Yes. I love the shape of the original marines, the point is remeniscant of the knights of old, as well as being good shape to deflect bullets. Later ones are moronic, look like screaming babies and with their shot trapping grill.
they also have more of a 'racecar' look to them that I like. like a depraved gasmask huffing junkie than the noble buff tank darth vader that took off.
The primaris design is pretty lazy because it just has 3 rows of repeating lines, but the screaming pigface is pretty mediocre too. At least it's not a beakie.
It works but I wouldn't put normal beakie helmets on modern csm sculpts without doing some conversion work on them first
That or use the HH Word Bearers heads
>be honest you werent around when beakies were a thing you hipster redditor
I'm 39. I started playing in 93. I could post you the pewter O&G Giant I still have if you want proof.
4 months ago
Anonymous
sure you are, even so all the more reason to ignore you since you are nostalgia gayging
4 months ago
Anonymous
Nice of you to admit you lost the argument.
4 months ago
Anonymous
ok moron, im 44 and i think you are dumb. See how stupid you are.
>woke >woke
you really are a complete moron, parroting stuff you don't even know a thing about, aren't you. 5 years ago you've have been shouting "cuck! cuck!" as a good obedient drone.
>Its objectively true that the old GW building was dubbed the fascist building by woke lefties and that includes the statue of the mk7 marine
No, it wasn't.
it was called "the Nazi building" by the taxi drivers in Nottingham during the mid 1990's, who had no idea what the company was, certainly had no idea what a "mk7 marine" was, but saw a 30-foot wide silver eagle on the side of a black building as they drove past along Lenton road.
Much like yourself, taxi drivers aren't exactly the brightest spork in the knife drawer, and saw an imperial eagle for 30 seconds as they drove past, and thought it was a Nazi symbol. They didn't call it the "fascist building" firstly, because most taxi drivers aren't particularly well-versed in early 20th century political iconography, and secondly, because of the minor fact that the eagle was a Nazi icon, whereas the fasces was, remarkably, the symbol of the fascists who were named after it.
GW has been referred to as fascist/nazi abd the marines as fascist nazi by detractors for ages, why are you denying the sky is blue you woke schizo.
Frick off
4 months ago
Anonymous
>ok moron, im 44 and i think you are dumb.
Well, sure you do moron, you dislike beakies. Can't expect you to evaluate anything properly, can we?
4 months ago
Anonymous
I didn't say i disliked beakies you fricking lying moron
Just old good new bad mental illness you nostalgia gayging liar
4 months ago
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>Just old good new bad mental illness you nostalgia gayging liar
Holy shit you rotbrain moron. The argument is literally about the older design being better. This is all "nostalgia gayging". Fricking end yourself you stupid c**t.
4 months ago
Anonymous
you are exactly why people used to mock nostalgia gayging on here
The thread is about MK7 being better, not muh beakies.
You moronic little shit, you fell for GWs nostalgia gayging
4 months ago
Anonymous
Holy shit you literal troony shut the frick up.
Beakies are better than MK7.
4 months ago
Anonymous
no they aren't lol you are an idiot
4 months ago
Anonymous
idk that Beakie is pretty bad ass
4 months ago
Anonymous
beakies will never be as badass as Mk7 Aquilla
4 months ago
Anonymous
I like to think the mk7 is just a Beakie with the Beak chopped off.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Beakectomy.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Beakies work best when they're sprinkled in with MK VIIs. Like 1 or 2 in a tac squad. An assault squad can go all beakies tho.
4 months ago
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Having a mix of armour marks representing individual heraldry, makeshit repairs and the mindboggling age of the Imperium was one of my favourite things about art like this and the Blanche 3rd Ed. cover.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Yes they are you stupid zoomer.
4 months ago
Anonymous
you are the zoomer you werent even alive then, fake grog
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Anonymous
Marauder giant.
4 months ago
Anonymous
beakies will never be as badass as Mk7 Aquilla
>Mk7gay is an Asstarts secondary
lmao
4 months ago
Anonymous
i'm a 2nd edition grog you zoomer. Astartes became famous because mk7 is iconic and associated with marines
4 months ago
Anonymous
>NYOOOO IMMA GWOGGIE I PWOMISE!!!
lol
4 months ago
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>i bwort the repwint of heckin wogue twader dat makes me a weal grog!
4 months ago
Anonymous
You got the wrong guy champ, I think they all look equally bland. I just find your hypocrisy adorable.
4 months ago
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no i didnt go frick yourself you little shit
Beakies work best when they're sprinkled in with MK VIIs. Like 1 or 2 in a tac squad. An assault squad can go all beakies tho.
that was GWs original nostalgia bait in 3rd edition when they started the "remember the beakies?!" meme. Thing is most of their customers would have not remembered or cared about the beakies.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Okay. I don't have any nostolgia for beakies, I got in around the tail end of 4th. I just think they have enough character to make up for not being as cool as MK VII and like to have a little variety. MK III pretty much have the same thing going on.
4 months ago
Anonymous
>I think they all look equally bland
Lmao imagine spending time talking about helmets you don't like, zero life.
4 months ago
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>adorable
You talk like a homosexual.
4 months ago
Anonymous
cry more homosexual
mental illness sheer bloody mental illness
4 months ago
Anonymous
cry more homosexual
4 months ago
Anonymous
>Woke! woke! EVERYTHING IS WOKE!
God, you're tedious.
GW's settings have been described as a lot of things. Fascistic. Dystopic. Satirical. And Parody.
>parody of a soldier
that was the entire point. something newbies can't seem to understand.
is quite right in this. 40K was originally a parody. A parody of fantasy - with space elves, space dwarves, and space orcs. In fact, they seriously anticipated it would last about 6 months, as a comic joke parody of fantasy.
It had inquisitor Obiwan Clouseou, and the trader, Abdul Goldberg. It lifted shamelessly from 2000AD - Judges - almost a direct copy of Dredd - Strontium Dog, and others. Aliens ate zoatabix. And space Marines were equal measures action film heroes (commando, and just after release, Predator) and quasi-medieval knights, because it was a parody of fantasy settings.
4 months ago
Anonymous
come on we know the reason they axed wfb and mk7 was for some wokey reason
4 months ago
Anonymous
>It had inquisitor Obiwan Clouseou
No it didn't. You fricking moron. You've seen a screenshot of one page of Rogue Trader but didn't actually read it. That wasn't actually a character in the lore. It was a joke name for an example build, it was literally just a list of wargear.
