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I like the idea od the Excorcist.. but I don't particularly like the model. I get the organ theme and all, but it just looks...weird. The forgeworld bits look like 2 pill bottles bolted onto a rhino, so not much better

It took me a long time (like 5+ years) to get used to it, but I love it now.

There are a lot of great conversions you can do to make your own exorcist, don't let the model keep you away from one of the best heavy supports ever.

ncshooter426 wrote:
I like the idea od the Excorcist.. but I don't particularly like the model. I get the organ theme and all, but it just looks...weird. The forgeworld bits look like 2 pill bottles bolted onto a rhino, so not much better

It takes time to start loving the Organ... if not aesthetically, then the FAQ that says "measure from the pipes" is pretty cool, where your line of sight is from the top pipe, and the entire rest of your tank is behind a building xD

However, a good conversion (instead of the FW "mini missile" kit) , is to get the FW Space Marine Air Defence missile launcher (Hyperios turret). And put that instead... looks damn good!


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Also, is it time for "The End of Sisters"?

I have a confirmed (but still read "rumour") that all the metal models have been sent for melting down (and selling the metal). That most probably includes all metal sisters...
UK statement of mine about the stock in Nottingham (UK mail order).

This is pretty bad news, unless you consider plastic/resin sisters?

Ironically, the entire idea of the Exorcist was what pulled me toward the Sisters.

Melting metal...NNNNOOOO! My army isn't anywhere near WYSIWYG! I don't even have a single squad un-proxied yet! Release the plastics first, then phase out the metal!

...I'm sad now.

Is the scrap metal value of slagging their inventory anywhere near the same ROI as just selling them? Hell, even a fire sale of 50% to drop inventory would (I imagine) make far more return...

I would wait a week. I suspect you'll find the great smelting is a load of bull.

I have mixed feelings about the idea of losing the metal miniatures. Part of me would love that as I'm not a fan of metal and I much prefer the plastic GW has been using as of late (except finecast which I think is just dumb). However the metal sisters still look fantastic and I think that they are still some of the best looking models GW has produced. If they went plastic with them they would probably change the "art direction" and who knows if it'd look good or not? Worst of all in my opinion is that I know if they made new plastic models I'm far too picky with my units and I hate running armies that are half/half metal and plastic and I'd go all in to replace my entire army with all plastic models leaving my metal ones to either be sold or weigh down my shelves.

I doubt it's true but I'd be scared and excited in equal parts if this rumour was true.

 pretre wrote:
I would wait a week. I suspect you'll find the great smelting is a load of bull.

It likely is. It's not like the metal is so expensive they'd sell models at a loss. They still make a very healthy profit on Sister models, very likely.

BlackTalos wrote:
However, a good conversion (instead of the FW "mini missile" kit) , is to get the FW Space Marine Air Defence missile launcher (Hyperios turret). And put that instead... looks damn good!

That does look pretty slick. I've been hesitant about ordering from FW though - my last international order of stuff (not GW reltated) ended up getting torn to bits in transit and it was a bloody nightmare trying to get it all resolved.

The thought of them taking a loss on those metal minis is absurd. The sunk cost of producing, packaging and marketing them is gone, and the metal is nowhere near valuable enough to go through the hassle of unpacking, smelting and selling the scrap metal. They did release a new codex without any new minis (and the loss of several previously available ones), so why would they not hold onto them and just sell of the remaining inventory? Retail price per cubic foot is pretty high, and the storage overhead can't be that much. I'll put it this way, I will bet one sister superior that they do not smelt their metal minis.

 pretre wrote:
I would wait a week. I suspect you'll find the great smelting is a load of bull.

UK stock... the US warehouse is *probably* untouched, so i dunno about over there across the ocean =P

However the melting of the stock here in the UK is from a first-hand view of the metal warehouse being loaded onto 3 trailer trucks bound for the smelter. Take it as you will, but the UK ebay is already popping up with "OOP" for any sisters search

Sad times indeed, but very hopefully a clue to plastic stock *hope* *hope* *hope* lol


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ncshooter426 wrote:

BlackTalos wrote:
However, a good conversion (instead of the FW "mini missile" kit) , is to get the FW Space Marine Air Defence missile launcher (Hyperios turret). And put that instead... looks damn good!

