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Nerd Rage Alert!

OK so I'm not that impressed by spending £4.50 for eight pages of half a codex - but what's got me really raging is that the authors of the codex haven't even checked their own background. - in the timeline of famous SoB battles they describe a battle in 799M41 between the red corsairs and the SoB. My nerd brain immediately spotted an error - (not sure if I should be proud of it) - The red corsairs only came about at the end of the badab war which started in 901M41 over 100 years later.

I would love it if someine could explain this or how I might be wrong so I can stop raging

Maybe the Red Corsairs traveled back in time through the warp to create the Red Corsairs?

It's where Huron stole the name from after the Astral Claws went renegade.

n0t_u wrote:Maybe the Red Corsairs traveled back in time through the warp to create the Red Corsairs?

Ah yes - that could be it, I guess "the warp did it" can get us out of a lot of fluff inconsistencies. Thanks for helping me calm down a bit. (Also reading the thread on what is canon has helped me calm down too.)

ALthough how hard would it be for the authors to check their own work (uh oh - rage level returning.)


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Pilau Rice wrote:It's where Huron stole the name from after the Astral Claws went renegade.

THat's a good one - I like it!

Can you really expect GW to care what they put in a codex that they are not even giving a decent shot at in a half dead magazine? SoB will have no new models and virtually nothing to add to GW's profit, so it was just a fill in until they can find a way to say they all got eaten by Tyranids. Just like with Grey Knights, Ill be using my old codex until we get a proper Inquisition codex.

Wait! Seriously, how did Games Workshop overlook that?

Personally, I find it more irritating that dying is no longer considered *necessary* for a Repentia to be absolved of her sins.

They be stealin' mah grimdark!

It's a standby update - get over it. If you don't buy White Dwarf anyway, use the Witch Hunters codex and don't moan about the magazine. Ferchrissakes, it's an error.

You SoBs are lucky you get anything. 3+ invulnerable save my arse.

2+ invul for the Canoness.

Such is what happens when the update is a stop-gap measure.

Really? Wow, I thought the arguments over the Grey Knights were lame...

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:Really? Wow, I thought the arguments over the Grey Knights were lame...

Don't even get me started...

I was wondering how long it would take for a thread like this to pop up.

Bongfu wrote:Can you really expect GW to care what they put in a codex that they are not even giving a decent shot at in a half dead magazine? SoB will have no new models and virtually nothing to add to GW's profit, so it was just a fill in until they can find a way to say they all got eaten by Tyranids. Just like with Grey Knights, Ill be using my old codex until we get a proper Inquisition codex.

You of coures realize that the 3rd ed Witchhunters codex is the *only* time that Sisters were ever associated with the Inquisition? They are the armed wing of the Ecclesiarchy, the third ed codex stuffed them in with Ordo Hereticus because otherwise there would be nothing to put into that book. C:GK is the Inquisition book, it's only missing Deathwatch.

Begel Dverl wrote:Wait! Seriously, how did Games Workshop overlook that?

You kidding? We should count it lucky that they ran the article through a spell checker.

Did they use the information from forge world? Maybe Forge World changed the timeline, because I think that is why Forge World made the old miniatures, so they could be used in the Badab War Campaign. Just a thought, I'm probably wrong though because i don't have the two Badab War books.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:You SoBs are lucky you get anything.

Please make the effort to distinguish between "SoB players", meaning those forum posters who play and collect Witch Hunters/Sisters of Battle, and "SoBs", which is offensive.

To be honest, Warhammer 40k always messes up chronology - it's nothing new. It happens in Codices, fluff articles and Black Library novels. The Warp Did It tends to be my preferred form of rationalisation wherever it's truly necessary - but it rarely is. 40k is hardly Shakespeare - in most cases, it's not even Ed Greenwood.

Mythal wrote:To be honest, Warhammer 40k always messes up chronology - it's nothing new. It happens in Codices, fluff articles and Black Library novels.

In fact, true dates in 40k have a 'check number' which indicates how accurate that date probably is because of this. Even in the universe itself, time is not an absolute. (P127, 40k RB)

If I made the distinction the joke would be pointless. I'm not making the most serious point or anything, and you certainly shouldn't be offended.

As an Ed Greenwood fan, I admit I'm a little insulted.

pretre wrote:In fact, true dates in 40k have a 'check number' which indicates how accurate that date probably is because of this. Even in the universe itself, time is not an absolute. (P127, 40k RB)

Exactly - a couple of fluff paragraphs are hardly worth worrying about in the grand scheme of things

Arctik_Firangi wrote:It's a standby update - get over it. If you don't buy White Dwarf anyway, use the Witch Hunters codex and don't moan about the magazine. Ferchrissakes, it's an error.

