Plastic Sisters of battle

I am hearing rumors of plastic sisters of battle, but these wont be coming out for a long time, if they even do. So for now I must resort to conversions....

Since I want my army to be diverse but still look uniform, I have decided to convert atleast 1 squad of ten sisters of battle using plasticard, green stuff, and various plastic parts. Now you may be wondering when you see this list why I would not just buy the 40 dollar sisters of battle set, instead of buying several sets at 30 bucks for bits, now this is where EBAY comes in, search warhammer bits in ebay, and there ya go. So this is just an idea at this stage, I will be converting sisters repentia and posting a how to, 9and possibly a vid too...

So heres what I am thinking.

1.) I need bodies. The eldar guardian pack contains 2 female bodies. Now on ebay you can pick up 8 torsos for less then 4 bucks, with the other torsos I will either trade them with my other eldar buddies who are increasing their army size, or use them in my eldar army, win win.
2.) legs, I would also here just use eldar legs they look very similar. seriously they do.
3.) for arms I dont know, probably still go with the eldar guardian arms or any other arm bits you can get for cheap off of ebay.
4.) for the back pack I would suggest you sculpt 1 out of green stuff, and mold it, for mold you want to use a 1 to 1 RTV silicon mold, and a 1 to 1 plastic resin. remember to use mold release, (If you have questions about how to mold leave a comment and I will get back to you)
5.) For the helmet/ head, use any femal head, or have fun with conversions or sculpt your own helm, or make all your sisters hooded, that may look cool...
6.) weapons, ebay again, use chaos or space marine ones, It dont really matter.
7.) Robes, sisters wear robes, for the robes I would just cover up your eldar body parts with green stuff.
8.) shoulder pads, have fun with these, green stuff may be the best alternative.

Sisters of Battle vs Space Marine Tactics

So I recently played my first game with my sisters of battle yesterday. I learned several things just from my first battle, but also keep in mind these tactics are just stuff I learned after playing only one game of sisters of battle.

1.) Seraphem - These are amazing. I really did not want them at first but I am now seeing how effective they are. Strap them up with melta bombs and honestly as of right now I would not give them any upgrades besides that. I used them as dreadnaught hunting. I ended up killing a rhino in close combat and then killed his dreadnaught in close combat, all thanks to the wonderful things called melta bombs. In the future I plan on seeing their usefulness as anti infantry (seeing that they can have flamers :) but as for now they are my anti tank specialists)

2.) Flame throwers - strong attack that auto hits, what more can you ask for. These are great. For me they took out a full tac squad of 6 space marines just with two flamers.

3.) Arbites, not storm troopers - My storm troopers really did not do much for me this game. Yes rapid fire hellguns are pretty good, but they just did not do much. Sure my shot gun wielding arbits did not do much, but the flame throwers sure did :)

4.) Exorcists (did not do anything) - I was disapointed by this vehicle. I was told by every body I knew and every forum that these are the best things you can have... This was not so. The entire game my budies predator and my exorcist traded shots doing absolutely nothing. Now I am not saying don't take exorcists, they obviously are fairly strong after surviving 4 turns of predator shooting, but I would use them to take out dreadnaughts and rhinos, not predators, and defiently not landraiders.

5.) Sisters of Battle Squads of Twenty - Having more troops helped me, but I think having 10 sisters in a rhino could be better, but I dont know yet.

6.) Make sure you fully understand the rules for sarephem, how they can leap out of assaults and such.

7.) USE FAITH POINTS - I had 7 faith points at beginning of game, I lost 1 squad of seraphem, at the end of the game I had 8 faith points, I did not use any of my faith points.

8.) THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE! - Keep your sisters between 12- 7 inches from the enemy. Assault and sisters of battle do not mix.... EVER. Sisters suck in assault end of discussion.


In conclusion, after this first game I have decided I am for sure on witch hunters. This game I used space marines to represent sisters of battle. Sisters of battle are awesome Just keep them out of close combat with space marines.

Witch Hunters

I am starting a witch hunter army. I am looking at creating a 5000 point army of witch hunters... Now many of you reading this will say how, due to the fact that sisters of battle (and also every freaking witch hunter model save the immolator) is metal! Here are my ways around that....

1.) IG are hopefully releasing plastic storm troopers, if not I will be pissed. This will help fill up a major section of my army which I want to include a ton of storm troopers and arbites.

2.) Convert! - look at the sisters repentia. they are awesome, but 45 bucks plus shipping due to direct buy only, thats going to make it quite the price for 10 figs. Now my way around it. Get some green stuff from the net, I recommend www.miniwargaming.com especially when they are on sale, also its 18.95 (US dollars) for 200 grams plus shipping which is like 12 bucks US. This is way cheap! 200 grams! Ok so continuing of with Converting. Take some green stuff, some daemonette bodies (buy just the bodies on ebay search "daemonette bits") and you should find them. Next choop the feet, sculpt feet, convert head (sculpt or just use daemonette heads, and convert some arms, maybe even use daemonette arms, then find a chain sword (If you are an IG player you should have tons!, lengthen the handle, and well ya... this is confusing I will put on instructions for how to do it later.

3.) Inquisition Codex? - Rumors have been floating around of an Inquistion codex, which hopefully means plastic grey knights, sisters, and witch hunters!

4.) Scratch Build - Scratch building tanks out of foam, plastic card, paper or mixes of all these. I will post picks of them later.

5.) EBAY - enough said

Now here is my plan for a 1500 point army very brief not finished yet...

HQ

Cannoness- Bolt pistol, blessed weapon, cloak of St aspira, litanies of faith, jump pack
Cannoness-Inferno pistol, cloak of St aspira, eviscerator, jump pack

Elites

Sisters repentia – 10 with mistress included in 10 and 1 priests -250 Pts

Troops

Battle sister squad-VS and 9 sisters, flamer, meltagun, book of st lucius, rhino with extra armor

Inquisitorial Storm Troopers Squad – Vet and 11storm troopers , with 2 flame, with chimera with heavy flamer turret, and heavy flamer hull weapon

Arbites Squad – Vet and 11Arbites , with 2 flame, with chimera with heavy flamer turret, and heavy flamer hull weapon.

Fast Attack

Dominion squad-VS, 4 w/ flamers and in imollator

Heavy Support

Exorcist

Total Points 1501 pn

Here is a pic of my army kinda.

The two in the middle are Cannonesses

The troop of 5 in back are seraphim that are proxied assualt marines, and 2 seraphim.

The unit in front are Imperial Guardsmen proxied as arbites.

The unit in front left are dominions that are lead by one sister of battle proxied as a Sister Superior, and then 4 flame throwers. they will bemounted in an Immolator.

The unit in back left are 10 sisters of battle with Sister Supperior.