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We recently started a campaign based on Planetary Empires in which we had 9 people from our local store playing. Out of all 9 players only 1 was not a Space Marine. I play both Eldar and BA and due to the overwelming number of SM in the area, I recently sold my BA army. Is this extremely high concentration of SM just a local aberration?

What is the % of SM players in your area?

Regulars-40%
Randomers-70-90%

This is why I play Tau. STR5 basic infantry rifle=space marine **** sauce.

[Mod: Do not use that word as slang.]

purplefood wrote:Regulars-40%
Randomers-70-90%

Nice variety with the regs. It must make for a better gaming experience I imagine?

Do you mean exclusively space marine players, or players who happen to have any space marine armies at all?

Melissia wrote:Do you mean exclusively space marine players, or players who happen to have any space marine armies at all?

This + are CSM armies to be counted too? Or just loyalists?

whinyboy space marines are still space marines. Might as well also ask if grey knights players are space marine players, or if space puppy players are space marine players.

Melissia wrote:Do you mean exclusively space marine players, or players who happen to have any space marine armies at all?

I would count the their armies independently. So if the they had 4 armies and 1 was SM then that would count as 25%. I guess I'm asking the total SM army % for your area.

Make sense?

No, I mean if a player has a space marine army, and an imperial guard army, and a tyranid army, and a chaos daemons army, is he a space marine player, a guard player, a bug player, a daemon player?

mcyeatman wrote:

purplefood wrote:Regulars-40%
Randomers-70-90%

Nice variety with the regs. It must make for a better gaming experience I imagine?

The Regs are great people.
We have a great selection of factions and with a fair amount of different skill levels.

purplefood wrote:

mcyeatman wrote:

purplefood wrote:Regulars-40%
Randomers-70-90%

Nice variety with the regs. It must make for a better gaming experience I imagine?

The Regs are great people.
We have a great selection of factions and with a fair amount of different skill levels.

Same!

I actually go to two different stores-ones a small business general wargaming store where I am one of two players who doesn't play guard, the other being a khorne daemon army, and the one I go to more often is a GW and it has all kinds of SM players.

Avatar 720 wrote:

Melissia wrote:Do you mean exclusively space marine players, or players who happen to have any space marine armies at all?

This + are CSM armies to be counted too? Or just loyalists?

Marines are marines. Even though CSM earn more originality points in my book.

Probably right at 25% if you include Chaos Marines

Lobukia wrote:Probably right at 25% if you include Chaos Marines

Wow! Are most players running multiple armies in your area? I live in a college town so I think the cash strapped students can only afford one army.

100% in my area since I'm pretty much the only one who plays in this area >.< all of my games = travel time...
Anyways, I play space wolves ;p For the Allfather!

We our finishing up a League game and out of 15 players 5 played a Space Marine army of some kind. This included 2 Grey Knight players. Actual Vanilla Marines was only 1 of the 15 armies.

out of our 12 regulars, only 3 play vanilla marines.

another 3 play GKs(of those, 2 also play Vanilla and one is me)

another 2 players also play CSM.

there is also a BT player.


so, about 50% play marines of one varient or another. although, all that play Marines also have another army they play more often so we actually have a fairly low marine %.

and at the very least, we are using different codices.

The last tourney I was at was fairly indicative. We had 11 teams (22 players). Two Guard, one Tyranid, one Dark Eldar. The remainder were all Space Marine players of one flavour or another. That's around the 80% mark.

uh like 75% of my local are SM players, whilst I am one of 3 chaos space marine players and the only consistant Daemon player.

But my CSM, Daemons and traitor guard make a NASTY combo in APOC

The amount of SMs nearby often roll around 25-30% but that opens up to a larger evil. 60% Mech leaf-blower players

But when most of the IG players aren't around it normally is everything non-imperial with a few SM's, excluding Tau, as I'm the only one there using them.

The overall % is lower than I thought it would be. This is encouraging.

About 75%-80%, I guess. Quite a few people(regulars included) jumped on the GK wagon.

Rant engaged

What is so fething bad about being a space marine player anyway. Are we not allowed at certain events, just because we enjoy the benefits of good armor saves, good mobility, and decent shooting skills.

I mean really, Are the space marines not a viable army in the current line of codices? I believe they are. I don't really like being forced to the back of the bus, just because of the army that I've chosen to field. If you don't like the army choice that I've made, then guess what, I don't really give a damn! If you feel like the current SM codex is overpowered or marysue in your opinion, go cry to GW about it, Don't start pointless threads about how your gaming community "segregates" it's players on their choice of army.

