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For me, it's the storyline. The character of Warhammer syncs beautifully with the way I've always felt about life. That's hard to pin down, but in the end it's about art and it's about battle. When I discovered the Blood Angels in 1996, I felt like somebody had read my mind. But the more I learned about every faction, I became nearly just as fascinated. I could paint models all day every day and not really get bored. Nothing gets me as excited as seeing a completed model match the image I had in mind when it was just gray plastic. Merry Xmas to you and cheers!!
I dont, it’s horrible
Painting, conversion and insulting my friends (why I get roasted as well), while having a blast.
I’m an old guy. I started with miniatures in the mid 80s with Napoleonics. Although I was into historic wargaming, I was also a sci-fi fan and played a lot of the Traveler RPG.
One day in the late 80s I wandered into my FLGS and saw the Rogue Trader book sitting on the shelf. I flipped through it and was immediately hooked; a book of rules that combined my love of miniature wargaming and sci-fi.
I’ve been playing 40K off and on for 30 years now. I’ve made lifelong friends through this game and I’ve had many cherished memories.
I used to play when I was younger and started back with it this year. Primarily it was for the painting as I don't actually have anyone to play against but I plan on going to a store or find a gaming group once the lockdown is past.
I started with space marines but I have a Genestealer cult army on the go, as well as a small Tau and Durkhari force which I can use bits of for Kill Team as well.
It's really easy to find yourself going in a spending spree with paints, tools and miniatures.
For me it all started with Dawn of War, later branching into the TTS series as I learned about the lore, and now I've got a pretty impressive Necron army.
My first real exposure to 40K was some of the videos by RussianBadger. something about the over the top lore and way space marines operate just felt so fresh and different to other sci fi properties. to me that's what kept me interested and got me into the tabletop, and is why I love 40K so much today
Ork fluff is what drew me to 40K. What keeps me in the hobby is the game. I do also enjoy building miniatures as well but I don’t like the painting so much. I do have some painted minis but I don’t have a fully painted army out of 3 armies I do have. Eventually I’ll have to bite the bullet and just get it done.
The reason I like Warhammer was because theres something very cool seeing the different armies from other people and how much effort they put into painting them, even if some of the time they aren't that well painted.
I like insulting nerds on forums about grammar.
I've been a fan of the setting for years from the video games and books. But for a long time, I was scared of the painting. And a friend tried to teach me the game in 3rd edition but the rules seemed too complicated at the time.
I decided to give it a try when Kill Team came out. Turns out I love painting and 40k. Don't really play KT anymore LOL. I love this game because I can enjoy the hobby even when I can't play the game.
I want to play games so bad, but none of my friends will get into it because they think it's too expensive. I have 2 fully painted armies collecting dust because I have no one to play with. That being said, I still enjoy building and painting the minis
Astartes brought me in.
Stayed for the lore. Grew to love customising my miniatures.
I started warhammer40k during the lockdown. Loved the lore and then i started painting some of the miniatures, a month later a bought Indomitus Box and now I'm here painting Guilliman
I play to slaughter!
I used to. I was a huge eldar player back in 3rd and 4th edition. I've been trying to get back in recently, but between the lack of support for anyone not a space marine and the game rules just… bad I keep trying to get excited to get back in and I feel like the game is fighting against me to do so.
Modeling/kitbashing is the part that is the most consistent fun, painting is more of a chore to me.
I wish playing was more fun but in my area very few players are the kind that I like to play with, ie people that care more about creating a nice story with thematic armies.
Rather most people fling from meta-army to meta-army as fast as they can and even for casual games they bring their tournament/netlists.
After a 30 year hiatus I got back into AoS/40K primarily due to how good the models looked in the Soul Wars and Dark Imperium sets – especially those Death Guard units. I mainly collect the minis to paint and occasionally play with my kid. I find the painting aspect to be very relaxing and very different from my day job as a software developer. I don’t have a ton of time so I really haven’t spent time getting into the lore aspect, other than at a high-level. I really appreciate channels like these to keep me up to date on rules/models, tactics, etc. I’ll eventually start to play once I get more of my massive plastic backlog painted…which should be right around when 10th edition is released. 🙂
I love the Setting, I love to play the game (even if I'm to clumsy to win games, I still love to build lists and play ^^) and enjoy having some at least basic painted minis (even if not enough time and patience to work down my pile of shame ^^).
