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What it says on the tin. Outside of pre-existing characters like Tor Garadon and Mephiston, there are no Primaris named characters. Why do you think this is?

Because GW is first busy upgrading old named characters to primaris so they can get busy squatting old marines. They can come up with new characters after.

 Lance845 wrote:
Because GW is first busy upgrading old named characters to primaris so they can get busy squatting old marines. They can come up with new characters after.

Pretty sure they're not using that term anymore.

They're getting shipped off to an agriworld to become Legends.

Adrix Agatone is a salamanders primaris character. Has some pretty neat rules.

both Agaton and Garradon are new characters. they've been mentioned before but never had a model and mini. GW is instead choosing to give us some characters with eistablished lore behind them first and this is proably a smart move

I think that GW recognizes to a degree that if it sells named characters, you'll only ever buy one - and only if you're playing that specific army. If it instead sells Primaris lieutenant #63, you might buy 2 or 3 for your brigade, and any SM player can use the model for their army.

And they can still charge the same price as if it were, say, Mephiston.

 Stormonu wrote:
I think that GW recognizes to a degree that if it sells named characters, you'll only ever buy one - and only if you're playing that specific army. If it instead sells Primaris lieutenant #63, you might buy 2 or 3 for your brigade, and any SM player can use the model for their army.

And they can still charge the same price as if it were, say, Mephiston.

There's really nothing stopping you from buying the Iron Father or Kayvaan Shrike to use as a Techmarine or Jump-pack Captain so long as you're not playing against donkey caves on a regular basis, and there are a lot of non-character models you're not likely to buy two of either.

Haldor Icepelt, Space Wolves Primaris Wolf Guard Battle Leader.
His text says he's one of Ragnar Blackmane's inner circle of most trusted but there was no mention of him before his Primaris mini in Tooth and Claw.

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
Haldor Icepelt, Space Wolves Primaris Wolf Guard Battle Leader.
His text says he's one of Ragnar Blackmane's inner circle of most trusted but there was no mention of him before his Primaris mini in Tooth and Claw.

thats a good example, because despite having a name in the background he's not actually a special character

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
Haldor Icepelt, Space Wolves Primaris Wolf Guard Battle Leader.
His text says he's one of Ragnar Blackmane's inner circle of most trusted but there was no mention of him before his Primaris mini in Tooth and Claw.

Oh god can you imagine if GW released a picture of him next to the Ragnar sculpt?

"Greetings battle-brothers, I am Haldor Icepelt, Primaris Wolf Guard Battle Leader!"

"Yes, he is one of my most trusted advisors, I, Ragnar Blackmane of the Lollipop Guild! I trust you shall all treat him with the same respect you treat a man of my legendary stature!"

Well, there's also the new Iron Hands Primaris guy.

I don't think many people took note of that release though. Iron Hands kinda flew under the radar, I think, and on release their new character was pretty pricey for what he did, so nobody bought that mini.





Though I guess he was "established" because Feirros appeared in a throw-away line in the old Iron Hands supplement? I don't think more than his name ever existed though.

Sunny Side Up wrote:

on release their new character was pretty pricey for what he did, so nobody bought that mini.

I bought him to turn him into a warpsmith

RaptorusRex wrote:What it says on the tin. Outside of pre-existing characters like Tor Garadon and Mephiston, there are no Primaris named characters. Why do you think this is?

Adrax Agatone and Iron Father Feirros are, to the best of my knowledge, practically completely new.
Garadon has never had a model before.
There's also a good amount of "named" Primaris models don't have bespoke rules, but were marketed with unique names (ie, Haldor Icepelt, Tolmeron, Zachariah, Jovan, Amulius).

the_scotsman wrote:

 Dakka Wolf wrote:
Haldor Icepelt, Space Wolves Primaris Wolf Guard Battle Leader.
His text says he's one of Ragnar Blackmane's inner circle of most trusted but there was no mention of him before his Primaris mini in Tooth and Claw.

Oh god can you imagine if GW released a picture of him next to the Ragnar sculpt?

"Greetings battle-brothers, I am Haldor Icepelt, Primaris Wolf Guard Battle Leader!"

"Yes, he is one of my most trusted advisors, I, Ragnar Blackmane of the Lollipop Guild! I trust you shall all treat him with the same respect you treat a man of my legendary stature!"

Thinkin' I need to look over Space Wolves' fluff again.
If I missed such an epic as a part about the lollipop guild, maybe I missed mention of Haldor Icepelt.