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Didn't like the Repulsor, but I am quite a fan of that.

However... Eldar get gak all dataslate changes and an over priced box and then suddenly we're back to Marine releases with a 14" moving AND THEN dismebarking model which can take a 4+ Invul?

Jacob29 wrote:
Didn't like the Repulsor, but I am quite a fan of that.

However... Eldar get gak all dataslate changes and an over priced box and then suddenly we're back to Marine releases with a 14" moving AND THEN dismebarking model which can take a 4+ Invul?

Why is anyone surprised about the item that is in the Marines Codex and has been talked about incessantly since the codex dropped?

This article is two months late to be anything other than "meh".

 Marshal Loss wrote:

Space Marines Primaris Impulsor: £ 45.00

That's like $56 right? GROSS!

Looks like I may be buying some Razorbacks to convert afterall. Put them hovering on a base, cut the back open, use the Lascannons (removing the barrels) as the side thrusters and the Heavy bolters (with 2 barrel holes drilled in each) as the Storm bolters and call it a day.
Depends on what my son wants to do, but he's cheap, so I'm sure he'll not want to fork out over $100 for 2 models. We can get 2 NIB Razorbacks for less than $80 off eBay

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 Kanluwen wrote:

Jacob29 wrote:
Didn't like the Repulsor, but I am quite a fan of that.

However... Eldar get gak all dataslate changes and an over priced box and then suddenly we're back to Marine releases with a 14" moving AND THEN dismebarking model which can take a 4+ Invul?

Why is anyone surprised about the item that is in the Marines Codex and has been talked about incessantly since the codex dropped?

This article is two months late to be anything other than "meh".

I'm not surprised they got the model at long last.. I never knew the rules for it before now as I don't own their codex.

I'm just a fair bit

I suppose I am just getting a bit bored of all these new releases for Primaris where Space Marines are now the ultimate in the entire universe, have the best Tech (sorry Eldar and Tau!), the best weaponary, the strongest soldiers. Like their storyline is just dreadful, they used to be corruptable by Chaos.. now they allegedly aren't. Brilliant.

 Galef wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:

Space Marines Primaris Impulsor: £ 45.00

That's like $56 right? GROSS!

$75. That's the Skorpius price point.

 Galef wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:

Space Marines Primaris Impulsor: £ 45.00

That's like $56 right? GROSS!

You wish. In GW land 45 pounds translates to 75 dollars (see the Mechanicus Skorpius, for instance).

$125 AUD lol

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Galef wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:

Space Marines Primaris Impulsor: £ 45.00

That's like $56 right? GROSS!

$75. That's the Skorpius price point.

Well, there are other 45 quid items on the store that are $70. So it will either be $70 or $75. Highway robbery. I guess this will be a $200 purchase, but I am definitely going to use a store with 15% off this time though.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The Impulsor is almost here!

The Space Marine pick-up truck has almost arrived to help you get your good ol' Marines into combat!:

Spoiler:

Yeehaw! The Segmentum Tempestus will rise again!

There's even a nice empty spot in the back right for a Confederate flag.

You should probably not paint it blue, though.

 Geifer wrote:

 Galef wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:

Space Marines Primaris Impulsor: £ 45.00

That's like $56 right? GROSS!

You wish. In GW land 45 pounds translates to 75 dollars (see the Mechanicus Skorpius, for instance).

Yeah. Definitely converting my son's out of Razorbacks then. $75 each is ridiculous.

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It's also tiny lol. It looks to be rhino sized.

 Red Corsair wrote:
It's also tiny lol. It looks to be rhino sized.

Exactly my thoughts. The only reason GW is charging $70-75 is because Primaris desperately need a non-gun boat transport, so they can get away with it.

I sincerely believe a slightly modified Razorback would fill in perfectly. You need the Razorback specifically for the HB/LC guns. I plan on taking the Lascannons, cut the barrels off, turn them backwards and glue them on the rear sides of the tank to look like the thrusters.
Put it on a short flight column and a base, glue the tank treads on the sides like hover repulsors and call it a day.

