>>11658186My understanding is they're walking back the scale creep from the SM2 stuff due to feedback and are going to be doing everything at the "2.0 body" size going forwards. I think they made the SM2 stuff so big because the Marine models in the game are much larger compared to regular humans than previous depictions, and MUCH larger than how they scale on the tabletop (what JT was going by before) but most people hated it.
The other big instance of scale creep was when the released the Terminators based on the older models first, then a few months later the bigger Termie models (which were obnoxiously large even compared to other Marines) were released and JT made bigger toys based on those.
It is infuriating, though I will say scale in 40K full stop has been absolutely fucked since time immemorial and I think part of the scale flip-flopping is down to trying to please everyone- some people love Marines being fuckhueg whereas other people prefer them as big but not THAT big; I think they were originally supposed to be 7ft on average in universe. Myself I prefer the original releases sizewise, and I'm glad they backtracked on the scale creep. That said, it's been limited to Marines; the non-Marine releases have stayed consistently sized.
Also as a (slight) cope Marins are not supposed to be all the same size in universe either. Some are gigantic even by their standards (Abaddon was noted as being HUGE even before the Heresy broke out) whilst others are abnormally short; I seem to recall there's at least one character in one of the novels who could pass as an extremely swole mortal.
