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EA: Tanks for the Warhammer 40K Inspiration?

[Apr 12, 2012, 10:35 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

This image from Reddit builds the case that a tank design for Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances appears quite similar to a Games Workshop-designed tank from the Warhammer 40K series. Games Workshop is known for fiercely defending its intellectual property rights, so there is rampant speculation that if this claim turns out to be valid, legal action is likely to follow. Thanks Strategy Informer.

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9. Re: EA: Tanks for the Warhammer 40K Inspiration? Apr 12, 2012, 11:56 AlexSledge
 
Note that Games Workshop is not yet a participant in this discussion - someone posted a picture and said, "Hmm, I wonder if Games Worksop will sue? Hint. Hint." - Everyone is out to get EA

Also, there really is a limited variation possible in feasable tank chassis construction - it should be noted that EVERY tank design is an evolution of previous incarnations, weapons of war having the ultimate goal of survival.

Additinally, the profiles of these tanks differ, recognition profile cards would show this quite clearly - those in the business of distinguishing tanks for their survival would never confuse the two.

That said, yeah, that artist had some on-the-company free time that week.

As for Genestealers being a rip off of Alien - they really look nothing alike, aren't Geiger-esque, not even from their early days in Space Hulk - if they're a rip off, then any extraterrestrials fighting humans are. It's just easy to make the Mariens vs Strange Aliens connection because the rest of the time they're fighting space orks, elves, or robots - Tyranids are the only real aliens in the lot.

Later on some of the other Tyranid models took an an Alien-like flavor, just as in Alien 3 (well after Genestealers) the Aliens were first shown to grow based on their host -presumably their DNA. 		 
I should be coding.
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