When people say, "You need to base your model", I say "I will get around to it". But secretly, I don't want to base them.

I used squared-off Bicycle casino dice for about a year until someone said they were illegal to use in a tournament. Then I threw them away and bought some new dice. Come to find out, they're not illegal.

I've played against people, started winning- and then they got grouchy so I lost on purpose so they would lighten up.

I've never won a game with anything other than Black Templars, Scions, and Alpha Legion.

I skipped out on an event so I could use the money for an Imperial Knight. I still haven't put it together, and that was almost a year ago.

I did a really bad job painting my first 'Getting Started' set of Scions. Then I went to another store and bought a whole new box, and painted those. I told everyone I stripped down my original models and repainted them.

One guy at the shop I play at had a really hot girlfriend. He's actually a really, really ugly neckbeard and kind of an obnoxious dude. She told me she wanted to leave him and had nowhere to go. But he gave me a handful of old models that I really like, so I told him what was going on and he sent her back home on a bus.

One of my friends' kids knocked over another friend's Dark Eldar raider and broke it. I said I did it, and he won't talk to me any more and the kid won't even look at me.

I actually like Primaris Marines and hope they replace all the other models in a few years.

I never use 'regular' Space Marine helmets- I always use Maximus or some Forge World helmets. This costs a lot of money.

OH BOY.

Every time I walk into a GW I buy something even though I usually can't afford it because I feel pressured by staff.

I've been buying Warhammer for 17 years and I've never played a game.

I keep buying stuff I know I'll never paint or use or hell even afford because I like getting mail.

Sometimes I recast parts for my own personal use so I can stretch the contents of my box even further.

I'm too upset to go to my local GW because once the manager stole my third party ork warboss because it wasn't GW even though it was just in my box of minis I brought to paint and I had no intention of getting it out.

Your friend who won't talk to you sounds like an donkey-cave. My big expensive professionally painted Ta'unar was knocked over by one if the flgs owners by accident.

I told them it wasn't a problem. They all seemed to think I was going to explode. They said I took it really well. Thankfully the owner got it repaired asap. He also gave me a few hundred dollars of deathwatch models since I took it so well. He even offered to buy a replacement and then some for me if it hadn't been fixable. To think I nearly rage quit and went home (politely if course).

Heck where I come from if people break your gak tough luck. I was astounded I got anything for it breaking. He is a cool guy the store owner.

Also I still talked to them even when I wasn't sure it was fixable.

IFC_Casting wrote:
OH BOY.

Every time I walk into a GW I buy something even though I usually can't afford it because I feel pressured by staff.

I only go in if I'm specifically looking for a product. Here where I am, most people avoid gaming at the GW because the staff will hover over you while you play and try to shove product at you.

IFC_Casting wrote:
I've been buying Warhammer for 17 years and I've never played a game.

This is sad, friend. If I had the money, I'd fly you here to play a game with us Yanks. But I see where you're from, and as I understand- it's pretty much uncommon/unaffordable there.

IFC_Casting wrote:
I'm too upset to go to my local GW because once the manager stole my third party ork warboss because it wasn't GW even though it was just in my box of minis I brought to paint and I had no intention of getting it out.

Wait, what?

My confession is that I rarely play games with MY models because I own so little now. It's a struggle to rebuild, ya know?

I, on two occasions, got a date because of 40k. I proceeded to geek it up and completely trip over my tongue, also because of 40k.

I once got an A+ in a class (not just one assignment, the entire class) because I managed to bull my way through it by explaining how a bunch of soda cans stapled together was an Iron Warrior's warsmith and something about recycling.

I ended up meeting a businessman (who turns out to be the CEO of several small jewelry supplier companies) simply because I listed 40k as an interest on facebook and he literally rang me up out of the blue because he could not find anyone else to geek out with.

I once saw an old man and a kid enter a game store, then the old man being the one geeking out in the store while the kid had "Is this over yet?" Plastered on his face.

Due to an apathetic store clerk and a mislabeled box of minis, I got 45 Iron Warriors for 45 bucks (no tax due to paying in cash), several of which were the metal lascannon variety. I assumed the clerk would catch it when I brought it up but he just didn't care.

I once lost an argument as to why a Baneblade is more awesome than a Carnosaur. I forgot to mention the 11 BARRELS OF HELL and the size of the thing. I feel the shame.

I never use my own color scheme as I'm red/green color blind and worry what looks good to me will look awful to others. So I just look online till I find one I like and use that.

I hate painting in general, and have often regretted my choice to play admech just due to the difficulty I have painting them compared to my CSM.

I own a box of unpainted thunder wolf cavalry I essential bought to prove a point while intoxicated. It was the first 40k purchase I ever made, I bought them shortly after they were released.

This is my second dakkadakka account, the first I made while again intoxicated to rant at someone in a thread I necro'd years ago. I actually tried to retrieve it before I made this one, but felt relieved when I realized I no longer had access to the email account it was tied to.

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:

IFC_Casting wrote:
OH BOY.

Every time I walk into a GW I buy something even though I usually can't afford it because I feel pressured by staff.

I only go in if I'm specifically looking for a product. Here where I am, most people avoid gaming at the GW because the staff will hover over you while you play and try to shove product at you.

IFC_Casting wrote:
I've been buying Warhammer for 17 years and I've never played a game.

This is sad, friend. If I had the money, I'd fly you here to play a game with us Yanks. But I see where you're from, and as I understand- it's pretty much uncommon/unaffordable there.

IFC_Casting wrote:
I'm too upset to go to my local GW because once the manager stole my third party ork warboss because it wasn't GW even though it was just in my box of minis I brought to paint and I had no intention of getting it out.

Wait, what?

Appreciate the offer of a game! And Yeah, it was bad. He got fired for doing shady stuff with the store stock I heard. Still don't want to go back though.

IFC_Casting wrote:
Appreciate the offer of a game! And Yeah, it was bad. He got fired for doing shady stuff with the store stock I heard. Still don't want to go back though.

In most places in the US, it's a pretty fun and friendly environment. At my house, we have a table out on an enclosed patio/deck with fans, a kegerator, and a fridge. At the FLGS you'll find your hyper-competitive neckbeards sometimes, but most of the time the rest of the people warn you. At my FLGS, if you buy models people are asking if you want to build it at the crafting tables and chat and have some cookies (we have a guy whose gal always bakes things).

I've had an experience once or twice with a shady store owner. One last year accused me of stealing a product from him because there was a problem with my debit card and the transaction was voided out a day after purchase. I found the discrepancy and offered to pay him, and he attempted to charge me a 'fee' for a bounced check. I gave him the models back and walked out. He was also the guy that would tell 40k gamers to 'pack it up' so he could use tables for Magic players.

I'm too in the group of "I always buy something every time I go to a shop because I feel guilty if I don't".

 Galas wrote:
I'm too in the group of "I always buy something every time I go to a shop because I feel guilty if I don't".

I think a lot of us are. Fortunately, my FLGS has quesadillas, hot dogs, and sodas.

Seven years ago, I basecoated a model with liquid paper because my white paint "didn't have good enough coverage." I didn't know about layering, and thought the poor coverage was because the white wasn't thick enough.

I cut myself on a Citadel mold line remover.

I painted Dire Avengers grey instead of blue.

I once put a hobby knife in my teeth while doing some adjustments. Shortly after I attempted to push my glasses back up and proceeded to stab almost the entire blade length into my thumb.

I don't want to play with my current gaming group consisting of my best friend and a few others because it's full of people who just want to win with the latest flavour of the month. I get more enjoyment painting and playing at the local GW on game nights and setting the scene with people I don't know as well.

I do not like titans and Lords of War will be some of the last purchases I make just for completion sakes.

I flit between armies far too often and yet can't decide on an army for Imperium and Chaos meaning I end up collecting them all.

Everytime I visit Warhammer World with my gaming group, I feel the highlight of the day will be Bugmans.

malcontent999 wrote:
I once put a hobby knife in my teeth while doing some adjustments. Shortly after I attempted to push my glasses back up and proceeded to stab almost the entire blade length into my thumb.

Once I was trimming my Necron Warriors and I held onto my knife for dear life instead of letting it go when I sneezed. I sliced enough off that I almost needed stitches!

 Frozocrone wrote:
Everytime I visit Warhammer World with my gaming group, I feel the highlight of the day will be Bugmans.

Confirm or deny- the burger is good...?

Also, is the brew really tasty?

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:

 Frozocrone wrote:
Everytime I visit Warhammer World with my gaming group, I feel the highlight of the day will be Bugmans.

Confirm or deny- the burger is good...?

Also, is the brew really tasty?

Yes to both.

I need an ogre burger now.

As a teenager, whenever I bought any new 40k stuff, I had a tendency to either hide at least one box or rip off the plastic covering with the price tag on it before I got home. That way I wouldn't have to explain to my parents just how much I actually spent on my stuff.

I'm sometimes scared to talk to people about 40k. I have a tendency to go off on tangents and look incredibly weird.

