Warhammer 40,000: Anyone play?

[PsychicHeart]

For those of you who don't know, Warhammer 40,000 is a miniature strategy game, i've just started. At first i thought it was Australia only, then i realised it was practically worldwide, so i thought i'd make a thread. So, does anyone on the forums play?
Probably not some of the older members, but meh, anyone??
Fb.

[MrColossal]

I've never ever had the desire to play... But when I was younger, HOLY MAN did I want all the little models and peices and tiny things!

Not enough to actually play the game but they just looked so neat!

A friend of mine got engaged at a warhammer gathering, like the big nerd her finaceé is he was dressed as an orc and proposed to her like that... For some reason she said yes!

[Helm]

As with eric in this case, I was far more interested in the pieces than playing the game. After a few games it showed that it wasn't for me, really. Never actually went out and bought a full army, but I did have a blast painting my blood angels back in the day. I am well versed in the universe history and rules although I don't actually play anymore.

[Squinky]

I don't play Warhammer, but I did used to buy those lead miniatures back in the day and paint them. I rocked so hard at it too, those ones in most of the gaming shops are craptacular. Then they had a big issue with lead being bad for ya and whatnot and started making a mixture lead and pewter and they started costing too much. So that was that. I haven't messed with em since I was like 16.

I used to do little crappy skirmishes with em, but I realized for something as basic as battles I was happier playing a strategy (computer) game that was similar and did all the math for me.

[TheYak]

I dug the figurines but never tried the game.  I think it was after my Xth model airplane that I realized the fun was in assembling/decorating it but then it becomes more shelf-fodder. 

The universe seemed pretty interesting, based upon the couple of games I played on PC years ago (was it called Vengeance of the Blood Angels or something?), and the newer game interests me a bit, though I haven't enjoyed an RTS since Starcraft. 

What kind of play is the boardgame? Like Risk or more D&D-esque with stats and such?

[Helm]

more chainmail rules than d&d rules... d&d evolved out of strategy gaming, not the other way around. Can't really liken it to anything that isn't tactical tabletop strategy. the minatures have hit point, stats, do damage according to weapons, have morale etc etc

[PsychicHeart]

Well, i guess it's pretty unanoumus, everyone who has posted in this thread (including me) prefers/preferred the Miniatures themselves as opposed to the actual game.

[Unilin]

Games Workshop is evil to the core.  The minis cost an arm and a leg, espically if you want to build a decent army.  They keep rolling out new models and unit types so you keep having to buy new ones to tweak your army.  You have to paint them with official GW paints and GW brushes etc all of which is also quite pricey, otherwise they are not legal four tourny play.

Furthermore, they keep "updating" the rules and setting info, so you have to buy their books over and over.  What are they on now, ninth?   Sure, the settings are cool, they're what Warcraft/Starcraft are based on, but dude.

As for the game itself, not too bad.  It's much like battletech or any other mini combat game.  Plastic tape measures and lots of dice.  Crazy terrain, stat juggling, tokens, counters and arguing over rules.

[Huw Dawson]

I play 40k... Not on a tourney basis of cource, their sitting in their box on the landing at the moment, waiting for an opponent...  :'(

[Nacho]

Hehehe... I see that the interest in figures is bigger than the strategy game itself. I personally feel that painting that figures helps in improving some skills that can be used in AGS, such learning lighting and things like that. No offense, but as for the "players", the ones I have met have that "wanker" feeling that annoyes me... ^_^

[Squinky]

When I painted the small little bastards, I don't think lighting had much to do with it. You simulate it with drybrushing or washes, or at least thats what I did. Drybrushed mostly on armor and washes on softer deals...Now I am rambling...

[Huw Dawson]

Gah, I like playing too much... I can't paint anyway so I used a nice grey theme... 

[2ma2]

I know friends that's were into it, but I don't like miniatures so much at all. Also, I just peeked into the rulebook before realising I didn't even want to pretend to try and understand them.. Yikes indeed..

I liked the Fantasy RPG though.. very.. odd.. and amusing.

[Chicky]

most of my warhammer's on the shelf, broken or in the hoover.

I used to play about 5 years ago, well i painted them anyway; i think i had one real game.

[Pet Terry]

I had some friends who were into Warhammer. They would travel to Helsinki (over 300km) to a special store to buy Warhammer stuff. I don't know if they ever actually played, I never even saw their Warhammer stuff when visiting them.

By the way, whatever happened to Andail's RPG he was designing at Mittens? We were supposed to play (or rather, people were supposed to play, I was going to watch other people play) but never got around doing so.

[Tuomas]

WOW baby do I have a dwarf army back home! not 40.000 though... Ended it due to lack of funds, that game is only for not grown up adults who can afford it. Nor did I ever bother to learn the rules to these buggers.

But I have a friend who still does them, elves or something... he's really a killer in painting them

[Mr Jake]

I have a 1000 point space marine army. But I stopped playing just after I completed my 1000 points 'cause I got bored. Its pretty fun, but not worth the money really. And the people that play smell really really bad.

[Evil]

My friends and I would buy the peices and use them as D&D characters. Much more fun to play D&D as a robot.

There's a guy at my school, his whole family is into it. His brother makes a living off painting those things, and he is damn good. He has a whole basement full of them. FULL of them.

[PsychicHeart]

No offense, but as for the "players", the ones I have met have that "wanker" feeling that annoyes me... ^_^

Obnoxious, bespectacled? Yeah, i see that alot.