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Henners91 wrote:

Klawjaw wrote:

-Catachans: Americans from Vietnam war.

The catachans win wars.

I lol'd.

But what's with the hostility toward our American cousins, eh? ;P


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Klawz wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:ugh, The Eldar are Chinese.

I didn't know Monty Python were racists o.O

They were racists FOR FUN.

I don't see where you think that Britian has won. After all according to all of the fluff I've read I've never seen a referance to a "Lory" but I have seen truck written a few times. I've never seen "boot" refer to anything except the things that cover your feet. There is only a small amount of swearing when even the grunts talk to eachother. They don't whine about not having tea in their field rations. The militarisitic zeal of the IG and the SM's is more inline, in my opinion, with the American mid-west then any place in England that I have heard of.

In Englands defence however I will say that they have given birth to some amazing things the first and best of which is of course America. They also invented the English language however, for some reason they refuse to speak it correctly. They invented the lager, even though they serve it wrong they still get credit. The Greeks invented boxing, the English made it into a game, America made it into a sport.

Oh, and according to GW and 40k, the year 2012 wasn't the end of the world!

KamikazeCanuck wrote:I'm going by Dawn of War were they are super-british.
So british that it took my hours to figure out "tankdaemprah" was "Thank the Emperor" in English. (British and English are different languages apparently).

Actually, british has no accent. There's the welsh accent, scottish, irish (northern ireland is part of britain too), that posh queen accent, liverpuddlian accent, yorkshire accent, budgey accent, cockney accent, basicly loads of accents in britain. And in britain scottish, most welsh, irish and english speak english, while %5 of welsh speak welsh. Anyway,

Valhallans: Soviet Russia red army, since they wear cold war stuff and use shear numbers
Vostroyans: Different sort of Russian army
Catacachans: American 'nam guerilla soldiers
Cadians: Any modern army, probably british judging by DoW accent+they say arse, got Usarkston Creedchill, plus they're crack shots (which the British army is, were not crap, ever heard of the Royal Navy? SAS? Ring any bells?)
Comissars: Soviet Russia. Who else executes their own men in spades? (In soviet russia, lasgun shoots YOU!)
Tallarn: Middle East
Tanith: Scottish
DKoK:WWI Germans
Preatorians: British Redcoats
Mordians: Not sure, probably nazis
Armaggedon: Those Nazis who worked at concentration camps (coz the gas mask is like what they used when they gassed the showers)
Attilan: Mongolians
Elysians: Not really any modern force, maybe a bit like any Western parachuters

And PLEASE, stop all the americans saying we drive on the wrong side! Your the ones who changed it when you declared independance from us, so we have more right to say who drives on the wrong side! (Just like you spell honour and armour and favour incorrectly, seeing as we INVENTED that language)


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Snowman90 wrote:Oh, and according to GW and 40k, the year 2012 wasn't the end of the world!

WHY IS EVERYONE AFRAID OF THAT?!

JUST BECAUSE THE INCAS MADE 10,000,000 PROFICIES AND 3 OF THEM CAME TRUE DOESN'T MEAN THIS ONE IS TRUE!!!!!!!


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ComputerGeek01 wrote:I don't see where you think that Britian has won. After all according to all of the fluff I've read I've never seen a referance to a "Lory" but I have seen truck written a few times. I've never seen "boot" refer to anything except the things that cover your feet. There is only a small amount of swearing when even the grunts talk to eachother. They don't whine about not having tea in their field rations. The militarisitic zeal of the IG and the SM's is more inline, in my opinion, with the American mid-west then any place in England that I have heard of.

In Englands defence however I will say that they have given birth to some amazing things the first and best of which is of course America. They also invented the English language however, for some reason they refuse to speak it correctly. They invented the lager, even though they serve it wrong they still get credit. The Greeks invented boxing, the English made it into a game, America made it into a sport.

