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I have question is there a special name for game of lets say football or anyother sport , because when reading that someone says that his opponent should treat w40k as a game and not serious , I see all those people that are in to games here and they are always dead serious. Krakow is called the city of knifes where two football team populations kill each other on a regular basis . Zuzel ,think nascar only with bikes, is a holy sport here . People from rival cities hate each other . When I was younger it was normal durning games against teams that weren't from friendly coallitions , to hear stuff like break his leg or hit him harder , and it wasn't coming from hooligans , but from the parents most of which are doctors , lawyers or in the military .

So is there special name for sport games , that make is somehow different from sort of different games ?

I just like it when its a hair raising affair and you're sweating bullets all game long beginning to end. I just love the amount of thought that goes into those games. Usually that implies a very good General across from me and I have to say: clubbing seals has to happen occasionally but I REALLY enjoy a nasty "every move could be your last mistake" kinda game.

I don't enjoy the game, i'm enjoyed starting a project : buying a book, building an army on paper and start buying and painting. When everything is done, my army look great on the table but suck when a play.... ok, may be i'm a bad player but i like that this way

I enjoy close games. But I also enjoy games that turn out ridiculously random. Best example was a couple of weeks ago with my Orks; two of my Meks rolled 1'sfor gets Hot with their Kustom Mega Blastas, the grots in my looted wagon 'pressed dat', my Big Mek with SAG then destroyed one of my own Trukks before next turn teleporting himself into assault with 6 Terminators kitted out with Storm Shields and Thunder Hammers. I was still laughing when I got home

If the game is kinda close and if the player is polite and cheerful. My two big things.

A board with fantastic terrain played with two painted/based armies is always a nice experience

The best games are ones where I can sit back with some friends and tell stories from.



This picture was from about a year and a half ago. It was a "hero shot" after the opening game of a campaign. ~1k of IG, Salamanders and Space Wolves vs ~3k of Iron Warriors. Three friends defending a city under sisege by Iron Warriors. This is by far the best game of 40k I have ever played. Not everything was painted but we still played. We had some crazy moments (including a Long Fang squad hitting all their shots on a heldrake with snap shots) and we all had a good time.

I think the best way to play 40k is to not take it seriously, but do, in a way. We all played "in character" during the game, but we were all laughing and having a good time. We all wanted to win, but we knew that at the end of the day, it didn't really matter.

As long as everyone is having a good time then I find 40k to be really enjoyable. It's what keeps me playing.

I haven't been playing much 40k lately, but I'd imagine it's pretty similar to what makes me enjoy a dungeon or battleground in World of Warcraft, or a session with my Master in PlanetSide 2.

The atmosphere that my fellow gamers give off.

When raiding or dungeoning in WoW, I always have more fun when my fellow players aren't telling each other off and calling each other names that would get a Dakkite a permanent ban if they were to say it here. When everyone's having a good time, laughing off horrific defeats and just generally being an all-round fun bunch of people to game with, I'm more likely to enjoy myself.

Those are the two extremes, though. And since it's people against computers, it might not apply as well to player versus player stuff like 40k.

I've recently picked up PlanetSide 2, though, which is an MMOFPS which has no units which are not player-controlled, apart from consoles that players interact with to spawn a vehicle or whatever.

In that game, I don't mind dying horrifically so long as I'm accomplishing something.

Running into a building guns-a-blazing and dealing a bit of damage to a few enemy troops before dying from a hail of bullets? Good.

Popping out from cover and nailing an enemy tank with a rocket before it nails me with its main gun? Good.

Engaging in a one-on-one gun battle with someone and crippling him before I die or somehow having us kill each other? Good.

Absorbing some bullets for some allies while we make a push on their base? Good.

What turns me off the most is when I die repeatedly in complete futility.

In a bio-dome and the enemy controls a spawn room despite the facility belonging entirely to my side, so it's basically an endless grind of killing? Pointless. Not good.

Being camped in a spawn room because the enemyy outnumbers us so much that every time I stick my head out the door it gets blown off? Futile. Not good.

Trying to run across a large open expanse to try to capture a base and getting picked off by snipers that I can't even see before I can even dream of getting to some sort of cover? Frustrating. Not good.

Also, Happy New Year's.

