Group Traditions - Warhammer 40K

The tradition that I did was Warhammer 40K.  I really did not think about this to be a tradition at first, but after doing this there are most definitely elements of it being a tradition.

The tradition is every Thursday night at Game On I play Warhammer 40K with a group of friends.  It never fails, every Thursday night we meet and play our game until the cows come home, usually ending from midnight to 3 a.m.  Now, to me I really didn't think of it as a tradition, more of a friends getting together and playing a game, nothing more.  We started about 2 years ago and have been going ever since, obviously stopping during the holidays but starting back up afterwards.

The group that plays with me are three good friends, myself and some other that come in every now and then.  Most of the time it is Luke, Alex, and myself that play every Thursday night.  Friendly games are what we usually play, but every now and then when the people show up we get some tournaments going.  Luke plays Tau, Alex plays Space Wolves, and I play Dark Eldar.  The following pictures are of the Tau army and Space Wolves respectively, unfortunately I do not have any pictures of my own army.

The origin of this tradition is mutually agreed on, we found each other at the same place at different times, Luke and Alex found it first and I came in after I went there while waiting for a movie to start, found that they were playing and we all agreed that Thursday nights would be the best because that was when we could all meet together.

This tradition is practiced mainly for human interaction, as well as playing a game that we love to play.  I say human interaction because it allows us to interact with each other outside of a school, or work setting and because it is the only place in the area with large enough tables and terrain adding another dimension to the game.

This tradition definitely gives us a group identity, we are a bunch of guys that play Warhammer 40K and have become known as "The Warhammer Guys," but it also adds to the identity because a lot of vocabulary we use is unique to the game, and quite a few of jokes that are thrown out will be understood only if you play the game.  Such as the opening picture!  But more than that it makes it feel as if we are our own group within the society around us.
Some instances of the different kind of humor that wouldn't be understood by people that don't play the game.