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GaroRobe wrote:
It's a bit disconcerting that you can tell the repeated bodies/poses of the sisters in the trailer. The Repentias on the left have identical chainswords, the two sisters on the left are identical, save for the head, etc. It's a bit of a minor nitpick, but it is still fairly noticeable.

What are the chances of a second pilot for the Penitent Engine? I love the first one, but a male and female option like the current set would guarantee me buying a second kit. (if the other pilots also good)


At this point at least we can't rule it out. GW seems to show only models in the box so far, and if only one Penitent Engine is included, they'll only show as that exact model. We might get an article in the next few Battle Sister Bulletins (and another one about the Mistress of Repentance, now that she's out of the bag) that shines some light on the options, though.

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 Geifer wrote:
 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
 Geifer wrote:
The aim is to go through religious ritual. A penitent is given the chance to redeem themselves by getting killed in the Emperor's service. The thing the Ecclesiarchy is spending its money on is not an effective war machine and the Ecclesiarchy's concern is not the enemy it is sent against, it's all about saving the heretic. You can't put a price on salvation.

Ok but then make it a T3 HP2/3 model or something.


Not going to happen, but since I don't play 8th ed I don't care either way.

AV6 then.

"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1 
   
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A.T. wrote:
It has been noted that there is a fair bit of pose duplication going on - only three distinct seraphim body/leg sculpts, three? bolter poses, same with the repentia.


Note that, to use Shadowspear as an example, there is a lot of pose duplication in the recent box sets that then isn't an issue in the completed MPPKs.

I'm painting the marines from Shadowspear right now for a commission, and there are three totally identical in....filtrators? The bolter lads, and 2 sculpts each for the snipers and cartoon fire hydrant boys.

The completed kits do not have those duplicates. If this box set follows the formula from shadowspear, these sisters would be monopose and then the eventual kit would have a bit more swappability.


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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
 H.B.M.C. wrote:
We need some good screenshots from the new trailer. Some very nice minis in there.

Whatever you say bro, whatever you say .
Spoiler:










Are those good enough for you?

A bit bummed about still no new units or vehicles, but we know not everything is revealed yet because they teased a new version of the rhino.
According to one of the screenshot from the video we will get a ten sisters squad.
What base size do you see?


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Damn, I was beaten to it.

Also, GW continues the long tradition of Sisters of Battle release having more male miniatures in them than the whole entire number of female release for all the space marines factions imperial and chaotic combined, lol.


*nasally ben shapiro voice*

heh, TECHNICALLY there are two female renegade guardsmen from the blackstone fortress set, so the models revealed from the new sisters of battle have 100% fewer male sculpts than the entire SM/CSM range has female sculpts.

(Also, come on. You know this is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't. If they're going for the whole "Tortured pilot" shtick and they defaulted to a female pilot the exact same segment of the internet that complains about boys in SOB having cooties would call them creepy sex perverts.)

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"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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the_scotsman wrote:
*nasally ben shapiro voice*

heh, TECHNICALLY there are two female renegade guardsmen from the blackstone fortress set, so the models revealed from the new sisters of battle have 100% fewer male sculpts than the entire SM/CSM range has female sculpts.

The SoB had male models in the range and in their codex in literally every edition. Most of the time they even had more male special characters than females one in their codex.

the_scotsman wrote:
(Also, come on. You know this is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't. If they're going for the whole "Tortured pilot" shtick and they defaulted to a female pilot the exact same segment of the internet that complains about boys in SOB having cooties would call them creepy sex perverts.)

Well old penitent engine had both and noone complained either way!

"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1 
   
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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
 Geifer wrote:
 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
 Geifer wrote:
The aim is to go through religious ritual. A penitent is given the chance to redeem themselves by getting killed in the Emperor's service. The thing the Ecclesiarchy is spending its money on is not an effective war machine and the Ecclesiarchy's concern is not the enemy it is sent against, it's all about saving the heretic. You can't put a price on salvation.

Ok but then make it a T3 HP2/3 model or something.


Not going to happen, but since I don't play 8th ed I don't care either way.

AV6 then.


An AV lower than 9 wouldn't have fit the design paradigm of 3rd ed onward.

If you want to do this, you need to go all the way back to 2nd ed, give the engine decent armor values and the pilot a hilariously bad one.

Obviously GW wouldn't do that. Low durability models can easily be fit into the rules and can be appropriately balanced, of course, but no one is going to pay the kind of money GW wants for a vehicle kit for what is statted as an infantry model.

