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Ah, well technically yeah, I was just referring it that way due to huge size and lots of guns.

You are right though, regardless, something like that would add an interesting twist to the army.

I do hope they get something new, a personal thing would be a plastic Redemptionist/rabble (what ever they where called) box to represent Zealot followers of the faith.

Would be a good box for Guard players as well.

Frateris Militia is the actual fluff name for them.

Thats the one, been a while since I've seen the name.

Here's a question for folks, would we want to see a Stern fig as a Special Character in the book?

Or is she ex-coomunicated, never to be remembered for what her comic did to the background.

I wouldn't mind seeing her as a character.

And as weird as this sounds, I'd also like to see a form of psyker, a penitent psyker working for the ecclesiarchy, but preferably not one which is utterly insane from unreasonable amounts of punishment. Meh.

Sounds interesting, it would certainly add some flavour.

As to Stern, I wouldn't mind seeing her return, there is so little actual fluff/background of note on SoB anyways.

I know Chaos sisters was disliked by some folks, but lets be honest after Grey Knights came along and used sisters as a 'blood shield' I don't think that comes across as that bad anymore.

I actually think having no chaos Sisters would be even MORE interesting after the GK debacle.

Heh true. Tbh, mine aren't going to be sister based either, planning on getting all the sister stuff off them.

Mine are Fabius Bile breaking the XX/XY issues with new Marines, due to his awesome ability to use the power of Chaos!!

*Devils horns sign*

Ahem, well it's that much against established fluff, I might as well go over the top with the explanation.

I would love to see a Stern figure only to see what kind of statistics GW would put on her given the current power level of some special characters out there, she might be very nasty.

Chances are we'll never see them however.

Melissia wrote:I actually think having no chaos Sisters would be even MORE interesting after the GK debacle.

Chaos Sisters seem to always end up in some sort of Slaanesh-filled disater anyway. Khorne suits them better if I had to choose a ruinous power for them.

My birthday is in September.

Telling wife, friends and family that sisters are likely coming out this fall.

Hopefully everyone gets the hint. My metal collection is pretty impressive, but would love the plastic models if only to make some interesting celestian models.

Militia would be a pretty awesome addition. Excuse my ignorance, but I lack the 2nd ed. codex. Are the frateris militia all that different from the witch hunter zealots that made it into White Dwarf?

As far as releasing the kits goes, it's sounding from the rumor like dual flamer pistols and inferno pistols are for the seraphim options, although opening those up for celestians would be pretty cool too.

I am a bit surprised that there's no mention of heavy weapons in there though. I suspect that they're trying to keep the size of the kit down to somewhat reasonable levels, but then where WILL the heavy weapons come from? Will they keep selling the old metal models separately, when they won't necessarily match the "new and improved" aesthetics? Or maybe design completely new metal/resin models?

Stern would be pretty cool.

Not exactly chaos, but I'd been throwing around ideas for a while for making a renegade sisters force who get sick of their whipping-boy status. I think this Grey Knights thing just clinches it for me. It's going to be vaguely inspired by Boudicca's rebellion, complete with a rioting band of ancient britons with a few IG weapon swaps. I was originally planning on painting them all up with woad too, but I think now I may just have to swap that over to blood.

Zefig wrote:Militia would be a pretty awesome addition. Excuse my ignorance, but I lack the 2nd ed. codex. Are the frateris militia all that different from the witch hunter zealots that made it into White Dwarf?

Frateris Militia has been reworked a bit in recent fluff, but basically they're just groups of faithful citizens armed with cheap weapons and lead by priests and other ecclesiarchal members.

This has me excited, game be damned I think I'm building a warhammer church with monks, nuns, and priests!

I'd prefer a sort of reformation.

Like the Marian reforms.

What are the Marian reforms?

asimo77 wrote:

Chaos Sisters seem to always end up in some sort of Slaanesh-filled disater anyway. Khorne suits them better if I had to choose a ruinous power for them.

I think Aurelia would sorta agree with you, but I've always found it amusing that she says women follow Tzeentch for 26/27 days of the month, and Khorne for four.

The new plastic sisters seem awesome!!!!!

I think the claim that the Sisters will be only 5 per box is false. If it's not, I'll probably be quitting for good - the possibility of the Sisters getting a decent plastic kit is the only reason I came back to the hobby.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Here's a question for folks, would we want to see a Stern fig as a Special Character in the book?

Or is she ex-coomunicated, never to be remembered for what her comic did to the background.

