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 deviantduck wrote:
has anyone found any third party heads that doesn't look like garbage? I'm getting sick of throwing the immolator gunner head on every model.

These ones have a following:
http://statuesqueminiatures.mobile034.com/p/8774376/sma012-heroic-scale-female-heads.html

For someone who might get back into Sisters of Battle, what are the must include units and which ones are the 'meh' units?

Each person is going to have their own list of must haves, of course. Here are mine.

4 Melta Doms in a Retributor or
2 Melta/2 Flamer Doms in an TL-Melta Immolator
Melta/Flamer BSS in Rhino
Exorcists
5 Condemnor Boltgun Command Squad + Priest in a rhino

Those are pretty standard and for a reason.

Alternate ones that are less common:
20 BSS with F/HF (For Blob)
5 Rets with 4 HF in Repressor
5-8 Rets with 4 HB in Bunker/Bastion
F/F BSS in TL-Melta Immo

I do like Heavy Bolters.

 Whitebeard wrote:
For someone who might get back into Sisters of Battle, what are the must include units and which ones are the 'meh' units?

Dominions and exorcists top the list of musts, for me.

Anything that leverages our ability to take 2 special or a heavy and special weapon in a 5 person squad is great. That is why you see a lot of MSU.

Repressors for everyone!

No repressing the repressors!

Its kind of Repressing how often I hear that,.

There was a painted army on eBay I wanted to bid on. It was beautiful. The price kept rising till it hit absurd levels. I wanted to cry. Did anyone else see it? It ended last night.

edit: Here it is:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Warhammer-40000-Sisters-of-Battle-Army-Painted-/272535364579?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=WAKGO%252BNl3Nz3B3EnLIwHmBPSGzA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

Yes, I saw it. That army is pretty much the template of what I want to do. 2 Exorcists, 3 Immolators and 2 Repressors (I'll probably change that just rhinos...) but yeah... a very pretty army.
Sisters prices have jumped quite a bit on ebay after the release of Fall of Cadia. Metal Sister Superiors have tripled in asking price from $8 to $24.

I am going to wait till plastic sisters hit. Then hopefully the prices on the metals drop and I can get a SoB army for a decent price. I don't really need the new models. I love the old metals just fine. I just can't handle the price.

I don't think I have ever regretted anything in this hobby more than getting rid of my sisters army (back in 4th).

I hear what you say, Whitebeard. I've held onto everything that I've actually painted.
I bought my first 30 Sisters off ebay and averaged $6 a piece last fall. Pretty proud of that. Sure, I have some special weapons that I don't intend to use, but who doesn't. I could use a few Superiors with combi-weapons... but I don't want to convert the metals. That is one thing that I really hope to see in the near future.
Other than that, I'm missing the vehicles (Which are at least available again from GW)... Will be getting those in the near future.
Until then I'm playing a lot of Kill-team and on Vassel.

So after looking at the repressors in that ebay army linked above I'll bring up these questions:

1) Are the most current rules for the repressor found in Imperial armor Vol.2 2nd Ed.?

2) Is this the set of rules that give the repressor 2 fire points, front armor 13?

3) Since there's no repressor model currently available to buy, if I'm modelling for WYSIWYG, should I therefor be modelling only 2 fire points instead of the previous model's 6?

4) Do we know if the 2 fire points are supposed to face a certain direction or are they a top hatch functionality with 360 degree aiming freedom?

This was my first Sisters purchase back in 99 or so.



I have kept pretty much everything since then. The exceptions are, I sold some unpainted repentia to a buddy for a conversion since I never use them (regret) and I sold all my 2nd edition rhinos/immolators/exorcist conversions when I finally got enough new rhinos/immos/exos to replace them (no regrets)

They're also my most painted army, percentage wise. I have about 10 blisters unopened and maybe 10-20 primed sisters. The rest are all painted and ready to rock.

dakkasisterxoxo wrote:
So after looking at the repressors in that ebay army linked above I'll bring up these questions:

1) Are the most current rules for the repressor found in Imperial armor Vol.2 2nd Ed.?

Yes.

2) Is this the set of rules that give the repressor 2 fire points, front armor 13?

Yes. That is my understanding.

3) Since there's no repressor model currently available to buy, if I'm modelling for WYSIWYG, should I therefor be modelling only 2 fire points instead of the previous model's 6?

Yes. That is how I would do it. To go along with the Pipe organ exorcists, I'm imagining something like a choir stall that is seen in some gothic churches. I believe that Drakpanzer's repressors are some of the nicest that I've ever seen.

4) Do we know if the 2 fire points are supposed to face a certain direction or are they a top hatch functionality with 360 degree aiming freedom?

Great question, and something that I hadn't though about. We don't. The Repressor from Forgeworld had sort of gun slits along a top of the troop transport area.