That does look pretty slick. I've been hesitant about ordering from FW though - my last international order of stuff (not GW reltated) ended up getting torn to bits in transit and it was a bloody nightmare trying to get it all resolved.

The best is to find them when they go somewhere, e.g. they will be at Adepticon 2014, in Chicago in april. You can easily place an order for them to bring it over when they attend =)

Forgeworld orders for that specific show are here:

ncshooter426 wrote:
I like the idea od the Excorcist.. but I don't particularly like the model. I get the organ theme and all, but it just looks...weird. The forgeworld bits look like 2 pill bottles bolted onto a rhino, so not much better

I use Whirlwinds and paint them with church murals.

 BlackTalos wrote:

 pretre wrote:
I would wait a week. I suspect you'll find the great smelting is a load of bull.

UK stock... the US warehouse is *probably* untouched, so i dunno about over there across the ocean =P

However the melting of the stock here in the UK is from a first-hand view of the metal warehouse being loaded onto 3 trailer trucks bound for the smelter. Take it as you will, but the UK ebay is already popping up with "OOP" for any sisters search

Sad times indeed, but very hopefully a clue to plastic stock *hope* *hope* *hope* lol

Without a video showing the metal miniatures falling into the furnace I will not believe this, it's the stupidest possible rumor. As everyone has already gone over, the metal is worth so little and the miniatures worth so much more and the cost of holding on to them is so low...

Basically the pitch here is "Games Workshop hates money" and, well, we all know better than that, heh.

 MWHistorian wrote:

ncshooter426 wrote:
I like the idea od the Excorcist.. but I don't particularly like the model. I get the organ theme and all, but it just looks...weird. The forgeworld bits look like 2 pill bottles bolted onto a rhino, so not much better

I use Whirlwinds and paint them with church murals.

I think I'm going to bite the bullet and pick up some of those FW missile bits (same basic idea as the whirlwind w/ icons). Saw a cool pic where new organ pipes were added (looked like 3mm tube) between the sponsons to give it a sisters feel.

Still sorting through this gigantic box of bugs. Sheesh... I could always just play 'nid and never have to buy anything LOL.

Played a 3 game campaign/mini tournament recently. Beat my previous record of 3 losses, with only 2 this time! It was 2k with specific scenario special rules for each game.

I was running
jaco, 4 priest, 2 with mauls, one with literines of faith.

9 sister squad F/HF in rhino with bare priest
Blob with F/HF, Jaco oter priests and Inqusitor with Rad/pyschotroke grenades & Hammerhand power.
5 sister squad F/HF bought them MM Immo as DT but stuck them on Bastionion wih superiir mannig Icarus
Coteaz and 3 jocaero and 3 plasma henchmen inside bastion.
2 squads of meltadoms in rhinos
1 squad of flamer doms in an MM Immo
and rounding out with 2 exorcists in my heavy slots.

First game was my only win an it wa vs marines using minotaur rulea. It was a kill points game with the mission specialrule effecting your ld as the game went on. It didn't affetc me too much due ro alltefearless I had floating around. It was a terrain heavy board with loads of LOS blocking stuff, so I basicaly built up a good lead and hid. Ended up wih 5vp to zero Second game was vs chaos marines. Scenario was interesting you started wih ammo for one tun of shooting but had to reload at the objectives. Also all open ground was treated as difficult terrain. My opponent had more assaulty units than me so he was able to grind down the blob. It di look for a while like I might be able to sneak a draw.but it wasn't to be.on the plus side his two helldrakes only got one round of shooting each as he didn't bother going into hover mode to rearm, althoughe vector strikes were still able to dish out the pain.

3rd game was against another SM army, the objectiv of this game was to press a big red button to wipe out the planet and the opposing forces. It was a tricky game as you had to start within 2" of the button then go the whole turn not shooting. My opponent just kept throwin any unit he could into assault with me to deny the ability to push he button. Good ggames, still really like the inclusion if inqusition intohe dex, even ifthey are foul withces.

On that note, is it me or does it seems hat they're steering Sisters away fromhe any psyher scene?

Sorry for spelling errors, on my phone and too mucheffort to go back and correct :/

D

 BlackTalos wrote:

 pretre wrote:
I would wait a week. I suspect you'll find the great smelting is a load of bull.

