Irisado wrote:
There's hardly any leaving behind going on there. A lot of those are just redesigned kits, rather than anything new.
When taken in combination with things that Epic is already lacking, the "leaving behind" is pretty big I think.
To take a post I made earlier in this thread, these were units that I personally felt are already noticable by their absence from the Codex-adherent Marine lists, which would probably be present if the/a Marine list were re-released today by GW:
For Marines, IMO most of the following would probably make the cut:
- Assault Terminators
- Stormtalon Gunship
- Land Speeder Storm
- Scout Bikes
- Thunderfire Cannon
- Thunderhawk Transporter
- A second Land Raider variant (likely Crusader) would arguably also make the cut.
Now after these **rumoured** releases we'd also be looking at the following being missing:
- Space Marine Land Avenger - My guess is a medium tank due to multiple variants being released.
- Space Marine Praetor Warmachine - I'm totally guessing but it might be a Knight. Certainly something big because it's plastic.
- Space Marine Skyshatter Cannon - AA Tracked gun
- Space Marine Gale Claw Supremacy Fighter - Anti-aircraft fighter craft
I think it's hard to argue that all of those don't make the notability cut for inclusion into Epic, if SG were properly funded, most of them directly into a Codex Astartes list (or some form thereof - It's not hard to imagine Codex Armoured, Codex Airbourne, Codex Infantry, specialist lists for example). There are other units I haven't listed here that would certainly find homes in variant style lists too.
Similar things are happening to most of the other armies by stages.
Now, you can argue about whether or not it's a bad thing that Epic's being left behind, but that it *is* being left being is rather obvious I think.