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I just got an email today from GW previewing the Impulsor. Has anyone heard when it will release and what the price range will be on it?

Probably goes up on preorder this coming Saturday, then officially released on the following weekend. And I think this will finish up the marine releases.

Thank God! I'm tired of the dragged out release schedule. Infiltrators and impulsors should have been earlier in the schedule given their roles but what ever

Pre orders on Sat most likely. It's about time, too.

I think this will be a popular unit, although I only intend to get one.

I think we saw the price in the UK which translated to an eye-watering $70-75 USD. Hopefully that's not the case, but that'd be in line with the ever-soaring prices.

$60 USD for the Impulsor, I believe.

That would be a tad better, for sure. Even more so if it ever shows up in a start collecting box (though I imagine we'll see those jump again shortly).

It's the perfect vehicle to appear in a start collecting set for sure. It might happen with Christmas coming up?

Azeroth wrote:
I just got an email today from GW previewing the Impulsor. Has anyone heard when it will release and what the price range will be on it?

Important note:
When GW does articles like this on Sundays? It means that the next preorder start(which is always a Saturday) will feature this item. If you want to stay 'in the loop', look for these articles on Warhammer Community every Sunday at 1pm Eastern.

The Impulsors go up on Saturday(October 19th), with preorders starting around 1pm Eastern--sometimes they'll go up around 12L50pm or sometimes they'll go up at 1:10pm. But be watching around 1pm to preorder it.

The price that I saw listed for GBP equates to $70 or $75 USD. The reason I put two values is that the price(45GBP) has equaled out to two different things--with Beastgrave being $70 and the Skorpius being $75.

The Incursors/Infiltrators set is $60USD.

Ahh, maybe I got mixed up with the Infiltrator price!

It's a steeper cost than expected for the tank. I still think it will be very popular however.

 Ishagu wrote:
It's the perfect vehicle to appear in a start collecting set for sure. It might happen with Christmas coming up?

I wouldn't expect it to appear in a Start Collecting set for at least a year, if at all.

Far more likely is a Redemptor Dreadnought or Repulsor Grav-Tank.


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 Ishagu wrote:
Ahh, maybe I got mixed up with the Infiltrator price!

It's a steeper cost than expected for the tank. I still think it will be very popular however.

Oh, for sure. I'm considering getting just one to run as the Orbital Bombardment Array alongside my Raven Guard.

I'm interested to see the size, as I felt like the Skorpius wasn't done justice in some of the pictures--even if it is a bit too expensive.

The prices are definitely a reason that I'm happy I'm not on the Primaris train. Everytihng seems 30-50% more.

 Insectum7 wrote:
The prices are definitely a reason that I'm happy I'm not on the Primaris train. Everytihng seems 30-50% more.

I found the Primaris to be a very cheap army to collect, at least initially. For the first 12 months or more everything was getting released in boxsets and starters. The newer kits are definitely more pricey. Lol I guess that's how they hook you.

At least it's a highly elite army, it doesn't require too many purchases. It can be more costly depending on the list you want up build, however.

I was leaning toward getting two, but given their price and the fact I don't really have plan in place for using them, I think I will just go with the one and see how much I like it.

I will agree that about the first half of my Primaris army wasn't too bad on the wallet. I got Shadowspear from one of the last ebay significant % offs. And Know No Fear, First Strike and the easy build stuff helped keep the price down okay-ish and gave me a decent Death Guard kill team/ CSM ally detachment too.

Primaris are certainly more reasonable than Genestealer Cults which I am still flirting with the idea of putting together an army for. I don't even know if a GSC Start Collecting box is going to make it all that much easier. You just need so many Acolytes and $40US for 5 retail is crazy.

yeah thats been my experiance as well. thanks to the sheer amount of boxes with primaris in it, getting infantry on the cheap is easy (if you bought all of the various boxed sets you'd have close to a battle company of Primaris by now) you can get a ETB Dreadnought pretty cheap as vehicles for it's size goes, the only expensive items for Primaris are the tanks. and the repulsors are expensive eneugh that unless you're going for a parking lot, you've proably only got 1 or two of them in a list.

Actually I think Suppressors are the last kit to come out I don't think we've seen them yet

 Insectum7 wrote:
The prices are definitely a reason that I'm happy I'm not on the Primaris train. Everytihng seems 30-50% more.

