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I'm sure that people have made some rules for this before. The idea to tack a drinking game on to 40k is a pretty natural fit (in my opinion, no I'm not an alcaholic ). The idea just occurred to me a bit back and I've been mulling it over for a while.

The problem is that with so many armies/playstyles it would be hard to get a set of "rules" that won't either leave someone without drinking the entire game, or else put them in a coma by turn 2. What I thought was that we could make a big list of rules, then each player gets to pick which ones they'll follow for that game. Maybe make a "beerlord traits table" type thing for the adventurous people to roll on.

Some ideas I had:

-every time a unit comes in from reserve
-every time you fail a 2+ roll (originally it was every time you roll a 1, but that might lean towards "put you in a coma" territory)
-every time a weapon gets hot
-every time an objective changes hands (including at deployment when troops get put on it)
-when your warlord dies, finish your drink

After first round both people would be stone drunk , even with night fight on . Meq armies alone would be drinking anything from 2-3 shots for drop pods alone without even shoting and taking an objective.

I know the greatest drinking game ever (we call it "Drink to the Edge")! But it has nothing to do with 40k.

I suppose you could drink everytime you destroy a unit, break a unit and fail a moral test. Maybe win a challenge?

You could drink every time a character bites the dust... or every time boxcars or snake eyes are rolled. The trick is trying to find a nice happy medium between not enough drinking and too much drinking, and 1's being rolled happen way too frequently, you'd be wasted after the first couple turns.

As a combat army, say BA or Nids...take a drink every time you declare a charge. If you fail the charge, take another...

I saw this on Youtube but couldn't find it. Our version of it was:

At the end of your turn you could start drinking. This is a beer only game. Normal sized glass bottles (12oz). You must stop drinking to roll saves or you don't get to make them. By the time an enemy has finished their turn (which they'll declare) you can place any bottles you COMPLETELY drank onto the table as impassible terrain no closer than 2" of enemy models. Enemy brought a Land Raider? Better drink 4 beers fast and box it in! Can easily be limited to your team only putting down one beer per person. to prevent those kinds of shenanigans


PS - I love your name, Wombat. When I was a child I was strangely obsessed with wombats and would frequently pretend I was one. No idea why.

Have to say I don't have experience with drinking and 40k-ing, I'd probably get drunk and rampage when I lose a character

You could put more objectives in... and make more (all?) units scoring units.
No matter what the army, they're all going to be grabbing, dropping, losing and winning them! Each time you capture an objective, you drink to celebrate.

I really like the impassable terrain idea! That gives a nice advantage to all the drinking, and in my fluff they'd be giant bombardments being shot down into the battlefield.....

There's plenty of time for drinking after the game, though

Awesome! I use this name in a few places. No idea why, I've used it for ages, I guess I just like the sound of it.

I will make the counter to the "every charge" drinking rule. Take a drink every time you over-watch. As a Tau player this should keep me occupied for most of the opponent's assault phase.

Oh, another good tau one, drink every time your nova reactor wounds your riptide, if you kill your own riptide with the nova reactor just start chugging.

I've done every time a character ends up eating gak.

 felixander wrote:
PS - I love your name, Wombat. When I was a child I was strangely obsessed with wombats and would frequently pretend I was one. No idea why.

LMFAO! Totally off-topic but it was Mongooses for me. Ricky Ticky Tavy FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!

When you declare a WAAAAGH! you must immediately pour yourself a pint glass filled with a shot from every liquor in your cabinet. Recite your favourite Ork saying and drink the foul concoction.

If you live, you are deemed worthy by Gork (or Mork) to continue drinking and playing Orkz.

 felixander wrote:
I saw this on Youtube but couldn't find it. Our version of it was:

At the end of your turn you could start drinking. This is a beer only game. Normal sized glass bottles (12oz). You must stop drinking to roll saves or you don't get to make them. By the time an enemy has finished their turn (which they'll declare) you can place any bottles you COMPLETELY drank onto the table as impassible terrain no closer than 2" of enemy models. Enemy brought a Land Raider? Better drink 4 beers fast and box it in! Can easily be limited to your team only putting down one beer per person. to prevent those kinds of shenanigans


PS - I love your name, Wombat. When I was a child I was strangely obsessed with wombats and would frequently pretend I was one. No idea why.

Very much liking this idea,