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 pretre wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:

 pretre wrote:


Anyone been refreshing their 'My Downloads' screen on the Black Library hoping that someone hits the wrong button?

Um...no.

So anyways, back on topic...

Frantically waiting for the release the thread is about is on topic. Conversion opportunities or uses for storm bolters isn't.

You went there, mate. Suddenly I'm the one that's OT because I make a joke about it?

 Bull0 wrote:
We're obsessing a lot over those storm bolters considering that swapping the gun for a special weapon from your bitz box should be a fairly easy conversion I suspect

I don't know, I made a bit of a hash turning a couple of stormbolter into a couple heavy bolters. It's useable, but it's not brilliant.

Geez, is it time yet? This week is gonna go super slow I feel....

D

 Bull0 wrote:
You went there, mate. Suddenly I'm the one that's OT because I make a joke about it?

Nooo... The thread was OT, so I was trying to guide us back. Guilty conscience?


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 evildrcheese wrote:
Geez, is it time yet? This week is gonna go super slow I feel....

No joke. So for previous releases, what time did they actually put the downloads up? Was it 12:01AM UK time or sometime during the day?

 pretre wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:
You went there, mate. Suddenly I'm the one that's OT because I make a joke about it?

Nooo... The thread was OT, so I was trying to guide us back. Guilty conscience?

*I* was trying to guide us back by pointing out that obsessing over the presence of storm bolters in the one-click bundles barely matters because you can just convert them anyway. You went into all crazy details about dremels and saws and how HARD THAT WOULD BE BULL0 OMGAWD

Not sure. If it is 12:01 I might stay up on Friday for it. Assuming there's no one working (as it's a saturday) and it's an automated thing that makes the link 'live' there's no reason why it couldn't be on a 12:01am...Hopefully we won't have to wait for someone to 'press the button'...

D

Even if it drops at 12:01 in the UK there is an arbitrary wait here in the US for the ibook one. Apparently Apple thinks there are shores on the internet.

 pretre wrote:
what time did they actually put the downloads up? Was it 12:01AM UK time or sometime during the day?

A little earlier than that, actually. Maybe around 11:30pm, UK time? They did take it down again briefly, but it came back for good around 11:40pm. Maybe they'll jump the gun again? We can only hope.

 pretre wrote:
It's 2 for 5, right now.

The Superior can also take a combi weapon, so you can get an extra one-shot special weapon.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
I doubt this move will translate to "if" Sisters get a full release

I'm of the same mindset. Though I see a lot of people assuming that this release is actually going to determine whether they get any further support. Whether out of cynicism or a lack of knowledge about GW's previous attempts to make plastic SoBs, I'm not sure.

 Troike wrote:

 pretre wrote:
what time did they actually put the downloads up? Was it 12:01AM UK time or sometime during the day?

A little earlier than that, actually. Maybe around 11:30pm, UK time? They did take it down again briefly, but it came back fro good around 11:40pm. Maybe they'll jump the gun again? We can only hope.

Wow, so Pacific is -8 GMT, so that means I could get it Thursday afternoon at that rate. Here's to hoping.

 pretre wrote:

 Troike wrote:

 pretre wrote:
what time did they actually put the downloads up? Was it 12:01AM UK time or sometime during the day?

A little earlier than that, actually. Maybe around 11:30pm, UK time? They did take it down again briefly, but it came back fro good around 11:40pm. Maybe they'll jump the gun again? We can only hope.

Wow, so Pacific is -8 GMT, so that means I could get it Thursday afternoon at that rate. Here's to hoping.

Yeah, I'm -7 hours behind the UK myself, but iBook codex preview didn't drop at 5, but around 10pm local, so looks like I'll be waiting on 12 am EST for mine.

I am looking forward to the faq

 Mr Morden wrote:
I am looking forward to the faq

At least if there is one it'll update rather easily.

Though it seems like the web team is getting sloppy, I noticed this last weekend that the Dark Elves FAQ for the old book was still up.

 pretre wrote:

 Troike wrote:

 pretre wrote:
what time did they actually put the downloads up? Was it 12:01AM UK time or sometime during the day?

A little earlier than that, actually. Maybe around 11:30pm, UK time? They did take it down again briefly, but it came back fro good around 11:40pm. Maybe they'll jump the gun again? We can only hope.

Wow, so Pacific is -8 GMT, so that means I could get it Thursday afternoon at that rate. Here's to hoping.

No, a saturday launch here, even a half hour premature one, still lands you on the friday. So friday afternoon for you. Otherwise you would need to be -32 GMT, which is making my brain hurt from trying to divide by 0.

Oh, I thought it was coming out on Friday. Forgot the 19th was Saturday.

 Purifier wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Troike wrote:

 pretre wrote:
what time did they actually put the downloads up? Was it 12:01AM UK time or sometime during the day?

A little earlier than that, actually. Maybe around 11:30pm, UK time? They did take it down again briefly, but it came back fro good around 11:40pm. Maybe they'll jump the gun again? We can only hope.

Wow, so Pacific is -8 GMT, so that means I could get it Thursday afternoon at that rate. Here's to hoping.

No, a saturday launch here, even a half hour premature one, still lands you on the friday. So friday afternoon for you. Otherwise you would need to be -32 GMT, which is making my brain hurt from trying to divide by 0.

