Warhammer lore wondering

[StrangerQ]

Me and my friend bought Dawn of war 2 and its expansion...
Before this we were playing WaR online as on trial accounts and we ended up wondering...

Do the WH:40k and WH:fantasy lores have anything to do with each other? And i mean by story not orcs/orks being pretty much same

 

[Layz92]

As far as I know no. Not even similar other than chaos being called chaos still. Don't take my word for granted though I havn't read every book. Considering they used to specifically call 40k orks "space orks" to differentiate I doubt there is a connection.

 

[starhaven]

no idea havet read enough of the game books or the other books to say

 

[khiliani]

There is no crossover, though they have taken things like the chaos gods from warhammer fantasy and stuck them in 40k

 

[GiantSpiderGoat]

it's just the Sci fi equivalent to the Warhammer Fantasy Universe.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Yes. Err. No. Err.. Maybe.

Y'see, once upon a time, the world of WHFB was just a world within the 40k universe, with the implication that some of the more powerful ancient artefacts were products of the Dark age of Technology, and suggestions that Sigmar was one of the undiscovered primarchs.

Except they retconned that, and now they're completely seperate.

Of course, given that there is precisely one fixed point of continuity in Warhammer 40k (that being that the Squats are definitely all irrevocably eaten by Tyranids), this may be changed again in the future.

 

[kingcom]

Yes/No.

While Warhammer Fantasy once had a Chaos Space Marine as a hero for the Chaos army, and there is knowledge of ledgedary warriors from the stars (with a picture of a space marine no less). They dont cross over and are generally considered to have the WHFB world somewhere in the WH40K universe.

 

[Yokai]

The way I see it, Warhammer 40000 is what happens when you give everyone from Warhammer a ridiculously overpowered firearm and an entire galaxy to shoot things in. Many themes from both settings are the same, such as the Chaos gods, the Inquisition, and the crazy comic-relief football hooligan Orks, but the settings themselves are unrelated. One's the fantasy version and one's the sci-fi version; that's about all there is to it.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

Yes. Err. No. Err.. Maybe.

Y'see, once upon a time, the world of WHFB was just a world within the 40k universe, with the implication that some of the more powerful ancient artefacts were products of the Dark age of Technology, and suggestions that Sigmar was one of the undiscovered primarchs.

Except they retconned that, and now they're completely seperate.

Of course, given that there is precisely one fixed point of continuity in Warhammer 40k (that being that the Squats are definitely all irrevocably eaten by Tyranids), this may be changed again in the future.

Pretty much all this.