The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[YPU]

The scale apparently has gone way up with the plague marines too - all the more reason not to get them.

That makes no sense fro ma story sense.

[Predatorpt]

That makes no sense fro ma story sense.

They said something about Nurgle being the first of the Chaos Gods to take notice of the Primaris Marines and act accordingly, giving more power (aka making them bigger) to the Death Guard. And the new novel from the Black Library will talk about that first confrontation (setting up the starter box).

[Andrew Rae]

The scale apparently has gone way up with the plague marines too - all the more reason not to get them.

I'm the opposite. That guy looks bigger than the plague marine in the other comparison photo so is suitably imposing. I've been needing a big nurgle guy for a warband I've been planning and the current size of marine just didn't cut it.

That makes no sense fro ma story sense.

C'mon. 10,000 years in the warp must give you a few inches as well as horns and belly tentacles.

[YPU]

C'mon. 10,000 years in the warp must give you a few inches as well as horns and belly tentacles.

Well, predatorpt has the explanation above. But I like your idea better. If right around the rollout of the primaris marines a new breed of Nurgle chaosmarine with very similar characteristics would emerge that creates a very nice dark symmetry and well as an interesting mystery as to how that happened.

[Mason]

Well, predatorpt has the explanation above. But I like your idea better. If right around the rollout of the primaris marines a new breed of Nurgle chaosmarine with very similar characteristics would emerge that creates a very nice dark symmetry and well as an interesting mystery as to how that happened.

Well. Ol' Papa Nurgle was stretching out having a relax in the back garden when he looks over the fence and sees Mr-Girlyman-Jones next door has some new bigger Maureens to dot around his fishpond and says to himself: 'I am gonna have to get me some of them!'.

 

[nic-e]

I thought the fluff always stated that plague marines are hulking great beasts, bigger than any loyal marine in height and mass?

[JamesValentine]

1: not everything is perfectly lined up so that needs to be addressed before anything can be said.
2: Nurgle marines being bigger kinda makes sense to me and always should of been I feel.
3: we do not yet have the full picture concerning fluff. so people saying "it makes no sense"...are making no sense
4: this is STILL not evidence of replacing marines. I want a clad iron quote from GW via video.

until then its just more DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[Ray Rivers]

They're definitely setting up to replace the Space Marine line over the next 5-10 years.

And almost certainly all the others too... kinda like warhammer.

10,000 years in the warp

I guess, based on how folks reacted to destroying the warhammer world and starting all over again, that probably wasn't a good idea.

Nevertheless... the same result.

[JamesValentine]

no...it was a brilliant idea. fantasy was dull. at least now its more like a proper game

[Andrew May]

I wonder if they'll fuck it all up and upscale everything else too! One of my frustrations with AoS is that the Khorne marauder guys are huge, much taller than 40k humans in fact much taller than "old marines".

[Cubs]

Wouldn't it be easier to sell magnifying glasses so everyone could keep the same models but they all look bigger? Or just get people to stand closer? I'll bet the legal gurus at GW could find a way to trademark 'standing closer to a table'.

[Andrew Rae]

I wonder if they'll fuck it all up and upscale everything else too! One of my frustrations with AoS is that the Khorne marauder guys are huge, much taller than 40k humans in fact much taller than "old marines".

At least they didn't upscale the forthcoming Shadespire skellies, which suggests not everything in AoS is going supersized. The handwavium about Tzeentch cultists being clerks and merchants who magically beef up when the revolt comes still makes me smile though.

[nic-e]

Seems GW have commissioned Devil Pig games to make a 40k skinned version of heroes of Normandy.

Whilst i haven't played it, I have been told that the original is excellent.

[Dezmond]

Oh wow. 'True Scale' (or at least Really Tall) space marines.

I guess it's about time to go through another 40k phase.

[YPU]

Seems GW have commissioned Devil Pig games to make a 40k skinned version of heroes of Normandy.

Whilst i haven't played it, I have been told that the original is excellent.

Yes, I'm curious about that as well, might be a fun way to dip the toes into 40k without having to resign to their normal rule systems.