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 Furyou Miko wrote:
Oh, and I forgot to answer. The turnaround on the boxes for the Centurians was about 6 months.

Hmmmmm...alright, I guess we'll wait until December thereabouts.

 Kosake wrote:
Don't know about you, but I'd love the sisters to be distinctly female. Not necessary chainmail-bikini-naked, but obviously female and good looking too, for that whole bolter-bitches-style.

Female, yes. Distinctly female, why not? But if that is just the faces and a few other details, that would be okay with me. Good looking? Obviously yes, but good-looking as warrior, which means classy armor, cool warrior poses, toughened veteran looks. Not cute faces and the usual “video game female character” body shape everywhere.

 Mij'aan wrote:
What I dislike is the idea of people moaning about some of the sisters models potentially looking sexy.
Jesus christ, if they are female, they might be sexy. What does it matter?[…]Just so long as they look bad ass enought to smite everything in their path, it doesn't matter.

Well, as I mentioned already, making them sexy usual ends up making them look less bad-ass. That is why it matters .
Beside, they are in power armor. It covers the full body. How can you get some to be sexy and other to be ugly when you can only see their face, and even then only for those that do not have their (good-looking ) sabbat-pattern helmets on!

 sing your life wrote:
They're a Large-scale company, it seems like their female models having covered genitals is the exception, not the rule.

Are they doing porn, or just pandering?

Proper repentant people would wear "hairshirts" to give some measure of "mortification" to the body (at least that is how it was done in the good old days...).

It really is just a loosely spun shirt or undergarment to be very uncomfortable.

I saw some side note that some were made of wire (??!!).

So the clothing of choice for the penitent sister can be wire clothing, at least it may be more practical than the metal bikini.

I think some quote in the fluff is "anything worth doing should hurt" so that should fit the bill.

I have been happy watching game of thrones and it is great to see so many means of attire where women kick butt (Thinking of Brienne in particular).

As we're somewhat lacking with regards to news/rumours but people are conversing I'm going to move this to a different board.

 Talizvar wrote:
Proper repentant people would wear "hairshirts" to give some measure of "mortification" to the body (at least that is how it was done in the good old days...).

It really is just a loosely spun shirt or undergarment to be very uncomfortable.

I saw some side note that some were made of wire (??!!).

So the clothing of choice for the penitent sister can be wire clothing, at least it may be more practical than the metal bikini.

I think some quote in the fluff is "anything worth doing should hurt" so that should fit the bill.

I have been happy watching game of thrones and it is great to see so many means of attire where women kick butt (Thinking of Brienne in particular).

To take it further, a lot of Sisters wear hair shirts under their robes. The idea is to be slightly uncomfortable all the time, but to endure that discomfort as well. Would it work for Repentia? It could, yeah. I'm sure some people might end up upset that the gals would be wearing MORE clothes but it could definitely work.


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Just ran across a short story in Heroes of the Space Marines called "And They Shall Know No Fear" which features some Black Templars and Sisters from the Order of the Bloody Rose working together. Oh and the BT prays in it, so yeah, BT being religious is a thing that predates the current codex.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

Thazar wrote:
but I still don't understand, are they not the militant arm of ordo hereticus. Games Workshop could include them in an inquisition book along with ordo malleus and the grey knights and ordo xenos and deathwatch.

That was an excuse that GW pulled out of its hat when they wanted to make one codex per Ordo, during the Inquisitor (the game) craze. It does not bring anything valuable to their fluff, and being merged with specialist marines will just diminish them, as just “Space Marines with a gimmick”…

Additionally, it's been retconend away since.

 Kosake wrote:
Don't know about you, but I'd love the sisters to be distinctly female.

For me, the most important thing is that they look like hardcore, elite zealot-soldiers. How "feminine" they look should come second to that, IMO. Some of the faces could probably be improved a little from what they currently are, though.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Would it work for Repentia? It could, yeah. I'm sure some people might end up upset that the gals would be wearing MORE clothes but it could definitely work.

Personally, I wouldn't mind Repentia who were more covered up, as long as it kept right to their theme of "fanatical zealots".

 Smitty wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Oh, and I forgot to answer. The turnaround on the boxes for the Centurians was about 6 months.

Hmmmmm...alright, I guess we'll wait until December thereabouts.

Could be a bit afterwards. Still, a near-christmas SoB release would be pretty fun.

Funnily enough, that's within the rough predictions that have been made on here as to when an SoB release might come.

I am going to close this thread as it is more or less completely off from the original posting's intent. However, since a conversation about the sisters in general is evolving out of it, please feel free to start a new, appropriately titled thread about it if you want to continue, no problem.

Thanks!