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[Tack]

I think nids are the only ones with oddly-colored blood.

[milo christiansen]

Tau blood is cobalt blue.

[Kot]

Tau have Coboglobin instead of Hemoglobin, which should make it amber yellow but it's apparently cobalt blue instead, because what Sci-Fi minigame lore writer bothers to fact-check shit. It also means they tire much faster since even their blood is shittier than what humans have.
Eldar blood is kind of odd-coloured because it's much brighter red than human blood. Higher oxygenation or something, if Xenology is to be belived. Tau blood is even more shittier in comparison.
Tyranid blood colour apparently varies, usually depends on most common blood colour of the things that lived on a planet they devoured last. This is good because when Tyranids devour Tau they actually get worse.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Tau blood is blueberries.

And yes, Eldar have red blood. However, it crystallizes when exposed to air instead of scabbing.

I think Orks are said to have red blood, but that might be from the era of them not really being green, just the outer layer of fungus.

From all signs, this suggests that the Old Ones may have had red blood, since all the species they had a hand in creating inherited it and the one major species they didn't don't.

[Kot]

I think Orks are said to have red blood, but that might be from the era of them not really being green, just the outer layer of fungus.

Their blood is... kind of both. Since their biology is some fucked-up fusion between fungi, plant and animal their blood also contains chlorophyll (which doesn't appear in fungi, but whatever, this is already batshit retarded when you look at it from realistic point of view) which apparently combined together makes the blood usually very dark red or even black, but it also depends on the environment the Ork in question "grew up", so Orks can have greenish-black blood too, if radiation levels are high enough. I belive in that case their skin colour also gets darker.

[Grim Portent]

From all signs, this suggests that the Old Ones may have had red blood, since all the species they had a hand in creating inherited it and the one major species they didn't don't.

Even the non-sapient creatures they made usually had red blood. They seeded dinosaurs throughout the Galaxy and most if not all are red blooded like terrestrial dinosaurs.

Old Ones had a thing for giant reptiles.

[Kot]

Considering they were giant fucking fat Pre-Columbian South American toad-but-reptiles...
Or at least that's what they devolved into, see Slann.

EDIT:
What would be the best image for Wh40k intro? Just asking.

[Dorsidwarf]

Considering they were giant fucking fat Pre-Columbian South American toad-but-reptiles...
Or at least that's what they devolved into, see Slann.

EDIT:
What would be the best image for Wh40k intro? Just asking.

One of the really big Imperial Guard battle scenes probbably.

[Kot]

Got it.
I actually have a damn fine idea.

[Tack]

A Cadian pilot in the doorway of a cockpit blaring heavy metal giving the time-to-drop to a bunch of humorless stormtroopers in the crew compartment.
Or, say, a hellbrute with his sarcophagus open, trying to drip blood from his autocannon bayonet into his dessicated mouth.
Yes, I play IG and Chaos.

But if you ask GW, probably ultramarines killing orks or something.

[Teneb]

But if you ask GW, probably ultramarines killing orks or something.

Ultramarines vs Khorne CSM. GW probably forgot there are other Chaos Gods, Tzeentch in particular.

[KingofstarrySkies]

If it's just an image, then yes, something with the Imperial Guard versus Chaos, I'd say. However if it were more like an opening to a show, I'd say give a showcase of each faction in video-format.

[nenjin]

If it were a real true to setting intro, it'd be a fight on the ground, yeah.

A nuanced movie-esqe approach would be the pilot shot.

What we'd probably get though is the thing that's most easily recognizable and says the least about the setting or what sets it apart from the rest of sci-fi: fuck off 'uge space ships.

[MrRoboto75]

That intro video for Dawn of War I

[KingofstarrySkies]

If it were a real true to setting intro, it'd be a fight on the ground, yeah.

A nuanced movie-esqe approach would be the pilot shot.

What we'd probably get though is the thing that's most easily recognizable and says the least about the setting or what sets it apart from the rest of sci-fi: fuck off 'uge space ships.

Followed by Ultramarines. And Orks. That's it.