I once played a game against a 10 year old boy who was just starting out with Tyranids. Intentionally built a list to annihilate him in the game while just claiming I was just getting lucky dice rolls. Why did I act like such a jerk? Because I hated his dad, who was helping him at the time. Neither of them had ever seen AdMech so they had no idea how they worked at first. I was never caught. And I felt horrible about it afterwards.

I've claimed a lifelong hatred towards all things Eldar, while secretly started collecting Harlequins

Once I played in a 500pt Combat Patrol tournament. 3 rounds, 7th ed. I brought Guard/Scions. Scions started in Reserves all three rounds. Me being the idiot I am, I somehow unknowingly brought an extra 200pts worth of Scions, which no one ever caught on to. Karma still punished me because I lost all three games, the last of which I was tabled top of turn 1. Didn't realize until afterwards when I was going over my list and my models. Never said a word, just facepalmed at my idiocy and vowed never to let that happen again.

I actually scared a girl off because of 40k. Both of us were talking, went on a first date. There was some good chemistry, things were looking good. Honestly thought we were gonna start dating after that. She asked about my hobbies at one point. Gave her the rundown: I'm a Star Wars fanboy, I enjoy reading/writing fantasy, and I play 40k. Girl did a complete 180, looked at me like I grew a second head. Made some passive aggressive comment, basically judged me for what I loved. I got mad, called her out for her pettiness, said a few choice words that would get me banned from this site, and scared her off in my anger.

I like Rowboat Girlyman almost as much as I love making fun of him.


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Just three hours ago, I managed to get a speck of plastic caught in my eye from trying to trim down my Rievers.

I pretty much always buy a pot of paint when I walk into my local store. They are great people, and I just don't get out there to play. I'm way to busy working from 4am - 7pm.

I haven't played yet or finished painting my army. Again lack of time

 FauxbricatorGeneral wrote:

I actually scared a girl off because of 40k. Both of us were talking, went on a first date. There was some good chemistry, things were looking good. Honestly thought we were gonna start dating after that. She asked about my hobbies at one point. Gave her the rundown: I'm a Star Wars fanboy, I enjoy reading/writing fantasy, and I play 40k. Girl did a complete 180, looked at me like I grew a second head. Made some passive aggressive comment, basically judged me for what I loved. I got mad, called her out for her pettiness, said a few choice words that would get me banned from this site, and scared her off in my anger.

I recently started dating a Canadian girl, of all things. They're almost like Americans but they say words kind of funny and they're polite. Since she can pass for an American on a cursory glance, I've decided to keep her. I was terrified of telling her about my hobby. But we got close so I decided I had to come out of the bits box.

She laughed, and said it was cute. She asked what it was, and asked if that's what I do on Friday and Saturday nights. I told her it was. Her response?

"I'm glad, because most guys are out in the bars. I have -nothing- to worry about with you and some other chick now. I'm going to keep you stocked."

I owned 3000pts of Tyranids which got so battered in transit I ended up giving them to a friend for free so I didn't have to deal with fixing them.

I started a Necron army because GW gave me a free Lord with a purchase. I played less than 20 games with it and sold it for a fraction of the cost nearly 10 years later.

I owned a Black Templar army that I literally never played with. It was the only army I've ever fully painted to tabletop standard.

My Chaos army is mostly tactical marines and super bad in competitive games and I can't afford to buy new stuff to keep up with the meta so I rarely play.

I have 2 unbuilt Knights because I can't decide what weapons to give them and the idea magnetising them terrifies me.

I've played Chaos for almost a decade and most of my stuff is unpainted because I can't decide which Legion/Warband I want to play and painting Black Legion always turns out bad for me.

I've spent at least 5 times more money on this hobby than I've told my wife.

I want to play Narrative games but all my regulars are tournament gamers who naturally bring optimised lists to friendly games.

I have won less than 5 games since 6th edition.

My largest collection is Lizardmen by a large margin. I've assembled and painted one model from that army.

Despite how much I bitch about Space Marines. I own a big collection of Deathwatch and even have a big mega Deatwatch collectors edition rpg book that would make even GW's prices for collectors editions look reasonable. It's even inscribed with my name on it.

I used to be the biggest space marine gakker in high school and would never ever shut up about them to the point it would annoy my friends.

I would constantly say that space marines could beat anything in every universe of all time.

 Gamgee wrote:
Despite how much I bitch about Space Marines. I own a big collection of Deathwatch and even have a big mega Deatwatch collectors edition rpg book that would make even GW's prices for collectors editions look reasonable. It's even inscribed with my name on it.

I'm jealous. My 'copy' of that book is literally a printed PDF that I hijacked. I have it in a binder.

I have wasted a significant amount of time at the gaming table pointing out the fallacies and "unrealistic" nature of GW fluff.

I have punished myself with Sister's of Battle since the early 90's. . .

I desperately wish the majority of my gaming group would spend as much time on list building and tactical play as they do discussing the Primarch's bathroom habits and other esoteric information. I know in my heart that that is their focus and not mine and there is no right or wrong way when it comes to 40k, but . . .

I ran an ex-marine who was somehow tall and thin yet had an unusually massive physique back when the warhammer RPG basically made you completely randomize a character. Another member of the group had a dwarf pit-fighter who had short legs...it was the worst system and random generation ever...and WE LOVED IT!!!!!! We have not touched it since because obviously, nothing will ever live up to that combo.

I have NEVER bought a model from a GW store (sure rare where I am, but I have been in them dozens of times), Yet have played 40k and fantasy since the 80's. (uh oh, two confessions in one??? I'm a jerk when it comes to supporting GW stores AND I'm a middle aged nerd who plays with toy soldiers???)

Last: Threads like this make me smile and return to Dakka constantly. There are so many "normal" people willing to laugh at themselves...

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:

 FauxbricatorGeneral wrote:

I actually scared a girl off because of 40k. Both of us were talking, went on a first date. There was some good chemistry, things were looking good. Honestly thought we were gonna start dating after that. She asked about my hobbies at one point. Gave her the rundown: I'm a Star Wars fanboy, I enjoy reading/writing fantasy, and I play 40k. Girl did a complete 180, looked at me like I grew a second head. Made some passive aggressive comment, basically judged me for what I loved. I got mad, called her out for her pettiness, said a few choice words that would get me banned from this site, and scared her off in my anger.

I recently started dating a Canadian girl, of all things. They're almost like Americans but they say words kind of funny and they're polite. Since she can pass for an American on a cursory glance, I've decided to keep her. I was terrified of telling her about my hobby. But we got close so I decided I had to come out of the bits box.

She laughed, and said it was cute. She asked what it was, and asked if that's what I do on Friday and Saturday nights. I told her it was. Her response?

"I'm glad, because most guys are out in the bars. I have -nothing- to worry about with you and some other chick now. I'm going to keep you stocked."

You, sir, I am officially jealous of now. May your relationship with this awesome woman be a long and happy one......... she wouldn't happen to have a sister, would she?

When I was a teen I just surrendered and leaved a tournament because I had a incredible random boner from a Dark Eldar army of other guy that was full of small female models on tits.

 FauxbricatorGeneral wrote:
You, sir, I am officially jealous of now. May your relationship with this awesome woman be a long and happy one......... she wouldn't happen to have a sister, would she?

She does.

They are sweet, but married. Apparently I'm some kind of redneck novelty they like to shower with baked goods. They're all half-German, sort of. So... I have to work out a lot after I leave.

edwardmyst wrote:
I have wasted a significant amount of time at the gaming table pointing out the fallacies and "unrealistic" nature of GW fluff.

I have punished myself with Sister's of Battle since the early 90's. . .

I desperately wish the majority of my gaming group would spend as much time on list building and tactical play as they do discussing the Primarch's bathroom habits and other esoteric information. I know in my heart that that is their focus and not mine and their is no right or wrong way when it comes to 40k, but . . .

I ran an ex-marine who was somehow tall and thin yet had an unusually massive physique back when the warhammer RPG basically made you completely randomize a character. Another member of the group had a dwarf pit-fighter who had short legs...it was the worst system and random generation ever...and WE LOVED IT!!!!!! We have not touched it since because obviously, nothing will ever live up to that combo.

I have NEVER bought a model from a GW store (sure rare where I am, but I have been in them dozens of times), Yet have played 40k and fantasy since the 80's. (uh oh, two confessions in one??? I'm a jerk when it comes to supporting GW stores AND I'm a middle aged nerd who plays with toy soldiers???)

Last: Threads like this make me smile and return to Dakka constantly. There are so many "normal" people willing to laugh at themselves...

Oh yeah my friend wanted to play a gnome in dnd 3.5 called the green giant and he would be friendly. I said no it was too silly and only if he could roll it on the random gnome name chart. Sure enough without fail. Emerald Giant. The entire group had to laugh and we will never forget the friendly gnome called emerald giant.

I once gave away about 100 guardsmen and now I regret it.

I have not won a game of Warhammer 40,000 in about 4 years.

