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Hope that comes with a helmet, and more customization options. I'll be disappointed if it's a limited sprue.

 Overread wrote:
She doesn't need less collar - she needs MORE shoulderpads!

Stop trying to make that SOB more like a space marine!


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 Melissia wrote:
Hope that comes with a helmet, and more customization options. I'll be disappointed if it's a limited sprue.

I'd be shocked if she came with anything more than an alternate right hand with some sort of pistol and/or a helmeted head. Even expecting that might be a stretch given the past couple years worth of monopose character sprues only occasionally getting even that.

I like everything on that Canoness expect that stupid collar thing.

Yeah sadly I think thats the limit of what a Cannoness can be armed with:

Power Sword/ Relic Sword
Plasma Pistol
Rod of Office - may actually have asome game function.

She also carries a rod of office, both a symbol of her status and of her faith, which she uses to inspire her troops to even greater feats.

may tie in with AOF rules - surely they can;t be worse and/or the psychic awakening abilities.

Not a bad model - will contrast with my others.

I say: burn her.

She is obviously a mutant (three, or possible four, eyes!) and might be using xenos tech (the bionic leg looks Necron).
Just mentioning ”refined and ergonomic” is definitely heretical.

Thus all three factions of the Inquisition would agree that it would be best to take off and nuke her from orbit...

 Mr Morden wrote:
Yeah sadly I think thats the limit of what a Cannoness can be armed with:

Power Sword/ Relic Sword
Plasma Pistol
Rod of Office - may actually have asome game function.

rod of office is an old item, it may just be her reroll aura

Her options are

Pistols: Bolt/plasma/inferno
Bolter/combiweapons/condemntor/stormbolter
chainsword/evicerator/powerweapons


It doesn't appear her cloak is its own part from the lack of seams on the armor, so that would rule out the jump pack option :(

Don't like the collar or the staff. Or all the gubbinz hanging off the front which she stole from the limited Terminator Chaplain.

The staff seems like a very impractical weapon when she's already carrying a sword which is almost as long as she is tall (but which looks to be one handed).

She's another hard pass for me. I prefer the 2nd ed. model.

Right, if she was a support model like a dialogus or something, sure.

But cannoness is the biggest beatstick we have she should be chunky and meaner, not weighed down with religious stuff

 Grundz wrote:
But cannoness is the biggest beatstick we have she should be chunky and meaner, not weighed down with religious stuff

One canoness per army is the biggest beatstick the sisters have.
The others are either standing around in high-vis jackets handing out auras or are dead weight, either way the model fits.

Not saying the face is GREAT! but I dig what they are trying to do here.

It does look aged, like an old nun should be, but I can see why some people might not like it.

Have to give them points for trying and it's fairly solid.

Not a fan. She's dressed for swatting knuckles in a (slightly kinky) classroom, not the battlefield. Too much bling, not enough gun.

Also, pretty much no way to put a convincing jetpack on that model, which automatically loses points.

A.T. wrote:

 Grundz wrote:
But cannoness is the biggest beatstick we have she should be chunky and meaner, not weighed down with religious stuff

One canoness per army is the biggest beatstick the sisters have.
The others are either standing around in high-vis jackets handing out auras or are dead weight, either way the model fits.

Idk, I run two, one with the relic blade and the other with the book and an eviscerator and they get work done.

They'll get a lot less work done when I stop back from bloody rose and their str drops below the threshold to being nasty to vehicles though

 Lord Damocles wrote:
The staff seems like a very impractical weapon when she's already carrying a sword which is almost as long as she is tall (but which looks to be one handed).

She's the head nun. She needs a whacking stick. The sword is for heretics. The whacking stick is for inattentive Sisters.

Lovely model, but I'll be converting my Canoness from scratch to be a bit more combat ready.

Voss wrote:
Not a fan. She's dressed for swatting knuckles in a (slightly kinky) classroom, not the battlefield. Too much bling, not enough gun.

Also, pretty much no way to put a convincing jetpack on that model, which automatically loses points.

