What do I love about 40k?
First, painting the models. (After that, I'm fond of the sentence fragments.) I've been seeing these amazing looking models put on display in game stores for as long as I've been going to them. Since I've been in high school I've looked at the things going 'Damn, those are nifty. I wish I could do that.' I finally had a chance to try my hand at it this summer between finishing school and getting a job. I could've gone with a more affordable game, but I've had Warhammer waved in front of my face for so many years... there's just a special feel to it.
Second, I've enjoyed the game itself as many times as I've had to play it. I enjoy the fairly straightforward 'beer-n-pretzels' rules. It's nice to not have to sit at a table with 4 other geeks and try to figure out how to out strategerize everybody else. I enjoy mental acrobatics as much as the next guy... but it's nice to just try and blow the living crap out of anything that blinks.
Finally, the forums over here give me plenty of stuff to read while I'm twiddling my thumbs at work waiting to be assigned some projects that take more than an afternoon to finish.
