What about Terminator tactical suits. How many variations of that are there and what do you think are potential customization options. Also vehicles. How many variants should there be. Should they be locked to map spawns or call downs with specific equipment and HH era spread to SM and CSM in terms of variants.
I think we could see some variation in terminator suits but on vechiles I would say only for different legions in each race. I think that customizing your character is the important part, the vechiles really don't matter unless there is a specific class for it E.g Thunderhawk pilot
I wouldn't like to see marines running around in full pre-heresy mark armour. 10K year is nothing to sneeze at, even produced in great numbers there could not much full suits left. HH armour must be among the top rewards for loyalists available as armour parts only. As for traitors legions it's hard to distinguish a proportion, but all pieces of original HH armour should be transformed or heavily decorated for the ears of usage. And yeah, such cosmetics in the cash/micro-transaction shop is a gold mine.
On page 2 0f this discussion I posted a couple of links to some HH terminators, even a couple of Dreadnoughts.
MKVII was deployed post heresy after the codex foundings I believe. It may have been developed during the battles in the Sol System though.
According to the Lex, which cites WD129, VII was developed essentially at the end of the Heresy. Like, very end, final moments.
Yeah, So only the loyalists would have it apart from scavenged bits and pieces for the Chaos Legions.
yes, chaos space marine are almost all equipped with mk V (heresy pattern) and older mk. also space marine who become traitor after the heresy.