UK stock... the US warehouse is *probably* untouched, so i dunno about over there across the ocean =P

However the melting of the stock here in the UK is from a first-hand view of the metal warehouse being loaded onto 3 trailer trucks bound for the smelter. Take it as you will, but the UK ebay is already popping up with "OOP" for any sisters search

Sad times indeed, but very hopefully a clue to plastic stock *hope* *hope* *hope* lol

Both US/UK have sisters shipping in 24 hours still...


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 evildrcheese wrote:
Played a 3 game campaign/mini tournament recently. Beat my previous record of 3 losses, with only 2 this time! It was 2k with specific scenario special rules for each game.

On that note, is it me or does it seems hat they're steering Sisters away fromhe any psyher scene?

Good job! The key to 40k is to take your lumps and keep going.

As to no psykers, of course we wouldn't have psykers. Suffer not the Witch to live!

Except for Inquisitors and sanctioned psykers and astropaths and Librarians and gak like that, because being officially okay'd means they're technically not witches, but they'd better keep proving their worth to the God-Emperor every fething day because if they take one step, ONE STEP out of line, God-Emperor help me, I will fething purge you so fething hard your fething grandchildren will catch fire, can you read THAT intention in my mind, you fething psyker FREAK?!

SISTER KORIANDER: Perhaps a chill pill would be in order, Sister?
SISTER RAVEN (breathing heavily): No.... No.... I'm ... I'm better now.

 SisterSydney wrote:
Except for Inquisitors and sanctioned psykers and astropaths and Librarians and gak like that, because being officially okay'd means they're technically not witches, but they'd better keep proving their worth to the God-Emperor every fething day because if they take one step, ONE STEP out of line, God-Emperor help me, I will fething purge you so fething hard your fething grandchildren will catch fire, can you read THAT intention in my mind, you fething psyker FREAK?!

This about sums it up.

However, I still like to think that the Sisters are quietly disgusted with even the "sanctioned" pyskers.

SISTER RAVEN: [eye twitching] What part of that struck you as quiet?[/eye twitching]

 evildrcheese wrote:
On that note, is it me or does it seems hat they're steering Sisters away fromhe any psyher scene?

They've always lacked psykers, only time they had them directly in their army was 3E, and that was only from the Inquisition side of their codex.
Heck, IIRC, in 2E they had rules where even friendly psychic effects were resisted.

Uriah Jacobus is a must include because he gives the unit he is with an extra Act of Faith.

Modelling distraction: my dark talon > Avenger is just about done:



Main parts required for conversion were Storm Raven wings, tail (x2) and weapon pods, plus deathstrike missile housings for engines. Other misc stuff from bits box; still much cheaper than fw!

 Troike wrote:

 evildrcheese wrote:
On that note, is it me or does it seems hat they're steering Sisters away fromhe any psyher scene?

They've always lacked psykers, only time they had them directly in their army was 3E, and that was only from the Inquisition side of their codex.
Heck, IIRC, in 2E they had rules where even friendly psychic effects were resisted.

From being on my phone before, my point hasn't come across clearly. What I meant to say was:

 evildrcheese wrote:

On that note, is it me or does it seems that they're steering Sisters away from the anti-psyker scene?

What I mean is that there didn't seem to be much anti-psyker-yness in the new fluff part of our 'dex'. I picked up Sisters with the Witch Hunters Codex but so I've been abhorring those witches for a while myself, but I don't recall any mentions of the SIsters of Battle hating on the filthy psykers in out latest book. The only real throwback is that we have Crusader so can deny the witch on a 5+...To be honest I've only read the fluff in the new dex once, as my pc/phone is an ideal medium for leisure reading...

D

It does seem like the new Dex and the fluff has gone from "witch hunting" and killing psykers, (which is kinda what the sisters of silence do in 30K, relevant?) to a now "papal army" of sister just spreading imperial creed and waiting in covenants until something happens in their life

I think you mean 'gone back'. They only really had the witch hunting push during C:WH era. And Troike, the friendly thing was 3E.

Oh, probably then, i only ever started in 4th ED...

Recently discovered all about Squats, had no idea or ever heard of them :p


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 pretre wrote:
Jacobus or Celestine is just flat out better for foot than a canoness.

BlackTalos wrote:

Also relevant to "Plastic sisters" & Alternatives, have people seen These

Only 1 forum thread about IT, and quite recent too...

