Seriously, you've never actually read 'Armor' have you, because your synopsis sounds like the most you did was glance at the back of the book. And the similarities between it and Space Marines, or even any other facet of 40k? Pretty close to non-existent, beyond they both have sci-fi powered armor in a war setting. Take a guy and put him in fancy armor, and there's a pretty good chance someone, somewhere, has already done something similar. Direct comparisons to 'Armor' are particularly laughable. Take any of the eponymous suits and plant them in the 40kverse, and they could probably tear through an entire marine chapter while only working up a moderate sweat. The military, setting, scale, none of it meshes. The only coinciding factors are a focus on sci-fi guys in fancy armor.
Well I really stirred up the fanboi nest this time. I am so very sorry. I should have realized that certain portions of this crowd need small words and a short bus.
Are you so blindly loyal to
GW's johnson that you refuse to admit the fact that they were influenced by outside sources. You said yourself that if you put a guy in fancy armor, there is a pretty good chance that someone has done it before. I guess you meant EXCEPT
GW. When they did it, they were the first, right? Sounds like fanboi douchebagery to me. The differences between Armor and the
40K universe are indeed many. I never said for a moment that
GW purely plagiarized the book, only that many of the concepts were strikingly similar. Of course they changed some things. When you create a game in the environment of the 80's, you can't have your heroes running around drinking, cursing like sailors and screwing every female they see. That doesn't change the fact that the similarities I described before are absolutely real. I say that the curious on the site should go out and do the research, then make up their own minds.
By the way, if the suits in Armor are that all powerful compared to a Space Marine, why is it that they kept dying in droves to slow moving ants with crappy little heat guns?
In any case, you missed the point. Games Workshop has taken ideas and concepts from other sources. Have you ever read the copyright footer on a
GW book. They try to copyright everything in the book as their wholly owned IP. Even the ink.
It seems to me that
GW feels all others should consider it an honor to have their IP used in any way by
GW. But you damn well better not try to work up anything remotely similar to
GW IP or they will aggressively defend their IP in court.
That is not conjecture,
GW has stated as much.