I have not played a game of Warhammer 40,000 in 2 years.

I have multiple perfectly usable models in storage because they have several blemishes that I don't like.

I have a RoB board and a table's worth of terrain but nowhere to play.

I have discarded all of my older sculpt space marines because I didn't like how the detailing was lacking compared to the newer ones.

I have a fully painted WMH army that I have never once used.

I have totally ruined a Forge World Spartan Assault Tank and feel immense guilt over it.

I always play humans. I am a true son of the Emperor.

I cannot look at a barrel that hasn't been drilled out without wincing.

Moldlines drive me to madness.

I have ripped apart my Space Marine captain about 10 times now.

I will get rid of models if there are superior versions of them. No, I do not consider Primaris Marines superior. Simply different.

 Galas wrote:
When I was a teen I just surrendered and leaved a tournament because I had a incredible random boner from a Dark Eldar army of other guy that was full of small female models on tits.

Oh this isn't really my story, but I knew a girl who was fond of showing a lot of cleavage to distract guys at tournaments (magic and 40k mainly), she stopped when she ended up playing s poor little 12-13 year old who took one look at her at spent the entire game dead silent and beet red.

I only play competitive lists against one specific person, because he's a dick when he can't win games. I openly encouraged my significant other to start a Tau army as part of this.

I secretly hate Space Marine players, despite having Dark Angels myself, because they get so many new toys/much love.

Once I got surprisingly curious because a player/friend offered a 3-way with a fellow player. Then I realized he meant 40k game...not the other thing.

I have thrown full armies away years ago when my area dried up with players and I didn't think I would ever play 40k again. I am talking about 1998, a chaos and marine army with land Raiders and over 2000 pts of models and again in 2002 when I got back into it then stopped again after getting married and my wife wasn't into it.

Luckily my current wife plays tyrnaids so I always have bugs to stomp.

I have sold and or traded roughly 10000 points of various armies throughout the years. Now i'm no longer allowed to start new armies.

 FauxbricatorGeneral wrote:


I actually scared a girl off because of 40k. Both of us were talking, went on a first date. There was some good chemistry, things were looking good. Honestly thought we were gonna start dating after that. She asked about my hobbies at one point. Gave her the rundown: I'm a Star Wars fanboy, I enjoy reading/writing fantasy, and I play 40k. Girl did a complete 180, looked at me like I grew a second head. Made some passive aggressive comment, basically judged me for what I loved. I got mad, called her out for her pettiness, said a few choice words that would get me banned from this site, and scared her off in my anger.

I met a girl for a first date at a mall. We ended up walking into a GW store during it all and I just went browsing and talked about warhammer. Evidently she told her friends about it.

We've been living together for over a year now.

Before this I remember bringing a girl over from the bar. I got her to my place and went to my table to paint models. She joined me and tried to paint a bit of a drop pod. My eye was twitching as I saw her paint over AREAS YOU ARENT SUPPOSED TO PAINT DAKOTA!!!! GAWD!!!!

Azuza001 wrote:
I have thrown full armies away years ago when my area dried up with players and I didn't think I would ever play 40k again. I am talking about 1998, a chaos and marine army with land Raiders and over 2000 pts of models and again in 2002 when I got back into it then stopped again after getting married and my wife wasn't into it.

Luckily my current wife plays tyrnaids so I always have bugs to stomp.

I've done this before. I regret it now so much.

Ugh, all this talk about peeps talking about 40k on their dates....

It honestly took me all the courage in the world to even begin this hobby. Simply because of 'what will my future gf/potential wife think if she sees it'.

The fact that I will sell my models as soons as Ill have a serious relationship also gnaws at the back of my mind.

In fact, im so ashamed of having 40K as my hobby that Ive never told any of my close friends about it and I have NO IDEA how Im going to hide it from them, they come help me move next week!

Over a year ago I bought about 50 decently painted second hand models off eBay and stripped them so I could paint them myself in my own colour scheme. I have got no further than basecoating any of them.

Me and a friend went halves on an 8th ed rulebook because we only ever really play each other or at the same time in the same store. He had it ordered to his house but when we turned up to our first game I knew more from my "advance copy" than he did from reading the actual book.

I often "forget" about special rules or a unit i have in reserve if I am winning a game by too much because I find closer games more fun.

I have never played in a 40k tournament but I have been to an x-wing one and got 4th despite never having owned any x-wing models.

IFC_Casting wrote:I'm too upset to go to my local GW because once the manager stole my third party ork warboss because it wasn't GW even though it was just in my box of minis I brought to paint and I had no intention of getting it out.

If someone did this to me and he refused to give it back when I was leaving I would honestly have just blatantly taken a product of similar value to it off his shelves and walked out with it because apparently stealing is okay.


Edit: Gonna do one from one of my friends point of view just because I don't think I have told the story on dakka before: Once, when my group were all just starting in 5th I couldn't be bothered working out a list properly and just brought what I thought was about right. It turned out I had brought over 2000 points to a 1000 point game and I still lost.

 roflmajog wrote:
Over a year ago I bought about 50 decently painted second hand models off eBay and stripped them so I could paint them myself in my own colour scheme. I have got no further than basecoating any of them.

Me and a friend went halves on an 8th ed rulebook because we only ever really play each other or at the same time in the same store. He had it ordered to his house but when we turned up to our first game I knew more from my "advance copy" than he did from reading the actual book.

I often "forget" about special rules or a unit i have in reserve if I am winning a game by too much because I find closer games more fun.

I have never played in a 40k tournament but I have been to an x-wing one and got 4th despite never having owned any x-wing models.

IFC_Casting wrote:I'm too upset to go to my local GW because once the manager stole my third party ork warboss because it wasn't GW even though it was just in my box of minis I brought to paint and I had no intention of getting it out.

If someone did this to me and he refused to give it back when I was leaving I would honestly have just blatantly taken a product of similar value to it off his shelves and walked out with it because apparently stealing is okay.

The thought crossed my mind but I found other ways of getting stuff significantly cheaper or free from GW that doesn't involve me getting arrested.

IFC_Casting wrote:

 roflmajog wrote:
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IFC_Casting wrote:I'm too upset to go to my local GW because once the manager stole my third party ork warboss because it wasn't GW even though it was just in my box of minis I brought to paint and I had no intention of getting it out.

If someone did this to me and he refused to give it back when I was leaving I would honestly have just blatantly taken a product of similar value to it off his shelves and walked out with it because apparently stealing is okay.

The thought crossed my mind but I found other ways of getting stuff significantly cheaper or free from GW that doesn't involve me getting arrested.

I have a feeling he would give the model back before I got out of the door. Any cctv evidence he can produce would also contain him stealing from you on it and it wouldn't be worth the hassle for him.

HuskyWarhammer wrote:
I only play competitive lists against one specific person, because he's a dick when he can't win games. I openly encouraged my significant other to start a Tau army as part of this.

I secretly hate Space Marine players, despite having Dark Angels myself, because they get so many new toys/much love.

Once I got surprisingly curious because a player/friend offered a 3-way with a fellow player. Then I realized he meant 40k game...not the other thing.

All I can think of after hearing that lol.

I was building some terrain cutting through a fat cardboard tube when my buddy was about to leave. He said 'bye' and I looked up, said 'see ya' and an inch and a half of utility blade went into my thigh with heavy force. Ended up stabbing myself so deep I needed stitches under the stitches and while giving me those stitches the nurse practitioner called me a socialist because I was in college working at a restaurant and part time in the Chem dept at the same time but had no health insurance. She literally walked out and left me bleeding for twenty minutes until someone else came in and finished the job. I ended up paying cash.

I once soaked eldar jetbikes in pinesol so long the plastic started to soften. I gave those away. Even after the kid reprimed them they smelled like pinesol a year later.

Even though I live in south Korea I have had ebay stuff sent to my brother's in Florida though I have no plans to ever fly back to pick that stuff up. Heavy metal stuff that would cost an arm to ship over here.

My mom tossed ten years of white dwarfs I had stashed in her garage.
That same mom bought me a tank for Xmas when I was almost thirty years old.

I used to have a size 12 Citadel brush that I used for drybrushing tanks, and applying washes to vehicles and scenery. I also used to (and still do) put my brushes in my mouth to form a point on them. Combining these two facts, I once put said size 12 brush in my mouth - while loaded with Chestnut Ink. Turns out a quarter of a pot's worth of ink tastes rather horrible, and stained my mouth brown.

Then there was the time I superglued my tongue to the back of my front teeth. Or the time I stabbed my finger with a Stanley blade and went into shock briefly.

Compared to that, finding out I've bought a duplicate miniature because I'd forgotten I already bought one at last year's Salute fades into insignificance.

I don't think i've ever really tried in a game of 40k. I usually just play for fun and will intentionally make bad decision that have very low chance of success in the hopes that something crazy/hilarious happens.

Doctoralex wrote:Ugh, all this talk about peeps talking about 40k on their dates....

