Rumors 10th Anniversary Intercessor Squad, new options (Helmets, torsos and more)

[IronHandsPraetor_Rumors]

I'll be as concise as I can be with the rumor itself, but I just got to establish a few things beforehand. 

 

1. This is a throw-away account, I plan on joining Bolter and Chainsword fully at a later time in the near future.

2. I cannot share my sources, it's a very secretive server and they told me I'd be banned if I disclose the name

3. Take everything shared with a massive grain of salt, the server has a 45/65 track record of being correct with rumors, so this could just be rubbish for all I know.

 

The reason I'm sharing this here is because of two reasons, I haven't seen it talked at all and I'm interested in seeing what the wider community thinks about it.

 

Now, onto the rumor: For the ten year anniversary of the introduction of the Primaris space marine, GW will be releasing an updated Intercessor Squad with new options for the helmets, torsos, kneepads and power-packs. (I couldn't include PPs in the image due to not having space, sorry!) 

 

Whether this will be replacing the current Intercessor Squad or if it's just a special limited-time item wasn't made clear, so it's up in the air.

 

Rules will be the same as the current squad, it's purely aesthetics.

 

Personally I have my own theory on this, but I'll go more in depth in the comments.

 

 

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[LameBeard]

Nothing surprising here. And information=surprise. Can’t see the picture though.

 

They updated stormcast liberators in a similar timeframe. New intercessors “when not if” is our working assumption. The space marine art and other kits have slowly been back-porting older design elements like Mk VII helms. Everything in this rumour has already been covered in speculation threads in this forum. 
 

Unless that picture is of a knee pad with no flange then not sure what we are reacting to?

[grailkeeper]

But the ten year anniversary of primaris will be in 6 or 7 years time?

 

I'm not that old surely?

[Arkley]

Just now, grailkeeper said:

But the ten year anniversary of primaris will be in 6 or 7 years time?

 

I'm not that old surely?

Sir I have some bad news for you...

 

The initial Primaris Intercessors multi-part plastic kit was first released on August 12, 2017 

[Indy Techwisp]

I expect the Intercessors are gonna get an updated kit at some point, but I doubt it's being saved for the 10th Anniversary of Primaris.

 

If anything I'm expecting it to be one of the things bringing in 11th Ed.

[TheWarmaster]

As if we’re only around a year and a half away from the 10th anniversary of Primaris space marines first coming out. Wow. 

[Orange Knight]

So was there an image at some point?

 

If this is all true it would be a big disappointment for people hoping GW release a "Tactical Intercessor" kit which brings in some of the options available to Tactical Marines.

[Indy Techwisp]

1 minute ago, Orange Knight said:

So was there an image at some point?

 

If this is all true it would be a big disappointment for people hoping GW release a "Tactical Intercessor" kit which brings in some of the options available to Tactical Marines.

 

TBF, updating the Intercessor Kit to include more Firstborn/Tactical Marine options while not actually changing the stats is a very GW thing to do.

[Orange Knight]

12 minutes ago, Indy Techwisp said:

 

TBF, updating the Intercessor Kit to include more Firstborn/Tactical Marine options while not actually changing the stats is a very GW thing to do.

We've always been able to customise the kit if we wanted to, visually. I was under the impression people actually wanted a Plasma gun and missile launcher as upgrades for a few Marines in the squad lol