Warhammer 40K Hot Mess – Space Marine Suppressors
Let’s take a deep dive into a hot mess of a 40K unit and some thoughts in how we can fix them up. Hello Marine Suppressors
I remember when these models came out and the whole – is a flying Autocannon that can’t move and shoot worth anything? I think the only time these guys had any type of true threat was back in the heyday of Iron Hands where they could Deep strike in, throw out some better damage, and be a bit of a pain to remove. This is a unit that just never felt right in the game. I think its the same sort of thing with the Autocannon in general and just adding it to some kind of Gundam looking human robot suit just doesn’t do the idea of this unit justice.
Space Marine Suppressor Basics
These guys were the long range light anti vehicle support for the Space Marines. They should be jumping around, throwing out some decent firepower. Plus be a pain to remove with the added power of the Gravis like armor. I know you are saying – but Goatboy this unit sucks what can we do about it? Well there are a few things we can do beyond just making it shoot a bazillion times, ignore all armor, and do awesome poses as they land on table top.
How Can We Make Supressors Good?
Better Gun!
Let’s make the gun actually better. Just like the Heavy Bolter – the Autocannon is an iconic piece of wargear that just doesn’t feel nearly as good. What if we switched the gun to shoot like their Armigers with something like 2d3 shots, AP -2, and flat 3 damage? Wouldn’t that be something spicy to have on the table top. Let’s also make it Assault so the unit can move, advance, and shoot like a boss.
More Rules?
The unit is called a Suppressor so let’s make it suppress a unit? Maybe you could shoot some bullets and cause the unit to have a -1 to hit as they duck for cover? How about make the unit not move as well too? Also don’t make it a Stratagem just something the unit can do as it tries to Suppress your thoughts.
Marine Suppressors in the back row, forgotten.
Sweet Stratagems!
You know what might be sweet beyond just Suppressing stuff why not having some cool and different ammo to do unique things. Stuff like Armor melting for less shots but better versus vehicles. Or maybe some kind of frag ammunition that throws out more wounds to help kill hordes. These small things can make this unit unique and worth finding for your army.
Gun Options
Hey you know what else could be cool? Maybe have some kind of Assault Melta Lances they could get? Or how about some Lascannons? Or heck some kind of super Heavy bolter? There are so many more things we could do with the kit to really create a unique “devastator” Primaris option that looks awesome. Those jump packs are cool. The armor is pretty sweet looking too. I still think they need an assault unit version but at least fix the model they currently make.
Formidable Opponents
I just want to see more things from the Space Marine line be usable on the tabl top. The model range is so big that trying to find room for all the plastic dudesmen has to be hard to do – but GW can at least make all the Primarss stuff usable. We are so close to letting the firstborn marines go the way of the Dodo why not work on making Primaris stuff actually good. Let’s start with the forgotten but awesome looking Suppressors.
Let us know how you would fix the unit, down in the comments!