You just used a stereotype that every brit hates.
I HATE TEA AND NOBODY I KNOW DRINKS IT!!!!
Plus, actually you refuse to speak it correctly. We speak English how it was made to be spoken, and the USA speak it differently. GET OVER IT. Plus, when you said about good inventions, you forgot to mention the car, the train, the lightbulb (Tom Eddison copied Joseph Swan's design and lost the lawsuit. Lasy fer) and the internet. And Australia. Yes, I think that was a good idea. Also, only 4 year olds say the word lorry. Plus all the best singers are British, we have the unique ability to make fun of ourselves, are women are smart and hardworking as well as good-looking without being made of plastic. And we don't blow up are own troops in combat. And beer wasnt a good invention, you know. Especially american beer. That stuff is horrible. Oh, by the way, I'm unique. An Englishman who praises his own country. USA is a great country too, by the way. (note how I said USA. NOT America. America is a continent, USA is a country)

in all fairness we invented the Automobile, so we get to say what side you should drive on

Grey Templar wrote:in all fairness we invented the Automobile, so we get to say what side you should drive on

Yeah, but the carts from England drove on the right side before America was colonised.
Anyway, who the hell gives a damn?


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You know, this thread is turning into a battleground to decide whether the British do it correctly or the Americans do it correctly.

felixthecat345 wrote:

KamikazeCanuck wrote:I'm going by Dawn of War were they are super-british.
So british that it took my hours to figure out "tankdaemprah" was "Thank the Emperor" in English. (British and English are different languages apparently).

Actually, british has no accent. There's the welsh accent, scottish, irish (northern ireland is part of britain too), that posh queen accent, liverpuddlian accent, yorkshire accent, budgey accent, cockney accent, basicly loads of accents in britain. And in britain scottish, most welsh, irish and english speak english, while %5 of welsh speak welsh. Anyway,

Valhallans: Soviet Russia red army, since they wear cold war stuff and use shear numbers
Vostroyans: Different sort of Russian army
Catacachans: American 'nam guerilla soldiers
Cadians: Any modern army, probably british judging by DoW accent+they say arse, got Usarkston Creedchill, plus they're crack shots (which the British army is, were not crap, ever heard of the Royal Navy? SAS? Ring any bells?)
Comissars: Soviet Russia. Who else executes their own men in spades? (In soviet russia, lasgun shoots YOU!)
Tallarn: Middle East
Tanith: Scottish
DKoK:WWI Germans
Preatorians: British Redcoats
Mordians: Not sure, probably nazis
Armaggedon: Those Nazis who worked at concentration camps (coz the gas mask is like what they used when they gassed the showers)
Attilan: Mongolians
Elysians: Not really any modern force, maybe a bit like any Western parachuters

And PLEASE, stop all the americans saying we drive on the wrong side! Your the ones who changed it when you declared independance from us, so we have more right to say who drives on the wrong side! (Just like you spell honour and armour and favour incorrectly, seeing as we INVENTED that language)


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Snowman90 wrote:Oh, and according to GW and 40k, the year 2012 wasn't the end of the world!

WHY IS EVERYONE AFRAID OF THAT?!

JUST BECAUSE THE INCAS MADE 10,000,000 PROFICIES AND 3 OF THEM CAME TRUE DOESN'T MEAN THIS ONE IS TRUE!!!!!!!


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ComputerGeek01 wrote:I don't see where you think that Britian has won. After all according to all of the fluff I've read I've never seen a referance to a "Lory" but I have seen truck written a few times. I've never seen "boot" refer to anything except the things that cover your feet. There is only a small amount of swearing when even the grunts talk to eachother. They don't whine about not having tea in their field rations. The militarisitic zeal of the IG and the SM's is more inline, in my opinion, with the American mid-west then any place in England that I have heard of.

In Englands defence however I will say that they have given birth to some amazing things the first and best of which is of course America. They also invented the English language however, for some reason they refuse to speak it correctly. They invented the lager, even though they serve it wrong they still get credit. The Greeks invented boxing, the English made it into a game, America made it into a sport.

You just used a stereotype that every brit hates.
I HATE TEA AND NOBODY I KNOW DRINKS IT!!!!
Plus, actually you refuse to speak it correctly. We speak English how it was made to be spoken, and the USA speak it differently. GET OVER IT. Plus, when you said about good inventions, you forgot to mention the car, the train, the lightbulb (Tom Eddison copied Joseph Swan's design and lost the lawsuit. Lasy fer) and the internet. And Australia. Yes, I think that was a good idea. Also, only 4 year olds say the word lorry. Plus all the best singers are British, we have the unique ability to make fun of ourselves, are women are smart and hardworking as well as good-looking without being made of plastic. And we don't blow up are own troops in combat. And beer wasnt a good invention, you know. Especially american beer. That stuff is horrible. Oh, by the way, I'm unique. An Englishman who praises his own country. USA is a great country too, by the way. (note how I said USA. NOT America. America is a continent, USA is a country)

In my opinion, Americans don't speak English. We speak American. When i say that, everyone thinks I'm joking. I'm not. We don't speak english, we speak an American version of English. Thus I named it "American." That's just my view on it though.

felixthecat345 wrote:
Mordians: Not sure, probably nazis
Armaggedon: Those Nazis who worked at concentration camps (coz the gas mask is like what they used when they gassed the showers)

Get over this obsession with nazis.

felixthecat345 wrote:
And PLEASE, stop all the americans saying we drive on the wrong side!

