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So I keep seeing the request for plastic SoB and I wanted to see how many people would actually buy them.

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I'd start a new army the minute they dropped. hell if they annoucned em upcoming I'd buy some rhinos while waiting

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Repentia Mistress





I myself would buy them in a heartbeat provided geedub didn't charge for them what they do now.
I know several other sisters players in my area definitely would and another 4 people who say they're eager start collecting a sisters army but are waiting on plastic models.
   
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Pious Palatine




That's a 800-1000$ day for me, easy.


 
   
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Lesser Daemon of Chaos




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Immediately. The DAY they announced this, I would immediately head to my FLGS and pre-order at least one of every box.

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Furious Fire Dragon




A forest

While I think it would be cool, I would not buy any of them. I have never had any interest in the SOB
   
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You're missing an option maybe/ don't know. It would depend on when for me. i decide on my next project when my last one is finished.




 
   
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Sisters of Battle are an army that everyone talks about liking, and plastic Sisters have obviously been a top wishlist item for some time.

Unfortunately, I think the actual demand for SoB might be somewhat exaggerated in the minds of many of us who frequent places like Dakka Dakka or other online communities. I saw a recent strawpoll that I think had around 2000 votes (I know, not exactly scientific) that had Sisters of Battle dead last in terms of popularity. That may be because their models are so old and expensive and it takes a certain amount of dedication to start an army of Sisters, but that, along with the fact that there is probably a good amount of back stock happening with the old metal models, does not bode well for the future of the faction.

 
   
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'Straya... Mate.

I said no, only because I only have Death Guard (plus some Minotaurs space marines that I am currently converting over to Death Guard ).

There are plenty of other plastic ranges that I haven't purchased

 
   
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Yes, but seeing as I am one of those few who has a good amount of metal SoB I'd not go all crazy buying them. I'd pick up new units or cheaper heavy/speacial weapons in a heartbeat though.
   
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There's not many of us, but we're fairly vocal because our army has been neglected for quite some time.

I, for one, would have like to have an actual print codex [again], like every other army, instead of a White Dwarf article, E-book, then small section of a book dedicated to providing a small selection of "background" Imperial organizations. Look, the f****** STORMTROOPERS got their own book, hardcover and all, and they're a single d*** Elites choice for the Imperial Guard. If you can print a hardcover book for the Stormtroopers and their 4 different unit options, you can print a book for us, we have at least twice as many different units and ten times more fluff.

I actually really like the metal figures, though. They're just expensive. Of course, I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to triple the size of my army for the same amount I've already spent.


I do wonder how many people would buy plastic Sisters, though. Those of us who currently play Sisters have a fair amount of things as is, and while we'd definitely buy more figures if they came out in plastic, there aren't that many of us and there's a point where you'd have more things than you know what to do with. So the question really is "how many new players would pick up the army?", and I don't think that number is actually all that high. GW probably is better served by making more Space Marines, or Tauroxes nobody asked for, or overpowered Tau battlesuits.

You're poll probably isn't accurate, though, since only people who really care will bother responding to it. IE: those of us who currently play Sisters, those who would play Sisters but balk at the $100/squad price, and those who hate our army and/or want to harass those of us who like it.

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 Luciferian wrote:
Sisters of Battle are an army that everyone talks about liking, and plastic Sisters have obviously been a top wishlist item for some time.

Unfortunately, I think the actual demand for SoB might be somewhat exaggerated in the minds of many of us who frequent places like Dakka Dakka or other online communities. I saw a recent strawpoll that I think had around 2000 votes (I know, not exactly scientific) that had Sisters of Battle dead last in terms of popularity. That may be because their models are so old and expensive and it takes a certain amount of dedication to start an army of Sisters, but that, along with the fact that there is probably a good amount of back stock happening with the old metal models, does not bode well for the future of the faction.


That hasn't been a problem to Genestealer Cult. Is disingenuos to compare a faction so abandoned by the company to other armies. New armies sell well if they have good sculpts and are reasonable priced.
See Deathwatch, see Kharadron Overlords or Sylvaneth, Cult Mechanicus/Skitarii, etc...
Not every army has to sell like Space Marines to give profits to GW.

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 Crimson Devil wrote:

Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.

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 Luciferian wrote:
Sisters of Battle are an army that everyone talks about liking, and plastic Sisters have obviously been a top wishlist item for some time.

