Dow ii terminator quotes4/18/2024 (Basically Space Hulk but normal power armour instead of terminator armour, and a mixed alien force of gretchin, orks, genestealers, chaos marines, androids and a dreadnaught) (Those androids where actually the predecessors that inspired the Necrons) My introduction to 40k (as opposed to fantasy which I encountered earlier) was the Space Crusade Board Game. However, if you are looking for human on human atrocities, with a middle ages feel, with the great nations warring constantly for wealth, power, resources and land and a splash of robot on robot action for flavour.the Battletech universe is a pretty good place too. You may not like the style of all the authors (I do for the most part) but it certainly is worth the read. If you do want to learn about the lore, then the Horus Heresy series of books is a damn good place to start. It's not about the realism, it's about the over the top self-seriousness and pure balls out ridiculousness that makes it charming, graphic, brutal and entertaining. Whether you want to envision yourself as one of the feared Space Marines, or as a hardened human of the Guard the universe offers something to everyone. The imperial guard, the men and women who sacrifice everything in an instant to preserve one of the billion worlds in the Imperium. You want to do it the franchise injustice, then dumb it down and call it space magic, it doesn't matter, it's still an amazingly rich and long history about giant marines who fight the numerous races that wish to exterminate humanity. However WH40K puts us well beyond any of that scope, 40 thousand years in the future, where Space Marines are genetically engineered by knowledge stolen from the warp god's themselves. I think it fits a bit better with fantasy in space anyway, don't get me wrong, I love sci-fi and I love wondering how we will continue to evolve as humans and see the stars and many authors capture it in believable and well researched science that remains plausible. Sure, it's more fantasy then sci-fi, but I think given it's roots that's understandable. Then Relic produced the amazing and deservingly applauded Dawn of War series, that cemented my love for it forever. I was never much into the table top aspect but between the lore and the books it really grabbed me.
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