Would it change if we, the continental europeans tell you: stop driving on the wrong side!
Would it?
Cause your really driving on the wrong side.....

felixthecat345 wrote:
when you said about good inventions, you forgot to mention the car, the train,....

Ok train, but CAR?
Keep on dreaming.
Driving on the wrong side and claiming others ideas.

felixthecat345 wrote:
Plus all the best singers are British, our women are smart and hardworking as well as good-looking without being made of plastic.

1) examples. 2) maybe no more funny looking pills 3)

felixthecat345 wrote: And beer wasnt a good invention, you know. Especially american beer. That stuff is horrible.

Egyptians had beer several thousands of years BC....
Plus everyone knows real beer can't be found on that foggy island north of us.

Klawjaw wrote:...the guards accents and speech are not only there because its sexy, but also to give an impression of the cultural divide between them (high and low gothic) and you cant do this with america because its a cultural wasteland.
If you had to fit the americans in theyd probably be the ultramarines..their not manly enough to be guardsmen.

I object, your honor.
We do have a culture, with such amazing things as beer, baseball, football (AKA Rugby with sissy pads), deep-fried anything, and butchery of the English language. We look to the rest of the world how Texas looks to us (Whether that's a positive thing... I can't really say.)

Henners91 wrote:But what's with the hostility toward our American cousins, eh? ;P

Jealousy.

felixthecat345 wrote:Actually, british has no accent. There's the welsh accent, scottish, irish (northern ireland is part of britain too), that posh queen accent, liverpuddlian accent, yorkshire accent, budgey accent, cockney accent, basicly loads of accents in britain. And in britain scottish, most welsh, irish and english speak english, while %5 of welsh speak welsh.

Yeah, but to us many of those sound the same. Hell, I only know Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cockney, and Royal (Which is more than many people in the USA can say). It's probably the opposite way over there.

felixthecat345 wrote:Armaggedon: Those Nazis who worked at concentration camps (coz the gas mask is like what they used when they gassed the showers)

Those gasmasks were also used on the battlefield. The Steel Legion does look a bit like the Nazis with the whole mechanized army thing, though.

felixthecat345 wrote:WHY IS EVERYONE AFRAID OF THAT?!

JUST BECAUSE THE INCAS MADE 10,000,000 PROFICIES AND 3 OF THEM CAME TRUE DOESN'T MEAN THIS ONE IS TRUE!!!!!!!

Not to mention December 21st 2012 is just the end of their calender, like December 31st is the end of ours. No, they didn't actually think it was the end of the world.

Also, it was the Mayans. The Mayans lived in Mexico, the Incas lived all the way down in the Andes. They also had very different cultures, government systems, etc.

felixthecat345 wrote:You just used a stereotype that every brit hates.
I HATE TEA AND NOBODY I KNOW DRINKS IT!!!!
Plus, actually you refuse to speak it correctly. We speak English how it was made to be spoken, and the USA speak it differently. GET OVER IT. Plus, when you said about good inventions, you forgot to mention the car, the train, the lightbulb (Tom Eddison copied Joseph Swan's design and lost the lawsuit. Lasy fer) and the internet. And Australia. Yes, I think that was a good idea. Also, only 4 year olds say the word lorry. Plus all the best singers are British, we have the unique ability to make fun of ourselves, are women are smart and hardworking as well as good-looking without being made of plastic. And we don't blow up are own troops in combat. And beer wasnt a good invention, you know. Especially american beer. That stuff is horrible. Oh, by the way, I'm unique. An Englishman who praises his own country. USA is a great country too, by the way. (note how I said USA. NOT America. America is a continent, USA is a country)

Just a few notes: Tea is a more common drink over there than it is over here. Edison improved Swan's design a considerable amount, leading to its general acceptance. We have plenty of self-deprecating humor (Even relegated to certain states. What do Iowan cheerleaders do at a football game? They graze.). The "being made of plastic thing" is laughable; our celebrity magazines do NOT show the general populace (do you see a general obesity trend in celebrity magazines? No.). And according to my father (I'm just a minor), beer is great.