It honestly took me all the courage in the world to even begin this hobby. Simply because of 'what will my future gf/potential wife think if she sees it'.

The fact that I will sell my models as soons as Ill have a serious relationship also gnaws at the back of my mind.

In fact, im so ashamed of having 40K as my hobby that Ive never told any of my close friends about it and I have NO IDEA how Im going to hide it from them, they come help me move next week!

Why? What's so shameful about the hobby?

 Verviedi wrote:

Doctoralex wrote:Ugh, all this talk about peeps talking about 40k on their dates....

It honestly took me all the courage in the world to even begin this hobby. Simply because of 'what will my future gf/potential wife think if she sees it'.

The fact that I will sell my models as soons as Ill have a serious relationship also gnaws at the back of my mind.

In fact, im so ashamed of having 40K as my hobby that Ive never told any of my close friends about it and I have NO IDEA how Im going to hide it from them, they come help me move next week!

Why? What's so shameful about the hobby?

Part of being the best version of yourself is also being who you are and doing what you want to do.

Yeah I play warhammer. I enjoy the games. If my girlfriend ever had an issue with that, it's too bad. Im not going to be forced to change something I do for somebody else. And if they have an issue frame it like this "I don't want to resent you for making me do something I don't want to do."

You are who you are. And this is a hobby. If people take issue with it they can eat it.

 rhinoceraids wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:

Doctoralex wrote:Ugh, all this talk about peeps talking about 40k on their dates....

It honestly took me all the courage in the world to even begin this hobby. Simply because of 'what will my future gf/potential wife think if she sees it'.

The fact that I will sell my models as soons as Ill have a serious relationship also gnaws at the back of my mind.

In fact, im so ashamed of having 40K as my hobby that Ive never told any of my close friends about it and I have NO IDEA how Im going to hide it from them, they come help me move next week!

Why? What's so shameful about the hobby?

Part of being the best version of yourself is also being who you are and doing what you want to do.

Yeah I play warhammer. I enjoy the games. If my girlfriend ever had an issue with that, it's too bad. Im not going to be forced to change something I do for somebody else. And if they have an issue frame it like this "I don't want to resent you for making me do something I don't want to do."

You are who you are. And this is a hobby. If people take issue with it they can eat it.

I agree 100% with this. And talking about it isn't always a negative. When I was first dating my b/f of about 1.5 years now, I remember being embarrassed to say, "Yeah, I play this game, it's called Warhammer..." And it turned out we not only both played, but both played the same army initially...with the same general color scheme. It's working out well so far!

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:
When people say, "You need to base your model", I say "I will get around to it". But secretly, I don't want to base them.

Amen! I hate basing!

 Cothonian wrote:

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:
When people say, "You need to base your model", I say "I will get around to it". But secretly, I don't want to base them.

Amen! I hate basing!

Samm Hain Aeldari: All our bases are clear!

My current project consists of nothing but jetbikes, grav tanks, and flyers. I'll have the figure out what to do about the flying bases, but the rest of the entire army is on clear flight stands!

I've got loads of models on flat black bases, because I painted them with the intention of basing at a later date, and decided they look better that way for display.

I always lose Tau antenna or snap them when building them because they are so tiny and frail. :(

I keep buying Warhammer stuff despite having a mountain of grey plastic. I'll probably never assemble or paint some f the stuff I have, but will I sell it? Hell no! In fact, I think I could use a whole bunch more.

I spend more time thinking about how cool my army will be than doing the actual work of assembling and painting it.

I like spending time thinking about strategy, but when I actually play I just throw units on the table and run them at the enemy.

I still can't get used to special named characters being in normal games of 40k.

I'm happy my brother decided to get back into Warhammer, but I also had a secret hope that I was going to be able to buy his Black Templars off him at a good discount. I really like the Black Templars and I was secretly mad when he announced he was going to play them moments before I was going to say the same thing.

 Verviedi wrote:

Doctoralex wrote:Ugh, all this talk about peeps talking about 40k on their dates....

It honestly took me all the courage in the world to even begin this hobby. Simply because of 'what will my future gf/potential wife think if she sees it'.

The fact that I will sell my models as soons as Ill have a serious relationship also gnaws at the back of my mind.

In fact, im so ashamed of having 40K as my hobby that Ive never told any of my close friends about it and I have NO IDEA how Im going to hide it from them, they come help me move next week!

Why? What's so shameful about the hobby?

Because when we were young (or even old sometimes) some kid or adult teased us about something we liked that was out of the "norm." Those memories may be forgotten, we may grow up and tell ourselves we don't care, but deep down its still there a part of your character. Its a tiny little voice that tells you what you're doing is wrong and you should be ashamed of being different.

Its like that crack in the foundation of your house that lets in a little cold air during the winter. It can take years of mental growth to patch them, and sometimes the patch wears off and then the crack is back anyway because of what someone says or does. Minds are fragile houses. And people can be real mean.

Ah, yes, that issue. I was bullied for years upon years, as well (although in my case it was because I was generally an odd person who never talked to anyone and read books at recess).
Made me stop talking about things to people. I don't think I really lost anything, my most mainstream hobby is still fairly niche. The rest of them are on the level of 40k.

I've only told about 5 people over the course of my entire education that I play and collect 40k. 3 of them were also 40k players. Everyone else has just thought that I'm totally "normal".

I wouldn't quite say that I'm afraid of telling people my hobby; it just seems easier for me to avoid any potential backfire by not telling people something that they wouldn't find out about anyway unless they came over to my house.

Now as an adult I really have no issue telling people at work if they ask - that's mainly because I'm a good painter now, so I can show them loads of pictures that make them look impressed



Recently I've spent an obscene amount of money on hobby trinkets, including over $200 in Dakka Dice, the Limited Edition 8th Ed Rulebook, and a Gargantuan Squiggoth. That's almost a month's wage for me

I also used to hate every race aside Imperial Guard. Now I love them all equally. How far things have gone.

G.A

SilverAlien wrote:

 Galas wrote:
When I was a teen I just surrendered and leaved a tournament because I had a incredible random boner from a Dark Eldar army of other guy that was full of small female models on tits.

Oh this isn't really my story, but I knew a girl who was fond of showing a lot of cleavage to distract guys at tournaments (magic and 40k mainly), she stopped when she ended up playing s poor little 12-13 year old who took one look at her at spent the entire game dead silent and beet red.

The poor bugger!

I'm terrible at losing. I very quickly get grumpy and start losing interest when I'm getting beaten but I'm getting better at laughing it off and carrying on again.

I hate playing against unpainted models. It just feels like the other player doesn't really care, even though I know that's not the case.

I hate playing against small children. As a rule they don't know the rules, they don't stay on-task, and they keep wandering off to bother someone else.

I'm terrible at going into a store and not buying something, I feel guilty if I haven't at least bought a pot of paint.

I am quite bad for blaming the rules for my losses and claiming that my armies (Chaos and Sisters of Battle) are underpowered rather than examining my lists and trying to make better decisions.

jbeil wrote:

I'm terrible at losing. I very quickly get grumpy and start losing interest when I'm getting beaten but I'm getting better at laughing it off and carrying on again.

The best way I know to deal with this is to look at it as your objective for winning is to make sure your opponent has a good time. If they are having fun I tend to enjoy the game more and then it feels like you won't even if your army lost.

Why? What's so shameful about the hobby?

Because of the 'social stigma' that is behind such nerdy hobbies I guess.

I'd love to join a fencing club or a cooking group, but all those hobbies are not what a real man should be doing in his free time.
A real man spends his time in the gym, hanging out with friends in the bar and going to watch sports matches in the weekend.

Doctoralex wrote:
I'd love to join a fencing club or a cooking group, but all those hobbies are not what a real man should be doing in his free time.
A real man spends his time in the gym, hanging out with friends in the bar and going to watch sports matches in the weekend.

No, a "real man" says you to anyone who disagrees and does whatever he wants.

Doctoralex wrote:

Why? What's so shameful about the hobby?

Because of the 'social stigma' that is behind such nerdy hobbies I guess.

I'd love to join a fencing club or a cooking group, but all those hobbies are not what a real man should be doing in his free time.
A real man spends his time in the gym, hanging out with friends in the bar and going to watch sports matches in the weekend.

If you take up fencing, you can stab anyone who calls you out on having an unusual hobby with your epee.

Problem solved!

 Peregrine wrote:

Doctoralex wrote:
I'd love to join a fencing club or a cooking group, but all those hobbies are not what a real man should be doing in his free time.
A real man spends his time in the gym, hanging out with friends in the bar and going to watch sports matches in the weekend.

No, a "real man" says you to anyone who disagrees and does whatever he wants.

Pretty much.

Also, since when are those two hobbies "not things that real men should be doing"? Fencing is the sport of a true gentleman, and cooking has been 100% scientifically proven to attract girls

I worked for GW for 8 years and as a result I have a MASSIVE collection of half assembled, half thought out projects. I should go through and clean it all out but I'd rather focus on my current project.