4 months ago
Anonymous
the guy you are replying to is a known troll that has been trolling this board since 2018.
He just says the same exact shit in every 40k threads every day eg like constantly bringing up Inquisitor Clouseau
4 months ago
Anonymous
>be honest you werent around when beakies were a thing you hipster redditor
I'm 39. I started playing in 93. I could post you the pewter O&G Giant I still have if you want proof.
You're both too old to post here. Boomers get >>out
4 months ago
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Ganker belongs to boomers, zoomzoom. If you aren't at least 35 you need to lurk moar.
just ask any space marine player at your locals, if they've been playing long enough I'm sure they have twice as many heads as they need lying around. I know I do.
Has it ever been confirmed that GW pushed the new primaris helmet because of fears that they felt the old marine helmet was too """"""familiar"""""" to the gaywars stormtrooper helmet?
I think its absurd that such a comparison could be made, but GW is run by some pretty stupid people
I've honestly never heard that before now, so I doubt it. Even for White Scars, the distinction is pretty clear, I don't think anyone would mistakenly conflate the two.
no thats a moronic theory they look nothing alike.
The actual reason is because the helmet was deemed offensive and scary. Because some troony labelled it fascist
Jesus Christ: you'd call it woke if they switched the tan M&Ms out for blue ones in the past five years.
Which suit is taking a helmet out back before taking a shiny new one with the pronouns printed on in latin and putting it on some guy with golden eagles and an iron cross from the Xenostomper Chapter and calling it a night? Trannies are playing the same armies as you are and don't care about the helmet so long as there's not exclusively white dudes under it.
please shut the frick up you woke vermin. Its objectively true that the old GW building was dubbed the fascist building by woke lefties and that includes the statue of the mk7 marine
>woke >woke
you really are a complete moron, parroting stuff you don't even know a thing about, aren't you. 5 years ago you've have been shouting "cuck! cuck!" as a good obedient drone.
>Its objectively true that the old GW building was dubbed the fascist building by woke lefties and that includes the statue of the mk7 marine
No, it wasn't.
it was called "the Nazi building" by the taxi drivers in Nottingham during the mid 1990's, who had no idea what the company was, certainly had no idea what a "mk7 marine" was, but saw a 30-foot wide silver eagle on the side of a black building as they drove past along Lenton road.
Much like yourself, taxi drivers aren't exactly the brightest spork in the knife drawer, and saw an imperial eagle for 30 seconds as they drove past, and thought it was a Nazi symbol. They didn't call it the "fascist building" firstly, because most taxi drivers aren't particularly well-versed in early 20th century political iconography, and secondly, because of the minor fact that the eagle was a Nazi icon, whereas the fasces was, remarkably, the symbol of the fascists who were named after it.
Jesus Christ: you'd call it woke if they switched the tan M&Ms out for blue ones in the past five years.
Which suit is taking a helmet out back before taking a shiny new one with the pronouns printed on in latin and putting it on some guy with golden eagles and an iron cross from the Xenostomper Chapter and calling it a night? Trannies are playing the same armies as you are and don't care about the helmet so long as there's not exclusively white dudes under it.
Do people actually believe in the rock bay bar story? There doesn’t seem to be any proof of it ever existing and yet it is parroted a lot.
Similar to how the little sisters of purification homebrew pages from game design workshop are still used as proof of fsm to this day because it is old and black and white.
What about the Dark Angels (the chapter with the dark secret), being named after a poem about gay lovers by the poet Lionel Johnson, which was the name given to the Chapter's Primarch. 1e is FULL of parodies like that that morons like you don't get because you are either to autistic to get jokes, or are corporate shills trying to gaslight current gamers into thinking GW has only ever been a serious gaming company. This game setting used to be fun until humourless c**ts like you lot took over.
4 months ago
Anonymous
oh mah gerd duh dark angels must be duh gazors
4 months ago
Anonymous
the name Dark Angel has been used many times before and after.
GW probably pocked the name Dark Angel then made the name of the Primarch fit the joke
4 months ago
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The first time Dark Angels appear in GW stuff it's with their founder Lyyn Elgonsen and their ancient rite of sharing AIDS blood.
they 100% did it for woke reasons. Why? They sidelined the mk7 helmet for image reasons, theres no other explanation. They were convinced to move 40k away from that old era to a new era.
Companies make decisions like this based on feedback and emotional decision making.
It's moronic but all woke decision making is.
I wish this were just bait, but this sounds so sincere... Frick, damn dude. Really just demonstrating how that word doesn't mean shit. Being a corporation is not fricking WOKE in any sense of the word. "They wanted to sell new things and did focus testing." Damn, dude, crazy. So woke. Also, there is no replacement because not only do they sell primaries stuff with the MK 7 helmet, but the primaries were built specifically so old marine heads and shoulders would fit them. I cannot imagine being so upset over toys It is just so crazy how easy the solution is - do not like the thing, do not buy the thing, then don't think about it. Somehow this is a bridge too far for the terminally online autist to cross.
how is it not woke if a company chooses to shelve an iconic product? do you have any idea how branding and marketing works?
If they shelved them because they felt they wanted to distance themselves from Trump memes or imaginary fascist fans.
Thats woke.
4 months ago
Anonymous
They shelved that iconic product so they could sell a new product to all the people who already owned the iconic product.
Guess what? It worked.
Literally the only design improvement primaris has over firstborns is longer legs. Everything else makes them more generic.
If they had just gone into their master files and increased the scale of the legs around 10-15% and changed nothing else everyone would've loved them and they wouldn't need to destroy the lore or invalidate everyone's space marine armies.
They invalidated the armies so people would buy new ones.
4 months ago
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>how is it not woke if a company chooses to shelve an iconic product?
You don't have the slightest clue what "woke" means, do you?
You're so absolutely brainwashed by whatever rot you've been lapping up for years, that you just parrot that word repeatedly with no understanding of what it meant, at all. "woke" is the awareness of systemic inequality in society - and acting to change those inequalities. It is not a games company's market research-driven redesign of their plastic toy soldiers to make more sales, you half-witted imbecile. >If they shelved them because they felt they wanted to distance themselves from Trump memes
Are you actually moronic? What kind of victim of an amateur trepanning imagines that plastic toy soldiers which were designed in the UK, not the US, _before_ trump was elected, has even the slightest thing to do with that man? How fricking dumb are you?
