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Hi,
I thought it would be cool to have a thread so everyone can see how we got into the internet.

To get the ball rolling(I love this), I was introdued to warhmmer fantasy by Peter Stringfellows Grandson!, we were friend and I was about nine and he was painting dwarves, I aksed what they were, he told me, got me to go to GW and I got a leaflet thing, and he wanted me to play betonnian so I could play him and I got tactical marines...

So whats your story?

I frist started when I was very young, I was already playing MTG and D&DA (I was 10 at the time, and it was the only time Magic players where nice to me XD) And my old step father took me to a hobby shop for one of there event things for RPing and Magic, when we got there they where rapping up WHF games and I thought it was cool, I remember standing there for over an hour just watching the furry little rats (Scaven) bite and claw the crap out of the ugly looking lizards! Latter that night they had a question thing and a drawing so I ended up winning a few space marines from 2nd edition and three metal guys I think are guard, no clue what they really are. My old step father also got the starter box (all Orks) and we proceed to paint them, never really got to play back then because he was a lazy bastered and never wanted to play, when we moved I lost interest because I didn't have anything other then the few space marines and it took me a few years to get the time to figure out what it was and get back in to it.

Now I play Necrons and Orks as well as starting a Daemon army.

My FLGS had a few older jerks that played warhammer and had huge armies (they were an established club and didn't really like stooping to our level). This was at the time third edition was released but before the codexes. The models looked cool and it looked fun so between packs of magic we (I and a few friends) started picking up blisters and boxes here and there. I was thirteen or so I think. Fast foreword and I'm 21 now and other than a few breaks I still play.

i was lacking somthing to do, i walked into a gmes workshop thinking it was a computer game shop, got hooked for life

When I was 13 or so, my parents gave me a beginner paint set that came with a Knight, I think it was a Ral Partha set. That started a collection based mostly on Dragonlance and LotR -esque models. No gaming, just painting. I ended up creating diorama's for Book Reports for school with them.

Fast forward 10 years or so and I see the 40k 3rd edition starter box and am intrigued. My not-yet-wife urges me to pick it up and re-interest myself in "that miniature painting you used to do". Poof, I have a new hobby!

Back in 1990 I was 12 years old at boarding school and one of the guys in my dorm had RT and RBT01 marines and a DE WHFB army.

Another guy started playing eldar and HEs.

I got in with marines (BAs before there was anything unique about them), and started a dwarf army, soon followed by empire.

At the time I was playing in a D&D group, GMing my own D&D group, and we'd play boardgames or our mini games all weekend.

BATTLETECH, I was watching ROBOTECH on TV when I was in Junior High in the 80s, and in a mall game store I saw my first minis of the same subjects. Eventually I went to a CON to play BATTLETECH and thats where I saw my first plastic Beakie!

80s

Yeesh I'm old.

By gunpoint with no other option.


Some friends had some friends that played it. In college my friends started getting into it would talk about it a lot and it seemed interesting. I read some of the codex's and rulebooks then waited for the Angel of Death codex to be released and started a Dark Angels army. Basically they passed it along like a virus.

1/300 WWII simple tank battle at a mates house back in '79, I won so was hooked for life... First Citadel/GW soon after from a small shop that opened near me , it was a wizard in a little poly bag for AD&D. Then came Warhammer (still have my original set plus Forces of fantasy) then Rogue Trader as well as numerous other games such as Battledroids/Battletech...
Mick

Some friends over the road decided that when i was 8 i should look into this minatures thing that they did called Warhammer 40k, so i save my money for about 5 weeks and then go along to games workshop with them to pick up some stuff, I came out with a box of tactical marines, an imperial firebase (If anyone remembers them ) and a paint set and well i havent looked back since fast forward 12 or so years im still playing and have the armies listed below after going through several others before them

A friend invited me to play 40K. In hindsight with my current budget and inflation I should have taken up crack.

my oldest brother was into way back in RT. when i was a young kid (like... 8 or 9?) he would write up army lists and i would pick one to play. back when the psykers actually kicked MAJOR booty and it was more like a magic the gathering card game mixed with 40k. then when i was 16 and got a job, i thought "hey i should go and get my own stuff so we could play when he was home on leave" i bought CSM in 3rd edition and ive been crazy about it ever since

when i was 13 (5 year ago lol) my older brother brought me a box of marines for my birthday, since then ive been hooked.

