Star Trek vs Warhammer 40k

Discussion in 'SciFi & Fantasy' started by ricrery, Oct 8, 2009.

  1. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    The script writers would never allow it.

    To put it quite bluntly, since there are a greater number of star trek fans than warhammer fans, they cannot (quite literally) afford to bring warhammer out on top since it would disengage the franchise status quo.

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  3. GeoffP Caput gerat lupinum Valued Senior Member

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    You hear that? The lawyers of the ST are more powerful! Cringe in terror from their razor-sharp legal briefs! You will be pwned by their examination of tort law!
     
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  5. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    STAR TREK has topped the box office in the USA and internationally on its opening weekend.

    The new film, directed by Lost creator J.J. Abrams (pictured above), brought in $76.5million at the US box office and a further $35.5million overseas, to make a global total of $106million.

    And it's far from the final frontier - a sequel was already greenlit before the film's release.

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    compared to

    A perk of being a director at Games Workshop (LSE: GAW), the creator and retailer of the Warhammer fantasy tabletop wargames, is surely that you have a ready answer for anyone who asks: "You and whose army?" in the form of thousands of tiny orcs, goblins and elves.

    More usefully for investors, Games Workshop is also reconnecting with its army of hobbyist fans.

    Today's results beat even the upgraded expectations that followed June's trading statement. Full-year revenue for the year ended 31 May was £126m, up 14%, while pretax profits were £7.5m compared to 2008's £1m. After tax, diluted earnings per share came in at 17.4p, compared to a loss of 2.4p.


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    Do the maths.
    Draw your conclusion.

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  7. GeoffP Caput gerat lupinum Valued Senior Member

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    I think the ST guys would just phaser the Games Workshop back-room gamer pen.

    Worst. Analogy. Ever.
     
  8. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    This guy

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    earns more per annum than these two combined

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    Consumer demand persists.
     
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  10. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    The Marines "only" have a few tens of thousands of ships. The Imperial navy, on the other hand, has many millions of multi-km capitol ships, and tens of million of scouting/fleet screening ships that are "only" a few hundred km long.

    So far as I know there aren't any real numbers on how many ships the other races/factions have, but it's probably at least in the millions.
     
  11. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    You just lost
     
  12. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    Well first off phasers are still more powerful than plasma guns

    And the empire doenst use plasma otherwise theyd be plasma turrets not laser cannons

    Second, a teraton is a measure of weight not power.

    Second, they dont have that kind of power and we both know it.

    The death star moves at a snails rate and turns even slower, what makes you think it be able to hit the ship?

    Your guns are weaker and ur torps are weaker. End of story
     
  13. alpinedigital Registered Senior Member

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    Isotons, I think they called it. And they can modify weapon yields faster than you can change the oil in your moped. Not only that but the writers have had how many years of thinking up new technology to introduce, modify, reconfigure, combine, etc?

    Right away, the Star Trek looks easy to punk. But there's so many years worth of shit, you'd have to seriously contemplate it for like a month per series to REALLY give a proper opinion.

    For instance... on DS9, there was a technology presented... Imagine THIS integrated into starships:

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    and for personal use:

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    You may or may not know what these are, but lets just say once you can mess with the laws of probability so they always work in your favor, it's not likely you'd lose. Period.
     
  14. Nasor Valued Senior Member

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    Given the many, many millions of huge warships in 40k, it seems like the numbers alone would probably swamp the ST universe. Even if they are so inferior that the ST races can destroy their ships with ease, the ST races could probably slaughter them all day and night for years without ever really making a dent in the numbers.
     
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  16. alpinedigital Registered Senior Member

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    If the numbers are offset by that much then it shouldn't even have been brought up. :bugeye:
     
  17. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    haha, I love those things. Damn I wish I had one of those for the rest of my school year.
     
  18. ricrery Banned Banned

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    OH MY GOD. How stupid are you? FUCKING RETARD. If you knew shit you'd know that ISD has more firepower than all of the Federation. Hey fucking moron there is a thing called Google, GOOGLE FUCKING BASE DELTA ZERO YOU STAR TREK FAGOLA!
     
  19. ricrery Banned Banned

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    These forums are retarded as every faggot LOVES ST and ignores SW's superiority which IS FACT. ST retards even said that ST can beat Doctor Who... WHAT IS WRONG WITH STAR TREK FANS? Are you mentally retarded or something?
     
  20. alpinedigital Registered Senior Member

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    Looks like you're the one who's flipped his lid. You're the one who is so obsessed with it that you come on here and within a dozen or so posts, you're going caps lock like that REALLY makes the text that much more substantial. If disagreement is too much for you to handle, try not getting into debates. Maybe you'd have more fun playing with your comic books? :shrug:
     
  21. ricrery Banned Banned

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    Okay, Galactus > Q, Eternity > Q, Living Tribunal > Q, Beyonder > Q, Molecule Man > Q, Celestials > Q, and Franklin Richards > Q.
     
  22. Bells Staff Member

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    Talk to another member like that one more time ricrery and it's a ban. And yes, that yellow square against your name is a warning.
     
  23. GeoffP Caput gerat lupinum Valued Senior Member

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    Pfft. Obvious trekkie.

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