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Well personally cool helmet (compared to 7th/8th aside, those flared knee pads are fugly, what's your thoughts?

I like it but I'm pissed that it looks like its going to replace terminator armour since Calgar is now in it.

Completely ambivalent. Enjoy the look of the new Aggressors but their stats are woeful compared to how the models look. Reivers look like poop.

I like it but prefer the more vaderesque brutal look of the regular tactical marine helmets. The mk x is more maximus inspired. I just wish there was more variety in the armor pattern the lack of studs and parchments and idk its just too modern and slick. Right now its just slightly bland but maybe they can flesh it out more over the years.

I like the Mark X armor, but it also looks good with a beaky helmeted heads too.

I also like Gravis armor better than the looks of hunchbacked terminators.

Overall nice, if bland so far. I’ve replaced a lot of the heads with Mk7s and beakies to help add variety.
Aggressors are cool. Inceptors are ok, though I like them better hoodless.

Reivers look goofy with the strange leg armor and dollar store halloween masks.

Mark X uses the good looking MK4 helmet but i hate the mid drift / ab look of the chest piece and the flared bits on the knee pads.

I like it. The MK IV helmet is leagues superior to the silly angry-faced MK VII helm which was always a mistep. My only wish is that they made the MK VI helmet standard on MK X instead of MK IV. MK IV looks alright, but MK VI is the single most original power armor design GW ever came up with. Hounskull power armor is not only a really smart design in-universe, looks sleek, but also stands out from other fictional power armor.

 Stormonu wrote:
but it also looks good with a beaky helmeted heads too.

Hallelujah!

Intercessors and Aggressors are marked improvements on Tacticals and Terminators.

Reivers are still wearing way too much armour to fulfill the infiltration/reconnaissance role of Scouts.

Inceptors not having a melee weapon is stupid, their skids look awful, and the fact that they fly rather than jump is silly.

 Ginjitzu wrote:
Intercessors and Aggressors are marked improvements on Tacticals and Terminators.

Reivers are still wearing way too much armour to fulfill the infiltration/reconnaissance role of Scouts.

Inceptors not having a melee weapon is stupid, their skids look awful, and the fact that they fly rather than jump is silly.

What's criminal of Inceptors is how much better their art is than the actual model. The model could work so long as it was posed well. Unfortunately it's posed like arse so you have this wonderful artwork.



And the delivery was this.

I'll always be a fully MK 6/2 peep myself.

Some units are complete misses, some are not. But the variance in models for regular space marines is why I love the normal space marine kits a bit more.

Mark X is cool, but their regular intercessors don't have variance in there helmet design. I wish we had different types of helmets but we don't.

Aggressors look powerful and awe-inspiring but they suck on tabletop.

Inceptors look silly with their toe feet to the point I clipp those off of every inceptor model I have. I love the idea of a space marine with a jump pack wielding dual guns. But I do miss my close combat squads of the Vanguard and Terminators.

I hate anything with the Aquila, but overall, without it, it would be my favorite after 3 and 5.

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
I hate anything with the Aquila, but overall, without it, it would be my favorite after 3 and 5.

Aquillia is what I think of when i think of space marines.

Overall I like mk 10, though two things look terrible the me:

Reiver helmets
The shoulder grenade launchers on aggressors.

I really like the look of classic terminator armor and wish they would do a faithful primaris scale update of it (more faithful than aggressors).

Can't stand it. It looks far to slick, smooth and high-tech for my liking. Leave that nonsense to the Tau. Also, they're *stupidly* oversized, but that's largely related to a complete inability on GW's part over the years to keep a sensible handle on how big Space Marines were actually supposed to be, which led to wild overexaggeration and in turn a load of people wanging on about "true scale" for years. Sure, the proportions on the regular marines could have been refined a bit (cf the Space Marine Heroes models, which do this *brilliantly*) but the Primaris are just too big to the point of looking goofy.

The regular guys are the best of a bad bunch; the neck joint's the worst thing about them – they all look like they're sticking their head up through a toilet seat. The flying lads on skis and the Gravis ones just look fat and goofy and the Reivers are just all-round horrible designs, with their stupid little 3/4-length shorts.