Y'know, threads like this really make me proud to be a SM player, an ULTRAMARINE player to be exact. Because now I know that EVERY other army out there is fething terrified to see me across the table from them, I hope, no, pray that I meet you at some random GT or RTT and just wipe the table with my boys in blue. LOL I guess I'll expect another "I hate the space marines" thread soon after that. Would you like a hanky for those tears? LOL

Face it, the space marines are bad-ass, there's nothing you can do about it, short of whining and creating pointless threads on the interwebs. BTW, there's still room for you to get on the winning team here, drop those zero's and get with the hero's, brotha! rant disengaged

At least 80% of our guys own a SM army.

sub-zero wrote: Rant engaged

What is so fething bad about being a space marine player anyway.

Because Marines are generic, geriatric, boring, balding, old, ornery, screaming or scowling plastic soldiers, and most people that play them try to make them into mary sue armies that are "the onyl treu hereos!" of 40k and the only armies that should ever win any battles ever.

Actually I have no problems with Space MArine models, they're pleasant enough to look at, certainly I like the overall armor design better than that of the Sororitas (if only for the fact that their chestplate looks remotely appropriate for battle).

We have 3

1 csm
1 gk
1 new guy that plays vinnilla.

out of 10, thats 30%

95% of the people in my area have at least 2 armies. Every person does own Space Marines in some form as one of their armies. It does allow for a lot of flexibility, and we even trade armies around with each other to play. So everybody with multiple armies has space marines, but they also have another race in addition to it. I personally think that's the way to go, giving plenty of options: you can play a vanilla, easy to use army one day, then play a specialized army the next. It's winwin

Thought about taking up sm. Though ive also thought about taking up elder or orks or guard.... im just going to let it wear off...

sub-zero wrote: Rant engaged

What is so fething bad about being a space marine player anyway. Are we not allowed at certain events, just because we enjoy the benefits of good armor saves, good mobility, and decent shooting skills.

I mean really, Are the space marines not a viable army in the current line of codices? I believe they are. I don't really like being forced to the back of the bus, just because of the army that I've chosen to field. If you don't like the army choice that I've made, then guess what, I don't really give a damn! If you feel like the current SM codex is overpowered or marysue in your opinion, go cry to GW about it, Don't start pointless threads about how your gaming community "segregates" it's players on their choice of army.

Y'know, threads like this really make me proud to be a SM player, an ULTRAMARINE player to be exact. Because now I know that EVERY other army out there is fething terrified to see me across the table from them, I hope, no, pray that I meet you at some random GT or RTT and just wipe the table with my boys in blue. LOL I guess I'll expect another "I hate the space marines" thread soon after that. Would you like a hanky for those tears? LOL

Face it, the space marines are bad-ass, there's nothing you can do about it, short of whining and creating pointless threads on the interwebs. BTW, there's still room for you to get on the winning team here, drop those zero's and get with the hero's, brotha! rant disengaged

the main complaint is that you often have nothing but space marine players showing up.


90% of Warhammer 40k players will/have had a marine army at some point. this isn't a problem, its when nothing else shows up that things get a little boring.


as a marine player myself, i much prefer killing Xenos and Heretics to other marines. then its a challanging game, but against marines I know the routine and take them apart.

Grey Templar wrote:

sub-zero wrote: Rant engaged

What is so fething bad about being a space marine player anyway. Are we not allowed at certain events, just because we enjoy the benefits of good armor saves, good mobility, and decent shooting skills.

I mean really, Are the space marines not a viable army in the current line of codices? I believe they are. I don't really like being forced to the back of the bus, just because of the army that I've chosen to field. If you don't like the army choice that I've made, then guess what, I don't really give a damn! If you feel like the current SM codex is overpowered or marysue in your opinion, go cry to GW about it, Don't start pointless threads about how your gaming community "segregates" it's players on their choice of army.

Y'know, threads like this really make me proud to be a SM player, an ULTRAMARINE player to be exact. Because now I know that EVERY other army out there is fething terrified to see me across the table from them, I hope, no, pray that I meet you at some random GT or RTT and just wipe the table with my boys in blue. LOL I guess I'll expect another "I hate the space marines" thread soon after that. Would you like a hanky for those tears? LOL

Face it, the space marines are bad-ass, there's nothing you can do about it, short of whining and creating pointless threads on the interwebs. BTW, there's still room for you to get on the winning team here, drop those zero's and get with the hero's, brotha! rant disengaged

the main complaint is that you often have nothing but space marine players showing up.


90% of Warhammer 40k players will/have had a marine army at some point. this isn't a problem, its when nothing else shows up that things get a little boring.


as a marine player myself, i much prefer killing Xenos and Heretics to other marines. then its a challanging game, but against marines I know the routine and take them apart.

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