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 Hoitash wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Hoitash wrote:

 pretre wrote:
This is why Celestine is good with Jacobus for the blob.

You tie up a Prince in CC. Then you H&R out, shoot him, tie one or more up again, rinse repeat.

Exorcists can be hit and miss, but in general they do a good job.

It sounds more like you need to practice the list though rather than just change for your opponent. The best way to learn and get better is to practice with one list until you know it back and forth.

True. Although if I bring Celestine I lose the 5+ invul, and that came in really handy during the fight.

You can still make Jacobus your warlord if you have Celestine.

I really don't like that new rule so I pretend it doesn't exist, and I am prepared to suffer for it.

I'm confused by this. Jacobus and Celestine are both HQ's. So it isn't as if you're pulling any shenanigans by making one or the other the Warlord. Am I missing a page here?

In the previous edition the HQ with the highest Leadership became your Warlord. Now you can pick. I think that's dumb, so I don't bother.

Well Jacobus should also have leadership 10... he's the fearless ultra hobo priest giving 5++ because he is that crazy in love with the big E. And didn't he used to have Ld 10 in the WD dex?

Yeah, there's no reason to hobble yourself when you're already playing sisters.

 Hoitash wrote:
In the previous edition the HQ with the highest Leadership became your Warlord. Now you can pick. I think that's dumb, so I don't bother.

I guess? But there's even a funny book about a Commissar that is anything but the bravest. So I mean... there's fluff to back it up!

I respect the hell out of your fluffy thinking, but it is such a small issue and the codex DOES default to him a Warlord trait for a reason. Clearly the codex is giving him explicit permission to be one!

Further, St. Celestine was described previously as kind of a "answer to their prayers" kind of a thing, kind of like how the Sanguinor is. So there's the fluff there also...

Fair enough on all counts, although just Celestine would feel weird. Maybe drop the exo's for her and a squad of seraphim with hand flamers? If I don't deep strike they should get a chance to burninate something.

HQ/Warlord:

Uriah “Hobo Jac” Jacobus -100 points
St Celestine - 135
Priest with Litanies of Faith -45 points
Priest with Power Maul - 40

Troops:

19 Sisters of Battles with one Heavy Flamer, one Simulacrum Imperialis, -248 points
4 Sisters of Battles with one Heavy Flamer, one meltagun - 80 points
Dedicated Transport-Immolator with Twin-Linked Multi-Melta -60 points

Heavy Support:
Exorcist -125 points
Exorcist -125 points
6 Retributors with Heavy Bolters, Simulacrum-102 points

Lord of War: Cerastus Knight Acheron -415 points

 Hoitash wrote:
Fair enough on all counts, although just Celestine would feel weird. Maybe drop the exo's for her and a squad of seraphim with hand flamers? If I don't deep strike they should get a chance to burninate something.

Well they are angels, like her. So they could alight down with her. I dont play with Exorcists that often (they can impress but... in the end...) so dropping one for almost any reasons seems fine to me. I love the look of them and they make great centerpieces but...

That is what I would do with your basic list.

Personally, I would rather get Doms in there, but ymmv.

Games Workshop have officially released new Sisters of Battle content!




Hey, a Painting Guide is better than nothing?

That's actually a good sign. They usually do painting guides shortly before a release.

PanzerLeader wrote:
That's actually a good sign. They usually do painting guides shortly before a release.

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There's some for all sorts of factions right now.

 pretre wrote:

PanzerLeader wrote:
That's actually a good sign. They usually do painting guides shortly before a release.

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There's some for all sorts of factions right now.

True. But in the last two books alone they've released Raven Guard, White Scars, Tau, Assassins and AM. Forgeworld added some Eldar madness too. Chaos is getting a splash campaign over advent with rumors for a full release in early 2016. I'm trying to be optimistic that including Sisters in such mundane things shows that they'll try to keep the line alive at least as a small, idea for allied detachment faction.

