The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[nic-e]

The size of that new dread! ££££?

Edit: I can't help but feel like this stuff is sort of shitting on players "old" collections a bit. I don't know though, give it 6 months and I'll change my mind.

PEAS AND RICE ! It's huge!!!

I like it, I really like it. I like the primaris marines.I want to run an army of them so i can playu space marines as they should be, hulking great elites with a tiny army and alot of hitting power.

But i also agree, If i were a marine player already I'd feel like my army was about to be eclipsed for a very long time.

[YPU]

It is gundam kit sized. Cheaper and better looking mecha is now a solid choice for the sigmarine player.

It's time Bandai do a wargame. If they sacrificed Gundam level possibility for mere GW levels they could make an undeniably impressive range of wargaming mech's for jaw-dropping prices.

[FramFramson]

They did make some small versions a while back which were QUITE nice. I have a couple around here... somewhere.

[Duncan McDane]

Ah, scale creep. The best "resetting the market" thingy GW can do. Makes tons of miniatures and 2nd-hand armies obsolete overnight ( at least to the die-hard fanboys ) so yes, good thinking of them.
They terminated Warhammer Fantasy, now they terminate the classic 40K and will set the competition back a couple of years, again.
I'll keep my eyes open for cheap, discarded classic metal 40K figs from now on  .

[nic-e]

GW plan things 3 years ahead of time, so this has been in the works a while.
If you ask me they put in place the insurance policy for current gen marine players a while back with the switch to 32mm bases.
As bases are what's measured from in 40k, Having standard marines bump up to 32mm means they will match the base sizes of the normal tactical primaris, So anyone who wants to proxy their current marines as primaris and their primaris as tacticals can do without major issue.

I thought this when they rebased them, they it was going to be as prep for true scaling, And i thought the same when the deathwatch marines were scaled to be larger than their normal brothers.

It's going to have zero impact in game terms if people are mixing their armies, and whilst I'm not huge on the fluff , It doesnt undo any of the previously held canon of the 40k universe.
If GW really are planning on replacing all marines with primaris then The next edition should read something like this
" By M42 all Astartes had taken the pilgrimage to the primaris forge, Either out of desperate need or their own desire, and undergone the enhancement surgery at the hands of the mechanics surgeons of the imperium secondus. Those few hold outs that refuse to shirk from the original designs of the emperor now serve with the inquisition or the echlisiarchy, Revered as living relics of the emperors great crusade. "

[Ray Rivers]

So no news yet when the numarines are going to drop?

[nic-e]

So no news yet when the numarines are going to drop?

Primaris in the new edition box, pre order this weekend, Release the week after.
I imagine the primaris proper release will be the weekend after or go up for pre order on new edition release weekend.

[Gibby]

I like em. Proper scale. Shame if people feel alienated by their old toys being weenies in comparison but things have to move forward.

[thenamelessdead]

Will be interesting to see what happens to the Imperial Guard or whatever they are called these days. I think that it's a good thing that a marine is actually going to be larger than a basic human. It reminds me of all the old ork fluff describing them as being much larger and more ferocious than humans yet they used to have skinny little arms devoid of musculature.

[Predatorpt]

And it's official, there's a new founding, with new chapters (Fulminators is now a Chapter name...for real):

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/29/new-warhammer-40000-the-ultima-founding-may29gw-homepage-post-4/

[Daeothar]

They'll purge the enemies of Mankind by raging at them and calling them names.

But rest assured they'll use suitably big(ger) words of course. 

[Sbloom141]

The primaris marines will look a bit odd mixed with the others I think...

Also;

"the Adeptus Astartes are stretched thinner than ever"

Tabletop says otherwise no doubt 

[nic-e]

The primaris marines will look a bit odd mixed with the others I think...

Also;

"the Adeptus Astartes are stretched thinner than ever"

Tabletop says otherwise no doubt 

Hasn't that always been the case ? The eldar are the last handful of a dying race, each life worth the life of a planetful of lesser beings, But they seem to throw their lives away on the tabletop in what are, scalewise, minor skirmishes.
There are meant to be less than a million marines in total and yet I'm sure in the year and a half I've worked in a FLGS I've probably sold that many personally.

[stone-cold-lead]

Has this been brought up yet?

[YPU]

Has this been brought up yet?

Don't think it has yet.


For clarity, this should be 2 version of the game, with no intended link between them. (as far as we know for now) they are doing a AoS one, but get that many prefer old world and they are doing that straight as its own thing.