America is a nickname, silly. Try saying United Statians. Sounds awfully funny, doesn't it?

1hadhq wrote:1) examples. 2) maybe no more funny looking pills 3)

Even as an American, I know the huge British influence on our music industry. Queen and the Beatles, anyone?

Grey Templar wrote:in all fairness we invented the Automobile, so we get to say what side you should drive on

Germans.

1hadhq wrote:

felixthecat345 wrote:
Mordians: Not sure, probably nazis
Armaggedon: Those Nazis who worked at concentration camps (coz the gas mask is like what they used when they gassed the showers)

Get over this obsession with nazis.

Its not an obsession with nazis, to me they look a bit like nazi soldiers if you paint them grey

felixthecat345 wrote:
And PLEASE, stop all the americans saying we drive on the wrong side!

Would it change if we, the continental europeans tell you: stop driving on the wrong side!
Would it?
Cause your really driving on the wrong side.....

Actually, now that I think of it no side is the wrong side. They're just different sides

felixthecat345 wrote:
when you said about good inventions, you forgot to mention the car, the train,....

Ok train, but CAR?
Keep on dreaming.
Driving on the wrong side and claiming others ideas.

Well, I meant the motorcar, which im pretty sure we did make but I dont know who made one first.

felixthecat345 wrote:
Plus all the best singers are British, our women are smart and hardworking as well as good-looking without being made of plastic.

1) examples. 2) maybe no more funny looking pills 3)

1)the beatles, queen, the clash, girls aloud, spice girls, pixie lott, florence & the machine, taylor swift, james blunt, the who, the rolling stones, tom jones, mika, susan boyle, charlotte church, I could go on you know 2) we're no way near as ugly as the media makes us out to be, plus in Britain the good looking people can still be smart and independent, ever heard of elizebeth hurley, cheryl cole (shes not under singers since she uses autotune), mylene klass, jennifer metcalffe, amanda holden, all the singers I mentioned (except susan boyle), etc, etc...

felixthecat345 wrote: And beer wasnt a good invention, you know. Especially american beer. That stuff is horrible.

Egyptians had beer several thousands of years BC....
Plus everyone knows real beer can't be found on that foggy island north of us.

I assumed that kamikaze was right when he said we invented it. Wait, he said lager, not beer. My mistake. Anyway, I never said we made good beer.


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felixthecat345 wrote:Actually, british has no accent. There's the welsh accent, scottish, irish (northern ireland is part of britain too), that posh queen accent, liverpuddlian accent, yorkshire accent, budgey accent, cockney accent, basicly loads of accents in britain. And in britain scottish, most welsh, irish and english speak english, while %5 of welsh speak welsh.

Yeah, but to us many of those sound the same. Hell, I only know Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cockney, and Royal (Which is more than many people in the USA can say). It's probably the opposite way over there.

Yeah, in the UK we know their are lots of accents in the USA but usually think of it as alll 1 accent, even though we know about the new york accent, deep south accent, californian accent and all the rest

felixthecat345 wrote:WHY IS EVERYONE AFRAID OF THAT?!

JUST BECAUSE THE INCAS MADE 10,000,000 PROFICIES AND 3 OF THEM CAME TRUE DOESN'T MEAN THIS ONE IS TRUE!!!!!!!

Not to mention December 21st 2012 is just the end of their calender, like December 31st is the end of ours. No, they didn't actually think it was the end of the world.

Also, it was the Mayans. The Mayans lived in Mexico, the Incas lived all the way down in the Andes. They also had very different cultures, government systems, etc.

Yeah, I always get Mayans, Incas and Aztecs mixed up. And I didn't know about it not being a doomsday prediction because of all the things the media says.

felixthecat345 wrote:You just used a stereotype that every brit hates.
I HATE TEA AND NOBODY I KNOW DRINKS IT!!!!
Plus, actually you refuse to speak it correctly. We speak English how it was made to be spoken, and the USA speak it differently. GET OVER IT. Plus, when you said about good inventions, you forgot to mention the car, the train, the lightbulb (Tom Eddison copied Joseph Swan's design and lost the lawsuit. Lasy fer) and the internet. And Australia. Yes, I think that was a good idea. Also, only 4 year olds say the word lorry. Plus all the best singers are British, we have the unique ability to make fun of ourselves, are women are smart and hardworking as well as good-looking without being made of plastic. And we don't blow up are own troops in combat. And beer wasnt a good invention, you know. Especially american beer. That stuff is horrible. Oh, by the way, I'm unique. An Englishman who praises his own country. USA is a great country too, by the way. (note how I said USA. NOT America. America is a continent, USA is a country)

