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**Kawauso**

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

In the same vein as the exorcist, then. Would be great.

Please please PLEASE GW, just upgrade the existing model into a modern kit.

I have a mighty need for plastic organ-tanks.

**vitki**

John Prins wrote:
BrookM wrote:
Decals that tiny are a horrible ordeal to work with though.

I didn't say it would be easy.

Fits right in with the theme of penance

Of course all the taking of the Emperor's name in vain would require more penance though...

**Nostromodamus**

Kawauso wrote:
plastic organ-tanks.

Sounds like an Emperor’s Children project...

**BobtheInquisitor**

Nostromodamus wrote:
Kawauso wrote:
plastic organ-tanks.

Sounds like an Emperor’s Children project...

I believe Kawauso meant the musical kind of organ.

**Breotan**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Don't need Occam's Razor to see which is the more likely. And the least melodramatic.

Dakkadakka. Where there's no drama like melodrama.

**H.B.M.C.**

A new Exorcist can't just be the FW one in plastic (or something similar). It would lose all of the audacity of metal/plastic one.

And GW has shown that they aren't afraid to weaponise religion where appropriate, and for something like the Exorcist, it is entirely appropriate.

**exliontamer**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Nostromodamus wrote:
Kawauso wrote:
plastic organ-tanks.

Sounds like an Emperor’s Children project...

I believe Kawauso meant the musical kind of organ.

HA. Now I just want to see some EC player kitbash a bunch of dick and boob tanks.

**John Prins**

I really hope GW re-does the Exorcist to look a bit more functional. The pipe organ aesthetic is nice, but with all the pipes leaning backwards, it doesn't look like a weapon at all. If they did a bit more of this:

or this:

and made it look like banks or organ pipes you could actually aim at the enemy, I'd be happy. A bit more form follows function, please.

**ph34r**

I mean, a key part of the organ musical instrument is that the pipes go 'up'... what with ballistic missiles often launching straight up before either quickly or gradually changing their orientation to be on target, shooting your missiles straight up seems pretty reasonable.

**Kawauso**

Yeah, I always took it to be a vertical launch system for a top-attack flight profile, like a javelin launcher or a mini-cruise missile or something.
The Exorcist is absolutely one kit that I would want to be more form than function, anyway. The original just oozes the Gothic, weaponized religiosity of the SoB and I love it for that. Could have something to do with being raised Catholic.

At any rate, I'm just really, really hoping I'll be able to get a trio of pipe organ tanks in plastic.

**Galas**

Give me organ-gunned Exorcist or give me death.

The more practical FW version is a shame of a kit. By himsellf is cool but it absolutely fails to capture what SoB and Warhammer40k is about.

And yeah I always imagined that the proyectiles first go up before going down over the enemy. I don't know, maybe they are guided by faith (Or by human brains of space marines that have failed their tests to become one...)

**CthuluIsSpy**

Yeah, organ Exorcist tanks would be great.
Also, sonic blasters what look like guitars or other musical instruments

**Haighus**

The missile launchers on naval ships are often vertical launchers- vertical launchers work fine with guided munitions. Those vehicles above look like they are firing unguided rockets, not guided missiles.

Leave the Exorcist as it is, just make it plastic. I love that tank

**CoteazRox**

+1

Love the current organ weapon Exorcist. Keep it.

Now, if we could have a plastic Repressor.... :-)

**Zefig**

Definitely love a plastic pipe organ exorcist, I always thought that the missiles from it would rain down like the Emperor's fury from the heavens.

**ZebioLizard2**

Zefig wrote:
Definitely love a plastic pipe organ exorcist, I always thought that the missiles from it would rain down like the Emperor's fury from the heavens.

They actually did that when the SoB were introduced in Dawn of War, and it's amazing to watch.

**Knockagh**

Strg Alt wrote:
Revarien wrote:
7years ago (and through all this time) I was prepared to drop 1k on a new Sisters army if they came out in plastic.

I'm now married, have a house, have a kid on the way (wife is due in the next couple of weeks), and I HIGHLY doubt I'll drop that on them.

I might pick up a box purely for edification, but god damn they missed the boat on some people. Surely not everyone that played then is still in a place that they haven't moved on? Like... the model is nice and beautiful, but where the hell was this 5-6 years ago?!

