One thing warhammer online had which I loved was the ability to set the appearance of an item on another pieces, so if you had a bad-ass looking helmet but wanted the stats of another you could set the bad-ass for the other helm, that is something I would love to see.

this game will have a shop, i hope the shop will be an aestetic shop.

I agree to this but if lets say your nergal and you want a khorne stylized helmet I don't approve KHORNE IS ARE BLOOD GOD! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

otherwise its a good idea and I agree.

I'm only okay with this happening with armor, and only if the armor of the character does not have stats attached to it and is purely cosmetic. It happening with anything else is asking for trouble.

What if you're fighting someone who visually has a banner, but actually has an Iron Halo? Suddenly they're way more durable than you expect them to be, and then you can't fight them adequately because you cannot properly assess their strengths.

for me armour with stats would be be cool as long as its implimented right.
eg. iron armour mk3 offers front protection but is weak at the back maybe slows the wearer down a bit
mk 2 crusade armour: generic marine armour
corvus armour: offers slight speed increase medium protection

with the impilmetation of stuff like that you would see a lot more tactical play depending on your style and opponents would learn to counter specific armour types

It's easy for orks, the more bits of metal manifesto them the more armour it gives them, but despite what you might think the more armour their speed won't change as yes they are heavier but the more armour the more invincible they feel so they will run faster

Those marks of armour are basically never used anymore. Most marines use either mk. 6 corvus, mk. 7 aquila, or mk. 8 errant armour.

The one thing about that is there was another game where you could do that, and you couldn't tell what class the other character was; as long as that problem is avoided I'd be all for it.

That said there is something cool about seeing the guy with the epic armor that you haven't bought yet. but if it's like oh you have to unlock the armor piece before you can use its' appearance, that's cool.

I think space marines should use the more recent marks of armour, while chaos space marines should have access to the older sets of armour.

i would prefer catphract terminator armour over the latest version tbh as well as the older versions of marine armour. the latest stuff from forgeworld should be used as inspiration. khor phaerons terminaor armour is awesome