You SoBs are lucky you get anything. 3+ invulnerable save my arse.

Is the White Dwarf Codex not official? Is using the old Witchhunters Codex still even an option?

Mythal wrote:Please make the effort to distinguish between "SoB players", meaning those forum posters who play and collect Witch Hunters/Sisters of Battle, and "SoBs", which is offensive.

To be honest, Warhammer 40k always messes up chronology - it's nothing new. It happens in Codices, fluff articles and Black Library novels. The Warp Did It tends to be my preferred form of rationalisation wherever it's truly necessary - but it rarely is. 40k is hardly Shakespeare - in most cases, it's not even Ed Greenwood.

You know, many people wouldn't have even made the SoB connection until you pointed it out Myth. I know I wouldn't have. Based on the context, eveyone knew what he meant.

And thank god 40k isn't Ed Greenwood. Because then all the SoBs would be lesbians. I prefer people who make a multistoried saga so complex that they occasionally make a boo-boo to a lecherous old man.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:As an Ed Greenwood fan, I admit I'm a little insulted.

Oh, I am, too - but I accept when I'm reading Forgotten Realms I'm hardly reading Homer's Iliad. Now, when I'm rereading the original Dragonlance Chronicles, I am reading the Iliad, and nobody better disagree

Thankyou for the clarification - apologies for being grumpy

Jimsolo wrote:

Arctik_Firangi wrote:It's a standby update - get over it. If you don't buy White Dwarf anyway, use the Witch Hunters codex and don't moan about the magazine. Ferchrissakes, it's an error.

You SoBs are lucky you get anything. 3+ invulnerable save my arse.

Is the White Dwarf Codex not official? Is using the old Witchhunters Codex still even an option?

WD Codex is the new official. No, not at any venue that requires current codexes. (Your house/garage/flgs with friends will probably be okay.)

Mythal wrote:

Arctik_Firangi wrote:As an Ed Greenwood fan, I admit I'm a little insulted.

Oh, I am, too - but I accept when I'm reading Forgotten Realms I'm hardly reading Homer's Iliad. Now, when I'm rereading the original Dragonlance Chronicles, I am reading the Iliad, and nobody better disagree

Thankyou for the clarification - apologies for being grumpy

In keeping this on topic, I won't get into a FR vs. DL argument with you.

Any mention of Sanctuary 101? D: I do hope to see the exact detailing of it.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:In keeping this on topic, I won't get into a FR vs. DL argument with you.

Agreed

Kurgash wrote:Any mention of Sanctuary 101? D: I do hope to see the exact detailing of it.

Sadly, Sanctuary 101 only gets one sentence. But on a related note, Hammer and Anvil comes out from Black Library in December, and tells the story of a Sisters contingent sent to reclaim Sanctuary 101 - which, hopefully, will reveal more details of what happened during the initial attack.

Jimsolo wrote:Is the White Dwarf Codex not official? Is using the old Witchhunters Codex still even an option?

You're pretty much stuck with the old Codex until the second part of the White Dwarf codex comes out. There's no army list, prices or armory yet.

Mythal wrote:

Arctik_Firangi wrote:In keeping this on topic, I won't get into a FR vs. DL argument with you.

Agreed

Kurgash wrote:Any mention of Sanctuary 101? D: I do hope to see the exact detailing of it.

Sadly, Sanctuary 101 only gets one sentence. But on a related note, Hammer and Anvil comes out from Black Library in December, and tells the story of a Sisters contingent sent to reclaim Sanctuary 101 - which, hopefully, will reveal more details of what happened during the initial attack.

Why do I get the feeling it was 'Attacked by unknown force later discovered to be Necrons, no survivors."

Kurgash wrote:Why do I get the feeling it was 'Attacked by unknown force later discovered to be Necrons, no survivors."

Codex: Sisters of Battle wrote:897.M41 The Slaughter at Sanctuary 101

The fortress-sanctuary 101, and all Sisters of Battle within, is destroyed by the Necrons.

Mythal wrote:

Kurgash wrote:Why do I get the feeling it was 'Attacked by unknown force later discovered to be Necrons, no survivors."

Codex: Sisters of Battle wrote:897.M41 The Slaughter at Sanctuary 101

The fortress-sanctuary 101, and all Sisters of Battle within, is destroyed by the Necrons.

Haha, I would believe it.