There's been a ton of box sets with Primaris at discounts. Dark Imperium/Know No Fear, Wake the Dead, Apocalypse Batallion, SC Primaris Space Wolves, Shadowspear, Christmas Army Bundle...all of it drives down the cost versus buying individual boxes. OTOH if you want to just spam certain units, yeah, you'll be paying through the nose.

 fraser1191 wrote:
Actually I think Suppressors are the last kit to come out I don't think we've seen them yet

barring a sudden happy suprise supressors are shadowspear only sadly

BrianDavion wrote:

 fraser1191 wrote:
Actually I think Suppressors are the last kit to come out I don't think we've seen them yet

barring a sudden happy suprise supressors are shadowspear only sadly

I figure it'll be a long time till we see them. The new codex has only the autocannon and no options at all so I figure we'll see a real kit with something else otherwise it'll be the only Primaris unit that has zero options. Probably the only unit in the book with no options at all

 fraser1191 wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 fraser1191 wrote:
Actually I think Suppressors are the last kit to come out I don't think we've seen them yet

barring a sudden happy suprise supressors are shadowspear only sadly

I figure it'll be a long time till we see them. The new codex has only the autocannon and no options at all so I figure we'll see a real kit with something else otherwise it'll be the only Primaris unit that has zero options. Probably the only unit in the book with no options at all

I think they got no options because they'd need a weapon that could do the same thing as their autocannon (stop overwatch), otherwise they're just lower Toughness Inceptors. They exist to stop overwatch more than anything else.

 John Prins wrote:

 fraser1191 wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 fraser1191 wrote:
Actually I think Suppressors are the last kit to come out I don't think we've seen them yet

barring a sudden happy suprise supressors are shadowspear only sadly

I figure it'll be a long time till we see them. The new codex has only the autocannon and no options at all so I figure we'll see a real kit with something else otherwise it'll be the only Primaris unit that has zero options. Probably the only unit in the book with no options at all

I think they got no options because they'd need a weapon that could do the same thing as their autocannon (stop overwatch), otherwise they're just lower Toughness Inceptors. They exist to stop overwatch more than anything else.

Not true. Eliminators with Las-Fusils are a totally different beast to those with Bolt Sniper Rifles.

That said, I think we'll expect to see Suppressors whenever a legit 'Assault Squad' styled unit shows up.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 John Prins wrote:

 fraser1191 wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 fraser1191 wrote:
Actually I think Suppressors are the last kit to come out I don't think we've seen them yet

barring a sudden happy suprise supressors are shadowspear only sadly

I figure it'll be a long time till we see them. The new codex has only the autocannon and no options at all so I figure we'll see a real kit with something else otherwise it'll be the only Primaris unit that has zero options. Probably the only unit in the book with no options at all

I think they got no options because they'd need a weapon that could do the same thing as their autocannon (stop overwatch), otherwise they're just lower Toughness Inceptors. They exist to stop overwatch more than anything else.

Not true. Eliminators with Las-Fusils are a totally different beast to those with Bolt Sniper Rifles.

That said, I think we'll expect to see Suppressors whenever a legit 'Assault Squad' styled unit shows up.

Either weapon option for Eliminators still eliminates (or one could see that they could eliminate). Giving the Suppressors a weapon that doesn't suppress doesn't seem like GW's MO. Unless they go the cheeky route of a dead enemy is a suppressed enemy. Which I also doubt.

I would probably expect a new datasheet unit simply because I don't really see GW coming up with a whole different way to have a 3-man, jump squad to pin down the enemy over what they already have. When the model kit comes out it would probably be a dual unit kit like the Infiltrators/Incursors.

BrianDavion wrote:

 fraser1191 wrote:
Actually I think Suppressors are the last kit to come out I don't think we've seen them yet

barring a sudden happy suprise supressors are shadowspear only sadly

They will come on their own later.

tneva82 wrote:


They will come on their own later.

Maybe. Just like Venomcrawlers, etc... But they aren’t part of this wave, we’re not in the preview video that first showed the Impulsors, Incursors, etc...

I wouldn’t expect them until the next round of Marine releases. Maybe with a new Blood Angel Codex or something like that. Maybe with 9th Ed. Codex Marines. Or maybe they are just the new Deffkoptas.

The impulsor I would bet my bottom dollar will be 75$ USD. GW loves their kits coming in at the same cost brackets now. Which I called from how much the Ad mech transport was.

Absolute garbage price point and anyone saying it'll be quite a popular unit at that cost is either dreaming or trolling hard. At that point you might as well just get a repulsor, actually carry aggressors or larger groups of squads and only spend a few more dollars all told. ( That said I find the Repulsor to be over expensive as well )

I think GW is slowly trying to choke out the player base until all they are aiming at is that happy few who will gladly pay these ever higher costs.

