21, which puts me in the biggest bracket. Now I don't feel special.

Nevermind

27 and I still play with rice crispie toys as my dad refers to the hobby....

42. So that makes me the answer to life, the universe, and everything else...

A lady never tells.

But I'm no lady, and I'm older than I look - I'm 41.

26 going on 27. But once you start having kids and find a few grey hairs do numbers really matter?

And I slip farther down the bell curve. 41 now. Is there a way to change your vote?

Nice bell curve.

Many are older than me

I have paint older than a good grip of y'all.

27 - a great age to be and i have managed to remain as such for the last decade

I'm 13 years old Freeboota boy, WAAAGH!

Darn it, I'm the third largest segment - Now I feel old!

32 or 33 I have to keep using http://www.myagecalculator.com/ to figure it out

31 people are 5 to 10 year olds??

The average age is lower than I expected. Looks like I'm one of the older ones, being 50.

~Sigh~ one of the youngest one here... 14.

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53...and for all the younger Dakka-ites out there, which, by the Poll results is pretty much all of you relatively speaking...it's not the number, it's the quality. They'll pass the same for all of us, just make 'em memorable!

33. most of my hair is already gone and my beard is 1/4 gray. Stress... the silent killer.

It feels strange having played GW games longer than some of these members have been alive.

41, 42 in December.


If the poll is anything to go by, I'm starting to see why there are less grognards on here than on Warseer.

Youth is wasted on the young If you young-lings are eating healthy, exercising, staying out of bars good for you. See you at 50

Your only as old as the woman you feel Therefore I'm 26, 27, and 32 ha ha

13. I am smol.

I'm 13, 14 in February next year. Being so young makes it hard to afford wargames, but, eh... I get by.

49 in November.

First started painting in the summer of 1977.

Hav'nt gotten much past "table top standard", but painting is still my favorite part of the hobby.

 Rolsheen wrote:
Your only as old as the woman you feel Therefore I'm 26, 27, and 32 ha ha

Stop touching your mom

I am 29<<< and the ages are kinda what I expected with what I see on the topics.

45 now. 46 in Nov.

Hey Glory. You know a SFC Ringold?

I was born in 1987, like 40k.

13 almost 14 but I paint models to get minis! I feel young, I must honor the elders!

18, 19 in January - I have to take things a lot more seriously nowadays, like balancing my spending and working hard to cover my rent. Surprisingly, it helps me paint more frequently.

41 here. Bad idea to click on this thread. Now I feel old.

I was born almost 24 years ago.
I look like I'm 20.
I feel like I'm 40 (thanks, Army...).
I act like I'm 12.

I think I might be a little confused.

31, and it's a good age. i'm alive!

It's good to be alive.

27 I could swear I was just 21 last week.

I am 24 (and a half).

Feel like I'm 40 though, thanks to my bones. Aha.

Act like I'm 12 most of the time, except at work, when I'm a miserable old sod.

Just turned 33 last week, I figured I would be on the younger side of the curve judging by my local gaming groups. I play with a bunch of grandpas.

 Funzeez wrote:
Just turned 33 last week, I figured I would be on the younger side of the curve judging by my local gaming groups. I play with a bunch of grandpas.

I think the skew here has more to do with the age of people who hang out on the internet than age of players.

Oh, 47 next month. I'm old enough to remember when U2 was a Christian rock band!

Alcibiades wrote:

 Funzeez wrote:
Just turned 33 last week, I figured I would be on the younger side of the curve judging by my local gaming groups. I play with a bunch of grandpas.

I think the skew here has more to do with the age of people who hang out on the internet than age of players.

You may be on to something! I'm just luck this is forum isn't blocked at work or I'd be bored on slow Fridays.

32 years old and I don't give a gak.

Don't think that you're old. Just keep doing what makes you happy and age won't bother you.

Looks like I'm heavily in the Long Fang territory in this demographic... 36 this year.

I'm Jurassic AF.

Honestly, I find it amazing there are so many older people here! THe hobby ist, at least where I live, a bit of a youth thing. I really like the diversity in age here!

31, liking it. Its like im 20 but with money to spend on expensive hobbies. : D

51. Less than 2 years till retirement. So much time for painting awaits me.

50+ as well here. I was there right at the beginning or Warhammer and was one of those people who migrated over from D&D. Looking at most of the ages I certainly feel somewhat out of place.

Just hit 50.

All of you are makin' me feel old.
45 currently.
Now get offa my lawn!

