Marshal Reinhard

I am the opposite, I notice scale differences rather quickly and they bother me a lot. It's one of the first things I noticed. It's why immediately rejected the idea of mixing Primaris marines and the old tactial etc kits. Just didn't look right. I've used the analogy "Looks like father & son cosplaying" when you line an old 2012 tactical marine and intercessor up together. The old helmets and heads and hands and weapons pretty perfectly match the new though, which is why you'll see liberal use of such bits in my army. The horus heresy rescale didn't do anything for me either. Their hands, weapons, heads are all very noticeably smaller. Works fine if all your marines have these proportion, but mixing is a no go for me. So my current army exclusively has Primaris bodies and items scaled to that size, not because I'm some sort of Primaris purist, but more of a scale purist. Everything I wanted in the right scale happened to be Primaris. Until now. The prospect of equally sized classic marine bodies is slowly dawning upon me, and I'm getting increasingly tempted to pick these up to deflame and use them as regular members in my crusader squads. One's using truly older mark armors, rather than their own unit.

Oooh, that alternate sergeant helm is also a fantastic chaplain helmet source

Nice. Means my planned chaplain conversion will fit right in with the rest

Sergeant heads feels perfect for a chaplain kitbash. Heck the sergeant model would make a good chaplain base if you just lose the flames

*something something, only the face plates are classic, not the entire helm something something eternal uphill battle*

I do not wish to hijack this thread, because this is not the forum for it. But there were many years where the Black Templars were specifically forbidden from using any of the recent space marine toys because we still had our own codex. A lot of pre-primaris new space marine toys came out that we were unable to use. It wasn't until 6th edition when we finally got an update of sorts, in that we were rolled into the main space marine codex. Meaning we lost almost everything unique to us except the crusader squad and our 3 named characters. The Black Templars forum on here still hasn't recovered from that time. But yes, from being incorporated we were at that time allowed to use all the new things instead. Except by then they weren't all that new anymore. Things like thunderfire cannons, centurions or hunters. But it would be some 17 years before there was finally a Black Templar specific release again. I suppose to filthy xenos and heretics this may still sound like luxury. But we know what the long wait is like and belittling that isn't a good way to win any sympathy with us.

Still holding out hope for a mid of edition release of a new land raider and venerable dread. But yeah.

There's no possible imbalance of stats from a stat change if the accompanying point cost change accurately addresses the change.

There's variance in the quality of what GW puts out for sure. That one mini is certainly not their best. But neither is the one you're thumping your chest over. A lot of things of it feel off. like how the leg attaches to the body, the very small torso. Arms out of ears syndrome (present on the GW example too, for certain). etc

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.

I have so many intercessors already I'm almost feeling apprehensive for any reasons to get more

Votann?

Oh i know it is. It's still bull. I buy that phobos is lighter than tacticus, or that gravis is heavier. Heck i can even accept that the bladeguard have a seperate variant thats differentiated enough. But the blood claw "variant" being divergent enough to justify a rules distinction is a tall ask in my opinion. Regardless, it only becomes an issue if they actually act on it, and limit their own armor variations on models going forward because they think losing the trim and orb guard is enough of a departure that its not the same class of armor anymore.

I've heard this before and I still find itself to be utter bull. What's so light about it? The loss of the extra armoring on the backpack vent orbs and the *dramatic sfx* dreaded knee pad rims? It's like when they said Omnis armor was combination of phobos and gravis armor, even though it shared none of the latters traits... Regardless, Blood claw bodies do make for a nice base for some more alternate looking bodies that require the bare minimum to cut to de-wolfify

Site is barely usable for me half the time EDIT: realize I'm being a bit too generous. By "barely usable" I mean completely unusable. It will spend a long time not loading anything, landing me on page that says the site failed its SSL handshake. By "half the time" I mean it goes nowhere 80% of the time.