Wii~~~~ WARHAMMER!

Big bro got us a Wii last Saturday, i was expecting it to be boring and true in most circumstances.

But usually the first few days of playing excessively will be due enjoying a new experience since i never played games that require moving the remote control in any possible imaginable.

I think the excitement will pass in a few more weeks i guess, but for some reason it fuels my passion for tabletop wargaming even more. The more i play the Wii, the more i think about strategies and what not.

Maybe originally i wanted to influence my bros to play tabletop wargaming instead. Which playing Wii reminds me of how better the other one is albeit more time consuming.

Sorry if the readers have no interest in things like this and surely find it hard understanding why i rather prefer moving miniatures around on a big table instead of waving the Wii-mote around. But then again how many loyal readers of mine plays games more often than the average person?

Understanding one's liking is impossible if one does not share the same view but how about this, to agree to disagree. In a way, it's like i don't understand why fans of boy/girl bands such as Super Junior and G-Generation, go to extremes to buy expensive albums, concert tickets, posters and all sorts of ways to support their idols; similarly i don't understand why otakus go to extremes to watch animes, worship voice-actor idols, collect figurines and whatever acts the society would deem 'inappropriate and unnatural'.

From the above paragraph, am i able to establish a 'mutual understanding' amongst us? Simply, we all love something, to even an deep emotional level, hence we're not so different when we think about it.

With that said, i would like to know more about my readers and perhaps the blogs i follow, encourage you to express your love for something so extreme that the average joe would not understand. Give your reasoning to that passion of yours; this post is merely to tell the world why you love whatever that you do and would sacrifice for it to happen.

I was struggling to understand this as i tried to influence my brothers to like what i love to do but at the end i found out this is not possible, because everyone has their likings and more importantly their dislikes and accept the way how it should be.

Nevertheless, here's (although not as passionate as any true fan would be)  why i passionately love Warhammer 40,000.

People around me, due to the rarity of the game being popular in Malaysia, would only know for a fact that it's some lame-ass table game that consumes so much time and space to play once that you rather play real games. That statement,  how far is it true is how far an average person sees it.

I would like to make it clear, it's not merely 'a game' through the eyes of an experience player, it's much more than that. Before i even contemplated in playing the tabletop version of the game, i only knew it when playing the pc versions of it and to be honest, it's not because the game was fun, but rather i found the story to be interesting, even though i do not know the main story of it at that time and i only knew the humans i was playing as were super-powered beings that can kick any ass in the universe.

Soon of course, around the time i started to get to know Marcus better, i found out he was also familiar with the pc version of it and told me there was more to just the story in the game. I found out the Warhammer 40k universe was much more larger in scale than i thought, amongst so many alien species, the Space Marines had the most impressive plot i ever seen, if you want to learn more about it, here's Wikipedia's summary of it. But basically, the main story is about a man during the year 30,000, only had been known to be referred as the Emperor among the space marines while worshipped as a God by humans, who had conquered all humanity and left it protected by 8-feet tall genetically modified super humans when he was mortally wounded by one of his generals called Horus during the "Horus Heresy".

I'm not going to go any further because the story gets deeper and expands even more. To add even more, there even plots for other alien species too. But anyways, after researching a bit on my own, Marcus lent me his novels when he saw the spark in me, literally, and it burnt ever so brightly after i read them. To be honest, it's really the novels that got me going, i never read other kinds of novels before but these books definitely caught my attention, my imaginations was over-flowing, i never thought reading books could stimulate my brains to imagine, if i would say why is that the authors had done a really good job in describing each and every scene. From the bloody fights, the dark-grim worlds and the snappy dialogues between persons, you can easily see a video playing in your mind as you read it.

Maybe i'm sounding too exaggerative but that's really how i feel when i read them. I'm judging all through my reading of my first novels, although i have read stories, it's not the same at all.

Reading the books was the last step for me to get into wargaming, but for you information, before i fully read the books, Marcus did mentioned about the tabletop version, yet at that time, i was still inclined to start playing, probably because i was i thought it was just a game, a boring and slow game, and yet i'm where i am now, miniatures filling my table.

The real main purpose, of wargaming, is that i crave to understand more about the WH40K universe, each battle lets me understand more how the different beings fight, i see my army grow each time i assemble my miniatures, each time i paint my miniatures, i bring life and story into them.

One last thing i like to say about is that i'm able to meet all sorts of people when i go and play, either to make friends or enemies, it's always nice to know someone shares the view and understands what wargaming is all about.

So to conclude and rephrase again, wargaming is not just a game nor is it just about collecting miniatures, it's literally a passion in life.

Thank you for taking your time to understand a bit more about this side of me, hopefully come to accept it too.