Eh, I'd need to see proof a Canoness can even get a jump pack first before worrying about how it looks on the model. This one won't come with one in all likelihood, and who knows if there will be another Canoness model.

If you want a flying Canoness, odds are you need Celestine's twins.

And I'd love to say this is just me being pessimistic, but with how GW operates these days, it probably isn't.

That's looks really bad. The robe over the shoulders is just so bulky and stiff.

I'm glad I'm going 3rd party for my SoB army.

 Geifer wrote:

If you want a flying Canoness, odds are you need Celestine's twins.

Whom I would take in a second if they could have worthwhile weapons, or an order, or couldn't be targeted like a unit instead of characters

They're just so many flavors of bad rolled into one

Certainly prefer the mock-up without collar - rather than making her look more impressive, the collar just makes her look smaller. Looks alright otherwise, should look good with a gun in either hand too.

I have nothing against this model and I get what they were trying to do but she looks like shes been retired for some time and has been drafted in. I woukd have preferred that she was a new HQ unit and canonesses remained as combat efficiant as the rank and file Sisters.

Maybe I'm just clinging to my jump pack canoness to hard.

 warboss wrote:

 Overread wrote:
She doesn't need less collar - she needs MORE shoulderpads!

Stop trying to make that SOB more like a space marine!

Fine fine fine - we'll forget the shoulderpads of epic and go for Epic PAULDRONS instead!

 Grundz wrote:

 Geifer wrote:

If you want a flying Canoness, odds are you need Celestine's twins.

Whom I would take in a second if they could have worthwhile weapons, or an order, or couldn't be targeted like a unit instead of characters

They're just so many flavors of bad rolled into one

Ironically both the Twins were actual Canoness's in Gathering Storm....

 warboss wrote:
I'd be shocked if she came with anything more than an alternate right hand with some sort of pistol and/or a helmeted head. Even expecting that might be a stretch given the past couple years worth of monopose character sprues only occasionally getting even that.

If that happens I'll probably just use a sister superior miniature painted with more gold or something. I don't plan on using any helmetless power armor sisters.

I do like this sculpt, but I am hoping for a couple head options and maybe a couple alternate weapons. I see a plasma pistol tucked in there.

It would be nice if the arms/collar/cloak can be one sub assembly you could then glue down on the torso. Would save a lot of fiddly painting trying to get into those areas behind the cloak and bling.

 Grundz wrote:
Right, if she was a support model like a dialogus or something, sure.

But cannoness is the biggest beatstick we have she should be chunky and meaner, not weighed down with religious stuff

The repentias look too utilitarian! They need to be more gothic!
But the Canoness looks too gothic, she should be more utilitarian! Despite having the same amount of garbage on her as a Chaplain,and serving almost the same function.

I really like the model, as anyone who grew up catholic will tell you, there's always the mean old nun to put fear into the new nuns and this gets that across perfectly.

"Too much bling to be effective in combat" seems like an odd complaint for a 40k model regardless of faction. That's kind of what this game is known for.

Other than the collar, I like it. My one major issue is the fact that unless the kit comes with an extra non-bionic leg, every single Canoness (that isn't a conversion) will have had the same leg amputated at some point in their life.

She really hit the wall. Hard. Easy pass, GW. Easy pass.

I like it - great to see an aged face. The collar looks a bit weird though, very large and without any ornamentation. I'll reserve my judgement until I see it painted though,

 EnTyme wrote:
"Too much bling to be effective in combat" seems like an odd complaint for a 40k model regardless of faction. That's kind of what this game is known for.

...especially when it comes to the faction which is literally the galactic CHURCH!
Cool model, and love her aging face.

Cronch wrote:

 Grundz wrote:
Right, if she was a support model like a dialogus or something, sure.

But cannoness is the biggest beatstick we have she should be chunky and meaner, not weighed down with religious stuff

The repentias look too utilitarian! They need to be more gothic!
But the Canoness looks too gothic, she should be more utilitarian! Despite having the same amount of garbage on her as a Chaplain,and serving almost the same function.

Today I learned Gothic = looking like the pope on pageant day