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 gpfunk wrote:

 Lynata wrote:
On a sidenote, since that incident with the Bloodtide was mentioned ... I actually have no problem with this at all, and can't really "get" the criticism. All that this bit of fluff shows is two things:
- the SoB have an incredible resistance against corruption (which is one of the army's central themes, and fits to other cool stories such as this one), so much so that even the GK may occasionally depend on them
- the GK are extremely pragmatic, so much so that they don't hesitate to kill their allies if they judge this to be necessary for the greater good (which also fits to the whole Inquisition stuff)

God please take all my Exalts. People who complain about that fluff seem to ignore the other pieces in the codex where they hunt down and kill entire regiments of poor Imperial Guardsmen just for knowing that they exist. Don't know why the Sisters would get any special treatment in the face of overwhelming pragmatism.

I'd love decent plastic sculpts for the basic troops. I could roll them into my Inquisitorial Retinues. Heck, it'd just be nice to have some normal, female armored bodies to work with for conversions rather than having to go third party.

I was incredibly sad to see the SoB shoehorned into a white dwarf release, I'd gotten excited to see if there were any new models that would be released. Alas. That said, GW hasn't removed them from their website, so they must not be looking to can them any time soon.

To be honest, I used to be one of those people who was overly upset at that piece of fluff. As in, so overly upset that I completely mutilated my nicely-painted metal Grey Knight Terminator I've had since 2005. Luckily, someone - probably one of the fine people in this thread - took the time to explain it to me in detail.

It didn't help that the first time I encountered that piece of fluff was in a thread complaining about it on Dakka, where people used overly violent and brutal imagery words to describe it. And then I never did bother to actually go and read it, even after I started a GK army a number of months later. Still haven't read it.

But yes, that piece of fluff makes a lot more sense to me now than it did when all I could picture was a bunch of GKs shredding Sisters of Battle to harvest their blood. That kind of stuff makes me sick to my stomach, despite the fact that one time, when playing Starcraft II, what I did as Terran VS Zerg on a money map, was I massed infantry in the middle, then asked my Zerg opponent to send in his assault force. I watched, smiling and laughing, as the banelings and other units caused horrific waves of green and red gore to explode through my formation. I'm actually smiling while thinking about it right now. But because all those Marines and Marauders or whatever were male, I don't feel ill about it. I'm weird that way. : D

On a more pleasant topic, I haven't bought any Sisters of Battle stuff since I got my Exorcist a couple of years ago. There's just nothing left that I would use but don't have. I only play smallish games - 1,000 to 1,250 points or so - so going out and expanding my army to Apocalypse type levels is pointless. I have enough Battle Sisters to cover my needs, enough special and heavy weapons to field all the units I want to, I have 2 Canonesses with different loadouts should I ever want to use one in place of Celestine, I have Celestine, I have a Uriah-bomb unit, I have two Immolators that can be swapped between Exorcists, Immolators, and Rhinos by using different turrets (I use the Whirlwind turret with an Immolator chassis as an Exorcist sometimes, since I'm afraid of dropping my Exorcist for fear it'll shatter into dozens of pieces when it hits the floor), I have Seraphim, I have Repentia, I have a pair of Hospitallers, I have Simulacrums, I have a pair of Penitent Engines... Just about the only things I don't have are some specific loadouts for Superiors and Arco-flagellants.

So really, the only reason I'd get new models is if there are new units that come out with a new Codex, if new models come out that look better, or if plastic Sisters models are released - which I'd use to make furry and scaly Sororitas! : D

 dpal666 wrote:

 Furyou Miko wrote:

dpal666 wrote:instead on "counts as" IG, they're perfect for PA bolter henchmen for a Coteaz list, although that gets expensive in points.

I'm currently sitting on 2500 pts worth, and love it every time I pull them out.

Ooor... you could use them as Sisters and actually win.

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I do use SoB as a stand alone, when I want larger battles, they become henchmen, as I don't enjoy the ally thing. Combining them, I can do 8k battles as a GK army.

Sisters just don't scale up very well IME, <2K they're great, there's no doubt about it, above 2K is another matter.

I ally mine with my custom Marine chapter. Actually, they're not so much a chapter as they are a group of renegade Chaos Marines. Renegade against Chaos, I mean. And my Sisters aren't so much an Order as they are- You know what, pretty much every 40k army I have that I had fluff written for is some sort of renegade, which is what happens when that fluff revolves around an ongoing series of RP that involves a mix of WH40k, Warcraft, Starcraft, and Star Trek stuff. And other stuff too. I'm pretty sure that at this point in those RPs, they all live on a futuristic united Azeroth that's hurtling through space using massive Warp drives to escape from the Imperium while simultaneously trying to recover any of the troops they tithed to the Imperium before rebelling - I don't think they've figured out that eventually the Imperium's going to order those regiments exterminated - while the Zerg sometimes make conjugal visits. And I wish I was making any of that up... I really, really do. Oh, also, there's furries.

Mostly I get my butt handed to me by my mom's Orks. One time, I had a single Scout with a Sniper Rifle, and Saint Celestine, against 10 Lootas, a Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun, a mob of Boyz, and 2 Killa Kanz by the end of the game. That Scout made a veritable gakload of 2+ cover saves from behind his defence line... Pretty much everything on the board was shooting at him for 2-3 turns. Personally, I blame my frequent losses on the additional mandatory cost of an extra HQ and Troops choice, but it's entirely possible I just make craptacular roster choices with the 300-400 points or so I have left after paying for the mandatory choices and their typical upgrades in a 1,000 point list.