Space Marine Codex rumors BoLS

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**BrotherGecko**

Yodhrin wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
Mysterio wrote:
You had me at "Marine Rumors" and almost lost me at "BoLS".

Having said that, I hope that this is where we get a lot more Primaris stuff, to the point where they're given a LOT more options, both within squads and with new troops and vehicles.

I don't expect to see options within squads. Not to the Tactical Squad levels.

The Primaris seem to be organized on the old Legion makeups, where squads are specialized. The lore on the Hellblasters even says as much.

I've got tins of soup in my cupboard that are older than the "lore" on Primaris, and since the "lore" only exists to flog the new models while they boil the proverbial frog, there's no reason they can't change it on a whim. Rowboat can just put out Codex Astartes 2: Codex Harder with "new" Primaris Tacticool, Facepuncher, and Gunshooter squads. I'm not arguing they will per se, at least not any time soon, but the 40K "lore" has become a pretty tenuous and mutable thing these days so it shouldn't really be taken as indicative of what direction things may go in the future.

40k lore has always been pretty tenuous and mutable. i remember when suddenly there was Tau. Then suddenly Necrons. Then the reveal that a nigh unstablable cosmic entity called the Deceiver was behind everything ever pulling the strings. Then 1 codex later its "JK lol" the Necrons beat up the Deceiver long ago and imprisoned him and he is not behind anything ever.

**BrotherGecko**

I don't personally find small marines slowly disappearing all that unfortunate. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up shifting the entire range to 30k at some point.

Personally they should of been upfront about it and just made them the new space marine models and that they restructured post Guilliman's return with some new gear. It would of been a less bitter pill if GW set the narrative on the change over rather than allow the community to create elaborate nefarious conspiracy theories.