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Penitent engine, Seraphim, battle sisters, and mistress all look great. Expect to see a lot of broken whips on that mistress though.

Repentia look better painted, but the huge and proven-to-be unnecessary power armor ports still disrupt the sculpts too much and need to go. One of them is as big as the Sister’s entire elbow....

   
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 Mmmpi wrote:
I actually was assuming that by limited edition, they meant it had different cover art compared to the normal production codex, like the limited cover codexes when new ones are releases.

They usauly call those collector's editions I beleive. The limited editions are the even more expensive versions. Like this genestealer cult one:


 
   
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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
the_scotsman wrote:
*nasally ben shapiro voice*

heh, TECHNICALLY there are two female renegade guardsmen from the blackstone fortress set, so the models revealed from the new sisters of battle have 100% fewer male sculpts than the entire SM/CSM range has female sculpts.

The SoB had male models in the range and in their codex in literally every edition. Most of the time they even had more male special characters than females one in their codex.

the_scotsman wrote:
(Also, come on. You know this is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't. If they're going for the whole "Tortured pilot" shtick and they defaulted to a female pilot the exact same segment of the internet that complains about boys in SOB having cooties would call them creepy sex perverts.)

Well old penitent engine had both and noone complained either way!


...This was a joke. Also, people definitely complain about the old penitent engine sculpt female pilot being exploitative and underdressed. Also also, you are making an assumption based on a single image that there will be no alternative pilot when...I dunno, he doesn't seem super integral to the model to me? I'd be real surprised if the full MPPK released and there were no options at all for the penitent engine, you know they'll at least throw in a new option or two to get people who already own the old sculpt to buy it. It'll have "Electro-whips" or "melta shmazers" or somesuch, I can't recall a kit being released recently that existed before and didn't add some kind of new option.

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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I suspect that some enterprising 3d modeller out there on the internet will step up and design a suitably disrobed female penitent to scratch that particular fetishniche of the community.
   
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terry wrote:
 Mmmpi wrote:
I actually was assuming that by limited edition, they meant it had different cover art compared to the normal production codex, like the limited cover codexes when new ones are releases.

They usauly call those collector's editions I beleive. The limited editions are the even more expensive versions. Like this genestealer cult one:



Yup, that's what I was trying to say.
   
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the_scotsman wrote:
I can't recall a kit being released recently that existed before and didn't add some kind of new option.
It's a concern though isn't it, that after a year of previews and a beta version of the codex we haven't seen a single new option. We haven't even seen old options from the index and earlier editions, and that canoness sculpt is definitely not coming with a jump pack or two handed chainsword option.
   
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A.T. wrote:
It's a concern though isn't it, that after a year of previews and a beta version of the codex we haven't seen a single new option. We haven't even seen old options from the index and earlier editions, and that canoness sculpt is definitely not coming with a jump pack or two handed chainsword option.
Don't worry. She'll be in the Warhammer Legends book.

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 warboss wrote:
I suspect that some enterprising 3d modeller out there on the internet will step up and design a suitably disrobed female penitent to scratch that particular fetishniche of the community.
A knee length hooded robe?

That's what the original had. Of course the original male pilot was wearing a skimpy loincloth - with the new one having long shorts and the changes to the repentia i'm thinking any official alternate pilot is going to be similarly tame and conservative.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
She'll be in the Warhammer Legends book.
Along with the rest of the sisters a few years from now if this goes badly.

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 warboss wrote:
I suspect that some enterprising 3d modeller out there on the internet will step up and design a suitably disrobed female penitent to scratch that particular fetishniche of the community.


I should hope so. My faith in humanity is at stake here.

A.T. wrote:
the_scotsman wrote:
I can't recall a kit being released recently that existed before and didn't add some kind of new option.
It's a concern though isn't it, that after a year of previews and a beta version of the codex we haven't seen a single new option. We haven't even seen old options from the index and earlier editions, and that canoness sculpt is definitely not coming with a jump pack or two handed chainsword option.


