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 Dryaktylus wrote:

Well, I guess most Battle Sisters players own either the new Canoness from the box,

Yes, the one with an illegal wargear combination...

Really looking forward to seeing if that gets fixed in the full Codex release.

 Dryaktylus wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/01/05/coming-next-week-battle-sisters-galore/


AAAAAGH! They are going for slow-burn it seems. Codex, card, dices, batle sister box, retribution box, the triumph and no mention of others. Not even HQ.

The Triumph is an HQ, available for all orders. You need to buy it. Now.

Well, I guess most Battle Sisters players own either the new Canoness from the box, Celestine or Veridyan. So they should survive a week or a month.

Well meant more of generic HQ.

And def not buying triumph for now. a) she needs actual army around her to be worth it. Ergo with no army to buy yet and just some units not good idea b) the model seems nightmare to paint without sub-painting. Ergo can't really play with her before completely painted. Which means if I don't start painting right away it's kind of waste of purchase. If I paint first it's going to take a long while and not be all that good core unit to have.

Out of all the models in the army that I could use(not counting the order locked character) it's among last ones I ones I would pick up before I have playable army painted up

Do get it eventually though. Just not before I have actual 2k+ sisters painted up.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Really looking forward to seeing if that gets fixed in the full Codex release.

Well guess since full codex heralds FAQ you could say so. Though how is another question. Scary possibility is they add her into legend file...

It all really depends on the pricing($€£¥) for the different boxes. If they're priced like Admech, cool. If they're priced like primaris...not so much. P-engines 2 to a box is cool but hopefully not too expensive. arcos should be "cheap"($€£¥ wise).

I'm looking forward to painting the exorcist, immolator, & triumph. Unfortunately they'll require a fair amount of detail work to represent how they lovingly mastercraft everything.

Guess this will be a painting project before it's a playable army for a while. the boxed set has been fun to paint so far & cant wait for more variants to do.

tneva82 wrote:

Out of all the models in the army that I could use(not counting the order locked character) it's among last ones I ones I would pick up before I have playable army painted up

Do get it eventually though. Just not before I have actual 2k+ sisters painted up.

While I bought the box I don't have any plans to start an army. It's enough for Kill Team or some Necromunda scenario and with this in mind I'll get Arco Flagellants and maybe Repentia for some conversions. And the Triumph. Why? The individual models are just ace. The kit is (for me) a great loot box.

ERJAK wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:
They are probably going to release all the boxes over the next couple of weeks, no? They usually do slow burns for big release that take a month or so.

Hopefully they include a start collecting set with a Canoness, a BSS and some Seraphim/Zephyrims.

When, in the entire history of GW, have they released a start collecting box alongside and initial push of a new faction?

Slaves to Darkness?

Okay, they weren't 'new' per say, but in the time of AoS they'd never been a functionally proper army with a 'dex and true support.

Also I'm willing to bet the Army Box's mono pose kits will just end up being what's in the Start Collecting anyway. They'd not make those extremely expensive moulds and do such a limited print-run.

 Arbitrator wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:
They are probably going to release all the boxes over the next couple of weeks, no? They usually do slow burns for big release that take a month or so.

Hopefully they include a start collecting set with a Canoness, a BSS and some Seraphim/Zephyrims.

When, in the entire history of GW, have they released a start collecting box alongside and initial push of a new faction?

Slaves to Darkness?

Okay, they weren't 'new' per say, but in the time of AoS they'd never been a functionally proper army with a 'dex and true support.

Also I'm willing to bet the Army Box's mono pose kits will just end up being what's in the Start Collecting anyway. They'd not make those extremely expensive moulds and do such a limited print-run.

slavesd to darkness though didn't get anything else, there was no say... wave of new chaos warrior kits released around the same time.

 Arbitrator wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Crazyterran wrote:
They are probably going to release all the boxes over the next couple of weeks, no? They usually do slow burns for big release that take a month or so.

Hopefully they include a start collecting set with a Canoness, a BSS and some Seraphim/Zephyrims.

When, in the entire history of GW, have they released a start collecting box alongside and initial push of a new faction?

Slaves to Darkness?

Okay, they weren't 'new' per say, but in the time of AoS they'd never been a functionally proper army with a 'dex and true support.

Also I'm willing to bet the Army Box's mono pose kits will just end up being what's in the Start Collecting anyway. They'd not make those extremely expensive moulds and do such a limited print-run.