If anyone can share more info about them i'm interested... They look really good, even if the price is a bit high...
Looking for the guy's site/ store/ whatevs =D

Holy crud. Anyone get one?

Guys! i've finally found the original website for ordering amazing "Sci-fi female warriors" =P

Here is the link to the website. I'm guessing their orders are now going to skyrocket tenfold!

Looking forward to getting these

Hey all, been awhile.

I'm playing in three tournaments in Feb with Sisters and I'm dedicated to using a form of deahstar for each level.

--- 01 Feb 14 --
---1500 Pt Tournament--

*St Celestine

*Preacher, Litanies
*Preacher

*20 x Sisters of Battle
*5x Sisters of Battle, Meltagun, Meltagun, TLMM Immolator

*Exorcist
*Exorcist

*Company Command Squad, 4x Flamer, Chimera

*Guardsman Marbo

*Veterans, 3x Meltagun, Chimera

*Vendetta Gunship

*Inquisitor Coteaz

*Inquisitor Sandra (Ordo Malleus, TDA, NDH, Psycannon, Liber Heresius)


First Game! I'll just post the general idea of their lists since I cannot remember perfectly:

Aegis with Lascannon, Long Fangs (4x Missile, 1x Lascannon) with 5 Grey Hunters

Logan in Pod w/ 6 Long Fangs with CombiMelta, MultiMeltas

Termi Wolf Guard x5 on foot with XXX Combis and a Cyclone

Termi Wolf Guard x5 in pod with combi-plas and a Cyclone

PA Wolf Guard with combimelta and TDA/Cyclone Guy



How the game went: Vanguard, Relic (5 pts), Linebreaker (5 pts), Warlord (5 pts), NO FIRSTBLOOD

Sandra was my warlord (stupid Inq Codex nonsense!) and Coteaz as Scriers and Prescience. Sandra passer her Ld test to use the Liber Heresius to give me scout prior to the game start so I marched the 20 girl blob w/ Celestine, Preachers, Sandra, and Coteaz up the field. With all the drop podding melta, I held my two exorcists in reserve along with Marbo and the Vendetta, per rules. I seized thanks to Coteaz.

Turn One

Girls:
I marched my army towards a massive LOS blocking terrain piece that had the relic on a second level. By moving my all my vehicles hard (my) left, I was able to obscure my entire army from the long fangs and the five grey hunters on the Aegis gun. Through a gap in the large terrain piece, I lit up the five terminators on foot with all the boltguns and weapons from the Chimeras. They all died subsequently.

Wolves:
Logan came down with his melta buds behind my Immolater and two Chimeras. Combi-Plas TDA WG came down near my big girl squad. Drop pods were within "I've Been Expecting You" range and I killed one with Sandra, but the infantry were far enough away or hidden by vehicles and not damaged. Logans crew proceeded to blow up the CCS Chimera and merely stun my Immolator. The Combi-Plas TDA WG blew their load on vaping my ladies, taking out a handful. Three wounds made it to a preacher and she showed them that the true light of the Emperor was in my favor, making three 4++ saves.

No Points Yet.

Turn Two

Girls:
Scriers gaze is amazing, all of my units came in. Exorcists came on in view of the Long Fangs/Greys and the TDA WG on the table. Vendetta flew on behind the wrecked drop pod for cover and in view of the TDA WG. Marbo also came on next to the TDA WG. Kind of a blunder for me to stack on those guys, but hindsight. Wolves try to intercept the bird and fail to hit. The girls press towards the objectived and start making difficult terrain checks to go up hill. Vets pop out of chimera to shoot some long fangs and I position the chimera to open a window to shoot them, as well. Dakka proceeds with Marbo whiffing his democharge ( ) and the other three vehicles merely killing 4 out of 5 termis. However, my bolters, guided by the emperor, proceeded to vaporize all the long fangs except the Sgt and the Vets put two wounds on the grump chapter master.

Wolves:
Last pod of PA dudes comes in behind Exorcists. Logan splits off from the Long Fang to beat down some Guardsmen while the Long Fang nabs some cover from a nearby wall. Logan fails to shoot any guard, the Long Fang Sgt blows his combi load and does nothing to the Immolator, and the PA dudes pop off a few combi-melta and vape an Exorcist. The new "Lone Wolf" of the Combi-Plas TDA WG pops off a few bolter shots at Marbo, fails to wound. Now for melee hysterics: Logan charges Guardsmen... Two Meltas? To Wound rolls? Logan kills five guardsmen, they break, and fall back a whole 5". The now Lone Wolf (guard) charges Marbo. Marbo greets his new found friend with a poisoned 2+ blade to the face the armor save? Marbo is victorious and breaks off through the ruins.

