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So how long before GW retires the non-Primaris range?


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Firstborn is also incorrect as many Primaris hail from long before the living Astartes of today, and it ignores the Thunder Warriors and Custodes who were the original creation of the Emperor. It's just a term used by a deviating chapter north of the galactic split (A great chapter with lots of character, mind).

Everyone is spamming the term as if it was GW's official name for the range.

Have you read that I've used the term First Born? If you have a problem with folk using that term then do what I do and continue to use Classic Marines.

 

Thing is, you've chosen something deliberately derogatory for what reason?

From what I can see in your quote it’s also factually incorrect since neither Thunder Warriors or Custodes are Adeptus Astartes, while old marines and Primaris are. We also all know the reason. The fact the baiting and condescension are still allowed to go undeleted is baffling. Especially in a thread where nothing derogatory is being said about anything else and is constructively discussing new ways old marines can live on.

Firstborn is also incorrect as many Primaris hail from long before the living Astartes of today, and it ignores the Thunder Warriors and Custodes who were the original creation of the Emperor. It's just a term used by a deviating chapter north of the galactic split (A great chapter with lots of character, mind).

 

Everyone is spamming the term as if it was GW's official name for the range.

We also spam 'Space Marines' when really their proper name is Adeptus Astartes and we speak English instead of low gothic.

Don't take it so personal. The term is probably the most accurate as even the Ultramarine gene-seed was degraded and "thinned" after millennia of use compared to at it's peak prior to the Horus Heresy.

 

The Firstborn is in itself derogatory towards Primaris. Firstborn is a term that carries the further connotation of "Favoured"

 

My observation is that it is not the official term yet is overused in this very topic. Thin blood is also not ths official term.

Some people are confused i believe, Thunder Warriors are not truly Space Marines, they are described as proto astartes, and Custodes are another kind of breed whit fancy hats, the "Primarch sons", the men who carry in their own flesh, the geneseed of the Primarchs are the first Space Marines.

All of them looks similar, but all of them are diferent kind of superhumans.

For my part, i refuse to use again the term "first Born/classic", a Space Marine are the tipe of Space Marine i know before 8 ed, and Primaris are the new breed whit more toys, this is my vow.

When the space marines are all primaris, there will be no more primaris, just space marines.

Giving the example of AoS, forgive me mods, the new freeguild tome. People are jumping up and down because the supposed "dead" faction is getting support, when in fact its just a soup tome for older models that GW still wants to make a buck from. This is what I believe it will happen to Firstborn Space Marines eventually.

They will be in life support for a while. a way to GW make a buck from players with an already existing collection, while primaris is a way of people make new collections with a new model line.

The day classic marines are out will be the day I'll be out of anything related to 40k. I will never buy anything primaris.

 

 

Let's see if they keep true to their word that classic marines are going nowhere. Time will tell, but it doesn't looks good.

The day classic marines are out will be the day I'll be out of anything related to 40k. I will never buy anything primaris.

 

Let's see if they keep true to their word that classic marines are going nowhere. Time will tell, but it doesn't looks good.

So is your expectation that the original Marines are supported forever until the day that GW ceases to exist? I don't have that kind of expectation for any of the ranges, including Primaris.

The day classic marines are out will be the day I'll be out of anything related to 40k. I will never buy anything primaris.

 

 

Let's see if they keep true to their word that classic marines are going nowhere. Time will tell, but it doesn't looks good.

There will be still be continued support in the Heresy era that can be used to make the units in 8th Edition too.

Don't take it so personal. The term is probably the most accurate as even the Ultramarine gene-seed was degraded and "thinned" after millennia of use compared to at it's peak prior to the Horus Heresy.

 

The Firstborn is in itself derogatory towards Primaris. Firstborn is a term that carries the further connotation of "Favoured"

 

My observation is that it is not the official term yet is overused in this very topic. Thin blood is also not ths official term.

 

I hope these concepts are explored in the narrative more. Those connotations certainly aren't all positive after all.

 

Full blown Badab War style conflict within some of the more...ahem...traditional Chapters is a tantalizing possibility. This is how we get there.

GW has already stated every chapter received and integrated Primaris. It would only be DIYs that didn’t, and it would also be historical since at this point in the timeline they’ve been integrated and making them for a hundred years or more. Also, pretty off topic for a thread about how oldmarines will still be supported in other systems and specialist releases.

GW has already stated every chapter received and integrated Primaris. It would only be DIYs that didn’t, and it would also be historical since at this point in the timeline they’ve been integrated and making them for a hundred years or more. Also, pretty off topic for a thread about how oldmarines will still be supported in other systems and specialist releases.

Conflicts can certainly boil to the surface after 100 years. It took longer for the heresy to begin, after all.

I agree. It's also possible that Classic Marines in each Chapter that ACCEPTED Primaris could revolt.

 

Wouldn't it be delicious if renegade Salamanders or Ultramarines took on their Primaris equivalent.

If it is in their best interest to keep people buying new things , then  I think  what we will see is more primaris stuff come out until it stands on its own as a full range , the older stuff  will likely still  exist , still have rules , but be less prominently covered. 

For all we know GW  is playing this carefully, I think  maybe as we see the Primaris line grow and the traditional marine line dwindle they might make a big push with HH  stuff or Scouring Era stuff because then you could lean heavily on  the traditional kits and make new stuff that fits into that time frame. 

@Idaho

 

No, because that is the very thing they should never do or explore because it’s repercussions among the fans. They have so much work to do to make the Primaris and Dark Imperium story not the stuttering wreck it is right now, if they’re going to do anything focus on that instead. We’ve got ten thousand years of history to enjoy oldmarines exclusively in the other events and stories that eclipse anything that exists for Primaris right now. They need to work in giving Primaris their own Cadias and Armageddons and Ichar IVs.

I personally think we've had enough large scale civil wars. Now that GW is releasing new kits for multiple factions and systems on a regular basis there's always going to be campaigns possible against Xenos, Traitors and Daemons.

Okay, putting it a different way - do you want your firstborn/classic marines to become a new branch of villains? That's pretty much the only way such a storyline happens, they go renegade.

 

The reason its dumb is, as Marshal Rohr said, it would make the player split/divide and enmity even worse, and would make people even more annoyed. "I don't want my cool blood angels/ultramarine character to go renegade and turn from the light of the emperor" etc.

 

I'd rather see people become more unified personally, I like primaris more, I don't mind the story progression, it isn't perfect but the books have done a good job to make it better. But I also don't mind classic marines, lore wise Dante remains my favourite character. I just choose not to use classic marines as I simply don't like the models as much. But I have no downer on the new stuff and wish people could get along as is starting to be implied is the case in novels (spears epitomised this where firstborn or primaris almost made no difference at all- well done ADB)

I'd rather have loyalist renegade than nothing at all. It's not dumb. It's inclusive rather than forcing folk into separate games.

I'd rather they keep both space marines and primaris as options to imperium. Maybe make them two codexes that can be used in the same detachment as they're both space marines. Whatever but it would be better. I can use my new primaris stuff, or my classic stuff or a mix if I want that way.

 

Which is what they have right now. Yay!

I've been bored of "everything is Chaos" in GW games for a while.

 

Why do renegades have to be against the Imperium? Why can't they fight for human worlds? Why can't we have a bit of nuance instead of good guys vs bad guys?

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