Posted 01 December 2012 - 07:09 AM
actually the entire 40k universe is makeing fun of history, if you want to get technical, if you think about it, the horus herasy somewhat resembles the civil war between the united states and britain but with an emphasis on england being the good guys, and then the imperium and its spacemarine chapters represent something that was part of the world at one point, the inquisition could be represented by the spanish inquisition, space wolves are vikings, which i completely agree with, the iron hands are probubly the steam punk genre (i could be wrong), i think the blood angels are to represent queen elizabeth the 1st because of her title (again could be wrong), black templars are obviousely based off of the witch hunts based in the past, dark angels could represent secret societies, and it continues but thats a general idea.
Working techmarine of the Dark Angels.