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A) Wow bad models, look like Catachans given big chainswords.

B) Blatantly snap fit / easy build. You can tell from the pose where she’s balanced on the top of her foot that the rock mound is sized to support a base peg.

I was considering selling up my Desth Guard to finance this army but now I’ll wait til we see more as I wouldn’t buy these even if they were the most meta destroying unit ever.

I really like this face.

I might need to make a unit of Repentia just so I can have the part. I think it'd look great on a Canoness second in command.

 Captain Joystick wrote:


I really like this face.

I might need to make a unit of Repentia just so I can have the part. I think it'd look great on a Canoness second in command.

She looks like a tennis player who brought an Eviscerator instead of a racket. I genuinely would not be surprised if the designer had used tennis player footage as the basis of the poses and proportions.

Alright, someone update the photoshop battle between Abbadon and Guilliman playing tennis with Sister Serena Williams up there.

Swapping the faces from these girls onto other battle sisters will make for some excellent variety. Especially with the whole "sisters that survive being a repentia and rejoin their squads are highly respected" bit. Your cannoness or sister superiors could have these heads as reminders of their time as repentia.

I love it.

Well they sure are different from former Repentias. They have quite believable muscles to handle two handed reaper swords, I must say. They are not oversized like catachans, though they are still "heroic scale" for sure.

I'll admit I'm a bit sceptic about the "shirt and pants sport outfit", but wonder what she will look like once painted. Maybe stick more scrolls and seals above her clothes to have the former repentia feeling ?

 Sarouan wrote:


I'll admit I'm a bit sceptic about the "shirt and pants sport outfit", but wonder what she will look like once painted. Maybe stick more scrolls and seals above her clothes to have the former repentia feeling ?

Looks more like she wearing a sack, I think those are bare legs with the needles shoved through them.

It largely depends on how you paint them. Go for a drab gray or brown and you have course fatigues that are uncomfortable and spartan. Go for a really saturated colour like navy blue or even black and you have a bathing suit.

You can always add more purity seals, if worse comes to worse.

Those Repentia are awful and fail on every level for me. I'm actually a bit shell shocked that GW could mess up so bad. GW don't always make things that I like, but rarely anything that I think is just plain bad. Somebody already mentioned the Razorgors but I'm having flashbacks to that too.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Sarouan wrote:


I'll admit I'm a bit sceptic about the "shirt and pants sport outfit", but wonder what she will look like once painted. Maybe stick more scrolls and seals above her clothes to have the former repentia feeling ?

Looks more like she wearing a sack, I think those are bare legs with the needles shoved through them.

It's hard to see from the renders, to me it feels like she's wearing a one piece outfit like those for sport. But now that's you're talking about this, it's indeed a good idea. I would add a bit of ripped pieces on the shoulders and thighs to give more of that sack/rags feeling.

Animus wrote:
Somebody already mentioned the Razorgors but I'm having flashbacks to that too.

Seriously, comparing those to Razorgors is really overdoing it. You can be not a fan of the new design and I would understand it, though.

I find it most interesting that they've got implants for interfacing with their power armour, back then it was, IIRC, more like a bodyglove they wore under the armour that did the interfacing.

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

But I never said I thought it was impossible.

Sorry that it wasn't clear but I wasn't referring specifically to you.

 BrookM wrote:
I find it most interesting that they've got implants for interfacing with their power armour, back then it was, IIRC, more like a bodyglove they wore under the armour that did the interfacing.

True. I always assumed the implants were actually part of the Space Marines' black carapace. This is a part about the sisters that was never showed so far. The old repentias don't have anything else than scars on their naked skin.

It's definitely a new bit of lore, and I approve.

 Sarouan wrote:
Seriously, comparing those to Razorgors is really overdoing it. You can be not a fan of the new design and I would understand it, though.

I don't think it is, that's the last time I can recall having actually cringed away from a model a little bit.

But you also have yet to explain WHY you find these cringy. Is it because they're muscular women? Is it the battle-scars or ritual scarification? Is it simply the style of clothing? The posing?

Animus wrote:

 Sarouan wrote:
Seriously, comparing those to Razorgors is really overdoing it. You can be not a fan of the new design and I would understand it, though.

I don't think it is, that's the last time I can recall having actually cringed away from a model a little bit.

I had that reaction with Marine Flyers and Centurions - but I love these - different strokes and all that !

Do you prefer the old models or is thre something specfiic that makes you cringe?

 Melissia wrote:
But you also have yet to explain WHY you find these cringy. Is it because they're muscular women? Is it the battle-scars or ritual scarification? Is it simply the style of clothing? The posing?