Honestly, I have seen some stupid shit posted on /tg/, but you might just have managed to eclipse all, with your absolute idiocy.
4 months ago
Anonymous
yes i do you fricking lying c**t, if they shelve something for some perceived culture war crap like "this thing is too um fascist or manly uh ban it", its woke, thats woke and you are a lying wokester.
4 months ago
Anonymous
They didn't shelve the mk7 helmet, braindead moron monkey. That model in the OP picture is unmodified.
4 months ago
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>"woke" is the awareness of systemic inequality in society - and acting to change those inequalities.
You fricking idiot commie bugs really believe this shit, while you literally destroy human civilization.
4 months ago
Anonymous
If caring about other people and wanting equality of outcome is sufficient to destroy civilization, then civilization deserves to be destroyed. Let it all burn.
4 months ago
Anonymous
Equality of opportunity is one thing, equality of outcome is absokekkinglutely impossible and to try to enforce it is to diminish human potential and sow the seeds of resentment among the most capable and productive members of a society.
4 months ago
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Absolutely mentally ill.
4 months ago
Anonymous
woke is literally the Black version of the redpill. eg wypipo being denying we wuz kangz n sheet!
4 months ago
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>how is it not woke if a company chooses to shelve an iconic product?
I love it how "woke" now means "thing I don't like"
>If they shelved them because they felt they wanted to distance themselves from Trump memes or imaginary fascist fans.
Now this is some good schizo shit.
primaris helmet is just the heresy pattern helmet, its probably some ploy to market hh and 40k at the same time
But getting rid of mk7 which is practically a company icon is just an insane decision that reels of wokery.
But it doesn’t really resemble the maximus helmet, for several examples it has a much more flat face, the vox sits much lower and then you have the stupid ears over the comms.
It vaguely resembles it but misses the fundamental design cues. In all honesty primaris marines are overdesigned but the helmet really throws it off.
>It vaguely resembles it but misses the fundamental design cues.
All the fundamental cues are there. >a "faceless" helmet >has 2-3 pairs of horizontal lines for the "grill" >over all more sleek appearance just like mk4
Ever wonder what kind of person these kind of posters are? What are they like, in real life? Are they as mindbroken, rabid, insane as their posting leads you to believe? Or are they well adjusted individuals, which begs the question, why would they do this?
Actually, that does explain something to me, and demonstrates just how extremely small design elements matter.
The Primaris have always felt a lot less... emotional? than beakies or mk.7, and I've never been sure why. Looking at it next to a mk.4 hat, the slightly deeper eyebrow ridge and even more minor angle change of the face vents give the the mk.4 a lot more anger and intimidation to it.
No he's got a valid point of view. It's subjective but the aesthetics of anything is deliberately designed to display an expression and he prefers one to the other.
Also that's not how greentext quoting works you fricking moron newbie
The image in question is a homosexual lorecheck for HH homosexuals to begin with. Don't cry about losing when you didn't bother to check the rules of the game.
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Warhammer was never a parody. It copied parodic things, and inherited some humor from that. It also had really awful gag names. That's it. Everything that remained at that point was heavily excised once it become 40k proper anyway. Warhammer is not a parody and parodies nothing.
beakies look like a... hard to explain, like a parody of a soldier, the design has been used before and theres a current miniature game that uses pointy nose soldiers too.
Always amazes me just how expressive the artists could make a beakie back then. Anger, disbelief, sorrow, triumph - and yet I don't think the basic model was ever deliberately distorted.
Oh I was speaking more generally than this picture in particular, I agree about "another day, another dollar" here which in turn has its own little story when showing a medic. But you've also got the cover of RT with one looking really pissed off. Some line art in Slaves to Darkness where a marine is stabbed, and the helmet reads "oh shit". The old Space Wolves in desert camo ambushing Orks, seems to be grim satisfaction.
I'm sure much of it will be the overall composition leading my mind that way, but it's not something I got much of from the frowny face.
>Woke! woke! EVERYTHING IS WOKE!
God, you're tedious.
GW's settings have been described as a lot of things. Fascistic. Dystopic. Satirical. And Parody. [...] is quite right in this. 40K was originally a parody. A parody of fantasy - with space elves, space dwarves, and space orcs. In fact, they seriously anticipated it would last about 6 months, as a comic joke parody of fantasy.
It had inquisitor Obiwan Clouseou, and the trader, Abdul Goldberg. It lifted shamelessly from 2000AD - Judges - almost a direct copy of Dredd - Strontium Dog, and others. Aliens ate zoatabix. And space Marines were equal measures action film heroes (commando, and just after release, Predator) and quasi-medieval knights, because it was a parody of fantasy settings.
Warhammer was never a parody. It copied parodic things, and inherited some humor from that. It also had really awful gag names. That's it. Everything that remained at that point was heavily excised once it become 40k proper anyway. Warhammer is not a parody and parodies nothing.
Who cares, you're all poofters. Trying to one up each other over toy soldiers and the political implications thereof. Post things you like. Post models. Post tips because I am actually not that great at this.
>tertiary who missed the og squats and the og orkz.
40 k was fun and silly. until the dark times, the grimderpening of the 90's and WARD.
you revisionist fricking hack moron.
Primaris helmets are too flat and I'm glad upgrade sprues for armies like the raven guard discard that entirely. Now if only the other armies had good upgrade spurs.
Literally the only design improvement primaris has over firstborns is longer legs. Everything else makes them more generic.
If they had just gone into their master files and increased the scale of the legs around 10-15% and changed nothing else everyone would've loved them and they wouldn't need to destroy the lore or invalidate everyone's space marine armies.
I just mix and match whatever is handy. I could care less about lore and weapons load outs, I am not using 40k rules. Thinking about picking up some Tacticals and Devastators for this reason. I paint a few in this colour combo, then that. I am not a committed 40k guy I just like mixing the cheap starter sets for a pool of sci fi figures.
I genuinely can't fathom how most of you manage to engage in a hobby as social as tabletop gaming when you're all a bunch of histrionic volatile freaks who blow gaskets over hallucinated slights
>I genuinely can't fathom how most of you manage to engage in a hobby as social as tabletop gaming
Anon are you implying anyone here plays much less owns models?
