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I was just wondering if anyone else on here is addicted to 40K, like I am. I have cubicle job that's pretty boring, so I spend most of my day scouring through the codex, making up new army lists and trying to squeeze out every last point of awesomeness. When I get home I'm either on here, yakking about 40K or actually assembling and painting my own army. When it's time to hit the sack, I usually read a 40K novel for about an hour, then go to sleep. It seems like 40K has taken over my life, maybe I should see a therapist oooor begin writing that warhammer 40K bible that I've always wanted to do and start my own religion based on the teachings of Games Workshop...at least i'd have a tax deduction. LOL

Thoughts?

HAHA I feel the same way sometimes. I love writing up army lists and even making unique characters for different races and seeing how balanced they are. My friend and I started writing our own codex even!

I have a cyclical addiction to 40k... it seems like for ~6 months out of the year, I want to do nothing but play it. Then for the rest of the year, it seems really tedious to me. Its odd.

Horst wrote:I have a cyclical addiction to 40k... it seems like for ~6 months out of the year, I want to do nothing but play it. Then for the rest of the year, it seems really tedious to me. Its odd.

Lol! I thought I was the only one!! I go through a phase where it's the most amazing thing ever, and then it simmers. I have actually pinned it down to winter being 40k madness and summer being whatever else.

I am OBD for 40k.

Deadshot wrote:I am OBD for 40k.

OBD?
Occupied By Day?

Obsessive Behaviour Disorder. I think. I dunno!

Yeah, I'm addicted to wargaming, I can't walk into the hobby shop without buying a model.

It was funny, my mother was standing over my desk, looking tormented and said "When does it end" in the saddest tone ever.

I was severely obsessive about 40k, andI still enjoy it, but recent retcons of the fluff and OP -as-gak units have started to turn me off a bit,

I still play, but I no longer enthuse to the person sitting next tom me on the bus/train/etc.

I'm getting into Warmachine, and starting to get obsessive about that, as the fluff is awesome, the models are nice and you don't need to have dozens of them to play a game, let alone the hundreds of Orks that are eating up y shelf space

I also like that no one faction gets all the press, half the books and plot armour so thick my suspension of disbelief shatters on it like glass They are all on roughly even footing, which is much more palatable to me.

(not that i dislike the IOM in general (i play BT as one of my armies) but i'm less keen on the book coverage, BT novel bullgak fluff and the Glorious Heroes (tm) that they are turning into. I liked them better as fascistic, xenophobic, paranoid a-holes who would gun you down on suspicion of being a mutant if your eyes were the wrong shade of brown


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Melkhiordarkblade wrote:Yeah, I'm addicted to wargaming, I can't walk into the hobby shop without buying a model.

It was funny, my mother was standing over my desk, looking tormented and said "When does it end" in the saddest tone ever.

When you get buried by the avalanche of unopened model boxes, and choke to death on a hormagaunt, or equivilent


My parents were more concerned with me dying of lead poisoning, but that was a long long time ago. I think they've resigned themselves to it now i'm married to a gamer, and have gamer kids (the oldest is anyway... just picking up 40k) with unreasonably large dice collections (treats for behaving in the FLGS while we shop ).

I'm pretty addicted. I even starting writing my own codex (for the PDF, it included stuff like broken Leman Russes, untrained militia men, crop dusters with napalm, ect.) and I spend a ton of my time painting models.

It comes and goes for me.

It usually hits hard for about 6 months, then dies down for about 1-3 months.

Then I look at the dust on my last unfinished project and the dust on my army case and pick it up for another good 6 months.

100% percent addicted. Especially ever since I've gone off to college. It's either classes, playing FIFA with friends, library with friends, or painting in my room.

Essentially your life sounds a heck of a lot like mine.

Very Addicted Wargamer since 09-15! Wish I got into 40k 15 years ago when I was a kid. I first heard about it and saw the models and love the idea of the game but it was way to expensive for me then so I forgot about it for 15 years and here I am a super addicted war gamer!

Yup, completely hooked, since getting back into the hobby it's pretty much consumed my spare time. Either painting, reading, or playing.

It's a great hobby that I'm enjoying way more than computer games and other stuff in the past.

I was, then I got into programming (and eventually a satisfying career therein), where the tedious pedantry, obsessiveness, infinite variety, and blind adherence to irrational behavior for the sake of sentimental justification puts war gaming to SHAME.

I 40k to relax from it X)

You ever see the movie Thank You for Smoking? The scene where the doc tells him if he ever intakes nicotine in any way ever again he'll fall into a coma or die? That's me with 40k.

I'm not horribly addicted. Just mostly addicted lol. I've been hooked since the tail end of 5th edition. For me it comes and goes. Sometimes I'm furiously building/painting/looking for my next army(I've always had a bad case of army wanderlust). Then there are months at a time where I don't even look at my paint brushes.

Not anymore. The current rules destroyed that. I'm having more fun with AOS currently.

I totally do not have an IV hooked up with liquid plastic and acrylic paint running into me.

I am also totally not huffing the dust coming off from cleaning the models.

Incidentally, does anyone else taste purple?

Go for bible. I would join the faith.

40k. It costs your money, it costs your time, it costs your life (wife).