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Weird question I know, but having seen comments refering to having to drive for an hour to get a gane at my local store, it reminded me that there is a lot space in the US. Over here most of the guys of my club are only about a 15 - 20 minute drive from the club or local GW store.

Does the distance also have an impact on new games taking hold? By this I mean if it's hard to find enough 40k gamers in your area, does it follow that gamers playing non mainstream games is harder?

Dude I'm not 15-20 minutes from anywhere.

Theoretically there is a store opening up nearby. We'll see.

Gaming wise it can be difficult.

I'm 15-20 miles from the middle of nowhere. But, go 10 more miles, and you are in Statesboro at Galactic. If anyone ever is in the area, stop in and say hi to Keith [the owner] and if he's there, Detective Evil Ken [don't know his real name, but he is called Evil Ken and he is a police detective.]

half hour gets me to a hobby store where i've seen crowds up to a dozen playing at any one time.
an hour in the other direction (or 10 minutes during the times i live in the town for college) and i'm at a hobbytown, which opened a building that certain days of the week just has a whole bunch of tables for people to play at.

course, to do anything with warmachine/hordes, i have either a 1.5 hour drive, or visit some friends who also play

I used to live 5 minutes from a gaming store. It closed and that number jumped to 30. Living where I am now a bus ride or short car ride can take me to a gaming location. I live in an exceptionally sparsely populated state too.

Though really it all depends on just where you live.

30 min away from 4 separate gaming stores here in virginia.

Too bad I hate virginia and am trying hard to move to Texas. (gaming is even better there anyway)

really now

it does matter

i can sing

My local GW is Fithteen minutes away. GW is going to open up 3 more stores in southern CA lucky me they are put one in my town W00t!

Ultrafool, where specifically in CA? I live here too, and this talk of new stores excites me!

It takes me about 20 mins to drive to my nearest Hobby Store. As for a game though, it can take an hour sometimes. Possibly more.

In bad traffic, minute and a half to my local. It's been years since I had a problem getting a game together in there.

um about 25 min to the closer store and 45 to the other.

Its not that bad to get games in. Its hard to get games in with good players tho...

Its 15 minutes to two gaming stores, 10 from a friends house, 0 min to play against my bro.

its about 30-45 minutes to my local GW. However there is a local shop less than 10 minutes away that just started hosting 40k games bi weekly which I've started going to. I consider myself lucky.

Over an hour form the nearest GW store. But im about 15 mins from a FLGS that has a table. BUT Im always about 5 secs away from my garage where I have my own table.

There are three GWs near where I live, two are 15 minutes or less away while the other it depends on traffic, I only ever go to that one for FW stuff as it is a Battle Bunker. And one of the others stores is where I go for basic stuff, and plotting and planning models and doomsday devices.

There used to be a store in my hometown, but it closed down due to a new owner. Luckily another store opened that supposedly has a good community, but I am never in town. In Monroe where I go to school the nearest game store that actually has gamers is in Jackson, Mississippi 2 hours away. I have never seen an official gw store.

Where in the US? I live in New Jersey theres a flgs 20-30 minutes in basically any direction.

Im 20 minutes from a games workshop store. The one at the mall of Georgia. But there's rarely anyone there who wants to play a game, its mostly just good to go and paint.