Editing Primaris Space Marines

[[File:New40KPrimarisArt1.jpg|Right|thumb|Look out Chaos, there's a new kid on the block.]]
''"They were forged for Mankind's darkest hour, and that hour is upon us"'' - <small>[[Roboute Guilliman]]</small>

''"In a galaxy wreathed in darkness, we must be the light"'' - Unnamed Primaris Officer in the Primaris Codex.

Primaris Marines (also known as Ultra-Ultramarines, Supermarines, NuMarines, Chadmarines, [[Ultramarines: The Movie|The Greater-est of them all]], Adeptus Restartes, Super Space Marines, Space Space Marines, Biglymarines, 8thmarines, Bigmars, Guillimarines and Marines II: Electric Boogaloo) are the next step forward in Space Marine evolution (Not counting the [[Raptor]] supermarines by [[Corax]] during the [[Horus Heresy]] before [[Alpharius]] spiked the gene-tech with [[Daemon]] Blood). [[Roboute Guilliman|Big Bobby G]] got together with [[Belisarius Cawl]] and put together this next generation of Astartes. They are bigger, faster, stronger, and maybe smarter than all that have come before them. Buckle up boys, its about to get hot in here.

==History and Background==
Shortly after the conclusion of the Horus Heresy, Guilliman predicted that another major Chaos attack on the Imperium might come at some point in the future. Though the Space Marines had proven themselves worthy defenders of Mankind, the Primarch foresaw that there might be a time where even they would struggle against the onslaught of the Ruinous Powers - [[Derp|because Roboute himself broke Legions in chapters]], and those tend to have problems fighting Black Crusades against ''hundreds of thousands'' CSM (the reason why Dorn declined Codex Astartes at first, being one of the few after the Scouring to suppose the Traitor Legions may be back one day). But nowadays it turns out Guilliman knew about it as well - which makes the whole situation awkward to say the least. 

Ahem, in a frankly extreme show of [[just as planned]], our [[Spiritual Liege]] gained the aid of Archmagos Belisarius Cawl and began a program to create a new, superior form of Space Marines in secret over the next ten millennia. To assist him, Guilliman gave Cawl a relic called the Sangprimus Portum- a device containing the purest samples of each Primarch's genetic material that outstripped even the gene-seed in its potency.

Even after he was poisoned by [[Fulgrim]], Guilliman's plan continued without anybody learning about it, and by the time of his revival Primaris Marines were ready to be unveiled to the Imperium - the only thing needed was a sanction from the Primarch himself.

In conjunction with the [[Ultima Founding]], there are now going to be entirely new chapters composed just of Primaris Marines as well, with some taking over the [[Fortress-Monastery|fortress-monasteries]] of extinct chapters.

However, in BL novel "Dark Imperium" Guilliman calls Primarises "Cawl's blasphemous hordes". So much for daddy's love, er?

==New Stuff==
*The basic Primaris Marine is encased in [[Power Armour#Mark X: Tacticus Armour|Mark X Tacticus Armour]]. Basically, it's the best of all the suits that came before it, wrapped up into one convenient package; no [[Beakie]] schnozz, but it's got that sweet Maximus style vox grill.  As usual, mechanically this is entirely cosmetic.
**[[Primarch#Two_Missing_Primarchs|We don't talk about Mark IX Power Armour]].
**Bigger, tougher Primaris Marines wear [[Power_Armour#Mark_X:_Gravis_Armour|Mark X Gravis Armour]].  As of 8E, this translates to +1T.  Shiny.
**Reivers wear [[Power Armour#Mark X: Phobos Armour|Mark X Phobos Armour]], sleeker-looking and with skull-faced helmets.
*They wield the [[Bolt#Bolt Rifle|Mark II Cawl-pattern Bolt rifle]] as their standard firearm. Apparently a "perfected" version of the ubiquitous bolter, it does have an improved statline - [Range: 30" Strength: 4 AP: -1 and Rapid Fire] - which appears to be a boltgun with an extended barrel.
**Its statline is one AP worse than the new "Special Issue Boltgun" Sternguard carry, but their big selling point is some combination of being cheaper/easier to manufacture and using more readily available/cheaper/easier to manufacture ammunition, reflected in their points cost - bolt rifles are the same gun for 3 points cheaper in 8E.
**The Lieutenants get to carry master-crafted automatic versions - only 24" and AP 0, but Assault 2 Damage 2.
*An enhanced [[gene-seed]], which was created by combining the purified genetic material of the Loyalist Primarchs with parts of the [[Adeptus Custodes|Custodes]] creation process (as they don't have gene-seed) that adds 3 more organs to the existing 20. 
**The new gene-seed is as follows: '''Sinew Coils''' which are turns the Primaris Marines into [[Wat|Inspector Gadget]]....okay we may be joking here but it's basically metallic coils jammed into the muscles that let them contract with extreme force, '''The Magnificat''' which just sets the rest of the superhuman organs into overdrive (and is itself part of a super-organ dubbed the '''Immortis Gland''', though the information needed to complete it is lost),  and the '''Belisarian Furnace''' (because Cawl has a robo-boner for naming things after himself) essentially a 'last-stand' organ which gives a Primaris Marine a supercharged adrenaline rush near death while triggering rapid tissue and bone regeneration

