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**andrewm9**

Brother Ramses wrote: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.

There has been no price increase on Sisters. I believe they have been this price for the last two years. No one has noticed until the article and email brought attention to them. The real problem is that that you can only get them at GW stores. No Indies can order them period. The GW stores don't stock them so you must order them.

**Brother Ramses**

andrewm9 wrote:
Brother Ramses wrote: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.

There has been no price increase on Sisters. I believe they have been this price for the last two years. No one has noticed until the article and email brought attention to them. The real problem is that that you can only get them at GW stores. No Indies can order them period. The GW stores don't stock them so you must order them.

So a box of 9 basic Sisters and Sister Superior were always $69? I don't think so. At least when I use to have my very old Sisters army, it was not that at all.

**andrewm9**

Brother Ramses wrote:
andrewm9 wrote:
Brother Ramses wrote: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.

There has been no price increase on Sisters. I believe they have been this price for the last two years. No one has noticed until the article and email brought attention to them. The real problem is that that you can only get them at GW stores. No Indies can order them period. The GW stores don't stock them so you must order them.

So a box of 9 basic Sisters and Sister Superior were always $69? I don't think so. At least when I use to have my very old Sisters army, it was not that at all.

No it was like 40 something dollars US but its been gone for quite awhile now. The individual prices were about that when the box was still out perhaps slightly cheaper. One of the biggest hurdles to collecting Sisters was their expensive metal models. With the dissappearance of the box they became even more so. When the box disappaered and all the models were not available Sister players began to speculate about a new release only to be disappointed when they were put back up for sale without the box and just blisters.

**SabrX**

If I recall correctly, a box of 1 Sister Superior, 1 Flamer Sister, 1 Storm Bolter Sister, and 7 Bolters was $41.25 before they discontinued box sets. Still expensive compared to 10 troop box sets in other armies.

**SagesStone**

They were $69 at some point in Australia though, if I recall correctly they got one last rise to $72 before they vanished.

**Brother Ramses**

Considering that for $74.50 (pre-tax) I can make two 10man Grey Hunters with special weapons AND a ton of bits leftover, the Sisters pricing is fething slowed.

**Revarien**

When I started 40k about 2.5 years ago, I was coming in at the tail end of the sisters' boxes being available... luckily I had snagged a few...

At the time, it was the army I wanted to play, but couldn't afford... but since then I had fallen into a few massively good deals on people getting rid of sisters and I've got 120 basic troops and around 40 seraphim and the rest of the 'normal sister's player cavalcade'...

If I were to quantify this army with the current pricing standard... I think my current self would kill my past self for even contemplating buying them at MSRP.

**Brother Ramses**

The equivalent would be;

3 Sisters x2 34.50
Sister with Simulacrum 13.25
Sister Superior 12.25
Sister with Melta x2 19.80

Total $79.80

So my basic Sisters squad is more expensive then 2x my basic Grey Hunter packs, while giving absolute zero bitz. Yea, GW can take a flying feth at a rolling donut.

**Lynata**

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

At this point, actually re-releasing the old 10 Sisters squad for the old price would be a big step forward.

**SagesStone**

Although the Simulacrum wasn't really used meaning it would be an additional 3 pack to get that last bolter, the plus side being it would cover another 2 squads like that.

3 Sisters x3 $87
Superior $21
Heavy Flamer $23
Flamer $17
or
2x melta $34

$148 or $142, with the next 2 squads only $119 or $113. Essentially the removal of the 10 box leading to a 108% price increase at once. Although you did have to buy extra special weapons for it as the box only had a storm bolter and a flamer in it.
The extra fun being when they were cheaper and I started I was making them full mech, meaning unless I want to spend about $200 per squad (Rhinos $50, Immo $55) it's time to let them sit for a bit..

**evilsponge**

Robin Cruddance wrote it, no wonder. I could see his terrible rules writing when their stats were released. Cruddace have you ever considered mixing concrete for a living? I think it would be a better fit for you mate

**Ixquic**

I bought my army on ebay for $250 about four years ago which would probably cost at least a grand now and probably closer to two since I got a lot of stuff that I never ended up using. I feel no guilt in not supporting absurd pricing of that nature and they can go pound sand if they think their decade old models are worth that much.

**Melissia**

andrewm9 wrote:There has been no price increase on Sisters. I believe they have been this price for the last two years. No one has noticed until the article and email brought attention to them.

I noticed. I pointed it out many times over the past months.

**Ixquic**

I hadn't noticed until I looked up the price of a special weapon sister a while ago and it was $10.

**andrewm9**

Melissia wrote:
andrewm9 wrote:There has been no price increase on Sisters. I believe they have been this price for the last two years. No one has noticed until the article and email brought attention to them.
I noticed. I pointed it out many times over the past months.

I know you did. So have I many times.

**Brother Ramses**

You guys sound like indie rock fans,

"Yea, I use to listen to these guys way before they ever got on Itunes!"