I loathe stereotypical nerds. I know plenty of folks who are in to wargaming who are perfectly normal, can hold a range of conversations, and are decent folks. The counter is when I see a 40 year old man who reeks of BO wearing a knit 'jester cap' I immediately can't stand that person.

I have ruined several models by simply being impatient and trying to move to the next step too quickly so I have a box full of models with imperfections that are self caused.

I've bought just about everything I've ever seen that has the words "Space Hulk" on it. Including 3 different editions of the game, the card game, lots of extra models, the novel, and maybe even accidentally a comic about a big green guy going to space.

Although I've been buying Space Hulk sets and 40k novels for many years, I never actually played a game of 40k until late June of this year.

I bought my wife a Kindle as an excuse to get my son the First Strike set. Wanted to make sure she didn't balk at me spending $40 on plastic space army men for him out of the blue, so she got something, too. It worked like a charm.

I spent way too long deciding what color scheme to use for my human blood bowl team, and changed my mind about 15 times before finally starting.

I've had the Assassinorum board game for about 8 months, and although I really do want to play it, I have yet to snip 1 piece from a sprue to start building the models.

I build armies to different games with one ultimate purpose in mind: to crush any* opposing armies I will ever face**. Do note that I don't pick the faction I play based on this factor and I am loathe to switch factions in general***. I also have aversion to spamming because that is just boring from the hobby perspective****. But apart from that? Crush them. Crush them all with a single faction that has loads of options.

*TAC is where's it at.
**At least, that's the plan.
*** Starting from a scratch all over again? No thanks, I'd rather have a wide collection for one faction and get really good with it.
****Or does a general reliance on basic infantry units count?

Also? I think basing is silly. I only paint the base because otherwise a mini would look stupid because of lack of contrast in color scheme. Adding barrels, stone columns, grass, bushes, anchors and what not would be okay if I were to make a battlefield diodrama.

 General Annoyance wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

Doctoralex wrote:
I'd love to join a fencing club or a cooking group, but all those hobbies are not what a real man should be doing in his free time.
A real man spends his time in the gym, hanging out with friends in the bar and going to watch sports matches in the weekend.

No, a "real man" says you to anyone who disagrees and does whatever he wants.

Pretty much.

Also, since when are those two hobbies "not things that real men should be doing"? Fencing is the sport of a true gentleman, and cooking has been 100% scientifically proven to attract girls

"Any man who must say, 'I am the true king,' is no king."

My entire eldar army (Sam-hain), about 5,000 pts. worth, was bought for my brother to use. It's been used once, back in 5th.

I have several Chinese recast figures, and they have 150% better quality than GW's official finecrap.

After an epic buttstomping back in Warhammer 4E, I still refuse to use or play against armies that have named characters.

The local gaming club has forever soured me against ever playing in ANY sort of tournament scene, 40K or otherwise.

Until recently, I never realized I was actually just a model collector, and that I garner rather little enjoyment from actually playing the game.

Up until about 5 years ago, I was primarily a RPG'er, and board games/TTG's were a side thing I collected.

And, I hate basing with a passion.

I don't understand the reluctance by people to tell others about the hobby, although appreciate not everyone is the same when it comes to social interactions.

Told all my ex-girlfriends that I play, how could they not notice the number of unassembled plastic kits, not a problem at all. All my work colleagues know of WH40K, I made them! As a joke, if someone is looking for me and I am not at my desk they just say....he is off playing with his 'Warhammer', I shan't name the part of my anatomy they are referring to but suffice to say I am male.

OK, rant over.

Confession:

Buying stuff which I like the look of and which I know will never see daylight let alone a tabletop!

 General Annoyance wrote:
cooking has been 100% scientifically proven to attract girls

For real. Cooking is the most underestimated BF trait ever.

I am 42, 6'2" and bathe regularly. I am gainfully employed, own a house and two cars, I'm happily married and I do my hobby gak at the table.

I am a practicing musician, and while my bandmates (men and women) occasionally poke fun at me for wargaming, it's no different than how we poke fun at our guitarist for hamming for pictures, or our drummer for being a drummer, etc.

I provide for a wife and three dogs, and if anyone thinks I'm less of a man for playing with soldiers... I'd probably just laugh at them. I mean, who cares how anyone relaxes?

Plus, I am an AWESOME cook. Just last week I applied Hot Pie's words of wisdom from GoT to some empanadas and they were incredible!

 argonak wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:

Doctoralex wrote:Ugh, all this talk about peeps talking about 40k on their dates....

It honestly took me all the courage in the world to even begin this hobby. Simply because of 'what will my future gf/potential wife think if she sees it'.

The fact that I will sell my models as soons as Ill have a serious relationship also gnaws at the back of my mind.

In fact, im so ashamed of having 40K as my hobby that Ive never told any of my close friends about it and I have NO IDEA how Im going to hide it from them, they come help me move next week!

Why? What's so shameful about the hobby?

Because when we were young (or even old sometimes) some kid or adult teased us about something we liked that was out of the "norm." Those memories may be forgotten, we may grow up and tell ourselves we don't care, but deep down its still there a part of your character. Its a tiny little voice that tells you what you're doing is wrong and you should be ashamed of being different.

Its like that crack in the foundation of your house that lets in a little cold air during the winter. It can take years of mental growth to patch them, and sometimes the patch wears off and then the crack is back anyway because of what someone says or does. Minds are fragile houses. And people can be real mean.

Yep. I still remember the sarcastic "awww, you're playing with little toys" from my freshman roommate's girlfriend in college, back before I'd figured out that in the real world nobody actually gives a crap what you do or enjoy, and having something that's actually different is often much more interesting than something everybody else does.

But I'll be the first to admit that for the first few months of dating my now-fiance, I would lie about why I wasn't available sunday mornings and I was pretty dodgy about keeping my models hidden away in a box. She only saw one or two figures on my desk along with the paints. I got over it when her first christmas present to me was a converted shot glass case into a gorgeous miniature display case. Blew me right away, and I've now got a big ol' shelf with all my stuff on it.

Confession #1;

I have 3 friends who will assemble and paint on commission. I don't have the heart to tell 2 of them (that want to start working as full time commission people) that my very first painting attempt following YouTube guides is better than their top-of-the-line service.

Confession #2;

All my friends that play Chaos epitomize the "I want to be an edgy, tough, and unique snowflake" lifestyle, so now I assume that most people who play Chaos only play it because they think they're edgy and tough.

Clay_Puppington wrote:


All my friends that play Chaos epitomize the "I want to be an edgy, tough, and unique snowflake" lifestyle, so now I assume that most people who play Chaos only play it because they think they're edgy and tough.

Heh, this is pretty much what I think of chaos as a faction*. Bunch of edge lords who sold their souls for bigger muscles... without realizing that comes with tentacles, disease, malformations and/or eternal mental/physical/psychic torment. And being the whipping/carrier boy for some gigantic space mollusk.

*Not judging the players but... this is the faction they've picked. Following a guy who is a corpse makes so much more sense in this context.

I started playing Orks back in 4th only because I saw a Trukk get shot up, roll kareen on the ramshackle table, move up the table and explode killing half the Orks inside along with half of an enemy squad.

Now I have ~20k points of them...

 JohnU wrote:
I started playing Orks back in 4th only because I saw a Trukk get shot up, roll kareen on the ramshackle table, move up the table and explode killing half the Orks inside along with half of an enemy squad.

Now I have ~20k points of them...

And I thought Goblin Doom Divers and Night Goblin Fanatics are the epitome fun.

the_scotsman wrote:



Yep. I still remember the sarcastic "awww, you're playing with little toys" from my freshman roommate's girlfriend in college, back before I'd figured out that in the real world nobody actually gives a crap what you do or enjoy, and having something that's actually different is often much more interesting than something everybody else does.

But I'll be the first to admit that for the first few months of dating my now-fiance, I would lie about why I wasn't available sunday mornings and I was pretty dodgy about keeping my models hidden away in a box. She only saw one or two figures on my desk along with the paints. I got over it when her first christmas present to me was a converted shot glass case into a gorgeous miniature display case. Blew me right away, and I've now got a big ol' shelf with all my stuff on it.

Keeper.

Whenever I go into the Games Workshop store, which is less and less as time goes by, I tell them I got my models as gifts, or something else, because they're so incredibly pushy and demand to know why I didn't buy the models in their store.

I don't actually like anything to do with the Horus Heresy and think that all of the Primarchs and their stories are boring.

I secretly can't stand playing people who are FOTM net listers, yet I do it anyway.

I find painting a chore and something that stands in the way of the fun gaming :p

It bugs me when people tell me it's 'unusual' for a girl to play 40k... despite the fact that I've played against several others myself.

I secretly enjoy tabling an opponent in the most one-sided way possible... even though I shouldn't.

I've never even looked at the forgeworld website, let alone bought anything from them ( I have been into their store, though).