That said, if I'm in the right mood, a long, unending grind of face against brick wall can be enjoyable, so long as I'm doing some significant damage and the reason for the grind isn't that they've pinned us against a spawn point that they can't enter, but because we're giving as good as we're getting.

Since I started judging (more specific, after the last tournament), I haven't enjoyed a game of 40k. I saw the nastiest sides of people that day. When you see a grown man slam both fists up and down on a table, while yelling profanities, like a child because of a couple key bad rolls....in a game he was winning, it kind of deters you from playing for awhile. They still give me headaches every week.

I enjoy a game where both players are having fun. Whether it is a close, hard fought game, or a crazy, wild battle. Making the time worth it is the most important thing.

To have a good laugh, a bit of a jest, a non-competitive game. Orks especially with all their randomness

Playing a game of 40K should be like going to a fun movie with a buddy. You get to have fun reminiscing afterwards about the cool moments, but the events within didn't (and shouldn't) decide the course of your real-world life.

Since I started judging (more specific, after the last tournament), I haven't enjoyed a game of 40k. I saw the nastiest sides of people that day. When you see a grown man slam both fists up and down on a table, while yelling profanities, like a child because of a couple key bad rolls....in a game he was winning, it kind of deters you from playing for awhile. They still give me headaches every week.

I enjoy a game where both players are having fun. Whether it is a close, hard fought game, or a crazy, wild battle. Making the time worth it is the most important thing.

You are a braver person than me. When you are playing, you only have to deal with one possible donkey cave. When judging, you have to deal with ALL them. Yuck.

A lot of people have said these already, but I'll just add my two cents here:

1) An opponent who knows that this is only a game and acts like it, but still tries to win and offers a challenge. A good sense of humour is always appreciated!

2) A well painted army is always pleasure to the eyes, but you don't need to be Van Gogh, just paint your army and make it look decent on the battlefield.

I had a blast showing a shooty army what;s up with my melee army. Sometimes unlikely victories make fr some goof gaming.

Checkis unlikely match. seem trouble from the word go on his one.

Heya. I had one last game of Warhammer at my home, since I may not be able to for a couple weeks.

Decided to put it on Youtube. Never done that before so kinda fun to learn how. Not too difficult. Here's the link:

Night Lords incoming!

Feel free to tell me how I can make these better. I already know a couple things I messed up on. I enjoyed playing a close combat army. Been a while since I did, since its generally not my style of play regardless of the army. Night Lords are what I play when I wanna give in to my savage tendencies...

For me, it's all in the player. I don't care if you play overpowered lists (I play Tau, it'd be a good challenge ), I don't care if you play fluffy, less powerful lists, I don't care if you're fielding an army of sprue-gray models. If you're a dick, I don't want to play against you. If you're a nice guy who doesn't care about how the game goes down, I do want to play you. One of the guys at my FLGS plays an Ork list that a lot of people probably dread - Nob bikers backed up by Lootas. But his attitude is great, no matter who he plays, and he doesn't gloat when he wins, nor does he whine when he loses.

That, to me, is what makes a game enjoyable. The player.

Playing games with painted armies/terrain, so that i can go full paparazzi during the game And just downright shenanigans, (not cheese, but leroy jenkins sort of things). The other things i love about games is making up a story, i have even written many little scribbles and paragraphs about my IG's planet, and why it is besieged and by who, so it's fun to play out battles upon the planet my friends and i have made up. Adding each victory (or defeat) to the stories

Same as many - painted armies and good company.

But I love those moments that make me laugh like a drain: throwing snake eyes when I need 2s to wound, my last bloodbride blowing up a tank with a haywire grenade and being killed by the resulting blast, unloading the full load of a razorwing in one turn at a unit and killing virtually none of it...

A great opponent, someone who is willing to play for fun rather than intelligence.

I once had an opponent run Mephiston into my Swarmlord in the last turn of our game in a tournament, he had obviously lost at that point...and it was all for the fun of the game.

Basically, someone who doesn't take a game, and that is what it is at it's very core, too seriously.

Other than that, orks, orks are the most fun opponents, no contest.

Making a grown man cry when I crush his dream beneath my iron fist.


Seriously though, I just enjoy having a good time.