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2018/01/16 00:51:38
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
When you tend to deal with heretics a fair bit you tend to realize you need some anti-psyker things due to mutant sorcerers.. It's why the Ordo Hereticus was related to them for a while and still tend to call upon them to help "Burn the Witch"
2018/01/16 01:25:34
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
My SOB solution to witches and rogue psykers has been the same for several editions. A meltagun.
But yeah, giving sisters an actual psychic defense would be good. I've been mulling over a 1/turn -1d3 (or 1d6) to a power targeting a sister unit. That way it's not the same as SoS, but still has that "I deny you" feel. You could have canoness and diologus give bonuses in auras to it too even.
Enough wish listing though.
2018/01/16 01:34:49
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
One of the (many) things that bugged me about SoS becoming a 40k thing, is that the only difference between them and an old WitchHunter codex inquisitor with null rod and pentagrammic (or was it hexagrammic) wards, is the unit name. These both gave a negative to enemy psyker tests and couldnt be targeted by psychic powers.
SoS should have been SoB chamber sisters to the ordos hereticus, equipped with null rods and wards. New cool unit for SoB and not needing to force in SoS.
2018/01/16 02:31:29
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
Giantwalkingchair wrote: One of the (many) things that bugged me about SoS becoming a 40k thing, is that the only difference between them and an old WitchHunter codex inquisitor with null rod and pentagrammic (or was it hexagrammic) wards, is the unit name. These both gave a negative to enemy psyker tests and couldnt be targeted by psychic powers.
SoS should have been SoB chamber sisters to the ordos hereticus, equipped with null rods and wards. New cool unit for SoB and not needing to force in SoS.
the problem is the units where created for a GW 30k game and they gave us 40k stats for them, and thus needed to bring em into the lore
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2018/01/16 15:46:04
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
Oh, I definitely know the Sororitas have to face off against psykers a lot and would need the tools to do so, it's just not where my mind immediately goes when I think of Sisters.
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2018/01/16 16:01:05
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
I don't know, I rather like the idea of the over the top penitents that Repentia are supposed to be. I mean look at the bottom right of this image:
Now imagine that captured on plastic.
Then again I'm the same person who has argued that Repentia shouldn't be wearing the boots from their power armour but instead go barefoot....so take that as you will.
2018/01/16 16:42:06
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
Oh, in case you haven't heard, the remaining bits of the original Triumvirate (Celestine/Geminae and Greyfax) are getting solo kits up for preorder this weekend. $55 and $25 respectively. Seems semi-relevant to this thread.
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2018/01/16 16:59:35
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
ClockworkZion wrote: I don't know, I rather like the idea of the over the top penitents that Repentia are supposed to be. I mean look at the bottom right of this image:
Now imagine that captured on plastic.
Then again I'm the same person who has argued that Repentia shouldn't be wearing the boots from their power armour but instead go barefoot....so take that as you will.
That art is amazing and needs to be adopted into miniatures. That's a good design for repentia; wearing nothing but, chains, robes and purity seals, as a penance obsessed fanatic should. By simple I meant by Imperial Church standards. So not decked out in bling. Purity scroll piercings and holy script engraved into their skin is acceptable.
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2018/01/16 17:41:21
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
Shut up. It's 2018. Artistic expression of all forms needs to take a back seat to the rigerous standards of social progress. Naked penitant demented religious fanatics are people to and deserve equal treatment to non-penitant religious fanatics.
2018/01/16 17:47:45
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
Sim-Life wrote: Shut up. It's 2018. Artistic expression of all forms needs to take a back seat to the rigerous standards of social progress. Naked penitant demented religious fanatics are people to and deserve equal treatment to non-penitant religious fanatics.
I think somewhere, in some fantasy universe, there can be found a mythical place that was once called a "middle ground" between fully armored non-penitent strong independent repentia who don't need no man and the current situation we have which is a sort of "oh me oh my, I have gotten a tiny scratch on my perfectly formed plump thigh which just happens to be exposed by this highly effective martial pose I am in which just happens to also show off my boobies. Tee hee, I hope the mistress of repentence wearing power armored Madonna cones doesn't whip me for being a bad girl!"
"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"
2018/01/16 22:51:03
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
Sim-Life wrote:
Shut up. It's 2018. Artistic expression of all forms needs to take a back seat to the rigerous standards of social progress. Naked penitant demented religious fanatics are people to and deserve equal treatment to non-penitant religious fanatics.
I think somewhere, in some fantasy universe, there can be found a mythical place that was once called a "middle ground" between fully armored non-penitent strong independent repentia who don't need no man and the current situation we have which is a sort of "oh me oh my, I have gotten a tiny scratch on my perfectly formed plump thigh which just happens to be exposed by this highly effective martial pose I am in which just happens to also show off my boobies. Tee hee, I hope the mistress of repentence wearing power armored Madonna cones doesn't whip me for being a bad girl!"
non-penitent repentia
(I feel like this is sarcasm, not sure though)
A non-penitent repentia is pretty contradictory to itself. If a sister is a non-penitent then she is not a repentia, only in the case that a sister is a penitent the only way she can redeem herself is death and will be stripped of her armor only leaving her robes and is no longer allowed to be called by her name until she either she repents or dies (death is most likely).
on the OP
"If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?"
Ecstatic and would probably put myself in credit card dept. On the other hand with the release of the custodes and the uproar of the community expecting more of a xenoes focus especially with that facebook teaser "they have watched, they have waited,...." felt like necrons and would be appropriate. It could be seen as a big miss read by GW to what the community is expecting.
I am not going to lie, if SoB where released after 1Ksons then I would happily spend my life savings and max out an overdraft just to purchase an armies worth, even though I dont really play anymore.
But (thankfully for my wallet) this is GW we are talking about, so the chances are sadly rather low, and if they are will most likely be low quality cartoonish/animeish childs toy crap that is sold for £55 for 5 because "premium plastic SoB".
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2018/01/16 23:05:54
Subject: If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?
"If Sisters of Battle are next codex after Custodes then Thousand Sons how would you feel?"
Ecstatic and would probably put myself in credit card dept. On the other hand with the release of the custodes and the uproar of the community expecting more of a xenoes focus especially with that facebook teaser "they have watched, they have waited,...." felt like necrons and would be appropriate. It could be seen as a big miss read by GW to what the community is expecting.
I think the backlash was so severe because the teaser really seemed to imply Xenos more than anything, and then we got more Imperium, and not just more Imperium, but more models that look to a casual observer (someone who doesn't spend their time on 40k message boards like I do and couldn't tell you the difference between a Blood Angel and a Dark Angel.) like every other model in power armor, just more elaborate. Even new Catachan models would have received less backlash than Custodes.
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