 Marmatag wrote:
Whenever I go into the Games Workshop store, which is less and less as time goes by, I tell them I got my models as gifts, or something else, because they're so incredibly pushy and demand to know why I didn't buy the models in their store.

I hate this. Thankfully my GW is really close to Warhammer World so the staff hardly ever push sales or question why you didn't get something from their store (because Warhammer World is so close and are more likely to have stuff in stock being the HQ).

Karinlikee-da-space-elves wrote:
I secretly enjoy tabling an opponent in the most one-sided way possible... even though I shouldn't.

Seconded. There's something just so satisfying at owning someone, despite my best intentions to make it a fun game for both (primarily why I play Orks, enough dead bodies makes it feel like the opponent did something).

Karinlikee-da-space-elves, probably the best username ive ever seen, btw.

Karinlikee-da-space-elves wrote:

I secretly enjoy tabling an opponent in the most one-sided way possible... even though I shouldn't.

It is great, isn't it.

Note the lack of a question mark.

1. I'm an extremely meticulous painter. It drives me nuts when people don't take the time to do the small details on their models, like rags wrapped around ork/cultist weapons or leave purity seals unpainted, And yet, I couldn't care 1 bit about mold lines.

2. My biggest dislike of the hobby is scrapping mold lines. I cant stand wasting hours prepping models. I had 15 metal eldar wraith guard that had mold lines so bad, I threw them in a box and haven't touched them for 17+ years.

3. After 20 years playing 40k. I've got one finished army. Its Dark Angels, but they're on 25mm bases. Ive been painting them for so long even the Death Wing are on their original 25mm bases.

4. Ive been playing Orks since I started 40k in mid 90s and absolutely refuse to get the big trucks. I bought about $200 worth of trukks then and Im getting my moneys worth- darn it!

5. Ive attended one local tourney but haven't since. I made the mistake of eating some kind of cream soup and blue cheese dressing on my salad.

6. Ive come to the conclusion that the hobby isn't about finishing anything, its about enjoying the journey. I discarded a bunch of shoulder pads and bought special shoulder pads. When someone asked why? and mentioned the price. I replied because I wanted to. I'm the one who would have had to look at those shoulder pads, I couldn't stand, forever.

7. I have every model Ive ever bought, And every model Ive painted, except for models Ive painted for friends.

8. My first warhammer army was Chaos Dwarfs. When no one played Fantasy around me anymore, I used the square based orcs to play 40k feral orks.,,and left the square bases on. They're still on 20 years later.

 Phydox wrote:

7. I have every model Ive ever bought, And every model Ive painted, except for models Ive painted for friends.

Ditto.

Selling or throwing away (gasp!) sounds like something that would scar one for life. At least if you aren't a soulless automaton with infinite time and money.

 Adeptus Doritos wrote:


But we got close so I decided I had to come out of the bits box.

Side note: stealing that phrase

Confessions
I play Tau, and am really glad they got nerfed.

When I paint, I most often stop after a wash

Basing is my least favorite part of painting models

I highly dislike the community of 30k players. They always act so superior to other players. When asked why I'm getting out of 30k, I said it was because it wasn't switching to 8th.

I also play MtG, and get a little uncomfortable with the amount of hatred sent that way.

Well you can be disappointed then since Reece has confirmed the Riptide is being rebalanced in the second last frontline gaming. From the sounds of it the Tau will be re-balanced and properly balanced because I guess GW seen the actual proof and evidence of them sucking without commander spam.

So you know. I guess there is that to look forward too. On the upside they will likely increase commanders price, and this will be fine if they make them actually good at commanding to make up for it. Right now they are spammed for their alpha strike and definitely not their leadership buffs.

I play 40k even though I don't enjoy it

I love playing fantasy 9th age but can't find a game since my group has always stuff to do, and me too

I didn't buy the wargames factory storm-troopers when they existed ( got only a sws with 3 GL)

I really want to sell my 40k army but my friend who I play with is the only guy with who I enjoy 40k and it discourages me to sell it

I only won my first game of 7th Ed, then lost the remaining 6 or 7.

I have 2 painted armies I have never used.

I still haven't played a game of 8th Ed... and I'm not real familiar with the rules, so I'm a bit hesitant to go to the local GW and try and get a demo game.

I paint a lot more than I play, and better, apparently.

I hate painting infantry. :(

I hate highlighting with a passion.

More confessions of a hobbyist:

A couple of annoyances, even if in truth they are good advice:

Homeopathic painters who will tell someone who has painted their model exclusively with washes and glazes they should thin their paint further.

'Consistency of milk' have you really ever loaded that stuff on to a palette and pushed it around with brush? Didn't think so.

I have one: when new people wanted to join the hobby, generally their 2nd or 3rd game was with me and I used... Eldar. In 6th ed.
I don't need to tell ya most of them didn't remained playing, right?

But it was their fault! They wanted to play Space Yiffs! I'm totally innocent on this!

 General Annoyance wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

Doctoralex wrote:
I'd love to join a fencing club or a cooking group, but all those hobbies are not what a real man should be doing in his free time.
A real man spends his time in the gym, hanging out with friends in the bar and going to watch sports matches in the weekend.

No, a "real man" says you to anyone who disagrees and does whatever he wants.

Pretty much.

Also, since when are those two hobbies "not things that real men should be doing"? Fencing is the sport of a true gentleman, and cooking has been 100% scientifically proven to attract girls

I think Doctoralex was being sarcastic

 Vector Strike wrote:
I think Doctoralex was being sarcastic

It's hard to pick up sarcasm on the internet. It's why I typically avoid it.


Another confession from back when I kept the door closed on my hobby. I used to go into school with paint in my fingernails that I would have failed to scrub off; people really thought that I had a lot of thick dust in my room that I cleaned on a weekly basis, each weekend

I have bad eyesight and am terrible at painting.

I have multiple base coat armies with only painted guns.

My painting will never move beyond that after having my painting skills mocked back in second edition.

Game stores come and go in my town. I play my armies against, well.... myself. I like it more than playing other people. All my guys have a story, friends, and rivalries with other guys in my other armies. I really do forge a narrative for 20 years..
I play 2nd, 3rd, and now 8th edition.

I hide my gaming purchases from my wife. She knows what I do in the basement, She just doesn't know how many "toy soldiers" I've added. I pray she never sees the imperial knight and its price tag.

40k is my main hobby. Nobody in my offline life other than my wife knows.

I say meme stuff while playing. "Waaaauuuggggghhhhh" "The Emperor Protects" and such.

I love painting, sculpting, and other various forms of modeling; but hate doing all of it on miniatures because I have trouble seeing and keeping my hands steady. As a result I can't make my miniatures as good looking as I want them to be or anywhere near as good as a piece of pottery or metal sculpture. I secretly plan to redo my army using a reputable painting service.

I have spent thousands. I have converted, upgraded, painted, magnetized, repainted, and in the last 5 years I have won one game. I beat the wood elf player using his archaic book. I have lost so many times I feel awkward when I get an edge during a game.

When I got into this (1999) my friends and I put our heart and souls into it. We had huge fights, yelling matches etc over silly warhammer stuff. Pretty funny in retrospect. But I got used to losing, and it actually hurt my feelings then, and being a nice guy I didn't want to hurt others people's feelings.

I never played consistently enough to actually be a good player, but I have been playing more with 8th ed and have seen a ton of progress in my gaming. I don't care if I lose, I am having a ball playing, but now I'm getting more aggressive with my lists and it is paying off. People aren't fragile children. They can take a loss too!

- I have had tabletop games as my hobby for the past 15 years, but i have never ever played a single game as i have asperger syndrom whit the luggage that comes along whit it.

- I can sit 6H straight no brakes assembling and building, but i cant sit more then max 10 mins painting.

- I get bored after painting the first model in a unit as i have to repeate what i just did 5-9 more times x2 at the bare minimum.........

- I have a solid quality airbrush plus compressor that i have used 2 times then tossed it in the closet as i couldent understand the settings of the brush or the compressor.

I read through all the posts with a neurotic carefulness and have to say my heart feel raised. Holy molly, there are people who feel and fear like me. You don't know how much it means to me.

I have bought, built, and painted more models than I could possibly hope to use in a game, for almost every faction, and yet I still run the same basic Guard list, with the same models, that I've had since 3rd Edition.

I sometimes buy models to sell to my friends at lower prices so that they'll have more complete armies.

I hate playing against special characters for fluff reasons, but I often use special characters in my own lists (renamed and heavily converted, but still).

I enjoy running campaigns and umpiring games more than playing.

For a majority of my games using my Mechanicum army (Horus Heresy) I thought the Mauler Bolt Cannon had 36" range, when in reality it has 24", and everyone believed me just because that's what people do when they face Mechanicum.

In recent times I noticed this however, and am now using the correct range.

Other than that I am guilty of the most common sin: buying too much, painting too little. I bought a Porphyrion Knight and assembled it almost half a year ago, but have only basecoated the skeleton.

Playing with unpainted models makes me feel bad, and seeing my opponents fully painted army makes me feel even worse. I take too long painting.

