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[Karhedron]

9 minutes ago, jaxom said:

I love Intercessors and keep trying to make them work as best I can. Angelic Inheritors and Bastion are my favorite detachments.

 

Bastion is better in this regard IMHO as it actually buffs Intercessors. AIs only buff them if you add a character which increases their cost. Mind you, a 10-man squad with Lethal Hits from a Lt can do a surprising amount of damage. A squad with a 4++ from a Librarian is also a bit harder to shift. The problem is that both of those Characters provide more benefit buffing stronger squads.

[jaxom]

Yeah, that’s a perennial problem with putting characters in Intercessors. It’s part of why I’ve been using Bastion more lately; that and the +1 to wound OoM does work with all the bolter shots.

[TrevorLoLz]

On 4/19/2026 at 12:59 AM, HeadlessCross said:

They're completely different stat lines with the units doing completely different things. No, it was never going to be a replacement, it was just about being patient for GW to release a Terminator kit where the proportions weren't comical. 

 

I don't understand the downvoting to this. 

 

It was fairly clear that Gravis was going to replace Terminators in the long term, and for whatever reason that design strategy changed.

[Orange Knight]

1 minute ago, TrevorLoLz said:

 

I don't understand the downvoting to this. 

 

It was fairly clear that Gravis was going to replace Terminators in the long term, and for whatever reason that design strategy changed.

 

Did they ever say this?

 

To me it looked like a replacement for Centurions. 

[Lexington]

2 hours ago, TrevorLoLz said:

It was fairly clear that Gravis was going to replace Terminators in the long term, and for whatever reason that design strategy changed.

 

Yeah, if you look around at late 7th/early 8th Edition, you can see the sketches of an initial intent to mirror what AoS did in 40K. Eldar and Dark Eldar were clearly meant to be merged, fr'ex (the origin of the Ynarri model trio, I'd wager), and the 7th Ed Harlequin Codex was already setting up Slaanesh's doom as part of the bargain. Primaris were likely intended to be a wholesale replacement of Space Marines, with Gravis as the Terminator equivalent and Phobos replacing Scouts. Things changed, tho, probably mostly due to the strongly negative reception AoS got on launch.

 

Who knows what other wild shenanigans we missed out on?

[Scribe]

2 hours ago, Lexington said:

 

Yeah, if you look around at late 7th/early 8th Edition, you can see the sketches of an initial intent to mirror what AoS did in 40K. Eldar and Dark Eldar were clearly meant to be merged, fr'ex (the origin of the Ynarri model trio, I'd wager), and the 7th Ed Harlequin Codex was already setting up Slaanesh's doom as part of the bargain. Primaris were likely intended to be a wholesale replacement of Space Marines, with Gravis as the Terminator equivalent and Phobos replacing Scouts. Things changed, tho, probably mostly due to the strongly negative reception AoS got on launch.

 

Who knows what other wild shenanigans we missed out on?

 

Thank the Gods 40K dodged that bullet.