>everything must be le silly, everything must be le quirky, everything must be not serious, everything must by gigglyfart chucklefrick stew
TOTAL
REDDITARD
DEATH
> muh toy soldier is serious business and has a deep impact/is a reflection of the culture war.
I swear its so fricking easy to figure out who has been introduced to 40k through youtube lore videos its insane.
I prefer variety, all the helmets carry different vibes with them. >knightly
General use, although I will say the BT and DA helmets are much better than the Primaris/MK IV style. Good for vets that have a lot of heraldry and decoration. >vox grill
Violent, CQC marines. Can be general use if this defines the chapter like Flesh Tearers, studded ones should be rarer unless the chapter is really strapped for wargear like Sharks or MMs. >beakies
Use sparingly unless RG or RG successor. Supposed to be full of extra sensory gear so good for more ranged, tactical space marines. Unless you paint a shark face on it, then its for violent CQC marines again. >crusade mk II
The most sparing, reserve for elites and HQs as chapter relic. Good for armor autists like Salamanders and Iron Hands.
So carrying on with the whole israeli conspiracy theory, would it not make sense that the Mk.6 and Mk.7 helmets denote the circumcision status of the Marine wearing it? Nothing to say about Primaris, that shit's a whole differerent abomination
>Mark IV always my favorite power armor, especially the helmet >Primaris Marines come out >Mark X takes a lot of design cues from Mark IV >Don’t like it nearly as much
Why is that? The helmets are virtually identical but it somehow doesn’t hit the same.
Because they’re morons.
That said, Primaris are the face of 40k right now when GW is going through it’s DEI phase, so while the helmet itself isn’t woke it is literally one of the mascots of this ‘woke’ time in the history of the IP
no you are the moron, the new thread is about the old helmet no one is saying the new one is woke. you morons that have to constantly misrepresent others arguments are scum
It's funny because people used to complain about Marines lacking character but primaris really show just how low the bar could really go. With the old tactical box you could make 10 unique guys, then you could buy another box and make 10 more. You could combine the armour and the heads into different poses and configurations but now you just have multiple copies of the same guy, with the same weapons and armour. No different armour MKs mixed together to sell the idea that this technology is rare and it's easier and much more common to piece together old armour than it is to make new suits and that then further reflects the stagnant nature of the not only the imperium but an entire setting circling the drain of entropy. No, lets knock that on the head for the sake of appealing to call of dooty babies and brain dead Halo fan boys. It's top tier corporate slop and it shows.
Old marines were original and unique, primaris are more generic mainly due to the helmet.
>Old marines were original and unique, primaris are more generic mainly due to the helmet.
Nah, it's the removal of any interesting iconography. Primaris have no skulls or gothic shit on any of their models.
God I hate the death company intercessors. It's a genuinely insulting kit. It's literally just the intercessor sprue and the BA upgrade kit packaged together but more expensive than the component parts.
Also the styles of different legs and shoulder pads. Even if you put all the extra gubbins from the left, the Primaris marines on the right would still have the exact same arnour. You'd be forgiven for thinking they were the same guy, which isn't the case for the older ones.
its not that the new helmets are woke, its the decision to sideline the old ones.
Its like if Disney said Mickey Mouse ears must be removed from virtually all products and material because it offends genderfluid POC communists
It's funny because people used to complain about Marines lacking character but primaris really show just how low the bar could really go. With the old tactical box you could make 10 unique guys, then you could buy another box and make 10 more. You could combine the armour and the heads into different poses and configurations but now you just have multiple copies of the same guy, with the same weapons and armour. No different armour MKs mixed together to sell the idea that this technology is rare and it's easier and much more common to piece together old armour than it is to make new suits and that then further reflects the stagnant nature of the not only the imperium but an entire setting circling the drain of entropy. No, lets knock that on the head for the sake of appealing to call of dooty babies and brain dead Halo fan boys. It's top tier corporate slop and it shows.
>mk4 is by far the weakest and most forgettable design and a much uglier version of it is now the standard for every primaris armor
Historically all marines wore beakies during RT and then they added the mk7. Multiple years after they filled the holes by shitting out some other designs to justify the numbers.
>Multiple years after they filled the holes by shitting out some other designs to justify the numbers.
Mks 1-through-5 were all designed at the same time as the Mk7 and Mk8. The Mk1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 minis were all released in late 1990, alongside the Strike Force box which debuted the Mk7 minis. The Sept 1990 White Dwarf (#129) had the first big fluff write-up for the old armour variants, followed by a big colour pages showing the new ideas for Mk7 Marine heraldry
Yes, absolutely.
The mk7 space marine helmet is one of the best scifi helmet designs. It references the classic Darth Vader mask and is a classic itself.
Easily, easily the worst things about the primaris models.
i've seen people put old marine backpacks, helmets, and bolters on primaris models before and really liked how it looked. i think one of the reasons why i don't like primaris is because they're so uniform and their bolters look too long
bolters were meant to be short weapons for ship boarding and close quarters fighting in dense environments, having them be long is both detrimental to the purpose of them and pointless given the rocket propelled ammunition. GW is operated by brits though, who are famously bad at designing guns, so the iconic bolter was something of a fluke.
Where do you get anti-industrialist?! the third reich was insanely industrialist and was all but entirely Heathen.
This is what happens when you get your info from marvel comics and chapters tier new age bullshit.
Yes. I love the shape of the original marines, the point is remeniscant of the knights of old, as well as being good shape to deflect bullets. Later ones are moronic, look like screaming babies and with their shot trapping grill.
they also have more of a 'racecar' look to them that I like. like a depraved gasmask huffing junkie than the noble buff tank darth vader that took off.
The primaris design is pretty lazy because it just has 3 rows of repeating lines, but the screaming pigface is pretty mediocre too. At least it's not a beakie.
Beakie is the best tho
Beakies on CSM yes or no?
It works but I wouldn't put normal beakie helmets on modern csm sculpts without doing some conversion work on them first
That or use the HH Word Bearers heads
>stockings over armour
that's a bit too slaanesh
>At least it's not a beakie.