Narrative and Narrative Play. I'm not of a competitive spirit so Crusade and Narrative Play are what keep me into it.
Warhammer Fantasy got me into 40K! Looking forward to what GW do with The Old World now. Sure enough though in a GW store you go and play the other games and slowly but surely 40K took over a bit as I got into the lore. Hard to pick a favourite now. Hobby wise it was always the models and the lore first. Now I don't really have time to play properly so it's painting mainly for me although I do enjoy watching batreps and keeping up with the meta (why else would I be on Auspex Tactics!).
The gaming with buds
I love my orks. They make me so happy. I have 4k points of orks, most of which I painted during Orktober 2020. They are my only fully painted army, and every time I look at them I feel a sense of accomplishment and pride. I may not be an amazing painter, but my orks look awesome and I am so proud of them.
I have only played one game, but I really want to play more in the future. It's hard for me to go out and play with people, because I have a lot of anxiety… But the warhammer community in my area is so wonderful and accepting. My local hobby store is great and very supportive of the game. Until recently they hosted game nights and have run tournaments. So I am hoping to play more next year. 🙂
yes
Krieg
I got into 40k through If-The-Emperor-Had-A-Text-To-Speech-Device, and I started reading the lore through 1d4chan and youtube. I eventually managed to rope some of my friends into a Tabletop Simulator 40k tournament that uses some heavy rules homebrewing to make the game faster and more logical for us.
I don’t think I’ll ever switch to real-life 40k games. It’s so absurdly expensive and takes so much time. Not only in the assembly and painting, but in the games themselves. Rolling over 100 dice in Tabletop Sim takes ages, and I can’t imagine how slow it must be in real life.
I consider myself a lore nerd, and 40k’s absurd amount of stories appeals to me as a vast repository of lore that I can absorb. [Tangent time!]
One of my friends that I roped into 40k doesn’t enjoy it as much as I do, because they prefer stories with more depth and less breadth. For example, they really like Homestuck, which is an amazingly complicated and outstandingly long multimedia comic book. It is technically one story, but there’s so much going on that you need a spreadsheet to keep track of it all. (Imagine the entire Horus Heresy combined with the Ciaphas Cain novels and the Dawn of War stuff all at the same time and with time travel and bad writing, and all of it is secretly leading to one conclusion. Oh, and breaking the 4th wall way too much.) In contrast, I prefer stories that are reasonably complicated but straightforward, and I like there being lots of them in one universe. For example, the lore of Destiny 1 was extensive and involved lots of proper names and important events, but almost none of the stories were connected to each other directly. The Battle at Twilight Gap didn’t result in the creation of Thorn, and Thorn didn’t result in Eris Morn’s misadventure. Oryx’s epic backstory and philosophical musings are awesome to read, but they don’t influence the actions of Dredgen Yor. Stuff like that.
Sorry for the tangent, I wanted to get all of that off my chest and didn’t know where else to put it.
40k is great, TTS is great too, and those minis made of gold are pretty to look at!
Taking closeup pictures of the models during games with my friends.
It's a combination of the lore and creativity it offers for me. I love reading the books and getting to express myself through converting and painting and writing up my own backstory for everything.
There's some amazing YouTubers too of course. Listening to this channel, lore guides, TTS, game walk-throughs and paint guides is just relaxing.
I got back into the hobby during the first lockdown in the uk, because painting took my mind off everything going on and gave me something to do whilst not being able to leave the house
I was always vaguely aware of/interested in WH40K, but it was the Astartes fan short that got me hooked and made me take the leap into buying my first minis.
The lore is mostly what's keeping me into it, since my friend and I haven't gotten to play much and our minis remain unpainted, but I also love making lists on Battlescribe since fussing over the tiny details of nerdy shit is one of my favorite things lol
So for me it was a way to calm my anxiety and PTSD with painting models. Later it has become a family game with my kids each having a faction as well as my wife to paint, play, and grow on the table.