Robbienw

One day Intercessors will go just like tacticals did. Or even more abruptly than tacticals, as they don’t have as much historical cache and another refresh of the space marine line wouldn’t cause as much of a shock. Just because you like them better doesn’t mean it won’t happen.

No, its an observation. The topic is about Marine units going to legends, its not without the bounds of the topic to say this is likely to happen again in future.

Yep, all true. It will happen to Primaris/MKX units one day as well, they'll be an all new refresh 8-10 years or so from now and you'll find your favorite units gone. The next time around it probably will happen even faster, unlike where classic marines were still sold/playable for a while after 8th edition release for heritage/legacy reasons, the next replacement will be faster and more efficient. Either that it will be a constant churn and old units will disappear and new units come into being every year. What it comes down to is core units that have been part of the setting for so long disappearing, its led for me to 40k not feeling like 40k anymore. And makes you think what they will do it to next. No more tactical squads, what's next? No more dire avengers, no more Leman Russ tank etc?

Still in stock on UK webstore.

The 30K marine range.

They are probably doing early work on the next replacement marine range already, I give it 8-10 years until the cycle starts anew

I still wouldn’t be so sure they will base it on the Redemptor. MKX is the standard look for Marines now, but they still kept and refreshed the classic Terminator look, rather than replacing it with something MKXish. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same thing happened here. GW will just change or ignore the fluff if they want to do a bigger castaferrum.

Will it though? You know they can rescale the castaferrum if they want.

There is no way MK7 infantry would be old reboxes, they’ll take the standard heresy infantry and assault squad model like they have down with Mk2/3/4/6 so far. Perhaps with a specific devastator squad added in.

Sadly to be expected these days. They’ve really lost it with marine posing in 40k

Could be new ones coming.

Given the strong rumours the rhino is coming back with a new model soon, is reasonable to assume the rhino variants will also return in due course. So they are probably keeping the distinction there.

Phoned in. Unimaginative.

We are talking about it because the Intercessor squad has disappeared from the website, likely because it is being replaced with a new version of the kit. Which, if it is the case, is a delicious irony because it is being withdrawn from sale before the kit it was supposedly replacing, that so many people insisted it was replacing repeatedly for many years.

I’m going to laugh so hard if this has genuinely gone oop before the tactical squad kit