I don't find it cringy nor do I have an issue with any other of the specific things you mention (scars, muscles, clothing) but I'm not a fan of the overall look largely because of the ports. It makes them look a bit too GITS/cyberpunk bionic for my tastes.

 warboss wrote:

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:

But I never said I thought it was impossible.

Sorry that it wasn't clear but I wasn't referring specifically to you.

No worries mate.

Besides we all know GW does make mistakes. Like that time they brought a loyalist primarch into 40k

... never tire of saying how much I hate that.

Back on topic. I can understand why some people don’t like the redesign, it is a bit of a departure from the established look of bare, naked ladies with masks and chainswords. Personally I think the new ones are such a massive improvement that I’m already planning how to paint them. I reckon those simple clothes will look less like modern sportswear if they’re painted more along the lines of medieval heraldry. Not brightly coloured though, more the muted, mud and blood splattered grimdark version of medieval.

Captain Joystick wrote:Per the last two images in the article they appear to be designed with modular arm-swaps in mind.

Yes. So glad to see that. Especially in a group of very distinctive figures, modularity is an absolute need as every duplicate will clearly stand out. Good stuff, and a good sign.

Pretty happy with the design overall. Good sense of movement and not too many, but not too few little details to pick out. (The fact that they're not too extreme also makes them fairly feasible as a basis for Mordheim Sisters of Sigmar, which can't be a bad thing...)

Casbyness wrote:[...]
So far it just looks like GW are not introducing any new ideas at all, and simply re-releasing the existing units.
[...]

The operative words being "so" and "far". Of course they will start previews with things people expect to see. You don't open with a big surprise reveal, and then show boring basic units afterwards.

 Melissia wrote:
But you also have yet to explain WHY you find these cringy. Is it because they're muscular women? Is it the battle-scars or ritual scarification? Is it simply the style of clothing? The posing?

They're ugly but fail at the mutilation aspect, they're not so much muscled as outright masculine, they're wearing boxers, wife beaters, and slippers for some reason, and they're covered in plugs.

The velcro strap loafers are amusing.

For years we had "I want plastic sisters of battle ,I won't buy them until GW do them.in plastic"
2019 comes along
" I'm not buying these plastic sisters they are **insert entitled reason here**"

I don't know how to feel about these yet, but my initial reaction was sanitation. They don't look particularly female to me at a glance, which is weird to me that the armored ones look more like women than these do. These are definitely my least favorite preview for the redone army so far. And yeah the tank tops are a wonky choice, and the slippers....the other artwork that was posted earlier that was almost horror-grotesque is more what I wanted.

Looking at them some more, it increasingly bothers me that the plugs on the arms stand proud of the skin, but those on the legs are flush.

About the Matrix style "ports" in the skin. Here's my issue with those:

Sisters wear habits under their power armour. Robes long enough that the sleeves and bottoms fall out of said armour to a significant degree.

Are we now saying those robes have multiple holes punched through them, so the sister's body can interface directly with the armour? Really?

Try sticking something to your forearm and upper arm, then making holes in a top so that they accommodate the objects that are stuck in place, when your arm is outstretched. Now try bending your arm at the shoulder or elbow, and see what happens to the clothing.

Now imagine you have the same issue of the robe being tugged and ripped every which way, each time you twist your body or bend your spine.

Now imagine you're a Seraphim, jumping flying and bouncing all over the battlefield, wearing power armour locked directly to your body in fixed locations, like a Space Marine, but with an intervening robe chafing constantly in-between.

The ports are complete nonsense.

Obispudkenobi wrote:
For years we had "I want plastic sisters of battle ,I won't buy them until GW do them.in plastic"
2019 comes along
" I'm not buying these plastic sisters they are **insert entitled reason here**"

Not liking models isn’t entitlement.

I'm okay with these Repentia. I was unlikely to field them anyways, unless they get rules that make them actually good rather than overpriced distractions. But sisters being buff? Totally makes sense - heck, they're probably subjected to muscle-growing chemical regimens from the get go. Cybernetic implants to help with power armor interface? Also makes sense, but still nowhere near the level of the black carapace. Military grade underwear and beach shoes? Sure, why not. Barefoot is no good for going into a combat zone, even for suicide troops.


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 Casbyness wrote:

Sisters wear habits under their power armour. Robes long enough that the sleeves and bottoms fall out of said armour to a significant degree.

Alternatively, those robes are just on the outside of the power armor.

 TwilightSparkles wrote:
A) Wow bad models, look like Catachans given big chainswords.

Have you looked at Catachan models?


Definitely don't look the same. Only thing in common is that they are humans but well…

I think the ports are there cause they didn't know what to do to give them more detail. And the arms/legs look plain without em. I personally would have nailed more parchments and purity seals all over them but they decided to go a techy route with the ports. I hope they give these another pass but at this point they're probably finalized.