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 Red Corsair wrote:
It's also tiny lol. It looks to be rhino sized.

Shouldn't it be? Repulsor was the grav Land Raider, this is the grav Rhino.

 Geifer wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:
It's also tiny lol. It looks to be rhino sized.

Shouldn't it be? Repulsor was the grav Land Raider, this is the grav Rhino.

Size of Rhino should = Price of Rhino, MAYBE $5 more. LR and Repulsor are the same cost

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I want to see a picture straight down on it to get a better idea how big the bed is in back.

 Geifer wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The Impulsor is almost here!

The Space Marine pick-up truck has almost arrived to help you get your good ol' Marines into combat!:

Spoiler:

Yeehaw! The Segmentum Tempestus will rise again!

There's even a nice empty spot in the back right for a Confederate flag.

You should probably not paint it blue, though.

It's more El Camino than pickup.

It is annoyingly expensive for the standard dedicated transport which you ideally want many of. And I'm not a huge fan of how it looks. I really like the Repulsor, but this pickup design is kinda weird. I really need to see 360.

Third party guys really are not doing their job though. Repulsor style grav-rhino conversion set would probably sell pretty well.

 AduroT wrote:
I want to see a picture straight down on it to get a better idea how big the bed is in back.

It can fit two Marines on 32's standing next to each other. They show it in the Codex.

 Galef wrote:

 Geifer wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:
It's also tiny lol. It looks to be rhino sized.

Shouldn't it be? Repulsor was the grav Land Raider, this is the grav Rhino.

Size of Rhino should = Price of Rhino, MAYBE $5 more. LR and Repulsor are roughly the same cost

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Initial Repulsor yes, new Repulsor... not quite. They've been really generous with that one's price compared to a Land Raider.

Anyway, you won't see me disagree. I think GW was pushing it before this year's ample price increases. Afterwards, well, I'm not sure I'm even interested in their discount boxes anymore if the base price is so jacked up that the box gives you a decent percentage of discount and still ends up at the something like the 180€ price tag of the new Eldar one.

 Geifer wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:
It's also tiny lol. It looks to be rhino sized.

Shouldn't it be? Repulsor was the grav Land Raider, this is the grav Rhino.

So your taking thew stance that true scale primaris should be riding in an abstract clown car? Whats the point in primaris then?

You also fail to understand that I meant the impulser looks to be almost exactly the same size as a rhino lol. Yet it's double the price for some reason. Hell the old rhino even has a finished interior, just peel the rear top and glue plates where the tracks go.


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 Crimson wrote:
It is annoyingly expensive for the standard dedicated transport which you ideally want many of. And I'm not a huge fan of how it looks. I really like the Repulsor, but this pickup design is kinda weird. I really need to see 360.

Third party guys really are not doing their job though. Repulsor style grav-rhino conversion set would probably sell pretty well.

The issue I would guess, is that in order to put a roof on it that would clear a primaris head, it would end up looking like a fething U-'Haul box truck lol.
*ding dong*
"Primaris delivery!"

To be fair... the Primaris line so far has been pretty cost efficient.

£35 for 10 Hellblasters or Intercessors was an absolute bargain.

Still £45 for one Vehicle is an absolute con.

It's very expensive yes but it looks to be nearly the width of an Repulsor in the Codex pics. So not Rhino sized at all.

 Red Corsair wrote:
So your taking thew stance that true scale primaris should be riding in an abstract clown car? Whats the point in primaris then?

Making Marine players rebuy their army?

I don't think you'll get anywhere thinking of Primaris as true scale Marines. I very much doubt GW thinks of them that way. They are larger and should probably called impressively sized. Their physical presence is undeniable and has turned a lot of people off the look of old Marines. It's a veritable just as planned moment if you ask me. But I have a hard time believing that GW has any such lofty goal as could be described as true scale. Historically they're a company that has a comically distorted idea of human anatomy and is only starting to get a grasp on female facial features. The latest Chaos Terminators should have fixed Terminator anatomy after 30 years of dislocated shoulders and broken necks. Instead I got the impression they made it worse. Even if they tried anything that could be considered true scale, their house style of heroic proportions would get in the way of ever producing a convincing troop transport because different parts of models are differently scaled, and that just doesn't work with vehicles. It's troublesome enough to get a reasonably looking scabbard for the paddles GW models have for swords. And on the topic of scabbards, hilariously Reiver scabbards aren't even long enough to hide the full length of their combat knives' blades. GW doesn't do these things very well.

