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The problem with that is that GW actually sucks at emaciation. Their house style is beefy and muscular. Just look how Flagellants turned out. Nice models as such, but nowhere close to starving religious madmen. And they came before Age of Sigmar doubled down on the beef factor.

The hands are a little big, but it’s not like they’re full on yaoi hands or anything. I think the angle and bindings on the arms make them look smaller, and thus worsens the perspective on the hands as well.

 AduroT wrote:
The hands are a little big, but it’s not like they’re full on yaoi hands or anything.

Faint praise

But yea, I'd build them without the weak as convicts, probably go wired in servo skulls or fluid vat or even pull the pilots off the old p-engines. A smaller pilot would make the engine look bigger, which currently looks a bit smaller than expected

There is a pen engine with what looks to be heavy bolters in the background of the painting

Alright, set your clocks for the whining and outrage - judging by the 40K Open day, the date the new Battlesister box will go on pre-order will be the 30th. Technically in November...

If you’re a fan of Adepta Sororitas or the aircraft of the 41st Millennium, you’ll want to get yourself to the Warhammer 40,000 Open Day on Saturday the 30th of November. A demo area will be showcasing the new Sisters of Battles rules, and you’ll be able to get your hands on one of the new models in the Paint & Take area – that’s right, a free Battle Sister for you!

Doesn't bode that well for new units, as GW don't usually do a December army release, but looks like with the Impulsor and the marine releases they might be flirting with going back to the releases that don't see everything come out with the codex.

Well it fits with last years Grand Orktober release

Tastyfish wrote:
Doesn't bode that well for new units, as GW don't usually do a December army release

Ah yes, GW and coherently applied rules!

I'd be curious if this tradition is more down to the ordering process from third party sellers rather than GW's traditionally whimsical release process.

The big Christmas boxes of terrain usually get revealed to store owners around February/March to get a handle on numbers, and whilst anecdotally I've been told that Christmas isn't that big a deal for a GW store (it's a month and a half or so, which is on the low side for retail) I don't know if this holds for third party stores - who might need to plan a bit more in advance about how to maximise things than they would do normally.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Well it fits with last years Grand Orktober release

There's a slight difference. Warhammer Community did its marketing campaign to make something they called Orktober happen, but GW had no releases to back it up. That was a clear marketing failure on GW's part and they deserve all the flak they got for it.

Plastic Sisters from the very beginning had GW say "2019 - Emperor willing". That's not hard to decode as GW preparing to be the best kind of correct, and while I'm certain we all hoped to get everything for the army in one big, awesome release, you should at least keep in mind what GW said and consider that that may not happen.

I mean, given the complaints we've seen about the latest staggered Marine releases I have no doubt there will be ample complaints about a barebones Sisters release, but unlike the Marine release and Orktober there is actually forewarning straight from GW.

6-7 kits, boxed set and codex not releases to back it up?

sheesh no wonder gw doesn't usually bother to release anything for xenos as whiny players complain with all those releases as not enough. guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

tneva82 wrote:
6-7 kits, boxed set and codex not releases to back it up?

sheesh no wonder gw doesn't usually bother to release anything for xenos as whiny players complain with all those releases as not enough. guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

Pure Marine players have reason to be so entitled - they normally get something every week and are shocked if they don't.....

guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

Don't be silly, marines need at least fifteen more codices too. The Brown Underpants of Emperor chapter hasn't been covered in details yet.

tneva82 wrote:
6-7 kits, boxed set and codex not releases to back it up?

sheesh no wonder gw doesn't usually bother to release anything for xenos as whiny players complain with all those releases as not enough. guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

I think this year we'll just see the box and maybe the separate codex (it's in full one in the box isn't it?) - not individual kits.
Main release/showing of the rest of the new stuff in the Jan 4th Open day - assuming the sisters codex in the box isn't kind of a minidex like Vanguard Space marines were and just has the things in the box (or just the existing Sisters stuff), and then the full Ecclesiarchy codex joins them with the rest of the new stuff later on.

tneva82 wrote:
sheesh no wonder gw doesn't usually bother to release anything for xenos as whiny players complain with all those releases as not enough. guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

It has been ~184 months since GW released a new unit for the sisters. No new units have yet been announced for this year.

tneva82 wrote:
6-7 kits, boxed set and codex not releases to back it up?

sheesh no wonder gw doesn't usually bother to release anything for xenos as whiny players complain with all those releases as not enough. guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

Feel free to be as hyperbolic as you like, but in terms of things we know, there will be a boxed set with a largely known number of redone Sisters kits all in plastic going on pre-order this November, and the box will contain a version of the codex that is described as limited edition. That's all we know is going to be released for the time being. Anything else is supposition.

