With the release of 9th and the new Indominus boxset, we have the next wave of primaris releases, filling in some of the more obvious gaps in the inventory.
Up until now, primaris units only had plasma and flamers with everything else being dealt with by the old school marines. While we still don't have an answer for foot mounted lascannons, we do now have melta equiped primaris.
Not the best picture but we all get the idea. Long range melta, no doubt with different models, much like Intercessors and Hellblasters.
We also got lots of combat upgrades, with Blade Guard and Assault Intercessors. The blade guard bring storm shield to the masses and Assault Intercessors bring chainswords.
I will say that the Blade Guard do look good and Assault Intercessors (below) definitely carry the assault marine vibe (but where are the jump packs?)
The other new units are the bikes and, not pictured, the Invader ATV, which fill the roles of bikes, assault bikes and land speeders between the two of them.
So where does this leave our old friends, well honestly in a pretty bad spot. From my memory, which is pretty bad, there are really only 3 units or models that don't have some sort of replacement. I've touched on one, the lascannons devastator. As yet there are no primaris Marines equipped with lascannons or similar
I suspect that the new space marine codex will not include any old school marine datasheets. It'll all be primaris.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the land speeder some blurry pics of primaris termintors were floating around at some point. Which just leaves the devastators which I think will get replaced once the multi part kit for the eliminators [Indomitus melta squad] comes out, I suspect they are primaris devastators and will come with a lascannon equiv, and assault intercessors will probably get a jump pack version in the future to stand alongside the inceptors. We'll find out when the codex comes out and GW provide more space marines as they always do.
At that stage I would not be surprised to see classic marines become legacy datashets
I think that this codex will contain data sheets for the old Marines but it will be the last. I agree that the Eliminators will be the new devastators and will get more options with a multi part kit.
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