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Has anyone noticed that the armour in starship troopers looks like the cadian armour of the imperial guard, just its black and nay blue with the symbol (cant spell sorry) filed off?

I'd say it looks more like the older version of Cadians, but there is a similiarity.

They sure die just as fast.

oh yeah...true, but still, so many similarities :L


HELL yeah they do! remember in the first movie, what was it, 100000 killed in the first hour or day or whatever it was

I think the armor they used in starship troopers has been some of the most widely used in all of scifi movie history. You can see it everywhere these days.

It was also used for the Soldiers in Firefly (the ones that won the war) - "the train job".

Props are often hired out to other mobs (unless they are LFL property - GL would rather destroy them than have them used by anyone else - and their storage system leaves much to be desired.)

Portaljacker wrote:They sure die just as fast.

If you gave every second IG squad a nuke that fact would change quicker than Optimus Prime does into a truck.

AD YEAH wrote:HELL yeah they do! remember in the first movie, what was it, 100000 killed in the first hour or day or whatever it was

Hah! Guardsmen take more casualties than that escorting sharpened carrots to the Sunday Market!

oh how that is soooo true about them

It's funny, GW basically stole the concept of power armor from the Starship Troopers book, where mobile infantry were actually an elite unit with power armor and jump packs. Starship Troopers was also the first appearance of hive mind bug aliens, so GW stole that too. And they get excited about people infringing on their IP?
Then you had the movies made and they exchanged Space Marines for Imperial Guard
-Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers in 1959 btw

yeah true that
Yeah then the Nids came along...to be honest...Nids dont seem like a rue alien race, well they are, but i mean their based on starship troopers and like they are so strange and mongulated.
i know right!
what do you mean exchanged space marines for imperial guard?

In the books, Starship Troopers were more like Space Marines - Heavily armored, elite troopers capable of taking down bugs like...well, Space Marines.

In the movie, they seem more human - crappy armor, guns that makes noise and not much else, and very vulnerable to bugs. Kinda like...Guardsmen, maybe?

EDIT: Not trying to be nasty or rude. Kinda sounded like it.

Oh riight i know what you mean (: there is this starship troopers series that i have on DVD its called Roughnecks, its kind of humans in halo battle suits :L and their green? so maybe i know what you are talking about ;P

yeah i know what you mean...SLAUGHTER HOUSE :L
yeah no worries man.

TheRedArmy wrote:In the books, Starship Troopers were more like Space Marines - Heavily armored, elite troopers capable of taking down bugs like...well, Space Marines.

In the movie, they seem more human - crappy armor, guns that makes noise and not much else, and very vulnerable to bugs. Kinda like...Guardsmen, maybe?

EDIT: Not trying to be nasty or rude. Kinda sounded like it.

Indeed. I enjoyed the film, it was a great bit of light entertainment, but in light of the book some would say its one of the biggest missed opportunities in modern movie making history.

I would love to see what they could have done with it post-transformers.

I think I saw a Tau symbol (circle with a couple lines) on the "Pillar of Autumn" in the first Halo game. It's on the side near the front. You see it in the beginning I believe, but for sure at the end.

Hmmm ...

Sexbobomb wrote:
I think I saw a Tau symbol (circle with a couple lines) on the "Pillar of Autumn" in the first Halo game. It's on the side near the front. You see it in the beginning I believe, but for sure at the end.

That's the Marathon symbol (an old Bungie game for Macs), but it is almost exactly the same as the Tau symbol.

AD YEAH wrote:Oh riight i know what you mean (: there is this starship troopers series that i have on DVD its called Roughnecks, its kind of humans in halo battle suits :L and their green? so maybe i know what you are talking about ;P

yeah i know what you mean...SLAUGHTER HOUSE :L
yeah no worries man.

I beleive the animated series is closer to the books than the movies. But the movies get +1 attack for disposing of characters whenever it damn well likes.

Emperors Faithful wrote:

AD YEAH wrote:Oh riight i know what you mean (: there is this starship troopers series that i have on DVD its called Roughnecks, its kind of humans in halo battle suits :L and their green? so maybe i know what you are talking about ;P

yeah i know what you mean...SLAUGHTER HOUSE :L
yeah no worries man.

I beleive the animated series is closer to the books than the movies. But the movies get +1 attack for disposing of characters whenever it damn well likes.

And i believe it uses said attack ON the characters. in the form of dismemberment usually.

I remember Roughnecks... It was on Teletoon when I was a kid. fething awesome show.

yes it was a heaps good show, i remember always watching it...then i watched it the other day and realized how bad the graphics were