EnTyme wrote:
It would give you the option of making a battleforged list out of these factions without using an Allied Detachment.

 EnTyme wrote:
You could have SoB, Deathwatch, and GKs in the same list with only one HQ slot used.

 EnTyme wrote:
As far as SoB goes, I think this would actually force GW to update them. Do you really think GW wouldn't release new models to sell with the new rules?

 Captain Joystick wrote:
Why would I be so averse to taking an allied detachment?

 Captain Joystick wrote:
These forces do not work closely together.

 Captain Joystick wrote:
GW has released several new digital sisters codexes and has pointedly discontinued models that feature in them.

 EnTyme wrote:
Normally, you are right, but Inquisitors from different Ordos often are forced to work together, so it makes sense that they might occasionally need to combine their special forces divisions from time to time.

 EnTyme wrote:
I'm optimistic that GW's survival instinct will kick in some day and they will eventually start listening to the player base. Honestly, I just think that the Adepta Sororitas has some of the best and most underutilized fluff in the game, and I'm trying to think of new ways to get them back on the tabletop.

 Captain Joystick wrote:
You are literally describing an alliance right now.

 Captain Joystick wrote:
Reducing them to inquisitorial henchmen would be the rock bottom of their current downhill journey. Even having them discontinued is preferable.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Sisters aren't an Inquisition army, why would they be in the book?

EnTyme wrote:The Sisters of Battle are often requisitioned from the Ecclesiarchy to be used as Acolytes. This doesn't make them "henchmen" any more than a Tactical Marine is a henchman of his chapter. The Sisters consider it part of their duty to serve the Inquisition when they are called upon. It gives them ample opportunity to purge heretics. Believe me, I would rather the Adepta Sororitas get a full re-release with a 7.5 edition Codex and a complete line of fine-detailed plastic models including new vehicles and six new HQs. That's the ideal situation, but GW isn't going to do it until we can prove that it's profitable for them to do so. Maybe this could be step one to that end.

Blacksails wrote:

They're the militant arm of the ordo hereticus, makes sense to include them in an Inq book for a codex representing the fighting forces of the Inquisition. Same way GK and DW makes sense to be included.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

Lance845 wrote:
I think a single inquisition book with GK, Inq, and Sisters would be really good idea. DW should be a different thing, probably better a part of codex space marines instead of anything else.

Why? Deathwatch really are categorically an Inquisitional unit. Even more than Grey Knights, if any other force belongs in an Inquisition codex, it's the Deathwatch.

Sisters of Battle have a fairly unique force which is a little light on the number of available units, but would be a fine dex with proper points-to-power ratio and a few key additions - the Repressor and a flyer of their own - say the Avenger Strike Fighter, which is a sweet looking plane (bought one for a Sisters-playing friend). GW could even release a combo Immolator-Repressor kit. Plastics would be good, but I imagine most Sisters players would be content if GW maintained the current range and brought the army list up to 7.5 standards, with a Decurion and a few formations.

I actually kind of wonder of GW isn't neglecting Sisters on purpose so they can make a big splash with a re-release, the way they did with Dark Eldar. I'm not saying they neglected DE on purpose for the effect of the splashy re-release, but when they did it they got a pretty good response, so maybe they're trying to duplicate their good luck. I don't have any special inside information suggesting this one way or another, it's just a hypothesis.