How dare you link something showing the glorious Ultramarines in a bad light! I will not have it I say!
Ultramarine fanboys are worse then heretics! White Scars and Imperial Fists forever!
To be fair, I do like the original way they handled Space Marines, how they were actually based on Earth Cultures, The Ultramarines were clearly Spartans, I mean heck, they even had Roboute Guilliman write the Codex Astartes, so similar to Lycrugus of Sparta, The White Scars are awesomely Mongolian/Russian, the Salamanders were Zulu based, even down to using Assegai, though fun fact, do you know what the Dark Angels were, before they went all weird and rewrote them?
I actually like Ultramarines. Most of the hate comes from the table-top, something I never played. They are written quite nicely in the Heresy series, which I am reading right now. People often say they are Mary Sues, but they aren’t portrayed like that in the books I am on.
They are based on a mixture of Spartan and Roman, from what I have seen, with Maccrage having two Consuls.
The Dark Angels are apparently a mixture of influences, no shocker there, but the predominant factor seems to be a general knightly culture, with their brotherhoods and quests.
Once things went Grimdark, they quite resemble, at least to me, some sort of Inquisitorial secret police, especially with the Angelic names. While sharing a certain Teutonic flair with several other chapters.
Oh, I also forgot, the chapter has the name of the most famous poem of Lionel Johnson, who’s name they totally stole for the Primarch.
They’ve always been my favourites, even though I haven’t touched the game for around twenty years, although the two Consuls thing is another point, The Spartans had two Kings at a time. One as a spare in case (as happened at Thermopylae) one of them died. Totally agree on the Roman side of them though, a lot of the unique officer models for them had very ‘Centurion’ crests on them. Now the Dark Angels are really interesting. If you remember the original board game of ‘Space Hulk’, it was the First Company of the Blood Angels, who boarded the ‘Sin of Redemption’. They then brought out an expansion box set, called, aheh, ‘Deathwing’, Which was about the First Company of the Dark Angels, on a planet rife with Genestealer Cults, and having to find and board the Hulk. There was a -beautifully- illustrated graphic novel that came with the box set, and in the depictions artistically, and the novel text (It was pretty long) the First Company of Dark Angels are all drawn as looking like Native Americans. Even their names, I can still remember a few (I am such a geek for obscure things) Pretty sure the dude with the autocannon was ‘Lame Bear’, then there was ‘Weasel Fierce’ and the Librarian was ‘Two Heads Talking’. It was a pretty glorious production to be honest, so it seems that the First Company of the Dark Angels, at least, are made up of Native American types. (The Artwork also showed loads of Native American imagery). Oh, Remembered another one, the Silver Skulls are apparently Maori…
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Oh, nice catch, them painting their armor white is also native American influence. I find Warhammer infinitely preferable to WoW at the moment, I won’t lie…
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To be honest, I have an insider contact, one of my oldest friends writes novels for Black Library 
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She didn’t write that one though, she wasn’t working for them back then, but she has written all the current Silver Skull chapter stories, and some Warhammer stuff too, like ‘Valkia the Bloody’, so I’m not partisan when it comes to how cool the ‘Deathwing’ graphic novel was
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Vulpera seem to be based in a mix between the initial Tauren philosophy, and the goblin one, creating a ‘Nomadic traders’ kind of culture, that overall seems somewhat unique to the current playable races.
In all, it’s an interesting approach, and I think the racial reflecting such seems nice (the one that enables them to create tents)
If I were to draw any kind of parallel with RL cultures, I’d agree that these do indeed resonate with the Romani/Gipsies.
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Copy paste the Khajiit, replace feline by fox model, don’t use the latter “india-like civilisation” developments of the race in ESO in order to stick to the Gypsy theme… That’s it. You got Vulpera!
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