WarriorFish Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Unfortunately that was my thought too. You never know though... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4106032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thade Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/KaguraHakubi/Forum%20Comments/MikoDrunk_zpsdxodupls.png Seemsh Legit. GO HOME, MIKO. YOU'RE DRUNK. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4106823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xwingt65 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 At least the latest revelation from Atia shows that GW is still thinking about us. More the other way around. They have nixed the name and stuck it onto something else. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4107084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Danse Macabre Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Looks that way sadly. Our names are all we have left damn it! :( Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4127023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sororita Katya Posted August 7, 2015 Author Share Posted August 7, 2015 http://natfka.blogspot.ca/2015/08/sisters-of-battle.html?m=1 Posted in the immolator thread but it's still rumor news Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4139917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 If only it meant something... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4140139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacefrisian Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Well if this is a first answer to a question he send in its more or less a generated answer, its the usual thing to do for companies nowadays. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4140195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Danse Macabre Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Still nice of them to offer to check for backpacks though. :P GW CS is normally spot on, if only their developement team was the same... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4141269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sororita Katya Posted August 22, 2015 Author Share Posted August 22, 2015 http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/08/gw-schedule-the-months-ahead.html We have dissappeared from the rumour mill once more :( Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4153010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sedibear Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 It happens when it happens. :) I'll be honest, though. A part of me loves the fact that we are rare and underestimated. I won a Hive Tyrant off of a campaign league because people didn't realize til halfway that 20 sisters with a priest is near-impossible to shift and/or that our Meltas laugh at jink saves. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4153052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Generally I consider that a good thing these days :P Unless the rumour mill produces something different what do we care? I'd rather hear nothing than the regurgitated rumour we keep getting, that's for any army not just Sisters. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4153110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revarien Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 So is it because sisters sell well, that we don't get a new codex? I only can cite the fact that we're still metal, and if GW doesn't buy any more pewter, we're working off older pewter prices (e.g. higher returns), that they're heavily searched for on ebay (second, only to forgeworld, in the 40k section), and that the 'sister buy-out day' only netted a 24hr sell-out of the figures, quickly replenished. Meaning, they'd only give us a new dex if the margins are too low, or if they need to boost sales? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4156423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Nobody knows the reason, and knowing GW it is likely beyond the ken of mere mortals (or people with sense..? :P ) but we can speculate. General idea is that like the Dark Eldar the Sisters will be a completely new plastic model range, which aside from being a lot of work and expense from GW's end is also quite the roll out with associated risk. It's something they'd surely want to get right and that means at the right time too. I can't say when that might be of course (run up to Christmas?) but there are many factors that could be in play. Perhaps GW are busy with other things, such as AoS? That's a big deal so would understandably be their focus for now. Maybe they want to sort out a few other codices and product lines to settle 40k before taking a bit of a risk? Could it be seen as a reserve to commit when they need an injection? Is the lack of support/lack of uptake a viscous circle that deters GW? For all we know it could be just around the corner, or next year. All we can say for sure is that only GW brass knows, and unfortunately they like to keep schtum on what's coming these days. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4156440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 When I think about why it is like it is, I keep coming around to the idea of a collection of corporate suits looking at all-female religious fanatics and getting nervous about pushing a if release of that in today's sensitive social reality. Other than that, I really don't get it. The Ministorum and friends is a really underused aspect of the franchise for something that has such a huge influence over the lives of Imperials. Nuns with guns and crazed battle popes are cool. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4156679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sororita Katya Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 I have the opposite view, currently GW is looked down upon from a sexual equality perspective. If they released a set of armored robed girls that are competitive and fun then that would help them on a social scale. We have all had the discussion where it is hard to find good replacement models from other companies because they are overly sexualised. Secondly with the release of skitarii, ad mech, imperial knight and inquisition, they have really started to flesh out the series. And yet they seem to want to leave these on the side...my only guess would be to not have a religiously motivated group, but even that sounds like a silly excuse when a large portion of the western world (GW's audience) are christian or religious. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4156705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 These "suits" don't give a monkeys about the details, to them Sisters are likely little more than "product line #26" with an associated risk of redoing the whole range. I very much doubt any of the honchos know much less care about the fluff, so I don't think that's worth considering as an angle especially when there are plenty of business reasons for the wait. Given the latest efforts I think there's more argument to that GW doesn't really care about fluff any more... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4156775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Perils Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I have the opposite view, currently GW is looked down upon from a sexual equality perspective. If they released a set of armored robed girls that are competitive and fun then that would help them on a social scale. We have all had the discussion where it is hard to find good replacement models from other companies because they are overly sexualised. Secondly with the release of skitarii, ad mech, imperial knight and inquisition, they have really started to flesh out the series. And yet they seem to want to leave these on the side...my only guess would be to not have a religiously motivated group, but even that sounds like a silly excuse when a large portion of the western world (GW's audience) are christian or religious. That, plus most of the other armies in the game could arguably be called religious fanatics (in particular, Imperials, Chaos, Eldar and Tau). Also, they continue to argue that they are a models company before anything else, and sisters of battle aren't necessarily overtly religious when just looking at the models. The only thing with religious connotations on the model (that aren't found on any others in 40k) are those bead necklaces/belts. These "suits" don't give a monkeys about the details, to them Sisters are likely little more than "product line #26" with an associated risk of redoing the whole range. I very much doubt any of the honchos know much less care about the fluff, so I don't think that's worth considering as an angle especially when there are plenty of business reasons for the wait. Given the latest efforts I think there's more argument to that GW doesn't really care about fluff any more... I'm not sure about that (the argument that GW aren't interested in the fluff): after all, they've just been releasing knights, and admech, that have always (pretty much) been in the fluff. Whilst there is clearly a good reason for them to come out with Knights (at the moment, big models=big cash I get the impression), there seems to be much less sense from a corporate point of view to come out with not one but two completely new lines of infantry models, which must have necessitated a lot more work than new sisters would have, since the concepts, models and rules are totally new: that also means more risk of course. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4156799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 I was referring to the "different" quality of it shall we say... Not that GW's fluff has ever been amazing but it feels like the recent additions have been poorer. Maybe lack of talent or interest I have no idea, or perhaps my hobby veteran status showing :P Every "big" event (AdMech, AoS) is likely to push SoB back as you say, because it makes no sense to take more than one risk at a time. This shouldn't necessarily be seen as a bad thing - the AdMech shows that GW isn't afraid of risks (leaving AoS aside as it's a different kettle of fish), and that's an entirely new range too so perhaps beady eyes have turned to potential sales that a revitalised Sisters line could generate? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4156820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacefrisian Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Its called "forging the narative" right? and anything that was forged as a narative in the eye of terror campaign...well that never happened so they also destroy that in the same breath...yeah right Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308811-sisters-rumours/page/6/#findComment-4156826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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