If you don't like beakies you don't belong in this hobby.
here is some reddit gold
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Kek you absolute troony.
i dont hate or love them but be honest you werent around when beakies were a thing you hipster redditor
>be honest you werent around when beakies were a thing you hipster redditor
I'm 39. I started playing in 93. I could post you the pewter O&G Giant I still have if you want proof.
sure you are, even so all the more reason to ignore you since you are nostalgia gayging
Nice of you to admit you lost the argument.
ok moron, im 44 and i think you are dumb. See how stupid you are.
GW has been referred to as fascist/nazi abd the marines as fascist nazi by detractors for ages, why are you denying the sky is blue you woke schizo.
Frick off
>ok moron, im 44 and i think you are dumb.
Well, sure you do moron, you dislike beakies. Can't expect you to evaluate anything properly, can we?
I didn't say i disliked beakies you fricking lying moron
Just old good new bad mental illness you nostalgia gayging liar
>Just old good new bad mental illness you nostalgia gayging liar
Holy shit you rotbrain moron. The argument is literally about the older design being better. This is all "nostalgia gayging". Fricking end yourself you stupid c**t.
you are exactly why people used to mock nostalgia gayging on here
The thread is about MK7 being better, not muh beakies.
You moronic little shit, you fell for GWs nostalgia gayging
Holy shit you literal troony shut the frick up.
Beakies are better than MK7.
no they aren't lol you are an idiot
idk that Beakie is pretty bad ass
beakies will never be as badass as Mk7 Aquilla
I like to think the mk7 is just a Beakie with the Beak chopped off.
Beakectomy.
Beakies work best when they're sprinkled in with MK VIIs. Like 1 or 2 in a tac squad. An assault squad can go all beakies tho.
Having a mix of armour marks representing individual heraldry, makeshit repairs and the mindboggling age of the Imperium was one of my favourite things about art like this and the Blanche 3rd Ed. cover.
Yes they are you stupid zoomer.
you are the zoomer you werent even alive then, fake grog
Marauder giant.
>Mk7gay is an Asstarts secondary
lmao
i'm a 2nd edition grog you zoomer. Astartes became famous because mk7 is iconic and associated with marines
>NYOOOO IMMA GWOGGIE I PWOMISE!!!
lol
>i bwort the repwint of heckin wogue twader dat makes me a weal grog!
You got the wrong guy champ, I think they all look equally bland. I just find your hypocrisy adorable.
no i didnt go frick yourself you little shit
that was GWs original nostalgia bait in 3rd edition when they started the "remember the beakies?!" meme. Thing is most of their customers would have not remembered or cared about the beakies.
Okay. I don't have any nostolgia for beakies, I got in around the tail end of 4th. I just think they have enough character to make up for not being as cool as MK VII and like to have a little variety. MK III pretty much have the same thing going on.
>I think they all look equally bland
Lmao imagine spending time talking about helmets you don't like, zero life.
>adorable
You talk like a homosexual.
mental illness sheer bloody mental illness
cry more homosexual
>Woke! woke! EVERYTHING IS WOKE!
God, you're tedious.
GW's settings have been described as a lot of things. Fascistic. Dystopic. Satirical. And Parody.
is quite right in this. 40K was originally a parody. A parody of fantasy - with space elves, space dwarves, and space orcs. In fact, they seriously anticipated it would last about 6 months, as a comic joke parody of fantasy.
It had inquisitor Obiwan Clouseou, and the trader, Abdul Goldberg. It lifted shamelessly from 2000AD - Judges - almost a direct copy of Dredd - Strontium Dog, and others. Aliens ate zoatabix. And space Marines were equal measures action film heroes (commando, and just after release, Predator) and quasi-medieval knights, because it was a parody of fantasy settings.
come on we know the reason they axed wfb and mk7 was for some wokey reason
>It had inquisitor Obiwan Clouseou
No it didn't. You fricking moron. You've seen a screenshot of one page of Rogue Trader but didn't actually read it. That wasn't actually a character in the lore. It was a joke name for an example build, it was literally just a list of wargear.
the guy you are replying to is a known troll that has been trolling this board since 2018.
He just says the same exact shit in every 40k threads every day eg like constantly bringing up Inquisitor Clouseau
You're both too old to post here. Boomers get >>out
Ganker belongs to boomers, zoomzoom. If you aren't at least 35 you need to lurk moar.
>fit in or ELSE
pure homosexualry go frick yourself
Beakies are moronic when they don't have the breathing tube like in
. That's literally the whole point of the beak being there, and yet most of the models don't actually feature it.
>They hated him because he told them the truth
other than the shit fluff it's the main thing keeping me from warming to primaris. just don't like em
>prefering the pre-primaris space marine helmets?
i do not even keep images or primaris let alone miniatures
I’m gonna be 100% honest. If GW sold upgrade kit of just beakies and MK VII helmets, I would buy them and replace them on all of my models.
just ask any space marine player at your locals, if they've been playing long enough I'm sure they have twice as many heads as they need lying around. I know I do.
original marines are the best marines
Has it ever been confirmed that GW pushed the new primaris helmet because of fears that they felt the old marine helmet was too """"""familiar"""""" to the gaywars stormtrooper helmet?
I think its absurd that such a comparison could be made, but GW is run by some pretty stupid people
I've honestly never heard that before now, so I doubt it. Even for White Scars, the distinction is pretty clear, I don't think anyone would mistakenly conflate the two.
They did it because the MkIV kit sold very well.
>GW is run by some pretty stupid people
A bit rich considering the rest of your post.
if anything it looks more like Darth Vader than a stormtrooper
another woke decision
no thats a moronic theory they look nothing alike.
The actual reason is because the helmet was deemed offensive and scary. Because some troony labelled it fascist
Jesus Christ: you'd call it woke if they switched the tan M&Ms out for blue ones in the past five years.
Which suit is taking a helmet out back before taking a shiny new one with the pronouns printed on in latin and putting it on some guy with golden eagles and an iron cross from the Xenostomper Chapter and calling it a night? Trannies are playing the same armies as you are and don't care about the helmet so long as there's not exclusively white dudes under it.
please shut the frick up you woke vermin. Its objectively true that the old GW building was dubbed the fascist building by woke lefties and that includes the statue of the mk7 marine
>woke
>woke
you really are a complete moron, parroting stuff you don't even know a thing about, aren't you. 5 years ago you've have been shouting "cuck! cuck!" as a good obedient drone.
