Robbienw

Tacitus pattern (or rather i think you mean MKX) will remain around for a long time, but it won't be the spotlight 'main' armour forever. Mk6 was the main armour for 3 years, Mk7 an incredible 27 years, MKX 8 years so far. I suspect MKX will be replaced by MKXI sooner than 7 was replaced by X, in the quest for more revenue and newness. Space Marine Tactical Squad is legally distinctive. The distinction between Primaris and previous marines is disappearing now, everything is just becoming 'Space Marines' again, primaris is just a geneseed upgrade in the lore now. Its not that hard to predict what GW will do next, there are distinct patterns to their behaviour as a company.

Have it as a Tactical squad, fully replace Intercessors. Special and Heavy weapons will both be optional, so you’ll be able to replicate an intercessor squad build anyway. Have a little fluff note saying tactical squads without special/heavy are referred to as an Intercessor configuration, job done.

Says who?

That's a bit weird. Many things could be judged as compatible on a very vague basis. Don't see how they could argue this in their favour in court to actually shut people down. I suspect they are using it to target small groups or one man operations that they have calculated don't have the money to defend themselves. Probably in a lot of people's interests to support this chap.

None of the heads are remotely female, I think the painting of the lips and eye shading is confusing a few of you

Well it won't work, the resin specialist games head sets are markedly superior.

These are going to turn out to be MKXI (Mark 11) helmets, i'm telling you. Like the MKX had the face plate similar to the Mark 4, the MKXI will be an evolution of the MKX, but with the faceplate going back to the Mark 7 grill style. Would bet money there will be full MKXI armour that is similar to MKX, but with some notable style differences.

Forgot about Space Wolves, some hilariously bad ones there as well, although they are better than this new set.

I see more MKXI helms! As nice as the helmets are, many of the bare heads are absolutely hideous. There has been a marked decline in 40k marine barehead quality lately, a lot of duds in the deathwatch kit, some terrible ultramarine accessory heads, now this

Yes it is a semantic distinction. You mean a veteran as in someone who has fought for a while. In 40k this could easily be the majority of the marines in a chapter as long as it hasn’t recently suffered mass losses. I mean veterans as in named specific veteran status, as in has been in the first company (or chapter specific equivalent such as the Wolf Guard).

A 1st Company veteran sergeant leading an intercessor squad by the looks of things. Not a Wolf Scout. Wolf Scouts don’t join the Wolf Guard before they join the Wolf Scouts. They are just Grey Hunter equivalents who aren’t as sociable as most Space Wolves.

By that kind of definition any space marine who survived the scout company and has done a few missions is a veteran though. Any tactical marine would be a veteran. They aren’t veterans in the 1st Company veteran unit sense, which is what we mean when we say veteran space marines. Wolf Scouts are Grey Hunter adjacent.

In MKXI armour perhaps?

Yeah Wolf Scouts are not veterans. Not in the sense of space marine units classified as veterans. Space Wolf veterans are the Wolf Guard and of course Long Fangs.

It seems they’ve decided to continue the tradition of Wolf Scouts having terrible models