User blog comment:40kfan/Centurions: Your Thoughts?/@comment-8395098-20131218223254

...well 1) Matt Ward did write them,

2) notice the similarity to that thing Matt Ward gave the grey knights

3) Matt Ward is a mecha/war-anime fan more than he is a 40K fan

4) HA space marines already were obsolite, it's called a Tank and it cares not how shiney your power sword is it's treds will still crush you

5) why would they make something that fills a roll they already filled...simple cuz they wrote themselves into a corner they said  "Terminator armor has a peice of the emperor's armor in it's shoulder, is difficult if not impossible to reporduce (<WTF they still produce even more complex shit) and that there are not that many suits per chapter" now these things they can have one for every damn marine in the chapter and they can even have one for every guardsman in a regiment cuz fuck it we're humanity and we can suddenly spam suits of armor like the nids spam gaunts.

in sumery this is GW favertism as the SM sell their video games (that's right folks) while every other faction in the lore sells the books, makes the long term fans, and all the things GW's current management doesn't care about