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Hey all, just a quick update:

- It seems numbers are looking very good on Social Media (mainly Facebook) and on multiple other Forums. This Includes international Forums (more than US+UK)

- Most who have agreed are now just waiting for the Date and a reminder closer to the time. I would ask all of them to now at least get 1 friend or acquaintance to either help out or transmit the info
We need to spread this as far as we can. Not coercing those not interested, but making sure everyone has heard of it and is participating if they want to.

- GW have emailed back for my "letting them know" email:

If people wish to make a large order for a model at a certain time, the website/webstore will be able to handle it without issue.
If any of the items go out of stock, we will ensure all customer orders are fulfilled as quickly as possible.

-It has been suggested that we all post up pics of the painted model(s) being purchased, to send to White Dwarf, both in support of the cause and for them to have a massive repository of Sisters of Battles pictures. That or post them here. No need for skill painting

And finally, i have updated the Picture if you don't feel like typing anything, just post up the pic:

I'll probably join in for this. The last model I need is Uriah Jacobus for my army and I was thinking of ordering one soon. So I will time my purchase for this event.

I'll do it. I could use it as an RPG character or something.

Hey all,

The 4th of march is coming up.
8am PST
10am CST
11am EST for the US
4pm GMT in the UK
5pm CET for most of Europe

Now's the time to tell that friend who hasn't heard of it

Ouch. That is on a school day for me, gonna be hard to fit this in.

 Stormwall wrote:
Ouch. That is on a school day for me, gonna be hard to fit this in.

Depends where in the US you are, but either just before school or during lunch break?

Also, that is the time to aim for. 1-2h before or after will still help. Especially with attached email:

To whom it may concern,

I am contacting you in regards to my recent order of an Adepta Sororitas model.

First of all, I do apologise for the high amount of administration work this has probably caused. Secondly, I do not expect a delivery of the model if the stocks have been emptied as a result, but would greatly appreciate a refund if this is the case and if it is within your means.

Lastly I would explain the reason for this purchase: I am an earnest collector of Adepta Sororitas models, and have been waiting for an update to this Faction for some time now. This purchase shows my interest in this range of models, and shows that an Update, or simply more attention to this Faction would bring me great joy.

Yours faithfully
A Sisters of Battle player.

Your optimism is admirable, but I would recommend you be temper it with pragmatism. Remember this is GW you're talking about. They do not listen to customers, and they do weird and infuriating things. They make utterly mystifying decisions when it comes to the most popular and heavily promoted products, let alone a range that they already (for no good reason) treat like an embarrassment. The Sisters have loyal and supportive fans, but they have canned whole games that still had loyal and supportive fans.

It's worth a try; at least you're actually going out and doing something. But please, don't be too surprised or disappointed if they take no notice.

Anyway, good luck.

Posted to our local forums.

Nobody in my local group is willing to join me in this, and I'm not prepared to pay for shipping another time the cost of the model... Might see if I can order something though my local store though.

Looks like the local GW store is pretty far away too Eindhoven.


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I'm ordering mine to the GW store in Portland, to skip shipping.

 pretre wrote:
Looks like the local GW store is pretty far away too Eindhoven.

If only we'd have done this a few months later, I'd be living there...

Wouldn't it be cool if every Sister of Battle sold out. 26 hours to go.

I feel like the middle paragraph of that letter is too apologetic and really quite unnecessary. We don't need to apologize for trying to purchase models for our armies. The latter half is just how businesses are expected to work.

 Zefig wrote:
I feel like the middle paragraph of that letter is too apologetic and really quite unnecessary. We don't need to apologize for trying to purchase models for our armies. The latter half is just how businesses are expected to work.

I think it's a perfectly polite email that gets the point across, as being overly aggressive gets you nowhere. Then again, I am a Canadian and we have a reputation for being apologetic, or so late night American talk show hosts seem to think

Not that I think any of this matters, but hey, why not. I'd like to sistahs!

I'm not saying we need to be aggressive, we don't need to add anything, but I think that the second paragraph is unnecessary and kind of dilutes the message. We're here to support the sisters and we don't need to apologize for that.

I'll get myself in on this not because i particularly think it will have instant results or any at all it's just fun. Adepta Sororitas are an army i started getting into just before i stopped playing 40k originally and now they are impossible to start over with because a lot of models are going out of print and what is left over is expensive and difficult to build an army with that has any sort of variety. It really does boggle the mind more than anything else GW have ever done why they don't want to do a new release of Adepta Sororitas stuff. With the new focus on selling campaign packs it'd be the perfect time to do it if they had them in one with new plastic figures along with some supporting plastic troops boxes and a special character in the campaign box it would sell out so fast they would be laughing all the way to the bank. How about a fancy new resin Saint Celestine? They could make her look as glorious and divine as she should now. Even if people don't particularly want it they would want to buy them because they would look cool and different to anything else. A new proper Codex in print would sell too. They are one of the most fluffy armies in the game and a representation of what makes the game and it's lore interesting.