>Its objectively true that the old GW building was dubbed the fascist building by woke lefties and that includes the statue of the mk7 marine
No, it wasn't.
it was called "the Nazi building" by the taxi drivers in Nottingham during the mid 1990's, who had no idea what the company was, certainly had no idea what a "mk7 marine" was, but saw a 30-foot wide silver eagle on the side of a black building as they drove past along Lenton road.
Much like yourself, taxi drivers aren't exactly the brightest spork in the knife drawer, and saw an imperial eagle for 30 seconds as they drove past, and thought it was a Nazi symbol. They didn't call it the "fascist building" firstly, because most taxi drivers aren't particularly well-versed in early 20th century political iconography, and secondly, because of the minor fact that the eagle was a Nazi icon, whereas the fasces was, remarkably, the symbol of the fascists who were named after it.
you are a fricking moron go back to redit
ywnbaw
>All media gay and racialized
>All politics gay and racialized
>It's in the literal law
>"Stop calling everything woke!"
Idiot
cuck
I don't have a side here but I just wanted to mention that this post makes you come off like a gigantic homosexual and I hope you have a nice day.
>all these seething replies to this post
lol. This anon is right too, it was called the Nazi building by taxi drivers not "woke leftists" you shiteating morons.
moron. Leftists have been calling it fascist for a long time.
>post a reskin of "everything i don't like is hitler"
the left well and truly cannot meme
Based
Cringe
t. cretin who genuinely believes the "Angry Ron" and "The Rock gay bar" stories too
Do people actually believe in the rock bay bar story? There doesn’t seem to be any proof of it ever existing and yet it is parroted a lot.
Similar to how the little sisters of purification homebrew pages from game design workshop are still used as proof of fsm to this day because it is old and black and white.
no fricking clue wtf you are talking about, meds
You idiot, relegating the helmet to ONE helmet in a veteran squad is effectively sidelining it.
What about the Dark Angels (the chapter with the dark secret), being named after a poem about gay lovers by the poet Lionel Johnson, which was the name given to the Chapter's Primarch. 1e is FULL of parodies like that that morons like you don't get because you are either to autistic to get jokes, or are corporate shills trying to gaslight current gamers into thinking GW has only ever been a serious gaming company. This game setting used to be fun until humourless c**ts like you lot took over.
oh mah gerd duh dark angels must be duh gazors
the name Dark Angel has been used many times before and after.
GW probably pocked the name Dark Angel then made the name of the Primarch fit the joke
The first time Dark Angels appear in GW stuff it's with their founder Lyyn Elgonsen and their ancient rite of sharing AIDS blood.
they 100% did it for woke reasons. Why? They sidelined the mk7 helmet for image reasons, theres no other explanation. They were convinced to move 40k away from that old era to a new era.
Companies make decisions like this based on feedback and emotional decision making.
It's moronic but all woke decision making is.
I wish this were just bait, but this sounds so sincere... Frick, damn dude. Really just demonstrating how that word doesn't mean shit. Being a corporation is not fricking WOKE in any sense of the word. "They wanted to sell new things and did focus testing." Damn, dude, crazy. So woke. Also, there is no replacement because not only do they sell primaries stuff with the MK 7 helmet, but the primaries were built specifically so old marine heads and shoulders would fit them. I cannot imagine being so upset over toys It is just so crazy how easy the solution is - do not like the thing, do not buy the thing, then don't think about it. Somehow this is a bridge too far for the terminally online autist to cross.
how is it not woke if a company chooses to shelve an iconic product? do you have any idea how branding and marketing works?
If they shelved them because they felt they wanted to distance themselves from Trump memes or imaginary fascist fans.
Thats woke.
They shelved that iconic product so they could sell a new product to all the people who already owned the iconic product.
Guess what? It worked.
They invalidated the armies so people would buy new ones.
>how is it not woke if a company chooses to shelve an iconic product?
You don't have the slightest clue what "woke" means, do you?
You're so absolutely brainwashed by whatever rot you've been lapping up for years, that you just parrot that word repeatedly with no understanding of what it meant, at all. "woke" is the awareness of systemic inequality in society - and acting to change those inequalities. It is not a games company's market research-driven redesign of their plastic toy soldiers to make more sales, you half-witted imbecile.
>If they shelved them because they felt they wanted to distance themselves from Trump memes
Are you actually moronic? What kind of victim of an amateur trepanning imagines that plastic toy soldiers which were designed in the UK, not the US, _before_ trump was elected, has even the slightest thing to do with that man? How fricking dumb are you?
Honestly, I have seen some stupid shit posted on /tg/, but you might just have managed to eclipse all, with your absolute idiocy.
yes i do you fricking lying c**t, if they shelve something for some perceived culture war crap like "this thing is too um fascist or manly uh ban it", its woke, thats woke and you are a lying wokester.
They didn't shelve the mk7 helmet, braindead moron monkey. That model in the OP picture is unmodified.
>"woke" is the awareness of systemic inequality in society - and acting to change those inequalities.
You fricking idiot commie bugs really believe this shit, while you literally destroy human civilization.
If caring about other people and wanting equality of outcome is sufficient to destroy civilization, then civilization deserves to be destroyed. Let it all burn.
Equality of opportunity is one thing, equality of outcome is absokekkinglutely impossible and to try to enforce it is to diminish human potential and sow the seeds of resentment among the most capable and productive members of a society.
Absolutely mentally ill.
woke is literally the Black version of the redpill. eg wypipo being denying we wuz kangz n sheet!
>how is it not woke if a company chooses to shelve an iconic product?
I love it how "woke" now means "thing I don't like"
>If they shelved them because they felt they wanted to distance themselves from Trump memes or imaginary fascist fans.
Now this is some good schizo shit.
Fricking eat a dick you smarmy, disingenuous homosexual
This is why gate keeping is important, to keep out small hat tribe people like you.
Rent free
You will not be missed
This this this. I would pay GW for Classic head options on Primaris.
I think they're fine, battle brother. D:<
Does anyone like the new Primaris helmets?
beakies and angry face are better than primaris face
Gimmie some more of the Iron, Heresy, and Beakie aesthetics on Primaris and fewer nerfguns, maybe I'll give a shit about them.
primaris helmet is just the heresy pattern helmet, its probably some ploy to market hh and 40k at the same time
But getting rid of mk7 which is practically a company icon is just an insane decision that reels of wokery.
reeks*
But it doesn’t really resemble the maximus helmet, for several examples it has a much more flat face, the vox sits much lower and then you have the stupid ears over the comms.
