Christian and Warhammer

External Since: Sep 23, 2006 Posts: 2

I am a young christian not physically. I began playing the table top
game warhammer 40k. I have started looking through the rulebooks and
noticed that their are a lot of references to demons and such. I refuse
to play an army that has demons or can use them. But is is wrong to
play the game at all. I play the necrons but i am thinking about
switching to Dark Eldar. But after reading through the dark eldar codex
I see that references models called incubi and succubus which are sort
of demons. I do not want a flame war just some opinions.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated thanks.

External Since: Jul 23, 2006 Posts: 10

glacius.cold DeleteThis @gmail.com wrote:
> I am a young christian not physically. I began playing the table top
> game warhammer 40k. I have started looking through the rulebooks and
> noticed that their are a lot of references to demons and such. I refuse
> to play an army that has demons or can use them. But is is wrong to
> play the game at all. I play the necrons but i am thinking about
> switching to Dark Eldar. But after reading through the dark eldar codex
> I see that references models called incubi and succubus which are sort
> of demons. I do not want a flame war just some opinions.
>
> Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated thanks.

Going with a simple arbitrary no-deamons rule, You could consider Space
Marines, Imperial Guard, Orks, Tyranids or Tau.

I find it somewhat contrdictory that you refuse to play an army that
might have daemons in it on spiritual grounds, but your current army
are basically undead robot monters, and the first new army you
considered was the Dark Eldar, the evil, hedonistic, pirates.
You feel you should reject the Dark Eldar because some of their troops
are named after demons, but not because their usual goal in battle is
to capture prisinoners to enslave or torture for their own sadistic
pleasure?

Do you have a problem with other gods? No one in 40k has ever even
heard of Jesus. The Orks worship Gork and Mork, the Eldar have a pagan
pantheon. The Necrons follow the C'Tan, the evil, powerful beings who
brought the fear of death to the eldar ages ago. One avatar of the
C'Tan is "the Deciever".

The Empire (armies include Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Witch Hunters
and Deamon Hunters) worships the Emperor. On the one hand, he is a
guiding, protecting light for the Imperium of Man. On the other hand,
they keep him alive by feeding the souls of thousands of psychics to
the Golden Throne his mangled, ancient corpse is sustained by.

I'm not really familiar with the Tau, but they don't use and demonic
forces. They seem to be some kind of pseudo-mytical communists. Someone
will probably jump in ot indignantly correct me, using harsh
invectives.

The Tyranids may be a little bit evil in character, but they are
basically just big bugs, who just want to eat everything.

-NEd