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Post by: tremulant
Just wondering how old the majority of people are that play whfb/40k. I haven't gotten around to playing too much as I don't know many people that really play, sadly :( Soooo how old are you guys??? I'm 21, woo.
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Post by: Gascogne
Heh not many posters here.
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Post by: Guard
People hiding 
I voted, i'm 27.
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Post by: notprop
33 and loving it! Quite old by Dakka standards it seems!
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Post by: Cheese Elemental
15, and I'm 16 in October. Although you can just find this stuff out by looking at people's profiles.
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Post by: JD21290
i dont think this poll would include frazz :O, the 61+ seems a tad too young.
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Post by: Augustus
notprop wrote:33 and loving it! Quite old by Dakka standards it seems!
Me too brother!
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Post by: metallifan
I'm all of 19. 20 in a week and a half! ...Wait... My birthday on the first week... Buddy's Girlfriend's birthday the week after that, and my Girlfriend's birthday after THAT. Damn.... That's going to be a lot of money spend at the bar instead of on minis like it should be
*groan*
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Post by: Gwar!
JD21290 wrote:i dont think this poll would include frazz :O, the 61+ seems a tad too young.
Wha? I thought frazz was like 40? :( I feel like a child now at 21
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Post by: JD21290
lol, frazz goes past 40 me thinks (sorry frazz  )
but Gwar, your only just older than me
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Post by: yani
Seems like the under 20s are the biggest age group. Wow that was a surprise. I'm 16 btw so if that makes any opinons I hold less valid then *shrug*
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Post by: Gwar!
yani wrote:Seems like the under 20s are the biggest age group. Wow that was a surprise. I'm 16 btw so if that makes any opinons I hold less valid then *shrug*
Of course it does, you cannot vote! Little known fact: Within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland It is legal from the age of 5 and up to drink alcoholic beverages in a Beer Garden provided that someone over the age of 18 had purchased it for you at the Bar Area.
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Post by: JD21290
true Gwar, and also, if you buy a child (even your own) alcohol from a shop you get fined £5,000 lol
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Post by: Dark
Well, I literally turned 25 today.
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Post by: JD21290
in that case, happy birthday
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Post by: Dark
Hehehe, thank you.
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Post by: freddieyu1
I voted...I'm 41, been playing since 1998, both WHFB and 40K...
So I'm a hardened vet, or a longbeard.....
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Post by: Kommandant56434
11-20?! I feel like a little kid when you put it that way! im 18!
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Post by: Cryonicleech
15...
:(
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Post by: Lint
26, and going grey since 15. Awesome genetics, and hard living combined.
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Post by: nyyman
16 years. The beginning of high school really gets on my miniature hobby...
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Post by: darkkt
Recently 34. Really only started when I turned 30 (when i got too old for DnD)!
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Post by: Scott-S6
Gwar! wrote:JD21290 wrote:i dont think this poll would include frazz :O, the 61+ seems a tad too young.
Wha? I thought frazz was like 40? :( I feel like a child now at 21
I'd have guessed that you were older than that.
31 here.
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Post by: Deff Dread red Edition
I am 14 but turn 15 on the 29 of September.
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Post by: Gwar!
Scott-S6 wrote:Gwar! wrote:JD21290 wrote:i dont think this poll would include frazz :O, the 61+ seems a tad too young.
Wha? I thought frazz was like 40? :( I feel like a child now at 21
I'd have guessed that you were older than that.
31 here.
Really? -Shrug- I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
I am going bald though. Yay for MPB 
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Post by: RxGhost
I am chaos terminator with no upgrades 30.
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Post by: Linked
Voted for the 11-20 option.. I kinda like being 15
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Post by: don_mondo
51. And been playing as long as or longer than some of you have been alive!! You're all a bunch of young punks (well, except for the other two guys in the 51-60/61+ categories.................)
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Post by: Gwar!
don_mondo wrote:51. And been playing as long as or longer than some of you have been alive!! You're all a bunch of young punks (well, except for the other two guys in the 51-60/61+ categories.................)
And you still don't realise FAQ are unofficial
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Post by: 1hadhq
quote YMDC:
2. The only official sources of information are the current rulebooks and the Games Workshop FAQs. Emails from Askyourquestion@games-workshop.com are technically official, but they are easily spoofed and should not be relied on.
/quote
BTW 38
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Post by: Frazzled
JD21290 wrote:i dont think this poll would include frazz :O, the 61+ seems a tad too young.
Hey 61+ includes 3,000 er, 62...
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Post by: wuestenfux
Didn't know that Frazzled is 61+.
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Post by: Oshunai
I am 18 and mildly bored with it.
