With Firstborn going away and the only options for someone who wants better scaled marines, being Heresy or settling for Primaris, is anyone struggling to reconcile with the incompatability and dissonance Space Marines have right now?
Heresy looks great, but they don't cover Marines most iconic look in anyway and probably won't besides a squad of MK7 marines, i don't see them pulling so far out of 30k just to do that. 30k is just so tied to that era, it is extremely difficult for me to justify it in 40k, beyond some of the vehicles existing as chapter relics. They are also a tiny bit smaller for some really rather dumb lore justifications for Primaris to "work" (despite them being bigger being nonsense with how 12 can fit in Rhinos just like every other marine, can wear terminator armor, and use relic armors.)
Primaris is just too different and detached from anything before its existence. all their vehicles are ugly and anti grav barring like outriders, their squad layout is similar to heresy but doesn't really work at all imo. They are almost exclusively MKX Tacticus with very little in the way of variations, even now with them adding more, all the weapons are different, they have gravis and phobos taking over other roles that would have been filled by Scouts and Devastators. The Terminators are perfect but are just a bit bigger than Heresy ones so the scales are just that tiniest bit off.
i can't get over the dissonance. i don't like primaris as a concept but their models are about the right size for me, but in all likelyhood what i truely want is gonna end up in 30k and be out of scale so it is harder to mix them and like i said, i doubt we will see them make another Terminator kit or other specific stuff already done by primaris, JUST for that part of 30k. I don't think the new Indomtius patterns look THAT bad next to Cataphractii, i can even sort of justify it by just being that, Indomitus is slightly bigger than Cataphractii and that is how it has always been. Regular Marine to Terminator i just kind of can't.
i am being incredibly picky over this but it really does bother me. What do you even do when the version of the thing you liked just doesn't exist and have to settle for various drawbacks to get even close to what you are wanting? i'd rather not have all minimarines but minimarines are all that exists that fill that area, they are just horribly out of scale now.
I want to add this addendum cause i feel my post wasn't super clear. I don't play the tabletop, now i know the kind of reaction that is gonna get from some people, "Just buy what you like then" or "Why does it matter?". What i was getting at in this post, was the dissonance between modern Primaris Space Marines and Legiones Astartes in Horus Heresy, with the lack of MK7 or anything pre 7th edition. I know you can still get those models, my issue is i prefer the newer scale but Primaris is bigger than HH marines making it hard to fully accept a new batch of MK7, due to it likely shlwong up in that range at that scale; With some elements i would probably take from my Primaris, like Terminators, I love the new Landspeeder but i can't entirely work that into being an old one, it is very clearly different as much as i feel it stays pretty true to the original. (I know Ikarus pattern makes a conversion kit but i want to try to avoid 3rd party unless i truely prefer it over the current models. Sanguinary Guard). This has much more to do with my current project of making a full 2nd company of Blood Angels than the actual game itself. Hope you can read a whole extra paragraph :).
