Instead of focusing on humans, why not focus on the Xenos insted.

[Siphon2012]

Humans are not he only beings within the genre of Warhammer 40k. Why not just make a darktide game for Eldar, Necrons, Orks and/or Tau? All factions tend to have better weapons and powers. They are also not very much like a cult like humans, well except for the crazy Orks.

Yes, I am a heretic. I like Eldar and Necrons better than humans in Warhammer 40k.

[XIX Victorious Aut Mortis]

“Do not ask, 'Why kill the alien?' rather ask, 'Why not?'”

[Ishan451]

Originalmente postado por Harukage:

Originalmente postado por Ishan451:

even the Eldar ones are few and far in between and arguably way to anthropomorphized.

Hey! I love my phoenix lords books! Asurmen as a depressive former football player, Jain Zar who can't stand space clowns, and Maugan Ra the library nerd are priceless.

Yeah, i hear you. Point taken

[Licher.Rus]

Originalmente postado por housersc:

Humans are not he only beings within the genre of Warhammer 40k. Why not just make a darktide game for Eldar, Necrons, Orks and/or Tau? All factions tend to have better weapons and powers. They are also not very much like a cult like humans, well except for the crazy Orks.

Yes, I am a heretic. I like Eldar and Necrons better than humans in Warhammer 40k.

Mate I am fully support you and can't wait when you gonna release your game!

[Onimaho]

Originalmente postado por Ishan451:

Same reason why Space Smurfs are the Poster Boys of Warhammer and sell the best on the Table Top. And why they have like a billion Novels to the hand full of Imperial Guard novels, despite the fact that the Guard is so much more interesting than Skittles Colored Smurfs.

Ya know, havn't really bothered to read anything other than 1 book stumbled upon from the series Gaunt's Ghosts...which was definitely up their in quality that it didn't even need the wh40k stamp on it.

[XIX Victorious Aut Mortis]

we are playing the Imperium, imperium is to there to expand adn reclaim/safeguard/enslave/crusade for humanity that being Mankind.

It is the 42nd Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.

Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

this statement, is what the 40k universe is about, this statement iis also why we are playing as imperial guardsman being sent to a penal legion, and it is for the Reason why we aren't playing xenos, it would be cool to play xenos but not in this game, also the fact that Xenos books aren't as prevelant as imperial books and ontop of all that a Xenos gameplay won't catch a Bigger crowed as a Guardsman would. tbh if this wasn't a warhammer game, i don't think the response would be as big as it was, futher more the fact that we are playing guardsman increase this reponse, if this was playing eldari, Voltan, Tau or Nercons. i really don't think it would be as popular. the only war the game would have been more popular was space marines. but that would have been a very double edge sword as that would alienate a majority of the fan base who would hate-space marine so Guardsman are well enough. BTW if you wanted a space marine game go and play SM 2 in a couple of months.