Warhammer 40K anyone?

Since I saw the comic a few days it made me curious. Does anyone here play/ have played Warhammer 40k? And if so what was your army. I never played the actual tabletop game of it but I do have several of the models that I have built and painted. I did the imperial guard cause they look like the Marines from Aliens XD

*perks up*

I play(ed) Warhammer!

Some version of it anyway. Wasn't army based, it was team based. Fantasy setting, go through dungeons, complete the quest. Standard D&D stuff. Fun game, but it took WAY too long to set it up nice and neatly and to play. Not to mention there wasn't anyone intelligent to play with.

Yes, the last few editions of the main games but I've always liked the specialist games more.

Sadly, as most of the specialist games are played with only a handful of miniatures they were not as profitable and the new busniess focused GW isnt as much fun anymore.

Ignoring GW there's a whole host of other tabletop games which are far more fun and supplied by friendly companies.

Hells yeah Specialist Games!

I don't have the funds to built a full Warhammer Fantasy Lizardmen army, but I DO play mordheim. It's 20 models max, but for points I can fit 9 models on the table. VERY good for the wallet. ^_^ I'm also much more into the modeling aspect of these games, and with Mordheim you have much more liberty to really make interesting, individualized models since you're not painting relatively identical units of 20 guys.

Any time you see Liz & Sid playing table-top games, they're playing Mordheim. Liz is (obviously) playing Lizardmen, and Sid is playing Beasts of Chaos.

Lord Grey: You might like Mordheim if you enjoyed tabletop but not the time sink. Mordheim can be as complex and simple as you want, and very standard scenario games can take as little as an hour to play. AND all the rules are free to download online, since it's not officially in development by GW anymore. ^_^

I also have been trying to put together a 40K Tyranid army, but the same reason I don't have a full fantasy army has been preventing me from building up my 'nids. I plan on going Godzilla nids though, but it's a matter of being able to get a spare $90 to buy a 3-pack of Carnifexes to be able to make that work. Oh yeah, and the time to model and paint everything... don't have much of that either.

Lizardbeth wrote: I plan on going Godzilla nids though, but it's a matter of being able to get a spare $90 to buy a 3-pack of Carnifexes to be able to make that work. Oh yeah, and the time to model and paint everything... don't have much of that either.

Nids are one of the most time consuming armies. You might want to consider some cheaper but very cool alternatives to GW models. GW stores rarely let you play with non-GW minis but elsewhere you'll get away with it. Just say they count-as somthing in your army list


One of my... 'nids:

http://www.redeck.com/users/chayat/bug.jpg

In 40k scale these guys are about the same size as the middle sized nids like the warriors.

Dude Starship Troopers! Awesome!

In 40K I play Nids, I play a gaunt swarm army, I have a depressing amount of models to paint.

In Fantasy I play Bretonians, I have them painted like the Knights Templar.

I also play Cryx in Warmachine but only have the base starter set.

I don't intend to sink anymore money into buying more models for any of these armies.

i played 'nids back before the re-design, waaay back in high school. I stopped playing because I couldn't justify spending all that money on a game that so few people i knew played. I did love painting the models, though.

Mordheim sounds like a good alternative if the armies are small. Maybe when I find some free time...

CalDayton wrote:i played 'nids back before the re-design, waaay back in high school. I stopped playing because I couldn't justify spending all that money on a game that so few people i knew played. I did love painting the models, though.

Mordheim sounds like a good alternative if the armies are small. Maybe when I find some free time...

The warband model cap for mordheim is 20 or 25, so it's more than doable. And since it's not an "official" GW game anymore, no one's gonna frown on you for using non-GW models.

Curse you all for causing me to research a new hobby!

Played WH40K and Warhammer before they munchkined the main rules.
*takes a deep breath* Played Space Marines (Own Chapter), Eldar (Own Craftworld), Imperial Guard(Own Division), Squats and Tau (Own Cadre) in WH40K, and Skaven, Undead (briefly, SOOOOO BORING painting skeletons, then again, could have been my technique of how I painted them...) and Lizardmen in Warhammer.

Also played Space Marine (Original and 2nd Edition) using Squats and my Titan Legion as main armies.

And Necromunda... Van Saar, Escher and Spyrers. The gangs (not the Spyrers) also had a Ratskin scout.

Got interested in Warmachine and the one with the Wolven but couldn't find anyone in my area to play against... they thought it was dumb...

Oh, a little fact: Never ask the staff of an official GW store the question, "Why did you get rid of the Squats?" I've been banned from my local store for that one.

Never ask the designers either, it really irritates them but we have the Demiurg now so it's ok.

Has anyone played the Dark Heresy RPG? I've been researching it and it looks like alot of fun.

