Warhammer 40k Observation

[Sniperyeti]

Look at the different Imperial Guard armies and you'll find most races represented, and some Space Marine companies such as the Salamanders are entirely black.
Also in my opinion the Tau are kind of Asian.

And the Tyranids are fully American - DEVOUR EVERYTHING

 

[lionsprey]

talking about colour in space marines is kinda obsolete anyway since they can change the colour of their skin.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I was never interested in the Squats and I got in probably as they were phasing them out, so I don't know much about them. I wasn't aware that the eaten by nid's line may not have been 'official' official. Anyway, I don't think they're coming back anytime soon.

As for the Demiurg that's only the rumour I have heard, I can't really give credence to its veracity. Forgeworld have made 2 Demiurg models for BFG, a Battleship and a Cruiser. But their rules are in one of the Imperial armour books, not in the main rulebook on the GW site. I don't think they'll get a fleet of their own, they will always be tied to the Tau and unless there is a sudden surge in popularity for BFG (which I wouldn't mind, I might get to use my fleets more) they'll probably stay in the realm of IA.

I don't see BFG coming back any time soon.

The glory days of WHFB, 40k, and one specialist game being developed at any one time are long gone, LotR has taken that third slot and not left any room for Necromunda, Mordheim, Epic, Warmaster, BFG, Man'o'War, Inquisitor or the like.

There are still some people keeping them ticking over, but I don't envision any real movement there.

[small]Oh, the good old days of sustained fire dice, armour and to hit modifiers and different movement rates[/small]

 

[Thaluikhain]

Though I think the biggest problem with Inquisitor was the fact they changed the scale. That meant all new terrain, all new mooks to fight. And at 54mm, the mooks are expensive and the terrain rather larger.....if they had built it around their existing 28mm range it may have done better.

A very questionable move, yes. Not jsut making it more expensive, but making the models no longer interchangable with everything else. Made converting stuff much more difficult, and you are left with one or two dozen models used by everyone.

Of course, otherwise, everyone would have take 3-4 models from their 40k army or necromunda gang, played on their standard terrain, and models wouldn't have sold.

As soon as the game came out, people were talking about converting to the old scale.

 

[ChaosBorne]

Though I think the biggest problem with Inquisitor was the fact they changed the scale. That meant all new terrain, all new mooks to fight. And at 54mm, the mooks are expensive and the terrain rather larger.....if they had built it around their existing 28mm range it may have done better.

A very questionable move, yes. Not jsut making it more expensive, but making the models no longer interchangable with everything else. Made converting stuff much more difficult, and you are left with one or two dozen models used by everyone.

Of course, otherwise, everyone would have take 3-4 models from their 40k army or necromunda gang, played on their standard terrain, and models wouldn't have sold.

As soon as the game came out, people were talking about converting to the old scale.

which is actually incredably easy considering they used "yards" without defining what a yard is in the game, so an inch at 54mm could be a cm at 28mm.
in the end though the game is not that expensive since you only really needed 2 or 3 guys per player, so far far cheaper then a standard 1500pts army.

the bigger models did have incredable details though, they really are exquisite models (well most of them anyway.)

OT: as has been said already, diversity is everywhere in 40k yadda yadda just need to look beyond the surface of it all.

 

[Iron Mal]

Due to the very open and fan-driven nature of the Warhammer 40k lore it is entirely possible for there be an army of any ethnicity or cultural background out there if you have the creativity and painting/sculpting skills to represent it and the imagination to write them a backstory (and as others have said, there are non-caucasian armies out there and even of the caucasian forces not all of them are representative of the White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant demographic).

Hell, I knew a guy who had pink Orks (he never did explain why).

So I'd have to turn the OP's observation around to actually say that when you take it all in Warhammer 40k is probably one of the most diverse settings out there (which is weird when most of the universe is depicted as being a miltant, dogmatic and facist nightmare).

 

[SckizoBoy]

In the grim darkness of the far future, all of humanity are English!

Got it in one! Space Marine with an American accent?

[HEADING=1]HERESY!![/HEADING]

Technically they speak Gothic (High or Low depending how pretentious the character is being). They just speak English cos normal real world people don't know Gothic. Just being picky but it is an oft missed fact.

True, but the general representation is that they would speak Gothic in the same way that a middle-upper-class Englishman speaks English.

High Gothic is said to be one of the languages of Earth, but most people speak a form of Low Gothic, which is any number of different languages derived from it. This is generally overlooked in the fluff, though.

Now, it's never actually been said what High Gothic is like, there's nothing to suggest it isn't Gothic.

What little 'High Gothic' I've seen is basically a load of -isms from New English, IIRC.

I don't mind at all but it was more of a joke as all the characters sound English in the videogames.

Well, considering all the voice actors are either English or affect an 'English' accent... (and that isn't limited to the Imperial races either, Chaos have a markedly different timbre, but he same accent, Orks are cockney/East End, Eldar are outright posh, while oddly, I find the Sisters of Battle to be faintly American (NE) sounding...)