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Im just going to be sad i will have to pay like 400$ to replace just 60 metal BSS's......

 Amishprn86 wrote:
Im just going to be sad i will have to pay like 400$ to replace just 60 metal BSS's......

60 metal BSS? Currently that's 480 bucks. If they're converted to plastic and are 60 bucks a squad, it'll be 360. Savings of 120 dollars. I'll take that.

Also, nobody is saying you have to replace your metal models. In typical GW fashion, you'll be able to use them just fine.

drbored wrote:

 Amishprn86 wrote:
Im just going to be sad i will have to pay like 400$ to replace just 60 metal BSS's......

60 metal BSS? Currently that's 480 bucks. If they're converted to plastic and are 60 bucks a squad, it'll be 360. Savings of 120 dollars. I'll take that.

Also, nobody is saying you have to replace your metal models. In typical GW fashion, you'll be able to use them just fine.

I know i dont have to...... but come on, its plastic sob why wouldnt you

PS thats not counting the 40+ other special/heavy weapons, superiors, seraphim's, P-engine, repentia's, imagifiers, Canoness's etc.. etc...

The plastic kits, if recent kits are going to be anything to go by, will have a lot more to them than our current kits, to begin with. Probably will have a choice of heavy and special weapons in our standard infantry box, for example, not just one single unposable model dictated to you by the sales department.

 Melissia wrote:
The plastic kits, if recent kits are going to be anything to go by, will have a lot more to them than our current kits, to begin with. Probably will have a choice of heavy and special weapons in our standard infantry box, for example, not just one single unposable model dictated to you by the sales department.

I assumed it be like a 10man Tac squad type of box. 1 Superior, 1 of each special weapon and 1 of each 2 heavy weapons.

Which is still massively better than what we currently have, and it'll probably be cheaper and have more bits, as well.

 Melissia wrote:
Which is still massively better than what we currently have, and it'll probably be cheaper and have more bits, as well.

Wasn't saying its bad, it would be great, just saying what i think it would be, and since i want all plastic, i'll need like 10 boxes lol.

 Galas wrote:
I can't find it, but some guys in 4chan draw her without the armour and superimposed both images, saying that unlike Sister of SIlence and their wasp waist, Celestine and their Geminae where very muscular/fat, because their waist was much broader.
It was pretty hilarous, when people said that it was BS to do that kind of thing only with a female model they called people on Dakkadakka white knights and SJW, saying that they where just discussing the change of aesthetics of GW direction with female models!
Probably in the news and rumours thread about Gathering Storm I one could find it.

They actually look like women wearing armour as opposed to a lot of other armoured female miniatures where the external silhouette of the armour is that of a naked woman. (so presumably they are emaciated inside there)

My hope is that we have plenty of helmeted options for the squads. I understand a big appeal of the Sisters is their female heads, but I really like the Sabbat pattern helmets.

drbored wrote:
My hope is that we have plenty of helmeted options for the squads. I understand a big appeal of the Sisters is their female heads, but I really like the Sabbat pattern helmets.

And I hope that we have the option to have no helmets.

I don't like face-covering helmets or gas masks in general, and wish in general that kits came with more unique helmetless head options.


While I can't deny that the Sabbat helm looks better than the scowly Space Marine helm, it still obscures the face.

drbored wrote:
My hope is that we have plenty of helmeted options for the squads. I understand a big appeal of the Sisters is their female heads, but I really like the Sabbat pattern helmets.

Yes, please. Sisters of Battle helmets are one of the cooler helmets in all of 40k. I have been looking in Ebay for three to put into my Saint Celestine and her geminaes, but I haven't found a pack of three or at least 1 with a reasonable price... I hope they go the primaris route. Options to have a full bare-head squad or a full helmeted squad like Reavers.
Just look at the Intercessor multipart box

There are a total of 36 different heads available in this kit, covering helmeted and bare options.

Imaginate all those heads in a Sisters of Battle box of 10 basic infantry

We are currently engaged in some intense chicken-counting here, people.

But...

drbored wrote:I'm really hoping that they expand upon Battle Sisters instead of lumping the Sororitas in with the 'Ministorum' and add a bunch of priests and other non-Sororitas things. It'll make the 'Order' rules very clunky when half your Codex isn't technically Sororitas.

Since the Ecclesiarchy is still technically forbidden to have 'men under arms' I think the risk of that is relatively low. If anything it might allow for a 'concerned citizens' unit that might serve as cheap, cultist-style infantry and give you an angle to include redemptionists from the new necromunda in a regular 40k army. Beyond that, I think their relationship is such that a proper codex would require the option to take Ministorum units.

Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:

drbored wrote:
My hope is that we have plenty of helmeted options for the squads. I understand a big appeal of the Sisters is their female heads, but I really like the Sabbat pattern helmets.

And I hope that we have the option to have no helmets.

