Cool, what tricks you used to make her curious? My girlfriend only roll with her eyes
Well in all honesty she is pretty much open minded. She was slightly into boardgames when we met, and is now playing them like a regular nerd. And she had been asking questions about miniature wargaming to try to understand what I was doing with my buddies, "how does it work, how do you determine what happens".
But in the end it was the theme and gamestyle of Empire of the Dead, gothic horror, that sold it. I could probably sell her similar skirmish games with a fantasy/apocalypse twist but I know she hates sci-fi and would be frustrated if she had to push around blocks of miniatures in formation. I told her that once the basics of wargaming are learnt (moving, rolling dice, deducting results after modifiers etc) then she will be able to pick up and learn most wargames henceforth since the basics are pretty much similar in all of them.