Behold the Appropriately Angry Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Box Art

[Iwata]

last line of defense for humanity

I have an 5 armies of Praetorian's, Steel legion, Cadians, Catchans, and Moridan Iron Guardsmen that say FUCK YOU!.

You know nothing of this world. The Marines are the tip of the spear, Guard is the rest of the spear. Marines get so much attention because they are the ones GW wants to sell more and more of.

The Guard are just a wall of meat to slow them down, but they do their part.

I take offense, to that, good sir! For every Astartes out there, we have a hundred Basilisk artillery tanks, a thousand Leman Russ battle tanks, a hundred thousand Guardsmen! The Guard keeps the Imperium alive, not the Astartes.

Besides, who do you think is bravest? The guy that goes to war in power armor and armed with a mini-rocket launcher, or the guy that goes to war in a wet t-shirt and armed with a laser pointer?

And the Tau are such nice aliens! When the Space Marines first found them, they earmarked their planet for 'purging'. The Tau had just discovered fire. Two thousand years later, they come tanking back with those big bloody cannons that make me want to leap across the table and punch my brother in the face.

But...they're probably the only ones who could be construed as 'good'.

The Tau are by no means good, they're just naive. They've yet to realize the sort of universe they live in, given that their FTL technology sucks. But even so they show signs of being anything but good. Unless you count concentration camps and forced sterilization indications of goodness.

Besides, even within the Tau ranks, there is dissent. Look at Commander Farsight. Their main military commander saw what the galaxy is like, and realized that for the Tau to survive, they have to give up any notion "the greater good" and just do unto others what they do to them. And for that, he's now an exile from his own race.

Also bear in mind that fluff-wise, they are, by far, the most insignificant of races, and will live only for so long as one of the other factions can't really be bothered looking at them for more than five minutes. Even the half-arsed Damocles Crusade only failed because those pesky Tyranids showed up somewhere else.

I'd like to way in on some of these issues.

First of all, Imperial Guard kick interstellar face. It takes a lot of courage for them to stand up in front of all kinds of horrid monsters with just s bit of armour and a rifle. Read some of the books based off of the Guard, it shows them how they are in-universe rather than on the tabletop.

As for the Tau, while they look peaceful and nice it's been implied that the Etherals, the ruling class, exert their unquestioned authority thanks to pheromones given off that practically prevent the people from dissenting. It's also implied that they mind-control the Vespid through their helmets. There's also some theories that they enslaved some of the human's left behind after the crusade and are sterilising some of them.

In a more hilarious light they are quite naive, even trying to negotiate peace talks with the Tyranids.

That was hilarious! And they did it not once, but twice! It's kinda cute, in a (sad) way.

 

[Dr. Crawver]

well, not a fan of hearing the warhammer mythos just being described as something so base, it's increadably intricate, but I will admit the box art doesn't say much else. Not too pleased of the "jump for joy" pose the marine seems to hold, but it's good enough. All I hope is that a few 'nids get added, but then that could get complicated

 

[similar.squirrel]

What a camp little hop. It's adorable.

 

[unacomn]

That is the most manly thing I've ever seen.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

So I'm in the minority with my opinion that as box art that picture is hideous?


It doesn't affect me anyways -- I don't plan to buy it, don't know anyone who will, and if I do, I won't know them for much longer out of sheer embarrassment in their lack of taste.

 

[TimeLord]

Warhammer 40k isn't as well-known a series these days as some other franchises about burly men in power armor fighting aliens might be.

Warhammer 40k is the franchise about burly men in power armour fighting aliens! It doesn't even try to disguise that fact with crowbar'd love interests, terribly complex plots or any kind of thin dressing that games like Gears of War or Halo have. It knows exactly what it is and what it is is just Space Marines with big guns, tanks and bolters killing anything different.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[spaceman_jan]

frankly that list sounds like gears of war
I like the art other than that really well done i guess as far as box art go

 

[Jenx]

You know what would have really sold this game to me? If it was about Salamanders. Or Gray Knights. Or hell even Space Wolves. ANYTHING but the Ultramarines.

 

[Iwata]

You know what would have really sold this game to me? If it was about Salamanders. Or Gray Knights. Or hell even Space Wolves. ANYTHING but the Ultramarines.

