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Meh, the company has made a lot of bad decisions. This is just another one. Mantic Games all the way!

Corbett wrote:

I haven't played vanilla marines since 1993, so I don't know the answer to this: have generic Marines ever had anything taken out of their list or squatted, besides the RT stuff like jetbikes and Rapiers etc. ? Maybe 3rd ed. and on?

Nid hunters came out that's the first I can think of off the top of my head.

Rapid Fire was exclusive to Space Marines in 2nd Edition, IIRC.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Since they're resissuing the confessor with the plasma gun, I wonder if priests will be allowed to take flamers, meltas and plasma? there were Necro models for all of these.

Sure would be nice to know SOMEONE in the Imperium thought about taking a gun to a gun fight.

Great! Hadn't seen that one...

Oh, and yeah... I hear people tend to listen more carefully when the priests puts his plasmagun on the altar before the prayers begin...

I was kind of hoping for the return of the box of 10 SoB when I saw this... You know to capitalise on the slight interest the WD would create for at least half of this month, could even have as much effort put into it as the Exorcist box (for non-SoB players it is just a plain brown box and doesn't even come with instructions).

Yggdrasil wrote:

Oh, and yeah... I hear people tend to listen more carefully when the priests puts his plasmagun on the altar before the prayers begin...

Ha classic. Yeah the cost of Sisters means the chance of seeing anyone go for a new army and expect to see it at a reasonable size is about ~0%.

Savnock wrote:On the upside, Finecast means that efficient sprue placement etc has already been worked out for those who think casting your own is fine once you've paid a respectable amount to the company (say $500 for 2500 points). It's also convenient that telling home resin from GW models will be harder for tournament organizers etc.

Not that I'm advocating casting your own in the face of recent terrible pricing decisions on GW's part. Just sayin'.

If we were actually going to see Finecast any time soon, that might "work".

But we're not. We're stuck with metal until the actual codex and model release, which should be just this side of the apocalypse.

streamdragon wrote:...which should be just this side of the apocalypse.

I'm guessing your not talking about the due apocalypse in 2012 because that wouldn't be so bad tbh.

The problem with this is that it's way too expensive ($2k for an army hahaha) for people unfamiliar with Sisters to start and WD Codexhas surpassed being merely a boring holdover and actively and unnecessarily nerfs several critical aspects of the list (the 2 special for 5 dominions tips it for me) so most players with a current army and power gamers with money are going to pan it. It's a serious waste and would have more more cost efficient and beneficial just to issue an errata that said "units, a, b, c and d are no longer legal thanks bye."

This seems to eclipse even the Beastmen in "bad releases".. At least white dwarf blood angels had plastic models to buy from the normal SM range

All metal + relatively boring book = profit??? Looks like one of GW's bean counters is confused

abaddonsdrummer wrote:Meh, the company has made a lot of bad decisions. This is just another one. Mantic Games all the way!

Speaking of bad decisions made by GW.



I know, I know, its beating a dead horse, can you blame me though? What possessed them to use this as the picture for the model..... and keep it after all this time instead of painting a new one. Then post it in the updated WD codex. Couldnt even make the effort to paint another one, to make it somewhat easy on the eyes and actually make someone want to buy it.

You know the best part of it though? It costs me $17 dollars to buy it if I want it
Bargain!

On the plus side it's a reaction picture for itself.

I'm not sure how much a good paint job could polish that turd.

"That model always reminds me of blowup dolls". a friend of mine once said to me. Now whenever I see it, I can't help but think that, even though I have never seen one myself.

Now, all of you will probably have that come to mind when you see it too.

That model actually reminds me of Goo from old Gumby cartoons

Asuron wrote:
You know the best part of it though? It costs me $17 dollars to buy it if I want it
Bargain!

$17.00! Why, you could get 3 whole sisters with bolters for that! Then you only need to shell out another $1483 for the rest of the army!

You know, the back-of-the-envelope army pricing in this thread has made me realize something:

There's a reason that Faith doesn't scale. The authors figured nobody would possibly be rich enough to have an army too big for d6 Faith points a turn.

Well, except people that had a large Sisters army from when you could still buy the 10 Sister box set...

I'd estimate I have only about 3,000 points of Sisters under C:WH. I'm positive there are people out there with more.

n0t_u wrote:On the plus side it's a reaction picture for itself.

+1 to that. Thanks for making me grin in the face of trying times.

If I was to do another SoB army, I would have to do it through Ebay for the actual Soritas models.

By the way, according to GW....

"It's never been easier to buy Sisters"

Either they're lying out of their ass or they're utterly delusional.

What, all metal no finecast?

Melissia wrote:
"It's never been easier to buy Sisters"

It has never been easier to buy a Sisters army, all those power players now ebaying thier armies.

I make more then enough money to pick up a SoB army right now, but for fuckssake! This is beyond just an annual price increase. This is completely and utterly unacceptable as a pricing structure.

The piecemeal pricing structure is what pisses me off the most. Are they trying to prove a point on how expensive it is to use metal and then will release them in Finecast for $.35 cheaper and expect us to fall to our knees in gratitude?

Unless there is some huge revelation at GW regarding this shitheaded pricing model, my plans for a Sisters of Battle army is 100% completely shelved unless there is a MEGAGONGASUPER deal on Ebay, which is also now fethed because sellers are already using the new prices as their benchmark to auction.

Melissia wrote:By the way, according to GW....

"It's never been easier to buy Sisters"

Either they're lying out of their ass or they're utterly delusional.

Nah. That's a true statement. They spread the special and heavy weapons out over all the slots that could take some in their squads. Also, they said "the whole range of Sisters products!" or something like that -- and by removing inquisitors, several henchmen, and assassins, this reduces the number of models in the "whole range."

What they *didn't* say was "It's never been easier to afford a Sisters army."

ceorron wrote:

Melissia wrote:
"It's never been easier to buy Sisters"

It has never been easier to buy a Sisters army, all those power players now ebaying thier armies.

Power players never would have touched the codex to begin with.

I think they mean it's easier because little target audience Timmy can bring the WD up to the counter and point at them and go "I want these marines/scouts", whereas before there was no option to do that as they were not in the WD.

I actually got White Dwarf this month and yes they are bringing out most of the sisters models in Plastic

RandomSauce19 wrote:I actually got White Dwarf this month and yes they are bringing out most of the sisters models in Plastic

Then one of my requirements to build a SoB force is fulfilled, just not if these prices remain.

RandomSauce19 wrote:I actually got White Dwarf this month and yes they are bringing out most of the sisters models in Plastic

I'll believe it when I see it.

Until you realise that that was a pretty bad attempt at trolling this thread. SoB will very likely not see new models until an actual codex.

Such a fail release. All that "hype" about shelving metal and moving into finecast and they re-release all those old metal models.

GW really is run by a bunch of idiots.