Iwata said:
Payne121 said:
kahlzun said:
Tyranid. They're basically Zerg (either inspired by, or the inspiration for) to the point that half of their buildings look like they've been pulled straight out of the Creep.
Considering WH40K is over 30 years old, i think blizz got inspiration from them
There is a (credible) rumour that Starcraft was originaly going to be a 2D 40K RTS, but that GW ultimatelly pulled out, leaving Blizzard to salvage what they could, thus creating Starcraft.
Makes sense, as pretty much everything in Starcraft but the protoss looks close enough to 40k IPs that GW could have sued if they'd wanted to (and GW have some serious clout).
As for the original post, I side with the Tau every time. Sure, they're a bit communist, but frankly they seem to make marxism work and are forced into resorting to violence in their expansion due to the warlike nature of the 40k universe as a whole. After all, it would seem that anyone who bows to the greater good gets treated exceptionally well, allowed to keep their own culture etc, whereas there hasn't seemed to be any peaceful opposition so far. Of course, staying put in a tiny part of space is not an option, else they'd just get eaten or exterminat(us)ed. So, yeah, marxists forced into a more communist ethic by those around them.
Which is of course better than the ridiculously Naziesque fascism that is embodied by the xenophobic, zealous, hateful warmongering imperium. I mean really, everything about them screams fundamentalism integrated into military might and then taken to the extreme. Frankly, the imperium is worse even than chaos, as at least chaos isn't deluded about what it is. The Imperium has this misguided sense of self importance when in fact it brings just as much mindless evil to the galaxy as it holds at bay.
