play them with my black templars

I just bought some battle sister from Grishnak. They are awesome and I will be getting more

I own but don’t use currently because I don’t play 8th and am only playing a lot of fantasy at the moment

Sitting on around 2.5k sisters. My main army at the moment. Back at my LGS, I was the only sisters player, but around half the people at the store have told me at one point or another that they'd start an army of them if they were:

A: in plastic
B: Cheaper
C: Both

This is a group that tends to start with 2k armies and grow from there.

2K+ of Sisters I've been playing and slowly expanding since 4th Edition. They are my main army, with the occasional Guard detachment thrown in at higher point levels. I've even spent more money on them in 8th Edition because now I really need those Imagifiers, to round out my Dominions Squads, and get a third useful Battle Sister Squad for my Battalion.

 argonak wrote:
Never had any interest in SOB. I find their army concept to be verging on nonsense. Not the bit about ladies though, that’s fine. It’s them all having power armor when no other humans short of inquisitors can get their hands on it that is silly. Yet someone we have entire armies of nuns in human sized power armor. But the tempestuous scions are stuck with carapace?

Inquisitors and their retinue as well as rogue traders have access to power armor, it's just very expensive. At least, that's how it is in the lore.

No more absurd than creepy crawly sitting on legions of primaris for 10k years.
Makes perfect sense that one of the, if not the richest organisation in the imperium can throw some moolah at the mechanicum for some sweet swag. Between enforced tithes, compulsory tithes and voluntary tithes, the powered armoured needs of the sororitas are probably loose change to the ministorum.
If nothing else, refusing to supply the god emperors church with the means to defend itself is probably frowned upon as heresy and treason.

 argonak wrote:
Never had any interest in SOB. I find their army concept to be verging on nonsense. Not the bit about ladies though, that’s fine. It’s them all having power armor when no other humans short of inquisitors can get their hands on it that is silly. Yet someone we have entire armies of nuns in human sized power armor. But the tempestuous scions are stuck with carapace?

Probably because Scions are supposed to operate in a more self-sufficient manner. Carapace armor and hot-shot lasguns (and grav-chutes) probably don't require much in the way of maintenance compared to power armor.

Probably a lot more Scions than SoB as well. Sisters just move around in bigger clusters.

To continue with what John is saying, the sisters also tend to operate near a base location more often, so they stay near their logistical base. Much like space marines though, a good part of a sister's daily duties is seeing to the upkeep and repair of their armor. Unlike most space marines, that also includes cleaning it.

Also, though there aren't any rules for them, in fluff there are other power armored organizations, such as the occasional mercenary force, rogue trader body guards, some of the crusader houses, and even some guard regiments and PDF's.

I got about 1,500 pts of sisters and between them and my wolves. Sisters are my current primary


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 argonak wrote:
Never had any interest in SOB. I find their army concept to be verging on nonsense. Not the bit about ladies though, that’s fine. It’s them all having power armor when no other humans short of inquisitors can get their hands on it that is silly. Yet someone we have entire armies of nuns in human sized power armor. But the tempestuous scions are stuck with carapace?

In fluff the big reason is the High Lord of Terra at the time Goge Vandire was using the SoB as his personal bodyguards and were known as the Brides of the Emperor. He found them when they were a small cult (at the time Daughters of the Emperor) on one world and he tricked them to gain their loyalty and being the High Lord of Terra and eventually the head of the Ecclesiarchy, as he was known for dirty politics and assassinations. With Vandire being the High Lord of Terra he could easily acquire the funds to arm them however he pleased.

High Lord of Terra Goge Vandire, Reign of Blood, Age of Apostasy. He would order the execution of entire populations if one random person looked at him funny because he was paranoid As Fuk. As High Lord of Terra he could get pretty much anything that he wanted on a whim.

1d4chan sums it up - https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Goge_Vandire

Thanks for all the replies - most interesting.

62 people who replied own 2000pts or more - nice

I have a box in the closet with lots of them, slightly larger than a shoebox. Stripped them all down with paint stripper, washed and dried them and put a little CLP on them. Haven't touched them since 2004. Have never used them in a game. Don't even have bases for them.

Now you can call me a jerk, but no- I don't want to sell them yet. I am keeping them, and not using them. For a reason.

