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**1hadhq**

Iron_Chaos_Brute wrote:I'm 18.

1hadhq wrote:
quote YMDC:

2. The only official sources of information are the current rulebooks and the Games Workshop FAQs. Emails from Askyourquestion@games-workshop.com are technically official, but they are easily spoofed and should not be relied on.

/quote

Quote GW:
ERRATA & FAQs
Welcome to the Errata & FAQs section of our website. Here you can find the latest Errata & FAQs documents for our current books in the form of downloadable pdf documents.

In this section we cover Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game. We aim to have one pdf for each book belonging to these systems, including the three main rulebooks and all Warhammer Armies books, Warhammer 40,000 Codexes, and The Lord of the Rings Journey Books and Sourcebooks. If a book is not covered, it is either because we are not aware of any issues with it or we haven't got to it yet.

We aim to publish a first document within the first few months of a book's release. After this initial release, we'll review and update these documents regularly, adding new questions and errata, and correcting any mistakes we might have made when answering some of the questions.

What's the difference between Errata and FAQs?
As it is rather obvious from their name, these documents include two separate elements - the Errata and the FAQs. In case you were wondering, 'Errata' is a posh (Latin!) way to say 'Errors', and 'FAQs' stands for 'Frequently Asked Questions'. It is important to understand the distinction between the two, because they are very different.

The Errata are simply a list of the corrections we plan to make on the next reprint of the book to fix the mistakes that managed to slip into the text (no matter how many times you check a book, there are always some!). These are obviously errors, for example a model that has WS3 in the book's bestiary and WS4 in the book's army list. The Errata would say something like: 'Page 96. Replace WS3 with WS4 in the profile of the so-and-so model'.

The Errata have the same level of 'authority' as the main rules, as they effectively modify the published material. They are 'hard' material. It is a good idea to read them and be aware of their existence, but luckily there are very few of them for each book.

The FAQs on the other hand are very much 'soft' material. They deal with more of a grey area, where often there is no right and wrong answer - in a way, they are our own 'Studio House Rules'. They are, of course, useful when you play a pick-up game against someone you don't know, or at tournaments (i.e. when you don't have a set of common 'house rules' with the other player). However, if you disagree with some answers and prefer to change them in your games and make your own house rules with your friends, that's fine. In fact we encourage you to shape the game around your needs and your taste. We firmly believe that wargaming is about two (or more!) people creating a gaming experience they are both going to enjoy. In other words, you might prefer to skip the FAQs altogether and instead always apply the good old 'roll a dice' rule whenever you meet a problematic situation.

- Games Development, November 2008

**wuestenfux**

mal wrote:22....

started when I was 12. Finished when I was 15. Started when I was 22.

You look slightly older, 66?

**focusedfire**

Deathbot wrote:I'm 17 and respond:

It's MY lawn now, old man!

Your not legally old enough to own anything.

**Deathbot**

focusedfire wrote:
Deathbot wrote:I'm 17 and respond:

It's MY lawn now, old man!

Your not legally old enough to own anything.

While you were typing that, I tip-toed in and stole the cake.

**focusedfire**

Was the cake good? Good. Enjoy, it was a ninja booby trap laxitive cake.
If you take some prozac it will help. You'll still be in the bathroom all day but you won't really mind being there.

**Deathbot**

focusedfire wrote:Was the cake good? Good. Enjoy, it was a ninja booby trap laxitive cake.
If you take some prozac it will help. You'll still be in the bathroom all day but you won't really mind being there.

I wouldn't know. I gave it to my irritating little sister.

**focusedfire**

Tsk, Tsk. Didn't they ever teach yout to not "Take" food from strangers. Now your little sis is going to have an upset tummy, she's gonna blame you, your parents will never let you here the end of it and worst of all....when she gets to the age to have hot friends that you can legally date, your little sis is gonna burn your rep.

Seriously, little sisters never forget that kind of stuff. You might want to be nicer to her.

