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Title: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Master of Webways on May 8, 2008, 09:05:13 AM
My girfriend used to get annoyed with watching me playing warhammer all the time...

So she started so she could join in...

Now she's addicted :P

However... she's never had a female oppenent.

Does anyone else know if girls are into warhammer?
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: 666_Mutley_666 on May 8, 2008, 09:16:20 AM
at my local club there is almost 200 members, of that there are 4 girls one of which is married to the owner
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Master of Webways on May 8, 2008, 09:23:52 AM
Good to here. And wow 200 members?!
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: 666_Mutley_666 on May 8, 2008, 09:31:38 AM
yea its not all 40k tho they play about 20+ different systems down there, and has two different evenings, tuesdays for card players and thursdays for table top gamers
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: vendettaseve on May 8, 2008, 09:58:17 AM
Its a rare thing indeed. Usually its Girlfriends of people who play, and they arent usually very into it. Sometimes it works out well tho :)

Having said that why dont you just get her to get a few of her friends to play, loan your army out for learning :) good luck.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Xeal on May 8, 2008, 10:31:28 AM
Why By all that is holy and unholy, that of the material world and of that which be cybespace, do these topics keep repeating!

Somebody please create a 40k girls play sticky and stop the madness.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: pathfinder on May 8, 2008, 10:45:54 AM
Why By all that is holy and unholy, that of the material world and of that which be cybespace, do these topics keep repeating!

Somebody please create a 40k girls play sticky and stop the madness.
because for all time this has bothered many heck there was a WD article on it but yeah what is two of these a month?
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: NewHeretic on May 8, 2008, 01:03:25 PM
Now don't accuse me of being sexist, because I'm not.  I'm speaking in generalizations, not stereotypes.

The truth is that men and women are wired differently: physically, emotionally, and mentally.  By 'mentally', I mean that we tend toward different learning styles.  The learning styles include Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Spacial, Mathematical/Logical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and the newest one to be added, Natural.  Each of us tends toward one or more of these as the best way in which we learn, but in general, men tend more toward logical thinking than women do.  (I'm a teacher, by the way.)

Wargames are tactical, strategic, mathematical games that require lots of logical thinking.  This is not something that most women are naturally drawn to, so they don't tend to be interested in these types of games.  There are always exceptions.  That's the nature of a generalization -- it is true in most cases, not in all.

That's why I don't worry that my wife finds such games mind-numbingly boring and thinks they're childish.  I feel the same way about sewing and scrapbooking.  That doesn't make either of us wrong, just different in our personal preferences, which happen to fit the learning style generalizations well.

NewHeretic
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: SpetZoo on May 8, 2008, 02:09:25 PM
My girlfriend usually fries my poor orks with her plasma heavy Dark angels army.  ;D
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Banned Solorg on May 8, 2008, 04:28:59 PM
I don't know what you're talking about.  Girls tend to love 40K.  I mean, what's not to like?  If you are a girl, you tend to like guys.  And lots of guys play 40K.  So therefore logic dicktates that girls also love 40K.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: NewHeretic on May 8, 2008, 05:08:52 PM
I don't know what you're talking about.  Girls tend to love 40K.  I mean, what's not to like?  If you are a girl, you tend to like guys.  And lots of guys play 40K.  So therefore logic dicktates that girls also love 40K.

Ahh.  And there's the flaw in your logic, my friend.  Girls, generally speaking, don't think logically.   :D

NewHeretic
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Catachan Devil Sniper on May 8, 2008, 06:39:12 PM
My 14 year old sister who is a prep (kind of girl you see in American Eagle ads) plays Space Wolfs with Inquestion. She 'NEEDED' a girl commander somewhere in her army so I bought her a Witch Hunter Inqustor. She got into it becuase of watchin my playing DOW and Firewarrior and I think she liked this one guy her age who plays...but shes hooked. Her army is 1250 pts of SW and 300 pts of Witch Hunters.

And my girlfriend plays also. She plays her own custom made Space Marine chapter called 'The Iron Hawks'. She teams up with my sis and faces me all the time. To tell the truth...I met her one time at GW...she walked in by mistake and well it sparked we can say :D
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Lorizael on May 8, 2008, 06:52:31 PM
Christ on a stick! not this one again. This thread comes up every few months and yes, there are some female gamers out there.