When Plastic Sisters do become a thing, we will see scores of guys saying how much better and cooler the old metal models were. Whether this is objectively true or not, I don't care- but I bet I'll find at least one idiot willing to throw down some money to get his 'retro cred' on the table.

While I do have a few Squads (and some unbuilt ones, too) I use Raging Heroes models instead of GW for the infantry. And yes, that includes Celestine - the new Celestine wouldn't really fit, and RH has a really awesome model that works perfect as a stand-in..

Haven't yet had the time to grab Immolators and Exorcists, so I usually run Whirlwinds/Razorbacks as stand-ins for those.

 argonak wrote:
Never had any interest in SOB. I find their army concept to be verging on nonsense. Not the bit about ladies though, that’s fine. It’s them all having power armor when no other humans short of inquisitors can get their hands on it that is silly. Yet someone we have entire armies of nuns in human sized power armor. But the tempestuous scions are stuck with carapace?

Remember that the Ecclesiarchy is the only Imperium organization that can raise it's own tithe galaxy-wise and that basically all their expenses are vanity projects.
And that the Ecclesiarchy is also the only organization to have MULTIPLE high lord seats.
So yeah, they have more money than tempetus scions.

The Ecclesiarchy has enough money to do this fairly routinely and everywhere.

I'm sure purchasing power armour and power armour accessories is well within budget.

I have always wanted sisters for a long time, but not until plastic. So, never I guess.

There are 3 Sisters players between the 2 stores that I frequent. All 3 have full armies.

It is pretty interesting that there seems to be a lot of third party Sisters options available soon. Raging Heroes already have theirs, and now Anvil, Wargame Exclusive and Shieldwolf are making Sisters product lines too.

It's capitalism. They saw a niche, and are exploiting it. This is actually the biggest reason why GW would squat the sisters, much like they did with tons of units in other codexi.

Its my first and only 40k army. I have somewhere between 2500-3000 points I think. Maybe more.

All sisters, though I have a squad f Sisters of Silence in the box still. And all GW sisters, but I do have a Ramshackle Games APC to fill in as a Repressor.

I have been playing historical miniatures for a while and have an Ancient Greek, a Medieval Hungarian and a Later Imperial Roman army all in metal, so the metal may not bother me as much as others. However, I did a recent ECW army in plastic, so I definitely look forward to plastic sisters if they keep the same aesthetic. But the current cost!!!

I know its personal opinion, but to me the models themselves hold up pretty well, especially when painted with an ornate Gothic style. (Of course, some of the current GW models in plastic, esp for AoS, just are not to my taste at all).

I love the Sisters. I find the lore fun, the models great. I may paint another 40k army someday, but probably will just keep adding to my sisters. Maybe another order with another paint scheme.

Off topic, kind of.

I have a ton of sisters of silence and if the normal sisters of battle werent so expensive id have them too. Once the long myth of plastic sisters comes to life ill be buying them

I have a tyranid hating Inquisitor and Marine force who are dying for Sisters to join them in battle! But one force is about the same weight and cost of half y army. XD

I've got 3 or 4 in a box somewhere (I think my mother's attic). Does that count?

Here is a question for Sisters owners, what is the best way to start collecting them in terms of building a cost effective and playable army?

I couldn't get behind Sisters even if they were released in plastic because being a loyalist faction immediately drops their appeal to me and they don't have an astoundingly cool aesthetic to make up for it like AdMech does. Which is a shame, because frankly I'd be quite happy collecting an all women faction... I'd ask for Chaos Sisters but I just know that it'd get Monkey's Paw'd into a Slaaneshi cult.

 darkcloak wrote:
Here is a question for Sisters owners, what is the best way to start collecting them in terms of building a cost effective and playable army?

snipe e-bay or your locals for those who might have a few laying around they aren't using.

 darkcloak wrote:
Here is a question for Sisters owners, what is the best way to start collecting them in terms of building a cost effective and playable army?

Yep. Ebay a bulk lot and then season to taste with GW direct orders.

 darkcloak wrote:
Here is a question for Sisters owners, what is the best way to start collecting them in terms of building a cost effective and playable army?

I don't own a Sisters army, but I've looked into it. Here's my thoughts:

Immolators as transports for Dominions.
Immolators as Rhinos - the extra cost for the Iconography and doors is worth it.
Exorcists as Exorcists if you like them, otherwise Whirlwinds with Sisters doors stolen from Immolator kits.
Ebay or local scene to get metal sisters models.
GW as last resort source for metal sisters and for St. Celestine.