I know some people have no issues with it, but I can't help but feel they are trying to really bend you over with these kits. I will get 0 of them way too high for a lighter end transport kit imo.

AngryAngel80 wrote:
The impulsor I would bet my bottom dollar will be 75$ USD. GW loves their kits coming in at the same cost brackets now. Which I called from how much the Ad mech transport was.

Absolute garbage price point and anyone saying it'll be quite a popular unit at that cost is either dreaming or trolling hard. At that point you might as well just get a repulsor, actually carry aggressors or larger groups of squads and only spend a few more dollars all told. ( That said I find the Repulsor to be over expensive as well )

I think GW is slowly trying to choke out the player base until all they are aiming at is that happy few who will gladly pay these ever higher costs.

I know some people have no issues with it, but I can't help but feel they are trying to really bend you over with these kits. I will get 0 of them way too high for a lighter end transport kit imo.

a repulsor costs 282 points AT IT'S CHEAPEST.
A impulsor costs 103 points fully loaded with as many expensive bells and whistles as you can get. (and will cost 97 points for the most common loadout)

this means for the points cost of a repulsor I can buy 2 impulsors, and a Primaris Captain or Leuiteant to go with it. This is kinda handy given the important of target saturation. The cost'll prevent people from running totally mechanized armies I agree (if GW charged 10-15 bucks less you'd see people looking into fully mechanized Primaris armies I bet) but I ebt a lot of Primaris Players will buy 2 or 3.

AngryAngel80 wrote:
The impulsor I would bet my bottom dollar will be 75$ USD. GW loves their kits coming in at the same cost brackets now. Which I called from how much the Ad mech transport was.

Absolute garbage price point and anyone saying it'll be quite a popular unit at that cost is either dreaming or trolling hard. At that point you might as well just get a repulsor, actually carry aggressors or larger groups of squads and only spend a few more dollars all told. ( That said I find the Repulsor to be over expensive as well )

I think GW is slowly trying to choke out the player base until all they are aiming at is that happy few who will gladly pay these ever higher costs.

I know some people have no issues with it, but I can't help but feel they are trying to really bend you over with these kits. I will get 0 of them way too high for a lighter end transport kit imo.

I think the price is a little much myself and reduced the number I am picking up to just the one. However, on their website for the United States my computer is showing that the Repulsor Executioner is temporarily sold out. A model that I also thought the price was a little much. But it does appear that people are still buying them in good numbers despite the price. I mean, it could be something else that has the Excutioner out of stock, but I have seen locally that most marine players that have a few Primaris units in their army picked up at least one. So I also wouldn't be surprised that it sold well too.

$70 - $75??? for $5 to $10 more, you can just get a repulsor. The Impulsor only carries 6 primaris marines anyway. more an equivalent to a razorback than a rhino. I was disappointed when I saw this, was hoping for a cheaper way to more a full unit of 10 up the field.

The Impulsor, frankly, is designed with tournaments in mind.

It's for MSUs and a character.

So what do you think of converting Impulsors out of Razorbacks?
Cut the back open, use the lascannons as rear engines (cut the barrels off) and use the Heavy Bolters as Storms (drill 2 holes in the barrel) and finally use the treads on the sides as the hover generator plates. Put on a flight base and profit.

At $75 per Impulsor, I can get 2 Razorbacks for within $5 of that cost.

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tneva82 wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 fraser1191 wrote:
Actually I think Suppressors are the last kit to come out I don't think we've seen them yet

barring a sudden happy suprise supressors are shadowspear only sadly

They will come on their own later.

You'd think so, but you still can't buy a Gravis Captain or a Primaris Captain with PF and Plasma Pistol or (so far as I know) a Primaris Lieutenant with Autobolter/Stalker by themselves yet and the starter boxes those came in have been out for quite a while.

I do hope you're right though, both because I think the speculation on getting melee troops based on the armor mark is entirely plausibe and because it would very likely bump Suppressors from a 3-man unit to a 3-to-6-man unit.


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 Galef wrote:
So what do you think of converting Impulsors out of Razorbacks?
Cut the back open, use the lascannons as rear engines (cut the barrels off) and use the Heavy Bolters as Storms (drill 2 holes in the barrel) and finally use the treads on the sides as the hover generator plates. Put on a flight base and profit.

At $75 per Impulsor, I can get 2 Razorbacks for within $5 of that cost.

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I think it sounds like an obnoxious amount of work, but I might do it anyway. I have a Razorback with the LasPlas layout that I picked up second-hand and pretty much never use, there's a good chance I'll try that conversion once I have a real Impulsor for comparison.