Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4851119-20140323173912/@comment-18016240-20140410210638

193.111.141.53 wrote: imo the tanks are simply ww 1 early tanks ;) and never forget the forever war XD perpetual warfare and so on.

as far as dreads go: contemptor vs rest mayhaps?

The tanks seem to be more based on WW2 era tanks in general, WW1 tanks pretty much had to run on prebuilt tracks or extremely flat ground and often just had a machine gun for weaponry, so they were pretty much just mobile machine gun nests during the first Great War.