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Last night at 10:58pm my daughter Claire was born. I'd like to get her interested in 40k so that I could play her on non-league nights or maybe the random pug. Any ideas on where to start?

...A little hasty there

Firstly congrats

Secondly youll need to wait a few years lol. My son is 5, and he is just nuts about 40k. I told him he has to be at least 8 to get a small force, so he cant wait. Id say its all in the small things. Have her around when your painting, and read some of the codex stuff to her, laugh at the people that say its to graphic. Things like that will really get them interested, also when shes old enough to hold a brush and paint, let her paint that random crappy mini your not sure why you havnt thrown away.

Congratulations. Long and healthy life for Claire.
Females are rather uncommon in 40k, it a purely male environment.

Firstly, Congrats

Secondly, Your being to hasty, and do you really want to submit your daughter to bunch of slavering nerds? XD

She would be a goddess among the nerds though. How awesome would that be

yeah, i would wait at least untill she can walk and talk.

it will be kinda difficult to play when you are only able to say gogo gaga.


but you could take her along with you when you play at the FLGS. get the atmosphere into her lungs.


i would get her some SoB posters for her room(so much cooler then Miley Cyrus), Dress up clothes along the 40k style......etc

Lol thanks guys, I know she's way too young to start. I'm just excited to be a father.

Ignore these heretics.

You've got the right thought process. Here's my advice:

1. Inject her with geneseed. In the 21st millenium, we call those steroids.
2. Plaster her room and cradle with scenes of the emperor's glory - let her awareness set in surrounded by images of what she'll need to know.
3. Remember the wise axiom, "Blessed is the mind too small to doubt." Instill her with words of wisdom and teachings of the emperor. A small mind is easily filled with faith.
4. When she starts speaking and you start on the ABCs, remember that A is for Angron, traitor to the emperor. B is for Baal, homeworld of Sanguinius who smote the chink in Horus' armor that let the emperor destroy him. C is for Corax, Primarch of the RavenGuard. D is for....
5. When you get a mobile for her cradle, make it of miniatures. Depending on what race you want her to play, get two mobiles. Hang the one of the race you want her to play with sweet music that she'll learn to instinctively like, and alternate it with the other mobile, which you should make smell bad and have the music be screaming, wailing torment. She'll learn to love one and hate the others.
6. Leave a copy of the rulebook in her cage. She can't read it yet, but she'll learn to recognize it and become attached to its presence.
7. Speaking of which, no "See spot run" here. School her on the rules and let her children's books and picture books be the codices.

You should be off to a good start!

I like your style dash.

Congrats, kids are fun. A great reason to watch cartoons, go to the comic book store and play with toys.

I have two daughters that play mini games, they started I'd say at 8/9 and 5 years old. The 9 year old had no problem with 40k at all, we started her with 500 points of marines and then settled around 1200. She learned the rules easy enough.

With the 5 year old (who is now 8 herself as time flies) is more of a square baser and we started playing with the Skullpass set and basically lining things up on the floor and measuring and rolling dice to shoot etc. Kiddified the rules some so everyone moved the same and she only ever need a 4+ to hit, that kind of stuff. As she got the hang of it and got older we let her in on some special rules etc.

Attention span is a tough one sometimes with kids so small points works best or short win scenarios. They are your kids, they see what you do for fun and by nature will want to be part of it (at least until they are teenagers I guess) Have fun, play with toys, let them imagine things about their figures and tell their stories of adventure. Let them have a magic reroll every now and then. Rules lawyering on Dakka can come later.

I know yours is brand new but as I mentioned time flies, she'll be starting school in a blink and you'll wonder where the time went. And Dash is right start indoctrination now .

paint up some pretty marines... colourfull glittery things are a child magnet (that includes dice and certain eletronic devices). If your daughter is anything like my little cousin she'll eat up those marines as if they were crayons

Dash's idea is perfect.

except it should be "see spot run 1d6. see spot assault the genestealers, see spot roll, see spot roll 3 1s, see spot get SA"

Love the ABCs, Dashofpepper!

this calls for a new thread.

