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buddy of mine who played 40k when he was in highschool came across warmachine, the first or second year it was out.
He talked another friend of mine into getting a battle box, and they talked me into picking one up.
Played a few games, enjoyed myself, picked up a few more things for the army, played for a year or so.
Then, for a year or so i about stopped playing, being rather to busy with my classload at college and life in general.

Then, back last august or so, a buddy of mine payed me to paint his necron army, and while painting i read the fluff in the codex, got interested in the 40k universe, looked online at the models/ fluff, and decided I liked the feel/look of orks. Picked up a box of boys and some on sale bikers, and since then i've been gotten back into wargaming, while getting out of magic the gathering and most video games

My friend "bequested" me his 2nd ed. Beakie Marines, with all their original fluff... the "Toxic Angels". I wanted to make it playable with todays rules (4th ed), but keeping as true to his vision as possible.

Intro to wargaming: Grandad. He was a napoleonics player (with the big 54mm pieces). Huge games.

First started playing in the 80s with Battletech and WW2 in HO (the WW2, that is. We played BT in 1/72 ). That lead to moderns in HO, and then 40k got made.

40k was probably the 5th SF miniatures game I'd played (at that time).

Actually I should probably change to walked into a store. Then I went online and I was so fascinated by the IG I had to start. I wanted to paint originally then I made a friend at the store when I was buying and he ran a forum. Then I got addicted.

Saw some BattleTech books next the D&D books at the gaming store.

Clthomps wrote:Other.


Battle Masters by Milton Bradly! (models by citadel)




I love this game! to bad the expansions never made it to the states.

I've played that too
But I was introduced by my uncle

One summer I was working at the CNE flipping hamburgers in the building with the cars (not the Automotive building...it's Canada, it doesn't have to make sense) and in the next building where I'd hide and smoke at break time there were some folks selling 40K stuff and GW stuff amongst other hobby items. They had a guy there painting named Mike, who at the time was super awesome. I had already been into Tamiya and 1/35th stuff for a while, but now I could paint and play with my models. Right fethin' on.

Those people opened a shop later that year in Toronto and I went and bought stuff and met other teenage outcast/nerd/misfit types and we all became quick friends. The shop closed eventually because of piss poor management and the husband wife team that opened it made off with everyone's stuff that was in the cabinet. But then a GW opened in Toronto on Queen Street and that Mike guy was the first manager. By that time I was hooked.

I love science fiction, and got started with 40k by picking up a copy of the "SW Omnibus." Immediately started buying all the 40k fiction I could get my hands on, and from there picked up up the Battle for Macragge box. The rest is history

I walked by the store and went in and saw the guys playing Epic and I was hooked. When GW started favoring 40K over Epic I stared playing that.

My brother was playing PanzerBlitz when I was 7. He said it was too long a game and gave it to me. I haven't looked back since.

I walked past a store when I was 12 and they had just released the LOTR range. Moved over to fantasy and 40k after that.

I, my friends, happened into this glorious hobby when I saw the minis in a Games Workshop store situated at the back of a large mall.

I spent a good ten minutes groveling over the display cases before I even went into the store. They had an Apocalypse Ork army complete with Stompas, a Mordor SBG army, a CSM tread army complete w/ five Rhinos, and a slew of other things I don't remember.

Now, I had a good forty-five bucks burning a hole in my pocket. I had made that money selling off some old Legos, and I figured, heck, why not spend it? Then I went in, grabbed up a box of Space Marine Termies, saw the price, and then saw the fine print....

These miniatures are supplied unassembled and unpainted.

At that point in time, roughly 2 years ago, I was crushed. At that point in time I thought it would be anything but fun to paint a 28mm miniature. Grimacing, I set it back down on the shelf, and then saw an employee giving a painting lesson to a ten-year-old at the nearest table. I thought, heck, I might just ask for a lesson. Now this ten year old was good--far better than I was when I first started. He did better in his first lesson than I did. But I thought, heck, this is fun. So I ended up buying the Mines of Moria painter set, with the 12 goblins & 6 starter paints. I had a blast, painting them all in 2 days (to a beginner standard, of course )

I was hooked from then on. About 8 months later I started selling LOTR sets painted on Ebay, and was even more hooked, because their was MONEY to be had in this hobby . The first 40k set I ever purchased was a box of Cadian Shock Troops & a Cadian Heavy Weapons team. I painted about half of 'em and then sold 'em at a loss. Bummer. Discouraged, I avoided 40k for the next year, until about 5 months ago, when I tried again with a Space Marine Commander. I spent about 5 hours on that sucker and sold him for $27.85. So a pretty good profit. However, there's more money to be had in selling LOTR, so now I buy 40k for display and, hopefully, gaming and LOTR to sell.

