Multi-Part Intercessors & Vanguard Veterans

[Orange Knight]

I've been thinking more about the new Vanguard. 

 

I personally think that one of the best looking jump pack units was the Assault Marine kit released in 6th, simply due to the poses. They were more static, but looker better.

 

I am tempted to buy a Sternguard veteran kit, just to use the torsos and legs from the kit, in order to crate a squad of Vanguard that are firmly planted on the ground.

[Blissful Brushes]

Without seeing the sprues I can’t make a proper judgement, but I fail to see the point of the intercessors being in this article. The only update visible is AK mags and a back banner 

[Blindhamster]

44 minutes ago, ThaneOfTas said:

By that logic every marine unit is boring, as theyre all just a dude with a different weapon and slightly different bits.

I mean... this is literally marines to a T. They're all always still "just" marines, some get a bit more bling than others. How boring that is, depends on the viewer I suppose. 

Personally I fall into the camp of preferring some bling without going over the top. For me the vanguard are spot on - except the jump packs. I'd have liked the jump packs to have some little details - skulls on one, crux on one etc. The marines themselves though are pretty in keeping with the style we have for sternguard, which I love. 

I don't hate the poses, I might clip a few off and stick them to clear plastic instead, but I like them generally.

 

[Blindhamster]

38 minutes ago, Blissful Brushes said:

Without seeing the sprues I can’t make a proper judgement, but I fail to see the point of the intercessors being in this article. The only update visible is AK mags and a back banner 

They have: 
- different chest designs (some have aquillas, some have the crossbones imperialis, some have bare single skulls

- different "abdominal plates"

- some variation in belts

- some more variety in base helmet designs (different "pipes", more targeters etc, probably other early mk options when we see full reveal later)

- finally sergeant options in the box

- mix of leg armours, now we get the ones without separate knee pads mixed in

- a not insubstantial one, something many people complained about for nearly a decade: 10 distinct leg poses in one kit.

- new bare head options (including the half off one, which I think is great to see, and the sergeant head might have immediately become my favourite recent marine head)

- back banner

 

There may be other interesting bits and bobs when we see the sprues too.

 

[Karhedron]

9 hours ago, Blindhamster said:

Personally I fall into the camp of preferring some bling without going over the top.

 

Agreed. For me, the perfect sweet spot was the 7th edition Blood Angels Tactical Squad, I still run mine as Sternguard. The separate shin plates on the original Intercessor squad always struck me as a massive missed opportunity as GW never did chapter-specific upgrades to replace those. 

 

[Brother Christopher]

Subjectively, I've gotta say that these are amongst the best Space Marine previous in memory. I know I shouldn't buy more loyalist Space Marines and - luckily for me - I don't want any of these previewed minis. They're what they are.

 

I liked the Armageddon ETB Intercessors better. Regarding, Van Vets, they're okay. The most amusing thing is how similar their poses are.

[Antarius]

15 minutes ago, Karhedron said:

 

Agreed. For me, the perfect sweet spot was the 7th edition Blood Angels Tactical Squad, I still run mine as Sternguard. The separate shin plates on the original Intercessor squad always struck me as a massive missed opportunity as GW never did chapter-specific upgrades to replace those. 

 

That really was a great kit. I still have a whole lot of bits lying around for when I (maybe, someday) decide to do a BA or sucessor army.
If only that was the level of "bling" on Primaris kits, I would be a very happy camper.

[Orange Knight]

GW failed to capitalise on the Terminator kits having seperate chest plates and shin armour.

Why don't we have entire upgrade sprues dedicted to each chapter that can dress Terminators up, and provide them with unique wargear option that caters to each chapter?
 

 

I want to be optimistic that this new Intercessor squad will lead to cool upgrade sprues, like the "abs" armour for Blood Angels, but they've failed to do this for existing kits.

I guess 3rd parties can still come to the rescue..

[Antarius]

I'm not sure whether it can conclusively be said that they're not going to do something like that. It took a long time for the (both pre-primaris and primaris) chapter upgrade kits to materialise, for example. But yeah, at present 3rd party bits suppliers are where it's at.

[Blindhamster]

1 hour ago, Karhedron said:

 

Agreed. For me, the perfect sweet spot was the 7th edition Blood Angels Tactical Squad, I still run mine as Sternguard. The separate shin plates on the original Intercessor squad always struck me as a massive missed opportunity as GW never did chapter-specific upgrades to replace those. 

 

See for me, i used to mix a regular tactical squad with a blood angels tactical squad for my rank and file firstborn. I always felt the blood angels tactical squad looked more like sternguard (so yeah exactly like you have above!)

Whilst I know I get hate for saying it, I found the death company kit to be far too gaudy, so again used to mix those with a regular assault squad kit to get a bit more of a balance across the unit. 

[Marshal Reinhard]

1 hour ago, Orange Knight said:

GW failed to capitalise on the Terminator kits having seperate chest plates and shin armour.

Why don't we have entire upgrade sprues dedicted to each chapter that can dress Terminators up, and provide them with unique wargear option that caters to each chapter?
 

 

I want to be optimistic that this new Intercessor squad will lead to cool upgrade sprues, like the "abs" armour for Blood Angels, but they've failed to do this for existing kits.

I guess 3rd parties can still come to the rescue..

This is so utterly strange to me. Since a lot of the critique about the newer models are that they're too samey, it does not make sense to me that they limit our options to alter this same-iness, even when the opportunity to do so is right there.

[Robbienw]

It is bizarre they haven't done anything with terminators.  I loved the previous Deathwing set, I'd love for my new terminators to have the same level of DA iconography.  All i need for that is a sprue with leg plates and chest plates.  Maybe a couple more helms and storm bolter parts also.  Would be so easy for them to do.  The new terminator kit was so clearly designed with this in mind.  There are a few scant bits on the DA accessory spure, but no where near enough and of course no leg plates.

 

So instead i have to get 3rd party stuff to meet the requirement!

Edited 8 hours ago by Robbienw

[FarFromSam]

Let's talk about how good those intercessors look!  Back banner? Chef's kiss.  Mixed mks love it.  Great job gw.

[MoriyaSchism]

Upgrade sprues that have two dozen pauldrons or bare heads with only one Terminator chest plate. The other day I saw a compilation of all the Dark Angel upgrade sprues through the years. Talk about shrinkflation.