I had picked up some models from a source I don't remember. I just enjoyed doing the odd model. These were odd, so there you go. Never knew it was about a game, just thought it was some established sci-fi universe.

Fast forward 3 years. Been off the models for a while, GF finds them in a closet. ASks if it is something I want to get back into. I mention evercrack and other life swallowers. Birthday comes and I have a new army. She had introduced herself up at the loacal gaming store by walking in and asking the dude behind the counter for a "40k bloody doughnut".

I've built models (airfix, revel stuff like that) for literally as long as I can remember, and when I was ten my mate brought a box of Dark Eldar into school and let me make one and keep it. Went to GW that weekend and got a paint set.

My scout leader got us BFM minus the nids and terrain for free.

Back in the day me and my friends had made up a "game" using a bunch of ral partha minis that we had just for fun and painting. Well, the "game" was wysiwyg, so one day I went into a store looking for new troops, and on the top of the blister wall were four boxes. These guys had MACHINE GUNS!!!!!! I figured even my buddies Dragons couldn't compete with mass amounts of firepower. All I had to do now was choose which of the four boxes to get. They were all the same price.(pretty much ALL my allowance) Well, I immedeately pushed the box that only had five guys to the side, as it only had five, and still the same price, and I didn't care for the off-white color scheme, even if their armor was a little cooler looking. Next, I decided to push aside the Blue ones. They looked the same as the other two, but just something about them didn't sit right. Well, after much deliberation, I decided on the ones in Gray. The Red was cool, but not only did the Gray ones look cooler, they had a WOLF emblem, and that sealed the deal!!!!

Boy were my friends SHOCKED the next time we played our "game."

Incedentally, due to what is now called "escalation" two of my friends went and picked up the Red and Blue boxes.


Well, over 15 years later, I still play Space Wolves, and my buddy still plays Blood Angels.

I liked dolls when I was about 5, then I met other kids and realized that dolls weren't a good thing to be playing with as a boy so I switched to more acceptable forms of toys then switched to minis when I outgrew exosquad and battletech toys.

I played D&D before I knew anything about miniatures, then I got the Battlesystem rules because we'd done some really big battles, with our PC's, their hired mercenaries and masses of monsters. I thought this might make the next such big battle go quicker, since playing a battle with a hundred creatures on each side with the full D&D rules SUCKS! I started collecting Ral Partha humanoids for battlesystem battles, and got my friends to play it also. It wasn't until second edition Warhammer that I was hooked on GW's brand of evil. That was when all you needed was the rule book, one army book and a plastic fishing tackle box full of badly painted miniatures. Man, when I discovered inks and drybrushing it was like when Homer Simpson went from 2D to 3D. Now with 5th ed., I kinda want to go back to 2D.

Like many boys, I used to build model kits and play with toy soldiers.

When I was about 13 I got some SPI board wargames. They added proper structure and rules to what was previously a game of "pew pew".

It wasn't long before I started buying lead figures to use in place of the game counters, which looked fairly dull. Then I got into RPGs and character figures. Everything was still small scale at this stage -- not many figures involved.

When I went to university I joined the wargame club where I was introduced to Ancients and other proper big battle games.

i started by one of my mates intorucing me to it, i didnt know at first which race to collect so he gave me fire warrior to play and that hooked me onto tau, but then bout 1 yr dont the track, i switched to Chaos Space Marines, oh yer.

BDA

I had a buddy in High school that had the Rogue Trader book but we never played a game. But a few
years later I was at College and at a local Game Convention where I saw Space Hulk being played..
After that I was hooked...Funny thing is I stared with Space Hulk, then collected Epic.. then 40k...
then Warhammer... Snow ball effect.

Heroquest broke my Duck, swiftly followed by Space Crusade.