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Post by: Shadowbrand
16, turned in July. Man this summer went by too quickly.
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Post by: don_mondo
Gwar! wrote:don_mondo wrote:51. And been playing as long as or longer than some of you have been alive!! You're all a bunch of young punks (well, except for the other two guys in the 51-60/61+ categories.................)
And you still don't realise FAQ are unofficial
Ahhh for the good old days of "Chapter Approved", official FAQs in White Dwarf.......... This new-fangled "unofficial" FAQ is, well, newfangled. 
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Post by: porkuslime
43... I have been in and outta gaming 3/4 of my life.. sheesh..
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Post by: Unevenscore
I turned 23 recently. Been gaming for about 3 years...
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Post by: kirsanth
32.
^^
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Post by: lanman
26 haha i have been playing since i was 11 though
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Post by: Lord-Loss
Turned 15 on the 26th
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Post by: kadun
I'm surprised how many 11-20 year olds there are. I know I was broke when I was that age and any money I could beg my parents for usually went to necessities.
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Post by: statu
15, 16th on GDUK
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Post by: Demogerg
22
started miniature gaming when I was 5, started warhammer when I was 9 or 10
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Post by: fryxharry
23. Started at about 13 or 14, and haven't been in the hobby for more than five years until a month or two ago.
I'm suprised at the results here. Looking at the games stores it always seemed to me the majority of players was <18.
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Post by: mal
22....
started when I was 12. Finished when I was 15. Started when I was 22.
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Post by: Shinigami
I'm 16, 17 in a couple of weeks.
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Post by: Shinigami
I'm 16, 17 in a couple of weeks.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
Sorry for the triple post, could a Mod edit them out as editing won't work for me. Thanks.
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Post by: Shinigami
I'm 16, 17 in a couple of weeks.
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Post by: focusedfire
In my 40's and all I can say is:
You kids get off of my lawn.
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Post by: smart_alex
WOW I am actually in the majority here. I thought that average would be a little older since I play with mostly older dudes.
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Post by: Astronomicon
I'm 25. Only 40 years until retirement. 
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Post by: Octavius Widowmaker
33 been playing since i was 18.
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Post by: Octavius Widowmaker
33 Been playing since i was 18.
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Post by: Deathbot
focusedfire wrote:In my 40's and all I can say is:
You kids get off of my lawn.
I'm 17 and respond:
It's MY lawn now, old man!
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Post by: Battle Brother Loken
I am 16 and so are the majority of my gaming group 
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Post by: VictorVonTzeentch
I'm twenty but the majority of my gaming group is 21 or older. When I changed schools most of my friends ended up being upperclassmen.
EDIT wouldn't this be better if it was set up like the following;
Pre-teens
Teens
20s
30s
40s
50s
60+
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Post by: papakeef
35 and my 8yr old son has just started painting greenskins.
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Post by: Iron_Chaos_Brute
I'm 18. 1hadhq wrote:
quote YMDC:
2. The only official sources of information are the current rulebooks and the Games Workshop FAQs. Emails from Askyourquestion@games-workshop.com are technically official, but they are easily spoofed and should not be relied on.
/quote
BTW 38
Quote GW:
ERRATA & FAQs
Welcome to the Errata & FAQs section of our website. Here you can find the latest Errata & FAQs documents for our current books in the form of downloadable pdf documents.
In this section we cover Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. We aim to have one pdf for each book belonging to these systems, including the three main rulebooks and all Warhammer Armies books, Warhammer 40,000 Codexes, and The Lord of the Rings Journey Books and Sourcebooks. If a book is not covered, it is either because we are not aware of any issues with it or we haven't got to it yet.
We aim to publish a first document within the first few months of a book's release. After this initial release, we'll review and update these documents regularly, adding new questions and errata, and correcting any mistakes we might have made when answering some of the questions.
What's the difference between Errata and FAQs?
As it is rather obvious from their name, these documents include two separate elements - the Errata and the FAQs. In case you were wondering, 'Errata' is a posh (Latin!) way to say 'Errors', and 'FAQs' stands for 'Frequently Asked Questions'. It is important to understand the distinction between the two, because they are very different.
The Errata are simply a list of the corrections we plan to make on the next reprint of the book to fix the mistakes that managed to slip into the text (no matter how many times you check a book, there are always some!). These are obviously errors, for example a model that has WS3 in the book's bestiary and WS4 in the book's army list. The Errata would say something like: 'Page 96. Replace WS3 with WS4 in the profile of the so-and-so model'.
The Errata have the same level of 'authority' as the main rules, as they effectively modify the published material. They are 'hard' material. It is a good idea to read them and be aware of their existence, but luckily there are very few of them for each book.
