Lieutenant Rasczak
Mongoose
Lorcan Nagle said:I kinda like the lame alien names - it's the equivelant of Tommies and Jerrys in WWII.
I always preferred Spike
Lorcan Nagle said:I kinda like the lame alien names - it's the equivelant of Tommies and Jerrys in WWII.
Lieutenant Rasczak said:"Carbon Copy" is a bit unfair.
Lieutenant Rasczak said:I agree . TO A POINT (and no further).
Both physically different, the Forth don't fight outside their Fighting Machines at all (that makes them more in common with the Martians from War of the Worlds really)
Turtle said:The Forth are not a copy of the Tau. Instead, both the Tau and the Forth are inspired by a broad spectrum of Japanese anime designs. Because they're pulling from the same art style, there's bound to be similarities.
Stonehorse said:They fight in striders, physicaly weak, highly intelligent, are all united for their species and ideas, favour ranged attacks over close combat, had some mysterious prophet come and calm the race down before they near enough destroyed them. How is this not the Tau? They only things that seem to be different is that they are blue skined, and not Humanoid... and of course they appear in differnt game systems.
Ripoff's can only go so far till they are for want of a better phrase 'a Carbon Copy'.
I'm not saying that GW came up with these ideas first... they didn't, but for Mongoose to produce their Carbon copy version just seems a bit weak. Now if Mongoose looked at the idea and did something new with it I wouldn't be as unimpressed with them.
Lieutenant Rasczak said:
Both physically different, the Forth don't fight outside their Fighting Machines at all (that makes them more in common with the Martians from War of the Worlds really).
Lieutenant Rasczak said:SOMETIMES is the term used, whereas Fire Warriors are a common Troop Choice.
Stonehorse said:Turtle said:The Forth are not a copy of the Tau. Instead, both the Tau and the Forth are inspired by a broad spectrum of Japanese anime designs. Because they're pulling from the same art style, there's bound to be similarities.
Stonehorse said:They fight in striders, physicaly weak, highly intelligent, are all united for their species and ideas, favour ranged attacks over close combat, had some mysterious prophet come and calm the race down before they near enough destroyed them. How is this not the Tau? They only things that seem to be different is that they are blue skined, and not Humanoid... and of course they appear in differnt game systems.
Ripoff's can only go so far till they are for want of a better phrase 'a Carbon Copy'.
I'm not saying that GW came up with these ideas first... they didn't, but for Mongoose to produce their Carbon copy version just seems a bit weak. Now if Mongoose looked at the idea and did something new with it I wouldn't be as unimpressed with them.
Next time you barge into a debate at least have the common sense to read other peoples comments first. :wink:
Lieutenant Rasczak said:
Both physically different, the Forth don't fight outside their Fighting Machines at all (that makes them more in common with the Martians from War of the Worlds really).
Lieutenant Rasczak said:SOMETIMES is the term used, whereas Fire Warriors are a common Troop Choice.
So which one is it... you've just contradicted yourself in the space of a few hours, while trying to make a futile point. :roll:
Now I remember why I stopped coming to this forum... it reeks of blinkered Fanboyism.
So the Forth were once at war with one another then came a mysterious figure called an Ethereal who made it all ok. See what I did there... Wink
Now I remember why I stopped coming to this forum... it reeks of blinkered Fanboyism.
Galatea said:Forth have not much in common with Tau.
There may be similarities but these are few.
Forth are truly Aliens, not strange looking blue men. They are intelligent to a degree that renders any Tau a dumb idiot. And they do not try to make friendship with all races around them or assimilate them into their great empire.
They have looked at their neighbours and rated them dumb and uninterresting. They are not a expansionistic race (as Tau are) but a defensic acting one, that hust strikes to prevent further violence in their own territory.
They have no leaders like etherials but instead live in a society of some strange version of democracy where anyone can influence anything.
And, instead of Tau, they do not just pretend to be sophisticated and free, they ARE.
Living in a society where anyone can acces any information and all people are connected to each other at any time, this far more a mutual than a bunch of dumb Tau following their enigmatic good-smelling etherials.
All in all the Forth are a much better worked out concept than the Tau.
Galatea said:It may be that they are aimed at the same target group.
But they are a better worked out concept and after all remind more on Battletech or the War of the Worlds than on Tau.
(Especially the similarities to the War of the Worlds book are truly striking)