Despite 95% of my love for Warhammer being devoted to the Thousand Sons, I'm building Death Guard for my first real army because it's cheaper...

Arachnofiend wrote:
Despite 95% of my love for Warhammer being devoted to the Thousand Sons, I'm building Death Guard for my first real army because it's cheaper...

you cheap feck!
TS above all and everything!

For the better of 17 years I've only used a medium brush to paint every aspect of my miniatures, from basecoating to fine details, even applying texture paints to bases when they first came out. I'd only replace the brush when it got too battered to form a point. I've only started using different brush sizes recently and it's been a revolution.

Even though I really enjoy how Tzeentch units play on the table, I always default back to Nurgle armies because I enjoy painting rust and rotting flesh so much. Also I can't paint blue.

I want to win every game I play but don't enjoy tabling people in the slightest, I'd much rather edge out a close fought game.

I enjoy the smell of paint and glue in a borderline solvent-abuse kind of way.

I currently own more models than I'll ever get around to building and painting in my lifetime, and I know I'll buy more, and I know I won't sell any.
I'm a mediocre painter who should aim to improve, but I won't.
I pretend I'm really laid back and cool about loosing, but deep down I seethe and then go home and take it out on the other half.
I talk gak on forums just to feel included.

And despite completely understanding why it's done, I don't like when dakka changes my swear word to a silly sounding Americanised word

Haha, great idea for a thread!

Sooo, where to begin...

Well, I am a terribly lazy painter. It is not that my paint job is particulary bad, I apply one layer and then I think: Meh, I'd much rather do something else.
'Yet I still buy ´, build and convert more and more models. It is truly a vicious circle.

I cut myself more than a couple times while buidling stuff. 3 years ago, I once had to get stitched on my thumb (9 stitches). It was such a deep cut you can still see not only the scar, but also some sort of notch (hope that makes sense!).

I started playing Guard a couple years back since my father who has absolutely no idea about 40k stuff wanted to treat me to some miniatures for helping him out a bunch. He had, as I said, absolutely no idea about my collection, he just remembered the imperial aquila. So he got me a cadian command squad since the flag had the same aquila on it. I then decided to just go along with it, since I always liked the Guard and I did not want him to feel bad for gifting me the "wrong" stuff^^

I procastrinate horribly when it comes to selling or otherwise disposing of stuff. Right now, I've got a Circle Orboros army that I haven't used for a year and a half. I'm collecting a new faction, I need the space, and it would net me about £500 at least, but I somehow never can work round to it.

I feel guilty if I win too decisively, or if it feels like I hard-countered the thing the other players list does.

I cheat when painting. Basecoat (probably with paints that are too thick), fiddle around with details until i get bored, wash (usually brown or black) and that's about it. I sometimes drybrush, but blending and shading are incomprehensible dark arts to me. Faces are just a blob of reddish-pink, and forget about doing eyes beyond a dot of colour. Rather than base, I spend extra on resin bases so I can paint them all at the same time. But somehow, people keep praising my work, and I'm worried I'm going to get found out!

I get nervous about telling people that 40k is literally all I do with my time outside of work (and often commands a lot of my brain power at work).

I sold what would even now be considered a large army of Ultramarines back when I was about 14 and regret it to this day. To the point where I have purchased the same old metal minis i used to have instead of the "nice" new versions. I've promised myself I'll never sell my 40k stuff again.

Having not played since a teenager, when I got back into 40k in my mid/late 20s I realised I had no friends with the same interest. Hid it from the few friends I had kept into adulthood for 18+ months and was called a nerd even by the ones who adore comic books and other "geeky" stuff as much as I do.

I at least half the figure and then round down the amount of money I've spent on 40k in the last couple years for my other half's benefit.

I really enjoy a close game but sometimes getting bored of Maelstrom or even getting annoyed at how illogical some of the objectives can be I just go for a tabling half the time and deep down really enjoy it when I do. All the more so if they complain about OP units or how my chapter tactics are cheese.

I take zero joy in playing against other Imperial factions and really enjoy giving Chaos and Xenos players a kicking. Their disloyalty is deserving of punishment in my eyes.

I never undercoat my minis!

I have multiple scars on my fingers from knife slip moments.

I silently judge people who play with unpainted/unfinished minis. I even judged myself the one time I fielded one of my Land Raiders when I hadn't finished highlighting it.

I think anyone who believes that an all out galactic war between any combination of the 40k/Star Wars/Star Trek/BSG universes wouldn't result in a 40k victory is an idiot.

After disabling it due to getting bored of the juvenile complaining of people I knew back in school I only reactivated my facebook account to follow 40k Humour and other related pages.

I am slowly brainwashing my son to enjoy 40k with 40k video games and giving him a model here and there and happening to pass by GW every now and then with him to pick up paints or an upgrade sprue here and there. It seems to be working too, much to his mums annoyance.

I get incredibly frustrated by people in my gaming group always wanting to play 1000 - 1500 point games as I enjoy playing games at 5000 points or more.

-I have over the course of my hobby career built WAY too many tactical squads of marines, simply because basic troop choices are my favorite units.
-I hate unrealistic poses on my miniatures. A soldier striking a Vogue esq pose is a very dead soldier. All of mine are either, running, shooting, or both.
-I am horrible at painting vehicles and will settle for a basic spray paint job with details picked out.
-Every squad has its own story in my head, and being that attached has cost me games.
-While I prefer a close game that can go down to the wire, sometimes I really enjoy crushing my opponent in the most brutal manner possible.
-I am insanely superstitious about my dice, to the point that certain Characters have their own.
-During 7th I was a huge 30k snob. And still am to a point.
-When it comes to super heavy kits, I am a cheap ass. I painted my Storm Eagles and Spartan as a generic Mechanicum Grey with serial numbers stamped on them to represent the "fresh off the line" look. In reality I am just cheap.
-I buy cheap FW off of ebay no questions asked.

I Dislike people who still claim Forgeworld isn't normal 40k and/or people only use it because Forgeworld units are WAAC.

Iv'e been slowly converting one of my friends into a 40k player, I offered to slowly sell him my Tryanid army, and to my joy, he's spending more time each week on building/playing or reading about warhammer.

I am part of close group of 40k players. and one of them is to the T a hard core competitve player. he's not WAAC but he does only build armies to win. I hate that he doesn't tone his list down for casual play, but when doubles tournament come around we always team up and win.

2 years ago I got a girls number after playing a 40k match, she told me that this match was one of the few game she's play that wasn't full of silence and awkward stareing. Nothing really came of it though, just another wargaming buddy.

I like poke fun at people who complain about how in 8th everything can hurt everything. Most of the time is like "makes no sense that a lasgun can hurt my tank, that wouldn't happen in real life" and in reality, you could blow a tank up with a glass bottle full of alcohol if you got close enough.

I only got into Games Workshop stuff because WD issue 124 had cleavage on the cover.

I spend way more time thinking about army composition than playing games, and enjoy it more too.

I dislike painting.

I regret no longer having a ton of early 40k rule books.

I have .... many codexes. For multiple armies I've never even intended to play. I have about a dozen of the RPG books bought knowing I'd never play a game of it.

I think Sisters of Battle should never have become a playable faction.

Every so often I realise that much of the writing and such is poor quality and/or silly, but adore the setting anyway.

I once bluffed my way through a theology discussion based on my knowledge of chaos.

I spent substantial portions of a holiday with my gf doing math hammer by hand.

On another holiday I bought an iPad for the sole purpose of being able to get and read the new eldar codex as soon as it was realeased, and ended up reading it while sheltering from a tornado.

Everytime someone pluralises eldar as eldars I kill a fairy in my head.

 kinratha wrote:
I Dislike people who still claim Forgeworld isn't normal 40k and/or people only use it because Forgeworld units are WAAC.

Iv'e been slowly converting one of my friends into a 40k player, I offered to slowly sell him my Tryanid army, and to my joy, he's spending more time each week on building/playing or reading about warhammer.

I am part of close group of 40k players. and one of them is to the T a hard core competitve player. he's not WAAC but he does only build armies to win. I hate that he doesn't tone his list down for casual play, but when doubles tournament come around we always team up and win.

2 years ago I got a girls number after playing a 40k match, she told me that this match was one of the few game she's play that wasn't full of silence and awkward stareing. Nothing really came of it though, just another wargaming buddy.

I like poke fun at people who complain about how in 8th everything can hurt everything. Most of the time is like "makes no sense that a lasgun can hurt my tank, that wouldn't happen in real life" and in reality, you could blow a tank up with a glass bottle full of alcohol if you got close enough.

Uh no modern day tanks are too strong to die to improvised explosive devices these days. Go look up the losses of the us Abrahams tank and you'll be astonished to find they've only ever lost a few tank completely to enemy fire. Most of the time the tanks are temporarily disabled and are quickly repaired and back in the fight. You got a big surprise coming up you think a glass bottle with fire would blow one up. Hecj it's not uncommon for them to deflect last generation anti-tank rockets like nothing.