Wolves: 5 pts (LB)

Turn Three

Girls:
Vendetta busts a hover using the massive terrain piece in the center as cover. Marbo starts his mad dash across midfield. Sisters Deathstar crawls to the top of terrain piece inching closer to the objective (I'm rolling 1" run rolls at this point). Girls get out of their Immolator and position to shoot the Long Fang or Logan. Veterans rally and close in on the wounded Chapter Master. St. Celestine breaks away from the deathstar to hunt some Wolf Guard. Exorcist drives out of melta range of the PA wolf guard and keeps FA towards Long Fangs. St. Celestine is able to cook two wolf guard and the missiles and lascannons suck and only kill 1 more. The CCS that also closed in on the Long Fang burnt him to a crisp while the Sisters turned the heat up on Logan, taking his last wound.

Wolves:
The PA Wolfguard now are a mission to hide. His remaining Long Fangs try to crack my two high threat vehicles, but fail to do damage or even force the flyer to jink. The remaining Wolf Guard pop some rounds off an murder St Celestine with their melta load... for now?

Girls: 5 Pts (Warlord)
Wolves: 5 Pts (LB)

To summarize the rest of the game quickly: Celestine come back and I vaporize the last three infantry boots in my deployment zone. Having to worry about the high threat targets, Marbo was able to run his little ass off into the enemy deployment zone behind some LOS blocking terrain. My deathstar makes it to the Relic and holds it. The drops pods are blown up and all that is left are the wolves hiding in their Aegis fox hole.

Girls: 15 Pts
Wolves: 0 Pts.


*** GAME TWO ***

Bugs:

*Two Dakka Flyrants

*2 Venomthropes

*30 Guants
*Tervigon

*Crone

*Exocrine
*Exorcine
*Mawloc

Game Mode: What the ? Some weird 4E game that played like 5E "Dawn of War" (two troops and an HQ on the table, everything else in reserve) Was super annoying and out of left field. Six objectives, 1 - 6, roll three dice and those are the three that are scoring. Objectives are placed faced down without knowing which one is which until an infantry unit touches it. A lot of my friends here weren't happy at this curveball of a mission. Grumbling aside:

Turn One

Girls:

I seized, yet again. Thanks, Broteaz! I had ignores cover (I used this wrong in this game, but all it did was kill one Venomthrope because of crap dice rolls.) and prescience. Sandra was my Warlord. We had 6" long edge deployment zones (yes, 6"...). I counter deployed in an opposite corner from his Dakka Flyrant (non warlord), Guants and Tervigon). My Guard Units were the ones deployed since they were more resilient (board right, he was board left, my perspective). My Exorcists roll on board left with the death star, while TL MM Immo rolls on with Guard. I run my girls, Exorcists try to kill flyrant only getting two wounds and my dudes on the right touch an objective and it's not scoring.

Bugs:

Everything comes on board center essentially. Tervigon poops a fat squad, no doubles. Most things run as they have no targets, touching an objective and it's scoring.

Turn Two

Girls:
Marbo in, Flyer out. Marbo deploys behind Venoms for some Demo action. Everything trundles forward towards objectives. Girls touch one, not scoring. I shoot everything at the wounded flyrant, killing it. I got one Venomthrope, but not both with Marbo/Exorcists. Boring turn.

Bugs:

Tervigon poops a squad, no doubles. Everything pushes farther forward. Exocrines try to kill some sisters, get a few. Crone tries to kill some, gets one. Second Dakka Flyrant (warlord) kill Celestine (S6, whatever). Mawloc didn't come in. Marbo eats it from termigaunts.

Turn Three

Girls:

I FAIL PRESCIENCE... not even Shadows. UGH. Sets the tone for this turn of movement, terrible snap shots, no flyer grounded, Deathstar moving forward (Celestine is back, btw) and was in position to charge big bad Warlord, but he passed 6 grounding checks. Piss poor dice rolls.