Actually a quick look on eBay.ca shows that it really is cheaper and better to buy your Sisters fresh from GW.

4 very badly painted seraphim, $80 plus shipping.

Raging Heroes hot nun model, $70 plus ripping er uh, shipping.

GW. Actual box of Sisters, unpainted not ruined by amatuers, $90 plus shipping which can be free if you buy Cannoness Veridiyan too.

For once GW is the cheapest, best place to get an army. Mind you it's the oldest second most expensive line in production but...

 darkcloak wrote:
Actually a quick look on eBay.ca shows that it really is cheaper and better to buy your Sisters fresh from GW.

Try Ebay.com, where squads of 5 dominions are bidding at $15 USD. Obviously Ebay is going to be up and down, and it's not the only second hand market. Assembling a full army off Ebay could take a week, a month, or a year, depending on your luck.

Got a few lying around that I never use.

 darkcloak wrote:
Here is a question for Sisters owners, what is the best way to start collecting them in terms of building a cost effective and playable army?

These are tempting if you don;t have nay - hell I have loads and still getting some.

While I'm not as big a fan of shield wolf's sisters models (as SoB, their otherwise fine), I do love their tanks. I wish I could just pre-order a bunch of those.

I have enough to run an ally detachment back in 7th. If they where plastic I would probably buy more but they are to expensive.

I picked up Sisters in 2nd ed upon release, was bummed when they didn't get plastic troops in 3rd ed like every other armies (bar Grey Knights) and by 5th ed I didn't see a point in using them anymore.

I have around eighty infantry and two tanks, which by Codex Witchhunters was somewhere around 2000 points I believe. No doubt it's less than that nowadays.

I hate metal and only bought metal Sisters because that's just how it was back then. Since then GW has switched to plastic for pretty much everything else and I couldn't bring myself to expand my army with more metal models. Which, given how points got decreased and the prevalence of heavy weapons in armies has skyrocketed since 3rd ed, would be necessary to even play the same game with my army as everybody else.

I bought Veridyan and Celestine (not the least to tell GW there's demand) and up until the very end of 7th ed I would have bought a new army of plastic Sisters without batting an eye. Had the money save up and ready to be thrown at GW as it were. I am thoroughly dissatisfied with 8th ed, though, and I honestly can't say if the appeal of the models would be enough to buy plastics now. Part of me still wants to, just to have pretty models (I bought Custodes for the same reason). But I can't claim to actually want to play them right now anymore than I want to play my existing metals.

10K points of them and will buy more if they ever come out in plastic :-). My first army from when I started (tail end of 2nd/beginning of 3rd) and still my favorite.

Death before pewter.



I plan on owning and running every army, but only in plastic.

Don’t own any, but they were the first models I borrowed from GW back in the 90’s

1 squad SoB
1 squad Seraphim

Good times

I want a small army so badly, but the metal costs so much and eBay prices are just as bad. If they ever have a plastic release it'll break my wallet.

I have a pretty large SOB army over 100 infantry plus tanks & a couple of avenger strike fighters. Since 8th happened my win rate has sky rocketed.

Nearly up to 100 players with more than 2000pts of Sisters :0

Started with a 500-point Chamber Militant force I ran as part of my 3rd/ 4th Edition Inquisition army. That grew into a full 1500-point army with 12 Immolators in 5th Edition, but has since been pruned back to its original size (including the original metal Celestine) - I was originally going to sell them all but found I couldn't part with the OGs.

I own Celestine and her twins, and a few metal's, but the only ones I really use are Celestine. The metal models are just too expensive to invest in.

I have around 1600 points of them. I got some back in 7th through some trades to use as allows for my guard, but have been switching to them being my main army in 8th, since guard are really not very fun to fight these days.



I toss in a knight for a solid 2000 point list.

I'd consider them, even in metal, if the prices weren't absurd. A 10x man squad of Imperial Guard metals are $35-40. I'd pay that for a squad of Sisters, maybe even as high as $50. I do think their army is a bit boring - and I've zeo interest in Celestine...so if they're useless without her - the deal's dead.

Really dislike the armies which seem dependent on super-characters. Kills my interest immediately.