Warhammer 40.000: Eternal Crusade: Founder Pack Giveaway!

TheRabidsmurf · June 2014

Me and some friends had spent weeks builing terrain,"hammerfrost zx-delta" 3 people named it. I had a set of fresh painted wolves set to go when one slid off and got grabbed at by everyone, lost. Next weekend only able to field whai had against tyranid squad elite it looked grim. Then on turn seven under a tree covered in grass the missing figure. Calling it long tterm ambush, he became hero of the day.

Peldyn · June 2014

I would have to say that my most entertaining Warhammer 40k moment would have to be when I was introduced to the game. My first army was bought from a book store that happened to carry the box set of 30 Mark 6 armored Space Marines. I put these together in record time and played them unpainted. My first ever match was against a friends Ork horde. With bolters blazing, my only hero, if he could be called that, was my lowly Sergeant. This Sergeant was able to withstand four, yes four, direct plasma cannon shots. He was soon promoted to Captain!

I can also recall watching a match between friends, when we bought our first Terminators. I watched as the Terminator squad assaulted a squad of Imperial Guard in close combat. Is it wrong to laugh out loud as the squad of five terminators were beaten? One even had the dishonor of being beaten in hand to hand with a combat knife. Ah the good ol days!!

VSpeck · June 2014

I was playing ManOWar with a pal and getting sorely trounced. It wasn't til half way into the game I noticed when he was moving his units he would place the range template on the table in a way that was allowing him to make sure his shots were in range before he declared them. Laughs all around.

Kalafax · June 2014

Best times were playing Warhammer 40k table top with friends, always ran with the Eldar, and I would always have a unit that I would later label the "Djibouti" unit because he would be the last one standing and I would roll multiple 5's and 6's with him slowly picking apart a whole unit while staying alive. My friends grew to few and loath him till this day.

TheOctagon · June 2014

I remember the first time I fired up THQ's original Dawn of War. Listening to Captain Gabriel Angelos passing out quotes as he waded into battle at my command. 'Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.' 'There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.' 'Burn the heretic. Kill the mutant. Purge the unclean.' 'Walk softly, and carry a big gun'.

These and a myrid of other by the supporting characters, especially the Chaplain screaming 'NONE CAN WITHSTAND OUR FAITH!' 'The Librarian saying 'An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded' Got me fired up and made the game much more personal for me. When my marines died, I made sure to clean out Chaos bases and gates wherever they were found, down to the last Khorne Berzerker, Prince and Marine. None were spared my wrath.

I've owned and played every game since then, and read a few of the books 'The Horus Heresy' series which I really enjoyed. I'm crossing my fingers that you will make the world of Warhammer 40,000 feel as personal to me now, as it was to me back then.

BrotherBelial · June 2014

My favourite moment in 40k comes from playing a tabletop game. My friend had sisters of battle and I was playing Dark Angels. On one particular turn I shoot at one of his heroes, making 3 wounds on her, he could not save them, except with his invulnerable save that the character had, but he needed to get a 6 on the three of them. What chances are getting 3 6s right? He rolls, and would you know, he gets the THREE 6s!! We had to stop for a couple of minutes because of how much we were laughing and took a picture of the whole moment, unfortunately for him, the hero still eventually died, but the fact he got those invulnerable saves on that precise time gave him the moral victory (I still got the technical victory at the end), so those particular moments are quite quite hilarious while playing tabletop.

Dulu · June 2014

When I was 12-14, I used to play Warhammer 40k at my local Games Workshop, which happened to be at the popular outside mall in Baltimore, Maryland. On weekends, this Mall was also the hang-out for the "cool kids" who would shop or "hang out" or whatever else it was they were doing - basically just loitering around the mall.

