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Warhams-77 wrote: An overview of rumors regarding the new Marines with the important bits from the last months - in order of appearance
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4chan
Hastings - Disqus
Chikout wrote:
Hastings has popped up on the war of sigmar blog saying there will be completely new imperial units made by guillemot and Cawl that will include new types of marines and will feature in a new starter set later this year.
…I’m not suggesting anything gets squatted. I said clearly focus will be on new marines rather than existing chapters, but existing chapters will still get releases.
I don’t get it, people are happy they’re moving the story/timeline on but don’t want anything to change, they want just their chapter to get new toys yet complain SM have too much, 40k players should think themselves lucky that they didn’t get the same treatment that WFB fans did with the destruction of the setting and large parts of models/armies. What’s the point of the hobby for Bret or tomb kings players?
I see new marines as a chance to have the best of both worlds, SM originals don’t get endless variants and units but are still in the fight, new marines are like a new army to build up from scratch pretty much, I’m sure they’d happily ally so don’t really see what the problem is.
…The answer to that is simply I don’t know. I was told they new marines are different to current marines, [...]
I really doubt the iconic space marine kit will be retired so I wouldn’t worry too much about them becoming outdated. I guess fluffwise it would be no different than older armour classes still being around in 40k, sure the new marines would be out there, but a lot of existing marines are still out there too.”
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H.B.M.C. wrote:
What will they be called though?
Mk. X sounds nice.
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Where was this taken from, could you link to the source? The new painting pic certainly looks legit to me, that's crazy big if the smaller old one is accurate, though. True scale marines as standard!
It's taken from the new page for 8th edition in the hobby section I believe.
Part of me thinks this will have to be some new proto-Marine as a separate entry from normal marines. That or GW is serious about re-designing the entire Space Marine range included every single special character (including the models they recently released for Custodes, the special characters from the recent triumvirate box etc.).
While "true scale" is a neat idea (if you were playing with marines who represented the fluff) the size of that army will be beyond monstrous (imagine the size needed for new Space Marine bikes). It will be a tremendously massive undertaking to change the whole range that way.
I expect a new "class" of Marine (the last thing the game needs) which also will allow gamers to run them as normal marines if they really want true-scale stuff for their games. Sadly this part of AoS is something I could do without. The size creep has been incredible lately and that will make a lot of armies/models suffer as a result.
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(Looks like they've realised and switched out the hero banner now btw)
Stormonu wrote: For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
JSF wrote:... this is really quite an audacious move by GW, throwing out any pretext that this is a game and that its customers exist to do anything other than buy their overpriced products for the sake of it. The naked arrogance, greed and contempt for their audience is shocking.
That's not as big as people were making it out to be.
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I am really weirded out by the proportions. The top half looks like a standard marine but the bottom half looks like Terminator Legs, which makes their arms look really weedy and their legs into giant tree trunks.
Gwar! wrote:Huh, I had no idea Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines posted on Dakka. Hi Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I have an Autograph!
Kanluwen wrote:
Hell, I'm not that bothered by the Stormraven. Why? Because, as it stands right now, it's "limited use".When it's shoehorned in to the Codex: Space Marines, then yeah. I'll be irked.
When I'm editing alot, you know I have a gakload of homework to (not) do.
Melissia wrote: That's not as big as people were making it out to be.
They're precisely as big as the picture showed. I'm not sure where you'd get some sort of idea they were bigger than the photographic evidence suggested?
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Given these are in 3rd Company colours (red pad trim not 2nd Company gold), I can see them being rolled out as a wholesale refit of the Ultramarines. And that's BOUND to piss off some other Chapters' players...
Stormonu wrote: For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
Look on the bright side, they might work as Squats now.
Gwar! wrote:Huh, I had no idea Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines posted on Dakka. Hi Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I have an Autograph!
Kanluwen wrote:
Hell, I'm not that bothered by the Stormraven. Why? Because, as it stands right now, it's "limited use".When it's shoehorned in to the Codex: Space Marines, then yeah. I'll be irked.
When I'm editing alot, you know I have a gakload of homework to (not) do.
Space Wolves were already 80% close to Squats, with the remaining 20% being height and lack of beards. They fit perfectly now!
Gwar! wrote:Huh, I had no idea Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines posted on Dakka. Hi Graham McNeillm Dav Torpe and Pete Haines!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I have an Autograph!
Kanluwen wrote:
Hell, I'm not that bothered by the Stormraven. Why? Because, as it stands right now, it's "limited use".When it's shoehorned in to the Codex: Space Marines, then yeah. I'll be irked.
When I'm editing alot, you know I have a gakload of homework to (not) do.
I sincerely hope this isn't a replacement for the regular Astartes. I just bought a new marine army!
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The marine in the painting guide is literally the marine that was leaked with a helmet instead of a bare head.
Ho hum.
We'll get another set of rumours about the starter set on 22nd May, which is when the store managers have a big meeting at Nottingham which I believe will be to lovingly pet the new starter set. Anyone got anymore detail about it being numarines vs plague marines?
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Yeah was gonna say, that painting guide is not of a NuMarine.
Stormonu wrote: For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
I'm a little nervous now. I like the aesthetic of the larger model but I don't like seeing the huge scale creep since i'm a little bit OCD and I for one couldn't afford to re do an entire army from scratch again when i'm investing in my current personal project and I couldn't happily add anything larger in my squads as it would look silly, I do realise that nothing is confirmed or set in stone, for all we know these could be the named Ultramarines that were mentioned for that Japanese GW release?
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Stormonu wrote: For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
The bodies definitely match but it looks like the marines are just carrying an enlarged bolter, maybe the leaked marine is carrying some form of new special weapon?
Looks to me like some form of lmg maybe a halfway point between a full heavy bolter and the normal bolter?
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