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Space Marine Range Update – Bikes, Land Speeders, and More Are Soon Zooming off into the Sunset

So without further ado, these are the units that are going Last Chance to Buy in the next few days…

A few of those, like the speeders, are a surprise but then again might be ripe for new models! The stalker hunter is also surprising as that isn't that old?

 Overread wrote:
A few of those, like the speeders, are a surprise but then again might be ripe for new models! The stalker hunter is also surprising as that isn't that old?

My guess is that the stalker hunter sold very little(maybe close to 0), which means that they can technically safely sunset it. I know quite a few Space Marine players, both casual and competitive, that never bought it.

Oh feth. I want like two thirds of those.

At least old kits will be floating around eBay for years.

Shame, I love the Stalker and Ironclad sets. Might actually pick up one of each if they're gone gone.

That certainly suggests the rumours of jump pack Intercessors and Scouts in Kill Team are true.

Kinda surprised the Stalker is going but not much else.

Really time to start consolidating those datasheets into the Primaris ones to reduce the amount in the Marine codex.

 Haighus wrote:
Oh feth. I want like two thirds of those.

At least old kits will be floating around eBay for years.

And some will be in the vast Space Marine back up range of HH....

Those bikes are some of the oldest models in the whole range aren’t they? Beaten by only a few remaining Phoenix lords?

 General Kroll wrote:
Those bikes are some of the oldest models in the whole range aren’t they? Beaten by only a few remaining Phoenix lords?

They were re-cut at least once in their lifetime, from flat-join waists to the rounded version seen in most firstborn from 3rd onward.

But they're totally not getting rid of First Borns, guys. That's just a conspiracy theory.

Anyway, Ironclad Dreads are the one type of Dread I do not own. Or did not. Found a place with 2 left in stock.

It’s not that bad since we have data cards for all the current models for 10th. Just picked up a landspeeder for my Deathwatch due to how many Blast weapons my list generally uses.
My Ravenwing has many bikes, speeders and attack bikes. Won’t be dropping them.

GW can squat firstborn as long as they stop pursuing people making proxies / STLs of firstborn... who am I kidding

I'm going to guess we get better looking plastic Bikes with HH, same with Land Speeders and they have already previewed HH Assault Marines.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
But they're totally not getting rid of First Borns, guys. That's just a conspiracy theory.

Anyway, Ironclad Dreads are the one type of Dread I do not own. Or did not. Found a place with 2 left in stock.

The writing was on the wall when 8th dropped, but the Primaris Terminators were the real death knell.

 Overread wrote:
A few of those, like the speeders, are a surprise but then again might be ripe for new models! The stalker hunter is also surprising as that isn't that old?

It's one of the most pointless kits in any range and always has been. It's not cool, unique or interesting. It's not good. There was never any reason for it to exist in the first place.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
But they're totally not getting rid of First Borns, guys. That's just a conspiracy theory.

GW should have just upsized Marines instead of this whole stupid Primaris thing. The Space Marine models were in desperate need of a refresh but GW were too chicken to just update them properly and instead wanted to gradually phase them out.

Presumably the Ravenwing upgrade sprue will go when the DA codex comes out as it means keeping the bike sprue in production (and there will be a replacement for the Primaris bikes).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
But they're totally not getting rid of First Borns, guys. That's just a conspiracy theory.

Anyway, Ironclad Dreads are the one type of Dread I do not own. Or did not. Found a place with 2 left in stock.

They should have put the whole line in the shredder when 8th launched.

Primaris marines are still boring, but at least they don't have little chicken legs.

Wow. :(

Billicus wrote:
GW can squat firstborn as long as they stop pursuing people making proxies / STLs of firstborn... who am I kidding

There are two entrie ranges of Marines - 40k and 30k....plus so many made doubt ebay will ever run out

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

GW should have just upsized Marines instead of this whole stupid Primaris thing. The Space Marine models were in desperate need of a refresh but GW were too chicken to just update them properly and instead wanted to gradually phase them out.

They deserved better than this slow death.

 Fugazi wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

GW should have just upsized Marines instead of this whole stupid Primaris thing. The Space Marine models were in desperate need of a refresh but GW were too chicken to just update them properly and instead wanted to gradually phase them out.

They deserved better than this slow death.

Slow death - there are new Marines almost every week for 30k?

Last Chance to Buy for the kits and a number of the units (not all) are having their rules moved over to Legends (or are basically becoming official proxy models for Primaris units), which to me is the more surprising part.

 Eldarsif wrote:

 Overread wrote:
A few of those, like the speeders, are a surprise but then again might be ripe for new models! The stalker hunter is also surprising as that isn't that old?

My guess is that the stalker hunter sold very little(maybe close to 0), which means that they can technically safely sunset it. I know quite a few Space Marine players, both casual and competitive, that never bought it.

I've actually never seen a Stalker or a Hunter in person myself (except the unpurchased kits sitting on the shelf of my FLGS), they did not seem to be at all popular.

40k legends will soon be a game by itself (or you just go back and play an earlier edition of course).

At some point, I will have to assess what edition might be the last for me. Not because of the game itself, but my age. Might already be at that point, and it would be poetic for me to finish with HH epic since Space Marine was my initial introduction to this hobby (at least the warhammer side of it)

 Overread wrote:
A few of those, like the speeders, are a surprise but then again might be ripe for new models! The stalker hunter is also surprising as that isn't that old?

Storm Speeders are the replacement unit for Land Speeders - they're a bit bigger, but what isn't these days?

chaos0xomega wrote:
Last Chance to Buy for the kits and a number of the units (not all) are having their rules moved over to Legends (or are basically becoming official proxy models for Primaris units), which to me is the more surprising part.

 Eldarsif wrote:

 Overread wrote:
A few of those, like the speeders, are a surprise but then again might be ripe for new models! The stalker hunter is also surprising as that isn't that old?

My guess is that the stalker hunter sold very little(maybe close to 0), which means that they can technically safely sunset it. I know quite a few Space Marine players, both casual and competitive, that never bought it.

I've actually never seen a Stalker or a Hunter in person myself (except the unpurchased kits sitting on the shelf of my FLGS), they did not seem to be at all popular.

I mean, it was a highly specialized kit against flyers that came out in response to the flyer madness in older editions(before 8th). It was basically too specialized.

Spacemarine kits numbers are kind of bloated, makes sense to trim down the older kits.

Damn it I didn't financially recover from the last round of squattening. I still like the look of alot of the old range (company command and tech marine especially) and hope they don't all vanish off the face of the earth like the old chaos marine and chaos termie kits did...

 General Kroll wrote:
Those bikes are some of the oldest models in the whole range aren’t they? Beaten by only a few remaining Phoenix lords?

Company Command box, sort of? The captain in it is 6th-5th ed era, but the rest of the box is 3rd ed. Even has the old "Snip off the handle, slide the gun on the hand" type system.