==Potential Problems==
*While Primaris Marines are created from the gene-seed of all the Loyalist Primarchs, it is unknown how some of the more extreme genetic quirks of each bloodline will manifest in them. We could see anything from [[Blood Angels]] with cute little Cupid wings to [[Flesh Tearers]] with terrifying vampire fangs to translucent skinned [[Raven Guard]] to even blacker skinned [[Salamanders]] to [[Lamenters]] with greying temples and bags under their eyes(plus a too old for this shit attitude) to [[Black Dragons]] that look like a metal hedgehog with adamantium coated, giant bone spines and  [[Space Wolves]] [[Fur Heresy|with fluffy little tails]]. But then again there's NO reason to actually expect these modifications to worsen their genetic quirks. They're marines with new enhancements, not marines with a double dose of gene-seed or anything. It's probably somewhat more likely to strengthen their resistance to their quirks if anything. It's all up to whatever GeeDubs wants to do though, so anything is possible.
**According to Cawl, the Primaris gene-seed is actually even more stable than the standard version, with an estimated deviancy of .001% per generation. So far, it's at least been stable enough to create a Space Wolves successor that hasn't immediately devolved into Wulfen.
***It's unknown how stable normal marines who have been upgraded are, however.
* Only chapters with ready access to being supplied will have these. <strike>Don't expect Primaris [[Carcharodons]] any time soon.</strike> Robbie MacNiven, writer of the Carcharodons novel Red Tithe, has revealed that everyone's favorite space sharks WILL be receiving their own Primaris Marines. PRAISE THE FORGOTTEN ONE.
*In terms of actual combat experience, these guys are jumping into the deep end as green as an ork's asscrack. They may be bigger, stronger, faster, and have better armor and weapons, but that doesn’t change the fact that the marines they are <s>reinforcing are their seniors by centuries.</s> The Dark Imperium novel say that the first batch of Primaris Marines are actually augmented space marines from the days after the Horus Heresy put into stasis and are constantly pestering the whippersnappers with tales of what the Imperium was like 10,000 years ago. Considering chapters that have been reduced to close to extinction are seen as able to rebuild (Invaders, Black Consuls, Celestial Lions) and their service in the Indomitus crusade their lack of experience is likely a non issue in most cases.
**Later stated they mainly consist of Neophytes from various chapters who were drafted into the program, so they are <s>utterly green</s> ONLY harshly trained and have little true combat experience compared to most Marines. Think scouts on (extra) steroids.
*Primaris Marines are probably much harder and more expensive to produce than regular Astartes, especially when their borrowed Custodes lineage is taken into account. There may be entire chapters of them at first, but those numbers may not last long as they will likely be far harder to replenish after heavy casualties, and Primaris chapters probably wouldn't be able to bounce back from something like Rynn's World.
*Chaos will be interested in the Primaris Marines. The [[Chaos Gods]] are not happy with the existence of the Primaris Marines, and are creating some warp charged warriors to counter them (enhanced Chosen, perhaps). [[Fabius Bile|Fabulous Bill]] will definitely be interested in them as well, and the possibility of [[Chaos Space Marines]] converted into Chaos Primaris Marines, or even Bill himself converted into a Primaris Marine, should be very worrying to the [[Imperium]]. They've supposedly been made resistant to Chaos, but "resistant" doesn't mean "immune" by a long shot in fact a noxious bligtbringer is able to effect Primaris in Dark Imperium successfully hurting them and trying to get them to turn. And come to think of it, the cover image of 8th Edition does seem to partially show a [[Plague Marine]] in Tacitus armor...
**The discovery that Cawl wanted to use Traitor Legion gene-seed as well as the gene-seed of the missing legions to make Primaris Marines doesn't help the matter; Guilliman refused to let him do so, but he has a feeling Cawl will try it anyway with predictable results.
***Although since Cawl claims that the Primaris gene-seed is more stable than the standard gene-seed, it might be able to resist the influence of chaos, especially if Cawl's claims that they are resistant to chaos is true.
***Plus since we don't know why the [[First Founding#Two Unknown Legions|lost legions]] where destroyed, there could be nothing wrong with their gene-seed.
****Although since even the traitor legions are cursed regularly in more civilized worlds that can handle the concept of chaos (and Horus in every Imperial world as basically the satan figure), what the lost legions did or was corrupted by must have been unthinkably horrible that even the Emperor forced a silence on the matter. With Cawl thinking he got the chaos part down, the lost legion geneseed might bite him in the ass.
*While it's possible that Cawl was able to make incremental changes to the Astartes standard wargear on his own within the span of 10,000 years, the introduction of Grav-tanks (which should be impossible to reproduce given how rare they are) is a bit too unbelievable. On the other hand, Cawl is considered by the rest of the AdMech to be at the absolute limit of what they consider to be orthodoxy, though this has the potential to cause its own problems - especially given Cawl's fondness of xenos technology and the implementation thereof (with the Ynnari allied with the Imperium, it's one step away from asking an Aeldari for help with making Grav-tanks and three steps from reverse engineering [[Falcon|Craftworlder]] or [[Raider|Commorite]] Grav-tanks, and then there's the Tau and the Necrons...). That being said, there were already grav-tanks during the heresy era, and we all know Cawl is 'innovative', so it's not too far out of the ballpark.
*While barely explored in-universe so far, the various alien races in the setting may also take exception or dangerous interest in the Primaris Marines.  Orks would likely find them entertaining to fight and Tyranids would just see them as more biomass to eat.  Given Fabius' interest in them, it's likely [[Haemonculus|Fabius' Drukhari mentors]] will also find interest in them, as will [[Illuminor Szeras|a certain spider-legged robot scientist]].  Fortunately this could only benefit the Ynnari-Imperium alliance, who will most likely be the most accepting of it.  There's no reason the Tau will see any problems, though if a kroot managed to eat a dead Primaris that could lead to some developments.

