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 Troike wrote:
Lose the heels and we're on the right track.

Quite right, they are totally inappropriate for battle, no one would consider such heels for a fighty-space-nun.

No one except Blanche, that is. And he puts heels even on Space Marine Primarchs.

Anyways, the amount of detail on that fanart is awesome and I do like some of its ideas. Overall it almost looks too "filigree", though that may simply be due to all the detail itself rather than our current armour which still looks sufficiently rugged to appear battle-worthy rather than something that may appear more like a uniform for parades (see also: Blood Angels Nipple Armour). That being said, I am very conservative when it comes to designs anyways, so any significant change to the established design which I've known for more than a decade now will have a very hard time convincing me...

So what, they waited an entire edition to finally actually sell the codex they released in fifth?

Lazy bastards.

Now, now. This way, they can say that SoB have a 6th Edition Codex and are thus "up to date" until 7E shows up.

In a perfidious way, it is rather smart.

The White Dwarf article does say "ALL updated for 6th Edition". That technically makes this codex a 6th Edition codex.

 SisterSydney wrote:

 Scrub wrote:

 Lynata wrote:

Scrub wrote:I'd love to see something along the lines of the Star Wars sand crawlers, enormous APC style vehicle with several decks and gun emplacements that lumbers towards the enemy front line, something fortress like and gothic which is then able to disgorge a hideously large amount of troops into combat.
It'd be like a creeping doom coming at you across the table as you try to frantically disable it.

Fortress-Abbey on tracks? The Ecclesiarchy has you covered.

Spoiler:

However, I have a feeling that something like this would sadly be too big for both selling and deployment on a table ...

I'd no idea it was actually a 'fluff thing'! Awesome!

I'd better go read up on some Sisters background, methinks.
As for a potential mode, It could be the size of that recent Khornemower for tabletop representation maybe? Either way, I'd love to see them as a viable force on the table again with some updated models to do 'em some justice

I think that'd be a unit for Epic, if we still had Epic. Failing that, something for unusually large Armageddon games, say a gym floor for a playing surface and 50,000 points a side....

Even still I don't think it'd be too far fetched to see it influence the design of say a land raider sized vehicle. Some sort of mobile chapel. Proselytizing the masses... You can't show up to every remote part of a planet with one of those full sized Abbeys.

TiamatRoar wrote:
The White Dwarf article does say "ALL updated for 6th Edition". That technically makes this codex a 6th Edition codex.

Calling it now, it'll take less than a week for people to start claiming Sisters are the most recent Codex as to why Codex X needs an update first.

I'll admit I'm getting a little excited now. At first I was all MEH and wouldn't bother buying, just find the warlord traits somewhere. Now though the prospect of minor points adjustments is giving me second thoughts.

Well, I'm hoping that the plastics will come before 7th. 7th is quite some time away, yet, so I think there's a good chance of that anyway.

And I still say that this is quite clearly a stopgap. I don't think it's intended as a real codex because they haven't changed a great deal, and it's just a digital release (for now).

 Vain wrote:


Quite right, they are totally inappropriate for battle, no one would consider such heels for a fighty-space-nun.

Spoiler:

I think I'll trust the model's representation of the SoB rather than Blanche's, thanks.

Ironically, high heels were originally a guy thing, in fact a cavalry thing, because they keep your shoes from slipping out of your stirrups when you're riding your horse to, say, go murder some people for their religious beliefs.

But yes, they are ridiculous for infantry of either gender. I guess Saint Celestine could get away with them because her feet never touch the ground...

How skinny is she, if she can fit into that power armor!?

 SisterSydney wrote:
Ironically, high heels were originally a guy thing, in fact a cavalry thing, because they keep your shoes from slipping out of your stirrups when you're riding your horse to, say, go murder some people for their religious beliefs.

But yes, they are ridiculous for infantry of either gender. I guess Saint Celestine could get away with them because her feet never touch the ground...

Yup! I always figured that Khan's boots there were more based off of cowboy boots than high heels:

In a way, it certainly fits. I mean, it's the Khan. He's supposed to ride things. Right?

Guardsmen Bob wrote:How skinny is she, if she can fit into that power armor!?

Twist: anything aside from the head is bionics.

 evildrcheese wrote:
Spoke to Cruddence @ Games Day re SoB asking if the digital version is his WD dex. He confirmed it is, hes been involved in the writing of the warlord traits was the impression I got. He also told me they'velooked at the scaling issue for faith points and that there's been 'minor' point tweaks. Release date is for next month (October). Interestingly he said it'll probably be treat like a supplement in that if it sells well as a digital it's probably get a physical release. Spoke to someone from the digital editions stand and they confirmed it'll be for Android aswell as Ipad.

