Reply To: GW teases "The Primaris Lieutenant You've Been Waiting For"

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Well I suppose there’s nothing wrong with using the Primaris Models as “old” Space Marines (you’d need to do a little kit bashing to give the tactical squads things like missile launchers and flamers) that are “true scale”. Gamers have been converting the old models to true scale for years after all.

Not sure how it would affect official tourneys, but if you say they are Space Marines models instead of Primaris I don’t see there being a problem?

Just ditch the new Primaris rules and organisation and play with the older rules (which are still legal for official events I believe).

For gamers with the older armies, I suppose the problem might be trying to add to your existing army if GW decide to drop doing the older space marines from retail (I’ve a friend with a Black Templars army who is always searching for some of the older chapter specific models, but this was the case before the Primaris arrived anyway).

But “back in the day” of Rogue Trader and to an extent 2nd Edition, we were always using proxy models, kitbashes etc. Not sure when the “official” and WYSIWYG mandate arrived (for the worse in my opinion). But at the end of the day it’s YOUR hobby and you can do with it what you want.

I think the issue isn’t so much Primaris, it’s more GW dropping armies from stock on a regular basis (the biggest one being Squats in 40K) as they continually retcon the universe to drive new sales. It’s something we have to live with in this day and age. But at least the game is still going (unlike many sci-fi games I could mention) in some format, so perhaps we should bemoan our fate too much 🙂