==Forces of the Primaris Marines==
Primaris Marines don't get to select from a variety of equipment loadouts, but the equipment they do carry is designed by [[Cawl]], who is shockingly competent, so they usually outgun their non-Primaris equivalents who tried to choose an otherwise identical loadout; this forces them to depend on other units to support them to fill in any gaps (much like Eldar Aspect Warriors). They enjoy, as of 8E, +1W and +1A relative to a regular marine, making them more durable and a lot more dangerous in melee combat.  Some of them wear [[Power_Armour#Mark_X:_Gravis_Armour|Mark X Gravis Armour]], for another +1T.
*'''Primaris Captain:''' Primaris Captains are the analogues of [[Space Marine]] Captains. They are decked out in the new Gravis Armor which somehow manages to be even ''MOAR'' egg-shaped than a [[Squat]] [[Hearthguard]]. They're armed with a mini-Gauntlet of Ultramar/Hand of Dominion (I.E. a three-shot bolt pistol built into a power fist) and a master-crafted power sword. Others use the standard Mark X power armor and wield a power sword and their choice of Stalker Boltgun or Auto Bolt Rifle. There's also a plasma pistol and power fist model exclusive to Games Workshop stores celebrating their anniversaries. 
*'''Primaris Librarian:''' Just what it sounds like. Has a fancy-looking Force Sword.
*'''Primaris Chaplain:''' Not officially announced yet, but based on promo photos they wear black robes as though they're aping on the [[Interrogator-Chaplain]]s. The model shown has something looking like an Iron Halo, stupid stick instead of manly Crosius and looks absolutely badass nonetheless. 
*'''Primaris Lieutenants:''' The Primaris Lieutenants are somewhere between a Captain and a Sergeant in rank, and are often the most experienced of a Primaris Squad. Their role is to take command of demi-companies when the Captain is absent, freeing Chaplains and Librarians to focus on their own specialties. Lieutenants are differentiated from their fellow marines by a red-on-white stripe on their helms. Some of them can be helmetless which often showcase an extreme amount of Hair-esy. They can either use a power sword or a master-crafted automatic version of the Bolt Rifle (shorter range and worse ap, but better rate of fire at long range, fireable after Advancing, and more damage per shot from being master-crafted).
*'''Primaris Ancients:''' Primaris Marines dubbed honorable enough to have the privilege of carrying the Standard's Banner. Identifiable by their white helmets (although that could change depending on the Chapter), they are in no way related to another [[Tarkus|dude-clad-in-power-armor-wearing-a-white-helmet-that-also-comes-with-the-same-name-from-a-certain-WH40K-game]]. At least until he's been upgraded. In case you were wondering, "Ancient" is a corruption of the rank of "Ensign" which was a term for an army's flagbearer in the Middle Ages, so it has nothing to do with how old the Marine in question actually is.
*'''Primaris Apothecary:''' A specialization of Primaris Marine only seen so far in artwork and recent promo photos. Their left bracer appears to have a screen on it for monitoring lifesigns, and they have a gun-like device in their left hand, with their Narthecium attached to a <s>cyberdong</s> mechadendrite on their back.
*'''Primaris Techmarine:''' One of them acts as the pintle gunner for the Repulsor Tank. That's about all we know.
*'''[[Reiver|Reivers:]]''' Reivers are Space Marines created from the gene-seed of [[Sly Marbo]]. Think [[Catachan Jungle Fighters]] in [[Power Armor]]. It's time to piss yourselves, [[Chaos Space Marines|traitorous scum.]] 
*'''[[Aggressor|Aggressors:]]''' Aggressors are basically Primaris [[Terminators]] mixed in with [[Centurion Squad|Centurions]]. They , an even more specialized Gravis armor, and either an automatic version of the Primaris Captain's Boltstorm Gauntlet paired with shoulder-mounted grenade launchers or a flamer-equipped version of said gauntlet dubbed the Flamestorm gauntlet. Regardless of what they're equipped with, they specialize in close-range firepower that obliterates light infantry.
*'''[[Intercessor|Intercessors:]]''' Intercessors are the <s>standard</s> SUPER bolter Marines, having most in common with a bare-bones tactical squad as they're armed with Primaris versions of the same things (such as their super bolters and Mk X armour). Compared to tacticals, they perform better in melee and have better range and armour piercing, making them effective in a wider variety of situations. This is both a strength and a weakness, as while they may even bigger Jacks of all trades, they're also worse for being masters of nothing. Other than by making good use of their range bonus, they can almost never lay as much hurt down with their bolt rifles as tacticals can, especially against hordes; and with their bolt pistols being the basic type, tacticals may hit harder on the charge. And that's all before taking weapon options. This might be part of the reason that other Primaris Marines are more specialized: to compensate/synergize. As Primaris specialists may be more vulnerable to heavy firepower and be fire-magnets, Intercessors with their flexibility can more reliably protect others (range) plug any hole that arise from specialist losses, or make themselves useful against any foe until the hard-hitting second wave arrives.
