Warhammer30k Astartes MKVI Assault Marines

[Waaagh?]

13 hours ago, redmapa said:

I love them and with some bits thrown in they can easily become Destroyers. 10/10 GW, top stuff.

 

Realistically as Destroyers have chainswords as well all you need to do is put a holstered pistol on the model. Could replace the boltgun with Serpentia and hand flamer for jetbike kit if wanting to stick with current plastic stuff. 

[redmapa]

20 minutes ago, Waaagh? said:

 

Realistically as Destroyers have chainswords as well all you need to do is put a holstered pistol on the model. Could replace the boltgun with Serpentia and hand flamer for jetbike kit if wanting to stick with current plastic stuff. 

 

Exactly! I got tons of Flamer from the old infantry kits that I'm sure no one will have a problem counting them as hand Flamer, you could just add extra grenades and power weapons and you're good to go, the only thing truly missing is the Missile Launcher but I'd rather give that to foot destroyers so to me it's not a loss and while I understand the appeal for dual wielding pistols I personally prefer the chainsword. So yeah, as far as I'm concerned these will be my destroyers.

[sarabando]

28 minutes ago, Waaagh? said:

 

Realistically as Destroyers have chainswords as well all you need to do is put a holstered pistol on the model. Could replace the boltgun with Serpentia and hand flamer for jetbike kit if wanting to stick with current plastic stuff. 

gonna use some for some Angels tears 

[Noserenda]

Just chop the barrel off the regular flamers and stick the burny bit back on the box end, makes a serviceable hand flamer. Apologies for jargon :P 

[OttoVonAwesome]

15 hours ago, Slips said:

With there being arguably only one official Mk III Jump Pack unit (WBs Ashen Circle; its more of an inbetween of Mk II and III with up-armored torso and shins) I doubt it since the lorewise, Mk III is very unbalanced in terms of weight (its all on the front) and considerably heavier than any other Mk of Power Armour. 

 

But in terms of model kits, the work will probably be minimal if any.

Sticking those packs on mark 3 might be a nightmare depending on how the harness and jump pack attach to each other. I got this feeling GW is gonna stick with the black books lore and give us a mark 3 Breacher kit instead of an assault and it will be the one and only breacher squad. There were some hints as to that being a plastic project and not a resin upgrade.

 

9 hours ago, sarabando said:

funny thing is with everyone saying how this is a clear missing link between mk4 and mk7 . 

 

The Mk4 "Angelus" pattern is referred to as a newer design than the mk7 pack in the (iirc) 6th ed codex. 

They also called this jump pack mark 12 in one codex I kinda ignore the 40k fluff in favor of forge worlds on jump packs that there were just crap tons of different designs for them off the top of my head there's 7 different 30k designs of jump pack 2 different mark 7 ones 2 chaos ones (the newest is just the Night Raptor packs corrupted) and it's not unlikely we'll see more new designs as armour marks and special units are released and updated.

[ChargingSoll]

Just for the few that are interested, the shield arm doesn't have a bolt pistol but held like a storm shield.

 

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by ChargingSoll
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[OttoVonAwesome]

Yeah I imagine the weapons and arms are seperate pieces unlike the older 40k kits and I'm fairly certain they went away from the clipped to the arm type of combat shield cuase it often conflicts with the shoulder pads. I may replace them with older type like the old command squad champion where it's fixed to the pistol itself. I'm not particularly enamored by the mini breacher shield design especially since the cut out is on the wrong side lol.

[Doghouse]

One of the parts that interests me the most is actually the arms. The vast majority of the tactical guys have bolter arms locked into the pose of carrying a two handed gun. These offer lots of different single handed poses which will be fantastic for conversions using bits like the pointing hand from the spartan kit or bits from the sky-hunter kits or other existing kits to make the likes of consuls or vary up sergeants.

[Xirix]

13 hours ago, Noserenda said:

Just chop the barrel off the regular flamers and stick the burny bit back on the box end, makes a serviceable hand flamer. Apologies for jargon :P 

Don't suppose you have a picture example of this?

[Noserenda]

7 hours ago, Xirix said:

Don't suppose you have a picture example of this?

Not something ive done in a while, ill have a look in a bit !

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

I think these look great. Cool looking jump packs, some nice poses. When I get to start my HH Imperial Fists (still working on 14,000 points of Firstborn Imperial Fists atm) I'll be getting plenty of these guys.

