I don't think Marines were ever to good..(yet). Reliable and straightforward yes, but various other denziens of the 40k galaxy are capable of kicking there power armoured butts. the Tyranids and the Dark Eldar for instance. They certainly are prolific though which is a pain, but as they account for over 50% of GW sales I can hardly see this changing any time soon.
Anyways in the tabletop world the Spacemarines get more variety next month with thier umpteenth codex, perhaps we'll learn the reason why they never had variety is that variety WOULD make them too good.
Perhaps because I am a wargammer I just can't get into the whole DOW multiplayer thing, while I have the game and the first expansion and played it all the way through. Multiplayer RTS are just to much about unit spamming for me. I sure do love those DOW finishing move animations though.![]()
Anyways everyone know ORKSES is da bestest!