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For some reason nobody at my gaming club had the new 7th edition core rulebook so I couldn't check. In the lore section have they added any neat lore for the army? Artwork? Are they even still in as an army; merged with inquisition? Don't suppose they've done what they did for Dark Eldar ages ago and showed a concept for what plastic sisters of battle might look like.


Just curious.

I heard that there's new artwork for them in the book but no new models.

Also, the Imperium is battle brothers with itself, so you can now go hog wild with your Sisters and mix them with anyone else.

 TheKbob wrote:
I heard that there's new artwork for them in the book but no new models.

Also, the Imperium is battle brothers with itself, so you can now go hog wild with your Sisters and mix them with anyone else.

My god has nobody bought the new rulebook.

 Totalwar1402 wrote:

 TheKbob wrote:
I heard that there's new artwork for them in the book but no new models.

Also, the Imperium is battle brothers with itself, so you can now go hog wild with your Sisters and mix them with anyone else.

My god has nobody bought the new rulebook.

Let's keep it dakka-legal and say that the community as a whole only wants the rules

I didnt really look through the fluff or pictures etc, but no they dont have any new art. One page of fluff.

The picture of the Sister aiming her boltgun at the viewer from the cover of the digital codex pops up a couple of times (its actually the picture covering the Special Rules section). They get one page of fluff in the section talking about the various armies in the fluff book (pretty much the same as the other armies). And they get various mentions around the book, namely when its talking about the Ecclesiarchy.

The 'hobby' book has photos of their current models in amongst a section showing all the Imperium armies, as well as closeups of those models.

GoonBandito wrote:
The picture of the Sister aiming her boltgun at the viewer from the cover of the digital codex pops up a couple of times (its actually the picture covering the Special Rules section). They get one page of fluff in the section talking about the various armies in the fluff book (pretty much the same as the other armies). And they get various mentions around the book, namely when its talking about the Ecclesiarchy.

The 'hobby' book has photos of their current models in amongst a section showing all the Imperium armies, as well as closeups of those models.

Thats a shame.

Pretty much confirms they won't be getting a new codex or models this edition.

 Totalwar1402 wrote:

GoonBandito wrote:
The picture of the Sister aiming her boltgun at the viewer from the cover of the digital codex pops up a couple of times (its actually the picture covering the Special Rules section). They get one page of fluff in the section talking about the various armies in the fluff book (pretty much the same as the other armies). And they get various mentions around the book, namely when its talking about the Ecclesiarchy.

The 'hobby' book has photos of their current models in amongst a section showing all the Imperium armies, as well as closeups of those models.

Thats a shame.

Pretty much confirms they won't be getting a new codex or models this edition.

Sorry, maybe I was a bit unclear. The first part of the Hobby Book basically goes 15 pages of photos and fluff about that new Strike Force Ultra thing that GW are doing on their website atm, 10 pages with photos and fluff of a Khorne Warband, 10 pages of photos and fluff of an Imperial Army (Blood Angels, White Scars, Adepta Soroitas, House Terryn Knights and Militarum Tempestus), and then some advertisements for the Citadel Paints, White Dwarf and Apocalypse Books.

The 2nd half of the Hobby Book is filled with closeups of individual models, as well as macros of armies, for each faction - Ultramarines get 8 pages, the other Space Marine chapters that have codex's get 4 pages each, Astra Militarum get 8 pages, Knights get 2, Sisters get 2, Orks get 6, Eldar get 8, Dark Eldar get 4, Necrons get 6, Tau get 6, Nids get 6, Chaos Marines get 6 and Demons get 4 pages. There's actually more 'fluff' on the Sisters in the Hobby Book than any of the Xenos races (since they only get photos) and about the same as what there is for Blood Angels and White Scars. Ultramarines by far get the most photos and fluff written about them, but that's to be expected, followed by Khorne Chaos. None of the other Space Marine chapters have any fluff text - just photos.


As for the Lore Book, well there's about as much (or technically about as little...) written on the Sisters as there is on Knights or any of the Xenos races save Orks, though Orks don't get that much more. The Lore Book is almost entirely about the workings of the Imperium (I'm not sure if you've heard, but it's Grimdark), and how awesome Space Marines are with Chaos thrown in for Space Marines to fight. There is a fairly long, detailed report of Abaddon leading an invasion against an Imperial World which makes the Catachan out to be fairly badass, but of course the the Dark Angels and Grey Knights have to show up to save the day.