The first proper game I dabbled in was Adeptus Titanicus, a game I still have the rules for, including Codex Titanicus, which introduced non-Imperial Titan Classes, and of course, the Warhound and Reaver class.

That game was great. Jump Pack on a Warlord? Why not....and lets not forget Warp Missile Tennis between two Titans both operating active Relay systems...To me, to you...to me..to you....to me...to arrrrrgh!

Got started on D&D when I was 11 and had played my first game of Epic (1st edition) by the end of the year with an Ork army.

A couple of years after, some guys introduced me to fantasy and I started an undead army 'cos it was cheap. Anyone else remember the old 'Skeleton Horde' box? 30 infantry, 8 cavalry AND a chariot for £12? Those were the days...

DnD followed by battlemasters followed by rogue trader

I don't quite recall...it was so long ago.

What I do remember however is that some friends got me started in WHFB and they donated me some knights and archers or something (I have no idea what the army is called). Anyway we played a few games, but it never really went anywhere. About 6 months after I was introduced to 40k by some other friends of mine. I got a few models and we played a few games, but it never really took off.

Anyway...fast forward a few years, and we are all still good friends playing TCG's and stuff, but we start feeling a little burnt out on them. So we realize that we all still have our horribly painted minis from a few years back and we get back into the hobby. Now we play on a weekly basis and have doubled or tripled our army sizes (and I have even started a 2nd army).

I got started with Autoduel on the Apple IIe. Loved the game, and went looking for the original (Carwars) picked up the box at the local comic book store. Got my childhood friends involved in it, and had a blast designing our own cars, and playing homicidal maniacs on the streets of 2012...

A couple of years later some of them introduced me to 40K (RT back then) and I got the marines cause they were cheaper, and easier to play. (Definitely much lower on the power curve than orks or Eldar though)

A box of models....$30
Rules...$30
Compendium (army list)...$20
done! $80 which is about $150 in today's money, about $10 grand in terms of my current budget.

Started gaming at 10 - D&D
Progressed to AD&D and 2nd edition AD&D.

Picked up the Rogue Trader plastic Sm set because there were a lot of minis for the money, I thought they looked neat (except for the stupid helmets) and I'd been intrigued, as there were guys at the game store who played incessantly.

Somewhere in there, I tried the Battlesystem codex that TSR had.
It was hilarious when my friend thought it would be cool to drop a dragon on the table and I slaughtered him in 1 round with Magic Missiles from my 20 Elven Archers.
We never played Battlesystem again after that. : (

Played Space Hulk and Blood Bowl/Dungeon Bowl a LOT for a while (I'd love to have that old Astrogranite back - I'd start playing agin, if I did. The new boards are so lifeless).


Eventually, during D&D 3.X, "Chainmail" was released.
I got into it and LOVED it until WotC took a big dump on it.

The gaming group I was in started playing other mini games and got into 40K.
I had some minis (2nd ed Starter Box & Tyranid Attack minis, as well as some Space Hulk stuff) and started with Nids.

Eventually, I made my way to Daemonhunters, then saw the light. Now I play Chaos.
I have a newer SM force, too... and am building Orks.

Eric

About 9 or 10 yrs old and a friend had a Battletech Tech readout book (original 3025) at summer camp. I decided then and there that this was the coolest stuff ever and strangely my determination of what is cool and what isn't hasn't changed a bit in the 20 years since then. Big robots = Cool, everything else = meh!

Played Battletech until FASA tanked. Played MWClix until they started trying to phase out old minis from tournament play. Couple of the clix players had 40k forces and I moved into Tau, then Guard, DE, Orks and now on to Warmachine/Hordes.

Played Blood Bowl in my teenage years, but then kind of lost it. Then in my late 20's, in the midst of my CCG addictions, I started playing a game called Clan Wars (oriental warfare game based off The Legends of the Five Rings CCG). That got to a 2nd Edition but then collapsed. I then made my way into the beginning of 3rd Ed with the Blood Angels Codex release.

Man... not that I'm an awesome painter now, but I go back and look at some of those paint jobs. eww.