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Has anyone bought the new assault intercessors kit? I've already got the ten monopose from indomitus. How adaptable is this kit? The sprues make it look pretty flexible, or at least as flexible as the regular intercessor kit. I often finding myself needing intercessor bodies for conversions, and my go to has been the regular intercessors until now.

It's a modern GW kit, so it is inherently inflexible. You can't go doing a lot of interesting poses and whatnot as everything is set to go with exact pieces like an elaborate puzzle rather than a miniature kit.

Thankfully, by GW standards, it does actually have some scope for kitbashing, although this is modern GW kitbashing which means a couple of arm swaps and, in a weird exception, the legs can be swapped with the Intercessor kit, so you can have running Intercessors and non-running Assault Intercessors.

Weapon variety isn't as broad as the regular Intercessor kit, although the Sergeant weapons are adaptable as they're all single-handed, so are meant to be compatible with the Intercessor kit. You might only be able to put them onto the Sergeant in the set, but I haven't checked.

It's as customizable as the regular intercessor kit. The bodies and legs are static, but there's a lot you can do with various arm and head poses.

I've gone and kit bashed a box of intercessors and assault intercessors together to create 4 somewhat unique units of 5.

Everything is flexible if you own the right tools.

The kit does only have two sets of five poses, but there's two of each Sergeant weapon option and a plethora of non-chainsword-and-pistol arms. Weirdly there are some combat knife arms despite the Assault Intercessors not actually having that option on their data card. I guess GW wanted to remind you they can forgo the extra attack and Ap1 if you don't want to overkill the target.

For what it's worth I deliberately mixed the arms up and used different poses for my two Sergeants, but not every arm fits comfortably on every pose and the sword wrists aren't molded to allow easy repositioning.

It's similar to the normal Intercessors kit, as the legs and torsoes are already put together for the most part so you get 2x5 different poses. Arms, heads and various gubbins are poseable.

I bought a kit to mix 5 poses from it with 5 poses from the 10 Indomitus Assault Intercessors, in order not to have couples of models in similar poses.
The spare 10 bodies (5+5) were used in a primaris-sized Vanguard Vet conversion.

 Aenar wrote:
It's similar to the normal Intercessors kit, as the legs and torsoes are already put together for the most part so you get 2x5 different poses. Arms, heads and various gubbins are poseable.

I bought a kit to mix 5 poses from it with 5 poses from the 10 Indomitus Assault Intercessors, in order not to have couples of models in similar poses.
The spare 10 bodies (5+5) were used in a primaris-sized Vanguard Vet conversion.

Be curious to see that, I'd considered doing the same thing but from the examples I've seen the Firstborn jetpack looks oddly undersized on an Intercessor body.

The Newman wrote:

 Aenar wrote:
It's similar to the normal Intercessors kit, as the legs and torsoes are already put together for the most part so you get 2x5 different poses. Arms, heads and various gubbins are poseable.

I bought a kit to mix 5 poses from it with 5 poses from the 10 Indomitus Assault Intercessors, in order not to have couples of models in similar poses.
The spare 10 bodies (5+5) were used in a primaris-sized Vanguard Vet conversion.

Be curious to see that, I'd considered doing the same thing but from the examples I've seen the Firstborn jetpack looks oddly undersized on an Intercessor body.

I wonder if using the Sanguinary Guard jump packs (minus wings) would look better as they are more streamline then standard firstborn ones.

The Newman wrote:

 Aenar wrote:
It's similar to the normal Intercessors kit, as the legs and torsoes are already put together for the most part so you get 2x5 different poses. Arms, heads and various gubbins are poseable.

I bought a kit to mix 5 poses from it with 5 poses from the 10 Indomitus Assault Intercessors, in order not to have couples of models in similar poses.
The spare 10 bodies (5+5) were used in a primaris-sized Vanguard Vet conversion.

Be curious to see that, I'd considered doing the same thing but from the examples I've seen the Firstborn jetpack looks oddly undersized on an Intercessor body.

Ask and ye shall receive!
Imho the jetpack, helmets and arms from firstborn models look just fine on primaris ones. Here's a couple of pics, with a primaris-sized Devastator thrown in as well:

...I think I agree with Red_Thirst, the Firstborn jump packs look subtly out of scale on Primaris bodies. I really thought that would look good until I saw it, but more power to you if you like the end result.

I'd be looking for Omnis conversion bits at this point if I didn't already have more Firstborn jump troops than I know what to do with.