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Primaris Space Marines are a new breed of super-human warriors, developed for
ten millennia by Archmagos Belisarius Cawl (at the orders of Roboute Guilliman) from the space marines created by the Emperor for His Great Crusade.
The Primaris Space Marine is a new breed of hero for this, the darkest age in the Imperium’s history. These new warriors are the next step in the evolution of the Emperor’s Angels of Death – genetically altered from their brethren to be bigger, stronger and faster – timely reinforcements to the Imperium’s armies as their enemies close in for the kill.
To aid them in battle, these new gene-forged warriors are equipped with new arms and armour forged on holy Mars itself, such as the Mk X Tacticus Power Armour worn by Intercessors (a suit that combines the most effective elements of ancestral Horus Heresy patterns of plate with more recent developments in power armour technology), Mk II Cawl-pattern Bolter (the archetypal firearm of Space Marines, re-engineered, re-crafted and perfected), and Redemptor Dreadnoughts.
At the dawn of the Indomitus Crusade, these phenomenal new warriors join Guilliman as he fights to liberate the scattered bastions of the Imperium. Some, Guilliman has forged into new Space Marine Chapters, whole brotherhoods comprised only of these new warriors. Others he has offered to the existing Space Marine Chapters. Many Chapter Masters have welcomed their Primaris brethren into their ranks, accepting the new reinforcements gladly. Others, though, view these new creations with suspicion or outright hostility, claiming that the Emperor’s work should not have been meddled with.
Though they are a step removed from their brothers, the Primaris Space Marines still bear the gene-seed of their Primarchs, and some dissenting voices worry how this new type of warrior will react with the known genetic quirk of unusual chapters such as the Space Wolves and Blood Angels.
So basically Centurion armor in flesh.
WHO'S THAT POKEMON? Lel...
nicknamed Nobz Marine
Meh, Sooper Space Marines as power fantasy white knights out to save humanity is totally uninteresting to me.
they themselves are uninteresting, but i'm dying to see the impact they have on their allies - for example, how many hardliners decide to turn renegade because they see the new ones as abominations and brand Guirkyman as a deranged blasphemer or something
increased division in the imperial ranks has a tendency to make things more interesting.
Yeah it would be interesting if it all blows up in Booty's face and the Space Wolves and other chapters rebel against his new pretty boy master race marines.
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I hope the next crusade would go to the eye of terror and they found russ in there, seeing how the imperium have become, Russ bi*chslap guilliman and there will be a new schism between the imperium
I never have thought that the storyline will progress, good job games workshop.
So, not being content with bringing back the most generic & unnecessary of all Loyalist Primarchs who was single-handedly responsible for nerfing the astartes into tiny little chapters of codex-worshipping nerds, Games Workshop decided to be creative for once in its miserable corporate life. Behold: the brand-new breed of Space mariny space marines from space: superlative-derp-super bio-mecha-uber genetically-genehanced ultra-ubermenscht-metahuman warriors. They shall be stainless-steely-steel, they shall be boom-gloom-doom, & they shall know not even know the very meaning of their enemies' fear.
Goodness Gracious. The most redundant, tired, lazy, unoriginal & yawn-inducing idea I have ever witnessed. But then again, we all knew the implications of the Bureaucrat Primarch Robot Gilly-He-Man's ridiculous comeback.
I'm not even gonna try & imagine the Primaris Terminators. much less the Redemptor Dreadful Dreary Dreadnought.
Sigh... I apologize I if offended anyone. It's just... GamesWorkshop seems to have taken the trope of "beating the dead horse" to the next-level of metaphisical jazz. My one remaining hope is that they do not do to 40K what they did to Warhammer Fantasy (Age of Sieg-Ultra-Mar).
Love & best regards to all 40k fans.
Look at them Knee crests...soo original..how about elbow crests and wrist crests..
i'd complain more about the rather uninspired helmet. i'm cool with the rest of the armor.
"Mk X Tacticus Power Armour"
TACTICUS. Really, now? What was wrong with "Tactica"? Like y'know, IG's Tactica Command in DoW1?
Overall, I agree with Ziani_FromSpess. This is beating a dead horse. Also WAY too conveniently timed for the Imperium.
You mean to tell me there's a forge world who could work on this much *technological innovation* without being branded as technoheresy, AND didn't get their work interrupted/lost by attacks? Like what happened to Tigrus and their Vanquisher Cannons. RIP in technological regression.
Design-wise, armor looked good... until I scrolled down: What are these knee crests supposed to do? For about everything else, I can imagine a use in combat. But these crests are just bling as far as I can tell.
Also they redesign the bolter and still didn't realize to make a bullpop mass-produced variant.
Can't they the decency to end the 40k fanbase before ending 40k itself? (what 40k stands for, at least)
regarding the forge world question, they WERE developed on the Red Planet itself, a literal pile of guns in a solar system known for being a pile of guns. i suppose Cawl managed to work unhindered due to his powerful status (and any tech priest worth his RAM knows how to keep secrets)
"genetically altered from their brethren to be bigger, stronger and faster"
[Daft Punk intensifies]
Recycled Mark IV Helmets and a more "tactical"-looking bolter with rail and optic, too.
Not gonna lie, I think they look pretty cool. And they're basically true scale Marines.
HOWEVER I also see a bunch of fluff problems with this, for example it says Girlyman offered some of these to each Chapter and they're still bearing the gene seed of their respective Primarch, so that means he must've gotten his hands on the gene seed of each founding chapter and fiddled with it.
Most chapters really don't like that sort of thing.
And what happens if one of those chapters, say the Blood Angels, refuse to use these guys? Ghillieman then has a bunch of BA Primaris Marines nobody wants, if he fields them himself the Blangels would be even more ******, so he propably has to kill them off.
Fluff-wise it would have propably been smarter to either make this just a new, better set of gear, or some kind of upgrade drug that can be injected into any existing Marine that improves his gene seed retroactively.
The way it is, it just creates of whole bunch of conflict potential. Then again, the internal Imperial conflicts arising from this could create a lot of interesting story bits...
Yeah, I'm kinda conflicted on this whole thing.
PS: GW said we'll be getting different variant squads of these, much like regular Marines and even new vehicles. So let's see what comes out of that. Also I would love to see a side-by-side scale comparison with a regular Marine.