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Racerguy180 wrote:


Good mustangs? The only thing they're good for is running over people at cars & coffee

Imports are heresy.

 Luciferian wrote:

Racerguy180 wrote:


Good mustangs? The only thing they're good for is running over people at cars & coffee

Imports are heresy.

Heartbeats louder than hoofbeats

 Ginsu33 wrote:

 Dakka Wolf wrote:


Because it looks like a Necron helmet.

Necrons wear helmets? I thought that was their skull... and it looks nothing like a foul Necron, if anything it reminds me of a smoother MK IV helm. come on man, the punisher skull bares more similiarity to a damn filthy nercon.

AH I wish 8th was a video game, I can just picture the cutscenes... Marines standing proud on the deck of a ship, ready to serve, their armour painted up in the respective chapters they have been asigned to reinforce.. the huge Ultramarines Banner for 2nd Company, colourful and proud... then cut to a bright mid-day sun, the banner slightly torn up by enemy fire, these huge hulking Marines pouring through the laneways between these great ruined structures, climing up over the ruined imperial guard bunkers and barricades, and charging head first in to the enemy, smashing traitor and xeno alike!

Plus they have RIFLES, I mean come on... and a RAIL SYSTEM!hahahahah okay whatever.

Considering Necrons are automatons rather than skeletons or exoskeletons I doubt either of us are using the right term - anyway both Necron and Mk4 visages look like hockey mask charactures to me.
You should get some animation programs, that description was sweet.

Aw thanks, yeah if I knew how to use those programs I would!

You guys see them helmetless? The look ugly and inhuman AF. The heads and faces ugh. Heresy indeed.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
You guys see them helmetless? The look ugly and inhuman AF. The heads and faces ugh. Heresy indeed.

Troll harder mate.

Nice models, completely unnecessary

Like the models, it's about time GW started to phase in true-scaled marines. Hate the fluff, it's entirely unnecessary and wholly bad.

But I don't care for marines too much anyway, and probably won't buy them either way.

Models look nice, but not my cup of tea. Interested to see if the armor worn by the Captain in the starter set becomes the new equivalent of Terminator armor, and looking forward to checking out the Primarais Dread when it drops.

I just kinda realized something.

a current space marine model (or at least one from AoBR) is kinda taller than a boy, roughly the same size as the nob/flash gitz (from the nob kit, the nob from the boyz kit is smaller), and is of course smaller than Meganobz, Big meks, and Warbosses. Which fits with fluff and mechanics, since nobz and marines are equals.

The Restartus models are a head taller than nobz, and I think the captain is straight up taller than a warboss.

This irritates me. Warbosses have always been presented as THE biggest infantry HQ short of special characters, and them being dwarfed by these upstarts really get at me in a way I didn't think I could be gotten as an ork player.

 Luke_Prowler wrote:
I just kinda realized something.

a current space marine model (or at least one from AoBR) is kinda taller than a boy, roughly the same size as the nob/flash gitz (from the nob kit, the nob from the boyz kit is smaller), and is of course smaller than Meganobz, Big meks, and Warbosses. Which fits with fluff and mechanics, since nobz and marines are equals.

The Restartus models are a head taller than nobz, and I think the captain is straight up taller than a warboss.

This irritates me. Warbosses have always been presented as THE biggest infantry HQ short of special characters, and them being dwarfed by these upstarts really get at me in a way I didn't think I could be gotten as an ork player.

bah wut do youz care, if them Space Marine Gitz git bigger 'nm fightier that'll just make stomping em all da better! 'n maybe you'll git bigger 'n fightier too!



seriously though given how Orks tend to grow with time etc, I'd not be too suprised to see bigger Orks down the road. The War of the Beast may have had a component of GW tossing some ideas out there to see what where popular.

I'm largely indifferent, like I am to most Marines. I'll paint up the gang from the starter for my one chapter, get them a Rhino Deluxe at some point and hope that's the end of it.

Don't care, I no longer play current 40K. If something is released I can use in Classichammer, then away I go. As it stands, none of this is usable my me. The only good part is maybe cheap older kits to be had on evilbay.

Not a fan of the design beyond the jump marines. Wish they came in the current marine size. Not buying any for sure, considering my last marine purchases was the two Horus Heresy boxed games - and Kill Team. Well, and Shadow War.

Really bad timing to start resizing the marines, now that I think about it. The Horus Heresy Mk armor corpses are still warm...

They are true scale marines we wanted them here they are. What is not to like aside from the strange fluff. But then again you don't have to like the heretik slug nor his oddly xenophile friend.

I may be okay with the fluff if it turns out to end in some manner similar to what happened to the Raven Guard during the Heresy. Perhaps they go several years working fine and giving hope to the imperium, and then a decent sized portion start falling apart, mutating into monstrosities. And the chapters whose geneseed is more unstable (like blood angels, space wolves, etc.) see some truly terrifying horrors arise: blood angel numarines that initially seem to be giving into the red thirst reveal a cannibalistic hunger that can't be sated, space wolf numarines coming down with super rabies (pretty much 28 Days Later zombies except they're Space Marines), salamander numarines slowly having their flesh turn to stone, etc.

But I definitely like the miniatures... They'll be fine additions to my Iron Warriors.

