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How many 40k players are girls.My friends and I are all guys and ive never really seen a girl play.Im just really curious,cause in Europe you see alot of girls in the 40k community.

More than one, less than a million.

Never seen a girl in my local GW. Ever. Mind you it's only been there a couple of years and don't go in regularly.

X number.

Where X is an imaginary number.

The only time Ive seen a girl in a GW was when it was my gf going with me lol

Can you include fantasy as well? I know 2 girls who play fantasy, 1 lady who plays 40k, a girl who used to sorta play space marines (mostly just painted) and one girl who wants to get into the game, drawn in by my copy of space hulk and a daemons vs. necron game shortly after. So if I know this many, there has to be at least a double digit amount. 'Course, I work in a game store, so I see more female players than casual players do

I've seen a few in my local GW, oddly enough, they all seem to collect SoB.

My wife Plays; she Plays Orks.

I am fairly certain Melissa(another poster here on Dakka) is a Girl.

I know a Girl in Colorado(name of Merr) who at least used to play noise marines. (Her boyfriend, an old friend of mine from high school, played death guard)

Im trying to get my gf to play my SoB army.But she wont play haha.She'll watch all the games though

My Brothers Girlfriend plays, though he hates the hobby. And whenever it is brought up in conversation I get to use the "I have won +1 internets" face.

And I know of at least 5 girls on Dakka (Melissa, Lunahound, Morgrim, Mistress of Mini's, and Nosferatu).

Of the 6 people I play with regularly, one is female, and there's talk of another joining us. So... 2:7 ratio?

Little lord Fauntleroy wrote:My Brothers Girlfriend plays, though he hates the hobby. And whenever it is brought up in conversation I get to use the "I have won +1 internets" face.

And I know of at least 5 girls on Dakka (Melissa, Lunahound, Morgrim, Mistress of Mini's, and Nosferatu).

Also, FyoraSilverwolf.

Shrike325 wrote:Of the 6 people I play with regularly, one is female, and there's talk of another joining us. So... 2:7 ratio?

Your math is off.

If you play with six other people, that's seven people in the group, one of whom is female. So one female to six males. 1:6. If there's a second female joining, then that's one more female, but zero more males. 2:6, simplified as 1:3.

Unless you're female? If so, then it's 2:5 or 3:5.

Now if you're talking fractions, not ratios, then it's 1/7 or 1/4.

We have a local daemon player, but she mainly plays fantasy, but she wants to play more 40k now that she has new dp models to play with in coming weeks.

A friend of my fiancee's plays, although infrequently, and is in fact a girl. She plays Sisters. Although I am starting to think that "Women who play 40k will invariably own either a Sisters of Battle or an Eldar army" should go into Jimsolo's Book of Immutable Facts. (Right after "While all men who own a Cher or Madonna CD are not gay, all gay men own at least one Cher or Madonna CD.")

One of the staff members I've seen in our store over the years is female, and I've heard some of my friends' girlfriends play 40K. Mine won't, which is a pity.

Jimsolo wrote:A friend of my fiancee's plays, although infrequently, and is in fact a girl. She plays Sisters. Although I am starting to think that "Women who play 40k will invariably own either a Sisters of Battle or an Eldar army" should go into Jimsolo's Book of Immutable Facts. (Right after "While all men who own a Cher or Madonna CD are not gay, all gay men own at least one Cher or Madonna CD.")

Actually, out of the three women I personally know who play 40k, one plays IG, one plays Necrons, and one plays DE.

Lol, then there we go. Although I'm still claiming one out of three. Dark Eldar are Eldar, just with more goth make up and sluttier outfits.

Fair enough.

ribonfox is a girl. so there

I like Tegan and Sara... I've heard that that technically classifies me as a lesbian.

I also play Eldar, maybe I'm a girl and just haven't realized it yet? I better ask Slaanesh.

Sanctjud wrote:X number.

Where X is an imaginary number.

ix if my memory servers me correctly.

There are 2 girls that play 40k one plays sisters / necrons and one that mostly paints orks.

And there is 1 girl that I play D&D with.

And that's just the weekend's I'm there....

at my local gw the only girl plays tyranids... i guess they could be cute to her

chaos renegade wrote:at my local gw the only girl plays tyranids... i guess they could be cute to her

Yes, because girls only like "cute" things. Emperor forbid a girl actually be into the grimdark reality of Tyranids.

maybe if she seen the codex pictures she would not think they are cute but i still think rippers are cute

Please introduce her to Nurglings...then transition to Slaanesh...then be suggestive about your motives as Vect would on his pimp mobile...

nurglings are cute

there a girl who works at my local gw and there used to be another

/raises hand

I was actually curious about this myself since I am a girl. My bf (who reads the forums but won't post) introduced me to 40k and we paint Orks together. I only did it at first because I missed doing stuff with him (we used to play an mmo together) but then I found out I actually liked it. So far when we have visted either GW or the local store I've stuck pretty close to him - but I think I'll eventually be comfortable at our local store because one of the employees is a woman so I won't be the only one... I just hope to find enough "mature" players to play 40k with in the future because if being a chick doesn't make me feel awkward enough the fact that I'm in my late 20s will make me feel ancient if I am surrounded by really young players.

PinkPaw wrote: /raises hand

I was actually curious about this myself since I am a girl. My bf (who reads the forums but won't post) introduced me to 40k and we paint Orks together. I only did it at first because I missed doing stuff with him (we used to play an mmo together) but then I found out I actually liked it. So far when we have visted either GW or the local store I've stuck pretty close to him - but I think I'll eventually be comfortable at our local store because one of the employees is a woman so I won't be the only one... I just hope to find enough "mature" players to play 40k with in the future because if being a chick doesn't make me feel awkward enough the fact that I'm in my late 20s will make me feel ancient if I am surrounded by really young players.

This is a problem I run into from time to time, but for a different reason - I goddamn hate kids. So I'm right there with ya. The upside is that 40k is a more "adult" tabletop game than some alternatives - the downside is that it's currently the most popular (therefore has the highest young population).

Of course, there's nothing worse than trying to conduct a civilized game of 40k while there are 20 screaming children (and manchildren) five feet to your left playing Yu-Gi-Oh.

What you may ultimately find is that it doesn't particularly matter that you're one woman among twenty men, simply because many players are mature enough for gender to not even be an issue.

Naturally, though, there are exceptions...