And if that turns out to be all we get this year, we're not looking at the release of a functional army any more than the introduction of Genestealer Cults in Overkill was one. There will be rules to use the models in the box, you can probably have fun games with the boxed set's contents at the points level that provides, but for the average player the contents of a single box will be all they will be able to field until separate boxes for all the units are released. Which will not be pleasing to a lot of people because they didn't want plastic Sisters just to have plastic Sisters but to actually play a full and viable army of them. Which they will have to keep waiting on. Again, if what we know now is going to be released is all that's going to be released.

tneva82 wrote:
6-7 kits, boxed set and codex not releases to back it up?

sheesh no wonder gw doesn't usually bother to release anything for xenos as whiny players complain with all those releases as not enough. guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

I'm not complaining about the kits, they seem nice
I'm complaining about the apparent lack of rules and/or options, both of which would cost nothing, to make me excited about those kits. My assumption was that they would do what they did for grey knights, make a ton of options out of a small number of kits, which would allow for some new choices, but all we've seen besides resculpts is a ammo cherub for retributors.

Its still possible that they hit it out of the park with the new rules and we don't need any options, but I'm not sure.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
'...every expense will have been spared in its construction...'
...except for the decorative trims, braziers, detailing on the fuel tanks, skulls...

Try to find a piece of imperial metal scrap without skulls or ornaments.

 Grundz wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
6-7 kits, boxed set and codex not releases to back it up?

sheesh no wonder gw doesn't usually bother to release anything for xenos as whiny players complain with all those releases as not enough. guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

I'm not complaining about the kits, they seem nice
I'm complaining about the apparent lack of rules and/or options, both of which would cost nothing, to make me excited about those kits. My assumption was that they would do what they did for grey knights, make a ton of options out of a small number of kits, which would allow for some new choices, but all we've seen besides resculpts is a ammo cherub for retributors.

Its still possible that they hit it out of the park with the new rules and we don't need any options, but I'm not sure.

There’s a chance that these are all monopose models from the box in November, according to rumours. So there wouldn’t be options there. I’m not convinced by the rumour yet personally but it’s not unfeasible.

 ImAGeek wrote:


There’s a chance that these are all monopose models from the box in November, according to rumours. So there wouldn’t be options there. I’m not convinced by the rumour yet personally but it’s not unfeasible.

Wait, do we think that the box is going to be monopose "ezbuild" models, and then we're getting a stack of different boxes?
That sounds like a lot of confidence on GW's part that they'll be able to sell a lot of army boxes to do unique sprues for it.

 Grundz wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:


There’s a chance that these are all monopose models from the box in November, according to rumours. So there wouldn’t be options there. I’m not convinced by the rumour yet personally but it’s not unfeasible.

Wait, do we think that the box is going to be monopose "ezbuild" models, and then we're getting a stack of different boxes?
That sounds like a lot of confidence on GW's part that they'll be able to sell a lot of army boxes to do unique sprues for it.

Well, that’s the rumour.

 Geifer wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
6-7 kits, boxed set and codex not releases to back it up?

sheesh no wonder gw doesn't usually bother to release anything for xenos as whiny players complain with all those releases as not enough. guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

Feel free to be as hyperbolic as you like, but in terms of things we know, there will be a boxed set with a largely known number of redone Sisters kits all in plastic going on pre-order this November, and the box will contain a version of the codex that is described as limited edition. That's all we know is going to be released for the time being. Anything else is supposition.

And if that turns out to be all we get this year, we're not looking at the release of a functional army any more than the introduction of Genestealer Cults in Overkill was one. There will be rules to use the models in the box, you can probably have fun games with the boxed set's contents at the points level that provides, but for the average player the contents of a single box will be all they will be able to field until separate boxes for all the units are released. Which will not be pleasing to a lot of people because they didn't want plastic Sisters just to have plastic Sisters but to actually play a full and viable army of them. Which they will have to keep waiting on. Again, if what we know now is going to be released is all that's going to be released.

are sisters a Xenos faction now? Is anything not a marine now a xenos?