**Deathbot**

focusedfire wrote:Tsk, Tsk. Didn't they ever teach yout to not "Take" food from strangers. Now your little sis is going to have an upset tummy, she's gonna blame you, your parents will never let you here the end of it and worst of all....when she gets to the age to have hot friends that you can legally date, your little sis is gonna burn your rep.

Seriously, little sisters never forget that kind of stuff. You might want to be nicer to her.

She's so much younger than me that by the time her friends are hot, I'd have to a pedophile to date them. Which I'm not.

**porkuslime**

The cake is a lie..

(someone HAD to say it.. )

**focusedfire**

Note, I said legally. There is a difference between 30 dating 20 and 18 dating...well you get my point. One is illegal and the other means your a rock star.

Barring the dating her friends remember it only takes two family members to have someone temporarily commited in most parts of our country and when she marries the hubby will count.

**mal**

wuestenfux wrote:
mal wrote:22....

started when I was 12. Finished when I was 15. Started when I was 22.

You look slightly older, 66?

I've lived hard.

actually I don't think it is ever revealed how old Jim Trott is...

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

I'm 35, started wargamming when I was 14.

**warsmith pyrus**

Yep I'm 15 started when I was 14 after being badgered to start by typhus.Thanks typhus

**January_Doomsday**

29 here. Good to see there's few older gamers knocking about. I was getting worried I was too old to be getting back into this whole thing!

**Vulkan77**

32 here. First game with mini's i played was hero quest, then space crusade got me into 40k way back in the mists of time

**Doombot001**

29. Been playing since the very beginning. I'm talking Rogue Trader days. Back when Citadel and GamesWorkshop were two different companies....

**Vulkan77**

@Doombot, you must remember when this was the dread then!!

**Doombot001**

Vulkan77 wrote:@Doombot, you must remember when this was the dread then!!

Damn!

I forgot how it looked. Don't tell me you still have that? I remember when Tyranids first came out and they looked like bucktooth Lizards or pissed off rabbits with 4 arms. And they used that beige or cream colored plastic.

**Vulkan77**

Still have my original 'nids somewhere, maybe in the corner of the loft with all my bolter armed orks!

**Doombot001**

And the old skool space marines. I remember the first time seeing a space marine w/out the beak. I remember thinking "Those aren't space marines". Ahhhhh, old skool. Back when things were sooo much cheaper and I didn't have enough money to buy them anyway...

**Vulkan77**

QFT, i rember walking into a GW and seeing the unbeaked marines for the first time, looking at the land raider as well, i think i have 1 of the early ones tucked away somewhere with a hideous paint job

**Madgod**

15, 16 in November.

**chromedog**

darkkt wrote:Recently 34. Really only started when I turned 30 (when i got too old for DnD)!

What a coincidence. I also started 40k when I was "too old for D&D" - but that was back in 1987, when I was 18, and I've always been too old for D&D.

Going on 41.
Not the oldest 40k player I know, but far from the youngest (but at least the oldies I know don't throw tantrums when we lose.)

@Vulkan: I remember when that wasn't the dreadnought. That was the first PLASTIC dreadnought model.
The old dreads I remember were ALL METAL.

**freddieyu1**

don_mondo wrote:51. And been playing as long as or longer than some of you have been alive!! You're all a bunch of young punks (well, except for the other two guys in the 51-60/61+ categories.................)

mwahahahahaha!!!!!

**wuestenfux**

Is Frazzled the oldest player here around?
And whose the youngest one?

**Lord-Loss**

wuestenfux wrote:Is Frazzled the oldest player here around?
And whose the youngest one?

I think the youngest ever to post were Panics little brothers. I dont think they come on dakka any more but I think they were 10 and 12

**Zarake**

I'm 17, 18 in a few weeks, been playing Since June

**Shaman**

Oshunai wrote:I am 18 and mildly bored with it.

plenty more boredom to come.. plus - responsiblity, what's that?

**barisax1990**

Fafnir wrote:18

**TaintedSoul**

It's interesting to see the majority of 40k players ages.... I suspect it's because in one's 20's they are still young enough to enjoy minis before a career/family really takes hold of them yet old enough to hold real jobs that can actually pay for all this stuff!!