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I'm playing around with the idea of merging multiple world war themed armies together on the same planet in Warhammer 40K, this would mean they would have to be on the same planet together and there would have to be a good reason for them to fight against each other right? So I thought I'd ask you guys for some ideas...

I'd prefer to keep certain themes out of it like Nazis, also I'm not a big fan of the Imperium's anti alien rule either so they aren't much better. I want to focus on what made each army unique but I still want to put the main forces on opposite sides of the table such as the Germans and Russians without anything obvious linking them to their inspiration like flags.

War would have to be everywhere on this planet for civilians to be involved and forced to pick a side so it makes sense that it would have once been a busy world but something would have gone wrong to force these 2 (or more) sides to start fighting each other and totally destroying the worlds economy, any ideas?

So far all I got planned is the Death Korps of Krieg mixed with the Steel Legion which seem to be a lot like the Germans, the Valhallan Ice Guards obviously similar to the Russian troops in world war 2, would also put the Vostroyan Firstborns inside this army, and some Salamander space marines there to help out the civilians. Anyway let me know what you can think of!

Ok as I see it it could go like this

Axis

Death Korp>>Germans
Cadian>>Italian

Allies
Vahallans>>Russians
Vostroyans>>Steppes Russians i.e Kazakstani's or Mongul decended Russians if mounted they could be Cossacks
Catachans>>America
Praetorians>>Britain


As for Space Marines wouldnt fit the theme they have no precident in World War 2 maybe they could turn up later in the war as could CSM on the Axis side being that the "Nazi's" were obsessed with the occult Daemons etc etc.Nothing wrong with having Nazi themes as long as you dont go playing Scenarios like "Gas the civilans" or "lets have a firing squad" remember it was the regime that was negative not the everyday Wermacht infantryman.