Bugs:

Lots of attempts on his part... no Mawloc still, piss poor shots, Tervigon poops a tiny squad, still no doubles. Kills 4 girls that got out their Immolator to shoot at the FMCs, last girl breaks. Pretty crappy turn for both...

Turn Four

Girls:

Things tick back up. Girls get a lucky long charge into guants (two squads) and are thankfully locked by just two guants. A lot more dakka hits the Flyrant, grounding him and killing him. Crone keeps it's life a bit longer. Last objectives are discovered, but there is nothing around to score them at this point except a few Vets...

Bugs:
... Which those vets get mulched by a Mawloc and break. The CCS Chimera gets stunned from Exocrines, so I cannot issue orders. Girls get assualted by another unit of guants, but manages to chew through them... and Hit N Run! At this point, my opponent is realizing how Turn Three would have been GG for him had I dropped his warlord bug. I would have been multiassaulting his entire army on the top of four and possibly wiping him. Rerolling everything in close combat has him worried.

Turn Five

Girls:

Exorcists still suck. Guard falling back, transports all but dead... But the Deathstar multi assaults all the remaining guants (including those with the objective) and tervigon. Celestine cuts down the Tervigon (was wounded from some exorcist shots and bolt pistols). All the guants are destroyed from being cut down not that they lack synapse.

Bugs:

Mawloc chews up the Chimera, Crone starts assaulting Exorcists, Exocrines try to kill girls, only getting a few...

AND THE GAME ENDS. Time was called when we both thought we had time to go on. The dice roll was a 3 to go on and my opponent agreed that I'd have the objective that turn, line breaker, and possible multiassaulting his Exocrines and Venomthropes. However I lose, 2 to 1, as he has linebreaker (worth 2 pts) and I only have Warlord. My girls were in his deployment zone, including three ICs, but the full unit must be in. Judge ruled that the ICs didn't count... so I lost. I took it in stride, my opponent was saying that I had "won," but that's life.


*** GAME THREE***

Nids, TAKE TWO!

*Swarmie w/ two Guard
*Dakka Flyrant

*30 Termiguants
*Tervigon
*Clutch of Hormagants (25?)

*Venomthrope
*3x Biovores

*Crone
*Crone

Game Type: Crusade, 3 Objectives in mine, 2 in his, Hammer and Anvil. I really should have just turtled to win, but that's no fun! I scouted up on the edge closest to me,

Turn One

Bugs:

Bugs, again. I'm having problems, but it's because of garbage dice rolls. I'm not really afraid of them because I know their weaknesses. However, a lucky dice roll gets my opponent Paroxysm... I get Forewarning (4++ save) and Prescience. I fail my seize, poop. The bugs advance, Tervigon getting a unit of 7 and pooping out turn one. Hormogants run instead of charging, the flying bugs swoop towards me, but fail to damage any of my vehicles. The biovores kill a few girls. Paroxysm was cast at my sisters, and I fail my deny. WS1... theme of the game here.

Girls:

Buffed the squad up to hell and back. Dakka drops the crone closest to the deathstar. Dakka then drops and kills the flyrant. Dakka wounds the last crone, but not dropped. Deathstar charges crone and Hormaguants. I kill the Crone quickly and mulch gants. They kill none. Locked

Turn Two


Bugs:

Paroxysm, not denied, WS1. FUN! Swarmlord moves to engage the deathstar, Crone cracks the Vets Chimera, Biovores flatten them. Swarmlord joins the fray... I kill more gants, a girl maybe dies, Sgt tanks the swarmlord, but dies. I go to Hit N Run...

*sigh*

Girls:

Marbo comes to the fight, lands behind the Biovores. Vendetta flies on to shoot at Biovores just in case. I shoot my Exorcists at the Tervigon, putting maybe a wound on it. Marbo kills the biovores. Vendetta snipes 3 guants (woo!). Combat goes on... first mistake I put Celestine into CC with the Swarmy... dumb me! She gets flattened, but I kill more gants, a sister or two dies.

Turn Three


Nids:

Paroxysm, no DTW, WS1. Tervigon goes to join the big fight. Crone comes in to shoot the Vendetta. Guants kill Marbo (poor guy...), Crone damages my Vendetta (1 HP gone, snapshots), Tervigon joins the fray. ... Wound it again in CC, fails my Force weapon, Priest Tanks swarm lord with multiple 4++ saves (lol), gants almost gone at this point, Tyrant Guard are a pain.

