What do you enjoy about 40k?

[SaveModifier]

Wave after wave of negativity are getting me down and show the worst sides of the community!

I'd like to ask you all what you like about this hobby, what you enjoy, no negativity, just discussing what things you love and why you love them.

I love painting models and seeing them painted, discussing painting techniques with my painting buddies and getting better at that. Whether its the amazing euro style golden demon winners like Fontaine or Bohun or just a really nice cohesive army, i love painted models

I also really like the fluff of 40k, the over the top oppressiveness of it all, the massive scale of everything in the universe is just really cool, it was to be 20 years ago and it still is today, I love the comedy of the orks and how they just don't care about anything but fighting, really makes me smile laugh.

[Mr Mystery]

Everything but the painting side!

This hobby set me on my current path in life, and all is good!

Favourite bit is probably building and converting, even though my artistic inability restricts this to simple kit bashes!

[Pssyche]

If you've seen any of the photos I've ever posted, you'll clearly see that I love collecting, painting and gaming.

So, I love everything, except the whinging really.

[SaveModifier]

Everything but the painting side!

This hobby set me on my current path in life, and all is good!

Favourite bit is probably building and converting, even though my artistic inability restricts this to simple kit bashes!

Send them over to me and I'll add them to my queue for you ;)


If you've seen any of the photos I've ever posted, you'll clearly see that I love collecting, painting and gaming.

So, I love everything, except the whinging really.


Yeah, some times I think my hobby is collecting grey plastic rather than gaming

[SON OF ROMULOUS]

easy enough for me first it starts out with an idea or a concept in my head. then it becomes a purchase here then one there. then as time goes on an army starts to take shape. some quicker then others. some are a much longer more painstaking process. Turning those grey plastic/resin miniatures into characters, powerful generals and captains. space marine hero's or a lowly imperial guardsmen who stands up to a chaos marine or an ork nob and wins.

Playing a game against a buddy and introducing a new unit or a new army he hasn't seen or played against. creating rivalries the petty banter that goes back and forth. my cell phone can attest to the times where depending on which armies are facing off there are either threats of excommunication or demands of submission as waaagh skulllbasher approaches. so for me honestly its got to be the story. each character i create or each tale that i weave from a particular battle or campaign.

[Ursa]

SaveMod not to fret buddy. Ive been in this game for 25 years and seven editions. People are upset because GW has gotten too commercial and has forgotten that many of us truely love this game.

For me its the assembly conversions and painting. I love it! I spend three to twelve hours a day working with 40k and fantasy miniatures and have for the better part of three decades.

BTW if anyone needs painting I'm looking for new projects and work inexpensively.

[SaveModifier]

SaveMod not to fret buddy. Ive been in this game for 25 years and seven editions. People are upset because GW has gotten too commercial and has forgotten that many of us truely love this game.

For me its the assembly conversions and painting. I love it! I spend three to twelve hours a day working with 40k and fantasy miniatures and have for the better part of three decades.

BTW if anyone needs painting I'm looking for new projects and work inexpensively.

People have complained about GW being too commercial since the very beginning, its just now we have a massive global communication tool that lets us all validate each others complaints, as great as the internet it, its kind of an echo chamber for complaints sadly.

But enough of that!

Son of Romulous, I also story aspect, when i saw the term "Forging the Narrative" in the 6th edition rulebook, it clicked in my head, I knew exactly what they meant, I've been doing that all the while but they just put a name to it, I know people thought the mentions of it were cheesy, but I think every gamer would benefit from a bit more story to the games, which is what GW do seem to be adding now, more and more things, more missions and different things that can turn each battle into a memorable clash, the time the Boss Gragsnakz Stompa was held off by the void shields of an Imperial Guard defense line until they could bring their lascannons to bear! Space Marines dropping down into middle of an Eldar maiden world lead by a grizzled and hoary old Inquisitor, only to be pushed back when they realise the Eldar are joined by their depraved Dark kin!

Call me sad, but my Minotaur Space Marine army, everyone from Squad Leader rank upwards has a name, I have a spreadsheet of names, detailing each one, with plenty left over to assign to new recruits!

[mikeramos]

I love trolling lol just playing, I love the memories I've had and the people I've met, the effort gw puts into their sculps and kits the fluff, and painting, I hate knowing how many eldar grav tanks I've painted and lost idk what I would be doing now if I hadn't picked up my first guardian kit, but can't wait to see what the next decade has for us.

[Pure Legend]

Hi I love writing Army Lists. Not competitive ones, just ones that include most of the models in my collection plus maybe a couple of things that are not. Then I spend ages scouring eBay or Facebook trade groups trying to get a bargain to complete the lists. Then before I get around to painting it up or gaming with it I'm already on another list and looking for more models.

Aside from this I'm in the process of building and painting my scenery and gaming board which I see as a future investment of getting my kids into the hobby I love and keeping them off the street causing trouble!

