Warhammer, a game of plastic and metal miniature models and now a MMOG in development lit up the network like a holiday fireworks show over the weekend. We have about three million screenshots, concept art pieces, nudie pics and other eye-candy type goodies up for your perusal.

This is all well and good, but if you were to cover yourself in stink repellent spray and walk into a Games Workshop store you would find that most of the denizens purchasing product therein were not partaking in Warhammer: Fantasy Battles, but were playing Warhammer: 40K.

Warhammer: 40K is a faster paced, sci-fi table-top game that is actually a lot of fun to play if you can get past the stink and care to spend countless hours painting models that will never look as good as the ones you are playing against. It's a dichotomy where artistic talent meets warfare; where space marines are religious zealots and Orks blow things up with heavy explosives while they careen across the ground in vehicles patched together with red duct tape to make them "go faster".

Dawn of War proved that the Warhammer 40K license was a big winner. Why or why couldn't we have a MMOG based on that universe? I'm tired of Elves and Dwarfs and intelligent cats who walk on two legs. Please give us some sci-fi. Tabula Rasa and StarGate Worlds can't get here quick enough for me.

Are you content with the current glut of fantasy MMOGs or would you like to see some sci-fi?

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    "The Warhammer Online Ten Ton Hammer community site now sports 50 new original images from the highly anticipated MMO adaptation of the popular tabletop game. "
  • Warhammer Online: Zone Overview: Blackfire Pass
    "Black Fire Pass has been the site of many battles throughout the course of history, but none were as significant as the first which was fought there. At Black Fire Pass, a great force of Dwarfs led by King Kurgan Ironbeard joined with a human army under the command of a young hero named Sigmar to confront and ultimately destroy a great horde of greenskins. Following the battle, King Ironbeard swore a great oath that for all time, the Dwarfs would safeguard the eastern mountain approaches to the lands of men. In the following year, Sigmar was made the first Emperor, uniting the scattered tribes of humans under one banner."
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