I would have collected a sisters army ten years ago but nowadays there isn´t time left for such a commitment. So I will just purchase the cover art mini and be done with it.

Welcome to my world! I think there is an army of us out there. Folks that the world has caught up with and we have no time for anything much. I just buy a few boxes each year now because I know I can’t paint them. GW are very aware of this. The smaller game formats they have been promoting encourage this though which is great. You can buy a few characters and a squad and play a smaller game. Zone Mortalis or the new one that’s coming out soon.

**Ouze**

John Prins wrote:
I really hope GW re-does the Exorcist to look a bit more functional. The pipe organ aesthetic is nice, but with all the pipes leaning backwards, it doesn't look like a weapon at all. I

Oof. If anything I'd like to see them the other way with it and look even less practical and more weird and baroque.

**Breotan**

Ouze wrote:
John Prins wrote:
I really hope GW re-does the Exorcist to look a bit more functional. The pipe organ aesthetic is nice, but with all the pipes leaning backwards, it doesn't look like a weapon at all. I

Oof. If anything I'd like to see them the other way with it and look even less practical and more weird and baroque.

I'm sort of hoping they'll redesign it completely and surprise us with something new.

**Haighus**

Breotan wrote:
Ouze wrote:
John Prins wrote:
I really hope GW re-does the Exorcist to look a bit more functional. The pipe organ aesthetic is nice, but with all the pipes leaning backwards, it doesn't look like a weapon at all. I

Oof. If anything I'd like to see them the other way with it and look even less practical and more weird and baroque.

I'm sort of hoping they'll redesign it completely and surprise us with something new.

But.. but it is perfect...

**Geifer**

Breotan wrote:
Ouze wrote:
John Prins wrote:
I really hope GW re-does the Exorcist to look a bit more functional. The pipe organ aesthetic is nice, but with all the pipes leaning backwards, it doesn't look like a weapon at all. I

Oof. If anything I'd like to see them the other way with it and look even less practical and more weird and baroque.

I'm sort of hoping they'll redesign it completely and surprise us with something new.

In an ideal world they'd leave the thing as it is and design something new on top of that so you have a choice between a classic and a novelty, or both.

Going off of the render, GW may just be headed for that ideal world, too.

**Mr_Rose**

Yeah, that’d be the thing; alt build of the pipe organ that is another tank-sized musical instrument… of DOOOM!

Like an enormous musical Tesla coil, or something.

Oh and the Sister playing the music has an optional head wearing headphones, while the controls can be built as either the traditional keyboard or a DJ’s scratch deck….

**aracersss**

so any thoughts about termi soronitas? :3

Spoiler:

PLEASE ADD SPOILER TAGS TO MASSIVE PICTURES, THANK YOU! - BROOKM

**Thargrim**

I don't care to see terminator sisters of battle tbh. Seems kind of generic. I'd rather see them go more the flagellant route, considering the religious aspects of the faction. Up armored power armored people is fine for marines but i'd rather avoid such a bland route for the sisters.

Sisters of battle also aren't as augmented if at all as astartes, so I don't think they would even be able to properly operate a suit as immense as a terminator suit.

**MajorWesJanson**

aracersss wrote:
so any thoughts about termi soronitas? :3

Spoiler:

Are her arms located about two feet behind her neck? Or is she just a head on a robot body like President Nixon's Head?

**SnotlingPimpWagon**

No, just no
That's a bad idea and I hope GW don't even think about it.

**ScarletRose**

MajorWesJanson wrote:

Are her arms located about two feet behind her neck? Or is she just a head on a robot body like President Nixon's Head?

I think her arms are in front of her chest in the torso piece? It seems like there'd be room enough in a suit that huge

**ZebioLizard2**

Given the I mark on the head that's an inquisitor isn't it?

**aracersss**

ZebioLizard2 wrote:
Given the I mark on the head that's an inquisitor isn't it?

it's the suit of an inquisitor from the comic: will of iron ... that's why I just wonder what if

**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

I think up armored sisters would be neat, but not necessarily terminators. And I disagree with the general idea that this would make them “just like marines” because if we go that route, since marines already have every infantry idea conceivable, twice, then there is no way to develop Sisters more…