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I'm probably one of the few people out there who avoid anything human related when it comes to collecting the minitures... I'm positive my little warband would be mauled on the tabletop... Stupid Space Marines getting all the love and glory.

Do you think they'll have anything Abhuman related in the near future? Yes, it is off-topic but I thought I'd ask, anyway.

 Selym wrote:
It's what they seem to release in general. If it's a SM update, there will be lots of SM updates, and lots of SM. If it's a Xenos update, it almost always comes with more SM.

And dont forget: every new edition is followed closely by the newest SM codex.

So wait, Space Marines gets a standard codex and other individual codexs for specific Chapters? If that's the case, why don't they at least do the same for others, like different Craftworlds, for example? I never seen specific codex for a certain Craftworld before.

30k started as a marines-only game, and it surpassed the whole of WHFB in a fairly short time period. People like marines, and it is in GW's best interests to continually feed into that.

Just asking them to stop focusing on marines with the vague promise that people will buy other armies just as much is foolish.

I know and I'm not asking them to divert away from Space Marines but it couldn't hurt to explore with other popular factions, mainly the Eldar? You have the Dark Eldar and Harlequins, which I'm more then grateful but different Craftworlds, that's a whole other ball game.

Anyway, I'm getting off topic here, my bad.

Benny Badmen wrote:
I know and I'm not asking them to divert away from Space Marines but it couldn't hurt to explore with other popular factions, mainly the Eldar? You have the Dark Eldar and Harlequins, which I'm more then grateful but different Craftworlds, that's a whole other ball game.

Anyway, I'm getting off topic here, my bad.

I wasn't trying to single you out, our posts just happened to coincide. I agree with you too, they could certainly test the waters more by releasing subfactions for some of the xenos factions like Orks and Eldar, see how people's wallets react.

Didn't mean to come off defensive; sorry about that.

Yup, it's a damn shame but it always comes down to how the wallet is feeling towards this and that. Maybe if you give the people roided Eldar in Aspect Armor that might drench the boards with everyone's wallets. Hehe

Space Marines are attractive to most starting players simply because they're better than everybody else in the Imperium, they're genetically advanced knights in brightly coloured armour (WHICH YOU CAN MAKE UP!) with huge guns.

Literally I don't know what else there is about Space Marines that wouldn't make you instantly gravitate to them.

Though I do feel sorry for the kids who went, "Look dad! Its Space Marines with demon powers! Get me summa that!" at the dawn of 6th.

Poor kids.

 Orblivion wrote:
30k started as a marines-only game, and it surpassed the whole of WHFB in a fairly short time period. People like marines, and it is in GW's best interests to continually feed into that.

Just asking them to stop focusing on marines with the vague promise that people will buy other armies just as much is foolish.

However it may also be that if Marines have by far the most focus in terms of narrative, imagery, models and rules then people tend to gravitate towards them - self fulfilling prophercy.

Even with the Marines there is a massively disproportinate focus on a very very few chapters which forces GW have to make even more outlandish flavour units so peope have to but them for their current army - Santa Logan and his sleigh for instance rather than actually making the intersting units form the large numebr of Chapters that are ignored in favour of the snowflake Chapters - and I am not talking about obscure Chapters but the First Founding ones that get virtually nothing - how long has it taken to get asingle Iron hands model - and he's Deathwatch - great - but Deathwatch.

The new Deathwatch set is good as at least it not just the same old Chapters.