Codex: Space Marines 2.0 speculation & discussion

[Sword Brother Adelard]

Considering the title was 'primaris lieutenants DAILY' episode 723, surely the answer is to count back 723 days? Rather than look for some obscure meaning in date formats? Edited July 23, 2019 by Brother Adelard

[Marshal Reinhard]

723 days before june 2nd, would be june 9th 2017, which places it at about the release of 8th edition? Preorders were on the 3rd, while it was released on the 17th?

 

Which makes sense, but is perhaps a bit boring :P

[Panzer]

723 days before june 2nd, would be june 9th 2017, which places it at about the release of 8th edition? Preorders were on the 3rd, while it was released on the 17th?

 

Which makes sense, but is perhaps a bit boring

 

It would actualy make lots of sense if we assume they implied 8th edition to be the Primaris Lieutenant edition. ^^

[Sete]

It seems its not happening today.

[Subtleknife]

How disappointing. Was looking forward to some info today. Oh well. Onwards and upwards

[Ishagu]

Lol yeah, people on the forum had fully convinced me we were going to see reveals today.

[Marshal Vespasian]

Lets See. They often Post things as late as 20:00 (GMT +1)

[Jorin Helm-splitter]

723 days before june 2nd, would be june 9th 2017, which places it at about the release of 8th edition? Preorders were on the 3rd, while it was released on the 17th?

 

Which makes sense, but is perhaps a bit boring :P

Its definitely a possibility. The Twitter address has been posting fairly regularly since the article hopefully they look at them soon.

[Lemondish]

 

723 days before june 2nd, would be june 9th 2017, which places it at about the release of 8th edition? Preorders were on the 3rd, while it was released on the 17th?

 

Which makes sense, but is perhaps a bit boring :P

Its definitely a possibility. The Twitter address has been posting fairly regularly since the article hopefully they look at them soon.

My new favourite joke Twitter account. Some real gems there.

[Jorin Helm-splitter]

Yeah he has some serious hammer envy.

[Marshal Reinhard]

would be neat if it actually were to lead somewhere....

[Subtleknife]

Yeah I was thinking that. How many of these posts might have meaning behind them. Thunder hammer armed lts would be sweet.

[Boyadventurer]

Wasn't the episode in the video #723 and then he says hopefully in epi 724 he'll have info? That'll be tomorrow then.

[Sete]

Not today it seems lol.

[Lemondish]

Yes plz

 

[Panzer]

Lieutenants are super overcosted, but I do want one in Gravis plate lol

[Marshal Rohr]

They’d have to let people convert models again before you get those rules.

[Lemondish]

They’d have to let people convert models again before you get those rules.

Or release a Gravis Lt.

[Marshal Rohr]

Or just bring back real army lists and bin the data sheet system

[Marshal Reinhard]

I want a Gravis Chaplain before a lieutenant anyway.

[Ishagu]

Yes plz

 

These must be teases, surely!?

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

 

They’d have to let people convert models again before you get those rules.

Or release a Gravis Lt.

 

 

I'm going to guess that Rohr was referring more to the Thunder Hammer comment, since a Gravis lieutenant is pretty likely given that we know there's a second Phobos model on the way in addition to all the various Mark X lieutenants.

 

As to that Thunder Hammer bit though, given that Intercessor sergeants have had a growing number of melee options despite the base Intercessor kit not coming with any of them, I wouldn't be surprised to see the inevitable Gravis lieutenant have access to weapons options that aren't in the box, as long as there is SOME Primaris unit that has them. And since I still think we'll see an actual Primaris equivalent of TH+SS Terminators at about the same time we see a Gravis lieutenant, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the lieutenant's rules allow him to take one of those Thunder Hammers for himself.

 

Now the only question is WHEN - I've been just expecting the Phobos line we saw in the teaser as well as some multi-part Suppressors, but those last couple of tweets have me thinking we might see a few new Gravis units as well.

[Boyadventurer]

but those last couple of tweets have me thinking we might see a few new Gravis units as well.

 

 

We very well might, the Shadowspear lineup already wasn't fully Phobos (Suppressors), so I don't think the Primaris stuff will necessarily be released like the SCE chambers

[Marshal Rohr]

We’d be in the zone for the Extremis Chamber release for Primaris. Definitely a possibility.

[Boldthreat]

But we already have most of the Gravis stuff. We have a Gravis Captain. We have a Gravis Heavy Support and Fast Attack. So a Gravis LT and Librarian plus a Gravis Troop would be all that’s needed to bring Gravis to the level of Phobos in terms of unit types and options.

 

Remember the rumor at the end of last year? Talked about getting a transport, tank kit (executioner), unit of fast moving 1 man vehicles and a close combat focused squad of some kind... oh and a small aerial vehicle. Sprinkle in multipart kits of everything in Shadowspear and a few surprises they might just round out the Primaris with the release of the next codex.

 

Do you think they have a suite of special characters ready to release with the codex? That’s already a big release.

 

I’m hoping. My fear is the codex will release... new stuff will be there... but we won’t round out the rest until the next Shadowspear type release. I E complete Primaris in 2 years or so on the 3rd codex.