In your opinion, will primaris marines be replacing space marines?
I'm asking because I'm considering purchasing quite a large number of devastators for my list and the thought of buying something that is headed towards its eol product cycle is disturbing.
>>54216700
Primaris are just diffrent units my dude, outside of hellblasters I doubt anyone will use them anyway since normal marines have the fluff.
>>54216782
I think it's safe to assume GW will be pushing more Primaris equivalents as time goes on, but I do think you're right. Traditional marines are in no danger of being rendered obsolete with regards to fluff.
We'll never see another manlet marine release again, it's blatantly obvious
>>54216903
Betting that Guilliman is making with Cawl a method of turning existing vanilla marines into Primaris ones. That way all other marines characters will still be around, yet bigger.
Primaris are definitely going to replace them but standard Marines got some years left in them, and even then in sure they'll be allowed to be fielded with legacy rules ala Age of Sigmar
>tfw your dudes are on a penitent crusade
>if everyone gets replaced by primaris marines they'll be left out
>eventually the last old marine will perish
>the galaxy will forget his name
>>54217519
It's already confirmed in the lore
>>54217577
It's more likely that, in about five years, there's just going to be Space Marines again and the only models being sold are Primaris, with old marines just using the same rules (and some bit of fluff about how those who are still around are at such a level of skill they match newly-fielded primaris marines etc etc)
>>54216700
In 8th edition primaris marines are pretty trash as this is horde edition the hordenine and sheer weight of numbers beats anything else.
While regular space marines are still the cucks of imperial guardsmen due to this it also means regular marines despite memes cuck primaris due to sheer weight of numbers.
This won't change unless they drastically change how the rules work so you're safe with marines until 9th.
Regular marines will get less support now but it's not like they're lacking in units to begin with and will still get more support than xenos races.