They now call Imperial Guards "Astra Militarum"

[Sammy]

Who at GWS thought this was a good idea?

[Jarmo]

Lawyers thought that. You'll blow a gasket once you hear how they named Eldar and Dark Eldar.

[jonoliveira12]

Aeldarii and Druchii.

[Sammy]

Originally posted by BreberyLinuxmint:

Lawyers thought that. You'll blow a gasket once you hear how they named Eldar and Dark Eldar.

They should just embrace the cheesiness and call them Space Elves.

[Fistimus Maximus]

Same people who killed warhammer fantasy

[behemoth227]

They couldn't copyright as generic a term as "Imperial Guard", the can, however, copyright "Astra Militarum".

[Desolator]

Interestingly enough the faction we have in the game is more than the AM. the AM doesn't have planes, instead they get air support through the Aeronautica Imperialis branch of the Imperial Navy. Also, the name Astra Militarum has been in use by GW for a loooong time already if the lore as the high gothic name for Imperial Guard.

[Naughty Mouse]

They will be Imperial Guard and Space Marines and Eldar and so on for me for the rest of the my live, no matter what they call them.

[Nitroglycerine]

Yea, the story behind the name change was really an issue with them copyrighting everything so they can do lawsuits. Because they lost a large part of a lawsuit they made due to generic terms.

- Space Marines are now Adeptus Astartes
- Imperial Guard are Astra Militarum
- Eldar became Aeldari
- Dark Eldar are Drukhari

And a bunch of other changes.

[Painsen]

and they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up Warhammer Fantasy... i know it was mentioned before, but i cant forgive, i cant forget... in the grim dark future there is only war!

[Shin]

They will always be the Imperial Guard for me.

[KrysisMode]

Wow so they're just doing it to everything. I wonder what stupid name for copyright they'll attach to the orkz. Knowing an ork they'd just krump anyone calling them that because it sounds like git words.

Well at least they aren't harmony gold who sue people for using an IP they don't even own thanks to shakey old legal rulings decades ago. If you ever wondered why Battletech is so awesome with giant stompy robots but never gets many games look up how much crap kicks off each time. GW amazingly has nothing on harmony gold's crazy lawsuits.

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by SilverAze:

and they ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up Warhammer Fantasy... i know it was mentioned before, but i cant forgive, i cant forget... in the grim dark future there is only war!

Fortunately 40k players have a safe haven from the complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiocy that is 8th edition. You can simply play Horus Heresy instead, which runs on a modified 7th edition rule set and generally ignores all the special snowflake ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GW dumped into the main lore.

[Herr Kommissar]

Astra Militarum and Adeptus Astartes arn't that bad imo, I just think them as a more "formal" and "bureaucratic" name of the Imperial Guard and the Space Marines. Anyone remember the Dwarfs oh I mean "squats" and in the age of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the dur...dueh.... duerden...duardin.... (or whatever the ♥♥♥ they were called)?

[Nitroglycerine]

Originally posted by Herr Kommissar:

Astra Militarum and Adeptus Astartes arn't that bad imo, I just think them as a more "formal" and "bureaucratic" name of the Imperial Guard and the Space Marines. Anyone remember the Dwarfs oh I mean "squats" and in the age of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the dur...dueh.... duerden...duardin.... (or whatever the ♥♥♥ they were called)?

They had admitted that they removed the "Squats" because of what a terrible thing they did to a respected fantasy race. From a honourable race of blacksmiths and warriors to.... "Squats" - biker dudes with an attitude.

[Basura Nephilim]

Originally posted by Desolator:

Interestingly enough the faction we have in the game is more than the AM. the AM doesn't have planes, instead they get air support through the Aeronautica Imperialis branch of the Imperial Navy. Also, the name Astra Militarum has been in use by GW for a loooong time already if the lore as the high gothic name for Imperial Guard.

There's more inconsistency: The production buildings for machines being available.
Blueprints on how to make a factory (I can't remember the name for hte life of me) are incredibly rare, yet I slam a few fully functioning factories in every city.

As well as the planet being cut off from the rest of the imperium and command. So they're not really astra militarum but more of an adhoc amalgamation of forces. Navy, Mars machine cult, AM, Schola Progenum, Scholastica Psykana.

But hey! it works. We see these forces working together all the time and the nomer of AM can be loosely applied as how often they work together, if you view it from the outside.