Sisters get no love (40K codex thread)

[TerraMGP]

I'll admit it, I"m not happy with the situation. Its one that seems to be quite common in GW now days too. More and more good armies are getting slapped in the face by the ever changing editions and codex update is at best sporatic. Now I am not saying the people at GW don't do good work, I think they are very passionate. However it does get quite annoying when year after year armies that are 'more popular' get their new updates and Witch hunter, Daemonhunter, Space Wolves and all the others get dropped for the sake of popularity.

Favoritism among GW staff is not new though, and I think we all know that. Taking a look at the DA it becomes clear that they are the 'favored sons' especially when compared to the laundry list of marine armies that have never gotten their own pure and honest codex. for the most part 40K is marching forward with overall concept and the introduction of plastic parts into many new sets. Yet every year sees the rule lists falling further and further behind.

I'm a simple woman, and for most of my run I have played my sisters simply. Flamers and Melta where applicable, an inquisitor with a few Melta torpedos to help hit bottlenecks or otherwise make things harder on my foes, a simple strategy of getting into range and hitting aggressivly to thin numbers regardless of the mission or foe. I don't really use Repentia or Penatence engines or anything of the sort, and never have. Granted I lose more than I win but thus far it has been rather fun and I have not felt TOO gyped in terms of playability.

But I still feel gyped, and I want to know if any of you do as well. I tihnk GW should be getting a few more writers to make a few new codexies for their game. Maybe its bad marketing, but I think that more than anything it would help give those of us who play the lesser-known armies a bit more of that 'they think of us too' feeling, and perhaps draw in some people to buying a new army now and then.

 

[Rajin Cajun]

SoBs suck end of story just a wannabe bunch of Space Marines that lack the external gentalia to be awesome. [/Chauvinism]

DA are favored where the hell have you been? DA got the fuckin shaft from GW just like every non-vanilla chapter of the SM. I mean the DA Deathwing is no longer supported now DA players are forced to pretty much play Ravenwing which means they might as well be Raven Guard...except Raven Guard are better. If you want to run flamers and melta you might as well play Salamanders. In fact the only love being shown now is to Ultrasmurfs who according to the new SM Codex walk on water.

Oh yeah and I don't want to hear whining from a SoB player since my Space Wolf codex is almost older then most SoB players.

 

[imperialwar]

My memory fails me at the moment, but i am pretty sure the Dark Angels were the first chapter created in fluff terms. Hence the favored sons aspect.

I have never agreed with several things about GW. Namely their pricing policies. Thankfully though wihtout trying to hard it is possible to get the models at greatly reduced prices.

The production of Codexes has been a bit of a gripe for me as well.
By the time they get all the Codexes done, normally not long after a new version comes out causing us to have to go through it all again.

In a games system that insists on WYSIWYG i am appaled that some more obscure units arent even realesed for some armies. Or that alterations to a core unit / troop choice aren't included on the frames.

Power creep is an unholy blight on the GW systems and probably always will be.

Hmm, rant much. I go now

 

[TerraMGP]

Funny, cause I can hold my own pretty well against my cousins wolves. As for the DA all I really know is that they keep getting their codex updated and that the one DA player I know can't stop drooling over each new one. Frankly don't care about them too much though, or any other SM chapter. I have one army I will play and I like it.

Still I think your missing the overall point, and if you want it perhaps you should read Imperialwar's post because he hit it dead on.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Let's take an economic viewpoint into perspective. I've got nothing against the Sisters, to start off. For the past few years and especially the past three months, the world's economies have been faltering. If GW can't afford to pay its employees without dropping an army, which army would you drop? The least popular one. Now, about the Codexes, you're right. Getting a new one every year is necessary but just annoying as hell. The plastic figurine issue I have no stance on because I don't know the majority of the story.

 

[DeusFps]

I think they could afford to pay a few more staff to write a new codex.. I mean they must be rolling in it..

 

[TerraMGP]

Let's take an economic viewpoint into perspective. I've got nothing against the Sisters, to start off. For the past few years and especially the past three months, the world's economies have been faltering. If GW can't afford to pay its employees without dropping an army, which army would you drop? The least popular one. Now, about the Codexes, you're right. Getting a new one every year is necessary but just annoying as hell. The plastic figurine issue I have no stance on because I don't know the majority of the story.

But its not just a recent trend and not just the sisters. To my knowledge they have not 'dropped' them either. It seems more that they ignore most first founding chapters, the potential variant codexes of the Orks, Sisters, Space wolves update and much much more.

It just seems to me that they have always lavished the attention on some armies while ignoring others. Even ones that would run off of the same overall models.

Still I could half understand with the crunch, but I also think that finding a way to make the same models streach fartehr with a new codex would really help.