Aaron

It says all the important races will be PRESENT not playable. so let's not get ahead of ourselves. and besides. IG and a few space marine chapters have been known to fight along side and yes, converse with alien races.

secondly. IG have different weapon options. maybe they can have an IG guy use a weapon a SM cant. so you'll need one in your party etc etc. And even though im a SM player, IG are highly underestimated. if played right they are a very dangerous army to play against. But this could be said about any race.

honestly. i could go on and on about how they could make this game different and fresh from WoW or any other MMO. but they wouldnt be easy to do.

I.E. close combat. if you are engaged in hand to hand you have to use skills to get out or be forced to fight. so you could have a SM charge a chaos marine into hand to hand and have the IG snipe him from afar while you fight. if the chaos marine wants to break away he'll use a skill to disengage and get the hell out. with back up to make sure he makes it.

this could be done with the same "initiative" rule except tweaked. if the guy youre fighting has a higher initiative its easier for him to break away etc. he hits more then you (faster) but he might be weaker. etc etc

all in all if they took elements from the TT game and put it into action in the MMO it would be very interesting. things like WS...or BS..or S, T, Armor value, invulnerable saves (make them slightly resistant to power weapons or fists in the game etc), initiative. how many attacks they get so on and so forth. close combat rules (slightly tweaked) cover rules, psychic abilities (and tests). it goes on and on.

this has the POTENTIAL to be a WoW killer. but all this stuff i listed is just small stuff, let your imagination take it and think of what they could do if they stuck to the TT rules and simply tweaked some and put them in this MMO.

but sadly it also takes time to make. so if they rush it, it could ruin it. hope they take their time and do it right.