In the Warhammer 40,000 franchise, there is at least one pet group in the Imperial Guard, Chaos Marines and the Space Marines factions. While you look at the novels set in the franchise, there really isn’t much of a focus on any one group. However, once you get beyond the fiction and into the tabletop, console, handheld and computer games, the pet groups start getting attention.

At the moment, there are only a handful of Warhammer 40,000 games that feature Space Marines that don’t have the Ultramarines in there somewhere…

Dawn of War game and expansions.” width=”250″ height=”381″ align=”right” />Warhammer 40,000 has been around for quite some time. It’s been a table-top miniatures strategy game, a pen-and-paper RPG, and it’s spawned a franchise of PC and console games (such as Dawn of War and Fire Warrior) Perhaps more importantly, its also been the subject of some incredible character-driven stories.

The books feature deeper story lines than the PC or console games. The games tend to just give a very brief overview without giving the true scope of intergalactic turmoil. Naturally, the fiction and the pen-and-paper RPGs end up having better storylines that dive into the war-torn 41st millennium, since they take the time to build up the strife.