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Blimey, $220 Dollerydoos, hopefully I can palm the Primaris marines for $100

That box looks really tempting. Both death guard and marines were in the mix for me as a potential second army. (The other choices I'm considering are emperor's children, night lords, tyranids, admech and dark eldar). The best part is that by having only numarines in the box, it still leaves it open for you to use them as vanilla or special snowflake marines.

It will come down to the codex question for me. I am a bit worried that these new books will be invalidated quickly with a bunch of new codexes which will continue the codex creep cycle. If unit rules are free and the new books are strictly points and scenarios I might dabble in a bunch of new armies. If it's more of the same I will stick to two armies tops.

 Rippy wrote:
Blimey, $220 Dollerydoos, hopefully I can palm the Primaris marines for $100

Where in Aussie-land are you, mate? I'm in Melbourne. I'm after a second set and was going to split with a mate but he's not committing either way at this point so if you'd be interested in swapping I'm after some more Primaris Marines with no interest in the Death Guard....

IE we each buy a set and swap the opposing minis. I couldn't have worded it worse if I tried.

Templar black really does make these models look better. Probably the darker colors making them look less cartoony.

Definitely need to know if the weapons are compatible with the regular Marine kits now. I need one of them Pistol Assault Bolger things for a character STAT

damn, they do look a lot better in black

What program did you use to alter the color?

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
What program did you use to alter the color?

I nicked it from B&C and they got it from Facebook it seems. That said, I'm betting it was a wuick Photoshop job with some color swapping.

And even the color swap didn't save the shields sadly. A double barrelled gun and an actual shield would have looked better.

Actually there's an idea. Slab Shields from the Bullgyn kit and a Stormbolter to replace the current kit....


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Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
Definitely need to know if the weapons are compatible with the regular Marine kits now. I need one of them Pistol Assault Bolger things for a character STAT

Probably not without some love. At least not for the models we,re seeing right now as they're all snapfit guys.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
What program did you use to alter the color?

I nicked it from B&C and they got it from Facebook it seems. That said, I'm betting it was a wuick Photoshop job with some color swapping.

And even the color swap didn't save the shields sadly. A double barrelled gun and an actual shield would have looked better.

Actually there's an idea. Slab Shields from the Bullgyn kit and a Stormbolter to replace the current kit....


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Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
Definitely need to know if the weapons are compatible with the regular Marine kits now. I need one of them Pistol Assault Bolger things for a character STAT

Probably not without some love. At least not for the models we,re seeing right now as they're all snapfit guys.

Damn. Any chance the arms aren't too big? I'm already committed to cutting things into pieces but any less work for my new representation of a Chapter Master using The Primarchs Wrath helps in my book.

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
What program did you use to alter the color?

I nicked it from B&C and they got it from Facebook it seems. That said, I'm betting it was a wuick Photoshop job with some color swapping.

And even the color swap didn't save the shields sadly. A double barrelled gun and an actual shield would have looked better.

Actually there's an idea. Slab Shields from the Bullgyn kit and a Stormbolter to replace the current kit....


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Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
Definitely need to know if the weapons are compatible with the regular Marine kits now. I need one of them Pistol Assault Bolger things for a character STAT

Probably not without some love. At least not for the models we,re seeing right now as they're all snapfit guys.

Damn. Any chance the arms aren't too big? I'm already committed to cutting things into pieces but any less work for my new representation of a Chapter Master using The Primarchs Wrath helps in my book.

I want to say it,s probably that the arms will be too big since the shoulderpads didn't change size but the arm is snugger inside,

That said, taking the gun off the hand and pinning it onto your conversion's fist should be doable, if requiring a bit of extra fenangling.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
What program did you use to alter the color?

I nicked it from B&C and they got it from Facebook it seems. That said, I'm betting it was a wuick Photoshop job with some color swapping.

And even the color swap didn't save the shields sadly. A double barrelled gun and an actual shield would have looked better.

Actually there's an idea. Slab Shields from the Bullgyn kit and a Stormbolter to replace the current kit....

Now there's an idea indeed. Thanks for the feedback I'm going to try and make them look Carcharodonish

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
What program did you use to alter the color?

I nicked it from B&C and they got it from Facebook it seems. That said, I'm betting it was a wuick Photoshop job with some color swapping.

And even the color swap didn't save the shields sadly. A double barrelled gun and an actual shield would have looked better.

Actually there's an idea. Slab Shields from the Bullgyn kit and a Stormbolter to replace the current kit....

Now there's an idea indeed. Thanks for the feedback I'm going to try and make them look Carcharodonish

Glad I could help!

Despite how the new guys look in black I feel like there is something missing, maybe it's a lack of purity seals, or extra decor on the armour or something, they just feel....plain.

That said I often feel that way about most Marine Kits. Character models and the MkIII armour have been the high points of having enough interest to keep my hobby ADD in check. Well in check longer than usual.

With this years focus being on Marines and Chaos that pretty much means I can be free from worrying about starting a olastic Sisters army and free myself up for other projects.

