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 Crimson wrote:
This sounds really unlikely, but we'll see.

Harry hinted that a ragestorm would ensue, but I really cannot see how slightly tweaked armour design would cause that. Maybe there is a slight scale change as well? On the other hand, that would be incredibly risky, it would invalidate FW's HH line, and risk alienating GW's most important customers, the marine players.

As for new designs, I always liked this concept, especially the shoulderpads and the asymmetrical leg armour.

I would be back into 40K so fast everyone within 100meters of me would get whiplash if their Mk.IX armor looked like that.

I have some pencil sketches of what Advanced SM armor might look like.

It is a sort of cross between the beaky Marines (forget the Mk. ... Mk. VI?) and the Arm Suits from GITS:SAC:SSS

MB

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 Medium of Death wrote:
"GW wants to protect its IP"

"looks like Iron Man's armour"

Stopped reading.

You caught that too 'ay? Yeah. Pretty funny stuff.

His Master's Voice wrote:You people do realize that Iron Man's suit is as generic as they get? And the only things that could be conceivably fought over is the colour scheme and possibly the glowy central part?

Everything else has been used over and over and over in so many different iterations you could not possibly count them all. The goddamn Space Marine shoulder pad has more stake to being a distinct piece of protectable IP than the whole IM armour combined.

I don't think it's funny because I actually expect them to get sued by disney. I think it's funny because making your power armor look like Iron Man will in no way make your IP any stronger. In fact there have been a lot of recent "Power Armor Space Warriors" in the last year that look a LOT like Iron Man while still being obvious stand-ins for space marines - Mantic's Peacekeepers, Puppetswar armored guys, The new KS from Titanforge - probably lots others those three came to mind.

So its really amusing to think that GW would ever think to themselves... we need to make these guys look more like a character from a top grosssing movie franchise, a style that has been copied multiple times in our own field and that should make our Ip somehow MORE protectable and we can shut down all these little upstart miniatures companies....

I don't think they would be that dense *he said optimistically* I imagine it's just a way to try and tap into that sweet sweet Marvel money-pot.

Don't forget that the last episode of Continuum had what looked an AWFUL LOT like Horus Heresy era SMs time-jumping into the city.

Space Marine styled powered armor is everywhere.

MB


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 warboss wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Vermis wrote:

Wonderwolf wrote:

And while the cynical wargaming crowd likes to take up every excuse to mock "Space Marines inside Space Marines", Marvel Studios just did the exact same thing by making the Hulk Buster an "Iron Man inside an Iron Man" and the concepts flies well enough in a broader crowd of non-hate-everything-just-because-haters.

Well, if Tony Stark was just strapped to the front of the Hulkbuster armour like he was caught in some bizarre, shiny baby carrier, it might not go over as well.

I don't know, the general public loves the power loader from Aliens despite the fact that it matches the harness on the Dreadknight EXACTLY.

Really? I must have missed the part where Ripley dons the power armor that makes her a 8ft tall walking tank BEFORE she straps into the front of yet another suit of an even larger powered armor that is designed strictly for combat and is bristling with ranged weapons. The act of simply strapping in somewhere to the front or back of a robot (depending on which of the pair of fan "favorite" dreadknight or centurion you're talking about) isn't what people have a problem with but rather the style in which it was done along with the ridiculous Russian nesting doll idea. Just like with the 40k rules, the bad execution of a good idea is turning into a GW hallmark.

Have you seen Gurren Lagann, speaking of "Space Marines in Space Marines?"

You have Gurren and Lagann, both Gunman (or Gundai in the. Manga) who combine to form Gurren Lagann.

Then Gurren Lagann combines (climbs inside to pilot it, like Kamina and Simon in Gurren and Lagann respectively) with Dai Gurren to produce Dai-Gurren Lagann

Then Dai-Gurren Lagann combines (climbs inside to pilot it) with Arc-Gurren Gunman to produce Arc-Gunman Dai-Gurren Lagann.

Then Arc-Gunman Dai-Gurren Lagann combines with the Cathedral Terra Battleship of Lordgenome, to form Choginga Arc-Gunman Dai-Gurren Lagann.

And, finally, Simon feeds his own spiral energy back into Lagann, amplifying it to feed that spiral energy back through Gurren Lagann to amplify it, to send that spiral energy back through Dai-Gurren Lagann to amplify it, to Feedback that amplified spiral energy back through Arc-Gunman Dai-Gurren Lagann to amplify it again, to finally feedback the spiral energy through Choginga Arc-Gunman Dai-Gurren Lagann to produce the Ultimate form OF.....

Tenga Toppa Chogina Arc -Gunman Dai-Gurren Lagann

Which is the size of a small galaxy.

But then the whole premise of Gurren Lagann's creators is to "Turn eleven up to eleven" (a meta-Spinal Tap reference).

So.... Done right.... Space Marines in Space Marines could be pretty cool if they did it right.

MB