Horus Heresy MkII Assault Marines (ft. Chainaxes)

[Lord Marshal]

Dropping in style.

 

 

 

[Cleon]

I hope they come with a mix of axes and swords, I'm also happy I've held off buying the jump beakies.

[Aarik]

Very cool to see these guys in plastic.  The jump pack and axe look really oversized to me though.  Hopefully it's just the angle, but I have not been liking the semi recent trend of gigantic melee weapons

[Aspecti]

Damn now I'm so happy I never bought a mk6 assault squad :)

[Marshal Loss]

This was the biggest surprise of the preview for me, he looks absolutely fantastic.

 

Wasn't expecting to see them do assault marines in alternative armour, gives me hope that we'll see Mark IV Tacticals & Assault in the (not too distant?) future.

[Waaagh?]

Please please please have more than one chainaxe per box! 

[WARMASTER_]

Finally!! The MKII in general looks amazing but these just hit the spot!!

[Marshal Rohr]

Straight out of collected visions. 

[Mostwanted]

I absolutely love these. That Jump pack is brilliant. I really like that it's big and bulky like it needs to produce a lot of power to lift the mkii armour.

[infyrana]

Yup, a very nice unexpected addition to the reveals (well, for me at least).  If they come with more than 1 chainaxe (1 per marine is my desire), then World Eaters and Reavers are in for a right treat !

[Elzender]

Massive chainaxe aside (which sadly follows the oversizing pattern of the power axes in the melee weapons set), this is a very welcome suprise. I should definitely not add more to my pile of gray, but this design is making me want to revive the jump-pack heavy Imperial Heralds project in the back of my head. Looking forward to seeing the whole squad for more dynamic poses.

[Xirix]

I love this particular jump pack design.

[roryokane]

These look excellent. I have to say, I like the Mk II armour more than the Mk III redo. That chainaxe is just SICK.

[Nephaston]

Pretty. Now to find suitable axe rakes and hand flamers and we have us some less frolicky ashen circle nerds.

[OttoVonAwesome]

I did buy the mark 6 assualt marines for Blood Angels wich are super cool but man are these great. I have the old resin ones as well but I do believe it's time to update my old Ultramarines. Mk 2 as far as the eye can see. Glorious.

 

-Edit: I also hope this means chain axes are less restrictive. Unless thats like a heavy chainaxe or something.

Edited yesterday at 12:28 AM by OttoVonAwesome

[de Selby]

14 hours ago, Aspecti said:

Damn now I'm so happy I never bought a mk6 assault squad :)

I did buy one but these guys will bring it up to a squad of 20. They are cooler looking for sure.

[Matcap86]

I'm tempted to pick up a box to convert into breacher marines. With the additional frontal plating they get closer to the look I want than the revamped MK3s did.

[Xenith]

This guy looks amazing, I hope that's a special chainaxe, I wouldn't want them all to be that size, but it's a lovely model. So chunky. 

[WARMASTER_]

30 minutes ago, Xenith said:

This guy looks amazing, I hope that's a special chainaxe, I wouldn't want them all to be that size, but it's a lovely model. So chunky. 

Agreed I thought the khorne berserker axes were a great scale they look menacing but actually usable 

[Matcap86]

1 hour ago, Xenith said:

This guy looks amazing, I hope that's a special chainaxe, I wouldn't want them all to be that size, but it's a lovely model. So chunky. 

 

Honestly most of the new 30k melee weapons have been ridiculously oversized. Really throws off the silhouette of the models imho.

[HeadlessCross]

28 minutes ago, Matcap86 said:

 

Honestly most of the new 30k melee weapons have been ridiculously oversized. Really throws off the silhouette of the models imho.

Highly disagree. OVER THE TOP is how the 40k setting should be, and the bigger weapons lend to that spectacle. 

[Scribe]

9 minutes ago, HeadlessCross said:

Highly disagree. OVER THE TOP is how the 40k setting should be, and the bigger weapons lend to that spectacle. 

 

Yes, 40K.

 

30K was more refined.

[MoriyaSchism]

3 minutes ago, Scribe said:

 

Yes, 40K.

 

30K was more refined.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on 40K. A lot of the Book 1 stuff corresponded with the release of models made to go along with the Badab War books that came out a year earlier. I don't like oversized weapons in either format.

[HeadlessCross]

1 hour ago, Scribe said:

 

Yes, 40K.

 

30K was more refined.

30k is the 40k setting...

[Matcap86]

 

1 hour ago, Scribe said:

 

Yes, 40K.

 

30K was more refined.

 

I was thinking on that earlier and this is pretty much why I dislike a bunch of the style choices in new Horus Heresy models. They veer to much towards 40k in silly over the topness. To the detriment of both eras.

 

We already have 40k!The charm for me was to see the before in Horus Heresy aesthetics so you can see how far humanity has fallen into deterioration and superstition. Instead now we get 30k with 40k new flavour! Giant character models and ditto weapons and bling.

 

As is tradition I blame the introduction of primaris as they broke the fallen empire style in 40k. (this is a joke... Kinda)

 

Edited yesterday at 08:30 PM by Matcap86
Triple posted for some reason