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I have the following, fully painted and ready to go.

1 x Gravis Captain
1 x Primaris Captain with Fist and Plasma
1 x Marneus Calgar
1 x Librarian
2 x Honor Guard
4 x Lieutenants including Calsius and Ltd Editions
1 x Apothecary
1 x Chapter Ancient
30 x Intercessors
3 x Additional Sgts with different wargear
10 x Reivers
5 x Aggressors
3 x Inceptors
10 x Hellblasters
2 x Repulsors
2 x Redemptors
1 x Guilliman (He is the Lord of the Primaris after all)


Bring on Wave 2, Can't wait to add more! I already like the Primaris more than I ever liked the classic Marines including my HH army lol

I had a browse through the whole thread. Lots of Primaris haters.

Move on guys, its been two years. If you ain't buying GW ain't caring about you anways lol

The only Heresy is to refuse them.

Classic Marines will be supported for a long time yet. Primaris will get lots of awesome releases in the coming years.

You can be some elitist about it, or you can realise that nothing lasts forever and that no one will take your collection away.

Before Primaris came out I had no interest to add any more Astartes to my collection. Thanks to them I now have an extra 3/4k of models lol

So shouldn't you be throwing your classic Marines away? The Primaris certainly look a lot better.

I'm not the one stuck in the past, am I?

It's not edgy to hate the new things. It's redundant. People had two years to moan about Primaris. That time has passed.

GW are starting from scratch with a new range, better scale, better core rules, better designed units in terms of function. No one is saying old collections are no longer usable.
My classic Marine collection is bigger than most's. I even have a large Horus Heresy army and characters from multiple Legions. I was annoyed about the Primaris for a week, then I realised that in the long run they'll become the best representation of Marines on the tabletop. Great models, great look, great design, great philosophy. Also people complain about the lore. Clearly thy aren't reading anything as BL has put out some of their best books in the post Gathering Storm setting.

Haters gonna have to get over it

People were angry when GW changed the base sizes of Marines. I guess the hobby is full of easily offended, overly angry people.

They would have been livid to have to replace their models. This way you don't have to change anything, these are a new line entirely.

It's the best way to do it. The standard range is massive and bloated, it needs nothing new.

A fresh start with a different design philosophy.

Primaris are Specialists. Regular Astartes as Generalists. It's a different thing entirely, but with the pull of being Space Marines.


I had to bring this up in this topic as the haters don't merely say they haven't made purchases, they go out of their way to complain about the Primaris. Well I've had enough of whingers in every. single. topic.

Hobby would be better without you. New people come across the complaining all the time and it turn them away.

What's a good reason, exactly?

No, not at all. You can prefer the classic, that's totally valid. Just stop attacking the Primaris.

Who says they are going away, seriously?

I imagine they'll be fully supported with rules for the next 10+ years at the bare minimum!!

Beyond that? Well...
Nothing lasts forever. You have to accept that. One day Primaris might be in the same position. That's fine, we have to move on. If things didn't change, evolve or get replaced it would be awful.

Your reaction is emotional and not logical. I'll PayPal you 50 quid if standard Marines have no rules in the next 3 years lol