Problem i,m having is actually committing to something. It's not even the lack of rules but rather a point where I realized I basically had everything I wanted in my Sisters in terms of what I wanted in an army and am struggling to find something new to start. That and if I have to build any more Rhino chassis I may burn climb a church tower and start preaching about how everyone is a heretic or something.

Sadly these new guys don't really help me solve that problem. And while I find the Plague Marines interesting, I am ultimately going to step back and just get the rulebook by itself instead.

If Thursday brings us news of Feral Orks getting rules I may have a new army project, but for the moment I am still trying to find that new project that'll kick off the new edition for me,

I think the more plain look suits them, they're much less experienced than current marines, so it would make sense if they didn't have as much galore to them.

I think Feral Orks could be a possibility, I'm really curious as to what they'll do with the whole 'Chapter Tactics' theme with the armies.

 ClockworkZion wrote:

Glad I could help!

Despite how the new guys look in black I feel like there is something missing, maybe it's a lack of purity seals, or extra decor on the armour or something, they just feel....plain.

That's one of the things I really like about the Primaris Marines - they are refreshingly clear of bling!

I'm interested to know more about their version of artificer armor, and especially their version of Terminator armor - if they're getting it...

Looking at the full set of primaris marines against the new nurgle stuff.... it's like they are in two separate art styles. The Nurgle stuff is cartoonish almost to the point of being chibi... and why does every dang cultist have to have a giant horn growing out his head and a giant grin?

They definitely look good in black. A bit of battle damage and some scorch marks on the jet pack exhausts and they will look even better.
I think I going to wait on the starter though. I want to see how the next few months shake out. The rumoured dreadnought and transport may persuade me to start a primaris army, but I am holding out hope we will see something cool for the xenos soon.
Launch will just be the free rules and one of the index books for me.
Hopefully they will show off more than just the starter at Warhammerfest and I can make a bit more of an informed decision.

Whew lad!

The price of that starter set...

I'd wager those new jump marines can hover and not just jump around

it really sucks that these numarines seems to have barely any options of weapons. they will be a real cookie cutter army

 streetsamurai wrote:
it really sucks that these numarines seems to have barely any options of weapons. they will be a real cookie cutter army

Those are literally the starter set options. Assuming that what we see is it.. well, I think that's really too early to determine. If there are options they can take in the book that aren't represented in the starter kit.. well.. I happen to know of a gajillion sites that sell that sort of thing..

We saw the sheet of the inceptors, and they have no weapon options

 Meade wrote:
Looking at the full set of primaris marines against the new nurgle stuff.... it's like they are in two separate art styles. The Nurgle stuff is cartoonish almost to the point of being chibi... and why does every dang cultist have to have a giant horn growing out his head and a giant grin?

Because that's Nurgle for you.

His followers don't suffer their plagues and pustules, but revel in them. The Horns are possibly a sign of Nurgle's Rot, and their transformation into a Plague Bearer.

 streetsamurai wrote:
We saw the sheet of the inceptors, and they have no weapon options

I'm not seeing it in the OP.. I did see Rubric Marines (TSons?).. I dunno.. if we see the sheet for the guys that have plasma or whatever heavy weapons end up being a thing.. or maybe what would be considered a veteran squad possibly. Did the Inceptors get a sgt with possibility for a PSword or PFist at least?

EDIT: It's also possible that the datasheet that was seen was specific to the starter set which would only list the options presented in the kit most likely.

sorry it was for the intercessors

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/15/primaris-space-marines-gaming-may15gw-homepage-post-4/

 streetsamurai wrote:
sorry it was for the intercessors

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/15/primaris-space-marines-gaming-may15gw-homepage-post-4/

Oh, yeah we were told from the onset that those guys would be filler infantry. EDIT: redacted.. I re-read the stuff at the link.. they do in fact mention the filler bit and that they lack any real options.

I,m not saying it will be the case, I said that it seems like it will be the case (especially considering there is another unit of numarines armed with only plasma weapons). Hope I'm wrong, cause the vast amount of weapons choice is what makes 40k interesting

I feel the new Primaris Marines are going to have a very 30k feel to them in a sense.

Tacticals with only boltguns
Support Squad with Special weapons
New Assault dudes remind me a little bit of Moritats with jump packs

I'm almost willing to bet money that the Redemptor Dread will be sleeker than the Castaferrum, but maybe not so much as a Contemptor, and they'll probably release a Support Squad for heavy weapons

After all, they were designed right after the Horus Heresy, but I doubt that has to much of an effect. I'm probably wrong about all of this, but who knows

 ClockworkZion wrote:

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Templar black really does make these models look better. Probably the darker colors making them look less cartoony.

That looks badass.

Any chance you could do other main chapter colors? White?

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:

Spoiler:

Templar black really does make these models look better. Probably the darker colors making them look less cartoony.

That looks badass.

Any chance you could do other main chapter colors? White?

No white, but posted a few pages back by frozenwastes:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/9240/724730.page#9379431

The jetpack Marines look not very agile. Just hanging around until they land.