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I always thought Chaos were popular, perhaps they are not so much in recent years.

Space marines practically *are* the game. You can't get away from that, they are the most iconic thing about 40K and have been on every edition of the game. They tick all the fanboy boxes of looking cool and being hard as nails (not a bad thing). Furthermore they are an easy army to collect and play with and have enough variation through their various chapters to be any colour scheme you want.

Gwar! wrote:

Agamemnon2 wrote:Just to elaborate, the Starship Troopers in the original Heinlein novel actually wear powered armor and have nothing at all to do with the unarmored GIs seen in the atrocious movie (indeed, that film started life as a completely unrelated SF movie that was shoehorned into the SST license).

Who currently owns the licence? Is it still feasible to make a DECENT movie?

If the film was made like the book it would be like a series of public lectures. The film we have is more like a piss-take of the book's themes, with exaggerated elements of fascism laid out to appear somewhat ludicrous. It's more critical of the book's themes than being a platform on which to discuss and argue them. Then the film has a lot more shooting and bugs eating people because that's what the audiance wants. It's really not that bad at all for a film.