How to introduce your toddler to 40k.

look for it

At this age you can start off by dressing her in a Stompa suit (provided that you play 40K Orks) and teaching her to stay really still unless you want her to move across the board.

Just give her the books and minis as soon as she can hold stuff without eating it (too much).

You could make a cradle out of a Stormlord and put her on the table? Whenever she cries all models in 24" take 1 str 3 hit from the sonic wave.

Firstly congratulations!

Secondly, don't have any other children, so she will fixate on you.

I advise playing a selection of traditional game from Monopoly to Carcassone, which are not militaristic, before you advance to 40K.

I think it is unlikely she will take to a full-on wargame but you can still enjoy playing other kinds of games with her.

(I have a 10 year old daughter who enjoys playing Kingmaker with me.)

GRATZ. Also be those the only toys you buy her.

More like 5 Str 8 AP1 hits.
Also, Dash knows what he is doing.

Hah. I have an 8 year old sister. She had a general interest in my minis when I got them. I've so far showed her the basics of combat and movement. You should have no problem getting your daughter interested in Warhammer. Hopefully your daughter will be singing praised to the Emperor in no time.

See if you can find a Sunday school that teaches the word of the Emperor.

Honestly I'd wait a few years. Until we live in a nightmare world where there's a Warhammer 40,000 cartoon show on Nick Jr., I don't see a point in trying at this age. Congratulations anyway!

Congrats!

Having read all this (and laughing) its good to hear parents do get to game with their kids

When she is old enough to crawl, you should place a model from each faction in a circle around her.

The one she picks up first is her destined army.

God help you if she picks up a Squat.

Don't do it.
Let her play with Barbies.

Let her watch Event Horizon. Best baptism into the world of 40K there is.

Once, in my youth, I wished to live in a house full of women.
Be careful what you wish for.
I have a wife, two daughters, two girl cats, and a girl dog.
Not quite what I had in mind, but I think it worked out better this way actually....except for the damn cats.

My oldest I had to convince that it was just like Barbie fashion designer, but instead of handbags and shoes you have to choose guns and power swords.

I got lucky with my youngest. Bless her; she simply likes anything to do with death and doom. Even has her own death and doom theme song.

I started them out by painting random plastic minis from random games I collected over the years. The best to use is an old school game called Hero Quest if you can find it still around. It uses six sided dice, three sides have skulls for attack, two sides have shields for defense, and the one last side was for monster defense...I just spray painted them black and let them go to town.

As my oldest got better at dry brushing I let her move up to painting some extra space marines I had. Imho, SM are easy to paint because of the wide surface areas of the armor. However, they had to match my color scheme, sort of walking before running kind of deal. I then let her go wild on some extra Harlequins; they could be any whacky and wild color scheme she wanted. Then on day out of the blue she told me she wanted a Dark Eldar army of her very own...My heart cried for joy, and my e-bay account cried for more money. Nevertheless, she now has 2 squads of warriors, 1 squad of wyches, and a Haemonculus.

My youngest, (although happy to destroy things until they die) unfortunately, lacks the attention span to really get her hand dirty painting. However, she is working on it, and has her own "Littlest Death Shop" army using those disgustingly cute, small little pets with big bug eyes and big bulbous heads called Littlest Pet Shop you can find in most toy isle. She and I worked out their stats and weapon choices so she can still have a fully painted and ready to go army to use when her big sister and I go to war.

Lol at this whole thread!

Congrats on the baby. She will likely come to the hobby on her own. When she's old enough to color and paint give her some minis to paint or buy her some army men and paint them with primer. My two year old likes to paint.

Just don't get mad when she wants to do her marines in pastels

Congrats on the kid.

And I wouldnt worry too much about it. My brothers were always playing Battletech when I was little, and thats what eventually got me into wargaming. The first couple of times I didn't care for it (in that ADD way that little kids tend to have) but I learned to love it. Just remember: Don't tell your grot what to take, let her decide what she thinks is cool, even if it is the worst peice of gak in her/your army.