It would not surprise me to see them drop all support for the current marine line and instead look to be selling only Primaris items as their standard Marine line in 2 years.
And as we all know, based on the information they gave us on the Ultima Founding, they are shifting towards making Primaris Marines the new standard for Space Marines. Obviously the Primaris marines have better rules than their standard Marine counterparts (because that's how you sell models), and you will also be able to make entire forces of Primaris marines! The jury is still out on if this idea will flop or not. How is this a con you say? Sure they look cool, and while this might be just a little too subjective on my part for this article, it is quite obvious that this is a cash grab for GW. Considering the time, money, and effort we put into this hobby that is not a good thing, and it is absolutely something worth being salty about. And it is quite likely that as you look over the indexes and the rules you will find that the armies you may have built won't function the same anymore. It will be hard to squeeze one pod into your game much less an army of them now. Another example, a LOT of players out there fielded Drop Pod lists (Blackmanes I'm looking at you.) The change to the reserves rule requiring you to keep half your army in reserve, along with the insane point increase of Drop Pods, as well as having to keep the pod AND the unit that was embarked more than 9" away from any enemy units, makes them very difficult to use. It's not unplayable by any stretch, but it changes how the army is played. In order for him to use them, he has to run a generic Chaos (keyword) army. Now, in 8th, none of those units are available to Death Guard. Havocs moving up the field and firing autocannons without having to snap fire, toughness 6 bikes, it was great. When Traitor Legions dropped, a buddy of mine spent a lot of time painting up Havocs, Obliterators, and Chaos Bikes to run with his nurgle Death Guard army. Your army build might change.drastically.
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