Unfortunately, I think the actual demand for SoB might be somewhat exaggerated in the minds of many of us who frequent places like Dakka Dakka or other online communities. I saw a recent strawpoll that I think had around 2000 votes (I know, not exactly scientific) that had Sisters of Battle dead last in terms of popularity. That may be because their models are so old and expensive and it takes a certain amount of dedication to start an army of Sisters, but that, along with the fact that there is probably a good amount of back stock happening with the old metal models, does not bode well for the future of the faction.


Yeah, take every poll of 'favorite faction' before deathwatch overkill came out and see where genestealer cults came in and the number of people buying genestealer cult models at that time and then tell everyone that plays genestealers NOW that your data says that no one would buy that army.

Sisters of battle have so many things going against them(terrible support, 20 year old sculpts, terrible rules, limited diversity, obscenely expensive models, being stuck in stupid goddam pewter, arguably the worst representation of any faction fluff wise in terms of both quantity of background and constantly using them as less than cannon fodder, being an all female army in a hobby that is 97% male, etc) that the fact that they sell ANY models is truly nuts.

Not to mention the incredibly circumstantial evidence that the only 2 Sisters releases in 20yrs (canoness and Celestine) Both sold out in prerelease and that the resin canoness has sold out about every 3 days for months now.

Would they be the most popular army ever? No, absolutely not. Would they compete pretty well with DE, Harlies, GK, DW, Nids and all of the other niche armies that aren't tau, eldar, space marines, orks or chaos? Absolutely they could if they were given half decent plastics with goodish rules they could easily be a middle of the table army sales-wise.


 
   
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I would be interested in them, the current SoB range is very outdated. And I don't think SoB need a massive range like some of the other armies. A main troop squad, dual kit elites, and a vehicle or two and 1-2 generic hq models would be good enough for me. And they would still be a great side force to include in other imperial armies.

 
   
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I've never been particularly interested in them, but I would definitely buy them. They are something different and when you have been in the hobby as long as I have, different is intriguing. At this point, I just want at least a small army of every faction...I may have a problem.

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The biggest issue in polls right now is that you can't judge how well something will sell unless they actually put out the models. Genestealers did really well with a sudden release of models. Polls never take into account all the people who might walk into the store and see them, people not playing the game currently that might start because they saw an army that's not just another sausage fest, or even people that just don't frequent the site.

I think sisters would do amazingly well. Just look at how well people keep claiming that celestine did.

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The evidence shows that if a faction has good rules and models, people will buy them, even if there wasn't a pre-existing market (see: Genestealer Cults, regarded as a forgotten and irrelevant bit of 40K apocrypha till they got a good treatment with some actual effort put into it). And since recent GW shows an ability to comprehend the blindingly obvious, I'm hopeful something will come along. I'll be interested to see when / if there's a preview article for them.

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 Elemental wrote:
The evidence shows that if a faction has good rules and models, people will buy them, even if there wasn't a pre-existing market (see: Genestealer Cults, regarded as a forgotten and irrelevant bit of 40K apocrypha till they got a good treatment with some actual effort put into it). And since recent GW shows an ability to comprehend the blindingly obvious, I'm hopeful something will come along. I'll be interested to see when / if there's a preview article for them.


I would be surprised at this point if they haven't started working on a at least a handful of sculpts for SoB. You could do literally the entire 'SoB' part of codex with 4 kits (repentia, pen engine, seraphim, literally everything else) a clampack and an plastic exorcist upgrade sprue.


 
   
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ERJAK wrote:
 Elemental wrote:
The evidence shows that if a faction has good rules and models, people will buy them, even if there wasn't a pre-existing market (see: Genestealer Cults, regarded as a forgotten and irrelevant bit of 40K apocrypha till they got a good treatment with some actual effort put into it). And since recent GW shows an ability to comprehend the blindingly obvious, I'm hopeful something will come along. I'll be interested to see when / if there's a preview article for them.


I would be surprised at this point if they haven't started working on a at least a handful of sculpts for SoB. You could do literally the entire 'SoB' part of codex with 4 kits (repentia, pen engine, seraphim, literally everything else) a clampack and an plastic exorcist upgrade sprue.


If they released 4 heros to the Kharadron Overlords they can release more than one Clampack to the Sisters!

If only GW could go back to the generic heros of old with full customization like the Chapter Master, Empire General, Ork Warboss or Empire Wizards... I don't want monopose heroes with 0 customization

 Crimson Devil wrote:

Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.

ERJAK wrote:
Forcing a 40k player to keep playing 7th is basically a hate crime.

 
   
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 TheLumberJack wrote:
While I think it would be cool, I would not buy any of them. I have never had any interest in the SOB
Same here. I like SM as enemies.