It's still worth considering that we're over two months away from the release of that box and, since it comes with it, a glimpse of the codex. There is no rush for GW to reveal new stuff up until they send out preview versions of the box (as I have a feeling the codex will not be released on its own at the same time or before the box to encourage sales of the box). They have enough to preview since the thing that sells Sisters is the thing that was asked for - the range in plastic. Additions to it, which I'm sure we all want, are just a subset of that and can be handily used to create some short-term increase of interest before the actual release. Let's not forget that the advertising period for plastic Sisters has been very long by anyone's standards, certainly so for GW. It doesn't strike me as a bad idea to hold something new and exciting back to get people back on track that may be suffering from fatigue at the long wait.

Personally, I wouldn't hold out hope that there's a Canoness with jump pack and eviscerator, but that's just me. We're only going to get so many clampack characters and there's no model, rules to consider. I'm not saying every Canoness will be walking from now on and come equipped with a power sword, a plasma pistol and a whacking stick, but GW does their characters somewhat conservatively to fit traditional themes and equipment combos popular for their in game effectiveness are not what GW is after when they create their models. So I very much doubt that kind of unit survives.

It would be odd not to get new units at all, though. Maybe they'll just be alternate loadouts for existing units because GW won't commit to too many new kits for one release, but worries over not getting anything new with the release are at this point still unfounded.

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 Geifer wrote:
but GW does their characters somewhat conservatively to fit traditional themes and equipment combos popular for their in game effectiveness are not what GW is after when they create their models. So I very much doubt that kind of unit survives.
If sisters suck on the table they are going to die as a line.
   
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to anyone still hoping for a jump pack cannoness... id say forget it at this point. not in today's release cycle.

Nova's info actually let me down because i keep thinking about the effects of Warhammer Legends on certain 40k lines. all orky bikes may be a "retired" option (along with the cheapest KFF meks...), so don't expect a jump pack when Speed Freek bikes are out.

But as for the Sisters info, im actually kinda happy with this. we got a date for the models, and a glimpse of the plastic Mistress of Repentence and a bunch of Penitent Engine.

The engine.. looks great. something does feel off about it, but considering how often i heard of that thing being trouble for others, a plastic one is much appreciated, and at a glance it seems to have been carried over okay. wish it had both feet planted, but these days that's not as hip anymore...

as for the Mistress... So, THATS where they hid the Fire back Braziers?! she looks cool, even if i worry about the amount of space used up on the whips. i..flat out like this model. why did they hide it until now!

the Canoness actually looks even worse to me painted. i will not even comment about the Repentia. i wonder how the rules will hold up.

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I can't stand that canoness. There's nothing about it that I like. At all.

Pretty much every other new Sororitas model I like or love, though.
   
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Bdrone wrote:
to anyone still hoping for a jump pack cannoness... id say forget it at this point. not in today's release cycle.

Nova's info actually let me down because i keep thinking about the effects of Warhammer Legends on certain 40k lines. all orky bikes may be a "retired" option (along with the cheapest KFF meks...), so don't expect a jump pack when Speed Freek bikes are out.

But as for the Sisters info, im actually kinda happy with this. we got a date for the models, and a glimpse of the plastic Mistress of Repentence and a bunch of Penitent Engine.

The engine.. looks great. something does feel off about it, but considering how often i heard of that thing being trouble for others, a plastic one is much appreciated, and at a glance it seems to have been carried over okay. wish it had both feet planted, but these days that's not as hip anymore...

as for the Mistress... So, THATS where they hid the Fire back Braziers?! she looks cool, even if i worry about the amount of space used up on the whips. i..flat out like this model. why did they hide it until now!

the Canoness actually looks even worse to me painted. i will not even comment about the Repentia. i wonder how the rules will hold up.


The Mistress of Repentance is absolutely the most likely source of outrage coming from left wing sources for the new sisters of battle release, along with claims of fetishization involving the female penitent engine pilot.

The post about the Repentia absolutely had to highlight the repentia as strong/badass to provoke mild moralistic outrage from the right and omit the mistress to prevent moralistic outrage from the left. The mistress is definitely going to be slipped in as a background character and not overly highlighted in the sisters release. If they follow the recent trend in the big bundle box sets of including monopose minis then coming out with the MPPKs later with more options, I almost guarantee that's the PR decision behind making the monopose PE locked into a male pilot sculpt.

They might go as far as to having only male pilot sculpts in the full release, go the route of the ork buggies and the little DG daemon engine thingy of having a slightly lower price point and having the kit be totally monpose, but I doubt it. Sisters will probably be pitched as more of a Premium/Collector range like GSC and Admech where they receive somewhat more options and have higher price points.