There was a group in my roleplaying club who played it, but they were all gun toting munchkins who just wanted to kill things, so it didn't get good things said about it.
Personally, I think most of the bad things said were mainly about how the GM approached it and how the players played it. I have heard it's a reasonable system, but the background stuff will annoy the <FIVE LETTERED WORD> out of you if you played the original WH40K. I haven't played it myself, mainly because of the GMs who want to run it (Power Gamers, Rules Rapists, and Player Killers all), but a friend is trying to write up the Rogue Trader setting (back when the Imperium wasn't on a Genocidal Crusade against anything not human, could actually work with Eldar, Squats and Beastmen existed as Imperial races, Imperial forces were a lot nicer to play, and The Emperor wasn't seen as a God) using the ruleset.

I thought Rogue Trader was set in the current 41st millennium, or am I wrong in that thought? Although it does look really neat, seeing as there are ships and all that. I just thought that Dark Heresy would play as a more traditional DnDesque RPG. You know with character development and interaction. But like you said the Empire now is all corrupt and decadent which I think would be fun to insert some characters that would typically be considered heretical to the main stray Imperium.

Rogue Trader is set in the 41st Millenium, it's just the name I know that had the original timeline and Canon information of the races and worlds. Before they pretty much re-wrote the entire history of the Imperium, Eldar and Chaos.

My friend's idea was we played characters from the time of the Heresy (including Space Marines including female ones, and Xenos) as a crew of a ship. The ship gets lost during a warpstorm, returning to realspace after several hundreds, maybe thousands of years. Because the trip to the players perspective took maybe a few minutes, you can imagine the confusion of them when EVERYTHING has pretty much changed.
The Emperor is now a God of Humanity, not as the Heresy age Marine would think of him. The Marine would see him as the perfect human, and not a god, as isn't that what several of the Traitor Primarchs tried to be (gods) and we all know what happened to them...

Since I haven't played it, I can't comment on the ruleset, but your idea is a sound one.

Well the new W40K RPG is called Rogue Trader, and is getting released at Gen Con 09 in August. I actually just ordered a copy of the Dark Heresy rulebook cause I've been messing with a character generator on a website and I got excited to learn what all the abilities and what not actually do. (Whee!) Let it be known though I have never, NEVER actually got to play DnD or any game like it, I haven't even battled it out with my small (and I mean like less than 20 soldiers and one Basilisk) Imperial Guard army so I'm pretty excited to see if I can get some of my friends to play it when it arrives.

P.S. The Character I made is a Space Hulk born Psyker, so I'm pretty much a dead man to the Imperium (FUN FUN FUN!)

Got back into this a few weeks ago after playing Dawn of War 2. The rules are somewhat better than the old days but I still miss the Overwatch rule. got me a little ultrasmurf force that I'm working on with Tease's help (Ever since I crashed a few years back, I can't do fine detail like I used to)
The only thing that sucks is when I got to test my army out in the store I was met with comments like
"It's only a Standard Predator?"
"You've only got a Captain"
Kinda torqued me, still had fun and bloodyied my opposite numbers army rather nicly at the lost of a full tac-squad and a Liberian.

So I take from reading the previous comments, most people here play the Tryanids?

I have a 7500 point Imperial Guard Armored Company (6th Gnosian Armored Core) that includes 2 Shadows Sword Titan Hunters, and a Bane Blade superheavy tank. Why a tank army you ask? I hate painting infantry and a love tank combat. The army is not super broken, if I lose momentum I'm dead. My record is 18 games played, 4 losses. And those losses where royal slaughters. Lost all my tanks and only managed to kill like one or two squads.

Sorry for the geek out there.

*Salutes a fellow guardsman*
Nice Army !
I was planning on getting a Baneblade, more as a centrepiece but following the new rules and as I've mentioned before some health issuses, I found it less daunting to paint several dozen marines.

*Salutes back*

Well I have the unnerving tendancy to make explosion noises while I paint. Considering I love anything with an engine on it and has over sized guns. If I had that mysterious thing called "talent", I would start working on the infantry of the company, which are all mounted in Valkyries. =P Blitzkreige army for the WIN!

I listen to classical while I paint, also while playing fps.....hummm maybe I should be worried about that?
Now where did I leave my boweler hat....

Nah that just means you are an old school refined killer. Consider that I live in America where we blow up a lot of stuff to celibrate the countries birthday. It kinda suites me to have rather loud rock and techno blasting as I pretend I am a master of thousands of tanks rolling across a fictional landscape.

Yeah Blackwolf, kind of like Hannibal Lecter.

I chose to take that as a joke, if a poor one in bad taste