Girls:

Flyer goes off the table. Tanks position to shoot. Celestine is back. Broteaz fails his Force Weapon again (I can get my powers off, but my hammer?... sigh). Gants almost dead, Tyrant Guard Wound, Priest wounds the Swarmlord, tanks more 4++ saves. This WS1 is pissing me off... BUT HIT N RUN, RIGHT?


Turn Four


Nids:

Paroxysm, no DTW, WS1. Guants chillin' on his objective. Crone goes girl hunting, but fails to hurt them. Little Priest that could is fighting swarmy like a boss. Tervigon is failing to kill anything and I fail to wound it this time (cool, Coteaz...) Gants are dead now. Tyrant Guard still kickin'.

Girls:

Flyer is back! Shoots Crone... takes a wound and doesn't fall. *sigh*. All other shooting does nothing. Priest finally squished, Tervigon still good, I'm down about 10 girls now, 1 Priest... This is a pathetic slapfight at this point as the Swarmlord eats my last priest.

Turn Five


Nids:

Crone eats some girls with Vector Strikes. CC continues as Coteaz goes to fight him. Both fail to wound, Tervigon fine, Tyrant Guard fine (man these whiffs...) Hit N Run is good, going towards back field.

Girls:

I fail to kill the small guant squad in CC. Celestine broke off for Line Breaker. I can't kill the damn Crone. The Tervigon gets gatted so it doesn't score and objective.

Game ends with the Crone contesting my back objective, Nids player has one objective, Line Breaker. I only have Linebreaker. Nids opponent admits that Paroxysm saved him, otherwise I'd have murdered him quickly. Putting in Celestine was a bad move on my part, or maybe I should have turtled, but that's not fun as I like being more aggressive.

**SUMMARY**

All three opponents were shocked I was playing "Witchhunters" (SoB + IG + Inq.). A lot of folks were happy I showed up with a rarely seen army and had made a Deathstar out of it somehow. While the Wolf player never saw it in action, I told him all the special rules I had and he just said "No, Thanks" in a less PC way. Both Nids players agreed the dice weren't in my favor as I could have easily trounced through both armies. My inability to deny the witch 5 times in a row has me considering a Null Rod Inquisitor and applying him, but I feel like Coteaz does so much more me, that I can't drop him. I didn't write it in the reports, but the Split Fire from Liber Heresius was useful whenever I had the chance to use it. I think the unit needs more than 2 priests as it's clutch, but I can't really cut more...

Regardless, if I get there, this star hurts. I can't kill Draigowing unless I roll some lucky 2+ armor saves and get Forewarning, but regular armies will have a hard time handling it. I've now seen how good rerollable 2+ armor is, by the way, with three characters in there that have it. Even 3+ or 4++ rerolls are massive. Think about it, I locked the Swarmlord in close combat for nearly 4 GAME turns.

Next week is 1850 in an anything goes tournament with Escalation and Stronghold allowed. I dunno what I can add outside of some Melta Doms and another Exorcist and hope I don't meet a Rev Titan, or that's GG.

Feedback welcome!

 BlackTalos wrote:

Guys! i've finally found the original website for ordering amazing "Sci-fi female warriors" =P

Here is the link to the website. I'm guessing their orders are now going to skyrocket tenfold!

Looking forward to getting these

Wow some of those models look really awesome, and yeah totally made from the ground up to be AS! Sadly the company looks like it might be Russian, not sure didn't look deep enough but I swear I saw some Russian writing in there. And of course not enough models to make a full army of them especially at 10$ a pop. Great for the odd SI sister or Canonness.

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:

 BlackTalos wrote:

Guys! i've finally found the original website for ordering amazing "Sci-fi female warriors" =P

Here is the link to the website. I'm guessing their orders are now going to skyrocket tenfold!

Looking forward to getting these

Wow some of those models look really awesome, and yeah totally made from the ground up to be AS! Sadly the company looks like it might be Russian, not sure didn't look deep enough but I swear I saw some Russian writing in there. And of course not enough models to make a full army of them especially at 10$ a pop. Great for the odd SI sister or Canonness.

It's Ukrainian and looks like you can pay by Paypal. As you say it might be good for the odd figure but no replacement yet.

Not that I think for one minute that the metal Sisters are going anywhere for a while.

Anyone notice that our thread title got a Re: at the front?