The Search function is so under used on this forum...
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: NewHeretic on May 8, 2008, 08:46:05 PM
Christ on a stick! not this one again. This thread comes up every few months and yes, there are some female gamers out there.

The Search function is so under used on this forum...

Well, if you don't enjoy participating in such discussions, no one is requiring it of you.  And using the Search Function for this kind of an issue will only get a poster accused of Threadromancy, which is against forum rules.  If it comes up that often, it is obviously a topic which players enjoy discussing and, because of its subjective nature, no consensus can ever be assumed to have been reached, so the appropriate way to discuss it is to begin a new thread every once in a while in which anyone interested can voice their opinion.

Or were you just being facetious?   ;D

NewHeretic
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: BudgieGuard on May 8, 2008, 10:44:22 PM
Residents get sick of seeing the same old questions/threads.
Terms like; "Using the search feature." and "Threadromancy." are what residents use to establish to someone bringing something back.

It's not a bad thing.
Move on and have your conversation.


Also, my girlfriend is into 40k, more than me.
Damn her Slaanesh army.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Andro Ist Keine Schwedischen on May 8, 2008, 10:52:39 PM
Thing is, there's another similar thread that's still on the front page of this very board.  There always is. 

Hense why we get bored of seeing them, again and again.

And really, I'm sure it's not too hard to see the obvious answer.  Most women do not like 40k.  Just like most men have no interest in nail vanish.

~Andromidius
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: NewHeretic on May 8, 2008, 10:59:57 PM
Thing is, there's another similar thread that's still on the front page of this very board.  There always is. 

This is a very valid point and, because of it, I agree in this case.  But, generally speaking, I've learned to just skip over threads I'm not interested in.  Maybe that's why I haven't reached 5,000 posts yet.   :D

NewHeretic
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Da_Moose on May 9, 2008, 03:34:34 AM
may i just point out that id say about 80% of girl players play SOB, not really to do with the topic
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Banned Solorg on May 9, 2008, 10:14:05 AM
Lots of guyz like this sort of topic because it includes both of their favorite interests in life - girls and 40K (not necessarilly in that order)
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Bert_the_Turtle on May 9, 2008, 11:54:26 AM
Lots of guyz like this sort of topic because it includes both of their favorite interests in life - girls and 40K (not necessarilly in that order)

I think its more like... Bird Watching. We get to report on sightings of the rare Female Double Breasted Wargamer and can compete for who has the most and best sightings on their life list.



Ok, I admit I deserve a smack upside the head for that one.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: cabie22 (Thread-Jacker) on May 9, 2008, 12:43:11 PM
man i feel like you guys are lucky to have girlfriends who will play warhammer with you!  Mine will play video games with me (except for Halo  >:( ) and sometimes paint my models with me, but she would never pick up the measuring tape and dice.... ever!
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: vendettaseve on May 9, 2008, 04:03:27 PM
Ok, I admit I deserve a smack upside the head for that one.

You deserve a trophy for that one I think.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Snike on May 9, 2008, 04:29:56 PM
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You deserve a trophy for that one I think.
I second.

My sis is this "unlogical" kind of girl and she gets fed up pretty fast with stuff such as playing 40K, which require thinking of tactics and probability. She, along with my brother, whatsoever is into 40K, though more into fluff, fancy pics in the books, painting and collecting some of the cute/cool models. And Khorne. Yes. Khorne. She has like five models at the moment: a Krootox, Ahriman, Khorne Lord and a themed CSM to accompany the last two.
On the other hand, my ex-girlfriend was not interested in 40K in any way except in the "wow cool creatures/sci-fi soldiers!"-way.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: eldoriath on May 10, 2008, 09:08:42 AM
I go by the golden throne (the web comic) theory:
Girl gamers are simply a myth. Some claim to have seen them, but it has never been able to be prove it.
And remember:
If you do find one (assuming they do exist), never try to start a "relationship" with them, since this will lead to less gaming time and less money for models since the girl gamers are assumed to make you support their gaming time and buy models for them instead.

On a serius note though:
In my gaming area there seem to be almost no 40k girl gamers, the one i know has been drawn in by her boyfriend, but there seem to exist more on the fantasy side though. Not many, just a some few, but more then in 40k at least.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Andro Ist Keine Schwedischen on May 10, 2008, 10:35:50 AM
I don't see why anyone would want to mix their hobby with their girlfriend.  Shared interests are all well and good, but you need somewhere to hide when you've had a falling out.