They had allegiance abilities and plastic models. They were a complete, if under supported army. They even had NEW plastics like Archaon and Varanguard for years. They also ALREADY had a SC! box. It's not really comparable.

the SoB box includes 1 HQ, 1 unit of troops. 1 fast attack, 1 elites and 2 heavy support, that's a bit much for a SC box, on the other hand it'd be a great starter box for a new sisters player. heck the monopose options aren't even all that bad (flamer and storm bolter makes for a decent close range support squad) drop the codex and cards from it and you can proably cut it down to maybe 120 USDs (remember the codex is a CE codex)

BrianDavion wrote:
the SoB box includes 1 HQ, 1 unit of troops. 1 fast attack, 1 elites and 2 heavy support, that's a bit much for a SC box, on the other hand it'd be a great starter box for a new sisters player. heck the monopose options aren't even all that bad (flamer and storm bolter makes for a decent close range support squad) drop the codex and cards from it and you can proably cut it down to maybe 120 USDs (remember the codex is a CE codex)

The fact they're a mono pose fixed sprue ala shadowspear fits with idea that it could become a start collecting box in the future. They'll get all they can from those molds.

Dudeface wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:
the SoB box includes 1 HQ, 1 unit of troops. 1 fast attack, 1 elites and 2 heavy support, that's a bit much for a SC box, on the other hand it'd be a great starter box for a new sisters player. heck the monopose options aren't even all that bad (flamer and storm bolter makes for a decent close range support squad) drop the codex and cards from it and you can proably cut it down to maybe 120 USDs (remember the codex is a CE codex)

The fact they're a mono pose fixed sprue ala shadowspear fits with idea that it could become a start collecting box in the future. They'll get all they can from those molds.

yeah it's a bit odd, I was looking at my sprues and aside from removing the canonness there's no real way they can downsize it for a more normal SC box too. they all share sprues.

 Dryaktylus wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

Out of all the models in the army that I could use(not counting the order locked character) it's among last ones I ones I would pick up before I have playable army painted up

Do get it eventually though. Just not before I have actual 2k+ sisters painted up.

While I bought the box I don't have any plans to start an army. It's enough for Kill Team or some Necromunda scenario and with this in mind I'll get Arco Flagellants and maybe Repentia for some conversions. And the Triumph. Why? The individual models are just ace. The kit is (for me) a great loot box.

The box is nice yes and come around march/april i'm sure i'm getting one. Just the one kit i would not have hoped for 1st week release. The canoness box would have been so much more flexible. And doesn't take like 2 weeks to paint

I wouldn't be surprised if the Triumph is in the pricier scale as it is a large HQ kit. Katakros is probably the closest similar kit and is 65 pounds.

Probably won't buy one yet. Would rather finish a core army before going for such a set piece.

yeah proably which means what 100 bucks USD? (and 130 in Canadian funny money) course this being 40K I expect us to pay a bit more so... I figure the triumph'll be 150 canadian bucks.

Luckly for me it's not something I plan on using inb my list (although I wanna snag one to paint up for my display case)

I expect it to be Black Coach-level pricing.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I expect it to be Black Coach-level pricing.

the coach and Katakros are roughly the same price (coach is ten bucks Canadian more) so yeah somewhere in that ballpark as I said I expect the triumph might be a little more pricy so I'm figuring 150 Canabucks, if it's cheaper hey I'm pleasently suprised.

How much of the new codex is covered by existing models? Celestine is an obvious one, but what about the random stuff like Preachers?

 xttz wrote:
How much of the new codex is covered by existing models? Celestine is an obvious one, but what about the random stuff like Preachers?

Celestine, precher, missionary, death cult assasin, crusader are what you can buy right now. Rhino if you want plain one without sob symbols.

 xttz wrote:
How much of the new codex is covered by existing models? Celestine is an obvious one, but what about the random stuff like Preachers?

almost none, even among the existing mini's only celestine is really a modern mini, preachers/missionaries and the other eclissiarchy stuff likely won't see an update but they're all old finecast models that could conceviably be updated

Likely get one of each of the new releases - use the special dice for miracle dice

Some sprues from Warcom today, needs someone with a more awake brain to unravel what is going on:





Article here:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/01/06/the-manifold-blessings-of-multipart-kitsgw-homepage-post-1/

Warhammer Community wrote:The Battle Sisters and Retributors kits were among the first steps towards that end, as they enable you to assemble units of Battle Sisters, Celestians, Dominions and Retributors with all of their respective weapon options.