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 Galas wrote:
ERJAK wrote:
 Elemental wrote:
The evidence shows that if a faction has good rules and models, people will buy them, even if there wasn't a pre-existing market (see: Genestealer Cults, regarded as a forgotten and irrelevant bit of 40K apocrypha till they got a good treatment with some actual effort put into it). And since recent GW shows an ability to comprehend the blindingly obvious, I'm hopeful something will come along. I'll be interested to see when / if there's a preview article for them.


I would be surprised at this point if they haven't started working on a at least a handful of sculpts for SoB. You could do literally the entire 'SoB' part of codex with 4 kits (repentia, pen engine, seraphim, literally everything else) a clampack and an plastic exorcist upgrade sprue.


If they released 4 heros to the Kharadron Overlords they can release more than one Clampack to the Sisters!

If only GW could go back to the generic heros of old with full customization like the Chapter Master, Empire General, Ork Warboss or Empire Wizards... I don't want monopose heroes with 0 customization


If ever they were going to make multiple hqs out of a single clampack again, it would be SoB. Saves on making molds.


 
   
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Plastic models and decent rules. That is all we ask. SOB can sell well, the proof being the Canonness and Celestine models near sold out every other day.

It is one of those "Build it and they will come" sort of things.


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The real question that should be asked is wither people will buy SOB in larger number if plastic models became available.

That answer being most likely an astounding yes IMO.

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I myself would not buy some as I have no interest in the army, but I do feel that they should produce plastic SoB for those that want them.
   
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I appreciate that at the very least GW stopped pretending they didn't exist. They were even in one of the pics in the new tyranid article.


 
   
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Calculating Commissar




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 Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:
There's not many of us, but we're fairly vocal because our army has been neglected for quite some time.

I, for one, would have like to have an actual print codex [again], like every other army, instead of a White Dwarf article, E-book, then small section of a book dedicated to providing a small selection of "background" Imperial organizations. Look, the f****** STORMTROOPERS got their own book, hardcover and all, and they're a single d*** Elites choice for the Imperial Guard. If you can print a hardcover book for the Stormtroopers and their 4 different unit options, you can print a book for us, we have at least twice as many different units and ten times more fluff.

I actually really like the metal figures, though. They're just expensive. Of course, I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to triple the size of my army for the same amount I've already spent.


I do wonder how many people would buy plastic Sisters, though. Those of us who currently play Sisters have a fair amount of things as is, and while we'd definitely buy more figures if they came out in plastic, there aren't that many of us and there's a point where you'd have more things than you know what to do with. So the question really is "how many new players would pick up the army?", and I don't think that number is actually all that high. GW probably is better served by making more Space Marines, or Tauroxes nobody asked for, or overpowered Tau battlesuits.

You're poll probably isn't accurate, though, since only people who really care will bother responding to it. IE: those of us who currently play Sisters, those who would play Sisters but balk at the $100/squad price, and those who hate our army and/or want to harass those of us who like it.


100 USD for a squad makes you sound like you're super rich, hate yourself or both. May as well be forgeworld prices at that point.

Just be glad GW didn't squat your setting like WHF. They also squatted tomb kings and bretonnia (poor players). Bretonnia hadn't been updated in years. I played skaven and they weren't updated since 2008 or so and the game died in 2015 so about 7 years with an 8 page FAQ that didn't answer all problems. I don't quite know your pain army-wise but at least your setting remains intact enough that you can play another faction and not just be super pissed at what they did to your game making it super hard to play a game that you enjoyed. Seriously i can't even play WHFB in the local GW store. They actively won't allow it. Hell they actively treat that portion of the player base like ****. GW are ****s.

I don't play guard anymore but the tauroxes looked cool. I also would've wanted to make a stormtrooper army but there's only 2 or 3 units so it's not legit. I do dark eldar now and we kinda suck but at least the FAQ was under control and you could do ok if you didn't play one of the OP factions like tau, eldar or maybe marines with a formation.

While i do feel bad for you and other more normal Sisters players there's generally a bunch of Sisters players lately i have a hard time feeling bad for. There's a bunch of extreme people that like Sisters and more just the fact that they're all female rather than the whole theme of religious nuns.

 Elemental wrote:
The evidence shows that if a faction has good rules and models, people will buy them, even if there wasn't a pre-existing market (see: Genestealer Cults, regarded as a forgotten and irrelevant bit of 40K apocrypha till they got a good treatment with some actual effort put into it). And since recent GW shows an ability to comprehend the blindingly obvious, I'm hopeful something will come along. I'll be interested to see when / if there's a preview article for them.