Their lore page, unfortunately, appears to exactly the same. Having seen a picture of it and compared to it my 6E book, it seems to be exactly the same words with the exception of the last paragraph of it being split into two paragraphs for the 7E book.

A shame, and kinda lazy on GW's part. But still, I am glad that they replaced the Blanche artwork with the 6E SoB codex cover artwork instead.

 Totalwar1402 wrote:
Are they even still in as an army; merged with inquisition?

They were only merged with the Inquisition for 3E and 4E, having chared a codex with the Ordo Hereticus. Now they're their own army again, and seem to no longer seem to even be Chamber Militant to the Ordo Hereticus.

still dont understand why GW refuses to update sisters or release new models. Theres a sickeningly large sister-fanbase hiding and waiting for their time to shine. Theyre bound to make a lot of money even if all they do is a new dex and no new models. Not like writing words on paper is hard.

And i say this as a bystander. I dont have sisters, nor any intent to get any, but met several sisters players and theyre always very adamant about their army. Moreso than anyone else with their army by at least two-fold.

 Vineheart01 wrote:
still dont understand why GW refuses to update sisters or release new models. Theres a sickeningly large sister-fanbase hiding and waiting for their time to shine. Theyre bound to make a lot of money even if all they do is a new dex and no new models. Not like writing words on paper is hard.

And i say this as a bystander. I dont have sisters, nor any intent to get any, but met several sisters players and theyre always very adamant about their army. Moreso than anyone else with their army by at least two-fold.

It requires a lot of development money and a huge amount of risk to redo any army as was the case with Dark Eldar. Although, that doesn't explain how Grey Knights went from metal to a fully plastic army (albeit with a very limited roster of units) and such a release by all rights should have been fairly manageable.

GW did that when prospects were good and money seemed a sure thing. Now things aren't so rosey and people aren't buying as much 40k anymore. I can't see them making that risk unless the economy and their prospects pick up. Until then they are likely to continue adding to the existing armies with new rules and niche/big models for them.

But yeah, after being rolled into Witchhunters, having a white dwarf codex and a digital codex its hard to believe they'll ever do anything with the army. I think they themselves like the concept, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered to keep supporting the army and investing in things like artwork.

 Vineheart01 wrote:
still dont understand why GW refuses to update sisters or release new models.

They've cited modelling issues in the past. Specifically, things like translating details like those arm robes into plastics. But yeah, it probably would be a successful update for GW. And I think that they do have ample motivation, given that the Digital codex seems to have sold well and they've attempted to make plastics anway.

 Troike wrote:
Now they're their own army again, and seem to no longer seem to even be Chamber Militant to the Ordo Hereticus.

No they are. The fluff book mentions that when its talking about the Inquisition (along with Grey Knights and Deathwatch).

Yes, but current fluff also suggests that they aren't quite the "army" of the Ordo Hereticus in the same way that the Deathwatch and Grey Knights are to the Xenos and Malleus, respectively, but rather an ally they call upon occasionally.

I sold my metal Sisters army several years ago but I would buy plastic Sisters in a heartbeat. I might even sell my Blood Angels and Grey Knights to get more.

Plastic sisters are about the only thing that would bring me back now, but I really don't believe they will be updated. GW aint doing so hot and even when they were doing hot they just couldn't be bothered.

 Troike wrote:

 Vineheart01 wrote:
still dont understand why GW refuses to update sisters or release new models.

They've cited modelling issues in the past. Specifically, things like translating details like those arm robes into plastics. But yeah, it probably would be a successful update for GW. And I think that they do have ample motivation, given that the Digital codex seems to have sold well and they've attempted to make plastics anway.

I heard that years ago, there were new models for the sisters, and the place where the models were sculpted was different from where the molds were made. Something happened to the models in transit from sculpting to molding

It's also my understanding (I wasn't in the hobby at the time) that the rumors were that the 'nid dex was supposed to drop in November of last year...and then the chapter house lawsuit hit. All of a sudden the sisters got a new digital codex which took everybody by surprise and no new models. The 'nid codex was pushed back to Jan 2014 and all of the chapter house 'nid affected models were pulled. So you can make all the connections...

I seriously considered the sisters when I was picking out an army until I looked at the price. Being all metal just makes them way too expensive. I have seen sisters on the table and they can be nasty. Most people have no idea the sisters exist, since they have no physical presence in stores :(

And if you wanted to do that whole "let's get more women into the hobby" It's still one of the 40k armies you could suggest or at least show off, if it was actually in the store, even if it was nothing more than a codex or a very small selection of models.