*'''Inceptors:''' Inceptors are the <strike>[[Assault Marines]] equivalent</strike> drop troops of the Primaris Marines and are equipped with a new pattern of Jump Packs, two Assault Bolters, which are basically sawn off Heavy Bolters (although recent pictures have shown them wielding a currently unidentified plasma weapon), and a pair of [[Derp|absolutely ridiculous-looking shoe-shovels.]] Unlike Assault Squads, the Inceptors' focus is on firepower and a pseudo Hammer of Wrath. This makes them closer in role to Assault Bikes. They lack melee weapons of any kind; this doesn't mean they can't fight in melee, as their sheer weight allows them to crush their enemies to death, and they still have the statline of "normal" Primaris marines. Don't get it in your head that their melee ability is "good", though, or even decent, and only engage in melee if you have to; they do far better blowing things into tiny pieces.
*'''Hellblasters:''' Hellblasters are Primaris Marines who make Flash Gitz green(er) with envy. They use [[Plasma#Plasma Incinerator|Plasma Incinerators]], enhanced Plasma Guns with longer range and armor piercing ability. Aside from that, there's nothing special about them as compared to "regular" Primaris marines. Very expensive and vulnerable to strong weapons, but they fuck up TEQs and can pose a threat to vehicles if they can get into Rapid Fire range, though outside of said range it's not as suicidal to unload a charged volley, so they can threaten vehicles there, too. Also, with the changes to how cover works, they are terrifying against cover campers. With how big a fire magnet these guys are, if you get these guys close to an expensive or dangerous vehicle or multiwound TEQs feel free to HELLBLAST them into oblivion in a suicide barrage. (That is, IF they're at risk of being wiped out or swarmed.)
*'''[[Redemptor Dreadnought|Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought:]]''' For no matter how great and glorious they may be, [[Grimdark|in the grim future even they are not immortal]]. Though how enough of these brand spanking-new Space Marines were curbstomped just enough to warrant Dreadnaught status, we'll (probably) never know (hundreds of thousands of Primaris fighting in the over a century long indomitus crusade may be the answer). Times be desperate, yo. Probably because they're so hard to kill that just about all of them that couldn't be saved are made dread-ful. 
*'''[[Repulsor_Tank|Repulsor]]:''' The Repulsor is the standard transport and/or tank (nobody's entirely sure yet) of the Primaris Marines. Which is good for them, because they can't go inside standard Space Marine transports, including ones that can hold Terminators, Centurions, and (in 30k) even fucking ''Primarchs.'' There must be [[Profit|some mysterious force surpassing even the Emperor]] blocking the door. Being a floating [[METAL BOXES|Metal Box]], it might be considered the spiritual successor to the [[Grav-Rhino]], if you covered said Grav-Rhino with missile pods everywhere including on its rear and sides, put a TL lascannon in the hull, and gave it what looks like a [[Fail|heavy stubber]] as a coaxial gun to go with the turret lascannon and pintle-mounted Gatling gun.
*'''Overlord:''' The Overlord is the Primaris exclusive dropship used to support the bigger frames of the Primaris Marines. You would think the [[Thunderhawk]] would be big enough for them but it seems they are ''too'' [[Mary Sue|special]] to share the same vehicle with their smaller brothers. Anyways, the Overlord is noticeable for one thing. It is '''ECKS BAWKS HUEG''', making a Thunderhawk look like a [[Stormtalon]] in comparison. In terms of specs, it is the [[Corvus Blackstar]] on steroids. Seriously, it has powerful quintuple engines and twinned hulls thick enough to permit insertion from orbit, like Thunderhawks or Stormbirds, and like Blackstars, Overlords possess twin transport bays with their own assault doors, but they're considerably bigger (they can carry up to 40 of your Chadmarines) and even more blessed with advanced technologies like fucking [[AWESOME|energy shields]] ([[Heresy|Guess Cawl kind of]] [[Blood Ravens|'borrowed']] [[Extra Heresy|some of that sweet ass energy shields from the]] [[Eldar|pointy-eared gitz]]). Additionally, the Overlord is equipped with anti-munitions cannons, wing-mounted Desolator Lascannons, nose-mounted Melta Cannons and Heavy Bolters fixed on its lower wing surfaces. This thing is pretty much a flying [[Titan (Warhammer 40,000)|Titan]] or an Imperial [[Manta]].