Well they did have Celestine and her 2 lady bro bodyguards. The Guard simply got ignored during Gathering Storm while Cadia got blown to ****. Then Commoragh got completely overrun by daemons thanks to some ynnari ****head which may or may not end with a dark eldar army squatting. The dark eldar have some ground in commoragh but it's mostly ynnari or mandrakes with haemonculus covens i think. So basically my faction seems to be getting screwed hardcore. From the sounds of things during our gathering storm book we were mostly ignored too for some reason except our home getting invaded by daemons. Yeah i'm pretty sure we're about to get squatted. Bet the ynnari chick is just gonna murder Vect and that'll be all she wrote. We only had 2 characters this book and one was the super old 2nd edition incubi dude.

I will admit i was one that enjoyed Genestealers. If 8th is good i will do them next perhaps.

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I probably wouldn't ever get an Apocalypse size force of them, but I'm certain that I would get enough for SW:A/Kill Team. Probably would get enough for a normal sized 40k army, but it would be a gradual process.

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 flamingkillamajig wrote:
 Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:
There's not many of us, but we're fairly vocal because our army has been neglected for quite some time.

I, for one, would have like to have an actual print codex [again], like every other army, instead of a White Dwarf article, E-book, then small section of a book dedicated to providing a small selection of "background" Imperial organizations. Look, the f****** STORMTROOPERS got their own book, hardcover and all, and they're a single d*** Elites choice for the Imperial Guard. If you can print a hardcover book for the Stormtroopers and their 4 different unit options, you can print a book for us, we have at least twice as many different units and ten times more fluff.

I actually really like the metal figures, though. They're just expensive. Of course, I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to triple the size of my army for the same amount I've already spent.


I do wonder how many people would buy plastic Sisters, though. Those of us who currently play Sisters have a fair amount of things as is, and while we'd definitely buy more figures if they came out in plastic, there aren't that many of us and there's a point where you'd have more things than you know what to do with. So the question really is "how many new players would pick up the army?", and I don't think that number is actually all that high. GW probably is better served by making more Space Marines, or Tauroxes nobody asked for, or overpowered Tau battlesuits.

You're poll probably isn't accurate, though, since only people who really care will bother responding to it. IE: those of us who currently play Sisters, those who would play Sisters but balk at the $100/squad price, and those who hate our army and/or want to harass those of us who like it.


100 USD for a squad makes you sound like you're super rich, hate yourself or both. May as well be forgeworld prices at that point.

Just be glad GW didn't squat your setting like WHF. They also squatted tomb kings and bretonnia (poor players). Bretonnia hadn't been updated in years. I played skaven and they weren't updated since 2008 or so and the game died in 2015 so about 7 years with an 8 page FAQ that didn't answer all problems. I don't quite know your pain army-wise but at least your setting remains intact enough that you can play another faction and not just be super pissed at what they did to your game making it super hard to play a game that you enjoyed. Seriously i can't even play WHFB in the local GW store. They actively won't allow it. Hell they actively treat that portion of the player base like ****. GW are ****s.

I don't play guard anymore but the tauroxes looked cool. I also would've wanted to make a stormtrooper army but there's only 2 or 3 units so it's not legit. I do dark eldar now and we kinda suck but at least the FAQ was under control and you could do ok if you didn't play one of the OP factions like tau, eldar or maybe marines with a formation.

While i do feel bad for you and other more normal Sisters players there's generally a bunch of Sisters players lately i have a hard time feeling bad for. There's a bunch of extreme people that like Sisters and more just the fact that they're all female rather than the whole theme of religious nuns.


Ok.....


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Also btw, stop using squatted. You are using that and I don't think you know the meaning of that word.

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Sorry i'm still upset over WHFB getting canned.

Squatted means an army gets destroyed and the squats were the dwarf 40k faction that got discontinued. I just use the term more liberally. Dark eldar may get discontinued and i'm afraid for them as i play them.

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I totally want plastic sisters. The metal ones have absolutely no conversion ability... The metal ones are sculpted well I must say they've stood the time so far. But metal is just so difficult because there's always the chip factor.

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 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Sorry i'm still upset over WHFB getting canned.

Squatted means an army gets destroyed and the squats were the dwarf 40k faction that got discontinued. I just use the term more liberally. Dark eldar may get discontinued and i'm afraid for them as i play them.


Squats for your info for the future were canned not to sales, but to lore. Their models sold well enough.

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