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The best experience I have with Warhammer 40k was, when I was introduced to the game Dawn of War. I didn't like the idea to play an unknown game. Since we were planning to play something else over the course of a Lan party. But the person who showd it to me insisted (he knew the table top game aswell), for us to play it. Only thing that he mentioned is that non of us should play it before the Lan itself. Becouse of this. The game was mindblowingly awesome. All the races all the weaponry. The atmosphere the sounds, everything just stood together. When our armies clashed together I got lost. I stared too much time at the screen. My armies were shattered though, but all the effects made me love it from the first sight. The most biggest thing for me was the shouting across the battlefield. It gave such a unique feeling to the game that no other Strategy did.
I hope Ethernal Crusade will be huge aswell.
My friend was playing Imperial Guardsmen versus my Chaos Daemons.
I had taken a silly army with lots of Monsterous Creatures (this was only in a 1000pt game) and he had gone for a fairly standard mix of infantry and tanks.
The silliness began early on in the game where my greater daemon of choice (a Bloodthirster) was shot at by the only guardsman from a particular squad to be in range, only to be hit and killed by the shot. We were both pretty speechless at this point, not only because lasguns suck but because my Bloodthirster had been flying at the time and therefore hard to hit.
We naturally then invented a name and backstory for the guardsman: Olaf, a hopeful Vostrian guardsman who hoped to one day be a commander.
Due to the insult of my greater daemon having been killed by a lasgun shot I decided I would stop Olaf's dream from coming true by purposefully slaughtering the entire chain of command in my opponent's army to prove that he was nothing: A mere mortal.
My remaining daemon princes set upon his warlord and his veteran squad sergeants with ease, but they were slowly being weakened by his tanks and lots of meltagun fire. Eventually I had a single daemon prince left with the mark of Khorne (close combat). He had just chased down the last of the veteran squads and that meant there was only one target left - Olaf's Unit.
We had been rolling Olaf's shooting separately to see if he was special but he had failed to do any more that entire game so far.
My final daemon prince charged Olaf's unit and killed every person in it except one plucky young guardsman - Olaf. Olaf then proceeded to not only hit but also wound my daemon prince and kill him.
Olaf is now my friend's imperial guard company commander and his full title is now 'Olaf Daemonbreaker'
Played a watered down tabletop 4 player free for all with my brother, his son and his daughter. None of them had played before but they loved my models and I had plenty to pick from. Grey Knights, Chaos Space Marines, Dark Angels, and Necrons were on the table. Turn one my dear sweet 11 year old niece shot a Melta blast at my brother's Necron Ghost Ark which popped it instantly. When the turn came around to him and he moved in to shoot back at the Hellbrute that had fired the shot, she says, "Nooooo! Don't kill Robert!"
Because nothing strikes fear into the heart of the enemy like a Hellbrute named Robert.
Years ago, I tried to get a younger member of my family into any kind of war gaming to help him learn about rules, logical thinking, stats, planning... and at the time he had shown an interest in WH40K figures....
So, we brought a squad of Space Marines and a box of Chaos Space Marines.
Over the next couple of days we put them together and painted them.
I had the Space Marines and when i was done I found a template for a (paper) Drop Pod online and built that too.
Over night we left our figures on the table... I arranged them so it looked like the Chaos Space Marines were running away and put my Space Marines and the Drop Pod in the middle of the table.
I left a note "Kill the Heretics! Forward Brothers!" - and blue tac-ed it to the Drop Pod.
...
In the morning I get up to find a little sign made up and standing beside my Drop Pod and Space Marines:
"WARNING: CHAOS SPACE MARINE FIRING RANGE.
LIVE FIRE EXERCISE TODAY"
Nothing says irony like spelling ideot wrong.
At first didnt know that much about w40k back in time, when i played with friends "paper and pen" kind of stuff...until i meet Space Hulk computer game on C64, that time i start liking the space marine armor
still didnt know that much the w40k world only the basics, until i meet "Dawn of War" intro and hooked with the game (at this time started to read w40k books and became interested about the w40k world it self) pritty well.
My best moment is that when i first meet the nekrons, those piramids just blow away all of my squads, and a bonus for that, the fallen nekrons started to stand up.
Im completely new to the 40k universe.
That is my experience.
My favorite experience with 40k was playing the table top with friends when I was young. We would play giant games on a piece of plywood in my garage. This was one of our first games with 5th edition rules. (This is important because they brought ramming back) my friend's hellhound was rolling really well and my guardians were burning up. Wanting to test the new ramming mechanic, I took my wave serpent and ran it head first into the hellhound. I still remember my friend's face when that single d6 came up a six. The wave serpent blew up but it was sooooo worth it.
My most memorable time would have to be when I took part in a 6v6 tabletop Apocalypse game. I had brought forth my mighty WAAAGGGHHH!!!!! fielding 2 Kustom Ork Stompas, 3 green tides (100 boys a tide) and was loaning out my 3k point chaos marines to a player I knew at the store who was an AMAZING chaos Deamons and wanted to bulk up his points. It was an intense battle, against loyalist scum marines, grey knights, elder and even a elder titan and a thunderhawk (CRAZY FLIGHT RULES they had in apocalypse).