She's a character from a bad comic, who is unlikely to work with other Sisters of Battle. I think they'd need to strip her backstory down to the bones and rebuild it before she'd be a positive addition to the codex.

I should stress again, I really hope I'm wrong, I just have this nagging doubt in my head.

I'm gonna go with what Brother SM said on the first page where the guy may have only seen 5 sisters on one sprew. Also Gameplay wise it would make no sense to have 5 sisters per a box where they are less than half of the point cost of a GK, even if the box can make multiple units.

The SW box can tecnicaly make about 5 diffrent units from that one box (Gray Hunters, Blood claws, Wolf Guard, Wolf Lord, and a Lone Wolf). And they come 10 to a box.

Indeed the lack of a heavy weapon dose have me slightly worried, but they may be keeping the metal heavy weapon sisters around for that purpose. Though we may be able to kitbash SM plastic deavistators for that.

Ah good point, if they went the same way as the Space Wolves it might well be ten, I hope so.

Although if he's right and it has jump packs it may be like the Death Company box.

Eitherway, I am eager to see what they come up with.

Hmm, yeah kitbashing devastators could work out well. It's a nice idea.

Does anyone know if the veils thing is still supposed to be happening?

Melissia wrote:

Lonecoon wrote:So for vehicles, sisters need what?

Sisters have five vehicles total right now.

Four rhino-based vehicles, three of which are transports, and one walker.

Hopefully they give us more than this, because it is truly a pathetic amount of vehicles.

I was flipping through the Witch hunter Codex and saw the walker you were talking about. Seems a bit weak. Sisters really do get hosed when it comes to Vehicles, though the Exorcist is pretty awesome.

Zefig wrote:

Does anyone know if the veils thing is still supposed to be happening?

I really hope so, that was one of the things I really liked the sound of when it was raised a while back.

Lonecoon wrote:I was flipping through the Witch hunter Codex and saw the walker you were talking about. Seems a bit weak. Sisters really do get hosed when it comes to Vehicles, though the Exorcist is pretty awesome.

Which is why most lists have three exorcists and rarely have anything else in that slot unless they're trying that (IMO) rather uncompetitive immolator spam tactic.




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fox-light713 wrote:I'm gonna go with what Brother SM said on the first page where the guy may have only seen 5 sisters on one sprew.

Right. I know other plastics come with multiple sprues in a box, don't they?

Zefig wrote:
Does anyone know if the veils thing is still supposed to be happening?

Dun know, I wouldn't mind it though. The description dose state that there will be 5 helmeted, 5 unhelmeted, and 1 with a gas mask. Though I perefer just the hair for the sisters.

Another part that has me ad odds is how he described the "lace" on the model

"Little details like lace boot tops"
"The lace, is not laces, its lace around the top of the boot. at the knee. the model has like a pirate style boot and the lace is around the top edge..or thats my take away of what it was."

I'm not exactly too keen on that with the lace. The image I get is is the frilly lace on stockings like this http://www.asyoulikeitbridal.com/Images/photos/lace_chantilly_lg.jpg . They are Sisters of Battle, not Sisters we gotta look fashionable of Battle.

But we gotta wait and see the models so we can get a final verdict.

I think veils and lace would add nice bit of character and ornateness to the SOB, I'm all for it. TBH I think the current design isn't so bad, just not executed perfectly. I hope we something similar, but just...bettter I guess

I hope they keep it with the GK style. I am happy to pay more $ per model if they come with every single option the squad can take.

The reason I figure there would be 10 in a box is because Sisters are flat out smaller than Marines. Their multiple options will likely take up less space on the sprue and in the box.

I don't think the Immolator will be redone, since it's the single plastic kit they have. I would guess plastic Sisters with all the aforementioned trimmings, plastic Penitent Engines or Exorcists (since GW is doing away with hybrids) and one extra new kit that we haven't seen before. If they released 3 kits and none of them were a brand new unit, I would be surprised.

More than likely, there's two sprues that are like what was described.


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Brother SRM wrote:The reason I figure there would be 10 in a box is because Sisters are flat out smaller than Marines. Their multiple options will likely take up less space on the sprue and in the box.

I don't think the Immolator will be redone, since it's the single plastic kit they have. I would guess plastic Sisters with all the aforementioned trimmings, plastic Penitent Engines or Exorcists (since GW is doing away with hybrids) and one extra new kit that we haven't seen before. If they released 3 kits and none of them were a brand new unit, I would be surprised.

I expect them to release several new units myself. Frateris Militia models which can also be used for Guard conscripts, for example, as well as a new tank, and possibly a heavy infantry variant if Sisters are to be given one.