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Well I have been aware of 40K and Games Workshop for many years. When I first started role-playing (1988) GW still stocked RPG books, I've still got some Shadowrun books with Games Workshop price stickers on them. But as far as Warhammer went for many year I just played the Fantasy RPG, one fo the best RPGs ever. And recently I have bought and played Dark Heresy.

Since 2004 I had been collecting Star Wars Miniatures, hey I'm a Star Wars geek, but earlier this year WOTC cancelled the game. So I had some spare money and my mates from a local games club all had a 40K army. They talked me into it but by the time I decided I was going to join in their mini-league I had all of three weeks to get 1200pts ready. I had chosen to go with Orks and spent every evening one week doing nothing but assembling minis. I only had the minis undercoated in those first few games but had a blast playing. That was February 2010. I can easily field a 2000pt fully painted army now. And for a modelling noob I'm quite happy with how my painting has come along.

An English friend at the University. Then he left and I had an army but nobody to play. But this changed soon.

A combination of the Gaunts Ghost's books and the discovery of my dad's Eldar army.

first saw warhammer 40k when i was like 6 and i was at a pok'e'mon tourny at my FLGS when i saw the IG codex. Ever since then ive been reading the books and drooling over the lore and fluff of 40k for over a decade and now that i can finally afford to play im having a blast painting. Course i play IG because the first picture of 40k i ever saw was them in the trenches. lotsa win.

Short story: My boyfriend got me into it.

Long story:
I met my boyfriend online, in 2002, in the context of an improvised RPG (lacking official rules, and amongst a very small group of people) where his character was 40k-based and mine was created from a fusion of many years of reading fantasy books (a bit of Dragonriders of Pern, a bit of The Dragon Chronicles (Susan Fletcher)). I was introduced to a lot of fluff this way, and bought the three-volume pretty much pure-fluff books about Space Marines that was sold in my local HobbyTown (which I don't think carried models actually, as most don't back home. And said books are back home so I don't have their names on hand) I loved the fluff (though I did lean toward Chaos even then) but I didn't get to go back to HobbyTown because of the tyrannical grandmother I lived with.

A few years later, I got Dawn of War just for fun, and at that point I had looked at the armies and thought that Dark Eldar were the army for me because I wanted women in my army. I was upset when I couldn't find SoulStorm EVER in stock in any game store in my area. I was even more upset later when the one hobby store that stocks 40k stuff didn't stock Dark Eldar (not even a codex) because they were expecting a new codex *cough**cough*. I decided that I would pursue two armies, and that Dark Eldar would be my 'practice' so long as the look wasn't changed too much when new ones came out *cough* *cough*. Because my second army would require a lot of custom-modelling (I thought) because it would be an all-female Chaos army (because I read where someone referred to Chaos as "an equal opportunity employer"). [I didn't care for SoB because their hair was terrible and their faces look like drag queens at best, imho. And I felt they were PART of an army, not so much an army by themselves.]

About a year passed since my last trip to the FLGS, so I went in, boyfriend in tow, and inquired when they were expecting new Dark Eldar codex/models, and they said March 2010 (7 months away at the time), but my boyfriend wanted to help me assemble and paint SOMETHING before he left, because he bought me a rulebook for my birthday to get me into the game, so I picked up some SoB... This is where I started the assembly/painting stage. I put the sisters together (barely, with terrible liquid super-glue from wal-mart that kept spilling ALL over our hands, and with base slots that wouldn't take the metal tab that was supposed to go into them), and spray painted them at home, and painted them after my boyfriend had left. I decided I hated the metal models, and so I was at a loss as to what to do for 'practice' before my big endeavor with the "She-Marines," since I hadn't heard anything about the Dark Eldar happening before I wanted to have something playable. I had taken some pictures of the sisters I painted, and sent them to my boyfriend and he thought they were actually well-painted. On top of that, I was introduced to MiniWargaming.com, and they decided to have a Black Friday sale on Battleforces & codexes, and the only battleforce available of any army I wanted to play was Chaos. I shrugged and decided to, perhaps prematurely, embark on my big endeavor. I bought myself a battleforce, because I had some money from my scholarship left over and I wanted to make sure I got at least one.

I brought it with me out to visit my boyfriend for the first time, and we promptly went to his FLGS and picked me up a Chaos Codex and some greenstuff. I left his house before Christmas, after building just a few models, and beforehand I had shot an email to an aunt that likes to order things from magazines and the internet, regarding the awesome sale on MWG. To my surprise, she actually got me a Chaos Battleforce, and thus I had two! My boyfriend came out during his off-season and informed me I needed a HQ choice, and so I picked up a Demon Prince(ss). I picked up some Daemonettes as well, and worked on assembling things while trying to still get all my work done from a full schedule of 4000 level courses at my university. Once I came out to visit my boyfriend (now fiance) this time though, for the whole summer, I finally got a playable army, and now I'm playing against him (and losing), his friends (and...not really finishing), and now his little brother (and winning!).

Still have a little over half of one of the original Battleforces to assemble though...

For me...
My friend gave me a copy of WD313, which to this day i still possess. In this particular issue, the Dok Butcha's Convershun Klinic featured World Eater Terminators. Their sheer awesomeness was enough to get me into the hobby...

Hi Dakka Dakka!

A friend showed up one day with the first edition 40K Rogue Trader hard back and a box of the plastic space marines. I wasn't interested though, didn't like Science Fiction. But then another friend tried another tack. He showed me 'Slaves to Darkness' to appeal to my interest in Horror... I was instantly hooked. Imagine! Daemons in a sci fi game? I fell in love with Slaanesh and the Daemonettes, and that began my long off and on love affair with 40K.

---Dreg