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 wuestenfux wrote:
Well, I plan to play old-school Marines with 2W for my BA in the near future eagerly waiting for the release of the codex.
In a BA army, the signature units like DC and Baal Preds are a must have.


And I think Space Wolf Grey Hunters are going to compare nicely to intercessors. loosing out on some shooting but having superior melee.

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BrianDavion wrote:
 wuestenfux wrote:
Well, I plan to play old-school Marines with 2W for my BA in the near future eagerly waiting for the release of the codex.
In a BA army, the signature units like DC and Baal Preds are a must have.


And I think Space Wolf Grey Hunters are going to compare nicely to intercessors. loosing out on some shooting but having superior melee.

Primaris Marines will not have room in my BA to be played in the near future.
They just don't fit.

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Catachans might be the next to go, as the Cadians can fit the whole PDF substitute quite well. No, I won't count Made-To-Order, as preventing an army from being discontinued.

If these can be discontinued, then other armies can also be discontinued. The Orks lost their Wartraks, the Necrons lost their Pariahs, Crimson Fists lost Captain Cortez (unforgivable), eventually other kits will be Webstore only, and phased out from there.

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GW is doing pineapple pen with Space Marines and Primaris, albeit very slowly.

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Tycho wrote:
They’ve all but told us Cawl will make/has already made Traitor Legion Primaris,


Where's that?

We have numerous sources saying Bile will have some sort of answer, but I haven't seen anything suggesting Cawl has/will make traitor marines. That makes even less sense than the original fluff for the loyal Primaris. That said, I know there's Cawl stuff I haven't read so maybe it's in there? What's the source for that assumption?


The Guilliman books. Cawl keeps begging to be allowed to make Traitor Pimaris, Guilliman says no, and if Cawl does Guilliman will kill him for it. Then they let it drop in this awkward way that kind of implies Cawl already did followed by Grandpapa Smurt admitting he doesn't trust Cawl (Ergo its just a matter of time)....

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 wuestenfux wrote:
Well, I plan to play old-school Marines with 2W for my BA in the near future eagerly waiting for the release of the codex.
In a BA army, the signature units like DC and Baal Preds are a must have.


Uuh. Your group only has marines who also plays old marines same way? As no way just playing them as 2w is balanced now. Even with all marine group that would break balance
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:

Then how did tacs gw 2W? It has nothing to do with absorbing chaos energy, it's just gw making all marines equal. 2W Chosen are csm answer to primaris: same number of wounds, attacks, cc weapons in addition to guns, and a greater selection of available weapons.
I was talking the CSM going to 2W not the loyalist.



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BrianDavion wrote:

And I think Space Wolf Grey Hunters are going to compare nicely to intercessors. loosing out on some shooting but having superior melee.


They might as well have put Space Wolf markings on the Assault Intercessors. Blood Claw/ Grey Hunter is written all over them.

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Breton wrote:
They might as well have put Space Wolf markings on the Assault Intercessors. Blood Claw/ Grey Hunter is written all over them.


That's not *UN*-true... but my Blood Angels have also been waiting patiently for Assault Intercessors since Primaris first appeared. I had a feeling they'd be coming.

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 Super Ready wrote:

That's not *UN*-true... but my Blood Angels have also been waiting patiently for Assault Intercessors since Primaris first appeared. I had a feeling they'd be coming.



They're not Jumpy enough. I can't believe they made assault intercessors and didn't give them jump packs or the option for them.

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Well, we'll see what the Codex/supplement brings, but if anything I'd bet on a new type of Inceptor. We've not had jump-pack troops for aaaaages now.

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The Guilliman books. Cawl keeps begging to be allowed to make Traitor Pimaris, Guilliman says no, and if Cawl does Guilliman will kill him for it. Then they let it drop in this awkward way that kind of implies Cawl already did followed by Grandpapa Smurt admitting he doesn't trust Cawl (Ergo its just a matter of time)....


Which books? Dark Imperium and Plague War? Because as I recall there's maybe one quick section where it's mentioned Cawl would want to try one of the original Legions (who eventually went traitor) but that's really not at all the same as saying "Cawl is gonna make traitor Primaris!" It's an awfully big leap imo. Even for this setting. Especially since Chaos has Bile who is much more likely to have an answer. Or they can just be lazy and say "Chaos Magic", "Warp Exposure", something, something, dark side, and now CSM are bigger. lol

And no one trusts Cawl. That's the beauty of Cawl. His own people don't even trust him.

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I too think the jury on firstborn is still out.

If space marines are GW's bestselling faction, why not just introduce both flavours of marines as equally valid? Primaris for the fans of movie marines and people new to the hobby, and firstborn to us old beards who wax nostalgic about running a 100% beakies marine army..

The only way I see firstborn getting squatted is if they stop selling.. And given just much Horus Heresy has been given sporlight, we will see when that happens. Its possible that GW keeps the firstborn around just to please Horus Heresy players who might prefer a bulk of their legion to be plastic instead of resin.

Its the success of HH that will determine the fate of firstborn more than anything at this point.

This is where I'm placing my bets on.. which is why I'm going to make sure that my firstborn army is also HH compatible as much as possible.

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Breton wrote:
 Super Ready wrote:

That's not *UN*-true... but my Blood Angels have also been waiting patiently for Assault Intercessors since Primaris first appeared. I had a feeling they'd be coming.


They're not Jumpy enough. I can't believe they made assault intercessors and didn't give them jump packs or the option for them.


Probably be stuck as a completely new Primaris unit for that.

