A new rumor was just spotted from a veteran rumormonger. Come find out what he has to say about the future of Warhammer, and the possibility of a new Space Marine Army!
75Hastings69 has been around the Warhammer Community for a while, and usually has good insight on what the future holds for the 40k Universe. He recently posted on the possibility of a new Space Marine army, Let’s take a look at what he had to say.
Courtesy of 75Hastings69 via BoLS:
“I wouldn’t be expecting too much in the way of releases for existing chapters from this point going forwards, not that there won’t be ‘some’, expect the focus to shift onto GW pumping out RGs new armies and weapons of destruction for the upcoming storylines/advances/crusade mk2 ???? (who knows there might even be a new starter box on the not too far horizon ???? )
Without trying to sound like a dick I’ve known for almost 9 months where this story was going and who revived RG etc. if the rest of what I was told is true (new marines, Mortarion and his plague armies etc.) then there are truly some very exciting times coming for 40k players/hobbyists!
…Imagine how the sigmarines are to the standard empire soldier. Wouldn’t it be a weird twist of fate if AoS copy pasted space marines into the fantasy setting as Sigmar’s answer to chaos always winning, that somehow w40k kind of copy pasted the end times and reboot of fantasy AoS into 40k with the same fundamental idea….. hence new marines will spearhead offensive for the emperor following on from current w40k fluff events/outcome.
…New marines will make old marines seem like empire now seem to sigmarines …… if that makes sense?
…I’m not suggesting anything gets squatted. I said clearly focus will be on new marines rather than existing chapters, but existing chapters will still get releases.
I don’t get it, people are happy they’re moving the story/timeline on but don’t want anything to change, they want just their chapter to get new toys yet complain SM have too much, 40k players should think themselves lucky that they didn’t get the same treatment that WFB fans did with the destruction of the setting and large parts of models/armies. What’s the point of the hobby for Bret or tomb kings players?
I see new marines as a chance to have the best of both worlds, SM originals don’t get endless variants and units but are still in the fight, new marines are like a new army to build up from scratch pretty much, I’m sure they’d happily ally so don’t really see what the problem is.
…The answer to that is simply I don’t know. I was told they new marines are different to current marines, I imagine (at least fluff wise) they SHOULD be their own army, however that’s not to say they wont also be added to existing chapters as a choice somehow, in fact from a sales point of view it would probably be better to offer them to existing marine players as something new they can buy. I really doubt the iconic space marine kit will be retired so I wouldn’t worry too much about them becoming outdated. I guess fluffwise it would be no different than older armour classes still being around in 40k, sure the new marines would be out there, but a lot of existing marines are still out there too.”
Editor’s note: here at Spikey Bits we have heard word from numerous historically reliable sources about a “new type of Space Marine” being in the works, as well as an edition “change” unlike anyone was ever expecting. As always add salt to taste these are still 100% Grade “A” rumors and may be unproven at anytime.
At the end of Gathering Storm 3 it did mention that RG would bring forth weapons that even the worshipers of the Chaos gods would be unable to withstand, fresh fleets would be built, and grand War Engines consecrated. RG obviously has plans for a bigger and better army.
Could 75Hastings69 be onto something here with a new Space Marine army? What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below.