Didn't the leaked sprue pics show that the Battle Sisters Squad didn't come with a multi-melta (or are they claiming both kits combined cover all options)?

beast_gts wrote:

Warhammer Community wrote:The Battle Sisters and Retributors kits were among the first steps towards that end, as they enable you to assemble units of Battle Sisters, Celestians, Dominions and Retributors with all of their respective weapon options.

Didn't the leaked sprue pics show that the Battle Sisters Squad didn't come with a multi-melta (or are they claiming both kits combined cover all options)?

That's exactly what it seems to be implying.

Just a slight bit down from your pulled quote:

Joe Tomaszewski: That’s right, I worked with Israel Gonzalez (who designed the Retributors kit) to make sure that both sets complemented each other. This went all the way from making the torsos, heads and weapon arms as interchangeable as possible to ensuring that all of the weapon options available to each unit were covered. For example, the multi-melta from the Retributors kit can fit on some of the standard Battle Sister torsos, so you can give the squad some anti-tank capability. The same applies to the various Superiors for each unit, we wanted to include the huge variety of wargear available to them.

Given that the sprue shown is for 3 out of the 10 Battle Sisters in a box and it has four special weapons(2 meltaguns and 2 flamers) alongside of the Simulacrum Imperialis? I think these sprues might be kinda packed.

not bothered about the dice.

I'll probably get a box of Sisters to start with, maybe some more Arcos since they're cheap (points) and easy to paint. Want the Triumph, but I'm in no rush. We'll see how the prices are and how my wallet is holding up. Gonna need a few BSS boxes, but one will let me fill out 3 Troops and use the left over 5 as a specialist squad (4 Storm Bolter Ret squad maybe?) and add to the army later.

I'm looking forward to the characters getting released, I definitely want some of them. Imagifiers are going to take up a couple of Elites slots. Not too concerned by more HQs right now, got the Canoness from the box, and Tad McPurity from BSF. Could use 5 more Repentia, but since I imagine they'll be a box of 10 so I am looking at 3rd party sources for some.

beast_gts wrote:

Warhammer Community wrote:The Battle Sisters and Retributors kits were among the first steps towards that end, as they enable you to assemble units of Battle Sisters, Celestians, Dominions and Retributors with all of their respective weapon options.

Didn't the leaked sprue pics show that the Battle Sisters Squad didn't come with a multi-melta (or are they claiming both kits combined cover all options)?

I read that as together the 2 box allow to do that. Ergo since you can swap heavy weapons around betwen kits you have all the options. Unusual move for GW(standard would be no multi melta for basic squads with this kit spread).

32.5£ for retribution, 35£ for basic squad and was it 60£ for triumph. No happy surprise on prices. Ah well. 4 basic squads and 2 retribution boxes it is.


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Oh and Warhammer 40k facebook team replied to my comment saying 2 of each heavy weapons in retribution box. Good good. Was somewhat worried heavy weapons are just what is shown but there's some spares. 2 boxes will give me enough to start with. More in future

So there appears to be two meltas, two flamers and two storm bolters for the regular Sister kit. Finger's crossed that the two Sisters on that same section of sprue aren't the only two that have compatible sets of arms.

The Triumph of Saint Katherine is 85€, the same as Katakros.

The basic sister squad I believe is 45€ (Like Intercessors) and the Retributors are 42,50€ or something like that.

Acro Flagellant got their own kit but not Deathcult Assassins? ;(

Didn't Deathcult Assassins get a new model in one of the recent Blackstone Fortress sets? Also there was a plastic Crusader too iirc.

tneva82 wrote:

Oh and Warhammer 40k facebook team replied to my comment saying 2 of each heavy weapons in retribution box. Good good. Was somewhat worried heavy weapons are just what is shown but there's some spares. 2 boxes will give me enough to start with. More in future

Why exactly did you ask?

The sprue that is shown off on the Community Page is one Retributor sprue, like the Battle Sisters. It looks like they went the Havoc route, and it will probably be 3 sprues broken down into something similar to this:
-Superior with her options and One Retributor(the sprue we saw today)
-One sprue with one Retributor and the Cherubs
-One sprue with two Retributors


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 xttz wrote:
Didn't Deathcult Assassins get a new model in one of the recent Blackstone Fortress sets? Also there was a plastic Crusader too iirc.

Kill Team: Rogue Trader had the 'not Death Cult Assassin'.

The plastic Crusader can't be separated, as like all the Explorers for Blackstone Fortress he's on a shared frame.