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 Grimgold wrote:
Because putting it into a book isn't official enough?

Putting one sentence that imply, but doesn't state outright, that all the factions mentioned will get a codex, and putting it in the middle of a book, is not an announcement enough. When you make an announcement, you make it explicit, and you make it stand out.
That's what I tried to convey I wanted when I answered your question about what I wanted. Something explicit, not implicit, and that's put on the forefront, not hidden in the middle of a book.

And yeah I'm being cautious. Because GW literally, explicitly said “Plastic Sisters of Battle” in one of their video, and then when called on it said “Oh but you had Sisters of Silence it's the same”. So you should be cautious too!

I like how people say Knights don't need a codex. Sisters didn't get a codex for decades, clearly they don't need one either now that they got the index. They've even teased a new Knight model type! A new codex is a shoe in.

I would like rules to run my Freeblades, ty.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

and then when called on it said “Oh but you had Sisters of Silence it's the same”. So you should be cautious too!

I'm going to need a source on that.

 Daedalus81 wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

and then when called on it said “Oh but you had Sisters of Silence it's the same”. So you should be cautious too!

I'm going to need a source on that.

He has a link ready for it.

 Daedalus81 wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

and then when called on it said “Oh but you had Sisters of Silence it's the same”. So you should be cautious too!

I'm going to need a source on that.

Especially since a few months after that video, three plastic Sisters of Battle were released.

 ZergSmasher wrote:

 Grimgold wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

I'm still not sure if Sisters will have a codex, share one with other models, or be left with the index. And yeah, I don't put any faith in a throwaway line that may perfectly be true for most of the factions but not all of them.

They were literally called out by their faction keyword, Adeptus Sororitas, that is as specific as saying space wolves will get codex. It was not a throwaway line, and it jives perfectly with what they've said in the past, that every faction from 7th ed will get a codex in 8th ed.

If every faction from 7th gets a codex in 8th, then maybe there is yet hope that they'll bring back Khorne Daemonkin. I'd love to see this happen, with a newly reworked Blood Tithe table (that was the coolest part of that codex IMO).

They kept the blood tithe for Age of Sigmar too, it really does work well with Khorne stuff... But we will likely see it with Codex: World Eaters rather then a generic Khorne/Worshippers dex.

I suspect we'll see KDK/World Eaters whenever they are getting ready to release Angron. Either will make sense for Angron, since Angron is pretty firmly team Khorne, rather than mostly his own thing like Kharn.

 Crazyterran wrote:
I suspect we'll see KDK/World Eaters whenever they are getting ready to release Angron. Either will make sense for Angron, since Angron is pretty firmly team Khorne, rather than mostly his own thing like Kharn.

yeah ratgher then KDK I suspect the codex will be renamed to world eaters.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Grimgold wrote:
Because putting it into a book isn't official enough?

Putting one sentence that imply, but doesn't state outright, that all the factions mentioned will get a codex, and putting it in the middle of a book, is not an announcement enough. When you make an announcement, you make it explicit, and you make it stand out.
That's what I tried to convey I wanted when I answered your question about what I wanted. Something explicit, not implicit, and that's put on the forefront, not hidden in the middle of a book.

And yeah I'm being cautious. Because GW literally, explicitly said “Plastic Sisters of Battle” in one of their video, and then when called on it said “Oh but you had Sisters of Silence it's the same”. So you should be cautious too!

Did they say "plastic sisters of battle" or "plastic sisters" though?

Was there said that "of battle" or was it fans jumping to conclusion?

Guys, arguing with Hybrid about anything Sister-related is a like arguing with a wall: you can bang your head against it all day, but you'll just get a headache. Best to just walk away. Walls cannot follow you.

That way we can get back on topic, like how broken the new Tau Codex is going to be.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Guys, arguing with Hybrid about anything Sister-related is a like arguing with a wall: you can bang your head against it all day, but you'll just get a headache. Best to just walk away. Walls cannot follow you.

That way we can get back on topic, like how broken the new Tau Codex is going to be.

The leaker advising that everyone buy Riptides... It's an ill omen of things to come, as old evils resurface.

I wonder if they'll remove the Nova Reactor penalty from the model, as receiving a Mortal Wound for buffing yourself, while fluffy, has pissed off a lot of fishies.

Perhaps make it a risk vs reward thing, so you roll to see if it works. Like 2+ it works, 1 you suffer a wound. Or 1-2 it doesn't work, 3-4 it works, 5-6 it works but you suffer a wound.

And so on.

I dunno, overpowering your reactor and causing damage to the suit being represented by causing damage to the suit seems appropriate to me. Something that would only be done if the pilot deems it worth the risk, rather then redlining it all the time.

tneva82 wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Grimgold wrote:
Because putting it into a book isn't official enough?

Putting one sentence that imply, but doesn't state outright, that all the factions mentioned will get a codex, and putting it in the middle of a book, is not an announcement enough. When you make an announcement, you make it explicit, and you make it stand out.
That's what I tried to convey I wanted when I answered your question about what I wanted. Something explicit, not implicit, and that's put on the forefront, not hidden in the middle of a book.

And yeah I'm being cautious. Because GW literally, explicitly said “Plastic Sisters of Battle” in one of their video, and then when called on it said “Oh but you had Sisters of Silence it's the same”. So you should be cautious too!

Did they say "plastic sisters of battle" or "plastic sisters" though?

Was there said that "of battle" or was it fans jumping to conclusion?