Looks like some fellow old timers ninjad me.

Is there a way to update my age?

28. Looks like I'm in a majority group.

I started beeing ineterested in 40k when I was 16, was a fan of fluff, books and DoW for a few years, experienced a growth of interest towards the tabletop as a student, then after a couple of years left the game competly due to the IRL issues. Now as it turns out I finally have some free time again (and also money), probably I'll return to the miniatures one more time.

Btw, maybe I'm just not old enough, but though I myself already have some health problems, for me it's quite funny how many people from 30 to 40 complain that they've become "old" recently. A man of 32 (who in the case had money, a beautiful wife, 2 kids and a good health) making a sad face and proclaiming some pompous speeches about how difficult it is to age?.. That's not serious.

Also it´s quite fun how some men after 30 are nowdays not eager to tell you their age exactly. Where I'm from, such behaviour was appropriate for women only (though even some clear-headed women don't approve it).

I spent 26 years getting ready to play warhammer 40k

33 years old here... I still get carded....

Only 46, bought 3 White Dwarfs at 16, then started the hobby at around 40 . Needed some time to decide .

MorglumNecksnapper wrote:

Only 46, bought 3 White Dwarfs at 16, then started the hobby at around 40 . Needed some time to decide .

Disclaimer: much of the following paragraph may contain woeful inconsistencies due to the fog of time, but...

At some point at around age 10 (circa 1997) my dad did two things: he bought me a Lizardmen Saurus painting set and brought me to a Games-Workshop in Dublin. Again, I have no recollection of which happened first, but it seems like he probably picked up the painting set first as I distinctly remember our visit to the store. The guy asked me which of the two games looked more appealing. I chose 40k over Fantasy and the guy proceeded to show me the basics. I was enraptured. I'm not sure what I picked up that day; maybe it was the painting set (in spite of my 40k preference), but I probably also picked up a White Dwarf. I''m confident this was the case because I definitely remember White Dwarf being the reason I chose Dark Angels as my army. I don't remember the issue, and unfortunately I purged all of my old White Dwarfs at some point, but I distinctly recall that it was some pictures of a massive Dark Angels army built and painted by Mark Bedford. I believe he was giving it away as part of a fundraising event, possibly for one of his children who was ill at the time. Anyway, sometime soon after, my father also bought me the third edition boxed set. I promptly got to work putting the models together and that was the end of the hobby for me. Trying to glue those Kabalite warriors and the land speeder together, quickly broke my pre-adolescent heart, and I decided that the hobby simply wasn't for me.

And yet I still spent vast hours poring over the rulebook and its contents. I still continued to pick up the occasional White Dwarf here and there and I really never did stop fantasizing about the game, despite my early failings. At some point, I even picked up the fourth edition rulebook and the fifth and sixth edition starter kits, which I actually did put together and paint, but living in a city where I knew not a single soul who played or collected miniature figurines, I never actually had a game.

Fast forward to 2018 and I now live in a city with an excellent community. I've still only had 2 games of eighth edition, and a single game of Kill Team, but I have a 1,500 point army almost ready for the table top, and two units of scouts getting primed for Kill Team. I'm excited to finally start getting into the hobby that I've been dreaming about for the best part of 20 years.

Cheers.

62. You're all young. I am in a minority in more ways than one - I am also a Kings of War player.

16, and painfully bad at painting- but only 40K bits.

33 here.

Huh, no wonder my RoboCop jokes ain't crushing it.

I've been on dakka so long my answer is no longer accurate. Nice.

I'm 39 and loving it! ^_^

I'll be 36 this year and enjoying getting the kids into the hobby. My oldest lad is 7 and he enjoys GorkaMorka and a bit of tabletop RPG daddy-style (ie. Made up on the fly)

My younger lad likes to paint more. He's 5 and already very handy at flocking bases.

42. Representing the middle-aged folks...

Older than my teeth, but younger than my tongue.

 1hadhq wrote:

MrMerlin wrote:

1hadhq wrote:

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that makes you this threads greybeard

But the poll saves me.... someone is beyond 56.... just wait bit and we have the really venerable ones.

I doubt it. The venerable ones are all encased in dreadnoughts and only revived when the going gets tough.


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 Happygrunt wrote:
17, but I want to know who is over 66.

Obviously some sort of troll.

28 Baabyyy

I am x years old

I'm soon to be 38, and have been playing around since Jr. High (late 2nd edition 40k). Back in the old days when games like Necromunda and Mordheim came out.

