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If I do get treated differently, it's not something I have noticed.

Maybe Chaos Space Marines is not a very 'girly' choice of army, and I suppose I do not appear particularly feminine in my manner etc., both on the forums and when I actually interact with others in the hobby IRL.

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
If I do get treated differently, it's not something I have noticed.

Maybe Chaos Space Marines is not a very 'girly' choice of army, and I suppose I do not appear particularly feminine in my manner etc., both on the forums and when I actually interact with others in the hobby IRL.

I haven't noticed it either, which is why I don't see the female thing as an issue. I also have Chaos space marines, which I agree, isn't very girly. I am fairly feminine IRL, but to be honest it works to my advantage a little. Takes them off guard when I tell them I'm seriously into the hobby. Always quite funny.

 Ayemee wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
If I do get treated differently, it's not something I have noticed.

Maybe Chaos Space Marines is not a very 'girly' choice of army, and I suppose I do not appear particularly feminine in my manner etc., both on the forums and when I actually interact with others in the hobby IRL.

I haven't noticed it either, which is why I don't see the female thing as an issue. I also have Chaos space marines, which I agree, isn't very girly. I am fairly feminine IRL, but to be honest it works to my advantage a little. Takes them off guard when I tell them I'm seriously into the hobby. Always quite funny.

I agree, breaking the stereotype is fun.

This is how I got into it sounds like your GF might follow suit!!

When I just started going out with my BF and he's been playing Warhammer for about 20 years, we'd been going out for a couple of months before he introduced me to 40K.

Started out with a 500pt game and I was hooked straight away.

We went to GW and I choose my army - Wood Elves - picked up a battalian box and started building. Got a little bored and fancied my hand at painting so the BF gave me some orks to paint (after a little tutorial) saw how I was painting them and decided to then gave me his orks (he's a Chaos Space Marine) as I fell that in love with them (well they are sooo cute).

Since August last year I've added and now have a 1500pt army with a plan to get it up to 4000pt army in the next year (money permitting) I also have my original Wood Elves (unfortunatly in the state I left them partly built) & recently me and the BF went halves on the Blood Island box set so guess what I'm now collecting Skaven too.

Oh and my 8yr old son is now collecting Space Marine's so its battles galore in our house.

I think I may have to quit my job to have time for my hobby!!!! lol

One thing that I've been overwhelmed by as a new player is all the special rules and wargear for the armies. There is a lot of stuff to process. I think the kill team without specializations is the best format.

When I get into games I tend to not shut up about them, and my partner finds it both charming and obnoxious. If I ever want to play a game with her I have to be subtle...

Also! The smurfs/hello kitty armies are beyond pandering. If she is curious about the game, she is probably drawn to the ugliness and brutality of the models.

melkorthetonedeaf wrote:


Also! The smurfs/hello kitty armies are beyond pandering. If she is curious about the game, she is probably drawn to the ugliness and brutality of the models.

I protest. Chaos Space Marines are very sexy.

Just look at those spikes. Mmmmmm.

sexier than that one army that's just a bunch of Lady Gaga's.

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:

melkorthetonedeaf wrote:


Also! The smurfs/hello kitty armies are beyond pandering. If she is curious about the game, she is probably drawn to the ugliness and brutality of the models.

I protest. Chaos Space Marines are very sexy.

Just look at those spikes. Mmmmmm.

So, how did it go?

melkorthetonedeaf wrote:
sexier than that one army that's just a bunch of Lady Gaga's.

Actually they came before Lady Gaga's music career, so she's just a Battle-Sister inspired singer.

Also, the SoB are an army of Joan of Arcs.

 Troike wrote:

melkorthetonedeaf wrote:
sexier than that one army that's just a bunch of Lady Gaga's.

Actually they came before Lady Gaga's music career, so she's just a Battle-Sister inspired singer.

Also, the SoB are an army of Joan of Arcs.

I'm going to assume the blokes who sculpted the SOB never read anything about Joan of Arc's appearance....

Tell her she can have the D(raigo) :zd

 mad_eddy_13 wrote:

 Troike wrote:

melkorthetonedeaf wrote:
sexier than that one army that's just a bunch of Lady Gaga's.

Actually they came before Lady Gaga's music career, so she's just a Battle-Sister inspired singer.

Also, the SoB are an army of Joan of Arcs.

I'm going to assume the blokes who sculpted the SOB never read anything about Joan of Arc's appearance....

Ah but you have to remember that, according to GW, everything in 40K is completely original with no inspiration drawn from any outside source!

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 mad_eddy_13 wrote:

 Troike wrote:

melkorthetonedeaf wrote:
sexier than that one army that's just a bunch of Lady Gaga's.