Some of this is probably down to having spent around 25 years having a fairly consistently-established view, in my own head, of what a Space Marine should look like, but I also think there were some outright horrible design decisions made on the Primaris. The Deathwatch Vets did a *much* better job of updating the SM aesthetic, in my view.

So yeah, not a fan.

 Nazrak wrote:
Can't stand it. It looks far to slick, smooth and high-tech for my liking. Leave that nonsense to the Tau. Also, they're *stupidly* oversized, but that's largely related to a complete inability on GW's part over the years to keep a sensible handle on how big Space Marines were actually supposed to be, which led to wild overexaggeration and in turn a load of people wanging on about "true scale" for years. Sure, the proportions on the regular marines could have been refined a bit (cf the Space Marine Heroes models, which do this *brilliantly*) but the Primaris are just too big to the point of looking goofy.

The regular guys are the best of a bad bunch; the neck joint's the worst thing about them – they all look like they're sticking their head up through a toilet seat. The flying lads on skis and the Gravis ones just look fat and goofy and the Reivers are just all-round horrible designs, with their stupid little 3/4-length shorts.

Some of this is probably down to having spent around 25 years having a fairly consistently-established view, in my own head, of what a Space Marine should look like, but I also think there were some outright horrible design decisions made on the Primaris. The Deathwatch Vets did a *much* better job of updating the SM aesthetic, in my view.

So yeah, not a fan.

Why do people act like MK X is somehow less slick that MK VII? All marine armor as its base is incredibly slick, what makes it unique is bits you slap on it.



Primaris Models actually have MORE detail than base marine models (save perhaps the MK III kit). The only failure of the Intercessor kit is having less varied armor bits than the vanilla tactical kit, which includes MK VI and MK VIII armor.

Id say the comparison is an intercessor vs a tactical marine, which is a little difficult as the tac marine is effectively the amalgamation of 20/30 years of kits whereas i feel the MkX is a fresh start;

Things i like;

- The scale and size, i love how its both bulky and correctly proportioned.
- The hip armour plates, little addition but i really like it.
- The collar

Things i dont like;

- The knee pad flare
- Lack of variation on helmets- i like the new helmet, but still love the vader style helmet and think that a diff helmet goes a long way to individualizing a model.
- Lack of aquilla variety- again, a different chest peice would go a long way to adding character to each marine.
- Bolt rifle- i just prefer the bolt gun, wish they had just scaled it up and not changed it.

 Asherian Command wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
I hate anything with the Aquila, but overall, without it, it would be my favorite after 3 and 5.

Aquillia is what I think of when i think of space marines.

I mostly just look at armor, and I hate bling overall. Consequently, i hate every time the aquila shows up. That's just the level at which I operate.

I don't like the helmet, compared to the angry helmet or Mk III it's pretty ugly. But I saw great conversions of Primaris with the older versions. The overall proportions are better and I like their weapons.

Reivers should be a Nightlords specialist unit and have weird poses. Aggressors are the second time of loyalists trying to copy Obliterators, and they stole our powerfists. They look pretty cool, though.

Still a Mk8 (deathwatch version)/Mk2/Mk6/Mk3 fan in that order...

Though in regards to the latest I hear Mk9 was a lot better

Primaris marines are what made me fall back in with gw after ten years away. I genuinely wish these were the marines that were available when I started fifteen years ago.

Genuinely love everything about them, bar the goofy names.

 Elbows wrote:
Completely ambivalent. Enjoy the look of the new Aggressors but their stats are woeful compared to how the models look. Reivers look like poop.

Aggressors are one of the best trash cleanup units SM have

I like the armour. But with reivers I don't like how they don't have a 7" move. Aggressors have more and move 5",reivers have less and move the same.

Mk X is gorgeous as a model, although like other people I find it weird to have the flared knee pads when the Marines are walking more upright rather than "the crabbed battle-stance of Roboute Guilliman."

I'm a Mk VI man, through and through, but if you're going to have those big collars and the heat-shields on the Inceptors I want to be able to go full Dorvack on all my marines.

Beakies for life my dude

Pfft being able to paint like that you keep doing you