35

I was old when the Old Ones were young

42 here. Good to see so many young fellas keeping the scene alive so to speak.

Enjoy your youth; it really does start going downhill once you hit 36. On the plus side, chances are relatively high you will no longer be able to see your toes at that age. Quite nice if you have hairy toes, not so nice when trying to get rid of the gut.

So this poll was posted over 8 years ago. Not to question the validity of the result but I'm in an older bracket now than when I originally answered the poll. As are many of us, I suspect.

Time for a new poll maybe?

Well look at that. I'm finally a 1%er.

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35 and get off my lawn!

10 years older than when I first replied to this poll!

looks like we have 3 1% groups

Dang, I feel old now.

Let’s just say that my first war games were hex and chit…

This poll is not aging with us. I think I'm locked into the 31-35 bracket when I'm actually in the 41-45 bracket now.

I'm no statistician, but I'm guessing that one looking at these results would conclude that if people aged 5-15 aren't registering 80% to 90% here, the hobby isn't looking like it has a bright future.

But what surprises me most is that people past middle age like myself aren't in the overwhelming majority; I'd really come to believe that the (old) stereotype of the elderly man painting soldiers was the norm. 26 to 30 year olds leading the dakka pack seems to me a very optimistic sign, as these are the people who, presuming they continue in the hobby, will continue funding and crafting it for many decades to come.

On the subject of aging, I wish I could follow the cliche' and say that I envy the young, etc., but given the state of the world today, I don't. Perhaps that's good for me in some sense, but saying it doesn't bring me any pride, satisfaction, or happiness. I wish we all cared more about the generations behind us and lived accordingly in the present. Passing the buck and hoping to clock out before the worst happens, which seems to guide what most gerontocracies do, is a miserable, miserly mindset of minimal meaning minus mindfulness. (Sorry. Once I typed "miserable, miserly mindset" I couldn't help making fun of my own alliteration.)

At least I can take some comfort in knowing that my generation won't be the last to find joy in our strange, obscure, and wonderful hobby. Kitbashing and painting miniatures is probably the closest I'll ever come to knowing the peace and tranquility that Zen monks pursue. May this hobby continue to be a quiet, rejuvenating refuge to all of you through the best and worst of times, long after I'm gone.

I’m 143 I’ve got 4858 children, grand children and great grand children.

I've been 29 for a few years now



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 Vermonter wrote:
I'm no statistician, but I'm guessing that one looking at these results would conclude that if people aged 5-15 aren't registering 80% to 90% here, the hobby isn't looking like it has a bright future.

Hopefully some of those young people who are not wargaming now will get older at some point

 Vermonter wrote:
But what surprises me most is that people past middle age like myself aren't in the overwhelming majority

Oh, we are. You and I just represent the minority that (a.) cares about how to use a computer, and (b.) can be bothered to fill out a survey.

I'd think that the owerwhelming majority of today's yoof dont fancy using BBS-style forums such as Dakka. Don't read too much into it.

This poll is 10 years old now. Might be worth closing this out and starting a new poll to refresh the data?

I’m 53 and starting my second Imperial Guard Army. My first Imperial Guard army was built and painted long about 1998-99 era. Fast forward 2022, my 22 year old son decides he is getting into WH 40k. It’s funny how things seem to revolve thru time. Needless to say my 20 year hiatus was spent doing the fatherly type things. So, yea, I find this servey rather interesting. Thanks for letting me join in.

Welcome, Cadianruss! Always good to have more people who remember life before the internet, and GW before it became a publicly traded corporation. Neither of my kids are currently into 40K or miniature games whatsoever, but if your son is just starting the hobby at age 22, maybe there's still hope.

Every year, I get older than I was when I answered this. How devious.

So that's the problem with this place, and all its high falutin' lah-dee-dah tenth edition boojum.

Back in my day, we played FIRST edition, and we wuz durned glad ta do it!

And we had RESPECT FOR OUR ELDERS! And chicken tasted better! And...

What? Its time for my insulin shot?

Well, okay, but CONSARN IT YOU YOUNG PUNKS DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD YOU'VE GOT IT! Or how bad it is!

Or sumthin...

I'm 62 at this particular moment.

(It seemed to happen so quickly. I also didn't realize there were so many kids here)

46. Am I too old for this stuff? Are you all youngsters gonna stop when you pass 40?