==On the Tabletop==
Crunch wise, Primaris Space Marines are about as physically dangerous as Space Marines are already supposed to be fluff-wise, so they get an additional Attack and an additional Wound; weapons which deal additional Wounds seem to be fairly ubiquitous now, so defensively, that might not be as impressive as it looks. However, so far they seem to have exclusive access to shiny new toys from Cawl, including a "basically Kraken" Bolter with +6" range and -1 AP, a Plasma gun with +6" range and -1 AP, and a half-range one-handed Assault Heavy Bolter. Defensively, so far they only have access to Gravis armor, which grants +1 Toughness (and even then only the Captain and Inceptors can use it).  Finally, their squads don't mix weapon types, with all members carrying the same loadout; whether this will be a benefit or a downside relative to "standard" marines being able to carry a mixed loadout remains to be seen with the other new rules in 8th, such as the ability of any squad to split its fire across multiple targets.

All the Primaris units so far also cost nearly twice as many points as their older counterparts and have unit sizes no larger than a 5 model maximum (including the Sarge). This strongly suggests they will be more useful as a supplement to standard Marine forces than they might be as outright replacements; they're far too inflexible and expensive to be fielded effectively on their own, and their lack of melee specialists and access to weaponry with a range greater than 30" is a glaring flaw (for now) as well. And while their movement is no worse than any other Marine, for reasons that totally aren't financial in origin they can't take '''any''' transports usable by standard Marines. Not [[Rhino|Rhinos]], not [[Drop Pods]], not [[Land Raider|Land Raiders]], not even the motherfucking [[Mastodon]]. They can use the Thunderhawk, but odds are you're not going to have room for it in your standard 2000 points game and even then it has to be carrying only Primaris Marines (and in that case, it still can't carry too many). They have a special transport called Repulsor (which is a [[Awesome|grav tank]]) and the Overlord (which is basically a giant Thunderhawk), but beside that they have no choice but to go footslogging. 