[Wolfshade]

Love th elore, love the playing :) dislike painting, hence my inability to paint a whole 2 squads this year :( also dislike packing away.

[Arkhan Land]

the future will be terrible and our lifetimes will the last before the decadent fall of humanity. I play 40k because it IS the future!

[Blackcloud6]

I've always loved model building and wargaming so they come together in WH40K.

I've been a big historical board wargamer since being a kid and also build 1/35 scale armor. WH40K is a great diversion form the historical gaming. WH40K takes me back to the love of science fiction of my youth. I really like the fluff behind it all. One can immerse into WH40K with the model building, the gaming and reading the books.

The game is very good too. I like planning the army list and building the army to meet the enemy army. I see "arms races" in our group and that is cool.

I fully enjoy playing the game and it looks great while playing.

[Deadlift]

Painting and my Gym time, ground me in a way not much else can. I find it relaxes me and its something I do to get my own space. Don't get me wrong, my life's pretty great but sometimes we all just need some space to do something on our own. Painting models is a big part of that and i even paint in my office at work on my break when I can. Another great thing about this hobby of ours is some of the great people I get to meet and talk too. On here and in the "real world". Sure there is a little negativity about the hobby but I am happy to debate with people as long as they remain open minded and any discussion is a good discussion as long as it remains polite. I have stuck a few on my ignore list for sure, but thats only for my own sake.

Then theres the product of everything that surrounds the hobby. Playing the game. I don't play often but I do really enjoy it when I do. I usually hold the games at my house and I am fortunate to have lots of space, tables, beers and an understanding wife. So once a fortnight its all round mine for a chat, have a laugh, roll some dice and drink some beer with my gaming friends.

I think because I enjoy everything about the hobby so much i do struggle to understand the negativity, but I also like to think for the most part I am laid back enough not to really care either.

[sangrail777]

I love the fluff, building and painting.
I really love to play, ya know hang out with friends, drink some beers, talk about fluff/ rules/ future and past of40k.
I love having my models on display. In my living room one whole wall is dedicated to 3 display cases overfilled with 40k models. Any body who walks into my house is instantly captivated by my display and get caught up into hours long conversation about them and 40k fluff.

[Eldar_Atog]

I'm not a great painter but that is the main thing I enjoy. It gives me a sense of accomplishment that my work life(software tester/analyst) just can't match.

[completeHook]

The thing I really love about 40k is working with my hands again.

I spent 4 years at art college learning a craft ended up as mac monkey. The digital revolution hasn't been kind to people with the skill set I have, much of the innovation seems to have been based around designing out the need to employ flaky artistic types for their fine motor skill.

Things had really hit the skids, the relationship I was in was dying, I was freelancing (basically a digital peon always on call working from home) and drinking heavily, then I bought Dawn of War 2 on a Steam sale and it set me on a path that has changed my life for the better.

In the last 18 months I found that I can still paint, and though I'm nowhere near as good as I was when I was a kid it's coming back, I'm scratch building terrain, I'm sculpting with green stuff. I now have a heavily converted IG army with a load of expensive Forgeworld bits (one of the few perks of no longer having woman to answer to) and just love looking at it - the best part is it is all just for fun. After years of having all the enjoyment sucked out the act of creation I feel it again.

I've been pleasantly surprised by the Black Library, as in I was expecting The Expendables and got District 9 (loved the Night Lords trilogy) and used the fluff in creating the look for my army. Learning the rules and designing lists has improved my mental arithmetic (not one of my strong suits). Half the stuff I watch now is 40k related, really enjoying StrikingScorpion82's batreps and painting guides and miniwargaming (I understand there is some snobbishness about them) taught me how to play the game.

Earlier this month I finally popped my cherry, the FLGS I use invited me and a few others to an evening and I finally got to play with my toys, and it was great.

This hobby has been a massive help during a very trying time, and it brought me back to something I had always done and always enjoyed, making models.

Rock.

[rpricew]

Building, painting & playing... it's the total community that is really the attraction for me.

[DarkLink]

I enjoy the wargaming aspect the most. I also happen to love Grey Knights (I tend to play paladin types in games), and 40k is the most readily accessable source of games. Warmachine is fun, too, though I haven't played it enough to really get the hang of it.

I also like modeling stuff. I don't paint for the sake of painting, but since I'm going to be using the models for games I might as well make them look nice. And I'm a pretty good painter when I put the effort in. Just got an airbrush, too, for all my eldar skimmers (only a few of them are wave serpents).

[Cactus]

I've always considered myself a painter first, player second.

There are a lot of things I enjoy about the hobby, but I think a game with my friends is the best part. Win, lose or draw.

I also like building beardy lists and still getting thumped at tournaments too.

[Fanboy]

The minis and the fluff. GW still produces some of the best minis out there. I love the new sternguard SMs for example. Only down fall is the current ruleset. 6th Ed sucks, and over the last few months far too many additional rules and rulesets. Too cumbersome......... Living in hoping for a simpler ruleset............