You'd think getting a feature film all for themselves would've sated the Ultrasmurf's lust for attention, but noooooooooo... I guess they're still sore that John Hurt voiced an Imperial Fist in said movie, and not an Ultramarine.

frankly that list sounds like gears of war

 

[Totenkopf]

read the Uplifting premier. AWESOME stuff very well done Imperial dogma.
But i still wish we had a game about the Guardsmen.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it.

A Guardsmen game would be pretty cool. It would probably have to be like a WWII shooter or something, except that every battle is like a super-Normandy. I expect it would be big on set-pieces, but there could definitely be some smaller battles or scouting missions. Actually, such a game would probably be more approachable to mass audiences if handled properly, since you could mix a sort of Modern Warfare ((flame shield)) aesthetic with all the technology and lore of 40k without overwhelming any newcomers.

You just planted the idea of "Chaos Nazis" in my head with that.
I don't know if I should be grateful or angry, since it is as cheesy as it is awesome.

OT: That boxart isn't bad, but I liked this 100 times better

Spoiler

Anyway, I'm hyped for the game!

 

[Jenx]

You know what would have really sold this game to me? If it was about Salamanders. Or Gray Knights. Or hell even Space Wolves. ANYTHING but the Ultramarines.

You'd think getting a feature film all for themselves would've sated the Ultrasmurf's lust for attention, but noooooooooo... I guess they're still sore that John Hurt voiced an Imperial Fist in said movie, and not an Ultramarine.

I wouldn't know. I tried watching the movie and stopped it after the first 10 minutes. I expected it to suck, but I couldn't even imagine the level of sucking it delivered.

 

[Exocet]

I demand a mod to change the skins of all the SMs to something less,smurfy.I'd love me some Soul Drinkers(woo,renegades!) or joke skins like the Angry Marines. Basically,anything that's not blue and pretentious,even for SM standards.

Otherwise,badass cover other than the fact the marine disgraced himself by losing his bolt pistol.That'll be twenty thousand "Hail the Emperor" and five hundred dead orks mister!

You just planted the idea of "Chaos Nazis" in my head with that.
I don't know if I should be grateful or angry, since it is as cheesy as it is awesome.

Commie Tau's as secondary enemies?

 

[Zac Smith]

Epic art, really hope the game matches that standard, been looking forward to it for quite some time now

 

[HalfTangible]

There's also one red thing that could possibly be a demon

 

[dalek sec]

You know what would have really sold this game to me? If it was about Salamanders. Or Gray Knights. Or hell even Space Wolves. ANYTHING but the Ultramarines.

Grey Knights might be tricky to do since their main foes are Lovecraftian daemons and those can be kinda to show besides a few tentacles and slime. D:

But yeah, if this game does well they damn well better give us anothe chapter to play with. Blood Angels, Black Templars, Salamanders, hell I take the bloody Space Wolves, just someone else besides Matt Wards favorites.....

 

[rayen020]

If you can chose your chapter this will be win. Special points to developers if unlocks include special chaos armor.

Spoiler: also obligitory angry marine pic

 

[Mantonio]

Man, I want a game where you play as orcs.

... or a mod for mount and blade thats warhammer themed. I would LOVE that.

That would be amazing. I'd totally buy a game where I could play as a Warboss leading a WAAAAGH. 'twould be beyond awesome.

Man, I want a game where you play as orcs.

... or a mod for mount and blade thats warhammer themed. I would LOVE that.

You can use Orks in the new Dawn of War II. The campaign is more or less the same for each race but you can play as Space Marines, Chaos Marines, Orks, Eldar, Tyranids, or Imperial Army.

I meant a 3rd person fighting game as an orc, but with RPG elements. Would be cool

Since Orks use their always regrowing teef (teeth) as currency, this could be very fun.

Want to buy that shiny shoota? Beat up some other boyz for a few hours and take their teef.

 

[LazyAza]

As a fan of 40k since I was 10 years old(24 now) I couldn't be more stoked to play this.

Their hasn't really been a single decent story driven 40k game that wasn't an rts yet so I really hope this one turns out decent. Relic's last game wasn't so great and I'm sure they've never made anything but rts titles so... who knows how this will turn out.

 

[rayen020]

Chainsaw swords and power armor?

Just needs shurikens and lightning and it'll be pure epic.

Obviiously we need more eldar then.

 

[Pikey Mikey]

Ok, because I like Warhammer 40k (Dawn of War) and because that Marine is so damn furious. I'm getting that game. =)