==Other Issues==
Generally speaking, the idea of SPACE space marines mostly serves to downplay all the currently existing fluff of space marines. Why is it necessary to have GENETICALLY MODIFIED genetically modified SUPER super soldiers? The entire thing makes space marines look useless and obsolete. Which they kind of are, given the technology of the era. But they are generally portrayed in fluff as being the pinnacle of human fighting potential. 

===Rules Datasheets===
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File:New40kPrimarisCaptainAgainFull.jpg|Stats for the Captain. GW is being awfully generous with these datasheets.
File:New40kIntercessorDatasheet.jpg|Behold the Intercessor Datasheet (thanks GW!).
File:New40kPrimarisInceptorVersion2Full.jpg|The Inceptor rules, sadly the shoe-shovels have no stats.
File:Hellblaster stats.jpeg|Hellblaster stats, because leaks are great for those on the outside.  Note how when their guns explode they die, rather than take damage.
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==Gallery==
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File:PrimarisBigBoy.png
File:Adeptus Astronimus.jpg
File:PrimarisLightyear.jpg|Primaris Marine of the Galactic Rangers chapter
File:Captain1.jpg|A Primaris Captain channeling the Juggernaut BITCH!
File:Lieutenant1.jpg|Primaris Lieutenants, not quite butter bars, not quite seasoned
File:Ancient1.jpg|I am NOT [[Tarkus|Tarkus!]]
File:Intercessor2.jpg|Super Smurfs!
File:Space_Marine_Squared.png|A Squad of Intercessors about to go to town on some greenskins. Aren't they beautiful?
File:Inceptor1.jpg|Inceptors! Now capable of flying and skiing! Youjo Senki inspiration?
File:Helblaster1.jpg|An entire ''squad'' of Super-Smurfs with upgraded Plasma Guns. God help us all.
File:Reivers.jpg|Boo, assholes!
File:Redemptor_Dreadnought.PNG|I HAVE LEGS! I HAVE FULLY ARTICULATED LEGS!
File:Chad marine hover tank.png|Guilliman and Cawl have figured out how to build hover tanks once more!
File:40kPrimarisLibReveal1.jpg|Looks great, but then you realize that for a 100 year old Space Marine, this guy looks super old. [[Grimdark|I guess being a battle psyker sucks that hard]]. Or ya know, that's an old librarian who received an upgrade.
File:Blood Raven 1.JPG|"[[Roboute Guilliman|Lord Commander]],the batch 3789-Alpha is missing! Just after the visit of..." "[[Just as Planned|I know.]]"
File:Aggressors.jpg
File:Chap&apoc.png|Grainy sighting of a Primaris Apothecary and Chaplain
File:40kPreviewJuly23_Chaplain8h-500x466.jpg
File:40kPreviewJuly23_Apothecary2n-500x461.jpg
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