The FAQs on the other hand are very much 'soft' material. They deal with more of a grey area, where often there is no right and wrong answer - in a way, they are our own 'Studio House Rules'. They are, of course, useful when you play a pick-up game against someone you don't know, or at tournaments (i.e. when you don't have a set of common 'house rules' with the other player). However, if you disagree with some answers and prefer to change them in your games and make your own house rules with your friends, that's fine. In fact we encourage you to shape the game around your needs and your taste. We firmly believe that wargaming is about two (or more!) people creating a gaming experience they are both going to enjoy. In other words, you might prefer to skip the FAQs altogether and instead always apply the good old 'roll a dice' rule whenever you meet a problematic situation.
- Games Development, November 2008
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Post by: 1hadhq
Iron_Chaos_Brute wrote:I'm 18.
1hadhq wrote:
quote YMDC:
2. The only official sources of information are the current rulebooks and the Games Workshop FAQs. Emails from Askyourquestion@games-workshop.com are technically official, but they are easily spoofed and should not be relied on.
/quote
Quote GW:
ERRATA & FAQs
Welcome to the Errata & FAQs section of our website. Here you can find the latest Errata & FAQs documents for our current books in the form of downloadable pdf documents.
In this section we cover Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. We aim to have one pdf for each book belonging to these systems, including the three main rulebooks and all Warhammer Armies books, Warhammer 40,000 Codexes, and The Lord of the Rings Journey Books and Sourcebooks. If a book is not covered, it is either because we are not aware of any issues with it or we haven't got to it yet.
We aim to publish a first document within the first few months of a book's release. After this initial release, we'll review and update these documents regularly, adding new questions and errata, and correcting any mistakes we might have made when answering some of the questions.
What's the difference between Errata and FAQs?
As it is rather obvious from their name, these documents include two separate elements - the Errata and the FAQs. In case you were wondering, 'Errata' is a posh (Latin!) way to say 'Errors', and 'FAQs' stands for 'Frequently Asked Questions'. It is important to understand the distinction between the two, because they are very different.
The Errata are simply a list of the corrections we plan to make on the next reprint of the book to fix the mistakes that managed to slip into the text (no matter how many times you check a book, there are always some!). These are obviously errors, for example a model that has WS3 in the book's bestiary and WS4 in the book's army list. The Errata would say something like: 'Page 96. Replace WS3 with WS4 in the profile of the so-and-so model'.
The Errata have the same level of 'authority' as the main rules, as they effectively modify the published material. They are 'hard' material. It is a good idea to read them and be aware of their existence, but luckily there are very few of them for each book.
The FAQs on the other hand are very much 'soft' material. They deal with more of a grey area, where often there is no right and wrong answer - in a way, they are our own 'Studio House Rules'. They are, of course, useful when you play a pick-up game against someone you don't know, or at tournaments (i.e. when you don't have a set of common 'house rules' with the other player). However, if you disagree with some answers and prefer to change them in your games and make your own house rules with your friends, that's fine. In fact we encourage you to shape the game around your needs and your taste. We firmly believe that wargaming is about two (or more!) people creating a gaming experience they are both going to enjoy. In other words, you might prefer to skip the FAQs altogether and instead always apply the good old 'roll a dice' rule whenever you meet a problematic situation.
- Games Development, November 2008
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Post by: wuestenfux
mal wrote:22....
started when I was 12. Finished when I was 15. Started when I was 22.
You look slightly older, 66?
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Post by: focusedfire
Deathbot wrote:I'm 17 and respond:
It's MY lawn now, old man!
Your not legally old enough to own anything.
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Post by: Deathbot
focusedfire wrote:Deathbot wrote:I'm 17 and respond:
It's MY lawn now, old man!
Your not legally old enough to own anything.
While you were typing that, I tip-toed in and stole the cake.
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Post by: focusedfire
Was the cake good? Good. Enjoy, it was a ninja booby trap laxitive cake. If you take some prozac it will help. You'll still be in the bathroom all day but you won't really mind being there.
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Post by: Deathbot
focusedfire wrote:Was the cake good? Good. Enjoy, it was a ninja booby trap laxitive cake.
If you take some prozac it will help. You'll still be in the bathroom all day but you won't really mind being there.
I wouldn't know. I gave it to my irritating little sister.
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Post by: focusedfire
Tsk, Tsk. Didn't they ever teach yout to not "Take" food from strangers. Now your little sis is going to have an upset tummy, she's gonna blame you, your parents will never let you here the end of it and worst of all....when she gets to the age to have hot friends that you can legally date, your little sis is gonna burn your rep.