I wonder if the SOB army box is going to be entirely sisters, something like a Start Collecting set on steroids. That's an interesting release strategy - makes sense, because they probably figure most of the target demo is going to own absolutely 0 sisters models to start and they want to give a cheap buy-in bundle to get people started.

If so, my fingers are crossed that Burning Corpse Flamer Sister is a thing that will only appear in the limited box run, and not every sister with a flamer will be required to have a corpsebuddy.

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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Well, based on the models shown in the video, it looks like the basic Battle Sisters will be a doubled-up five woman sprue, similar to the Necromunda gangs.

The (very obvious!) repetition of poses in the Seraphim and Repentia units seem to imply doubling up of sprues there as well (two sprues of two models each, plus a third sprue with an extra pose and some special weapon/squad leader parts?)

That's pretty disappointing.


On the plus side the Mistress of Repentance makes a better Cannoness than the actual Cannoness.

But on the down side again, the Penitent Engine doesn't live up to the current sculpt - spindly arms, a distinct lack of sculls and parchments, flagellants wear trousers now, I guess?, it doesn't look like it has an exhaust anymore..? But Oo look, it takes design cues from the Imperial Knight.


EDIT:
Or... Two sprues each with four regular Sisters, two seraphim, two Repentia. Then a third sprue with the flamer, Imagifer, and two Superiors. Characters on their own sprues for individual release later.

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the_scotsman wrote:
The post about the Repentia absolutely had to highlight the repentia as strong/badass to provoke mild moralistic outrage from the right and omit the mistress to prevent moralistic outrage from the left.

Woah, GW is trying to provoke moral outrage on the right and avoid it on the left, how very political of them !

the_scotsman wrote:
If so, my fingers are crossed that Burning Corpse Flamer Sister is a thing that will only appear in the limited box run, and not every sister with a flamer will be required to have a corpsebuddy.

Same.

"Our fantasy settings are grim and dark, but that is not a reflection of who we are or how we feel the real world should be. [...] We will continue to diversify the cast of characters we portray [...] so everyone can find representation and heroes they can relate to. [...] If [you don't feel the same way], you will not be missed"
https://twitter.com/WarComTeam/status/1268665798467432449/photo/1 
   
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A.T. wrote:
 Geifer wrote:
but GW does their characters somewhat conservatively to fit traditional themes and equipment combos popular for their in game effectiveness are not what GW is after when they create their models. So I very much doubt that kind of unit survives.
If sisters suck on the table they are going to die as a line.


Yeah, but has that ever stopped GW?

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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
the_scotsman wrote:
The post about the Repentia absolutely had to highlight the repentia as strong/badass to provoke mild moralistic outrage from the right and omit the mistress to prevent moralistic outrage from the left.

Woah, GW is trying to provoke moral outrage on the right and avoid it on the left, how very political of them !

the_scotsman wrote:
If so, my fingers are crossed that Burning Corpse Flamer Sister is a thing that will only appear in the limited box run, and not every sister with a flamer will be required to have a corpsebuddy.

Same.


The existence of the outrage mill and companies carefully crafting PR to spin it in their favor rather than blundering into it randomly is an unavoidable fact of modern advertising.

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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the_scotsman wrote:

The Mistress of Repentance is absolutely the most likely source of outrage coming from left wing sources for the new sisters of battle release, along with claims of fetishization involving the female penitent engine pilot.

The post about the Repentia absolutely had to highlight the repentia as strong/badass to provoke mild moralistic outrage from the right and omit the mistress to prevent moralistic outrage from the left. The mistress is definitely going to be slipped in as a background character and not overly highlighted in the sisters release. If they follow the recent trend in the big bundle box sets of including monopose minis then coming out with the MPPKs later with more options, I almost guarantee that's the PR decision behind making the monopose PE locked into a male pilot sculpt.



If so, my fingers are crossed that Burning Corpse Flamer Sister is a thing that will only appear in the limited box run, and not every sister with a flamer will be required to have a corpsebuddy.

The amount of people on Dakka who do not know that hobby knives exist worries me.

   
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im just glad there's finally one elite/HQ model I actually like in the Mistress.

..but if her rules are around the same, I doubt there's any point in running her without turning her into a Canoness. name me one time in this whole mess im not spending a fair bit in order to then pull out a knife to fix something i already waited a near decade to even get.

Also, fair point on some details on the engine, Lord Damocles. I'm still glad the engine is around, and in plastic now. first glance i just felt it was somewhat small.