Yes they did say plastic sisters of battle. However that was at the start of....the November or December before plastic celestine was released, and she plus her two Gemini do count as plastic sisters of battle. We got plastic SoB, but it was just a character not the army.

The foolish, hopeful part of me wants to think that comments about plastic sisters of battle messing with us like that, having a clock in the squat reveal video, etc, might mean that they'll ease our pain some time in the relatively near future with a release.

The other part of me is beating that part to death with a chainaxe for daring to dream.

I predict a codex + plastic sisters release before the end of the year. They wouldn’t bait like this if there wasn’t something in the pipeline.

In the Squat Clock video, the Plastic Sisters of Battle clock is seven minutes to midnight. Read into that what you will.

 Mr Morden wrote:

Necrons used to be able to do it - its a bit vague if they can do it now.

As I understand it you need to do something major to go faster than light?

I think the previous codex (a Mattward one IIRC) was a bit vague and confused about the issue, and I don't think it was appreciated how long it would take at sublight speeds to cross between stars. Also necrons could sometimes use parts of the webway through Dolmen gates, but the webway itself kept trying to get rid of them so they were a bit unreliable.

Mind you, Necrons were controlled by C'tan in the codex before that, so anything goes. I am hoping the next randomly determined fluff will give them FTL but with limitations (i.e. still slower on average than warp travel. Possibly fatal to organic matter, maybe uses lots of rare fuel / energy resources.)

I also hope we will get Pariahs back (even if that means the ships taking them can't go FTL). Possibly through cooperation with Stygies VIII (I really think they should get something going between them, maybe with some Blood Angels thrown in. Many AdMech would love to become true machines to be closer to their God...)

In the Necron/SoB novel Hammer and Anvil by James Swallow, it's suggested that a Dolmen Gate isn't so much their method of FTL as it is a mass-transit device with terrifying implications. The book never mentioned their actual ship capabilities, as it was planet-bound, but it mentioned that it would allow the Necrons to march into it and appear basically anywhere in the galaxy, Holy Terra included.

The only bit of lore I know of regarding Necron ships post the Ward-dex would be Imperial Armour 12, in which it never mentioned any kind of Dolmen Gate, but talked about the Necron ships moving at frightening speeds with impeccable manoeuvrability. My understanding therefore is that Necrons do have inertialess drives for FTL, but can use the Dolmen Gates for their primary, original purpose: out-manoeuvring the most manoeuvrable race in history.

*ahem*... and I hope this is mentioned in the codex, to stay somewhat on topic kinda.

It is pretty damn irrelevant whether SoB get a codex unless there are new plastic models.

 Daedalus81 wrote:
I'm going to need a source on that.

It's in my sig.

Want me to go hunt for a direct link rather than a screenshot?

tneva82 wrote:
Was there said that "of battle" or was it fans jumping to conclusion?

It's in my sig too.
https://www.facebook.com/WarhammerTVteam/videos/266256350436017/
They said Sisters of Battle.

 Oguhmek wrote:
I predict a codex + plastic sisters release before the end of the year. They wouldn’t bait like this if there wasn’t something in the pipeline.

The people doing the baiting don't have any information on unannounced rumors, to make sure they don't let some info slip out involuntarily. They stated so.

Hmm interesting. So you don't consider celestine sisters of battle. What she is then?

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Oguhmek wrote:
I predict a codex + plastic sisters release before the end of the year. They wouldn’t bait like this if there wasn’t something in the pipeline.

The people doing the baiting don't have any information on unannounced rumors, to make sure they don't let some info slip out involuntarily. They stated so.

This is actually false. During the 24 hr 40k stream, one of the commentators (Nick Bayton IIRC) let slip some comments about Slaanesh and the "gorgeous models" before realizing that he made an uhoh.

tneva82 wrote:
Hmm interesting. So you don't consider celestine sisters of battle. What she is then?

Judging by the lists I see her in, I think she's some sort of Guardsman that escorts a lot of manticores around. I think she's from Catachan.

 Kanluwen wrote:
This is actually false. During the 24 hr 40k stream, one of the commentators (Nick Bayton IIRC) let slip some comments about Slaanesh and the "gorgeous models" before realizing that he made an uhoh.

Oh. Maybe it's just some of them, or maybe they just lied so people would stop trying to fish for information on the Facebook comment section .

tneva82 wrote:
Hmm interesting. So you don't consider celestine sisters of battle. What she is then?

But that's not the response they gave, is it. They didn't say "hey, we released Celestine", they claimed they never said "of battle" at all and were talking about the Sisters of Silence reboxing for sale outside of Prospero.

Even if they had responded with "muh Celestine tho", it would still be a colossal and unnecessary troll, because only a complete moron would expect that their company could hint that a long-neglected range was going to finally be given some attention and fans of that range wouldn't expect it to be given the attention it needed and would then be annoyed when instead it got a token character release. Initially only as part of a boxed set with other factions, no less.

Which is why I maintain "troll marketing" is counter productive nonsense. It's only a funny in-joke between you and the fans you're trolling if you pitch it absolutely perfectly and meet the expectations you create, if you fail in either regard then it stops being a joke with those fans and becomes a joke at their expense - getting the portion of your customers who're arseholes at heart to laugh at the group of customers you were taking the piss out of doesn't make either the arseholes or the subjects of the joke more likely to buy things.

This is why no one likes Sisters players...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This is why no one likes Sisters players...

Not even Sisters players.

Unthinkable people might want models released for their factions, eh?