Otherwise things can get awkward.

~Andromidius
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: St.Germaine on May 13, 2008, 12:33:18 PM
Ok, I admit I deserve a smack upside the head for that one.

You deserve a trophy for that one I think.

I have agree, in spades!

I disagree with the comment that most females who play 40k play SoB.  I think that this is a generalization that most guys want to believe.  "they're girls so they'll want to play girls in the game"  While my sampling is by no means broad enough to make any generalizations (4 female players since I started playing back in 40Kv2), only one of them plays SoB.  The others were 2 Eldar and a Marine.  I've met almost twice as many women who play WFB and over half play Elves of one type or the other so it doesn't surprise me that "Space Elves" are also popular with the ladies.  Even then all is not what it seems.  The SoB player is the fiancee of one of the guys in the group and has a 100% converted army with a Halloween/Undead theme.  It is spectacular!  I love playing with or against her.  The Marine army is also not what it seems.  I've been playing for a very long time and my wife, while a long time gamer as well, has never been very interested in 40K.  She's joked about "Barney" marines from time to time and finally quit joking.  She said that if I painted them for her, she'd play.  So now I'm working on my next army and some purple and green marines that will be "Barney" marines to her and the Imperial Claws to me.  ;)
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Cripple, Whose Corporeal Form is Now a Shade of Blue on May 13, 2008, 02:02:32 PM
Just thought I might inject this interesting piece of into this conversation

As stated in the statistics for this forum, the male to female ratio currently stands at 118.8:1

There are 30261 members...
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Banned Solorg on May 13, 2008, 02:29:23 PM
So women are less than one percent of the hobby.  But that 1% does add up, doesn't it?

Maybe more girls play Dungeons and Dragons.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Andro Ist Keine Schwedischen on May 13, 2008, 06:54:16 PM
I doubt it very much.

But remember, that's 118.8:1 of members that have declared their sex.  And I know for fact several males members have selected female instead just to confuse people.

~Andromidius
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Terro on May 13, 2008, 07:06:02 PM
Probably the reverse is true as well. Some people aren't excepting of the fact that women play video games/wh40k/ are on the internet and so on. I've seen people declare they are female in many online games and see them get alot of crap in return
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: vendettaseve on May 13, 2008, 07:24:43 PM
Probably the reverse is true as well. Some people aren't excepting of the fact that women play video games/wh40k/ are on the internet and so on. I've seen people declare they are female in many online games and see them get alot of crap in return

I like to say Im a sexy girl on MMOs cuz then stupid guys are like "I R SEE U TIT? HRE HAV 10000000000 GOLD" lol then once they give me the gold I tell them they are losers and go off to buy new armor :D haha

But really I think alot of girls most likely dont declare that they are female just to avoid any potential harassment, most guys are pigs, and with the anonymity of the internet you can say or do anything that you normaly could not do in person.

Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Zeek on May 13, 2008, 10:40:08 PM
Lots of guyz like this sort of topic because it includes both of their favorite interests in life - girls and 40K (not necessarilly in that order)

I think its more like... Bird Watching. We get to report on sightings of the rare Female Double Breasted Wargamer and can compete for who has the most and best sightings on their life list.



Ok, I admit I deserve a smack upside the head for that one.

I lol'ed.  I have a girlfriend who plays WH40k with me.  She uses Tau and I use Nids.  When/if she goes on forums that are about games, tabletop/computer/console what ever, she always sets her sex status as either blank, or male to avoid getting harassed by people, and usually chooses a more manly name.  Sir Striker was her gamer tag on a lot of MMO's she's played just to avoid people.  We're lucky in the fact that our gaming community where we live see's a lot of female gamers, D&D, MTG, WHF and WH40K.  The girls are usually brought into the hobby via their boyfriend or brother ect.  I usually only see more mature girls aswel, age 17+ and I've only seen one girl under the age of 17.  You guys can take from that what you will.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Xodiac on May 14, 2008, 12:18:37 AM
I don't know what you're talking about.  Girls tend to love 40K.  I mean, what's not to like?  If you are a girl, you tend to like guys.  And lots of guys play 40K.  So therefore logic dicktates that girls also love 40K.