I do not plan on ever stopping this hobby. It's gotten to the point now where I would rather do painting/modelling than sit in front of the TV or play on my PC. But with the new PS3 my parents promised they would buy me for Christmas, that might soon change.... .

That's my story.

I got introduced to 40K by my elementary school principal!

when i was ten i was at a friends house and hid older brother had a nid army, necron army and a chaos space marine army... my first real experience was 3 years later when i was invited to play a easy game of assult on black reach.

i loved it ever since.

Kroeger: I got introduced to 40K by my elementary school principal!

Man i wish i had pricipals that were that cool, my HS pricipal is a nazi

Ill admit i was hooked when i saw the box art for DOW winter assult and then bought assult marines and and some of those "quick assembly" marines, i went on to get AOBR and then some Cadians, and that was just last year

My dad had tried to get me into sports and that wasn't working, so he got me Heroquest (the MB games version) which I loved playing, then he bought Warhammer 40k (2nd Ed) when I turned 10 and then things grew naturally from there. I was a bit of a hobby loner as a kid, painting models and playing with them more like plastic soldiers than models in a wargame (we lived in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere, Lincolnshire), so it wasn't until I went to University that I started actually playing games against people.

Through WHFRP. first edition.

Almost all of the above.

I was introduced by good friend and fellow dakkite, Tim the Biovore, who let me have a look at one of his White Dwarfs at school about a 14 months ago today.

A mate of mine played 2nd edition, and I pretty much found out about it all from there. I painted a few marines in Space Wolf Grey before the 3rd ed wolf codex came out, and then developed them into a fully fledged army, which unfortunately I eventually sold most of.

Nowadays I play Orks, Eldar, Space Marines, and I am finally putting my wolf pack back together. Just sold all my Skaven to buy more Killa Kans!

I actually got into Wargamming by playing the game Fire Warrior, the 2003 Playstation 2 game

I started while I was going through my Lord of the Rings craze, so you can see where I started.

About 3 years ago I played Starwars Minis for a while, but got bored of it due to the lack of customization available.

I've wanted to play 40k for a while now, but couldn't find anyone to play with. Then about 2 months ago one of my friends bought the Assault on Black Reach starter set, so I said "YAYZ" and bought it as well. Which led to a battle between two half painted armies (he was Orks, I was marines) which sorta ended in a tie somehow. And then after the battle we figured out we had done the Assault phase completely wrong.

That friggin Rule book is confusing!

This is kind of an old thread, and while looking through the last two pages I noticed that in my post I said I was still waiting for my Dad to play. As of a month and a half ago he started a necron force. He now has 1500 built and we've played a game every week or two.

Hero Quest.

Well I used to smoke and sometimes the only way to quit a vice is to replace it with another one...so I started wargaming.

Walked past a hobby store a and was attracted to marines. Then I was at a party at one of my parents friends houses. Their son had DoWC, so I played that for a bit as Guard (LOVED the basilisk). Walked past a hobby store another hobby store (Same GW, its closed now). Two years after THAT, I bought DoW platinum edition. Six months after THAT purchase, I walked out of the Seattle bunker with the 4th edition starter set (thing sucked), and the rest was history. Took GW six years to real me in.

Back when I was in 5th grade and I did absolutely NOTHING but WoW meh dad suggested it as a way to do something else
Now I'm trying to find something else to do besides this

When I was in 6th grade I went over to my buddy's house and one of his wrestling friends had the Battle for Macragge box. Ever since then I've loved 40k.

I got into Warhammer when a friend of mine was playing with some little metal toy soldiers. I told my mum that I wanted some too, so she took me to GW and bought me some LOTR. It all developed from there really.