Anyway, I was nerding it up, playing my Chaos Space Marines on a Friday night.. and in walks the hottest girl from my school. Her name was Lisa. She recognizes me from school, and I'm already embarassed - but she is really cool and acts like she's interested. I show her my stuff, walk her around the GW store, and explain what it's all about. I'm confident, passionate, and try to be funny and act cool about it all. I explain that I'm really into the painting aspect, and that I like to convert models, and do sketches in my art book - which I also showed her. Mostly sketches of borderline naked Dark Elf (Fantasy), Dark Eldar (40K), and some Chaos/Daemon stuff (super tense, scary moment when she took the book and started flipping through it.. I contemplated taking it back but figured "Oh well, roll the dice......."). You know, the stuff most teen boy wanna-be artists draw, I imagine. Turns out, she loves art and sketches stuff herself. Lots of high fantasy related stuff, Elves, unicorns, and the lot. You know, chick stuff.

This one meeting, this one time she took a chance and walked into a GW populated with a bunch of sweaty neck-beards playing with minature figures.. created a friendship that lasted for a long, long time. We ended up going to prom together, and going to the same college. We ended up breaking up after freshman year of college.

Anyway, in a strange twist of fate. I met my first love through Games Workshop. Not really a "40k experience" in the sense that you're looking for, but I thought it was an experience worth sharing.

The chaos gods smiled on me that night. To this day, I am dedicated to Slaanesh, and in Eternal Crusade, will be slaughtering in his glorious name.

guy232 · June 2014

My greatest memory was when i was playing Dawn of war for the first time, keep in mind this was like the first go at people making 40k in true 3d. Blown away by it all. Though it was the orks, everythign from teh accents to the brutality. THAT is what made 40k so awesome for me. Your characters are brutal, but not so bright. Fight for the f***kin sake of fighting. Ork WAAGHs is where its AT!

AbystanderAlpha · June 2014

So many wonderful Warhammer 40K moments to choose from, that it's hard to choose just one as a favorite.

A recent one was my first use of the jump pack for a 'death from above' maneuver in "Warhammer 40k: Space Marine" for the first time in the campaign, and obliterating a squad of orcs on impact.

ananit · June 2014

favorite experience ?

probably finishing the painting on my emperor's champion from the tabletop game. i didn't play templars back then but man do i love how this thing looks.

took me 2 weeks to finish it because i wanted it to be perfect.

LuthienRayne · June 2014

I remember watching others play the tabletop game, learning the strategies and wishing I had the money to buy an army...thankfully the computer games arrived!

Devvholic · June 2014

I haven't had a 40K experience sadly except for watching people play the tabletop game which is very exciting and fun to watch

. I do hope to win this giveaway though so I can delve into the universe!!

Melecon · June 2014

One of my greatest memories for Warhammer 40K was last stand. We had a group of 4 of us that would play constantly, switching in and out, for about 3 to 4 weeks. When we finally finished wave 20 no one really realized until it was done, that we survived. It was a glorious battle, and hoping to have many more in the Eternal Crusade.

ookibaka · June 2014

Playing Space Marine and a few other video games were fun but I really want to get into the table top armies. Once I get out of the desert, I plan on building Tau and Ork armies.

TheBlackWolf · June 2014

My favorite experience was actually playing against my brothers Dark Eldar army in the tabletop with my Ork force, he was running a group of dark eldar fliers and my lootas managed to shoot it down, the amazing part was the plane scattered and crashed into a nearby truck i had filled with boys. Then, in true Orky fashion my truck got a careen result on the dmg chart and drove straight into his dark eldar raider full of wytches i believe, and that caused his raider to explode(lots of rolling 6s for me that game). His raider took explosion took out half of his own squad and my boys mopped up the rest, was quite the epic moment!

SaviorsHand · June 2014

Honestly my favorite moment in Warhammer was hearing the Space Marine for the first time in the Dawn of War 1. The tone and rage. I wanted to be that guy. ONWARD! TO GLORY!

Datawarlock · June 2014

Best time with 40k was playing at Phoenix Games in Minneapolis overnights after the shop closed. Had a whole table fully decked out with modeled terrain covered in various hobby textures and paints, and a few of us space marines held out for 5 weeks against a necro invasion. I don't think I used a ruler as much in my entire life as I did moving my 4 man squad around lol.

