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40K RUMORS: More Primaris Characters On the Way

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May 14 2019
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The rumormill is grinding away, and saying that Calgar was only the beginning.

A new Codex Space Marines is only a matter of time.  It’s probably sooner than later. Already in the last few months we have seen:

  • Primaris Calgar
  • Shadowspear New Primaris Units
  • Beta Bolter Rules
  • White Dwarf Crimson Fists Rules
  • New Primaris Iron Hand Character
  • Space Marine New Tank

That’s a lot. A whole lot and as we all know, GW will only let things get so messy and disorganized before they sweep it all up into a new codex.

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Going back 6 months or so, we can see that several of the Primaris New Unit rumors have panned out.

  • New Heavy Weapon unit – CHECK
  • New Heavy Tank – CHECK

What is missing are an Assault unit and a small “maneuver unit” like a Primaris bike-equivalent. In any case it is obvious that whenever that new Codex Space Marines arrives, it is going to have a LOT of new Primaris units in it. We’ve seen over 6 already.

The RUMORS

But today’s rumors comes from industry professionals who sat that that Iron Hands character is only the beginning.

  • Look for multiple Chapters to get new character models.
  • These will all be Primaris
  • Some will be new, some will be redos (a la Calgar)

Thoughts

Calgar has obviously already crossed the Rubicon Primaris. Looking through the codex gives us these characters:

Ultramarines: – Calgar – PRIMARISIED

Ultramarines: – Tigurius 

Ultramarines: – Cassius

Ultramarines: – Sicarius 

Ultramarines: – Telion (I bet he chooses to stay Classic-marine)

Ultramarines: – Chronos

Iron Hands: New Character – PRIMARISIED

White Scars: – Kor’sarro Khan (note there’s been a bit of White Scars rumor chatter recently)

Salamanders: – Vulkan He’stan

Raven Guard: – Kayvaan Shrike

Imperial Fists: – Captain Lysander

Crimson Fists: – Pedro Kantor

Black Templars: – High Marshal Helbrecht

Black Templars: – Chaplain Grimaldus

I think that GW is keen on pushing Primaris marines and will want to get each Chapter with codex chapter traits a single Primaris Character as soon as possible. That puts the following minis on the “hot list”.  I would not be surprised to see new versions of several of these to show up alongside the codex:

White Scars: – Kor’sarro Khan

Salamanders: – Vulkan He’stan

Raven Guard: – Kayvaan Shrike

Imperial Fists: – Captain Lysander

Crimson Fists: – Pedro Kantor (they have White Dwarf chapter rules now)

Black Templars: – High Marshal Helbrecht

I’ll let you decide who’s mini is the oldest in most need to an all new plastic replacement.

~Which Marine Characters would you give the Primaris treatment to first?

 

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Author: Larry Vela
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