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 Crusaderobr wrote:
Anyone who thought Primaris was going to " replace " regular Marines, or that regular Marines were going to phase out, well hopefully you all can see that it is simply not true


Well, this sounds like pandering fanboyism. Because Geedubs hasn't phased out tons of other models? GW wants to sell more kits; it's how they make money. That's understandable, but it is obnoxious if you spent hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours on a set of models, only to be told that they're no longer valid for the hobby and that you have to spend hundreds more dollars and hundreds more hours to keep participating.

As others have pointed out, the decision to keep old marine models in the game (for now) is a response to customer backlash. You're either an apologist or engaging in magical thinking if you imagine that the company will continue making rules support for miniatures they don't sell any longer.

 
   
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I'm entirely convinced First Born will be gone next edition.

Hear me out.

GW has a lot of standard SM kits. More over they have a lot of money in the molds. So they need to move kits and they also need to make their money back, and what's the fastest way to do that? Well, sell an absolute fuckload of kits.

And they do that by buffing them.

We know for a fact that GW has no problem using rules as a tool to motivate sales, via making sure that new units / specific units are strong enough that they heavily out sell everything else. So making standard marines as good or better than Primaris at a point-for-point level ensures that they'll be able to move a lot of product for the duration of the edition.

After that they can retire the molds, and the entire mini-marine line, having sold off their substantial backend and having gotten their money's worth out of the molds.

   
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 morganfreeman wrote:
I'm entirely convinced First Born will be gone next edition.
We heard that last edition.

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Nah, last edition the more common opinion was that this edition would focus on Primaris with Firstborn being shunted into the background, and then removed or pushed into Legends next go around.

It wouldn't have been particularly surprising if they had gone faster and dropped Firstborn into Legends with 9th edition, but few people thought it was likely.

 
   
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 insaniak wrote:
Nah, last edition the more common opinion was that this edition would focus on Primaris with Firstborn being shunted into the background, and then removed or pushed into Legends next go around.

It wouldn't have been particularly surprising if they had gone faster and dropped Firstborn into Legends with 9th edition, but few people thought it was likely.
Oh I bet you I could find some posts to that effect.

Not going to bother atm, just sayin.

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Hence my use of the word 'few' rather than 'no'...

 
   
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 insaniak wrote:
Hence my use of the word 'few' rather than 'no'...
Fair, fair.

Although, I did say that I heard it, not that everyone was saying it.

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My tinfoil hat theory is that this is the last edition for mini marines.

They get brought in line with primaris in terms of wounds/ increased range and very similair point cost eroding the difference between the two. People get to use their mini marines with all the OPness of the current rules paradigm, realising they are basically the same thing as intercessors... GW announces that primaris are "space marines" to cut bloat and axes old marines for the new 10th edition with the primaris being in all intents and purposes a basic space marine and the word primaris ceases to exist. And it gets sort of forgotten about in the fluff..

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AngryAngel80 wrote:
I don't know, when I see awesome rules, I'm like " Baby, your rules looking so fine. Maybe I gotta add you to my first strike battalion eh ? "


 Eonfuzz wrote:


I would much rather everyone have a half ass than no ass.


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they're not upranging boltguns, the evidance against that is pretty strong.

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Re: OP topic.

True. See: Berzerkers. Eventually we all know it will be replaced, but they dont seem to be in any big rush.

Also see: all elder aspect warrior fans.

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 Mr Morden wrote:
Sisters survived when they were mail order AND metal only - I think the truely vast amounts of plastic marines means they will be around for at least a few decades.


The difference being that Sisters are a separate army, rather than a massive increase to an already bloated one.

-b-

This time around, I'm on the bet firstborn are gone next edition guess. If not entirely, at least in legends status.

-b-

In response to the lost model values when mini-marines stop being supported, you might be expecting a bit too much.
Assuming a shorter 3 year 9th edition, we'll have had 6 years of notice to read the writing on the walls.
If you bought a box right as Primaris arrived, most equate to less than $1 a month by the time we get to 10th edition, capping at $1.5 for a Stormraven.
That's if you're using 2020 retail prices for individual units (aka not 2017, discounted, or set prices).
We obviously want as much value as we can wring out of our minis, but that's a reasonable rate even if you're playing one game a month.

That cost/month value only gets better the longer you've had each kit and duration of 9th.
Heck. Even if you bought a kit today, most would still be okay but pushing it in the value department.

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 Insectum7 wrote:
 morganfreeman wrote:
I'm entirely convinced First Born will be gone next edition.
We heard that last edition.

Legend state is certainly an option.
In the meanwhile, Legend is a legal option for GW to shift the game leaving models and units no longer produced behind.

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 wuestenfux wrote:
 Insectum7 wrote:
 morganfreeman wrote:
I'm entirely convinced First Born will be gone next edition.
We heard that last edition.

Legend state is certainly an option.
In the meanwhile, Legend is a legal option for GW to shift the game leaving models and units no longer produced behind.
We'll see. GW seems to be putting in a lot of effort to repackage them all.

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The fact that primaris WAS released and are better then old marines from day1 indicated that old marines ARE going away, noone knows when and that should be the debate.

Had they instead made primaris rulesand stats in the same way they have done different versions of Stormcasts in AoS, noone would belive or think that old marines was beeing removed.


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 FrozenDwarf wrote:
The fact that primaris WAS released and are better then old marines from day1 indicated that old marines ARE going away, noone knows when and that should be the debate.

Had they instead made primaris rulesand stats in the same way they have done different versions of Stormcasts in AoS, noone would belive or think that old marines was beeing removed.
With original/classic/true marines going to 2W, Primaris lost their biggest advantage over them. Imo the equipment options put the classics squarely ahead in most circumstances. Vanguard well outperform Assault Intercessors for example, and for the moment standard Assault Squads have the advantage too, with sergeant equipment, Flamers/Plasma Pistols, Eviscerators and Jump Packs. We'll see what the codex brings though.

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