Sisters of Battle Codex TOMORROW!!!
Games Workshop Digital Productions keeps cranking away… Here’s the latest news on the imminent Sisters of Battle codex and its controversial format.
Straight from Digital Productions:
We know that there are still thousands of Sisters of Battle fans with lovingly painted collections of Sisters of Battle miniatures, but there is no easy way to get hold of a codex to use them in your games. We wanted to provide an up to date codex that would be fully compatible with the current edition of Warhammer 40,000 and let players bring the forces of the Ecclesiarchy to the battlefield once more.
The starting point for this codex was the mini Codex published in White Dwarf (it being the closest to current way of building an army). One thing that you may not know about the White Dwarf codex is that much of the background that was written for it was never put into the magazine due to space restrictions. There is no such issue with digital editions, so much of the background in the digital codex has never been printed before.
The rules of course, have been updated as well. All the newer Codexes contain army-specific Warlord Traits and unique items, and this Codex is no exception.
Existing players will also notice a few other changes, particularly the way Acts of Faith work with your army. There are even a few additions that other newer Codexes don’t have, such as Apocalypse Formations and Altar of War scenarios.
Price: unknown
Pre-orders: 10/11/2013, in iPad and e-book formats ONLY (a “digital codex exclusive”)
First off HOORAY for the updated return of the last ‘missing’ army for 40K. I think it’s a great thing to have the Sororitas back on the tabletop.
That said, I am NOT HAPPY about GW’s decision to have the first occurrence of a core 40K race with a full line of miniatures and a legacy of past codices NOT receive a hardcover book.
So let me get this straight – there is enough revenue potential to print hardcover editions of Iyanden and Farsight, but not for an entire army of Sororitas? GW just said in their own press release there are “thousands of Sisters of Battle fans” – far more than the print runs of some other GW hardbacks out there. I play a PHYSICAL game marketing guys. If I wanted digital-only products, I would just play videogames and walk away from physical wargaming altogether. It’s a bad decision and a bad precedent and I hope it is rapidly reversed.
~What do you think?
