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Before I got into Warhammer 40k, I just hung out with some friends at a local gaming store. I didn't really now much about the fluff so I was a bit gullible for anything Warhammer 40k related. My friend told me that Chaos Space Marines are part of the Imperium and that the forces of Chaos were allied with the god Emperor

Then later when I was deciding to buy my first army, this guy who seemed to be a long time player and who at first I thought was pretty cool kept telling me to buy Space Marines while I wanted Imperial Guard(told me they were a sucky army). I bought the Black Reach set but later found myself unhappy with Space Marines; I went against his word and bought the Cadian Battleforce and now I'm much happier now; but as for him, he acted like some sort of mentor or something where he told me the fluff behind the tau; he said that the Tau were once a Slave species to the Necrons that was used for food and that one day the necrons neglected the Tau which gave them the opportunity to build up their advanced technology and rebel against the necrons and thus was able to win their freedom

and to believe this guy was like a "mentor" to me

anybody have any similar experiences?

Nope.

Absolutely.

This one time I convinced a Vegetarian to eat a steak because Chaos was going to Nurgle it as a test-case for seeding Chaos on our planet. Who knew that eating a steak could save the world?

Back in 2003 when I started someone told me that the Ultramarines got gak done.

Nope...
I know people that have been wrong abut background and i try to correct them but i have never known anyone to do iit on purpose.

What would the point of making up fluff be?

Some people like to give the impression that they know stuff, without having to go to the trouble of actually, you know, learning stuff.

And sometimes people misremember things, or muddle things together, or were themselves told something by someone they thought knew what they were talking about. Just as with people getting rules wrong, it's not always a deliberate attempt to mislead...

Mislead fluffs:

All space marines have jetpacks
Tau are robots
Ultramarines aren't space marines
Eldar are humans
Orks are stupid
Warhammer 40k happens on another galaxy
Tyranids are a human experiment gone wrong
Chaos is a theory
IG are the slaves of space marines

Never to anything of the OP's magnitude, but i think it may have been out of confusion, someone told me that the Tau and Humanity were allies.

That Sigmar from WHFB was the God-Emperor and it all started back then.

That the BA would totally bro-fist a Necron.

That the Sisters of Battle were a competent and capable faction.
That line was fed to me from GW themselves.

Ok, Eldar was a part of the Imperium.
Wood Elves were made of Wood.
The Slaan were/are the worshippers of Slannesh.
Khorne is a good god attempting to take down the other three.
The Emperor is a C'Tan (That was what made me buy the Necron codex originally).
The Empire have so many Steam Tanks that you could run an army of nothing but them. (Or at least in the fluff such a thing happened on a casual basis)

I think that's it.

Insert lame BA or GK joke here

The Empire from fantasy is the imperium.

Commissar Yarrick is kept alive through using youth-giving drugs. Youth-enhancing drugs are in the fluff, but somehow I had it in my head that said drugs were MADE from younger people. I'm pretty sure that's one of Mr. Burns' schemes.

Someone once told me that some GK killed some SoB and proceeded to smear the blood of the holy sisters all over their armor.

Total bull, right guys?
Right?

Actually one of my friends who does not know anything about Warhammer 40k apart from the 30 minutes he spent on the wiki and Dawn of War says that Tau is the best army in the entire game because he played Tau on easy in the Dark Crusade campaign and that the Imperial Guard vehicles are all steam punk(including the baneblade).

He also did some battle roleplaying session with this other guy where The Imperium of Man fights Gundam and Star Trek; of course my friend doesn't know gak about Warhammer and thinks that the only tanks the Imperium has is the baneblade and the Leman Russ

Cybronx wrote:Someone once told me that some GK killed some SoB and proceeded to smear the blood of the holy sisters all over their armor.

Total bull, right guys?
Right?

+1

I also heard Blood Angels fought alongside Necrons and that Space Marines had Multilasers.

Joking aside, it's kinda fun to tease newbies from time to time. However I never really received any real "advice" and had to learn by trail and error mostly. I'm also not exactly the best mentor either, my friend decided to go gunline (lasgun with only one officer ordering per turn) guard against my plague marine spam. Not a smart idea, as well as earning me the name "stinky cheese".

Also, goblins are green dwarves

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page

Trust nothing of what anyone says without applying thought to it.

I have not been given fake fluff because for 2 months before i bought my Cadians(happy birthday to me) i was stocking up on fluff to a point where i felt ridiculous.

I was told once that space marines regularly have noblest death contests because they got bored.(see the post below)

One thing about the vastness of 40k is that you can probably make up some fluff that sounds fake, and totally justify it in some way.

Then there's just screwing with people.

Here's a good fluff/story (making it up as I go along):

Necrosius gazed upon the besieged walls, and the turrets slaughtering his men. He grasped for his Gauss flayer, swinging it at the humans coming toward him. He looked upon the shadowy eyes ofthe guardsmen slowly walking towards him. He was terrifyed. The Imperial Guard spotted an artillery strike on their position. Necrosius shouted to his warriors, and they made it out of the bombardement area at the nick of time.
Most of Necrosiuses warriors were dead, a few of them wounded. Necrosius lead one last charge upon the gates
Of the mighty fortress. He ran all he could, and when he and a few warriors arrived on the gate, it slowly started to open. Necrosius prayed for the C'tan to help him and his men, but the Nightbringer ignored him. Necrosius saw a mighty tank coming from inside the fortress crushing everything in it's path. Necrosius was grieviously wounded, holding his organs inside him. Necrosius was last seen crushed by a baneblade.

You have just been mind ed