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Now that we see actual, painted miniatures, it's looking much better heh ?

Penitent Engine is clearly smaller than before (and it's in plastic ! Praise the Emperor ! My nightmarish days of building those heavy metal ones are finally behind me !). I like it this way, I must say. You can see by the chains binding him that it's not meant as a reward at all !

Well, now I know when they're coming out. Saving money for november...
   
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Cozy cockpit of an Archer ARC-5S

Loving the look and feel of this one in particular. I though I was safe from this release, but it's hard to say no to a Seraphim with guns akimbo in a John Woo pose, only thing missing is the doves flying everywhere.




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 NivlacSupreme wrote:
I’m just going to assume that the penitent engine doesn’t have an alternate pilot.


The dying Sister from the Hospitaller base says hello...

 
   
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Yeah, they all look very nice painted. The Repentia definitely gain a lot with a dark and gritty scheme.

Still not a huge fan of the Canoness' collar, but that's nothing a little green stuff can't fix.

I suspect I'll try my best to get my hands on one of those boxes, come launch day, it's gonna be great to bring out the apothecary white and make me some order of the sacred rose.

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the_scotsman wrote:
Bdrone wrote:
to anyone still hoping for a jump pack cannoness... id say forget it at this point. not in today's release cycle.

Nova's info actually let me down because i keep thinking about the effects of Warhammer Legends on certain 40k lines. all orky bikes may be a "retired" option (along with the cheapest KFF meks...), so don't expect a jump pack when Speed Freek bikes are out.

But as for the Sisters info, im actually kinda happy with this. we got a date for the models, and a glimpse of the plastic Mistress of Repentence and a bunch of Penitent Engine.

The engine.. looks great. something does feel off about it, but considering how often i heard of that thing being trouble for others, a plastic one is much appreciated, and at a glance it seems to have been carried over okay. wish it had both feet planted, but these days that's not as hip anymore...

as for the Mistress... So, THATS where they hid the Fire back Braziers?! she looks cool, even if i worry about the amount of space used up on the whips. i..flat out like this model. why did they hide it until now!

the Canoness actually looks even worse to me painted. i will not even comment about the Repentia. i wonder how the rules will hold up.


The Mistress of Repentance is absolutely the most likely source of outrage coming from left wing sources for the new sisters of battle release, along with claims of fetishization involving the female penitent engine pilot.

The post about the Repentia absolutely had to highlight the repentia as strong/badass to provoke mild moralistic outrage from the right and omit the mistress to prevent moralistic outrage from the left. The mistress is definitely going to be slipped in as a background character and not overly highlighted in the sisters release. If they follow the recent trend in the big bundle box sets of including monopose minis then coming out with the MPPKs later with more options, I almost guarantee that's the PR decision behind making the monopose PE locked into a male pilot sculpt.

They might go as far as to having only male pilot sculpts in the full release, go the route of the ork buggies and the little DG daemon engine thingy of having a slightly lower price point and having the kit be totally monpose, but I doubt it. Sisters will probably be pitched as more of a Premium/Collector range like GSC and Admech where they receive somewhat more options and have higher price points.

I wonder if the SOB army box is going to be entirely sisters, something like a Start Collecting set on steroids. That's an interesting release strategy - makes sense, because they probably figure most of the target demo is going to own absolutely 0 sisters models to start and they want to give a cheap buy-in bundle to get people started.

If so, my fingers are crossed that Burning Corpse Flamer Sister is a thing that will only appear in the limited box run, and not every sister with a flamer will be required to have a corpsebuddy.


That was the most obnoxious start to a paragraph I've ever seen. Yeah, 'outrage' okay.

Dude you've been on the internet too long. 99% of everyone in the real world doesn't give a gak, and if they do care it tops out at 'mild annoyance'.


 
   
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Couple of serious questions:

- Are there melta guns on the sister squad sprues? GW knows we need like 4 of that single gun alone for each five-sister Dominion squad, right?
- Are there Celestian options/accessories on any sprues?

Still not sold on the Repentia at all, but might be worth buying a sprue of 5 just for the accessories, so they can be added to other models in the range.

Will consider the Penitent Engine if there's an alternative female pilot.

Current plan has switched to buying and converting multiple copies of the Mistress into a Canoness and Celestian Squad. Totally agree the official Canoness is garbage, I'd sooner use the original Nagash model to lead my Sisters army than her.

 
   
 
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