Seriously, little sisters never forget that kind of stuff. You might want to be nicer to her.
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Post by: Deathbot
focusedfire wrote:Tsk, Tsk. Didn't they ever teach yout to not "Take" food from strangers. Now your little sis is going to have an upset tummy, she's gonna blame you, your parents will never let you here the end of it and worst of all....when she gets to the age to have hot friends that you can legally date, your little sis is gonna burn your rep.
Seriously, little sisters never forget that kind of stuff. You might want to be nicer to her.
She's so much younger than me that by the time her friends are hot, I'd have to a pedophile to date them. Which I'm not.
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Post by: porkuslime
The cake is a lie..
(someone HAD to say it.. )
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Post by: focusedfire
Note, I said legally. There is a difference between 30 dating 20 and 18 dating...well you get my point. One is illegal and the other means your a rock star.
Barring the dating her friends remember it only takes two family members to have someone temporarily commited in most parts of our country and when she marries the hubby will count.
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Post by: mal
wuestenfux wrote:mal wrote:22....
started when I was 12. Finished when I was 15. Started when I was 22.
You look slightly older, 66?
I've lived hard.
actually I don't think it is ever revealed how old Jim Trott is...
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Post by: Morathi's Darkest Sin
I'm 35, started wargamming when I was 14.
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Post by: warsmith pyrus
Yep I'm 15 started when I was 14 after being badgered to start by typhus.Thanks typhus 
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Post by: January_Doomsday
29 here. Good to see there's few older gamers knocking about. I was getting worried I was too old to be getting back into this whole thing!
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Post by: Vulkan77
32 here. First game with mini's i played was hero quest, then space crusade got me into 40k way back in the mists of time
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Post by: Doombot001
29. Been playing since the very beginning. I'm talking Rogue Trader days. Back when Citadel and GamesWorkshop were two different companies....
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Post by: Vulkan77
@Doombot, you must remember when this was the dread then!!
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Post by: Doombot001
Vulkan77 wrote:@Doombot, you must remember when this was the dread then!!
Damn!  I forgot how it looked. Don't tell me you still have that? I remember when Tyranids first came out and they looked like bucktooth Lizards or pissed off rabbits with 4 arms. And they used that beige or cream colored plastic.
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Post by: Vulkan77
Still have my original 'nids somewhere, maybe in the corner of the loft with all my bolter armed orks!
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Post by: Doombot001
And the old skool space marines. I remember the first time seeing a space marine w/out the beak. I remember thinking "Those aren't space marines". Ahhhhh, old skool. Back when things were sooo much cheaper and I didn't have enough money to buy them anyway...
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Post by: Vulkan77
QFT, i rember walking into a GW and seeing the unbeaked marines for the first time, looking at the land raider as well, i think i have 1 of the early ones tucked away somewhere with a hideous paint job
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Post by: Madgod
15, 16 in November.
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Post by: chromedog
darkkt wrote:Recently 34. Really only started when I turned 30 (when i got too old for DnD)!
What a coincidence. I also started 40k when I was "too old for D&D" - but that was back in 1987, when I was 18, and I've always been too old for D&D.
Going on 41.
Not the oldest 40k player I know, but far from the youngest (but at least the oldies I know don't throw tantrums when we lose.)
@Vulkan: I remember when that wasn't the dreadnought. That was the first PLASTIC dreadnought model.
The old dreads I remember were ALL METAL.
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Post by: freddieyu1
don_mondo wrote:51. And been playing as long as or longer than some of you have been alive!! You're all a bunch of young punks (well, except for the other two guys in the 51-60/61+ categories.................)
mwahahahahaha!!!!!
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Post by: wuestenfux
Is Frazzled the oldest player here around?
And whose the youngest one?
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Post by: Lord-Loss
wuestenfux wrote:Is Frazzled the oldest player here around?
And whose the youngest one?
I think the youngest ever to post were Panics little brothers. I dont think they come on dakka any more but I think they were 10 and 12
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Post by: Zarake
I'm 17, 18 in a few weeks, been playing Since June
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Post by: barisax1990
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Post by: TaintedSoul
It's interesting to see the majority of 40k players ages.... I suspect it's because in one's 20's they are still young enough to enjoy minis before a career/family really takes hold of them yet old enough to hold real jobs that can actually pay for all this stuff!!
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Post by: Mick A
45. Been gaming since '79, longer than the majority of the poll were born.
On this evidence I think this forum should have a Gentlemens Club where only us oldsters are allowed to post so that we may reminice about 'back in the day' and moan about 'the youngsters today' in peace...
