Warhammer 40,000

[GhostOfBetaTapes]

There have been no recent topics on this and I'm sure that someone plays this and has enough money to assemble a good army :C

Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop strategy and battle game created by Games Workshop and the miniatures and model materials are produced by the "sister company" of sorts, Citadel. You purchase, paint, assemble, and battle with armies, of different galactic sentient races, and choose the size of battles using "points". Each unit is worth a set amount of points. You can upgrade them using points as well.

You have tanks, commanders, soldiers, and other assorted units that supplement your military force.

The running list of races/larger subraces, according to the official Games Workshop website:


Space Marines:
   tall, strong humans. generally the most used army.

Chaos Space Marines:
   evil space marines :D

Imperial Guard:
   Normal Humans. They can have huge amounts of units per 100 points.

Eldar:
   The elves of the WH 40k universe. not very common.

Dark Eldar:
   "evil" Eldar.

Tau Empire:
   Considered, by some, to be the "japanese" of WH. They have blue skin, are hooved, and are technologically advanced.

Orks:
   Orks! green guys that run around in makeshift trucks shooting at everything.

Necrons:
   Pretty much robotic skeletons.

Tyranids:
   bioweapons. Giant, white-and-purple bioweapons. Amazing models.

Chaos Daemons:
   demons. Rather new to 40k.

Daemonhunters:
   awesome, holy space marines.

Witch Hunters:
   the most "primitive" race. Humans.

You may talk about, post pictures of, or brag about your armies, or lack thereof :U

Official Website:http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/landing.jsp?catId=cat1290027&rootCatGameStyle=wh40k

I personally play as Tau.

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[Harm94]

We have this group at our school who plays 40k. I was think about getting an ork army.

[oromis]

too expensive for oro, i'll stick to card games. Maybe ill try magic.

Really annoying: 2 old guys talking about a warhammer warship thing that has a range of fire twice as big as an imperial tank, so you need something that big to defend yourself. I also learned that you can take it out by flanking the airship with elite para-gaurds.

warship, imperial tank, elite paraguards, airship. Those terms were made up. i couldnt remember the names.

[GhostOfBetaTapes]

too expensive for oro, i'll stick to card games. Maybe ill try magic.

Really annoying: 2 old guys talking about a warhammer warship thing that has a range of fire twice as big as an imperial tank, so you need something that big to defend yourself. I also learned that you can take it out by flanking the airship with elite para-gaurds.

warship, imperial tank, elite paraguards, airship. Those terms were made up. i couldnt remember the names.

Imperial tank either is a Baneblade or a Leiman Russ.

Vague, but I'd imagine it would be pretty funny seeing two old guys talking about Warhammer.

[Harm94]

I know some teachers who play.

[faram45]

My favorite is the space marines.
they live to hundreds of years old.
and have superhuman strength.

But yes the table top game is very expensive.
I play Dawn of war dark crusade.
Dawn of war 2 looks boring.

[Thorax]

I've played. I have 5 Space Marines. I've also played the Warhammer LOTR. It's pretty fun.

[zackin5]

Just because I'm lazy and cheap the only thing I have is Dawn of War II

[BladeOfTheHorizon]

I have some Tyranids and Ultramarines, including terminators and juggernoughts.
I used to have a large bucket of Crimson Fist marines, but I sold them for the Ultramarines. Sorry Crimson Fists. :(

[Marffy]

i like tau too. =)

[Ector]

I might play, but MAN that stuff's expensive.
Besides, I might play Warhammer instead of 40,000.

[GhostOfBetaTapes]

I might play, but MAN that stuff's expensive.
Besides, I might play Warhammer instead of 40,000.

axespin away!

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning looks like a fun Warhammer fantasy game. Like WoW without memes :\

[Watcher In The Myst]

Bump..

[Harm94]

I will definately get an army of orks one day.

[Ronin]

I wouldn't say Witch Hunters are primitive, I think they're actually fairly advanced. Using all those melta/mega melta weapons and the fact their heroes actually kick ass is something to be had. Most people don't play them because they require strategy more so than a squad of Space Marines. Also they take more time to paint, which is hard for anyone not used to painting.