Dauntis · June 2014

In all honesty I haven't had the opportunity to play 40k that much, but I still have a story. I can remember walking into my local comic and game shop, somewhere around 1996 and seeing a bunch of my friends around a massive table. The table itself was beautifully decorated with pock scarred battle field, cool little ruined buildings and trees... and the most awesome looking painted minis I had ever seen. I was so jealous, I watched the whole tournament with envy.

For months I attended tournaments and occasionally got the opportunity to play with store units, but I really wanted my own army to field. I couldn't really afford it, but luckily we had a pretty good community of gamers were I was. Occasional prizes for placing and a few hand me downs got me a decent set of orks and I repainted them picking up awards for my paints. It was a beautiful year until a flood took all my mighty orks to hell.

Oh well, as an artist I just love the detailed art and I will set for hours looking at online galleries of 40k art and painted figures.

FuriousDolphin · June 2014

When I won a small painting contest.

I won $50 for my Iron Warriors squad that I painted!

Ichmen · June 2014

all time best memory of 40k was picking up 3rd ED and bloodangels and playing against some of the more pro players at my old local rogue trader store and almost winning not only in the tourney they held twice (came in 3rd and 5th)

as well as winning 3rd in both painting contests for the old $15 dollar 5 man combat squad boxes

was alot of fun for a me as a kid back then, every saturday rolling dice lol

now if only GW would stop making all my armies invalid with rule updates/changes i could actually maybe get back in to playing the game owell forever stuck to playing the video games now days

undeadcat · June 2014

I'm a life-long Space Wolves player, so obviously hundreds of stories of Wolves running wild in close-combat. But my favorite single moment has to be a squad of 6 of my Space Wolves taking a hit each from some Tao fire, i pick up 6 dice, and drop 6 Ones. The crowd went wild. The sheer hilarity of circumstances like that is why I play tabletop games.

Franconstein · June 2014

My favorite experience was playing Chaos Rising with a friend, we had terrible internet connections at the time (3rd-world countries FTW), and we were trying to coordinate a mostly-stealth mission with incredible delay. We spent well over 4 hours on the mission alone and, many retries later, finally succeeded. It was a truly chaotic experience!

BaalTheFallen · June 2014

So there I was at a 40k doubles tournament with my buddy black magic, I'll let you guess his ethnicity and army. Backs again st the wall in the bottom of the 4th with my Blood Angels looking to make one last strike at the heart of the enemy. A lone squad of Sanguinary guard lead by Commander Dante streak up the left flank while, on wings of fire, a furioso librarian dreadnought takes to the skies to assault a red tide of Khorne flesh hounds. Fully aware that the K9 beasts couldn't take on the might of the Blood Angels dreadnought I felt confident in this decision. However mistakes where made as Skarbrand counters my dreadnought assault as if it where a simple game of tick tack toe. All hope for the mighty dreadnought was lost while my opponent roles dice at the other end of the table. Several hits where scored as. My hand reaches for the model as I'm sure he won't ever see the red sands of Baal again. Just then, by the grace of the Emperor, my opponent roles dice for penetration. Silence fell upon the table like snow on Christmas eve. Through the blows struck by the mighty Skarbrand stood tall the glory of a Blodgett Angels librarian dreadnought. It was at that moment I rolled 3 dice, 1 of which struck ferm. I roll to wound. Blood had fell upon the dreadnought force weapon. It came down to a single psychic check to drain Skarbrands remaining wounds. Two dice fell from my hand and took what felt like an eternity to land. Success! One last roll came between victory and death, deny the witch. One single dice came down from my opponents hand. One single dot apeared face up. The great Skarbrand hand been slain by the might and fury of the Blood Angels!
Greatest moment yet in my gaming gaming history.

Troydo · June 2014

Long time reader, first time poster, I even created an account for this! I love 40K I have been playing it for over 18 years! I Have played chaos/ khorne for most of that time. I love it so much I made a khorne bezerker costume that stands about 8 feet tall that I now use for raising money for charity. Here are some pics (I am am the one in red ) :