My understanding of the old fluff was that a battle sister had to earn the helmet, though. Of course it was an excuse for the limitations of the model range but I kind of like the idea that you could use that to mark your sister superiors, celestians, and other head honchos.

drbored wrote:
My hope is that we have plenty of helmeted options for the squads. I understand a big appeal of the Sisters is their female heads, but I really like the Sabbat pattern helmets.

The sabbat helm is also one of the big appeal of the Sisters though .

 Captain Joystick wrote:
We are currently engaged in some intense chicken-counting here, people.

Well, more like wishlisting. I already said earlier I wasn't expecting anything anytime soon, at the very least. And, as I said, I'm fine with the metal models. I like them.

 Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:

 Captain Joystick wrote:
We are currently engaged in some intense chicken-counting here, people.

Well, more like wishlisting. I already said earlier I wasn't expecting anything anytime soon, at the very least. And, as I said, I'm fine with the metal models. I like them.

Yeah, thankfully this is in General, not Rumors, so we can wishlist all we want anyway.

I'm really convinced that we're going to see Sisters of Battle either by the end of 2018 or by early 2019, and no later.

I don't think GW's plan for more female players is going to be updated Sisters (and I say this as a Sister's player).

GW will likely come out with something cute and fluffy looking, like Ewoks. The army would be a series of different cute looking things to collect, like plastic beenie babies.

While that would be appropriately sexist of a toy company to do, that just isn't within GW's particularly modus operandi, making it an unrealistic expectation even for them.

Also, I'm amused to see someone using my old avatar. Wonder what the old friend who colorized it for me would think.

 Graysparrow wrote:
I don't think GW's plan for more female players is going to be updated Sisters (and I say this as a Sister's player).

GW will likely come out with something cute and fluffy looking, like Ewoks. The army would be a series of different cute looking things to collect, like plastic beenie babies.

What about Sisters of Silence? Wyches? etc.. many units are not this way lol.

 Amishprn86 wrote:

 Graysparrow wrote:
I don't think GW's plan for more female players is going to be updated Sisters (and I say this as a Sister's player).

GW will likely come out with something cute and fluffy looking, like Ewoks. The army would be a series of different cute looking things to collect, like plastic beenie babies.

What about Sisters of Silence? Wyches? etc.. many units are not this way lol.

^-word-^

 Melissia wrote:
Also, I'm amused to see someone using my old avatar.

Very confusing for us too. Especially in a conversation where you post too ^^.

Erm...sorry? Just found it in a google image search awhile back and liked it...I'll look into a replacement.

 Scott-S6 wrote:

 Galas wrote:
I can't find it, but some guys in 4chan draw her without the armour and superimposed both images, saying that unlike Sister of SIlence and their wasp waist, Celestine and their Geminae where very muscular/fat, because their waist was much broader.
It was pretty hilarous, when people said that it was BS to do that kind of thing only with a female model they called people on Dakkadakka white knights and SJW, saying that they where just discussing the change of aesthetics of GW direction with female models!
Probably in the news and rumours thread about Gathering Storm I one could find it.

They actually look like women wearing armour as opposed to a lot of other armoured female miniatures where the external silhouette of the armour is that of a naked woman. (so presumably they are emaciated inside there)

Wait, the new sculpts or the old sculpts? The old sculpts always looked to me like they were wearing power gloves and boots + lingerie.

As for the fat thing, well heh. I don't get it, but i know it happens. I still remember hearing people call the lead singer from evanescence fat. Its just a thing people do to women, apparently.

 Graysparrow wrote:
Erm...sorry?

Np.

 Torga_DW wrote:
Wait, the new sculpts or the old sculpts?

He was talking specifically about the new sculpt of Celestine, and the Gemini.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Torga_DW wrote:
Wait, the new sculpts or the old sculpts?

He was talking specifically about the new sculpt of Celestine, and the Gemini.

Ah, well my memory of them was they looked okay. Just spent the last 5 minutes searching for them so i can give an honest confirmation, but damned if i can find them. Adeptus ministroni - nope, don't seem to be there. I'm sure they're there somewhere, but buggered if i can find them. Oh well.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Gathering-Storm-Triumvirate-of-the-Imperium
Not available separately because GW are bad people.

Yep, Sisters can't get their only named character on her own any more.

 Melissia wrote:
Yep, Sisters can't get their only named character on her own any more.

Gman isnt sold separately either

 Amishprn86 wrote:
Gman isnt sold separately either

Are you actually trying to say with a straight face that Robooty is Ultarmarines' only named character?

Do you think I'm stupid and/or ignorant enough to buy that?

That... escalated quickly.

Meh. It's not a valid comparison. Sicarius, Cassius, Tigurius, Calgar, Chronus, Telion can all be bought on their own, and are all Ultramarines specific.

Sisters have barely over that many non-character units, and outside of Celestine, we only have a single HQ choice, and frankly the Canoness is kind of a pointless drag on our lists.

I don't really want to listen to an ultramarines player whining about not getting more stuff when they have more than everyone else already...