Hate the size creep. Would welcome new models if they would be just slightly taller than the current line of marines, but this is too much. They don't feel truescale, they feel out of scale.

Can't really see these guys aesthetically working with "old" marines. GW is just trying to be nice while slowly phasing out all older kits. Probably won't take that long, given that editions change every 2-3 years now.

I like the look of them, and like the horus heresy, all we have to begin with is one short blurb, and look how that panned out. I doubt the numarines will have fluff to rival the HH, but I wouldn't knock it yet.

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
I like the look of them, and like the horus heresy, all we have to begin with is one short blurb, and look how that panned out. I doubt the numarines will have fluff to rival the HH, but I wouldn't knock it yet.

Try to condense ANY faction in 40k to a 2 sentence marketing blurb without it sounding "lame"

I like the models but cannot judge the fluff properly as there is too few info so far.

 Hollow wrote:

 Sensual_T_Rex wrote:
I also understand the want for the latest and greatest and how people who've invested a lot of money and time in there armies can feel a bit jaded about owning "outdated" miniatures.

I wonder how these people react when companies release new and upgraded versions of other products they may own. Do they cry when Ford releases a new version of the Mondeo? Do they go running into the dealership screaming "You just invalidated my Mondeo! I literally can't drive it, or look at it again because you have just released a new version" What do they do about mobile phones? Do they scream bloody murder every time a new version of the Iphone comes around? (yearly) Most of the people I see making these kind of complaints, always come across as the worst kind of demanding, whiny, childish little brats. GW owes you nothing.

As for the M X marines. I really like the models and the small amount of fluff we have heard about them. Could open up a range of new and interesting avenues for them to explore.

Haha , this !

If these had been actual true scale marines, and not simply bigger marines and new with silly looking guns and other things...I would have been fairly excited, I mean doing a few TS dark angels or beakies would have been a really fun paint week for me and I would have put a lot of love and personalizing into them.

What they are currently, no...I don't like them at all. There is a few aspects to parts of their armour that look ok mainly the knees and lower legs, overall I think they look incredibly boring and even silly. No doubt people will buy them and plenty will use them for true scale but for me I will stick the existing marines.

I know some will claim but they are tru scale no guys this is not true, they are a totally different armour mark and while you can use some parts for kit bashing true scale there is quite a bit of work to be done on them if you wanted to use the real mark armour we have been used to over the years.

Which is what bothers me the most, if they are planning to redo all the marines to this scale then that would be ok with me, but I have a feeling that won't happen and we will just be stuck with nu numarine varieties and releases.

I really like the new models and the warden of the house has given me full clearance to get the new box set so I'm thrilled!

On the fluff side of things I really don't know. Like, what we've seen so far they are just shoe horning these primaris marines straight in our eye of terror. It doesn't seem like a good fit for chapters like the space wolves or salamanders but again a tidbit of info we got was that some factions are not in agreement of the new marines.

GW went crazy with the space wolves models last year and I doubt they'd retconn all of those so quickly. Primaris marines on bigger wolves maybe?

honestly regarding the space wolves, WOULD they oppose them? they where depicted welcoming the Wulven "because they are our brothers" the primaris Marines seem like less of a stretch that way

Aside from the jump marines, they're great. I wish they had been actual replacements.

I'll have one Squad of the Nu-Marines, that i will break up and uses as corpses on the bases of my Sisters Of Battle, as they embark on their crusade to tear down the False Prophet Gulliman, and restore the True Imperium, Emperor's Light to the universe.

Death to Gulliman the False Prophet!

BrianDavion wrote:
honestly regarding the space wolves, WOULD they oppose them? they where depicted welcoming the Wulven "because they are our brothers" the primaris Marines seem like less of a stretch that way

Restartes are not children of Fenris. Wulfen are.

 Rippy wrote:


The situation hasn't been more dire in a long time for the Imperium, and pretty much all non-chaos factions (except probs for the nids)

Tau are doing great and expanding.

Necron are going great guns.

Orks are having a blast.

Dark Eldar are also having fun apart from being ribbed for their stupid new name.

We Xenos are generally fine, TYVM.

 Souleater wrote:

 Rippy wrote:


The situation hasn't been more dire in a long time for the Imperium, and pretty much all non-chaos factions (except probs for the nids)

Tau are doing great and expanding.

Necron are going great guns.

Orks are having a blast.

Dark Eldar are also having fun apart from being ribbed for their stupid new name.

We Xenos are generally fine, TYVM.

Dark Eldar have recently their capital torn appart and totally flooded by demons... but maybe thats funny for Dark Eldar

 Galas wrote:

 Souleater wrote:

 Rippy wrote:


The situation hasn't been more dire in a long time for the Imperium, and pretty much all non-chaos factions (except probs for the nids)

Tau are doing great and expanding.

Necron are going great guns.

Orks are having a blast.

Dark Eldar are also having fun apart from being ribbed for their stupid new name.

We Xenos are generally fine, TYVM.

Dark Eldar have recently their capital torn appart and totally flooded by demons... but maybe thats funny for Dark Eldar

Yes but the Mandrake dimension opened up and they've got a new Mandrake king!.. No clue where that's going to go for them but hey they've got new shadow besties.