CRAP! The images arent coming through. Going to have to come back and work in this. Give me a bit.
I've been wanting to post this forever. I assume Jess Goodwin is no longer designing models anymore. At least not for the Primaris. Here are my feelings as to why:
Lets start with this:
This has to be one of the worst thought out designs ever to come from GW. Can anyone tell me how the turret gunner reloads ammo? But that isn't even the worse of it; what does the gunner next to the driver do? Just pull a trigger? The gun is in a fixed position. Why not just put the trigger on the flight controls? I know this is modded after the Land Speeder, but this is terrible. Is he just trying to time his bursts right as the pilot points the speeder at a target?
This wouldn't be terrible if we didnt have some other awesome designs come out before it. This is just crap. And how is it supposed to move around? It really looks like something out of Void 1.1 to be honest. Very uninspiring for a Space Marine weapon.
What is the point of this suit if it doesn't provide any protection for the crew?
The number of weapons on this is ridiculous, but worse this the newer design of what I assume are long barreled heavy bolters. I am not against the marines having the longer barreled guns, its def more realistic and some of my criticisms are lack of reality, however, these just look too much like 50 cals and the one thing I appreciated about 40k was the bizarre weapons.
This is terrible too. All the gatling guns showing up for Marines now really makes me feel like GW hired the designer from Void 1.1. And the mini anime-style missiles. I don't know the rules on them, so don't know how far they shoot or their damage, but when I see the Hammerfall bunker and the size of those missiles i wonder well which is it? It just looks like a cheap toy design where the designer thought that the more guns the more the kids will like it.
My irritation isn't limited to the Space Marines.
This is just terrible. Really looks like some toy design you would find at a sale isle at a discount store, where nothing about the design makes any sense.
And its not so much that these designs are bad, I just don't see how they fit with the Mechanicus. These guys are the ones building and maintaining Titans and these are the vehicles they come up with for their own armies? Makes zero sense. If you had come to me and said they were some weird imperial guard army, or some alien one, that would make some sense and I would accept it. But for being the most technical savvy of the Imperium, everything looks extremely fragile.
I don't know what happened at GW, I know people come and go. They have to introduce fresh designs and all that. But even if the older Space Marine designs were themselves silly, they at least looked like they belonged and were properly thought out. The newer stuff just looks like a cheap attempt at wowing the kids with a ton of weapons without much consideration on where all the ammo would be stored.
So I have bought none of these nor ever will.
