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**Death By Monkeys**

BrookM wrote:Bolt Thrower

Are they celebrities?

**Danny Internets**

The only thing better than imagining Robin Williams playing 40k is imagining him being TFG...with wacky voices.

**Sonobovich**

I had the pleasure of playing Techno Destructo of GWAR in Vor: The Maelstrom. He had converted his commander to look like himself, using the GWAR miniatures game version of himself. It was so awesome.

**ShumaGorath**

I'm pretty sure Marneus Calgar plays Ultramarines.

**Nofasse 'Eadhunta**

ShumaGorath wrote:I'm pretty sure Marneus Calgar plays Ultramarines.

His brother Carneus Malgar plays Alpha Legion.

**Alazahr**

Vin Diesel confirmed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlUsiKfeDfo

&

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQUEQOyIvfk&feature=related

Robin Williams confirmed: (From a Wiki.)

"Other interests

Williams is a self-confessed gamer known to enjoy online video games, recently playing Warcraft 3 and World Of Warcraft, Half-Life[7] and the first-person shooter Battlefield 2 as a sniper.[8] In addition, he also plays the tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000. In an interview for a video game magazine, he stated that Nintendo contacted him once and told him because of his love of video games, if there ever is a live action Pokémon movie made, he would be their first, last and only choice to play Professor Oak.[citation needed] He named his daughter Zelda because his son, Zachary, is a devoted fan of the Legend of Zelda video game series.[citation needed] Williams was even in talks to do a voice for the game Half-Life 2, because he is a big fan of the series. However, scheduling conflicts prevented this.[citation needed]"

-J.

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

Steve Carell. In a sketch I saw a while back he said something about a Warhammer league he ran in his basement.

**Nydhog**

Oldgrue wrote:@nydhog - I can't imagine they would. They'd have to deal with a store full of bohab at One Eyed Jaques if they're still in Richmond.

They are still in richmond. Well, Casey Orr isn't but I won't disclose his whereabouts. I know they play D&D Like I said. I'll ask them about 40k when I see them if you guys really want me to lol.

**two_heads_talking**

Wasn't Robin Williams face on the box of zombies back in the day?

**two_heads_talking**

Gwar! wrote:
Nydhog wrote:GWAR does not play 40k
WHY DO YOU LIE! I do play 40k! Honest!

Gwar =/= GWAR... big difference.. big big difference..

**barlio**

So if Robin Williams has been confirmed then what army does he play? Personally I will assume orks, but I'm going to roll the dice and say Eldar. I'll give him a call and get back with you guys.

**BDJV**

I sold Mr Williams a few boxes of Space Ork Boys back when I worked at the Metreon in San Fransisco.

**Grunt13**

Chuck Norris

I heard Chuck plays.

Rumor has it he does not possess an army and never bothered to learn the rules. He just shows up, allows you to set up your army. Once the game begins he just glares at your miniatures until your army flees off the table on their own accord.

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

**Alazahr**

Grunt13 wrote:Chuck Norris

I heard Chuck plays.

Rumor has it he does not possess an army and never bothered to learn the rules. He just shows up, allows you to set up your army. Once the game begins he just glares at your miniatures until your army flees off the table on their own accord.

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

According the the Uncyclopedia Chuck Norris is the real name of Khorne: The Blood God.

-J.

**Cheese Elemental**

Death By Monkeys wrote:
BrookM wrote:Bolt Thrower

Are they celebrities?

Yes. They're well-known enough.

**Orkeosaurus**

Bolt Thrower is only well known for being related to GW though.

It's kind of like saying "Jervis Johnson plays 40k! He's a celebrity!"

**Cheese Elemental**

Jervis is a celebrity. Jervis is our lord and master.

Hail Jervis.

Hail Jervis.

Hail Jervis

Join us.

**GoFenris**

Great thread! It must be kind of tough to be a big celebrity and really enjoy table-top wargaming if you're not close to many people that play, how do you get a game? The poor family is roped into it?

Enough younger celebs admit to online gaming, you just know when you fire up Call of Duty that sometimes you're playing someone relatively famous.

**Nydhog**

Sonobovich wrote:I had the pleasure of playing Techno Destructo of GWAR in Vor: The Maelstrom. He had converted his commander to look like himself, using the GWAR miniatures game version of himself. It was so awesome.

He's a good guy. So is the guy who plays Sleazy P. Met ALL Those guys. ALL of them lol. Hung out with ALL of them lol.

**Foda_Bett**

Actually Arnold the Govenator doesn't play but did cotract GW's Eavy Metal team about getting the entire Ultramarines Chapter painted and put on display in his game room.

**Chrispy**

I read that Robin Williams plays Orks and his son played Eldar. He even taught Kirsten Dundst how to play 40K when she was very young, on the set of Jumanji.

