When my son as a preteen first brought home some 40K tanks to build I had the same impression. Everything about the vehicles had an anachronistic flavor to them and the hand held weapons; guns, swords, knives, clubs, were all too big, too long, too cumbersome to have any root in reality. The aircraft had all the aerodynamic qualities of cinder blocks and the titans were totally unworkable as combat vehicles in that even if they could walk at all which is highly doubtful they would be far too slow and easy to topple plus they would be far too shaky a gun platform with each step to be effective in the real world.
So suspend belief; we live in a science fiction age where sailing ships can dive underwater and resurface, can shoot at each other from opposite sides of a maelstrom. People can run on the separate blocks of a disintegrating bridge Hellboy and Legolas and duel with beams of light. They can move through space at many times the speed of light with no accounting for time dilation. Any of the space opera epics. Overcome the time paradox of being in two places at the same time without an infinite number of Marty McFly's being produced almost immediately as at the end of BTTF.
So once we accept all this, a suspension of disbelief is necessary, is mandatory, to enjoy the crap with which the media and games abound and just marvel at the fantasy artistry of an alternative universe. Besides I think Forgeworld Baneblades just look cool.
So suspend belief; we live in a science fiction age where sailing ships can dive underwater and resurface, can shoot at each other from opposite sides of a maelstrom. People can run on the separate blocks of a disintegrating bridge Hellboy and Legolas and duel with beams of light. They can move through space at many times the speed of light with no accounting for time dilation. Any of the space opera epics. Overcome the time paradox of being in two places at the same time without an infinite number of Marty McFly's being produced almost immediately as at the end of BTTF.
So once we accept all this, a suspension of disbelief is necessary, is mandatory, to enjoy the crap with which the media and games abound and just marvel at the fantasy artistry of an alternative universe. Besides I think Forgeworld Baneblades just look cool.