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Hey All!

It's the thriteenth here and I have been one distracted dude. Warhammer has taken a back seat to other games and I want to revive it so badly. The thing is that it has become boring, my friends and I are reluctant to begin a game and carry it through. The current fifth edition rules lack a sense of imagination and as casual gamers we are in it for the story and the occasional challenge.

How can we revive the awesome game that is Warhammer 40k? It appears games workshop would suggest spending untold hundreds of dollars on new units etc but as anyone in existence ever, we haven't got that kind of money.

I keep telling everyone who is bored with this game the exact same thing.....

Its not the game, Its the missions!

The basic game mechanics are designed and work ok....

How you play the game is up to you.....

Ditch the crappy 5E missions and start making up your own......

Get creative with deployment options, go back to VP instead of broken KP, etc......

We've recently played Nuclear Football... You place 6 obj on the table... only one of them is the BOMB. when a unit gets to an obj you reveal it.... if its the bomb the unit with it must now start running. The idea is to be in control of the bomb at the end of random turns..... If you kill the unit with the bomb it simply drops and becomes the obj marker again... everyone rushes in to snag it again etc....

Hilarity usually ensues......

Ideas like that are what keep 40k fresh.

Try not to use the same army over and over again (marines against marines is really boring). Everyone should get at least one non-marine army.
Try to get models from other companies, allow count-as rules, use proxyes. Ebay could help you to get cheap stuff too. Play 1000 points instead of 2000.
Try to get creative with the fluff. Do campaigns. Create your own rules and missions. Fix the weak codices, and the weak units in every codex.

Good luck!

Introduce wild life in your game. You are, after all, fighting on an alien world.

At the start of each player turn, the critter moves Scatter 2D6. It is still subject to dangerous and difficult terrain.
If it collides with a player's squad, it counts as charging.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Introduce wild life in your game. You are, after all, fighting on an alien world.

At the start of each player turn, the critter moves Scatter 2D6. It is still subject to dangerous and difficult terrain.
If it collides with a player's squad, it counts as charging.

That's the kind of things you could find in Chapter Approved. Is there still some kind of compilation for those ?
I've always wanted to try the Commando rules...

Try an Appoc game.

Proxy something big and nasty.


Doomsday devices are a hoot.

Thanks guys for your awesome suggestions! Very thought out. I will try and give these most of a try! I like the sound of the wildlife and just realized I have rules for zombies. I'm thinking a small amount of buildings, one hq choice each and a horde of zombies!

Grey Templar wrote:Try an Appoc game.

Proxy something big and nasty.


Doomsday devices are a hoot

+1 to this

candy.man wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:Try an Appoc game.

Proxy something big and nasty.


Doomsday devices are a hoot

+1 to this

Make that +2, some of the best and most hilarious battles I have had were Apoc (last one I had was admittingly sorta boring though that was due more to really bad rolls on my opponents part than anything

The "battle missions" book is a good investment when the basic missions get stale...

Get a copy of the 2nd ed rules and give them a whirl.

I'd disagree slightly on the BM book. I think most of the missions are just a variation of C&C with minor changes.

If you have the money sure go for it but as a definitive investment I wouldnt bother personally.