Actually they came before Lady Gaga's music career, so she's just a Battle-Sister inspired singer.

Also, the SoB are an army of Joan of Arcs.

I'm going to assume the blokes who sculpted the SOB never read anything about Joan of Arc's appearance....

Ah but you have to remember that, according to GW, everything in 40K is completely original with no inspiration drawn from any outside source!

In the words of innumerable swordsmen, touche

The how to play guide from DV is very helpful for basic player. IF one of your friends has one you could ask to borrow and use it to introduce her to the game.

 mad_eddy_13 wrote:
I'm going to assume the blokes who sculpted the SOB never read anything about Joan of Arc's appearance....

I didn't say that they were closely based on her appearance, just meant that if they're influenced by her.

 Troike wrote:

 mad_eddy_13 wrote:
I'm going to assume the blokes who sculpted the SOB never read anything about Joan of Arc's appearance....

I didn't say that they were closely based on her appearance, just meant that if they're influenced by her.

There is something to be said for virginal warriors... From Artemis to Joan of Arc, they never fail to deliver a good dose of whupass

 kronk wrote:
So, how did it go?

Pretty good, we had a couple of small 500pts games today. Just a small platoon of guard against a tac squad. She really got into it, after the third game she started asking if there were more armies to use cause she wasnt so keen on playing marines. So I ended up on the computer showing her the different races, a few pictures from the gallery on here to show here the painting side of it.
After about an hour of searching and reading up on some of the basic fluff for most of the races she settled on Tau.

So cheers for all the help guys. Thanks


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Naminé wrote:
Take her to Warhammer world for the day!

Let her see the spectacal of the mini's in the cases and the dioramas, ask her which ones she likes best.
Then have a nice small point game (take your time) on some top class scenary, keep the units simple but distinct. Have a unit of snipers, a unit of bikes, a tri-las predator, that kind of thing. It means she will quickly learn the basic game strategy and what is good at killing what. For your own list make sure she has a hard counter for everything you bring, and dont try anything devious in your first game.
Play simply but deliberately.

Afterwards go and get a meal at bugmans, take photos near the statues, and basically share a fun day with her.

She will definately want to play again.

Not the best of plans, though I can see why its a better plan as the staff down there arent quite as over enthusiastic as they are in some GW store, but I do live in Carlisle, can't drive and so it'd be quite expensive for a day out which could be either brilliant, or could be awful for both of us if she didn't like it. So, no..

And Ayemee, its not the fact that she's a girl that bothered me, because as you say, she is of course a person. It was more I didnt want to scare her off and make her think " omg total fething nerdfest"

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
If I do get treated differently, it's not something I have noticed.

Maybe Chaos Space Marines is not a very 'girly' choice of army, and I suppose I do not appear particularly feminine in my manner etc., both on the forums and when I actually interact with others in the hobby IRL.

And to further throw a wrench into the logic, I'm male and intend to make my first army as Night Lords with Slaanesh bits thrown in, with the Dark Prince never really viewed as masculine thanks to all the purples and pinks thrown in. And I hate the mainstream Space Marines (Ultramarines and near all of their successors save the Griffons). I do look forward to any time I have vibrantly colored Noise Marines and somebody pops a joke on how they look girly. Then I explain their fluff and laugh as they probably get squicked.

All in all, W40K's mash of factions are so incredibly customizable and varied to such a ridiculous degree I wouldn't be surprised if anyone of either gender picked a faction some would view as 'weird' for stereotypes simply for W40K being near infinite in customization options with so, so many flavors of fluff to choose from.
(Although I have noticed that women seem to like Tyranids a whole lot.)

EDIT

OHGODSHEWENTFORTHETAUWHATHAVEYOUDONE?!

Fufufu.

You should have expected that. Chicks dig giant robots.

 Wyzilla wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
If I do get treated differently, it's not something I have noticed.

Maybe Chaos Space Marines is not a very 'girly' choice of army, and I suppose I do not appear particularly feminine in my manner etc., both on the forums and when I actually interact with others in the hobby IRL.

And to further throw a wrench into the logic, I'm male and intend to make my first army as Night Lords with Slaanesh bits thrown in, with the Dark Prince never really viewed as masculine thanks to all the purples and pinks thrown in. And I hate the mainstream Space Marines (Ultramarines and near all of their successors save the Griffons). I do look forward to any time I have vibrantly colored Noise Marines and somebody pops a joke on how they look girly. Then I explain their fluff and laugh as they probably get squicked.

All in all, W40K's mash of factions are so incredibly customizable and varied to such a ridiculous degree I wouldn't be surprised if anyone of either gender picked a faction some would view as 'weird' for stereotypes simply for W40K being near infinite in customization options with so, so many flavors of fluff to choose from.
(Although I have noticed that women seem to like Tyranids a whole lot.)

