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Is there anyone here who has ever played the Tabletop game Warhammer 40,000? I would like to meet fellow players.
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I have played it, along with most of the other games published by Games Workshop. I prefer the grand scale of Epic or the irreverent mayhem of Blood Bowl, though. It seems to me that a portentuous sentence like "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war" is rather wasted on a skirmish-level game. Planetary invasions! We want planetary invasions!
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I've played epic and both 40K and the Fantasy setting. It's been a long while, but I've always said that I'd like to get back into it once I have a permanent location and a job that supplies me with enough money to indulge in such an expensive hobbey.
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I have yet to play epic, but I would really rather just stick to Playing 40k. I have been playing since I was ten, but I have only now gotten an army, World Eater Chaos Marines, with Abbadon as the HQ choice. Im currently saving up to get a Defiler and a Daemon prince, along with two more squads of Chaos Terminators. I am also working on Making my own chapter of Astartes. It is actually the same chapter as the one I wrote about in my Fanfiction, Leo Imperator Mortalis.
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I did play Warhammer 40k briefly, but the cost and fluctuating rules was a turn-off.
At some point, I was going to use squad level battles using the Necromunda rules for person-to-person engagement which was infinitely cheaper and much more entertaining than larger scale army battles, in my humble opinion.
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I've played 40K and fantasy. I haven't played it in years- my brothers and I used to play togeather when we were kids.
My favourite part, though, was painting the models (which worked out perfectly as my brother's prefered to play over paint.) I still have a big tub full of all our stuff in the basement. (I played chaos and orks in 40k)
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Waagh, da Orks! Always my favourites. I do feel the designers screwed them over a bit in the early editions, though - their weapons were apparently intended more for amusement value than actual effect. Take the Snotling Attack Gun; ok, the concept of three dozen madly defecating Snotlings appearing inside someone's armour is fun enough, but how often did the thing actually hit?
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That's because orks were never meant to use sophisticated weapons - considering they could walk through massed lasgun fire and not get so much as a light tan.
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In the early editions, that worked only so well. I usually played against Space Marine armies, and massed bolter fire tended to bother even Orks.
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Which is true, but orks outnumbered Space Marines at least what, three to one? Marines were not cheap and Orks gave new meaning to Expendable Life Form.
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Well, yes, but you'd lose two Orks getting in close and the third one wasn't really a match for a Space Marine even in close combat.
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I haven't played any table tops yet, but I heard Mage Knight was a lot cheaper and just as fun as Warhammer.
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Mage Knight is only cheaper if you play in very small squads without the intention of optimizing your army. If you actually start "collecting" Mage Knight, it very rapidly becomes more expensive than Warhammer. Which you find more fun depends in large part on the scale at which you prefer to fight your battles.
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I dont know so much about the Orks being horrible in close combat against Astartes. My friends dad once lost a terminator sergeant to a Grot in Hand-to-hand
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Hehe, my Grots once managed to kill not one, but two Chaos Terminators (from Abaddon's retinue, no less) in hand-to-hand combat. My friend was just a touch annoyed; for years afterwards he'd groan if you mentioned Grots and Terminators in the same breath. Still, these are exceptions.
The new Orks are much better, what with their choppas and serious close-combat optimisation. Everything counts in large amounts. And with the nerfing of individual characters (long overdue) you can actually buy twenty Boyz and have them be more than cannon fodder.
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