Unless you use iTunes like I am (yes, I'm probably an idiot, but I like the features of the thing) then you're looking at midnight EST.

 Mr Morden wrote:
I am looking forward to the faq

No problem, costs only 10 £ (hey, it contains a point adjustment, well actually corrects a typo, but still)

 Kroothawk wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
I am looking forward to the faq

No problem, costs only 10 £ (hey, it contains a point adjustment, well actually corrects a typo, but still)

Kroot, you must be off your Alzheimer's meds again.

If you want to be useful, why not poke your sources for when the full codex will be coming out instead of poking the bees nest in here.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Kroot, you must be off your Alzheimer's meds again.

If you want to be useful, why not poke your sources for when the full codex will be coming out instead of poking the bees nest in here.

It is called different opinion, not Alzheimer.
And AFAIK no full Codex the next 9 months. Orks, IG and probably Space Wolves before that at least.

 Kroothawk wrote:
Orks, IG and probably Space Wolves before that at least.

And, I would bet, at least two or three Codex: Space Marines; and a dozen Codex: Color Marines !

 Kroothawk wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Kroot, you must be off your Alzheimer's meds again.

If you want to be useful, why not poke your sources for when the full codex will be coming out instead of poking the bees nest in here.

It is called different opinion, not Alzheimer.
And AFAIK no full Codex the next 9 months. Orks, IG and probably Space Wolves before that at least.

Your "opinion" has been you flogging the dead horse named "I think it's just the WD with a bigger price tag" for a number of pages now. I think we got it Kroot. You miss C:WH, wish it never went away from that and are sad that we have this intermediate thing. Well the intermediate is finally getting pushed forward with an update, which tells me the studio is trying to do more with them again.

You already explained why we likely got this thing, so why be so glum? We know GW is working on them in some capacity, and there is some kind of interest in the studio so why bitch about the fact they are extending us some kind of evidence that they're trying to do stuff with the army? I mean we have Cruddace saying they listened to our complaints and looked into making Faith Points scale, that means that at least some of what we've been saying has been making it into the studio.

So why be so down on it?

So how long do we think it will take to sell out.....

 pretre wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:
We're obsessing a lot over those storm bolters considering that swapping the gun for a special weapon from your bitz box should be a fairly easy conversion I suspect

lol no.



It is held against the body, so has to be carved out with a dremel or saw, smoothed and then another weapon added. It is much easier to just use a different model than try to convert a storm bolter sister. The easiest meltagun conversions come from extra heavy weapon models, in my opinion.

Ive tried to mod these a few times. It does not happen. I wish so much that it would.

Eldercaveman wrote:
So how long do we think it will take to sell out.....

Depends if the server crashes again over at GW like the space marine release lol.

 conker249 wrote:

Eldercaveman wrote:
So how long do we think it will take to sell out.....

Depends if the server crashes again over at GW like the space marine release lol.

Even if that happens the iTunes one should be okay.

And if that happened we'd be able to definitely say that Sisters are a very popular army concept.

Just looked at the "1-click bundles". I like how a 10 man metal IG squad is $50, well the 10 women SoB squad is $94.25...

These 1-click bundles are a joke, I might as well spend the extra half a minute picking out the exact weapon I want instead of getting stuck with thows damn storm bolters. Lord knows I get a billion of thows useless things every time I pick up a lot of used SoB models. Thows things go into the shoe box of purgatory so I don't have to look at them.


Pardon a spot of wishlisting. But the only way I could think of making that model useful, is if the sisters had special rending storm bolters or something.

 Lockark wrote:
Just looked at the "1-click bundles". I like how a 10 man metal IG squad is $50, well the 10 women SoB squad is $94.25...

These 1-click bundles are a joke, I might as well spend the extra half a minute picking out the exact weapon I want instead of getting stuck with thows damn storm bolters. Lord knows I get a billion of thows useless things every time I pick up a lot of used SoB models. Thows things go into the shoe box of purgatory so I don't have to look at them.


Pardon a spot of wishlisting. But the only way I could think of making that model useful, is if the sisters had special rending storm bolters or something.

Those one click bundles are the same cost as the models that make them up, so welcome to the world of everyone who has purchased them direct from GW.

It's been suggested that special ammo could make stormbolters useful, but even if we got that I can't see them getting a place in bss. Massed stormbolters with special ammo in doms could fill a specilised role, but would it be better than flamers or meltas? Unlikely.

If Celestines could take them as and got buffs as an assault unit then it could work, but tose buffs would have to be faily major to make us want to charge our sisters.

D

 Kreedos wrote:


Ive tried to mod these a few times. It does not happen. I wish so much that it would.

Snip off a barrel, plant combi-flamer, combi-melta barrel in its place. Real quick and easy combi-weapon conversion.

Also a great "counts as" sternguard with special ammo and combi-weapon if you want your "Celestians" bringing "blessed ammo" in a drop pod.

I just realized 3 sister blisters are 17.25, you can get 9 sisters with bolters for 51.75.

I've often fancied a sisters army, but not really gonna start one with the way things are priced.

Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I've often fancied a sisters army, but not really gonna start one with the way things are priced.

With the way pricing is heading, base troop box kits will soon be $60 for most anything :(