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 MadCowCrazy wrote:
Got some bad news, some random guy on 4chan said that the models in Imperial Agents are the old metal models. IF this is true then that's really bad news as it could mean we won't be seeing sisters for a LOOOONG time :(

Well, the credibility of "some random guy on 4Chan" is definitely something left to be desired.

I wouldn't care much about how sisters are in imperial agents. My impression so far was that it only has basic sisters and a canoness...maybe. Just because reasons.
The only reason I would pick up the book is for assassins and inquisitorial stuff all in one hardback book, or even softback, point being I get the rules in a physical format XD. Sisters are going to get their own book eventually with a model release.

Alternatively we get this now, and later a campaign book supplement to add to this codex which adds in all the sister stuff. That would kinda work for me too. Although I'd still prefer an ecclesiarchy dex or a new witch hunters dex. I preferred having one book per inquisitorial wing rather than making them all their own thing with assasins in yet another book etc.

 MadCowCrazy wrote:
Got some bad news, some random guy on 4chan said that the models in Imperial Agents are the old metal models.

Um... of course they are. What did you expect - a full new plastic range in a compilation of smaller imperial factions without an own non-digital codex? There are no new Plague Marines or Emperor's Children for Traitor Legions as well.

 MadCowCrazy wrote:
some random guy on 4chan

Oh, in that case, let's all panic/cheer/hide in our bunkers.

Reaally got some bad news for people expecting new models in Imperial Agents.
It will be current metal models and conversions.
Mark it as scripture, save this post if you want it, mark and remember.
But do not read more into it than there is.
Good stuff is on the horizon.

I didn't really expect to see new miniatures in this book. I mean, if that was the case, the new miniatures would come with the book/just before.

And I don't care to see the old metal ones or even conversions. After all, that's what I already have. As long as there are AT LAST new rules for sisters of battle, even if it's just a new detachment or formation or updated relic/warlord trait table, if there is something, anything, I will take it.

No, I'm not desperate, stop looking at me with these eyes!

No new models released with TL or Imp Ag in December. 2017 however, is supposedly pretty sweet. But only certainty is no new models with these two books the weeks of release.

 VeteranNoob wrote:
No new models released with TL or Imp Ag in December. 2017 however, is supposedly pretty sweet. But only certainty is no new models with these two books the weeks of release.

So there we go, confirmation that there are no new models in the Imperial Agents Codex

So basically a cash grab repackaging of existing content before 8th edition then?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So basically a cash grab repackaging of existing content before 8th edition then?

Maybe - this would mean the campaign books or Traitor Legions are, too. But we don't know anything about 8th edition - how it works, what books/rules will be obsolete... Or if the rules in this book are revised/updated.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So basically a cash grab repackaging of existing content before 8th edition then?

If any of the previous releases are anything to go by, there will be detachments, formations, warlord traits, artifacts, and potentially more army-specific special rules. I highly doubt this is just reprinting Inq/SoB/GK.

I'd love to see some new formations for inquisition.

Requizen wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So basically a cash grab repackaging of existing content before 8th edition then?

If any of the previous releases are anything to go by, there will be detachments, formations, warlord traits, artifacts, and potentially more army-specific special rules. I highly doubt this is just reprinting Inq/SoB/GK.

Potentially new wargear/relics like Legions are getting. Seems like one thing they will update without requiring new models.

Requizen wrote:

If any of the previous releases are anything to go by, there will be detachments, formations, warlord traits, artifacts, and potentially more army-specific special rules. I highly doubt this is just reprinting Inq/SoB/GK.

My expectation is a book that will allow you to take single squads or characters of some imperial factions in your codex army without taking allies (GK, SoB, Wyrdvane psykers etc). Assassines are probably just a reprint, Inquisition too.

Seems to be mostly a fluff book... getting us ready for the 8th Edition version of the General's Handbook.

I expect every unit to be a reprint.

A new Codex without a miniature release?

Sounds strange.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So basically a cash grab repackaging of existing content before 8th edition then?

Not at all.
It is an update for factions that need parity with current armies.
It is a cheap book, if it was a cash grab they could have gone far more expensive.
Models will come.
People have just been spoiled lately.

 BloodGrin wrote:

People have just been spoiled lately.

The only spoiled people are SM players, everyone else has to wait years for updates. As a Sisters player I must say we have been far from spoiled over the years...

The real question is how much of a beating does Cortez take in this new codex.

All joking aside there are a lot of inqusitor retinue models in metal that I seriously doubt all of them make it through.
Demon hosts
Joekero
Acolyte
Arco-flagellant
Crusaders
Death cult assassins
Ministorium priest
Mystic
Psyker
Servitor
Servo-skulls

There is no way all the above make it out of the discontinued metal bin alive!!!

Of those I'd guess Daemon Host, Acolyte and Mystic are left in the recycling bin...

Daemon hosts used to be really cool, now they are just complete garbage. Really love the concept of them and they had some half decent models to boot.
Acolytes you can make with many different kits these days so doubt they'd get plastic.
Mystics just aren't worth their own kit so unless there was a large henchmen box with most/all henchmen I can't see them getting any love.

Daemonhosts never had good rules...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
A new Codex without a miniature release?

Woah how surprising, it's not like people had already mentioned it already. Maybe at that time you were just too busy complaining about all the new Chaos awesome plastic model releases and how it was unfair that Sisters were treated so much better.

Woah, down boy.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Woah how surprising, it's not like people had already mentioned it already. Maybe at that time you were just too busy complaining about all the new Chaos awesome plastic model releases and how it was unfair that Sisters were treated so much better.

Never did that, but nice try.

 BloodGrin wrote:
It is an update for factions that need parity with current armies.

Are you seriously suggesting it will give them that?

I just want to know and confirm that this is what you are suggesting will happen-- that these factions will be given parity with eldar, marines, and so on-- so that I can remember your name for the pointing and laughing and saying "I told you so" when you are inevitably proven wrong.

Seriously, that's just not gonna happen. All things considered, we're probably just going to have reprinted units from past codices, and any changes to them will be very minor.

I didn't think anyone was really expecting new models in this codex or around release. Jan/Feb was always the rumored date, IIRC.

All well usual story then................

Maybe the Sororitas will get something out of this - even if only formations to try and keep up with cheesed out 7.5 Edition Codexes.

This books provides the rules, datasheets, wargear and Detachments included to add members of the following operatives to any army of the Imperium; Adepta Sororitas, Tech-Priest Enginseers and Servitors, Valkyries, Battle Psykers, Astropaths, Priest, Deathwatch Kill Teams and Corvus Blackstars, Grey Knight Terminators, Nemesis Dreadknights, The Legion of the Damned, Assassins and Inquisitors

No custodians, no arbites. Just some models that, my guess, simply don't sell. Bleh.

Also, resin SOB CANONESS! Restricted abd available while stock lasts, sadly.

Where did you hear this?