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 Geifer wrote:

As pointed out that relic chest is interesting. Maybe we get a model for a funeral procession like what was in the previewed artwork some time ago? Bonus points if it's actually a special character like... Saint Katherine, was it? Too tired to remember right now. I want to make an army out of iving saints and dead saints.

if we don't I will make one

The Cherubs look like pretty complicated models, more than just one piece sprue fillers like servo skulls.

I'll hold to my prediction of a box of cherubs.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The Cherubs look like pretty complicated models, more than just one piece sprue fillers like servo skulls.

I'll hold to my prediction of a box of cherubs.

My guess is they'll be part of the various kits. At least that's what I infer from the phrasing: "set to become a common sight across the upcoming Adepta Sororitas range. [...] they represent wonderfully macabre additions to many of the kits." Could mean you buy them separately and can use them across the range to supplement the various units, but they seem to be linked to specific boxes anyway ("The Armorium Cherubs of the Retributor Squads").

A relic procession type deal sounds quite feasible; after seeing that art it would surprise me to not get some kind of related set.

Here's hoping the last bulletin will just consist of a bucketload of pictures providing sneak peeks for everything we haven't seen yet. I doubt they'll show off everything in detail (save that for closer to release), but a little part of everything coming up to allow us to see whether and how many new things may yet arrive.

Codex: Ordo Cherubus.

 Elbows wrote:
Codex: Ordo Cherubus.

Forget Primaris Lieutenants, GW should just release cherubs instead.

 Elbows wrote:
Codex: Ordo Cherubus.

I so hope every squad has a flavor of cherub that gives a consumable bonus

 Elbows wrote:
Codex: Ordo Cherubus.

Put me down for Start Collecting: Codex Cherub Kingdoms

At least 2 boxes!

We were just talking about this at work. Cherub and servo skull boxed set.

Joking apart, would be a decent seller for terrain nuts. And indeed Caratyids in Necromunda.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
Codex: Ordo Cherubus.

Forget Primaris Lieutenants, GW should just release cherubs instead.

And here I am still waiting for my Nurgling plushies.

Wouldn't nurglings do better as an odd, slick plastic material?
'Slickies?' 'Sickies?'

The cherubs are excellent. I always thought it was a shame they stopped adding individual rippers to the Nid kits- quite jealous of the cherubs..

 silverstu wrote:
The cherubs are excellent. I always thought it was a shame they stopped adding individual rippers to the Nid kits- quite jealous of the cherubs..

Every faction should have their own little charactefull mini pets. Not need to put them everywhere to not go overboad with them... but imagine a little Wall-E Tau Drone...

Voss wrote:

 jake wrote:

ERJAK wrote:
This BSB was a waste of time.

I wouldn't say that. We learned that theres several plastic kits (anywhere from 3-8) that have yet to be previewed that are coming relative soon.

I'd love to see the logic behind that concludes with that number range. And the 'soon,' as next month is very clearly just the box set.

you’ll be able to read all about in the full, new codex, that’s included in the hotly anticipated Adepta Sororitas: Sisters of Battle Army Set, available next month.

There are 9 Cherubs shown. None of them are duplicates. We haven't seen any of them associated with any kits that we know about and we know they don't come in next month's box. Two are called out as being part of a Retributors kit. I doubt more than 3 would come with any single kit, and one or two are more likely. So unless they're releasing a kit of JUST Cherubs (which they won't) the indication is that they belong to between 3 and 8 plastic kits we haven't seen yet. Since the models are painted (probably to appear in the codex) its likely that their associated units are also ready to go, and that we will see them soon. My guess is before March of next year.

I mean, thats all pretty obvious, right?

Yeah, like Galas said, I hope you get the rippers back Silverstu! It's pretty cool to have the small critters going around!

Most faction already have, Imperium have cherubs and servoskulls (DA have watchers, guards could get mascot dogs I guess), orks have grots and squigs, tyranids have rippers and could get similar mini-tyranids, DE have a tiny dragon iirc, and got a whole bunch of weird xenos so could get more, Genecult got ministealers iirc, Chaos has nurgling (could get unaligned familiars too), CWE don't have anything yet but I guess could get something, Tau don't have anything yet but could get mini-drones or cute xenos auxiliary



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Good thinking Jake. However what is possible is that all the kits in the box are box-exclusive versions, with later versions being slightly more posable and with cherubs.
Some of those 3 to 8 kits may be just like the kits in the box with just a few extra options.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Yeah, like Galas said, I hope you get the rippers back Silverstu! It's pretty cool to have the small critters going around!