EDIT

OHGODSHEWENTFORTHETAUWHATHAVEYOUDONE?!

Tyranids are lovely because they are so gribbly, but in my little gaming group we have a 'nid player already (And the new bad-dex won't shake his faith in his gribblies, I'm sure) and I am very happy with my spiky boys!

Also TAU. WAI?

Who needs giant robots when you have ludicrously overpowered spiky superhumans (That suck outside of the fluff, but that is acceptable losses!) that are just so over the top so you can't help but love them? And they have giant robots too!

When I imagine a Chaos Marine shooting a Guardsman and half the Guardsman evaporates from the explosive shot, I just want to hug the big guy.

HUG HIM.

<3 <3 <3 <3

If you tried to make her play and she dont like the hobby you have two options:

1- Leave her and continue playing.
2- Leave the hobby and go with her.

 Capt. Camping wrote:
If you tried to make her play and she dont like the hobby you have two options:

1- Leave her and continue playing.
2- Leave the hobby and go with her.

Or
3- continue playing and stay with her.

Which is the option any sensible person would take. Just because you don't share a hobby with your significant other doesn't mean you have to either quit it or leave them. That's just nonsense. You can do stuff without your significant other, you know?

My girlfriend doesn't really get the whole tabletop wargaming thing. She thinks it's expensive (she's right on that count) and just doesn't enjoy it. So I don't make her play. I'm not about to leave her or my hobby because of that.

 sierra 1247 wrote:
Allright guys thanks for all the help. I'll sort out a small game with Marines and IG. Cheers for the help.

Oh and Faenyin, that was a typo, my mistake.

I just realized I forgot the 'funny face' at the end of my comment to make it a joke. Wow, I must have sounded like a female hygene product...

 Furyou Miko wrote:
Fufufu.

You should have expected that. Chicks dig giant robots.

Not the few i usually hang out with - they like swords and old school rifles

And this thread reminds me why I love the hobby so much. It attracts all the interesting people (by that I mean awesome).

Also I'm a guy and I've loved Tau ever since they came out. Something about all the big guns...no I'm not compensating for something

I got my girlfriend into D&D (and other tabletop RPGs) years back after we had talked about it a bit and we started our local group back up.

We looked at wargame stuff at one of our FLGS looking at used books and I told her I liked the setting but wasn't sure about the game and that I hate painting. She knew about my Gundam model kits of course.

She ended up getting me AOBR, a rulebook and some starter painting materials.

I'm now 3 years in, many dollars lighter from models and painting supplie, and still get rofl-stomped by her orks all the time. We turned a bedroom in our new house into a hobby room so I could paint while she processes fiber as a side business. She digs it, and taught me a lot about painting.

People are people. Glad it's working out, having a common interest. Nurture it and let it grow organically.

PS: I totally plan on building a Chaos Daemon Prinny army. If it comes to fruition, she may smother me with a pillow.

Yeah, its great that she's getting into it, but as a guard player.. yeah im gonna be frakked in a lot of games


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And Faenyin, don't worry about it we all make mistakes.

 Ayemee wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:

melkorthetonedeaf wrote:


Also! The smurfs/hello kitty armies are beyond pandering. If she is curious about the game, she is probably drawn to the ugliness and brutality of the models.

I protest. Chaos Space Marines are very sexy.

Just look at those spikes. Mmmmmm.

Mmmmm and the twisting wretched forms of old pink horrors tearing their mouth open to let two mini guys hop out that start bickering whilst the others giggle clapping their hands together as they oo and aaa at mutating fireworks.... and the nurglings wanting to hug you! And don't forget those adorable little gribblies the nids have eeeee! So who is sexier? CSM or DE?

But yeah, glad to hear! May your guardsman survive the vollies of fire still holding their flag.

 StarTrotter wrote:

 Ayemee wrote:

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:

melkorthetonedeaf wrote:


Also! The smurfs/hello kitty armies are beyond pandering. If she is curious about the game, she is probably drawn to the ugliness and brutality of the models.

I protest. Chaos Space Marines are very sexy.

Just look at those spikes. Mmmmmm.

Mmmmm and the twisting wretched forms of old pink horrors tearing their mouth open to let two mini guys hop out that start bickering whilst the others giggle clapping their hands together as they oo and aaa at mutating fireworks.... and the nurglings wanting to hug you! And don't forget those adorable little gribblies the nids have eeeee! So who is sexier? CSM or DE?

But yeah, glad to hear! May your guardsman survive the vollies of fire still holding their flag.

Chaos Marines or Dark Eldar?

Ehh... Incubi are hawt, sure, but they don't play in the same league as CSM.

The Chaos Boyz blow them out of the water.