It's actually:
'Two models fan fire from the Repressors' top hatch. In addition, there are three firing ports on each side of the troop compartment, each of which may be fired out of by a single passenger."

 pretre wrote:
It's actually:
'Two models fan fire from the Repressors' top hatch. In addition, there are three firing ports on each side of the troop compartment, each of which may be fired out of by a single passenger."

And this quote is from Imperial Armor Vol.2 2nd Ed.? This makes more sense to me because I didn't think they'd write rules that completely contradict the current physical model with the 3 ports on each side.

Does anyone by any chance have the actual Imperial Armor Vol.2 2nd Ed. that they can post a picture from? The only picture I could find floating around did not include the above quote and just states Fire Points: 2.

dakkasisterxoxo wrote:

 pretre wrote:
It's actually:
'Two models fan fire from the Repressors' top hatch. In addition, there are three firing ports on each side of the troop compartment, each of which may be fired out of by a single passenger."

And this quote is from Imperial Armor Vol.2 2nd Ed.? This makes more sense to me because I didn't think they'd write rules that completely contradict the current physical model with the 3 ports on each side.

Does anyone by any chance have the actual Imperial Armor Vol.2 2nd Ed. that they can post a picture from? The only picture I could find floating around did not include the above quote and just states Fire Points: 2.

Yeah you'd think that but then the immolator went at least 1 whole edition without a fire point that's clearly modeled on the tank.

Btw, with that change immo>rhino unless you literally only have 40 points left.

dakkasisterxoxo wrote:

 pretre wrote:
It's actually:
'Two models fan fire from the Repressors' top hatch. In addition, there are three firing ports on each side of the troop compartment, each of which may be fired out of by a single passenger."

And this quote is from Imperial Armor Vol.2 2nd Ed.? This makes more sense to me because I didn't think they'd write rules that completely contradict the current physical model with the 3 ports on each side.

Does anyone by any chance have the actual Imperial Armor Vol.2 2nd Ed. that they can post a picture from? The only picture I could find floating around did not include the above quote and just states Fire Points: 2.

See attached.

Not cheap, but pretty good.

Thank you pretre!!

Repressor is awesome.

The only thing it's missing is an option to sacrifice the firing points to replace it with an assault ramp and you'd have a reason to take it for repentias.

 Anpu-adom wrote:
Sure, I have some special weapons that I don't intend to use, but who doesn't.

I actually don't have a single special weapon that doesn't have a dedicated place in rounding off a unit... yet.

Also, don't convert. My younger self tried converting some grenade sisters' bolters into combi-weapons (the only models I have that don't have an inconvenient hand in the way). They look... very mediocre. Not worth it.

The best models for conversion is the heavy weapon sister (since she has no hands) and the Superior with the extended bolter.

New 1850 points list:

Castellans of the imperium

Celestine
Coteaz
Verydian

Command squad - Hospitalier, Multimelta x 4

Battle sisters x 5 - Meltagun x 2, Immolator MM
Battle sisters x 5 - Meltagun x 2, Immolator MM
Battle sisters x 5 - Meltagun x 2, Immolator MM

Infantry Platoon
Platoon command squads - Lascannon Heavy Weapons team, Chimaera
Infantry Squad - Lascannon
Infantry Squad - Lascannon

Dominions x 5 - Meltaguns x 4, Repressor
Dominions x 5 - Meltaguns x 4, Repressor

Wyvern
Wyvern

Daemonhunter Detachment:

Interceptors x 5 - Halberds x 3, Incinerators, Daemonhammer on Justicar

Inquisitorial Detachment:

Inquisitor with 2 servo skulls


Lots of Ob Sec. Lots of anti tank and decent infantry killers as well. Tough nut to crack in Celestine + Interceptors. Veridyan is with the command squad, along Coteaz. Its a nice precision short I've been expecting you combo that I can sit close to the wyvern to prevent drop pods in the back field.

Wondering if I should replace the AM infantries for Militarum Scions at this point. I like how they can bubble wrap and if Coteaz isnt two far, I could merge them and have two twin linked lascannons, but I am on the fence about that part.

Suggestions?

Superiors in the Dom squads can't take a melta gun, right? They'd need to go combi-melta I think.
I'd keep the Infantry... maybe go veterans instead.

Yup. Typo there, Dominions definately cannot take 5 meltaguns and I wouldnt have the points for combi-meltas without making changes elsewhere.


I considered Veterans, but I had to ask myself "What do they do that sisters cannot do better?"

basically carry 1 more special weapon, but they are much more fragile if I send them up midfield with the sisters. They can also end up being more expensive than sisters if I buy 3 specials weapons and a chimaera for them.

If I decide to keep them backfield to bubble wrap the tanks, I cannot combine both squads to benefit from a single Prescience.

I am not sold on them personally. I might be missing something however.

Combi meltas on Dominions is advisable. You want absolute certsainty when they go off in my opinion. Just 5 dice leaves a lot of room for error. 4 dice more so. it is, after all, a dice game.