Most faction already have, Imperium have cherubs and servoskulls (DA have watchers, guards could get mascot dogs I guess), orks have grots and squigs, tyranids have rippers and could get similar mini-tyranids, DE have a tiny dragon iirc, and got a whole bunch of weird xenos so could get more, Genecult got ministealers iirc, Chaos has nurgling (could get unaligned familiars too), CWE don't have anything yet but I guess could get something, Tau don't have anything yet but could get mini-drones or cute xenos auxiliary



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Good thinking Jake. However what is possible is that all the kits in the box are box-exclusive versions, with later versions being slightly more posable and with cherubs.
Some of those 3 to 8 kits may be just like the kits in the box with just a few extra options.

That is 100% possible, and even likely that some of these are for more fleshed out versions of the kits in the box. I wasn't saying that it was 3-8 new units (although I do think we'll see at least one or two new units). But I wanted to bring it up because theres still a lot of people (here, but also on FB and in other places) stubbornly convinced that this will be the only Sisters release, or that there won't be any more releases in the near future. Theres a strong narrative of "GW is releasing just this box and we'll have to wait SOOOO long to play the army", but its pretty clear that more kits are on the way soon and the wait should be pretty short.

Maybe it's going to be like Space Marines and we'll have to wait for a few month though. Can you imagine? Waiting for several month? Impossibru! How could we survive for so long!
/sarcasm

They seem to be releasing the entire range of new Skeleton people in a single week, so maybe you'll get lucky and the entire new SoB line* will hit in a single week next year?


*Not including the box that's about to come out, that is.

This makes me want to model a seraphim without wings just being carried by a flock of robo-babies

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The Cherubs look like pretty complicated models, more than just one piece sprue fillers like servo skulls.

I'll hold to my prediction of a box of cherubs.

My guess is they'll be part of the various kits. At least that's what I infer from the phrasing: "set to become a common sight across the upcoming Adepta Sororitas range. [...] they represent wonderfully macabre additions to many of the kits." Could mean you buy them separately and can use them across the range to supplement the various units, but they seem to be linked to specific boxes anyway ("The Armorium Cherubs of the Retributor Squads").

A relic procession type deal sounds quite feasible; after seeing that art it would surprise me to not get some kind of related set.

Here's hoping the last bulletin will just consist of a bucketload of pictures providing sneak peeks for everything we haven't seen yet. I doubt they'll show off everything in detail (save that for closer to release), but a little part of everything coming up to allow us to see whether and how many new things may yet arrive.

There's not really much point to save things for later, 2 weeks from monday will be the 11th, the box goes on preorder the 23rd and as soon as it does everything will be spoiled. That's less than 2 weeks, not really worth playing coy imho.

StevetheDestroyeOfWorlds wrote:
This makes me want to model a seraphim without wings just being carried by a flock of robo-babies

That's… old-school Celestine ^^.
(Okay, it was just two Cherubims and they were just carrying her robe/cape, not Celestine herself, but still close enough)

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

StevetheDestroyeOfWorlds wrote:
This makes me want to model a seraphim without wings just being carried by a flock of robo-babies

That's… old-school Celestine ^^.
(Okay, it was just two Cherubims and they were just carrying her robe/cape, not Celestine herself, but still close enough)

I'd buy that Celestine model. Two Cherubs are carrying either end of her cape, as she dangles from the bottom, flailing and slashing anything that gets too close.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Yeah, like Galas said, I hope you get the rippers back Silverstu! It's pretty cool to have the small critters going around!

Most faction already have, Imperium have cherubs and servoskulls (DA have watchers, guards could get mascot dogs I guess), orks have grots and squigs, tyranids have rippers and could get similar mini-tyranids, DE have a tiny dragon iirc, and got a whole bunch of weird xenos so could get more, Genecult got ministealers iirc, Chaos has nurgling (could get unaligned familiars too), CWE don't have anything yet but I guess could get something, Tau don't have anything yet but could get mini-drones or cute xenos auxiliary



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Good thinking Jake. However what is possible is that all the kits in the box are box-exclusive versions, with later versions being slightly more posable and with cherubs.
Some of those 3 to 8 kits may be just like the kits in the box with just a few extra options.

Cheers - yeah the wee critters give armies that extra bit of detail.. I'm almost tempted to start sculpting rippers to go with Nid kits that missed them out -a toxicrene one would be fun..

The Cherubs are a creepy cool addition to Sisters forces, they seem to have a really good over design for the faction -looks like it will be a great release when it all comes out, its quite tempting and I don't normally like human/imperium forces.

ERJAK wrote:

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

Spoiler:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The Cherubs look like pretty complicated models, more than just one piece sprue fillers like servo skulls.

