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BrianDavion wrote:
my gut feeling is old marines won't go anywhere, UNLESS people stop buying them. if people stop buying them and the line is no longer profitable then, and only then will GW phase them out

Which unfortunately falls under the heading of "self-fulfilling prophecy". Of course sales of the Classic Marine line are going to drop off as existing players switch to picking up the new stuff and newer players get increasingly advised that the old line is probably going to go away.

   
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 Kriswall wrote:
My expectation is that the timeline will look roughly like this...

1. Primaris Marines are introduced.
2. New Primaris versions of existing battlefield roles are released and named characters are upgraded to Primaris status.
3. New Codex Space Marines Codex released featuring only Primaris. All old style Marines moved to a "Legends" style book/pdf.

Right now we're on step 2. I assume step 3 will happen EVENTUALLY, but it's likely years out. Once step 3 happens, the tournament scene will likely stop allowing the old style Marines and Primaris will have "taken over".


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mrFickle wrote:
Sure I appreciate the hybrid approach and I am looking at ways of doing this that satisfy my head cannon.

It’s no so much the introduction of Primaris into my army that Concerns me but the phasing out of the old models. We have characters like mephiston become Primaris, will more follow or will he replace the golden boy as the leader of the BA.

I just think it’s a bold move that I’m struggling meg to believe will actually take place especially when people have spent 20 - 55 pound on characters or vehicles. Primaris won’t fit in the raven wing vehicles


To use the example of the Ravenwing... you really just need a Primaris Biker unit, a Primaris Attack Bike and a Primaris Landspeeder. If the rumors are to be believed, all of those are on the way. At that point, all new recruits (who will be Primaris) are handed the keys to a new "Bigboi"-pattern Astartes Bike and the Ravenwing becomes 100% Primaris through attrition over the course of maybe a few hundred years.


Primaris Speeders and bikes are already on the way at some point if the terribly pixelated "leaked" image is anything to go by.

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