If true scale is your thing, looking to GW for a fix is a bit optimistic.

 Red Corsair wrote:
You also fail to understand that I meant the impulser looks to be almost exactly the same size as a rhino lol. Yet it's double the price for some reason. Hell the old rhino even has a finished interior, just peel the rear top and glue plates where the tracks go.

The only thing I failed to understand is that you had hoped for a true scale vehicle (but as detailed above, my take is that that's not something you should expect from GW), which is why I asked. That's not readily apparent from what you wrote. The Impulsor takes visual cues from the Rhino. We have pictures of it next to Marines. It's not hard to figure out it's in the Rhino size category.

The price is ridiculous. What else is new?

 RandyMcStab wrote:
It's very expensive yes but it looks to be nearly the width of an Repulsor in the Codex pics. So not Rhino sized at all.

Well the Repulsor is slightly smaller (but taller) than a LR, and the Impulsor is certainly smaller then a Repulsor (though not by much) and it looks like most of the extended width is due to the side thrusters (which can easily be added to a Rhino chasis).
Ergo, the overall bulk of the Impulsor is not THAT much more than a Razorback and thus should NOT be:
A) almost twice the cost or
B) too difficult to emulate with the existing RB kit plus a little bit of modeling effort (which I personally have far more of they actual $$ for minis)

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Voss wrote:
Huzzah. With both the eldar drip feed and the marine trickle finally finished, we can finally go back to a proper release schedule.

Still waiting for Black Templars...

 RandyMcStab wrote:
It's very expensive yes but it looks to be nearly the width of an Repulsor in the Codex pics. So not Rhino sized at all.

Oh yea? Well I can tell you as a GSC player that the pics are incredibly misleading.

@greifer: No I really don't think you follow me lol.

I assume the Ironhail Skytalon Array will be much cheaper than the Bellicatus Missile Array (Lol, 3 tipes of missiles, it looks like a salad of misiles or something) because if not whats the point of changing d3 F7 3d Damage anti flyer missiles and the other options vs 6 F4 1 Damage anti flyer gun.

Skytalon is 5 points. The missile is I want to say 17 (its been awhile since I peeked at the Codex, the costs are already there for it and all of its gear). I suspect the dome is the way competitve folks will go, especially if they're planning a Hellblaster rush, but dont count out the other options (or even just naked). There's a good amount of variety and its well costed IMO.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Jacob29 wrote:
Didn't like the Repulsor, but I am quite a fan of that.

However... Eldar get gak all dataslate changes and an over priced box and then suddenly we're back to Marine releases with a 14" moving AND THEN dismebarking model which can take a 4+ Invul?

Why is anyone surprised about the item that is in the Marines Codex and has been talked about incessantly since the codex dropped?

This article is two months late to be anything other than "meh".

Well its also the reaction when there is already massively bloated and complete range for a sub faction and its the huge number of sub-sub factions and constant releses for it - there is so much already to compare it to - its just Meh - oh yet another vehicle to consider.

Meanwhile all the other Factions wait to see when GW spins the wheel of non Marine factions to see who gets something between......marine releases.

Given the enduarance, speed and agility of Marines - open topped vehicle kinda makes sense - plus makes the inevitable Ork Konversions easier

Yeehaw! The Segmentum Tempestus will rise again!

Painting one like the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazard would be quite fun

I've been posting quite frequently that the Marines codex, when it dropped, saw basically none of the new items that the book brought.

This wasn't a surprise, this isn't interrupting anything. This was just a dragged out release. Rather than let each supplement 'wave' come out by itself with a single character, upgrade frame, and datacards--they held chunks of the actual new items back.