PanzerLeader wrote:
That's actually a good sign. They usually do painting guides shortly before a release.

Its something

At least they said lots of people have asked how to paint them and actually bothered to paint the Sister!

I wonder if this is all part of the lead up to a release GW has been teasing us in plain sight.

First we get some new artwork and a big mention in the fluff of the shield your baals campaign.

Then the Immo becomes "no longer available"

And now we get a painting video.

Maybe they are just right around the corner and our time of reckoning is near.


Or sister players are so desperate that we are happy for any scrap thrown our way no matter how small.

At the very least it shows that GW isn't actively trying to ignore the Sisters and distance themselves from their existence. It would seem by doing this they are at least willing to acknowledge that they are still an army within the universe and they aren't trying to let them slip into obscurity.

Either that or they know how badly we want any sort of attention and they derive some sick pleasure out of watching us squirm for even the slightest crumb that they will be giving us a proper release. Knowing GW this is likely the case,


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Lol flutterpie you posted as I was typing, it seems we share a mind on the "gw throwing us a scrap cause they know we just eat it up like starving street children"

such cynicism!

I've been waiting for a decade, it takes more than a video to get me excited.

I had a hilarious thing to say and then thought: damn. Even i dare not say it here. Inappropriate but hilarious.

 Jancoran wrote:
I had a hilarious thing to say and then thought: damn. Even i dare not say it here. Inappropriate but hilarious.

This was good enough to get me there.

That video would have been fething hilarious if the model he used would have been a new, multipart plastic Sister. Brix would have been shat.

 the_Armyman wrote:
That video would have been fething hilarious if the model he used would have been a new, multipart plastic Sister. Brix would have been shat.

That would have been the most amazing under the radar sneak peak "announcement" they could have done. As it is a kept watching the video diligently to see if I could spot the way he was holding it and judge how much it weighed. My thinking was that if it looked really light then maybe it was a plastic cast of the existing seraphim model which still would have been enough to get me excited.

So the immolater is now removed from their website

Oberron wrote:
So the immolater is now removed from their website

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Been gone for a couple of weeks at least.

I am both nervous and excited by this news at the same time. Sadly I feel the immo kit is still an amazing kit as is and if they were to re-release I would hope that it could have been one of the kits that stayed the same.

What do you guys think the removal of the immo kit means? If it means anything at all of course.

If this means a potential update of the Sister's line I may have to set my Eldar aside for a while and buy some Sisters

 Inevitable_Faith wrote:
I am both nervous and excited by this news at the same time. Sadly I feel the immo kit is still an amazing kit as is and if they were to re-release I would hope that it could have been one of the kits that stayed the same.

Why would they re-release it? It's just an upgrade sprue to the current Rhino chassis. They have chosen to let it go OOP.

What do you guys think the removal of the immo kit means? If it means anything at all of course.

My guess, and this is only a guess, is that the last time they shot a run of Immo sprues, they fully believed that some of the metal models would have gone OOP by now. The fact that the Immo is gone first seems to be an awkward situation and a rather obvious indication of their intentions for the line.

Unlikely that they would have destroyed the master for it.

 pretre wrote:
Unlikely that they would have destroyed the master for it.

I'm sure they haven't. However, a modern manufacturing company usually has a pretty sophisticated stock managment system that let's them schedule potential issues when it comes to stock shortfalls. A plastic box gets a low inventory flag, they work it into the production schedule before it goes missing from the "shelves."

However, production schedules also take into account the profitability of a run, and if they can make more money producing y-product rather than z-product (taking into account z-product is for a line of metal minis with no physical codex), I can totally see why the Immolator was allowed to go OOP.

Again, it's speculation but well within the realm of possibility. We'll know when the first metal mini for the SoB goes OOP. That will be the deathknell.

 the_Armyman wrote:
. We'll know when the first metal mini for the SoB goes OOP. That will be the deathknell.

Multiple metal minis for SOB have gone out of print. Several each year.