But apparently somewhere down the line GW decided they don't like quick and easy money.

 Zefig wrote:
I'm not saying we need to be aggressive, we don't need to add anything, but I think that the second paragraph is unnecessary and kind of dilutes the message. We're here to support the sisters and we don't need to apologize for that.

Yeah, apologizing for making someone read an email is entirely counterproductive. If they are actually going through the effort of reading it, an apology at that point is meaningless, and it says that your topic is so trivial as to actually be a waste of time. This isn't a waste of time- you are trying to tell GW in definitive terms you are interested in purchasing a Sisters of Battle army, and the purchase you (and many others) have made today is in solidarity of this goal. Of course that doesn't mean you have to be aggressive, just forward and up-front about why you are writing them, and that's that.

I'd love to see Sisters get re-done, they're Crusader-Space-Nun thing has always been some of my favorite stuff, ranking up there with the Inquisition. That being said, GW will make Sisters whenever it is they feel like it, and I don't think any concerted effort to draw their attention to this will have much of an effect. We're hearing rumors of Adeptus Mechanicus being made (a force GW obviously thinks would do better than Sisters) and I believe a couple of other pined-for factions are given hints of possibility as well.

GW has just become very risk adverse, and re-doing any number of kits from the Sisters of Battle range is something they seem to think is rather risky. Most of the recent releases have been 1-2 new kits and a couple of characters- heck, the Harlequin release is one troop, one vehicle, and some characters. Sisters would theoretically require more than this to have a proper reintroduction, and I don't think GW wants to half-ass their release (well, any more than the last e-pub book!)...only releasing a couple of plastic kits and leaving the rest as resin would risk third party groups coming into fill those kits, and we can't have that.

I'm ready.

And to all the naysayers: ploys like this have worked for companies in the past, even ones stingier than GW.

Companies run like politics, but instead of voting with a vote at a booth, you vote with money at a register. We are all voting for GW to update Sisters, and votes with money go a long way to businesses.

I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of the metal models of Sisters sell out tomorrow. I think this will send just the right message to GW.

 BlackTalos wrote:

 Stormwall wrote:
Ouch. That is on a school day for me, gonna be hard to fit this in.

Depends where in the US you are, but either just before school or during lunch break?

Also, that is the time to aim for. 1-2h before or after will still help. Especially with attached email:

To whom it may concern,

I am contacting you in regards to my recent order of an Adepta Sororitas model.

First of all, I do apologise for the high amount of administration work this has probably caused. Secondly, I do not expect a delivery of the model if the stocks have been emptied as a result, but would greatly appreciate a refund if this is the case and if it is within your means.

Lastly I would explain the reason for this purchase: I am an earnest collector of Adepta Sororitas models, and have been waiting for an update to this Faction for some time now. This purchase shows my interest in this range of models, and shows that an Update, or simply more attention to this Faction would bring me great joy.

Yours faithfully
A Sisters of Battle player.

Well by school I meant College... It starts at 10, ends at 3. I will squeeze this in before I go back to learning about old Freud.

It's a British company, so that kind of apologetic line is pretty much just part of the format. If you don't want to include it in your letter, then cut it out - not every letter that goes in will be identical.

drbored wrote:
I'm ready.

And to all the naysayers: ploys like this have worked for companies in the past, even ones stingier than GW.

Companies run like politics, but instead of voting with a vote at a booth, you vote with money at a register. We are all voting for GW to update Sisters, and votes with money go a long way to businesses.

I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of the metal models of Sisters sell out tomorrow. I think this will send just the right message to GW.

I agree I think this is a good way to show that we are many still interested in Sisters of Battle. I wouldn't normally buy a old figure of SoB, but I will try to do that today.

Also send them a mail I think that will make a stronger impact.

I've order 2 with a Melta gun, on two separate orders. Lol

You could also sign this https://www.change.org/p/games-workshop-reboot-the-sisters-of-battle-adepta-sororitas-army-models-in-plastic

Yeah, it seems that stocks for everything are running out. Pledge what you can / if you can =)

I'd say great success, but i have no idea if they only had stock of 2 models or 250....

Fingers crossed on some success from this thing!

Ordered a model but I couldn't figure out where to paste the message.

So is it now or in one hour? I got confused.

 MrFlutterPie wrote:
Ordered a model but I couldn't figure out where to paste the message.

I had in mind emailing customer support in conjunction with order.

But the "out of stock + refund" is irrelevant now as the out of stock message is automatic (All order will go through)

All the minis I need were sold out shortly after midnight...

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
So is it now or in one hour? I got confused.

1H to go, but models to buy are slowly running out lol


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 Zefig wrote:
All the minis I need were sold out shortly after midnight...

Yeah, same issue for me. I will make sure i place an order though, even if it ends up being just the Vet Sister

So no more melta available, apparently. Will go for this instead, I guess, then, I still do not have it yet!
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-SE/Sisters-of-Battle-Superior-with-Power-Sword-and-Bolter