It's interesting you mention that because there are two reasons I hear from women I know as to why they have no interest in 40k/warhammer. First, they just have no desire to play army men, which this is just an advanced version of. Second, most guys who they see playing it are totally off-putting. Women aren't attracted to all men. Crazed loonies who yell and scream at dice are not attractive. Nor are arrogant tossers telling you how awesome they are (you need to be a sports star to do this guys, because then you look good, or be rich) at ordering around plastic/metal men. Seriously, a lot of women I know have been in a GW store once, and only once, and won't go back. My wife refuses to go in there even with me, she hates the place because of the people in there. And women are very good at word of mouth advertising, so what do you think her friends who haven't been in one think about GW stores?
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Quantum on May 14, 2008, 07:28:17 AM
Girls \ women just don't like these types of games and never will.

However, while this may be frustrating for you younger players (you know who you are, you frustrated teenagers with too much testosterone!), I personally enjoy the fact this part of life is blissfully free of female influenece. And that's probably 'cos I'm older than most of you and enjoy my gaming time with my equally older buddies!!  ;D

Quantum

PS No part of this post should be taken too seriously  :-*
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: BudgieGuard on May 14, 2008, 08:03:31 AM
But really I think alot of girls most likely dont declare that they are female just to avoid any potential harassment,

Something my friend knows all too well online on GW related websites.
She poses as a boy on a Slaanesh website and strains very hard to maintain a character she invented.
Every now and then people find out and the cycle starts all over again.
Note to girls: Just don't even mention it even if you want 10000000 gold it aint worth it.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: BrotherCaptainRace on May 14, 2008, 09:28:41 AM
Quote from: -Blood Archon-
My girfriend used to get annoyed with watching me playing warhammer all the time...
Why did she sit around watching you play?  How'd you work that out in the first place?

I think my wife would rather undergo painful dentistry than sit around watching me play 40K.  In fact, she's never even seen me play aside from the one time I showed her how to play with a small 500 pt game (just us two).
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: premetheus on May 14, 2008, 11:32:23 AM
this is the most replied to thread in the Noob section...New Girl Alert! lol this is why few women play...
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: vendettaseve on May 14, 2008, 04:51:27 PM
this is the most replied to thread in the Noob section...New Girl Alert! lol this is why few women play...

Haha that reminded me of something.

That New Girl Alert post was like a small squad of Tau Fire Warriors standing next to a forest. Then a giant squad of GeneStealers comes running out, All armed with Pork Sword's. Get me? lol
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Wolf14016 on May 14, 2008, 05:02:36 PM
While I know some girls that play or are interested in playing, for the most part I've never seen it hold their interest. Why? Probably the same reason I would rather stick rusty icepicks under my fingers then go shopping for anything but groceries. Just gender differences.

Doesn't bother me. Now, the girls (or men, for that matter) who are actively hostile towards the hobby, that's a different story.

Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: IGBunker (-Hela - Finnail-) on May 14, 2008, 05:23:09 PM
well i also play LOTR and we have 2 girls playing with us. Well one now as one moved down to TO but u get the point.

With 40k, ive NEVER seen a female player. Ive seen a GF play confrontation with this guy but no 40k players.

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the girls (or men, for that matter) who are actively hostile towards the hobby, that's a different story.


Yeah thats one thing, im currently in high school and you dont dare tell anyone what u do. this girl im "friends" with was asking what i do in town.."Im hanging out with friends" is my answer. Its just somthing us gamers have to fear i guess :'(.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Lochland on May 14, 2008, 06:04:04 PM
I know 4 girls who play warhammer and they always seem to do cute things like goblins or Elves 0_o

And by the way they're all girlfriends off warhammer players lol Mine included =)
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Faith on June 25, 2008, 07:56:54 PM
Well, alotta guys scare girls away...but not deliberatly. I went to a GW and i swear...i was swarmed by men. It's like...erm...is seeing a girl in GW such a rare sight? Alotta girls would rather spend their money on other things but then again, so would alotta guys. Just...everyone is different, some girls like playing the game, others don't.
Title: Re: Girls and Warhammer
Post by: Dux Aurelius Elysius on June 25, 2008, 08:00:39 PM
It's like...erm...is seeing a girl in GW such a rare sight?

Frankly yes :P  And as the last post in this thread was a month and a half ago I'm going to lock it, before we get another three pages of men responding on account of a girl having posted.