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 Grundz wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:


There’s a chance that these are all monopose models from the box in November, according to rumours. So there wouldn’t be options there. I’m not convinced by the rumour yet personally but it’s not unfeasible.

Wait, do we think that the box is going to be monopose "ezbuild" models, and then we're getting a stack of different boxes?
That sounds like a lot of confidence on GW's part that they'll be able to sell a lot of army boxes to do unique sprues for it.

That is how they did shadowspear, dark imperium and deathwatch Overkill.

the_scotsman wrote:

That is how they did shadowspear, dark imperium and deathwatch Overkill.

Yeah but those were either standalone things or two armies, I think this would be the first single army release they did this for, Its a risk, though it would cut down or eliminate the secondary market of "I'll buy this box and sell the half I dont want"

 Grundz wrote:

the_scotsman wrote:

That is how they did shadowspear, dark imperium and deathwatch Overkill.

Yeah but those were either standalone things or two armies, I think this would be the first single army release they did this for, Its a risk, though it would cut down or eliminate the secondary market of "I'll buy this box and sell the half I dont want"

It's the first time they've launched a new amy in a box containing a codex in what must be a decade?

the_scotsman wrote:

 Geifer wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
6-7 kits, boxed set and codex not releases to back it up?

sheesh no wonder gw doesn't usually bother to release anything for xenos as whiny players complain with all those releases as not enough. guess gw would need to release 100 kits in a month to satisfy people.

Feel free to be as hyperbolic as you like, but in terms of things we know, there will be a boxed set with a largely known number of redone Sisters kits all in plastic going on pre-order this November, and the box will contain a version of the codex that is described as limited edition. That's all we know is going to be released for the time being. Anything else is supposition.

And if that turns out to be all we get this year, we're not looking at the release of a functional army any more than the introduction of Genestealer Cults in Overkill was one. There will be rules to use the models in the box, you can probably have fun games with the boxed set's contents at the points level that provides, but for the average player the contents of a single box will be all they will be able to field until separate boxes for all the units are released. Which will not be pleasing to a lot of people because they didn't want plastic Sisters just to have plastic Sisters but to actually play a full and viable army of them. Which they will have to keep waiting on. Again, if what we know now is going to be released is all that's going to be released.

are sisters a Xenos faction now? Is anything not a marine now a xenos?

Nah, just Sisters. We have fishfolk in space, and they're Xenos. We have fairyfolk in space, and they're Xenos. Now we're getting womenfolk in space, so guess what they'll be. It's simple logic, you see.

More seriously, I don't exactly know what tneva is on about with that, but if you group support level traditionally it's popularly Imperium, Chaos and Xenos (which is nonsensical but whatever). If you strictly work with those three tiers by support level there's some sense to putting Sisters in the same group as some Xenos armies, although compared to Sisters every single Xenos army has still been drowned in attention. Sisters are pretty singular in the state they're in.

Well, they are now. For a while they were nothing particularly special- wood elves and dark eldar were in a pretty similar state- neglected for years and then suddenly new book, new sculpts.

Wraith models aside, Craftworld eldar have felt much the same as well, other than the lingering bike picture that floated for years before it actually happened. But then there was persistent rumors of Sisters models for years but 'they just couldn't get the robes right,' or some such rot.

I think a lot of these monopose models that are coming out now will eventually find their way into Start Collecting boxes. I think GW have had a think about how to stop people stocking up on large numbers of SC boxes, and this is their chosen method.

All metal Sisters will be Last Chance to Buy until October 18th: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/04/sisters-of-battle-last-chance-to-buy

Metal sisters now officially on the chopping block -
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/04/sisters-of-battle-last-chance-to-buygw-homepage-post-4

what's interesting to see is that the acro-flagellants are part of this, but the death cults, crusaders and all priest types aren't

What's more interesting is that this is a proper last chance with an actual cut off date in advance! Seriously wish this was how GW did ALL Last Chances (where possible and practical - ergo when the mould hasn't just broken).