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**Gwar!**

don_mondo wrote:51. And been playing as long as or longer than some of you have been alive!! You're all a bunch of young punks (well, except for the other two guys in the 51-60/61+ categories.................)

And you still don't realise FAQ are unofficial

**1hadhq**

quote YMDC:

2. The only official sources of information are the current rulebooks and the Games Workshop FAQs. Emails from Askyourquestion@games-workshop.com are technically official, but they are easily spoofed and should not be relied on.

/quote

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**Frazzled**

JD21290 wrote:i dont think this poll would include frazz :O, the 61+ seems a tad too young.

Hey 61+ includes 3,000 er, 62...

**wuestenfux**

Didn't know that Frazzled is 61+.

**Oshunai**

I am 18 and mildly bored with it.

**Shadowbrand**

16, turned in July. Man this summer went by too quickly.

**don_mondo**

Gwar! wrote:
don_mondo wrote:51. And been playing as long as or longer than some of you have been alive!! You're all a bunch of young punks (well, except for the other two guys in the 51-60/61+ categories.................)
And you still don't realise FAQ are unofficial

Ahhh for the good old days of "Chapter Approved", official FAQs in White Dwarf.......... This new-fangled "unofficial" FAQ is, well, newfangled.

**porkuslime**

43... I have been in and outta gaming 3/4 of my life.. sheesh..

**Unevenscore**

I turned 23 recently. Been gaming for about 3 years...

**kirsanth**

32.

^^

**lanman**

26 haha i have been playing since i was 11 though

**Lord-Loss**

Turned 15 on the 26th

**kadun**

I'm surprised how many 11-20 year olds there are. I know I was broke when I was that age and any money I could beg my parents for usually went to necessities.

**statu**

15, 16th on GDUK

**Demogerg**

22
started miniature gaming when I was 5, started warhammer when I was 9 or 10

**fryxharry**

23. Started at about 13 or 14, and haven't been in the hobby for more than five years until a month or two ago.

I'm suprised at the results here. Looking at the games stores it always seemed to me the majority of players was <18.

**mal**

22....

started when I was 12. Finished when I was 15. Started when I was 22.

**Shinigami**

I'm 16, 17 in a couple of weeks.

**Shinigami**

I'm 16, 17 in a couple of weeks.

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Sorry for the triple post, could a Mod edit them out as editing won't work for me. Thanks.

**Shinigami**

I'm 16, 17 in a couple of weeks.

**focusedfire**

In my 40's and all I can say is:

You kids get off of my lawn.

**smart_alex**

WOW I am actually in the majority here. I thought that average would be a little older since I play with mostly older dudes.

**Astronomicon**

I'm 25. Only 40 years until retirement.

**Octavius Widowmaker**

33 been playing since i was 18.

**Octavius Widowmaker**

33 Been playing since i was 18.

**Deathbot**

focusedfire wrote:In my 40's and all I can say is:

You kids get off of my lawn.

I'm 17 and respond:

It's MY lawn now, old man!

**Battle Brother Loken**

I am 16 and so are the majority of my gaming group

**VictorVonTzeentch**

I'm twenty but the majority of my gaming group is 21 or older. When I changed schools most of my friends ended up being upperclassmen.

EDIT wouldn't this be better if it was set up like the following;

Pre-teens
Teens
20s
30s
40s
50s
60+

**papakeef**

35 and my 8yr old son has just started painting greenskins.

**Iron_Chaos_Brute**

I'm 18.

1hadhq wrote:
quote YMDC:

2. The only official sources of information are the current rulebooks and the Games Workshop FAQs. Emails from Askyourquestion@games-workshop.com are technically official, but they are easily spoofed and should not be relied on.

/quote

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Quote GW:
ERRATA & FAQs
Welcome to the Errata & FAQs section of our website. Here you can find the latest Errata & FAQs documents for our current books in the form of downloadable pdf documents.

In this section we cover Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. We aim to have one pdf for each book belonging to these systems, including the three main rulebooks and all Warhammer Armies books, Warhammer 40,000 Codexes, and The Lord of the Rings Journey Books and Sourcebooks. If a book is not covered, it is either because we are not aware of any issues with it or we haven't got to it yet.

We aim to publish a first document within the first few months of a book's release. After this initial release, we'll review and update these documents regularly, adding new questions and errata, and correcting any mistakes we might have made when answering some of the questions.

What's the difference between Errata and FAQs?
As it is rather obvious from their name, these documents include two separate elements - the Errata and the FAQs. In case you were wondering, 'Errata' is a posh (Latin!) way to say 'Errors', and 'FAQs' stands for 'Frequently Asked Questions'. It is important to understand the distinction between the two, because they are very different.

The Errata are simply a list of the corrections we plan to make on the next reprint of the book to fix the mistakes that managed to slip into the text (no matter how many times you check a book, there are always some!). These are obviously errors, for example a model that has WS3 in the book's bestiary and WS4 in the book's army list. The Errata would say something like: 'Page 96. Replace WS3 with WS4 in the profile of the so-and-so model'.

The Errata have the same level of 'authority' as the main rules, as they effectively modify the published material. They are 'hard' material. It is a good idea to read them and be aware of their existence, but luckily there are very few of them for each book.

The FAQs on the other hand are very much 'soft' material. They deal with more of a grey area, where often there is no right and wrong answer - in a way, they are our own 'Studio House Rules'. They are, of course, useful when you play a pick-up game against someone you don't know, or at tournaments (i.e. when you don't have a set of common 'house rules' with the other player). However, if you disagree with some answers and prefer to change them in your games and make your own house rules with your friends, that's fine. In fact we encourage you to shape the game around your needs and your taste. We firmly believe that wargaming is about two (or more!) people creating a gaming experience they are both going to enjoy. In other words, you might prefer to skip the FAQs altogether and instead always apply the good old 'roll a dice' rule whenever you meet a problematic situation.

- Games Development, November 2008