Just a few notes: Tea is a more common drink over there than it is over here. Edison improved Swan's design a considerable amount, leading to its general acceptance. We have plenty of self-deprecating humor (Even relegated to certain states. What do Iowan cheerleaders do at a football game? They graze.). The "being made of plastic thing" is laughable; our celebrity magazines do NOT show the general populace (do you see a general obesity trend in celebrity magazines? No.). And according to my father (I'm just a minor), beer is great.

I was actually refering mainly to the models, I know your not all like that. Especially as the USA is the fattest nation on Earth. Also, there seems to be an annoying stereotype among a lot of Americans that British drink tea and nothing else 24/7 when most of us drink about a cup every 2 days and we much prefer coke or beer. I'm a minor too, but as you can see on the news beer is killing people all the time and kills thousands of people a year. And all you get in return is a few brief periods of forgetting stuff and happiness, apparently. And Eddison, let's be honest, probably wouldnt have created the lightbulb if not for Swan. And I know you have some self depreciating humour but British humour is based around making fun of yourself.

felixthecat345 wrote:
Well, I meant the motorcar, which im pretty sure we did make but I dont know who made one first.

One of the inventors of automobiles: ( daimler, maybach, benz ):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler

felixthecat345 wrote:
1)the beatles, queen, the clash, girls aloud, spice girls, pixie lott, florence & the machine, taylor swift, james blunt, the who, the rolling stones, tom jones, mika, susan boyle, charlotte church, I could go on you know 2) we're no way near as ugly as the media makes us out to be, plus in Britain the good looking people can still be smart and independent, ever heard of elizebeth hurley, cheryl cole (shes not under singers since she uses autotune), mylene klass, jennifer metcalffe, amanda holden, all the singers I mentioned (except susan boyle), etc, etc...

You know quality is subjective.
I am sure you could go on, but spice girls? Maybe stop right there..
The media has influence, but your list could be the exception, not the rule so the media is still correct.
See, the singers you mentioned and good looking? Want to reword to female singers maybe?


Before this gets out of hand, let me move it to the subject of pre-heresy remembrancers. All of them from different places of terra.
Go find brits....

Or it probably has more to do with the fact that 40k is made by a company in on the British Isles, and therefor it is THEIR cultural bias that seeps into it.

@ Melissa: You seem to be missing the point of this thread, a title like "41st Millenium, the British won" is an invite to screw around.

@ 1hadhq: felixthecat345 might want to reword that but then again just look at Freddy Mercury, I mean come on... (This passes for humor in some parts of the US).

@ British Humor: Dressing in womens clothing and falling down can only get me to laugh so much. Most of our stand up comedians are catching on to an Americanized version of satire though and are doing quite well check out Bo Burnham for example.

Yes we all recognize that Thomas Edison was probably the first patent troll, you only have to know what he tried to do to Nicoli Tesla or Guglielmo Marconi to know that. But the man did take those ideas that would have fallen to the sideline never to be used and inject them into the main stream industry which none of the people who he took from had the resources to do.

British music influenced a lot of American, and American influenced a lot of British. The Blues, for example, were started here, and they were the ancestors of rock and jazz.

Freddy Mercury is a legend.

felixthecat345 wrote:Yeah, in the UK we know their are lots of accents in the USA but usually think of it as alll 1 accent, even though we know about the new york accent, deep south accent, californian accent and all the rest

Yeah, accents are funny things.

I remember on a trip to New Zealand, I thought the accent sounded like an Australian accent. Then I actually went to Australia. Turns out the two are nothing alike. And there's probably plenty of different accents in what I generalize as Australian and New Zealander.

felixthecat345 wrote:Yeah, I always get Mayans, Incas and Aztecs mixed up. And I didn't know about it not being a doomsday prediction because of all the things the media says.

I only know the real differences between the three because of World History. Easiest way for me to remember the difference is that Incas were in the mountains, Mayans had city-states, and Aztecs had human sacrifice on a scale of thousands per year (Mayans also had sacrifice, but not near that level).

felixthecat345 wrote:I was actually refering mainly to the models, I know your not all like that. Especially as the USA is the fattest nation on Earth.

