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I was actually prepared for someone to ask me if the game was satanic. so when a guy that goes around asking if people would like to come to a bible study group asked me the conversation went as follows:
Me: (shows him a pic of the Big E) recognize anyone?
Him: no.
Me: Imagine him with a beard.
Him: oh!

then I showed him some Grey Knights and we talked about scripture and the comparison between the Horus Heresy and Lucifer's fall from Heaven. now he asks me every time he asks me if I want to come how my armies are doing, and we've started a running gag here by calling the Big E "Jesus with a shave". at some point I may be able to convince him to pick up the game (and I'm fairly certain he's going to be a GK player).

 yeri wrote:
I was actually prepared for someone to ask me if the game was satanic. so when a guy that goes around asking if people would like to come to a bible study group asked me the conversation went as follows:
Me: (shows him a pic of the Big E) recognize anyone?
Him: no.
Me: Imagine him with a beard.
Him: oh!

then I showed him some Grey Knights and we talked about scripture and the comparison between the Horus Heresy and Lucifer's fall from Heaven. now he asks me every time he asks me if I want to come how my armies are doing, and we've started a running gag here by calling the Big E "Jesus with a shave". at some point I may be able to convince him to pick up the game (and I'm fairly certain he's going to be a GK player).

This is probably the best story ever told.
You should recommend him Sisters of Battle, if he love religion he will adore them.

When I used to play space marines, a 20 or so year old man walked into the store and up to the table I was playing on (against some guard),
and says: "where are the Zerg?" He then looks over at the IG, and says: "Why aren't these in Starcraft?"

It was all I could do not to hit him over the head with the rulebook. I hate people who think that 40k copied Starcraft

When I was younger I had one guy after finily getting a game with my new elder army ,and so exited to play he goes " if I win will you (provide service)"

He is quiet for a moment and he then goes" what's your age ?"

Not realy about 40k :p but was at a game. So here is one slightly closer :p "where do you buy the eldar doll?"

 Brother Captain Alexander wrote:

You should recommend him Sisters of Battle, if he love religion he will adore them.

Funnily enough, I love my SoB specifically because they are such an over the top parody of religious fundamentalism - all those folks running about flagellating themselves, strapping themselves onto mechanical murder-crosses and burning folks. It's an atheists delight!

Why don't these Space marines behave like the ones in DoW?

Assault marines in DoW can fly, why can't these.

About a dozen other DoW related questions and about how it's so much better.

My response: "Ask your brother (his older brother, who played 40k but not DoW).
I'm really glad I have no gaming siblings. My brother never wanted to do the same things as me.

brother asked why i didnt bring aun'va to are games as proxy or buy the model. i just silently past my codex over and waited for reaction. ive never seen my brothers face look like that before.

Put down a Bastion. (the Fortification)

"Is that a building?"

resisted urge to say something rude or in "smart- " speak.

Someone asked me once where they could find a D3.

 cox.dan2 wrote:
Someone asked me once where they could find a D3.

"why do you bring so many guardsmen?"

"because they die easily"

"wow they must suck, why do you play IG?"

"because they're really good."

"But if they die a lot, then they must suck?"

"I outnumber you 4 to 1 and have 3 tanks for every one of yours, shut up so I can win. I'll explain this later."
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Said Necron player goes on to argue every single stat my IG army had, because his dad played IG and he knew the rules better than I did (because, you know, a guy who's played IG for over a friggin year doesn't know his army as well as a kid who's played against them 10 times with a completely different army)

"Are you sure Guardsmen are I3?"
"Yes, all guardsmen have I3."
"Ok but then they must be BS 2 right, because they're terrible?"
"no, regular guardsmen are BS 3."
"But what abo-"
"UNLESS I SAY DIFFERENTLY, ALL OF THE GUARDSMEN HAVE BS 3, WS 3, T3, W1, A1, LD 7 GOT IT?!?!?!"
...
"Ok, but there's no way that tank has AV 14 on the front and AV 13 on the side, because IG tanks are crap. Why would you even take vehicles anyways? Necrons can just kill everything with our main guns. IG suck..."
*Beat him handily at Big Guns never tire*
"Eh, I could've won that easily."
"I killed all but one of your scoring units, which is now running. I only lost 30 guardsmen out of a 120, and had a platoon commander beat one of your wraiths to death in close combat. I even have a hellhound still alive, and two tanks out of 3 completely unharmed. Pretty sure I won."


The most taxing game I've ever played. I look forward to the rematch, because I'm going to absolutely crush that guy. I've never had a person question literally every move I made like he did. I wanted to shove guardsmen down his throat till he stopped talking

 Engine of War wrote:

 cox.dan2 wrote:
Someone asked me once where they could find a D3.

I got some of those, for the unbelievers!


Sudipidest moment during play :

(young) opponent : What is this unit ? (pointing at my Eldar Banshees)
me : Banshees. It's the old model though.
opponent : They can't be!
me : Why ?
opponent : Banshees shouldn't have black armor!

*years ago when my dad was trying to get me to convince him to get me a starter set*

"I understand that it helps you're creative side with the painting and building, but why don't you just paint pens and use them as your toy soldiers? "

my sister
"there's no holes in those guns, how could they possibly shoot bullets? "