Zergs,Predators and Starship Troopers...

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**Commissar Agro**

when i first played starcraft and saw the zerg i said they look like those aliens from alien.
i reckon a non imperium, chaos human group would be cool, a borg like team might be cool or a full on pyschic team or maybe a something like cylons from battlestar obut arnt necrons a bit like that

**LunaHound**

Squat only appears to have "fit in" in the past when the rest of the other army design have equal ridiculous look as well.

But as they all evolved and look decent now , how do you make space dwarves look cool? You cant!

Squat will never return , at very best they'll find a unit spot like Rattlings have .

**Commissar Agro**

another cool army would be something like the replicators from stargate or daleks

**cadbren**

GrrBear wrote:Isn't the last two the C-tan, and adeptus mechanicus kinda fit one of the first ones on that list. as for the indestructable undead that would be thousand sons.

Thousand Sons have to have their armour broken open, not some controller hiding in the background killed.

By shape shifter I was thinking more along the lines of the liquid people (like Odo) from Star Trek and the terminator from the second film.

Mechanicus have their augmentations and their servitors but they're religious and don't care so much for the flesh world. The Borg (and also the Cybermen) want to convert everyone into them. Androids are robots with flesh on them and I suppose they are covered somewhat by the necrons, but actual androids which existed during the Dark Age of Technology could be interesting.

**Cheese Elemental**

number9dream wrote:
ph34r wrote:The old ravenors were snake things that did not fit in with the Xenomorph-Queen-Head look that the new hive tyrant, warrior, zoanthrope, etc. used. The new version just updated the model to fit in with all the other models. It just so happens that it looks sorta like a hydralisk.
A. It's not like they changed it just to copy the hydralisk. They changed it to fit in with the rest of the tyranids.
B. This is basically the only place where one could *argue* that GW "copied" something that blizzard did. It is a very flimsy point to use to try to argue that GW copied blizzard.
C. Blizzard blatantly copied GW a lot more than you could even begin to argue vice versa.

"Also, im not talking about who thought about giant space bugs first. Im talking about and have been talking about
copying other's design. "
Right, it doesn't really matter who thought of them first. What you are trying to say is that GW copied Blizzard. What I am saying is that you are wrong: the exact opposite happened. You say that GW copied Giger and Blizzard. GW obviously copied Giger. GW did not copy Blizzard. Blizzard did copy GW.

I wouldn't dream of suggesting that GW has copied more of Blizzard than vice versa, but I think a case can be made for the Tau..

Just like the Protoss, they are blue. ()
Just like the Protoss, they had a civil war with different castes (iirc they were castes.. maybe tribes - long time since I read the SC manual ).
Just like the Protoss, they had a sped up evolution (only implied in the case of the Tau, while directly part of their history for the Protoss - by the Xel'Naga.. which are basically the SC version of the "Old Ones").
The whole Greater Good thing is somewhat similiar to the "Path of the Khala", as both philosophies were taken up to end the in-fighting.

Anyway, the Protoss certainly borrows quite a bit from other Sci-Fi races such as the Eldar or the Predators, but still - they are fairly similiar to the Tau.

No they bloody well aren't. The Protoss are Eldar-ish in their background, technology, and attitude towards the other races. The Tau are Communist anime fan robot-suit wearing Asians in space.

You can't draw similarities between the two. Blizzard has been, and always will be, a bunch of unoriginal, parasitic idiots who couldn't think of an original idea if it tried to throw itself down their collective throat.

**chromedog**

Cheese Elemental wrote: Blizzard has been, and always will be, a bunch of unoriginal, parasitic idiots who couldn't think of an original idea if it tried to throw itself down their collective throat.

As opposed to GW and 40k which is merely a pastiche of all of the classic SF tropes put into a blender and set on 'grimdark' for a minute or so.

GW 'borrowed' a crapload from Starship Troopers, Dune, Foundation, Deathworld, and a score of other sources. To accuse ONLY Blizzard of being unoriginal in this regard smacks of one-eyed-fanboyitis.

**Perturabo's Chosen**

Demiurg; forgeworld made a few starships for that race for battle fleet Gothic.

**Cheese Elemental**

Chromedog, while GW and 40k 'borrow' a lot from other sci-fi and fantasy universes, Blizzard blatantly rips them off.

**Carlovonsexron**

I want to see the Interex/Interrex civlization fleshed out- an Indipendent Human realm that was never reabosrbed by the Imperium due to the Horus herasy breaking out. At least some of its troops were used Centaur looking power armor, and it was actually accepting of Xenos...

Yeah, I'd like to see them created- could be like a mish mash of SM and IG along with some tau inspired flavor...

**cadbren**

Weren't the Interex trading with the eldar? I think it's mentioned in passing in 'Fulgrim' that the Interex was destroyed but something like their civ would be different. You'd be able to field space marine models though they wouldn't have as good stats as the real deal.

**Huffy**

MOBILE INFANTRY!!!,
really a basic soldier who has h-bombs and can take on a whole armored division- they'd be like 250 points a model

**Huffy**

I'm referring to the novel just so everyone's clear on that

**cadbren**

Huffy wrote:I'm referring to the novel just so everyone's clear on that

There are Starship Troopers models out there. They're slighter larger than 40K models but not by much. They're based on the computer animated tv series which is closer to the book though they also have light infantry figures which are equipped like the soldiers in the movie.