I'll hold to my prediction of a box of cherubs.

My guess is they'll be part of the various kits. At least that's what I infer from the phrasing: "set to become a common sight across the upcoming Adepta Sororitas range. [...] they represent wonderfully macabre additions to many of the kits." Could mean you buy them separately and can use them across the range to supplement the various units, but they seem to be linked to specific boxes anyway ("The Armorium Cherubs of the Retributor Squads").

A relic procession type deal sounds quite feasible; after seeing that art it would surprise me to not get some kind of related set.

Here's hoping the last bulletin will just consist of a bucketload of pictures providing sneak peeks for everything we haven't seen yet. I doubt they'll show off everything in detail (save that for closer to release), but a little part of everything coming up to allow us to see whether and how many new things may yet arrive.

There's not really much point to save things for later, 2 weeks from monday will be the 11th, the box goes on preorder the 23rd and as soon as it does everything will be spoiled. That's less than 2 weeks, not really worth playing coy imho.

True, but I can see it as being part of GW's strategy to build hype for the new range. Not sure what's the norm on pictures of upcoming models in publications nowadays, but it might also be better to have an idea of the miniatures and not just the rules - no doubt some units will quickly be written off based on the rules alone, while being aware of the upcoming sculpts may help people have some interest in them.

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

Spoiler:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The Cherubs look like pretty complicated models, more than just one piece sprue fillers like servo skulls.

I'll hold to my prediction of a box of cherubs.

My guess is they'll be part of the various kits. At least that's what I infer from the phrasing: "set to become a common sight across the upcoming Adepta Sororitas range. [...] they represent wonderfully macabre additions to many of the kits." Could mean you buy them separately and can use them across the range to supplement the various units, but they seem to be linked to specific boxes anyway ("The Armorium Cherubs of the Retributor Squads").

A relic procession type deal sounds quite feasible; after seeing that art it would surprise me to not get some kind of related set.

Here's hoping the last bulletin will just consist of a bucketload of pictures providing sneak peeks for everything we haven't seen yet. I doubt they'll show off everything in detail (save that for closer to release), but a little part of everything coming up to allow us to see whether and how many new things may yet arrive.

There's not really much point to save things for later, 2 weeks from monday will be the 11th, the box goes on preorder the 23rd and as soon as it does everything will be spoiled. That's less than 2 weeks, not really worth playing coy imho.

True, but I can see it as being part of GW's strategy to build hype for the new range. Not sure what's the norm on pictures of upcoming models in publications nowadays, but it might also be better to have an idea of the miniatures and not just the rules - no doubt some units will quickly be written off based on the rules alone, while being aware of the upcoming sculpts may help people have some interest in them.

So they build hype for the two weeks and then...wait 3 months for the actual kits to drop.

I agree that it might be part of their strategy, I just think it's stupid. By the time the full kits come out, most people won't even remember that there had been hype at one point.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
... guards could get mascot dogs I guess...

You misspelled "should".

 jake wrote:

Spoiler:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Yeah, like Galas said, I hope you get the rippers back Silverstu! It's pretty cool to have the small critters going around!

Most faction already have, Imperium have cherubs and servoskulls (DA have watchers, guards could get mascot dogs I guess), orks have grots and squigs, tyranids have rippers and could get similar mini-tyranids, DE have a tiny dragon iirc, and got a whole bunch of weird xenos so could get more, Genecult got ministealers iirc, Chaos has nurgling (could get unaligned familiars too), CWE don't have anything yet but I guess could get something, Tau don't have anything yet but could get mini-drones or cute xenos auxiliary



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Good thinking Jake. However what is possible is that all the kits in the box are box-exclusive versions, with later versions being slightly more posable and with cherubs.
Some of those 3 to 8 kits may be just like the kits in the box with just a few extra options.

That is 100% possible, and even likely that some of these are for more fleshed out versions of the kits in the box. I wasn't saying that it was 3-8 new units (although I do think we'll see at least one or two new units). But I wanted to bring it up because theres still a lot of people (here, but also on FB and in other places) stubbornly convinced that this will be the only Sisters release, or that there won't be any more releases in the near future. Theres a strong narrative of "GW is releasing just this box and we'll have to wait SOOOO long to play the army", but its pretty clear that more kits are on the way soon and the wait should be pretty short.

The question is, are your pretty short wait and their not near future all that different? It's not like those are precise or universal terms. For good or ill GW has operated on very short notice for the better part of the last decade and people by and large are not used to holding their codex in hand and having to wait for more than two or three weeks until they can buy all models in it. i can understand anyone who gets the box at the start of December who considers even a February release a long wait. In relative terms, the way GW has conditioned people, it is.