Mick
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Post by: Vulkan77
Sounds good Mick, with a bar in the corner serving real ale and chesterfield armchairs!!
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Post by: CajunMan550
Just turned 18
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Post by: Mick A
Vulkan77 wrote:Sounds good Mick, with a bar in the corner serving real ale and chesterfield armchairs!!
That's the one! A place where we can talk about old battles, how dice in our day rolled how they were meant to, how you didn't need a hundred shades of blue and 10 different brushes to paint one Marine, how rules made sense then. Why I remember once...
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Post by: typhus
warsmith pyrus wrote:Yep I'm 15 started when I was 14 after being badgered to start by typhus.Thanks typhus
Was that sarcastic
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Post by: oggers
13. Youngest so-far.
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Post by: warsmith pyrus
typhus wrote:warsmith pyrus wrote:Yep I'm 15 started when I was 14 after being badgered to start by typhus.Thanks typhus
Was that sarcastic
It is a little bit I enjoy the game very much,but it's stealing all of my monies
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Post by: Steelmage99
33....played since.....well, my first Dark Angels were black (none of that re-named Salamander Green for me).
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Post by: typhus
warsmith pyrus wrote:typhus wrote:warsmith pyrus wrote:Yep I'm 15 started when I was 14 after being badgered to start by typhus.Thanks typhus
Was that sarcastic
It is a little bit I enjoy the game very much,but it's stealing all of my monies
Cant say i didn't warn ya
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Post by: jinshiryuu
38, been gaming since '83. Got into 40k (the first time) in '88 (RTB-01 had just been released).
Mick A wrote:On this evidence I think this forum should have a Gentlemens Club where only us oldsters are allowed to post so that we may reminice about 'back in the day' and moan about 'the youngsters today' in peace...
Mick
Do I qualify as an "oldster"? We can sit and reminisce about tanks on overwatch and vortex grenades and army leaders with 6 different saves... lol
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Post by: Tyranid Horde
Ah well I'm 13 yay
Hey oggers whats your date of birth?
I turned thirteen in may 
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Post by: Norwulf
Im 20, goin on 21. God I love being young, strong and healthy! and I'm almost old enough to go to bars and hit on hot cougars! rawr!
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Post by: RennyD
41 here... and been playing 40k since Rogue Trader and before... a lil old box game called Space Marine. Been playing GW games since 1982... mainly started with Talisman, still own copies of Chainsaw Warrior, DungeonQuest... and a game I haven't seen in years, and wonder how many peeps even remember it... Tyranid Attack, it's a box game... kinda designed like Space Hulk, but pits Tyranids against Eldar aboard a Tyranid Hive ship.
Peace,
RennyD
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Post by: djones520
25. Been playing since I was 11.
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Post by: RennyD
Oh ya!! Vortex grenades rocked.. especially with your cameloline wearing assassin (who looked like an eldar guardian) walked up to that nasty farseer and *POP* no more farseer.. and back then if you lost your general in 40k it sucked... bad things happened. Also, when auto and assault cannons had a little thing called sustained fire.. sure they could jam, explode, and kill your model... but what firepower!! That was when you could REALLY take out an enemy squad with one model... and when a turn could take an hour or two, there were so many things you could do... overwatch almost killed the game IMO... at least the way it was written back then... ok they still sucked, but a 20 man squad of IG with lasguns on overwatch still gave ya shivers... they were more effective that way than when firing normally.
RennyD
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Post by: Makaleth
25,
Our whole group is around the same age as well (High School Friends and Klingon's - I am a pointy eared one).
Most of us have been playing for some time,
I think I started over ten years ago (but it's kinda a blur).
I remember that dreadnaught if that helps (Gosh, that was a LONG time ago)
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Post by: RB
Turned 60 in August.
And still going strong!!!
RB
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Post by: jinshiryuu
RennyD wrote:Oh ya!! Vortex grenades rocked..
The RT version were even more fun. A wandering pie plate destroying everything in its path...
Imagined instructions on the side of an RTVG:
1] Pull pin.
2] Throw towards enemy.
3] RUN AWAY!!!
RennyD wrote:ok they still sucked, but a 20 man squad of IG with lasguns on overwatch still gave ya shivers...
Scarier thought... Tau + Networked Markerlights + Overwatch
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Post by: RennyD
Oh yeah... I completely forgot about the old template.. hehe no kidding, ya ended up taking urself out with it.. LOL
RennyD
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Post by: kirkieball
wahay 17 wooo norn Irish lol wooooo!
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Post by: Ed_Bodger
25 and feeling old
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Post by: Brother Gideon
I started when i was five, and im sixteen now.
I intend to die of old age with a paintbrush in my hand.
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