Excellent to hear!


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From BOK. THe whole page:

Link doesnt work for me pretre

It ain't working for me either.

http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2013/09/27/network-news-codex-updates-my/

So we still have to wait, until we get simplified square jaw / big hand plastic version of our metal miniatures, for a 50% price hike

Seems that way, but there is always hope that the line will be awesome.

Yes, for some reason I apparently still have hope GW will do it right... I think i'm insane

I personally, would love to see plastic sisters, primarily to give by noise sisters blastmasters.The other plus is my regular sisters won't chip when they fall over. I'd like to see the update happen, even if it is just a holding pattern.

 Dude_I_Suck wrote:
I personally, would love to see plastic sisters, primarily to give by noise sisters blastmasters.The other plus is my regular sisters won't chip when they fall over. I'd like to see the update happen, even if it is just a holding pattern.

I'm tired of the holding pattern myself. I already own the codex, so I'd rather not wait another few years for a real codex. I suppose given the update schedule that Sisters could be up soon, but I no longer have any faith that GW will give Sisters a true update. If and when it does occur,I will happily recant that stance but until its in my hands I won't believe that it will occur.

 Guardsmen Bob wrote:
How skinny is she, if she can fit into that power armor!?

As skinny as all of John Blanche's freakishly anorexic fantasies.

Seriously the man is disturbed and his art sucks, let's move on to better art.

Lets hope that the points adjustment is not up!

Dude_I_Suck wrote:The other plus is my regular sisters won't chip when they fall over

Rumour has it varnish helps nicely with that problem.

Mr Morden wrote:Lets hope that the points adjustment is not up!

The SCs may well deserve it, maybe then not taking the Canoness isn't such a no-brainer anymore. Though ideally this should be addressed by actually making her more useful rather than just creating a bigger gap in costs.

Yeah, the Canoness needs more than just a price change.

Some more options would be nice - jump pack and a Few "special items" :

May replace boltgun and/or bolt pistol with
Chainsword free
Storm Bolter 3pts
Power axe, Power sword, Power maul, Combi-flamer,-melta, or plasma 10pts
Condemnor Boltgun, Plasma, Inferno Pistol or Storm Shield 15pts
Eviscerator or Preasidium Protectiva 25pts
Blessed Weapon 30pts
May take Melta Bombs 5pts
May take Roserius 25pts
May take Jump Pack 25pts
May take psyocculum 25pts

Blessed Weapons would be better, but sadly those are gone.

 Mr Morden wrote:
Eviscerator or Preasidium Protectiva 25pts

Why does SoB have to pay 10pts more for the exact same wargear that other codicies pay 15pts for? Eviscerators are 15pts in the IG and GK codex, what makes the SoB so superior they have to pay 10pts more?

But it's better than a powerfist and those are 25pts... SoB are S3.
S8 Ap2 is allot scarier than S6 Ap2 Armourbane...

But they are better at destroying vehicles! A Meltabomb does a better job for only 5 pts...

Eviscerators should be 15pts! It's the only way to deal dmg in assault for a Sister, if you are lucky enough to even get to swing.

 MadCowCrazy wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
Eviscerator or Preasidium Protectiva 25pts

Why does SoB have to pay 10pts more for the exact same wargear that other codicies pay 15pts for? Eviscerators are 15pts in the IG and GK codex, what makes the SoB so superior they have to pay 10pts more?

I think the difference to the designers is the super awesomeness that is power armor. Yes, that was sarcasm in case that needs to be said. it ups the price of some weapons.

andrewm9 wrote:

 MadCowCrazy wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
Eviscerator or Preasidium Protectiva 25pts

Why does SoB have to pay 10pts more for the exact same wargear that other codicies pay 15pts for? Eviscerators are 15pts in the IG and GK codex, what makes the SoB so superior they have to pay 10pts more?

I think the difference to the designers is the super awesomeness that is power armor. Yes, that was sarcasm in case that needs to be said. it ups the price of some weapons.

While you might be sarcastic, there is actually a truth in that. There is not just the difference of power armor but also with other mechanics in the army(Faith as an example).

Gambling on a minor resurgence of SOB and buying up some lots of metal for resale.

Also, there's a wishlist thread over in Proposed Rules for those of you who insist on doing do.