And given the Marine release schedule, we've already had the test run for it. I expect the same thing to happen with Sisters players, except that the snarky "oh no, poor Marines players have to wait for a few months for new models" will be replaced by snarky "oh no, poor Sisters players have to add a few months to their twenty-year wait".

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

StevetheDestroyeOfWorlds wrote:
This makes me want to model a seraphim without wings just being carried by a flock of robo-babies

That's… old-school Celestine ^^.
(Okay, it was just two Cherubims and they were just carrying her robe/cape, not Celestine herself, but still close enough)

I didn't assemble my Celestine because I like the old version better and wanted to convert her to have a cape held aloft by cherubs. That kind of got put on the backburner for lack of good and easily accessible cherubs, but I hope GW introduces a generic living saint unit entry for people like me who aren't big on special characters. Then again I had that hope with every other iteration of the Sisters codex, and that didn't amount to anything. ah well, maybe this time.

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

Spoiler:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The Cherubs look like pretty complicated models, more than just one piece sprue fillers like servo skulls.

I'll hold to my prediction of a box of cherubs.

My guess is they'll be part of the various kits. At least that's what I infer from the phrasing: "set to become a common sight across the upcoming Adepta Sororitas range. [...] they represent wonderfully macabre additions to many of the kits." Could mean you buy them separately and can use them across the range to supplement the various units, but they seem to be linked to specific boxes anyway ("The Armorium Cherubs of the Retributor Squads").

A relic procession type deal sounds quite feasible; after seeing that art it would surprise me to not get some kind of related set.

Here's hoping the last bulletin will just consist of a bucketload of pictures providing sneak peeks for everything we haven't seen yet. I doubt they'll show off everything in detail (save that for closer to release), but a little part of everything coming up to allow us to see whether and how many new things may yet arrive.

There's not really much point to save things for later, 2 weeks from monday will be the 11th, the box goes on preorder the 23rd and as soon as it does everything will be spoiled. That's less than 2 weeks, not really worth playing coy imho.

True, but I can see it as being part of GW's strategy to build hype for the new range. Not sure what's the norm on pictures of upcoming models in publications nowadays, but it might also be better to have an idea of the miniatures and not just the rules - no doubt some units will quickly be written off based on the rules alone, while being aware of the upcoming sculpts may help people have some interest in them.

Prior to the latest Marine codex the norm used to be that if the model wasn't released alongside the codex, it wouldn't show in the codex. The Marine codex set a precedent that changed this approach at least for this codex, so I don't think we can take the old approach for granted anymore. Based on Marines there's a decent chance that all new plastic Sisters that may be released as far into the new year as March may appear in the codex and GW is fine with having that large gap between codex and model releases.

Importantly, the Marine codex wasn't the first to show us all the new generic Marine releases. They preempted that by putting up a Warhammer Community article before the codex was released. The final Battle Sister Bulletin may do the same.

Pretty please give cherubs as flying swarm models.

 Geifer wrote:
You misspelled "should".

Pugs? In flak armor?

 Geifer wrote:
but I hope GW introduces a generic living saint unit entry for people like me who aren't big on special characters.

You and me both, really. But sadly GW is currently running full tilt on the other direction, making generic characters less and less customisable, while putting all the flavour into sub-faction-locked special characters. Less "Your Dudes! They can be everything you want, write a cool lore!" more "Play the Copyrighted™ Subfactions® just like you read in the codex and in Black Library! It's a small world with only a few dozens characters in it, who constantly bump into each other!". Sad!

 Geifer wrote:
but I hope GW introduces a generic living saint unit entry for people like me who aren't big on special characters.

You and me both, really. But sadly GW is currently running full tilt on the other direction, making generic characters less and less customisable, while putting all the flavour into sub-faction-locked special characters. Less "Your Dudes! They can be everything you want, write a cool lore!" more "Play the Copyrighted™ Subfactions® just like you read in the codex and in Black Library! It's a small world with only a few dozens characters in it, who constantly bump into each other!". Sad!

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:


, guards could get mascot dogs I guess

I tried, lightheartedly. to persuade Victoria Lamb to design IG compatible Westies or Scotties to accompany her Highland models years ago. No luck....

Then again, Mad Robot still haven't produced the cyber camels I demanded for a Camel Corps inspired Praetorian Rough Riders unit. Too niche.

That was when IG Commanders could have wargear trademark items such as monocles or big seegars.


The Perrys did include terriers on the sprues for their Afghan War British. Realscale though not 'heroic' 28mm so they look a little small.