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 Mr Morden wrote:

 Graphite wrote:
Huh. After the trailer I was hoping for some SoBs in the box, which would have made it a definite buy. Without... not so sure.

I guess three factions (4 with a single Cadian girl ;0 ) would be a bit much plus we have had alot of Sisters models recently and getting new one shortly but yeah their prominance in the vid and general advertising was a pleasent suprise and might have people asking - so where can I get Sisters models - hopefully!

the impression I get is sisters, at least for 9th edition are getting near equal billing to space marines as a poster boy army in terms of advertising. I know this is just ancadotal but sisters seems to be one of the most popular new army choices for 40k from the folks I talk to. and it's worth notiung that the basic SOB troops box was one of the first things GW sold out of. so yeah, the future for sisters is bright

The Sisters of Battle Box came up on Wednesday and was sold out again by Thursday.

So yeah, it's been crazy how popular they are. At least I have enough right now for a smaller list (not that I can get any games in right now anyways).

The sisters range has always been hugely expensive in $ to points ratios, and they just invested a lot of money in re-doing it, making it even more expensive in the process. I'm sure GW wants to get as many people playing it as they possibly can. But starter boxes are always space marines + somebody, that's just how 40k works. 40k is always "Space Marines and friends."

I'm fairly sure that 2000 points of sisters didn't get more expensive compared to the single metal models.

If the rate it sells out is anything to go by, it's probably one of their most popular armies now. I wonder if they will make a Start Collecting to go alongside the release - a Cannoness, a BSS, and a/a pair of Penitent Engine(s), I would imagine?

Well, no. But that's because those were old single metal models. And even some of those are still cheaper than the new kits, incredibly.

The prices on the plastic kits are quite remarkable even by GW's normal standards. A sisters rhino is $60. It's like a bad joke.

It's not GSC acolyte hybrid level ridiculousness - nothing is GSC acolyte hybrid level ridiculousness - but it's still pretty egregious.

yukishiro1 wrote:
Well, no. But that's because those were old single metal models. And even some of those are still cheaper than the new kits, incredibly.

The prices on the plastic kits are quite remarkable even by GW's normal standards. A sisters rhino is $60. It's like a bad joke.

It's not GSC acolyte hybrid level ridiculousness - nothing is GSC acolyte hybrid level ridiculousness - but it's still pretty egregious.

Previously an entire army would easily cost you more than $2000, please elaborate how many rhinos do you deem mandatory to reach such numbers with plastic kits.

 Jidmah wrote:

Previously an entire army would easily cost you more than $2000.

how?
previously (are we talking about 2013/14 or earlier?) before the price increased a full metal Sisters Army was 600€, less if you added more vehicles and did not used the 10 model boxes but bought the individual ones

 kodos wrote:

 Jidmah wrote:

Previously an entire army would easily cost you more than $2000.

how?
previously (are we talking about 2013/14 or earlier?) before the price increased a full metal Sisters Army was 600€, less if you added more vehicles and did not used the 10 model boxes but bought the individual ones

I started collecting Sisters around 2009-2010 and they were already expensive then. There were no more boxes then, just blisters, at least in the US warehouse.

But this has next to nothing to do with 9th.

 Graphite wrote:
Huh. After the trailer I was hoping for some SoBs in the box, which would have made it a definite buy. Without... not so sure.

Why would you think there would be three factions in the box?

Sisters are a "featured army" because the new trailer shows them almost as much as the other two factions and they're a newly redone faction.

The most Sisters can hope for is a Start Collecting box at the start of 9th.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
The most Sisters can hope for is a Start Collecting box at the start of 9th.

It's basically guaranteed they are getting one this year. Sisters, Harlequin, Ossiarch Bonereapers, Nighthaunt, and the Stormcast's Sacrosanct Chamber are the only ones off the top of my head that will not have them once the Death Guard+Primaris stuff gets split out into SC boxes.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
The most Sisters can hope for is a Start Collecting box at the start of 9th.

I thought that and then we got Daemonfuge.....

 Jidmah wrote:

yukishiro1 wrote:
Well, no. But that's because those were old single metal models. And even some of those are still cheaper than the new kits, incredibly.

The prices on the plastic kits are quite remarkable even by GW's normal standards. A sisters rhino is $60. It's like a bad joke.

It's not GSC acolyte hybrid level ridiculousness - nothing is GSC acolyte hybrid level ridiculousness - but it's still pretty egregious.

Previously an entire army would easily cost you more than $2000, please elaborate how many rhinos do you deem mandatory to reach such numbers with plastic kits.