[Spagunk]

Glad we finally have at least one source for bulk combat shields. Not my favorite style but it's better than 1 shield on an old assault marine kit.

[Hungry Nostraman Lizard]

I hope this means that over time, we'll see the other kits in different marks of armour come out. Now that mk 3 has had the tacticals redone, maybe now they move onto mk 3 assault marines? Maybe they'll lack the combat shields in that one, but have additional X Y or Z. 

(Though really I'd love a dynamic mark 4, please)

[Waaagh?]

3 hours ago, Hungry Nostraman Lizard said:

I hope this means that over time, we'll see the other kits in different marks of armour come out. Now that mk 3 has had the tacticals redone, maybe now they move onto mk 3 assault marines? Maybe they'll lack the combat shields in that one, but have additional X Y or Z. 

(Though really I'd love a dynamic mark 4, please)

 

They likely won't do mk3 assault marines. I could see them doing breachers though. 

[Cleon]

9 minutes ago, Waaagh? said:

 

They likely won't do mk3 assault marines. I could see them doing breachers though. 

I'd love me a more aggressively posed bodies MkIII Despoiler/breacher kit.... 

[OttoVonAwesome]

1 hour ago, Waaagh? said:

 

They likely won't do mk3 assault marines. I could see them doing breachers though. 

It's been vaguely implied as being in the works. I imagine it would also be the only mark we see breachers in plastic.

[The Emperors Champion22]

13 minutes ago, OttoVonAwesome said:

It's been vaguely implied as being in the works. I imagine it would also be the only mark we see breachers in plastic.

im gonna go out on a limb here and say that mk 3, 4, and 6 will all get the basic kits at least in plastic. im waiting for mk 4 to get its range until i jump into the horus heresy.

[Aarik]

I could have sworn there was something from GW a while ago about breachers being a resin upgrade kit.  I'd love them in plastic though.

[Boytoy]

If mk vi are getting jump assault, and mkiii are (supposedly) getting breachers, what do we think mkiv will get as its supplementary kit? Recon?

[Lord Marshal]

18 minutes ago, Boytoy said:

If mk vi are getting jump assault, and mkiii are (supposedly) getting breachers, what do we think mkiv will get as its supplementary kit? Recon?

 

Destroyers.

[Marshal Rohr]

Now that we know all the Marks being redone will share the same posing to maintain compatibility with the special and heavy weapons with Assault Weapons on the way next Summer I think we are going to get Breachers, Destroyers, Recon, and Seekers as upgrade boxes instead of individual unit boxes. The Breacher box will be 20 Shields, Helmets, and Bolters with Agnostic Arms that can be given the Mark 3 Vambrace. Destroyers will be Dual Pistols, arms, and special weapons like disintegrators, toxiferran flamers, and Volkites and come with attachments for helmets and armor plates. Recon and Seekers will be the same way, armor mark agnostic so you can easily buy 6 boxes of 20 of whatever you want, a couple of upgrade boxes and knock out all your infantry for under 800 bucks. 
 

Just my theory, not any special knowledge. It feels like they recognize people want to be able to do their favorite armor, and making the specialist units upgrades instead of bespoke boxes let’s that happen, encourages people to collect multiple legions in different armor, or go crazy with one legion and all the armies as they drop them one per year.
 

The Assault Squad ending up as Mark 6 aligns with this because it’s clear Mark 6 is the “baseline” for new Heresy, so your units like jetbikes and Land speeders and the command squad will all be mark 6 and if you want a different Mark you can convert the models yourself. 

[WrathOfTheLion]

The Jetbikes have a separate sprue for the riders, so they left it open for them to do other marks there.

 

They'd just need to release a MK II/MK IV/whatever frame. They could even do a character frame for them.

Edited November 22, 2023 by WrathOfTheLion

[Marshal Rohr]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfTheLion said:

The Jetbikes have a separate sprue for the riders, so they left it open for them to do other marks there.

 

They'd just need to release a MK II/MK IV/whatever frame. They could even do a character frame for them.

Let’s hope, buddy. How rad would that be?

[WrathOfTheLion]

43 minutes ago, Marshal Rohr said:

Let’s hope, buddy. How rad would that be?

Absolutely rad. It doesn't mean they'll do it in the short term, but they didn't preclude themselves from not doing it.

 

I can only hope that was intentional and we'll get some MK II, MK III or MK IV goodies later for them.

Edited November 22, 2023 by WrathOfTheLion

[Marshal Mittens]

They could do breacher arms for all body types?