True modern tanks are so durable now that the us is struggling to blow up their older versions of the tank in practice range.

I have bought and assembled a Stormwolf that I love playing but can't bring myself to paint it because the engines are backwards (I'm bad with directions sometimes)

I have been "painting" a Battlewagon conversion of a toy ship for over a year now and have barely primed it.

My wife plays with me but we rarely play separate games because I know she gets uncomfortable at stores without me, and it annoys me.

I am a sore loser who plays fluffy armies and has god awful luck unless it's something completely stupid.

I don't paint my models. I get someone to commission paint ALL OF IT.

I'm pissed off with GWs policy of not using 3rd party models or pieces in their stores even if the third party models are cooler and would help me convert a few things.

I put Vicks air vapour gel under my nose before entering GW stores because people there normally stink.

I hate the way the Dawn of War series is waaaaay too cartoony for the 40k universe

I honestly think 1/3rd of the people at my local gaming shop have some form of autism.

I spend every cent I can to make every model beautiful.

Despite the ridiculous prices and really crazy crowd at gaming stores I LOVE 40K!

Edit: I'm the one guy at the game store that's good at rolling 6s

Forgot a couple when I made my first post

I think I'm stuck in the past with my old 90s army in my head.

I don't take grav weapons because they were added in to give marines a counter to balance issues that had cropped up.

I hate Centurions with a passion. The fluff to introduce them was stupid... they look stupid... and again a reaction to imbalance in the game where marines needed a better mobile weapons platform for Grav (the addition of which shouldn't have been necessary in the first place) and they couldn't just fix Dreadnoughts.

I don't like Marine fliers, traditionally we've had Thunderhawks and that's all Marines needed, where did they magically pull all these fliers out their a***s from?

I hate the Primaris marines even more than all of the above. Intercessors have Stromcast knee pads and I don't like their helmets, they don't have enough skulls on them so their sleek look isn't grim dark enough and they just all look the same, at least with the normal marines there were different aquillas and backpacks and helmets and shoulder plates and legs so you could make everyone look more individual. Inceptors look like they're off on a skiing holiday but are in the process of being eaten by their own jump packs and what is going on with the tiny shield on their "Heavy bolter pistols"? That has absolutely zero functionality. The Captain looks like he needs to go on a diet (and his stance is so much like Guillimans it just makes him look like a little fat kid playing at being his favourite super hero), the Chaplain has forgotten his Crozius and has just grabbed whatever is closest to hand that he can pass off as his symbol of office and the Apothecary is staring at a baby spore mine for some reason and saying to it "Don't worry little fella, I'll keep you safe. I will call you squishy and you shall be my pet". Hellblasters have one of the stupidest names since the whole Wolfy Mc'Wolf Wolf thing started on Fenris.

And then there's their lore.

I feel like GW are ruining my favourite faction - one of the things that they really could have done a lot with concerning the Ultramarines was the potential for infighting withing the Chapter over who should take over from Calgar as a number of novels have commented on the splintering of opinions over Agemman's ability to lead them long term and the lobbying of Tigurius for Sicarius to replace him as Captain of the First even directly to Calgar. So what do GW do? They remove Sicarius from the Chapter to become the leader of the Victrix Guard and everything within the Ultramarines is now perfect and rosey... well done GW

 Gamgee wrote:

 kinratha wrote:
I Dislike people who still claim Forgeworld isn't normal 40k and/or people only use it because Forgeworld units are WAAC.

Iv'e been slowly converting one of my friends into a 40k player, I offered to slowly sell him my Tryanid army, and to my joy, he's spending more time each week on building/playing or reading about warhammer.

I am part of close group of 40k players. and one of them is to the T a hard core competitve player. he's not WAAC but he does only build armies to win. I hate that he doesn't tone his list down for casual play, but when doubles tournament come around we always team up and win.

2 years ago I got a girls number after playing a 40k match, she told me that this match was one of the few game she's play that wasn't full of silence and awkward stareing. Nothing really came of it though, just another wargaming buddy.

I like poke fun at people who complain about how in 8th everything can hurt everything. Most of the time is like "makes no sense that a lasgun can hurt my tank, that wouldn't happen in real life" and in reality, you could blow a tank up with a glass bottle full of alcohol if you got close enough.

Uh no modern day tanks are too strong to die to improvised explosive devices these days. Go look up the losses of the us Abrahams tank and you'll be astonished to find they've only ever lost a few tank completely to enemy fire. Most of the time the tanks are temporarily disabled and are quickly repaired and back in the fight. You got a big surprise coming up you think a glass bottle with fire would blow one up. Hecj it's not uncommon for them to deflect last generation anti-tank rockets like nothing.

True modern tanks are so durable now that the us is struggling to blow up their older versions of the tank in practice range.

I'm in the US Army as a tank crewman for the past 4 years. Trust me tanks are easy to blow up. you just have to know where to hit.

 kinratha wrote:

I'm in the US Army as a tank crewman for the past 4 years. Trust me tanks are easy to blow up. you just have to know where to hit.

Word

They are very survivable, but not as much as civilians think.

DU doesn't kill the tank, it eliminates the crew which cost a hell if a lot more.

I always wanted to be a tanker but being 6'8" kinda precluded that one.

So many confessions.....where to start?

I had a massive Ork army from RT to 4th edition. I loved those Orks and was very good with them...I took a hiatus from 40k shortly after 4th dropped and eventually sold them to buy an Xbox 360. I have regretted it ever since and cannot bring myself to start Orks again, but did start a small Orruk army.

I painted my marines as Crimson Fists without knowing their fluff (see confession one for a bit of irony). My main reason? I was being elitist and wanted to say they were the original MarInes since they were on the cover of Rogue Trader.

I am a hardcore fluff player. I build my armies with their story in mind. I recently played an ultra competitive list with a chapter master, LT, and apothecary castle build. I immediately regretted it as it proved exceedingly OP and have vowed to never take that list again.

I am not a fan of Primaris for one reason....I feel they are turning marines into a gunline army and that is not how I envision space marines.

My chaos marine army is black and silver because I am lazy; however, I will be using the Renegade legion traits because it doesn't fit any of the other legions.

I love, LOVE, the dinobot models and they are the core of my CSM army.

I still refuse to play a named character in a game under 2000 points even though that hasn't been a rule in ages. I look disapprovingly at players that DO field named characters at under 2000 points.

I bought several non-IG kits for conversions, but it always ended up as a source of bits and the conversion was never done. (Land Raider, Wild Riders...)

During my middle school years, I sometimes starved (didn't bought a snack) for few days to afford another box of Guardsmen

I named every Guardsman I own and when they accomplish something very gamechanging, I promote them and give them medals.

I have lower opinion of Space Marine players because of how many of them there are.

I dislike Space Marines as a faction, mainly because how GW treats them. Specially the Toilet Seat Marines.

I'm an extreme maximalist. I tend to enjoy when armies give tons of options, customization, bling, and fun ways to burn through points. If I wanted to play a game that made every unit have only one option (or zero) in the name of "competitiveness," I would play Starcraft instead.

I enjoy homebrew. It could me same part of me that made me do software development that makes me view the flaws of 40k (or other tabletop games) as a puzzle to crack. More than anything, it's also a good mental exercise, as trying to make simple yet deep rules means I need to overcome kitchen-sink tendencies.

I am somewhat upset how GW was very hands-off w.r.t. their consumerbase throwing around "Make 40k Great Again." I reserve most of that disapproval for members in the fanbase though. I mean, I enjoy the hobby, conversions, gaming and such, but am always skeezed out by the fact this is the same fanbase where certain players may unironically ask if they can paint Swastikas on their Chimeras.

I don't truly believe WAAC is a thing, at least from an army perspective. It's more an attitude thing. Bringing a good list and playing it well is one thing. Chipmunking your opponent to tank sportsmanship scores, making alliances with TOs, loading dice, conveniently "forgetting" rules when they're disadvantageous and enforcing them when they're advantageous is a whole different thing.

I tend to buy stuff for the "conversion potential" or the number of spare bits. Stuff like Flagellants, Plastic Marauders, or Ogres. I bought 3 Burning Chariots of Tzeentch prior to Wrath of Magnus, yet I don't have a single assembled Chariot!

I *really* wish to start a Mordheim group. I wish I had my own tablespace, but a house and mancave is still a ways off.

I save Sprue and use it for whatever I can.

I sold my Ork army last year. It wasn't so much that I find the army is boring to play (though that didn't help. I tend towards "techplay" more than raw attrition), so much as I got bored with the aesthetic and conversions. Orks are great for kitbashing, in a goofy Animal House Deffmobile sort of way. They're not so good if you want conversions that are more "ornate/baroque." I ended up switching to Chaos Space Marines because it afforded me an opportunity to play an army that could both have "whacky" models via mutants and spawn, or "ornate/heroic" models via the Daemon Princes, Helforged Engines, etc.