Movies that totally represent your 40k army

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**Color Sgt. Kell**

Name a movie that represents the look or feel of your army or race. For mine I'll go with Starship Troopers because I play Imperial Guard, wheras orks might go for mad max, and so on-

**-Loki-**

Ironically, Starship Troopers. Tyranids.

**Color Sgt. Kell**

-Loki- wrote:
Ironically, Starship Troopers. Tyranids.

Yeah the bugs from starship troopers were pretty cool, but nowhere near as cool as the tyranids. I think its the lack of faces

**Soo'Vah'Cha**

starship troopers..ugh, what a waste of a awesome book, I had such hopes for it , when I read it was being made, well here's hoping for the reboot to be much..much more like the book.

I don't really have a movie that represents any specific army, but I do have some I watch while painting to sorta give inspiration, Alien, Aliens, Avatar, blade runner, but unfortunately there are not a lot of good sci-fi war movies, so usually it ww2 war movies as well, Kelly's heros, band of brothers, blue max, patton.

If they get the New starship troopers right it could be the best sci-fi war flick.

**Coolyo294**

The Ultramarines movie because:
1. I play Ultramarines
2. My army plays much the same way the squad in the movie does, namely wandering around like idiots getting one-shotted by Chaos Marines

**Ailaros**

My guard army - Talvisota:

Not so much for the winter theme, so much as the "Wait, THOSE guys won that war?" thing.

**Super Ready**

My Blood Angels in particular - The Last Samurai.
Honourable, misunderstood by outsiders (no we DON'T sparklefeth you very much) and, what with the release of 6th, slowly being left behind as the rest of the world progresses. :p

**Dracoknight**

Aliens, Starship Troopers, anything that have to do with bugs.

yeah, Tyranids!

**motyak**

Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
starship troopers..ugh, what a waste of a awesome book, I had such hopes for it , when I read it was being made, well here's hoping for the reboot to be much..much more like the book.

This is the most important point made so far...there is a reboot coming? If it follows the book...ooooh I shouldn't get my hopes up

**dreamakuma**

my orks are a cross between the expendables movies and El Superbeasto

**HidaSeku**

My Space Wolves are like the movie The Expendables, with the nonchalant, joking atmosphere combined with very thick plot armour.

My Imperial Guard are like the movie Predator. Oh, so you took out my vehicle (helicopter)? wiped out the first squad (Green Berets)? and now have my last squad down to one guy left (Arnold)? Sure you made all those saves against the heavy weapons of the squad (minigun/m60/m79/etc) but now in close combat against the last guy left? What can possibly go wrong?

**Rustgob**

Ailaros wrote:
My guard army - Talvisota:

Not so much for the winter theme, so much as the "Wait, THOSE guys won that war?" thing.

Talvisota really showed that tactical use of forces and training overwhelms the conscript surge!

The winter war was incredible, nevertheless the Finns really lost in the end.

**Flinty**

Kelly's Heroes. I like to play loud music when gaming... It kinda calms me down. The positive vibes are always useful as well! Its particularly relevant when playing The Relic

**Ravenous D**

This is what Tyranid armies should look like.

**nove1485**

Just about any movie about the USMC. Always think that a rhino charge looks a lot like a beach assoult.

**Lord Castellan**

**Vortrey**

I've always envisioned the medics to be the heroes of my Guard. Brings a whole new meaning to FNP.

**TanKoL**

My Guards must feel like the GIs in Hamburger Hill when I order them to advance across open terrain to take a trench in the hands of Berzerks / genestealers / Ork Nobz / ...

**Amaraxis**

I would have to say that Groove most represents my Tau....since I am doing raver-Tau

**Agent_Tremolo**

Obvious influence for my Ork Speed Freaks is obvious

**captain collius**

My Deathwing- Ironclad

**AnomanderRake**

Funnily enough, Firefly/Serenity (some would also say Battlestar Galactica here but I haven't watched the new one much) for my Eldar; they're a relatively small group of ships with no home left, trying to survive in a hostile universe while balancing on the edge of destruction. Also the presence of psychic space ninjas, but they're usually more stable than River.

Are we allowed books here? Because my airborne Guard and their allied Grey Knights are intentionally based on the Seanchan Fists of Heaven and the Deathwatch Guard (no relation to the Order Militant of the Ordo Xenos here) from the Wheel of Time.

**Samurai_Eduh**

Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
starship troopers..ugh, what a waste of a awesome book, I had such hopes for it , when I read it was being made, well here's hoping for the reboot to be much..much more like the book.

I don't really have a movie that represents any specific army, but I do have some I watch while painting to sorta give inspiration, Alien, Aliens, Avatar, blade runner, but unfortunately there are not a lot of good sci-fi war movies, so usually it ww2 war movies as well, Kelly's heros, band of brothers, blue max, patton.

If they get the New starship troopers right it could be the best sci-fi war flick.

Would it? Didn't most of the book except for the opening chapter take place:

a) At boot camp
b) In an OCS classroom

**theninjabadger**

13 Assasins for my Eldar, namely agaist horde armys some elites holding off huge hordes

**XT-1984**

My Nurgle Daemons:

**Sparks_Havelock**

All's Quiet on the Western Front I think would be the closest, both the 1930 & 1979 versions.

**Valhallan42nd**

I play Valhallans, so...

Enemy at the Gates.

**Makarov**

Vortrey wrote:

I've always envisioned the medics to be the heroes of my Guard. Brings a whole new meaning to FNP.

That or this

**Color Sgt. Kell**

I just thinking, is there any movies that accurately represent 40k space marines? (besides ultramarines) It doesn't seem like it. Most of the space marines in movies are more like imperial guard (no power armor suits). I guess thats what makes gw space marines different though

**GreySkull**

I want to play Space Hulk SO BAD! It reminds me of "Aliens"