Uh if you bought new in unopened OOP blisters, maybe. But who would do that? You could easily buy a full army of unpainted metal sisters minis for less than half that. And the whole thing about metal minis is that they're just as good whether the blister has been opened or not.

When GW released the new sisters kits, they took the opportunity to price them even higher than their other plastic kits.

I don't know what this has to do with the topic, though. The point was GW has every incentive to try to get people to buy a range they just came out with that is at an even more premium price point than most of their products.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
The most Sisters can hope for is a Start Collecting box at the start of 9th.

Or in the other starter sets. We've seen the contents for the big one, but there's a chance they'll turn up in the smaller starter packs if they do that again.
No guarantee they're just going to be cut down versions of the big one, if those sets sold well last time.

yukishiro1 wrote:
Uh if you bought new in unopened OOP blisters, maybe. But who would do that? You could easily buy a full army of unpainted metal sisters minis for less than half that. And the whole thing about metal minis is that they're just as good whether the blister has been opened or not.

No, I'm talking about the blisters that GW was still selling.
I'd like to point out that you are complaining about how new unopened rhinos are too expensive and at the same time suggesting that you can buy models second hand. Seriously?

I'd like to point out I don't know why you're so annoyed that someone noted that the new Sisters plastic sets are even more expensive than GW's other plastic kits.

But if you really want to get into this for some inexplicable reason...unpainted metal minis are exactly the same whether they're in the blister or not. Plastic kits are not. And you cannot find second-hand versions of the new sisters kits anyway, because they just came out.

This is just such a truly weird thing to get a bee in your bonnet about.

Especially in this thread, where it really doesn't apply?

Anyway, I was hoping to learn more than we did about terrain in 9th edition, but hopefully it will all be clear and easy to understand when the rules are released.

Or a few days after that, when the errata and FAQs are released.

 Tastyfish wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
The most Sisters can hope for is a Start Collecting box at the start of 9th.

Or in the other starter sets. We've seen the contents for the big one, but there's a chance they'll turn up in the smaller starter packs if they do that again.

The key with the starter is that it remains in production. Battle boxes (e.g., Forgebane) and most anything else that can be considered a starter are usually limited editions and are sold out the day that they're released.

BrianDavion wrote:
the impression I get is sisters, at least for 9th edition are getting near equal billing to space marines as a poster boy army in terms of advertising.

Well, GW explicitly told us they want to have more female characters (see sig link) and they have stuck (for now) with the "No female marines" lore. I think this is the reason why we got Sisters of Battle in the trailer. Honestly, I don't mind if this means we get more Sisters of Battle, because I think Sisters of Battle are all kind of awesome. But I don't think GW is ready to put nearly enough resources into Sisters of Battle as a line as they do with marines. I don't think we are ever going to see a starter box with Sisters instead of Marines, for instance. I don't think we will see multiple Sisters of Battle codex, nor do I want that. So I expect it won't work for GW in the long run, therefore I think they will add some lore about Primaris procedure working for marines, and relegate Sisters to the background once again.
My two cents.

You know that they have easy to build Sisters as a product potential right? That's what came in the army box last year.

 Kanluwen wrote:
You know that they have easy to build Sisters as a product potential right? That's what came in the army box last year.

Honest that army box has potential to be a good start collecting box.

It's what I expect to be the Start Collecting set. I was really hoping they would have brought the Deathwatch Overkill set's GSC half back as theirs...but the numbers on the units would have been funky.

I need 3 sets of 9 bikes. Got to stay under that 10 model threshold so blast don’t take whole models out.

 Uriels_Flame wrote:
I need 3 sets of 9 bikes. Got to stay under that 10 model threshold so blast don’t take whole models out.

It's under 11 models, not 10...

Outstanding

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Graphite wrote:
Huh. After the trailer I was hoping for some SoBs in the box, which would have made it a definite buy. Without... not so sure.

I guess three factions (4 with a single Cadian girl ;0 ) would be a bit much plus we have had alot of Sisters models recently and getting new one shortly but yeah their prominance in the vid and general advertising was a pleasent suprise and might have people asking - so where can I get Sisters models - hopefully!

Wouldn't have been four factions. Would have been two - Necrons, and Space Marines with a detachment of Sisters & Guard allies. Why not teach how allies work in the starter set?

I doubt it, not with all the changes to discourage soup armies.
However, what if Sisters and Guard are getting easy to build kits soon, like the etb Redemptor and Aggressors, which are designed to build upon the new starter box?

So today is the day, we finally find out that the contents of the starter are what's been in the OP for the last 3 weeks.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
So today is the day, we finally find out that the contents of the starter are what's been in the OP for the last 3 weeks.

yeah and we start getting things like names, what they are etc.