It vaguely resembles it but misses the fundamental design cues. In all honesty primaris marines are overdesigned but the helmet really throws it off.
>It vaguely resembles it but misses the fundamental design cues.
All the fundamental cues are there.
>a "faceless" helmet
>has 2-3 pairs of horizontal lines for the "grill"
>over all more sleek appearance just like mk4
>Muh woke
What even is woke?
Anon you should at this point be aware that woke means "thing anon doesn't like".
no, it's just you, congratulations
Primaris were a mistake.
Frick GW for destroying the lore.
Ever wonder what kind of person these kind of posters are? What are they like, in real life? Are they as mindbroken, rabid, insane as their posting leads you to believe? Or are they well adjusted individuals, which begs the question, why would they do this?
can you take your meds
Actually, that does explain something to me, and demonstrates just how extremely small design elements matter.
The Primaris have always felt a lot less... emotional? than beakies or mk.7, and I've never been sure why. Looking at it next to a mk.4 hat, the slightly deeper eyebrow ridge and even more minor angle change of the face vents give the the mk.4 a lot more anger and intimidation to it.
>he's literally grasping at straws
No he's got a valid point of view. It's subjective but the aesthetics of anything is deliberately designed to display an expression and he prefers one to the other.
Also that's not how greentext quoting works you fricking moron newbie
Primaris were alive during the Heresy, dipshit. They were just stuck in a freezer for 10K years.
No they were not dipshit as that is 'lore' for worthless homosexuals like you made up years later by literal troons
The image in question is a homosexual lorecheck for HH homosexuals to begin with. Don't cry about losing when you didn't bother to check the rules of the game.
>Right - glorious Mk4
>Left - soulless primaris garbage
>they're basically identical guise
The word that I see makes this a trick question is
>alive
when I imagine the instinct is to answer who was
>active
during the Horus Heresy.
>gw axes wfb
>sidelines their iconic marine design
Why? you cannot use the excuse marines wren't selling.
Checkmate trannies
Honestly I am not bothered by older or newer ones.
Primaris look fine if you ask me. Its just their vehicles that are laughably stupid.
go kart
Primaris bike looks good, heard it's a shitty kit however
Yeah they do look nice. Glad they're not hover bikes or some shit.
Don't care plus you're gay
40k is for normies, stop not acting like one and accept things paypiggy.
>Helmets
More like everything anon.
Primaris are nu-age conoomer wank.
As opposed to classic, indie friendly, non consoomer Warhammer marines?
Yes.
>Warhammer was never a parody.
Wrong.
beakies look like a... hard to explain, like a parody of a soldier, the design has been used before and theres a current miniature game that uses pointy nose soldiers too.
Mk7 was iconic, bring it back
>parody of a soldier
that was the entire point. something newbies can't seem to understand.
can you explain why its a parody?
everything in Warhammer is satire that wasn't meant to be taken so seriously especially the space marines
no, explain what i meant, go on. I want to see if you can do it.
Always amazes me just how expressive the artists could make a beakie back then. Anger, disbelief, sorrow, triumph - and yet I don't think the basic model was ever deliberately distorted.
i just looked at that and thought of the sound *plink* think he looks indifferent,
Oh I was speaking more generally than this picture in particular, I agree about "another day, another dollar" here which in turn has its own little story when showing a medic. But you've also got the cover of RT with one looking really pissed off. Some line art in Slaves to Darkness where a marine is stabbed, and the helmet reads "oh shit". The old Space Wolves in desert camo ambushing Orks, seems to be grim satisfaction.
I'm sure much of it will be the overall composition leading my mind that way, but it's not something I got much of from the frowny face.
Warhammer was never a parody. It copied parodic things, and inherited some humor from that. It also had really awful gag names. That's it. Everything that remained at that point was heavily excised once it become 40k proper anyway. Warhammer is not a parody and parodies nothing.
Who cares, you're all poofters. Trying to one up each other over toy soldiers and the political implications thereof. Post things you like. Post models. Post tips because I am actually not that great at this.
>tertiary who missed the og squats and the og orkz.
40 k was fun and silly. until the dark times, the grimderpening of the 90's and WARD.
you revisionist fricking hack moron.
orks have never stopped being silly but they are silly for the viewer not the people in the setting
Primaris helmets are too flat and I'm glad upgrade sprues for armies like the raven guard discard that entirely. Now if only the other armies had good upgrade spurs.
mk7 is the best because its grill is an arch. Like a gothic arch
its SYMBOLIC.
>SYMBOLIC
Literally the only design improvement primaris has over firstborns is longer legs. Everything else makes them more generic.
If they had just gone into their master files and increased the scale of the legs around 10-15% and changed nothing else everyone would've loved them and they wouldn't need to destroy the lore or invalidate everyone's space marine armies.
I just mix and match whatever is handy. I could care less about lore and weapons load outs, I am not using 40k rules. Thinking about picking up some Tacticals and Devastators for this reason. I paint a few in this colour combo, then that. I am not a committed 40k guy I just like mixing the cheap starter sets for a pool of sci fi figures.
yes, I bought cheap tac squad boxes and leftover sprues specifically for the mark 7 helms
im starting to think the RT, beakie shill is Suggie trolling
I genuinely can't fathom how most of you manage to engage in a hobby as social as tabletop gaming when you're all a bunch of histrionic volatile freaks who blow gaskets over hallucinated slights
>I genuinely can't fathom how most of you manage to engage in a hobby as social as tabletop gaming
Anon are you implying anyone here plays much less owns models?
cancer thread
Yes, I in fact don't use primaris helmets for my dudes.
>everything must be le silly, everything must be le quirky, everything must be not serious, everything must by gigglyfart chucklefrick stew
TOTAL
REDDITARD
DEATH
> muh toy soldier is serious business and has a deep impact/is a reflection of the culture war.
I swear its so fricking easy to figure out who has been introduced to 40k through youtube lore videos its insane.
Frick off you poltard c**t. 40k is not yet another le whimsy funny meme setting its grim dark gothic horror.
>"poltard c**t"
>also hates leddit
Bot post
I prefer variety, all the helmets carry different vibes with them.
>knightly
General use, although I will say the BT and DA helmets are much better than the Primaris/MK IV style. Good for vets that have a lot of heraldry and decoration.