The battle started out quickly in our favor as the kustom stompas wrecked havoc on the Eldar titan deastory 1 weapon arm, and disableing the other. But the green tides could not over come the space marines defensive fornications. They cowered behind walls with auto turrets, in a missle fortress, and even a special Rhino square formation that granted heavy cover and some invule saves. Time and time again the tide roared into battle, slaming into the punny humie walls, down into the trenches, and through heavy no mans land, and though the melee was fierce, the tide was REPELLED over and over again till only a measly 2/3 of a single tide remaind.
A stompa was able to smash through the main line, and with its wrecking ball, destroyed a titan killer baneblade hiding the back. And woe was the elder lines turned to fine pink mist by Gork's Supa-gatler, evaporating a whole 18 squads before an internal jam mucked the loading mechanism. Suddenly..... BOOM, disaster stuck the mighty stompa, bringing the mighty Gork tumbling down, but Gork got last laugh with a last minute meltdown. Suddenly the elder titan returned to battle after some hastily field repairs, and was back in the fight for a round before being stuck down by my Traitors allies. Sadly, that round was enough for it to destroy Mork's Belly Gun. That day even the warboss roared in rage over the sadness of no more shells the size of trukks layed waste to humies.
Taking the time to redraw the battle lines, was it learned that the elder simply were done, not but a handful of partial squads remained from a once proud mobile force. The small armored regiment of leman russes that were added last minute to the mighty assembled defenders were thrashed after Mork's Lifta Dropa simply picked them up like toys and flung them like mini bombs into one another. But while the loss was dark for the humies, their mighty warrior still stood. The grey knights had carved a wide path into the host of Daemons, destroying them from the inside. The Chaos marines hadn't faired much better between the constant thunderhawk strikes and the unbreachable fortress walls and Rhino formation. It was but inevitable that orks and chaos would lose this world.
Lucky I spent some extra points to field a special DOOMSDAY DEVICE (Had a guy &his son cancel last minute who was gonna use my chaos marines, so I helped prep the battle list and let the Daemons player take over so, 6v3). Fourth turn saw the ritual activation of the device which brought forth some much needed barrages in the form of Massive destruction. 4 solid blasts slammed into the marine line and the dreaded fortress ending the cover saves the marines had enjoyed so much this war. With sprits renewed, the WAAAGHHH leapt one last time into the hole finally smashing their way to the target deep in marine lines. Glorious as this last surge was, the withering fire of that THRICE CURSED thunderhawk run saw an end to the might tide. May the hawk forever burn and the pieces scattered across a thousand worlds!!!!
The final hours of battle were joined with the coming of the roosters crowing outside the shop as the battle had lasted 28 hours long soo far with neither side breaking for more then a for food and bio. In the end the doomsday device reached critical mass wiping the field clear of all matter in a massive 34" range. Sadly it was an inch too much, just enough to see the instant atomization of Mork, and the destruction of both the neutral and chaos controls, giving the surviving Rhino Box Ultramarines and the grey knight forces final victory of a memorable and glorious 28hr battle.
One snowy New England winter my brother in law and I spent many of our waking hours playing Dawn of war 2 (Amazing game.) we set 2 computers up on the kitchen table @ my apartment so we could sit side by side and see each others monitors, after a while we had a finally crafted strategy for competitive matches with myself playing a enginier creating a defensive turret network and my brother Mike playing the Tyranid swarm.
Good times
Almost 25 years ago, i received my first Warhammer 40k Rule Book, Rogue Trader. If anyone remembers this book, the binding had a problem holding pages, in fact the first time I opened it after tearing off the wrapping, 2 pages came out of the binding. My friends and I were hooked almost instantly. Our local hobby shop sold the miniatures individually (which i am pretty sure was illegal at the time) which allowed us 13 year olds to build our collections one or two minis (old lead ones) at a time.
Two of my most memorable 40k experiences were getting a chance to play in tournaments at Games Workshop stores while in the USAF stationed in the United Kingdom. I had a chance to meet Gav Thorpe at one of the stores as well.
The second was playing a massive 40k table top game with a friend, 6,000 points of 2nd Edition rules. Space Wolves versus Orks. The orks were defending a crashed space ship. We had a huge fight outside and then utilized Space Hulk, Deathwing and Genestealer boards to represent the inside of the hulk. The fun thing about the inside fight was that we had 2 identical boards, a neutral judge and played it that auspex did not work and had to rely on line of sight, It made for some awesome ambushes and cat and mouse chases. Took a few days to play to completion but was well worth it.
Yup we did that to, good times indeed
Reading Warhammer 40k Ultramarines - Warriors of Ultramar.
The way Graham McNeill could describe not just the in-combat scenes but also everything else... And then around half the book or so the most epic and one very inspiring space battle was when the Imperial Navy attempted to defend themselves against the Tyranids.
Throwing / Towing Orbital Refineries, Sword Frigate clashing into the Tyranids to rip them apart and the best: In-Detail description of the Nova-Cannon of the Dominator-Class ship. That read alone wanted me to ALWAYS have a Battlefleet Gothic Videogame!
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"Its better to look ugly and win than pretty and lose"