Can't dispute that.

felixthecat345 wrote: Also, there seems to be an annoying stereotype among a lot of Americans that British drink tea and nothing else 24/7 when most of us drink about a cup every 2 days and we much prefer coke or beer.

You do drink more tea than over here, although I know you definitely don't drink only tea. The stereotype is probably at least partially based on the American Revolution; a lot of people in the colonies stopped drinking tea in protest of the tea tax, which of course made the British the primary tea drinkers in our eyes.

(Fething loyalists )

felixthecat345 wrote:I'm a minor too, but as you can see on the news beer is killing people all the time and kills thousands of people a year. And all you get in return is a few brief periods of forgetting stuff and happiness, apparently.

Same as any alcoholic drink. Wine, vodka, sake, beer... As long as they are taken in moderation (And you don't do something stupid like driving after drinking), you'll be good.

felixthecat345 wrote: And Eddison, let's be honest, probably wouldnt have created the lightbulb if not for Swan.

Agreed.

felixthecat345 wrote: And I know you have some self depreciating humour but British humour is based around making fun of yourself.

True, and American humor is typically based around making fun of others.

ComputerGeek01 wrote:

@ 1hadhq: felixthecat345 might want to reword that but then again just look at Freddy Mercury, I mean come on... (This passes for humor in some parts of the US).

Freddy isn't what I would question in his sentence of "singers-good looking-...."


Lacking pics of singers of the year M41...return to:

In the 41st millenia, british influence is reduced to lords and ladies / aristocracy alongside parliaments as form of government.

Being about 30% Native American by blood I would have to say that the Brits did win, the Empire is in Fact British. However us American get: Chaos, The Ultramarines(Come on how much more proof do you need.. the almost say "Oorah" in the novels people!(which is an army thing not a marine thing.)), The Space Wolves(Alaska, Native Americans), The Cadians and Catachans( all joking aside America invented guerrilla warfare, and with the exception of the later years of the Vietnam war has used it to great effect.. just think of how we tossed all you Tosser's out in 1776.) The Imperial Navy is run more like America's (Yeah we OWNED you there too.) Oh right and we got to the moon first and are probably gonna get to Mars first too so give us the Adeptus Mechanius, might as well blame about half the other Chapters on us too, and whatever else I left out.

At the end of the day, any sustaining world government will probably be just that, a world government, just cause the Emperor is form Britain, and looks like Jesus in Power-armor(Most likely the Emperor should be from the Middle-east... just saying, Jesus wasn't white.. ) doesn't mean that all his troops and his vast war-machine didn't come form Britain's fat capitalist cousin!

Oh and a good argument as to how they lost and the Empire is in fact American. It is an Emperor, not a Queen Mum.

Cadians are generic modern military archetype, predominantly based on the US army afaik

Armageddon troops are based on German mechanized / parachute regiments from WWII

Mordians are heavily based on the Prussians

Vostroyans are based on Russian strelky militia armies

Elyisians are based on parachute commando regiments (101st Airborne, Royal Commandos)

And wow, there is so much wrong in thegrav's post :\

Actually, you're all wrong: The Romans drove their wagons on the right side, just like the British later adopted; we all know how Romanesque (or more properly, Byzantinesque) the Imperium is- its because its a world where the Eastern Roman Empire got restarted in the 31st millennium

how is Gothic everything Byzantinian in origin?

thegrav wrote:Being about 30% Native American by blood I would have to say that the Brits did win, the Empire is in Fact British. However us American get: Chaos, The Ultramarines(Come on how much more proof do you need.. the almost say "Oorah" in the novels people!(which is an army thing not a marine thing.)), The Space Wolves(Alaska, Native Americans), The Cadians and Catachans( all joking aside America invented guerrilla warfare, and with the exception of the later years of the Vietnam war has used it to great effect.. just think of how we tossed all you Tosser's out in 1776.) The Imperial Navy is run more like America's (Yeah we OWNED you there too.) Oh right and we got to the moon first and are probably gonna get to Mars first too so give us the Adeptus Mechanius, might as well blame about half the other Chapters on us too, and whatever else I left out.