It doesn't change the fact that the pricing structure puts them pretty much at twice the amount of other armies.

**andrewm9**

Brother Ramses wrote:You guys sound like indie rock fans,

"Yea, I use to listen to these guys way before they ever got on Itunes!"

It doesn't change the fact that the pricing structure puts them pretty much at twice the amount of other armies.

Thats sort of our point. Its just been that way for about 2 years. With a new codex we were hoping for some relief with cheaper, newer, better models along with new players to liven up the base a bit. Its not happening. Some of us fail to see the point of this codex. A simple FAQ/errata coudl have updated point costs/profiles and made some models and allies illegal. That could have taken a page or two. They coudl have waited for a real release. This one is not going to push Sisters models much if at all.

**JustPlainJim**

All this is making me think it's time to trade the scant few SoB models I picked up over the last couple years. 10 Sisters for the low low price of $70!

**Kid_Kyoto**

Melissia wrote:Zimbabwe abolished their currency two years ago, hehe. It's now used for toilet paper.

Ninja'd

Yeah the days of trillions of Zimbabwe dollars to the USD are gone, they use US dollars now. I wonder what the most worthless money in the world is these days...

North Korean Won?

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At these prices I'm surprised they didn't bring back the old redemptionists and Fraternis Militia at just $100 for a squad of 20.

**Lux_Lucis**

I suppose... You could hope that they haven't put the 10 Sister squad up because they intend to release it in plastic around/after the second part of the WD codex is released...
Not that I think GW would actually be nice to its customers, but it's hope for another month

**Kaffis**

Lux_Lucis wrote:I suppose... You could hope that they haven't put the 10 Sister squad up because they intend to release it in plastic around/after the second part of the WD codex is released...
Not that I think GW would actually be nice to its customers, but it's hope for another month

Nah. If that were the case, they wouldn't have bothered to do the website re-org with all the metal.

Also, the 10 sister box has been gone for almost 2 years or so, now.

**Lux_Lucis**

I was working on what others have said about the re-organisation not being complete, with stat lines not being changed. And they did start releasing old WHFB miniatures left right and centre... But yeah, I don't hold out much hope for SoB players being treated well. I just don't get why they would do a release that seems so financially ridiculous. Even for GW. Either Squat them or make them affordable... But hey, I'm hoping for business sense from a company which has failed to show much in the last few years

**androcles138**

So if the models aren't going to come down in price, are their any other model companies that make sisters-appropriate models?

**Zefig**

Lux_Lucis wrote: But yeah, I don't hold out much hope for SoB players being treated well. I just don't get why they would do a release that seems so financially ridiculous. Even for GW. Either Squat them or make them affordable...

As someone who already owns a ton of sisters, I'd rather my army not be squatted, thank you very much. The current codex may be insulting, but at least it keeps the army legally playable years down the road, presumably. Although I do fully hope we get a new codex by then.

**Cerebrium**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Melissia wrote:Zimbabwe abolished their currency two years ago, hehe. It's now used for toilet paper.

Ninja'd

Yeah the days of trillions of Zimbabwe dollars to the USD are gone, they use US dollars now. I wonder what the most worthless money in the world is these days...

North Korean Won?

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At these prices I'm surprised they didn't bring back the old redemptionists and Fraternis Militia at just $100 for a squad of 20.

Unrelated, but to answer your question, the Cambodian Riel. 4035 Riel to the dollar.

**Daston**

The website showed a group of 7 sisters for £17 or there abouts yesterday.

**Zefig**

Daston wrote:The website showed a group of 7 sisters for £17 or there abouts yesterday.

That was just the picture, which incidentally is still one of the pictures if you go into the item description. I'm pretty sure the blurb then was the same as it is now though: "This pack contains three Battle Sisters - finely detailed metal miniatures that come in six components, and are supplied with three 25mm round bases."

**Kaffis**

Yeah, the 7 models are just the 7 poses (the same ones that are one each in the old 10-model box) that the 3 in the blister are randomly drawn from.

**RatBot**

Cerebrium wrote:
Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Melissia wrote:Zimbabwe abolished their currency two years ago, hehe. It's now used for toilet paper.

Ninja'd

Yeah the days of trillions of Zimbabwe dollars to the USD are gone, they use US dollars now. I wonder what the most worthless money in the world is these days...

North Korean Won?

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At these prices I'm surprised they didn't bring back the old redemptionists and Fraternis Militia at just $100 for a squad of 20.

Unrelated, but to answer your question, the Cambodian Riel. 4035 Riel to the dollar.

Actually, the Vietnamese Dong (LOLOLOLOLOLOL DUR HUR) is worth less than the Riel. 20,760 Dong to one USD.

**Howard A Treesong**

Asuron wrote: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!

WTF!?! It came in a packet with two others and a couple of servo skulls all for £6 when I had it a few years ago, now it's £6.15 on it's own.

LOLz, you jest GW.