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Who wil win this awsome war.

Well, since SC2 came out I haven't picked up a brush or bottle of glue. Still playing 40K though.

Falling Airborne wrote:Well, since SC2 came out I haven't picked up a brush or bottle of glue. Still playing 40K though.

Me too , I'm a tradior .

What are the parameters of the comparison? Universe vs universe, fandom vs fandom, etc.

The Dizzler wrote:What are the parameters of the comparison? Universe vs universe, fandom vs fandom, etc.

It's both becase it's so epic.

I'm actually, for the lolz, making a Terran codex.
We shall then see who wins!

I have always enjoyed the starcraft games as well as the current one but I always felt like starcraft ripped alot from 40k Since the 3 races in startcraft feel an awful lot like there counter parts of 40k. Not to say that 40k was the first to have the idea for said races its just how I have always felt.

A Matter of Pride wrote:I have always enjoyed the starcraft games as well as the current one but I always felt like starcraft ripped alot from 40k Since the 3 races in startcraft feel an awful lot like there counter parts of 40k. Not to say that 40k was the first to have the idea for said races its just how I have always felt.

Well, they did.

Yeah, and then star ship troopers came even before that.

Ain't no war. Starcraft is petty in scale compared to 40k.

JSK-Fox wrote:I'm actually, for the lolz, making a Terran codex.
We shall then see who wins!

Me like to see that .

In a case of universe vs universe, StarCraft would be steamrolled by any major faction in short order. They're simply too small in scope to be a significant threat.

Unless the Koreans were microing the SC troops, they'd still lose in the end but have like a 100-1 Kill: Death ratio per terran marine

Though I think the Koreans could maybe beat Tau at least

A Matter of Pride wrote:I have always enjoyed the starcraft games as well as the current one but I always felt like starcraft ripped alot from 40k Since the 3 races in startcraft feel an awful lot like there counter parts of 40k. Not to say that 40k was the first to have the idea for said races its just how I have always felt.

That's because it was being developed as a 40K RTS before GW freaked out and yanked the license from Blizzard.

If it was universe vs universe 40k wouldn't know which way they would completely crush starcraft. They could send unlimited mounts of orks forward in a Green Tide steam roller, send chaos deamons in and turn it all into chaos, send in space marines to purge them all, etc... The list goes on

xxmatt85 wrote:

JSK-Fox wrote:I'm actually, for the lolz, making a Terran codex.
We shall then see who wins!

Me like to see that .

I haven't played Starcraft much but I recall that a single Terran Marine loses against a single Zergling, which are basically like Hormagaunts. what kind of stats could you possibly give them? or are Terrans stronger in StarCraft 2?

Are Warhammer players actually getting some e-peen enlargement by comparing how powerful the units are in 40k vs Starcraft?

Completely different story line and universe , sort of pointless to compare which is "stronger".

They are both cool in their own ways no?

Well a space marine would beat a terran marine IMO for the simple fact that a terran is a man in armour, a space marine is a superhuman in armour. Ignoring that, boltguns kick the ass of whatever the terrans use. And fluff wise, a terran marine would slaughter a nurgli...zurgling*

well, I'm just saying that one Terran Marine can't kill one bug in a 1v1 fight, when they have a machine gun and powered armour. no matter what universe you're in that equates to weak soldiers... unless you class the Aliens from the Alien movies as bugs, though you're sig seems to suggest Yotsuba can beat 'em

I play starcraft a lot. A terran marine is equipt with a gauss rifle, AND it can kill a ling 1v1.

Traditionally the balance in Star Craft is 1 Zealot = 2 Marines = 4 Zerglings.

if you say so, I barely got through the game, like, 4th mission or something, I just remember during the tutorial I threw a Terran Marine at a Zergling and he died, leaving his foe with the smallest amount of health. if those Tutorial enemies had upgrades or something then it would explain things, do the Zerg even have upgrades? also you're the first person who actually contested my claim of a Terrans weakness, are you positive they aren't just evenly matched? I have this guide here (from a StarCraft Battle Chest) that says the Terrans have more Health, Damage and Range, but it seems the Zerglings attack incredibly quickly.

one last thing, just to clarify, I'm talking about the original StarCraft

Catyrpelius wrote:Traditionally the balance in Star Craft is 1 Zealot = 2 Marines = 4 Zerglings.

well, that's the cost of the units at least

Are Warhammer players actually getting some e-peen enlargement by comparing how powerful the units are in 40k vs Starcraft?

Completely different story line and universe , sort of pointless to compare which is "stronger".

Hmmm? Same reason the Star Wars/Trek comparison threads took off so well too.

Its fun to do, gets peole thinking outside the box and allows for interesting arguments/debate.

On the other hand, Starcraft would be able to overwhelm any local force. It takes five minutes to establish a base, and ten to expand- while it takes a single load of reinforcements months to cross the warp to the battlezone. Pumping out two marines a minute means that they could be even more numerous than guardsmen when it all went down.

Cloaking too, might dramatically change the nature of the battle. As far as I know, there are no cloakable units in WH40K, other than the Grey Knights Shrouding ability. A single squad of cloaked banshees could take apart a marine force in short order.

Long term, I agree that 40k would win- there are just too many of them. I think it much more likely that it will become a Damocles Gulf style stalemate.

The really big question is- Will the Overminds hate each other? Or join in the single largest psychic mating ritual of all time?

Do you know how threads like this normally end?

Ohhh Ohhh...is the answer locked?

Usually

LunaHound wrote:Completely different story line and universe , sort of pointless to compare which is "stronger".

They are both cool in their own ways no?

^This

Jaon wrote:Well a space marine would beat a terran marine IMO for the simple fact that a terran is a man in armour, a space marine is a superhuman in armour. Ignoring that, boltguns kick the ass of whatever the terrans use. And fluff wise, a terran marine would slaughter a nurgli...zurgling*

After seeing some of the end cut-scenes in SC2, it is revealed that C-14 Gauss Rifles are actually fully automatic .50 Cal's with something like 200 rounds each magazine... (Bolded for what I'm responding to )

Shellshock41 wrote:

LunaHound wrote:Completely different story line and universe , sort of pointless to compare which is "stronger".

They are both cool in their own ways no?

^This

Jaon wrote:Well a space marine would beat a terran marine IMO for the simple fact that a terran is a man in armour, a space marine is a superhuman in armour. Ignoring that, boltguns kick the ass of whatever the terrans use. And fluff wise, a terran marine would slaughter a nurgli...zurgling*

After seeing some of the end cut-scenes in SC2, it is revealed that C-14 Gauss Rifles are actually fully automatic .50 Cal's with something like 200 rounds each magazine... (Bolded for what I'm responding to )

^ The ???

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

Shellshock41 wrote:

LunaHound wrote:Completely different story line and universe , sort of pointless to compare which is "stronger".

They are both cool in their own ways no?

^This

Jaon wrote:Well a space marine would beat a terran marine IMO for the simple fact that a terran is a man in armour, a space marine is a superhuman in armour. Ignoring that, boltguns kick the ass of whatever the terrans use. And fluff wise, a terran marine would slaughter a nurgli...zurgling*

After seeing some of the end cut-scenes in SC2, it is revealed that C-14 Gauss Rifles are actually fully automatic .50 Cal's with something like 200 rounds each magazine... (Bolded for what I'm responding to )

^ The ???

If you have the game: play this cutscene on a lower setting that takes out the shadows, lighting, and shaders. On the spent casing near the hand of the dead Marine it says ".50 Auto"

Cutscene with Spent Shell (Warning: possible spoilers)

As far as the 200 shots, I'm going off of the Brood War intro cutscene