>vox grill
Violent, CQC marines. Can be general use if this defines the chapter like Flesh Tearers, studded ones should be rarer unless the chapter is really strapped for wargear like Sharks or MMs.
>beakies
Use sparingly unless RG or RG successor. Supposed to be full of extra sensory gear so good for more ranged, tactical space marines. Unless you paint a shark face on it, then its for violent CQC marines again.
>crusade mk II
The most sparing, reserve for elites and HQs as chapter relic. Good for armor autists like Salamanders and Iron Hands.
Primaris helmets are alright, but I like the original mark IV they’re based off of better.
So carrying on with the whole israeli conspiracy theory, would it not make sense that the Mk.6 and Mk.7 helmets denote the circumcision status of the Marine wearing it? Nothing to say about Primaris, that shit's a whole differerent abomination
I went to school with a guy who did a squad of fleshtone marines with purple helmets. Funny guy. Ah 1996
Ummm... Hail Slaanesh?
No, he called them the Emperor's Dick and Balls, he pushed it as far as it would go.
not sure if theres enough meds for you anon
It seems the right honourable Rogue Trader Abdul Goldberg has entered the thread.
top of the mornin to ye laddy
Meh 50/50
Phattmarine
holy moronic proportion
that looks more like a Terminator
When will GW sell old helmet you can use on Primaris?
Unpopular opinion here
Since I preferred Mk. IV Maximus' helmet the most, I'm okay with Primaris' helmets.
idk. I don't like all of the flourishes that are part of primaris armour, but overall Cawl's the part that shits the bull.
The worst part of primaris is the helmet.
No I hated the :< face I thought it looked stupid especially compared to the other helmets
I sure do.
>Mark IV always my favorite power armor, especially the helmet
>Primaris Marines come out
>Mark X takes a lot of design cues from Mark IV
>Don’t like it nearly as much
Why is that? The helmets are virtually identical but it somehow doesn’t hit the same.
Why is everyone saying the new helmets are woke?
Because they’re morons.
That said, Primaris are the face of 40k right now when GW is going through it’s DEI phase, so while the helmet itself isn’t woke it is literally one of the mascots of this ‘woke’ time in the history of the IP
no you are the moron, the new thread is about the old helmet no one is saying the new one is woke. you morons that have to constantly misrepresent others arguments are scum
Old marines were original and unique, primaris are more generic mainly due to the helmet.
>Old marines were original and unique, primaris are more generic mainly due to the helmet.
Nah, it's the removal of any interesting iconography. Primaris have no skulls or gothic shit on any of their models.
Look at the sad fricks on the right.
God I hate the death company intercessors. It's a genuinely insulting kit. It's literally just the intercessor sprue and the BA upgrade kit packaged together but more expensive than the component parts.
Also the styles of different legs and shoulder pads. Even if you put all the extra gubbins from the left, the Primaris marines on the right would still have the exact same arnour. You'd be forgiven for thinking they were the same guy, which isn't the case for the older ones.
This reminds me I still have to paint my death company but I'm too shit at painting black armour.
its not that the new helmets are woke, its the decision to sideline the old ones.
Its like if Disney said Mickey Mouse ears must be removed from virtually all products and material because it offends genderfluid POC communists
That’s not even remotely analogous GW has said no such thing.
It's funny because people used to complain about Marines lacking character but primaris really show just how low the bar could really go. With the old tactical box you could make 10 unique guys, then you could buy another box and make 10 more. You could combine the armour and the heads into different poses and configurations but now you just have multiple copies of the same guy, with the same weapons and armour. No different armour MKs mixed together to sell the idea that this technology is rare and it's easier and much more common to piece together old armour than it is to make new suits and that then further reflects the stagnant nature of the not only the imperium but an entire setting circling the drain of entropy. No, lets knock that on the head for the sake of appealing to call of dooty babies and brain dead Halo fan boys. It's top tier corporate slop and it shows.
I like the MkV armour in general and helmet in particular. Looks more aggressive and brutal.
>mk4 is by far the weakest and most forgettable design and a much uglier version of it is now the standard for every primaris armor
Historically all marines wore beakies during RT and then they added the mk7. Multiple years after they filled the holes by shitting out some other designs to justify the numbers.
>Multiple years after they filled the holes by shitting out some other designs to justify the numbers.
Mks 1-through-5 were all designed at the same time as the Mk7 and Mk8. The Mk1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 minis were all released in late 1990, alongside the Strike Force box which debuted the Mk7 minis. The Sept 1990 White Dwarf (#129) had the first big fluff write-up for the old armour variants, followed by a big colour pages showing the new ideas for Mk7 Marine heraldry
MK5
5>8>7>1>4>3>2>6
Inb4 zoomers with nostalgia for stuff they never experienced complain about putting beaky armour that low.
>everyone who disagrees with my shit taste is a zoomer brainlet.
kys homosexual
Yes, absolutely.
The mk7 space marine helmet is one of the best scifi helmet designs. It references the classic Darth Vader mask and is a classic itself.
Easily, easily the worst things about the primaris models.
Yes.
Also liked the pre redesign MK3 helm.
anyway
Primaris bodies with oldMarine helmet is a good combo
i've seen people put old marine backpacks, helmets, and bolters on primaris models before and really liked how it looked. i think one of the reasons why i don't like primaris is because they're so uniform and their bolters look too long
bolters were meant to be short weapons for ship boarding and close quarters fighting in dense environments, having them be long is both detrimental to the purpose of them and pointless given the rocket propelled ammunition. GW is operated by brits though, who are famously bad at designing guns, so the iconic bolter was something of a fluke.
Yes.
>anti-industrialist emblem
>on the agent of the biggest polluters of the galaxy
c'mon now
This.
Nids are obviously the most pro-environment faction.
Where do you get anti-industrialist?! the third reich was insanely industrialist and was all but entirely Heathen.
This is what happens when you get your info from marvel comics and chapters tier new age bullshit.
what the hell does the third reich have to do with anything?
The most recent Heathen empire, DUH.
Honestly if the Primaris helmets were based off of the crusader helmets then they would be a whole lot better in my opinion.
the primaris helm has always been shit.
Its a shame cause its cool that they are tall and all that.
in fact primaris body with firstborn helm truly is peak space marine mini
it doesn't get better than that.