WH40K Tabletop Game

[TheRightToArmBears]

Biel Tan Eldar! The best of course. One of my housemates plays IG and the other plays 'nids, so we have some interesting battles. I love having a shit ton of aspect warriors at the ready, but I wonder if they would ever forgive me if I got the Phantom Titan from FW. Eldar are just so much fun to play, much better than all the other races.

Personally my least favourite army is the Necrons, they're too samey visually. To play against, I hate Tau though. lots of ranged shit, it's annoying. If I can get my units up to them then I can win pretty easily, but usually they're shot to shit before I can.

 

[Iwata]

Biel Tan Eldar! The best of course.

If you mean "the best at having their Seer Council slaughtered by a single Chaos Lord", then yes, they are the best.

Chaos scum will be purged by the black templars, I assure you. And I occasionally roll with the grey knights, when I feel especially zealous.

Fellow Black Templar! Hail, brother.

This is quite interesting. Up until now, our local 40K community had one single Black Templar player, but this year alone, in the past 6 months, at least three new players are starting with Black Templars. It's a strange ressurgence.

 

[x-machina]

I play Flames of War, which is a tabletop game very very similar to Warhammer, only based on WWII. I play Rommel's Deutsche Afrika Korps

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Biel Tan Eldar! The best of course.

If you mean "the best at having their Seer Council slaughtered by a single Chaos Lord", then yes, they are the best.

I mean 'The best at destroying crappy chaos spehs mureenz/everyone else's infantry with Striking Scorpions.'

 

[Iwata]

I play Flames of War, which is a tabletop game very very similar to Warhammer, only based on WWII. I play Rommel's Deutsche Afrika Korps

I got into that for a while. I had an XBOXHUEG German force tailored for the Eastern Front (greatcoats, looted PPsh's, captured T-34's and KV-1's, Ford trucks, and everything). The game was fun, and I actually accidentally met some of the developers while visiting a gaming club in New Zealand, but the community ended up ruining it for me. The game was a lot of fun, as I said, but some people, the influential people here, started taking it far, far too seriously, and if I want a job, I have a job already. I just wanted a hobby. So, years later, I traded my Germans for an Ork army, and that was that. I kept my favorite Tiger, "Hobbes", though. Not only is he lovingly painted, but he killed so much he ran out of space for kill rings.

I WAS interested in getting into Vietnam, but no one seems to be playing it, so...

Aside from 40K, I also have:

- An Imperial Navy fleet for Battlefleet Gothic
- A Clan Mors Skaven force for Warhammer Fantasy
- An Earth Alliance fleet for Babylon 5: Fleet Action
- A Federated States of America fleet for Dystopian Wars
- A Cygnar force for Warmachine
- A Clan Wolf-in-Exile force for Battletech

And I'm sure I'm leaving stuff out, but that's all I can remember.

 

[x-machina]

I had an XBOXHUEG German force tailored for the Eastern Front (greatcoats, looted PPsh's, captured T-34's and KV-1's, Ford trucks, and everything).

That army sounds bad-ass, I mean really that one sentence is making want to build an army for the Eastern Front. But, I definitely know what you mean by the community ruining it. I never attend tournaments or anything like that, I mostly just play with my brother and a couple friends. I kinda just assumed the community would be like that for all table-top games.

 

[Iwata]

I had an XBOXHUEG German force tailored for the Eastern Front (greatcoats, looted PPsh's, captured T-34's and KV-1's, Ford trucks, and everything).

That army sounds bad-ass, I mean really that one sentence is making want to build an army for the Eastern Front. I definitely know what you mean by the community ruining it, by taking it too seriously. I never attend tournaments or anything like that, I mostly just play with my brother and a couple friends. I kinda just assumed the community would be like that for all table-top games.

There's always a totally competitive segment of a game's community, but it varies according to the game. Warhammer Fantasy players, for example, tend to be more competitive than 40K players. But Flames of War seemed to be built around it, so, well... I just up and left. Haven't really regretted it, either.

And yeah, playing with friends is the way to go. Flames of War tournaments at times just turn into shouting matches.

 

[Deamonian]

I've collected Fantasy (but that's irrelevant to this thread) and Warhammer 40k. I've collected Space marines (Dark Angels), Tyranids, and I've just started collecting Dark eldar.

My least favourite faction? Hmh, that's a hard one. I don't really dislike any faction, but if I have to pick my least favourite, I have to pick.. Grey knights. Because it just feels as if they're unfair to play, since basicly (from what I hear) every single unit can be equipped with a force weapon.

 

[rosemystica]

Blood Angels forever! I love my dudes. Space Wolves, too. I love the fluff behind both, and the Blood Angels have a decent variety of units, so they're fun to play. (Also, my Death Company can stomp anything into submission!)

My boyfriend also plays it; he's the one teaching me how to play (he always wins, though). The little shelf space that isn't filled with his vast library of books is filled with half a dozen different Warhammer armies (both 40k and Fantasy). He's really good at modeling and painting. I'm still just a beginner, but I'm quite good at doing action poses on models.

 

[SckizoBoy]

(Also, my Death Company can stomp anything into submission!)

Does that include Grey Knight Paladins with an Apothecary... actually, that would be an interesting match up, PW the DC up and it'd be quite a smash-fest.

I kept my favorite Tiger, "Hobbes", though.

LOL, please tell me the gunner is called Calvin!

OT: I don't think I've mentioned it on this thread but Jetbike Seer Council, fuck yeah!

 

[Bluntman1138]

Battletech was way better and cheaper. I played Warhammer some back in the days, but i never really could get into it. Just cost to much money to really get into it. But i played Eldar, because my friends had a crap load of 40k, and didnt really play Eldar all that much.

I loved Clan Wars though. I wish AEG didnt go under, it could have lasted longer.

 

[SpaceGnome]

grey knights currently but i also have TAU and chaos (oh the irony) but my true love has always been the inquisition but they have been more or less written out

 

[Jessta]

my favorite is Eldar, fleet of foot is something I got so used to I just can't live without it and the whole psychic powers thing is awesome. + I love Mu-ga-ra and Eldrad.

I don't REALLY have a least favorite but the models I would buy last would have to be imperial guard and orcs. Swarm tactics have never been my thing (tried imperial guard once and within the hour I was completely annihilated by the this big psychic jelly fish from the tyranids...)

 

[The Forces of Chaos]

For all who love the Horus Hersey If you want to read the preview of Aurelian.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150293206675793
really want to get a copy after reading that.

 

[MortisLegio]

I play Imperial Guard (1st Vampir "Grenadiers")

I HATE ORKZ! though most of it is due to ALL the Ork players I've played have been rules NAZIS on my turn and then make shit up on thiers and when I call them out on it they want to argue how despite being hit by a Melta gun thier Nob gets Feel No Pain