**Gwar!**

Foda_Bett wrote:Actually Arnold the Govenator doesn't play but did cotract GW's Eavy Metal team about getting the entire Ultramarines Chapter painted and put on display in his game room.

And here I thought he would have wanted a Necron Army... Go Figure.

**Foda_Bett**

Gwar! wrote:
Foda_Bett wrote:Actually Arnold the Govenator doesn't play but did cotract GW's Eavy Metal team about getting the entire Ultramarines Chapter painted and put on display in his game room.
And here I thought he would have wanted a Necron Army... Go Figure.

From what I've been told the entire floor of his game room is plexiglass and the chapter is stored beneath it.

**Death By Monkeys**

Orkeosaurus wrote:Bolt Thrower is only well known for being related to GW though.

It's kind of like saying "Jervis Johnson plays 40k! He's a celebrity!"

Exactly my point. Thanks, Orkeo.

**malfred**

Grunt13 wrote:Chuck Norris

I heard Chuck plays.

Rumor has it he does not possess an army and never bothered to learn the rules. He just shows up, allows you to set up your army. Once the game begins he just glares at your miniatures until your army flees off the table on their own accord.

http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

Vin Diesel came before Chuck Norris, and he'll keep coming long after Chuck Norris is in his grave.

http://4q.cc/index.php?pid=fact&person=vin

The Story

It all started out with Vin Diesel. In March of 2005, The Pacifier (or Der Babynator for those of you who speak German) was released in theaters and Vin Diesel's bizarre performance in it was a hot topic of discussion. One of the online communities Ian frequents is the SomethingAwful forums, where the juxtaposition of Diesel playing a Navy SEAL-turned-babysitter opened the floodgates to a rather ludicrous discussion entitled "Post Facts About Vin Diesel". After several pages of these facts, Ian took it upon himself to create a website where anybody could view or submit these (mostly) hilarious facts. The rest, as they say, is history. On its first day in operation, the generator received in excess of 20,000 hits. On May 1st, 2005, the site received its ten millionth hit.

Over that summer, a poll on the website was put up where visitors could vote on about twelve candidates for the next fact generator. Theere was also a write-in component, and more users wrote in "Chuck Norris" than voted for any other option, and the rest is history, as they say. Before the Chuck site went live, there was a short-lived Bob Saget Fact Generator, which came to us by way of user-turned-administrator, Mike, and went live on July 14th, 2005. Althought the Saget generator received about 10,000 hits within its first few hours online, it didn't remain terribly popular and was eventually scrapped, though the code Mike had written to power it would be the basis for the next several revisions of the website, including the Chuck Norris Fact Generator. This code was publicly released and is available here. Please note that these files haven't been updated in quite some time.

On October 24th, 2005, Ian received a rather strange email email from two employees - of all organizations - NASA. That's right, the same people who help put people into outer space contacted him. Not only that, but they wanted to start up a new fact generator... for Mr. T. Within two days, the Mr. T Fact Generator was online. The guys who run it, Tom and Greg also helped out with optimizing all three sites. Ian still foots the bill, handles the media and the servers, and makes sure everything is as funny as possible.

**Uriels_Flame**

Wait - Jervis plays 40K? I thought there was no play testing in England?

**Nydhog**

Foda_Bett wrote:
Gwar! wrote:
Foda_Bett wrote:Actually Arnold the Govenator doesn't play but did cotract GW's Eavy Metal team about getting the entire Ultramarines Chapter painted and put on display in his game room.
And here I thought he would have wanted a Necron Army... Go Figure.

From what I've been told the entire floor of his game room is plexiglass and the chapter is stored beneath it.

Would most definitely NOT be Plexiglas lol. It would be something similar but it wouldn't technically be plexi glass ass it would bend and crack.

**willydstyle**

Nydhog wrote:
Foda_Bett wrote:
Gwar! wrote:
Foda_Bett wrote:Actually Arnold the Govenator doesn't play but did cotract GW's Eavy Metal team about getting the entire Ultramarines Chapter painted and put on display in his game room.
And here I thought he would have wanted a Necron Army... Go Figure.

From what I've been told the entire floor of his game room is plexiglass and the chapter is stored beneath it.

Would most definitely NOT be Plexiglas lol. It would be something similar but it wouldn't technically be plexi glass ass it would bend and crack.

It would be transparent plasteel, duh.

**whatwhat**

Nydhog wrote:
Foda_Bett wrote:
Gwar! wrote:
Foda_Bett wrote:Actually Arnold the Govenator doesn't play but did cotract GW's Eavy Metal team about getting the entire Ultramarines Chapter painted and put on display in his game room.
And here I thought he would have wanted a Necron Army... Go Figure.

From what I've been told the entire floor of his game room is plexiglass and the chapter is stored beneath it.

Would most definitely NOT be Plexiglas lol. It would be something similar but it wouldn't technically be plexi glass ass it would bend and crack.

Well, I'm glad you cleared that one up.

**Tek**

Whatwhat is right.