At the end of the day, any sustaining world government will probably be just that, a world government, just cause the Emperor is form Britain, and looks like Jesus in Power-armor(Most likely the Emperor should be from the Middle-east... just saying, Jesus wasn't white.. ) doesn't mean that all his troops and his vast war-machine didn't come form Britain's fat capitalist cousin!

Oh and a good argument as to how they lost and the Empire is in fact American. It is an Emperor, not a Queen Mum.

Space Wolves are definitely Scandinavian. I believe it was mentioned somewhere that the Emperor was actually from Turkey. Which is kinda odd considering the Lion has his genes and has blonde hair and the only race that has blonde hair that I know of is central/northern europeans. So I guess the Emperor is kinda everything... Native Americans definitely had guerrilla warfare before we did. If I remember correctly from us history, we (and the brits) considered them cowards for it.

Tea? The stereotype is a brit thing but its def a southern thing as well. I think I go through nearly a gallon of sweet black tea a day. My family is much the same.

Hannibal used guerrilla warfare tactics long before the Americans

As to the "American mis-spelling" of ENGLISH (I recognize that the language is a british "creation"), that was all part of a plan instituted by Benjamin Franklin and Noah Webster (of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, started in Massachusetts, now owned by Encyclopedia Brittanica Inc. [since 1964 to settle any disputes]) to simplify the english language in the United States, not only to differentiate ourselves from the British, but also in preparation for the eventual mandatory educational systems in the US (if I recall my US History class correctly)

felixthecat345 wrote:
Mordians: Not sure, probably nazis
Armaggedon: Those Nazis who worked at concentration camps (coz the gas mask is like what they used when they gassed the showers)

thegrav wrote:
just saying, Jesus wasn't white..

I always wonder why those who believe Jesus is the son of God would ignore the divine half of his origins. We have no idea what Mary would have looked like, we have little idea what the average person looked like 2000 years ago in that part of the world which was a multi-racial area even then. Add to that the power of god and Jesus could have looked like anyone of any race. To say he didn't look white is as ignorant as saying he did; we have no idea.

As for the Emperor being from Turkey, what does a Turk look like? They range from everything between looking like europeans to looking like arabs and asians. It is also possible that the Emperor has been around so long that he is descended from the ancient Greeks or maybe even the celts that lived in Turkey at one time.

The American form of English spoken today is developed from Middle English, as is modern UK English.

Modern English is actually further from these roots than American English however. And since spelling wasn't standardised for a long time, a lot of the cross-pond bickering is just pointless. Very fun though, as this thread has shown.

Also, the world 'Guerilla' is Spanish for 'the little war', and entered English as a result of the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic wars. That doesn't go any way to anull the fact that practically every culture conducted Asymmetric Warfare in one form or another when it had to. I believe the Native Americans tended toward a style that always seemed like Guerilla to the European settlers, but that doesn't mean they thought of it in those terms.

British humour-wise, I'd rather show off this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0jgZKV4N_A

Anyway, I'm Scots, descended from a Norman family (like any Scot without 'Mac' in their surname), and the Anglo-Saxons were German. The pre-Roman British now only really survive in Wales and Cornwall, since the Aenglish and the Scots invaded, The English tongue was for obvious reasons heavily dominated by first Danish then French for a long time in its development, and every single European is a descendant of Charlemagne, because of all the cross-border boning over the years. That includes any of you Yanks with any white in you

Oh, sorry, I'm going off-topic, the point in this thread was that the British won.

Well, every time you buy a GW mini the cash comes back into our economy, so up yours Americanos!

And yes, the Emprah is Turkish culturally, but as the Star-Child I think he gets any old passport he wants, being the rebirth of all of Mankind's shamans.

Oh, and we're all from Africa anyway, in case anyone forgot that...

cadbren wrote:

thegrav wrote:
just saying, Jesus wasn't white..

I always wonder why those who believe Jesus is the son of God would ignore the divine half of his origins. We have no idea what Mary would have looked like, we have little idea what the average person looked like 2000 years ago in that part of the world which was a multi-racial area even then. Add to that the power of god and Jesus could have looked like anyone of any race. To say he didn't look white is as ignorant as saying he did; we have no idea.

What is this, I don't even...

ComputerGeek01 wrote:@ Melissa: You seem to be missing the point of this thread, a title like "41st Millenium, the British won" is an invite to screw around.

In that case I'd rather amuse myself by being completely and utterly serious in a non-serious thread

*AHEM*

USMC


Mordian Iron Guard


My case, I rest it.

isn't that a commisar model?