New Inquisition Minis?
I was snooping around the GW web store again today, and I saw that the Sister of Battle boxed set, the Sisters Repentia boxed set, and the Arco Flagellant boxed set were added to the Grey Knight boxed set as being unavailable for purchase. Despite rumors that the Grey Knights might be simply pulled and the Inquisition armies mothballed permanently, I doubt that they would pull the Repentia and Flagellants from the web store as well. Here are my thoughts on all of these.
- While I’m kinda meh about the Grey Knights, I might change my mind with some decent plastics. The current range seems to be composed entirely of expensive metal models that spontaneously lose arms. Backing up new models with contemporary rules would be kinda sweet too, since half their abilities were either nerfed in the edition change (and so not accounted for in points costs), or were made obsolete by the changes in Daemon terminology.
- I’ve also never been one for the “nuns with guns,” but that’s mostly because the current range of the Sisters of Battle is still reflecting an early 90′s sensibility on the female form, not to mention a very unrefined style of sculpting. 15 years later, it would be nice to see what the newer advances in sculpting talent could come up with. Multi-part plastics seem to be the rage right now and this could be very nice. I wonder how many female space marine conversions we’ll see if the new SoB range is done this way…
- I can’t imagine what GW could do to the Sisters Repentia models to make them cooler. The battle corsets are a bit over the top, and they do seem to be a bit small to be wielding those eviscerators. Based on what GW has done recently, I would assume those would be the things they addressed. Honestly, some of John Blanche’s early work on the Repentia, with armor fragments, flowing parchment robes, and other M41 zaniness, would be really neat to see on a mini. Unless these models really bite, I’ll probably buy at least one pack. No matter what the unimaginative tournament players tell you, Repentia in the current rules are actually rather useful, so the current trend in leaving no “dead” entries in a codex should at least keep them as scary as they should be, if is doesn’t actually make them better.
- Bluntly put, Arco Flagellants need arms that don’t fall off when you look at them cross-wise (or at all, in any way, for that matter). I love the wackiness of cyborg killing machines, but seriously, I rarely play with them these days just so I don’t have to repair and repaint their shoulders after EVERY game. If they fix this, I’m there with twenty. If they don’t…I may release a couple of life-sized real ones at the GW studio and watch the mayhem ensue. No jury in the world would convict me.
