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Just wondering, I'm really interested in playing 40K, just life kinda got in the way for a bit (Army,wife and daugher, house, etc..) but now I want to play.
Last time I played was in, like 87/88 with Rogue Trader (still got the book).
Just checking out the 40k sites and I noticed this game has grown and changed quite a bit, seems a bit daunting to take it all in, but really cool/interesting.
Wondering if any one my age (37) still plays?
Anyways thanks.

I'm in the early 30's and many of the players I know are around there, + or - a few years.

Ow yes I play and I'm 40, fantasy only, not 40k..
But there are older players still.. Oldest I played against was about 60

Good luck with the games

I know lots of 30+ players. You'd be surpirsed at how many people who played in the Rogue Trader Era have stayed on for the ride.

I am in my early 50s and still play. It is great to be around young people!

: )

G

I have played off and on and am in the mid 30s. I think most of my aversion to playing these days is that I am not sure of the best way to find other "mature" players. I have no interest in going to the local GW and hanging out with the kids. Nice thing about being a little older is I have a whole basement and a table, and all the trappings necessary to game independent of a store, just haven't found the right group of people.

I turn 30 this year.

I took 4 years off from 40k. I'm back and I'm 37.

I just turned 38 and I've been playing since the RT-era myself...

So, yes. There are grognards who play into their 30's/40's.

Vale,

JohnS

I'll be hitting 40 at the end of this year (!) and my best friend (and who actually games WFB/40K WAY more than me) is going to hit 40 in June.

They key at this "advanced age" is to get into a good gaming group and stay there!

If you can, that is...

I'm 33 and still going strong.

I'm 39 (40 later this year) and I also started with RT.
I used to be in a club (closed down post 9/11 liability insurance hikes) that had quite a few members my age (and older) who were dads, or military.

Look for clubs near you, some might actually have older players. Failing that, try a 'veterans night' at a GW or other gaming store.

Hey bud, sounds like our Time lines converged in 87/88.
The only reaon I stopped playing 40k was the Navy would not let me set up a table in the Gally, lol

As for getting back into it-BEWARE!! You now have a higher income(I'm guessing!) from when you were a lad, so you may find your collection increases dramatically after a few months.

I started playing two years ago after a LOOOOOONG break.

I have multiple LR's,
A Company of Marines,
A company of Termies
2 Titans
Baneblades etc.

It is an addiction.............

Still here, GW hasn't bucked me yet.

Seeing lots of 30-somethings here on Dakka. Maybe there's a correlation.

Oh, and count me among them. 34 in a little over a month.

Unfortunately I turn 31 this year so I guess I qualify. I think my entire gaming group is 29 or older, with at least one player in their mid 40s.

And I only started playing about a year and a half ago so, though I'd been interested in the game/known a lot of the fluff for a while before that, but didn't know anyone who played.

Most of the tournaments I've been to since then at least half or even more of the players have appeared to be at least in their late 20s, with a significant portion of 30somethings.

Old people.....UNITE!!!

I guess it is because we all lived the days of "Arcades" and Video Games..

There is nothing quite like the feel of Moulded plastic to remember the 'Old days'.


Entertainment that DOES NOT require a computer/console.....

Just turned 35. Started playing fantasy in 1989 and 40k in 1991. Took a few years off when I went to Iraq and just recently got back into it.. And as said before... it's an addiction. I gave up cigarettes to pay for the minis.

Me and my whole gaming group are in our 30s and 40s.

Me and my group are 30+. Some 40+.

But being responsible adults, we play a lot less often than the 20-somethings.

Green Blow Fly wrote:I am in my early 50s and still play. It is great to be around young people!

: )

G

no way!

Other Interests
"I paint miniatures, a relaxing hobby I have learned to enjoy. I study various techniques to this art."

41 playing since RT

Currently 39, not playing GW stuff at the mo, but playing plenty of other systems.

Two of the guys I regularly have games with are 32 and 36 (I'm 26). But at our gaming club the guys that play GW games are in their 50's.

I'll probably keep playing as long as I can see to paint. lol.

Craig

i turn 32 this year... I had a break from all this for a few years then the hunger returned with a vengence.

3.5 x 10^1

:(

39. And that's about enough on that topic!

30 years old so a young 'un compared to all you old timers out there.

I play WHFB exclusively now but still have my 40k armies and get the books.
The tourney scene in Oz is primarily 25 years and over with average age being in mid to late thirties.

I hit the big 30 in August. I actually was out of 40k during my mid 20s, which is the group a lot of the folks I game with are in. That is one of my problems, my FLGS has a younger crowd, I think the guy I play most often is 15 or 16.

Turning 34 this year. Kinda moving away from 40K and moving to Fantasy.