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Ah yes, the age old question to determine rank. So Dakka, when did you become addicted to wargaming?

I was beginning to wargame at age 10, with 4th Edition WH40k.

Last year...so...if I'm 22 now...I would have been...errr...carry the nine...21.

14, with my fellow newb friend who didn't get the rules until we acutally went to the FLGS and a few months afterward bought the 5th edition rule book when it hit the shelves.

first bought it... around 2001 if I am guestimating right.

But.. hard core, only about half a year.

Get it?

7th grade. So about 13. Played one game of 4th, then 5th edition! I played off and on then. Now I try for a game at least once a month.

I was a very "late bloomer" as far as Wargaming was concerned,I didn't have a clue what it even was until I was in my late 20's and didn't actually start playing until I was 30.

I started wargaming when I was a little kid - like 8 years old. My dad and I would play simplified versions of DBA and his own games. I started using 40k models for homebrew games when I was 13, started playing 40k proper when I was 15.

Introduced at the age of 10.

Chose to start playing as a hobby - around 16.

Chose to start playing 40k - 1987 - age 19.

Chose to forswear fantasy - 1988 - age 20.

Chose to be a gaming whore - 1986 (Not restricting myself to a single company or its product).

I'm now 42.

First played warhammer fantasy at 14, then picked it up with an Empire army when I was 16. Now, 9 years later, I've sold my Empire (sadly), bought and sold Orcs and Goblins, bought, sold, re-bought Warriors of Chaos, bought Daemons, space marines and Eldar. Wow, what a lot in 9 years. Of course, I'm sure other people have done a lot more

I started in 1987 with Battletech, I was 13 or 14. Did that for a few years, then didnt play any wargames until 97(still painted D&D minis) when a freind moved back to Az from Baltimore with a box full of weird little miniatures from this weird game company he had worked for. Games Workshop.

He suckered me in by outright giving me a small army of eldar figs- which were alot of fun in 2nd edition. That was back when I liked GW- the games were fun, the figs were kinda funky, and the game wasnt about profit as tehy had WD articles on stuff like Deodorant tanks(which I think was a brilliant move to get gamers to USE personal hygeine products!!).

So, thats like 22 years of miniatures, and around 16 years of wargaming....I feel old now...

First played in 1993. Aged 12 with 40K 2nd Edition. Hve dropped out and back in a few times over the years. Wish I hadn't, as I'd have plenty of complete armies now.

I was introduced to gaming by a friend at about 10/11 years old. We played a fantasy adventure using the Bloodbowl 1st Ed rules for combat and the GW Fantasy Dwarf Lords of Legend/Prince August Goblin Wolf Riders [which we also cast ourselves]. Immense fun.

He also showed me a mag called White Dwarf so I bought the next issue, number 92 i think.

This same issue saw the release of WH40K: RT from that point onwards I was addicted. That was September 1987.

Started in 1992 with Rogue Trader, so that means I was 16.

1987 with WHFB and Rogue Trader; I came in from RPGs. So I was 11.

Got a Mage Knight model at age 10, havn't looked back.

10. My first rule book was a copy of the original Rogue Trader. I took 15 years off when I was 18, and just returned last year.

Stone age!

Harharhar.

Ok. Growing up, I didn't know anyone who played these games, or
painted toy soldiers as a hobby. We player basketball. Maybe we
played Nintendo.

However, somewhere between the ages of 8 and 13 we made
games where we built something, and then we destroyed it. One
such game involved card castles that we bombarded with a penny.
The second game that comes to mind is the one where each
player created a map and then we took turns flipping pennies in
the air to see what things on the other person's map were
destroyed.

malfred wrote:However, somewhere between the ages of 8 and 13 we made
games where we built something, and then we destroyed it. One
such game involved card castles that we bombarded with a penny.
The second game that comes to mind is the one where each
player created a map and then we took turns flipping pennies in
the air to see what things on the other person's map were
destroyed.

Malfred, we went through this exact same stage! First it was lego fortresses and catapults, launching giant bricks of lego back and forth until one was destroyed.

Then it was K'Nex armor and weapons, where we'd physically fight it out trying to smash the other person's weapon to bits.

Good times, good times

I started with 40k 3rd ed so was 11?
12 long years later and I am still going strong

But from like the age of 7 I used to play D&D and other games like that, used to love playing games with models really.

I was 14, and started with Blood Bow. It was in 1994.

I played D&D, Runequest and Traveller and read White Dwarf from the age of 11 to 18 (1979-1986). Towards the latter end of that period I started buying and painting miniatures (they were 25p each back then!). I had a couple of half-hearted attempts at playing Warhammer FB (2nd ed) during my days at Uni, and even bought Rogue Trader, but really my heart wasn't in it, and I was much more involved with Re-enactment (not LARPing - the stuff we did involved research in libraries, making replicas of archaelogocial artefacts out of brass and steel, and hitting each other with them. Not dressing up in a couple of old blankets, shouting "lightning bolt" and hitting each other with a rubber boffer. There's a world of difference. Honest!)

I pretty much quit all my geeky hobbies on starting work and then getting married. However when my kids were babies and toddlers, I found myself in need of something to do in the evenings other than watching the mind-numbing rubbish that is on TV, and so dug out my old unpainted lead and found that many of my paints were still salvageable after over a decade being shunted around various attics! This also coincided with the release of LotR, in 2001, and since then I've been hooked. Firstly exclusively on LotR from 2001-2005, then gradually getting into what is now an unfeasible number of alternative games, mainly played with a mate who is of similar age and circumstances who lives across the road. Also, now my kids are older we are enjoying playing games together. Its a bonding thing!

In my youth I flired with it, playing spinoffs like Space crusade, hero quest and combat cards

but have only started collecting at 26 and playing at 27. Making me one of the oldest in my gaming group.

At age 14 I started with the Star Trek Combat Simulator in 1984. Battletech in 1985-87. Then Star Warriors. Then a 15 year hiatus with marriage, kids, work, etc. Then back into it after playing the first Dawn of War on the PC which drew me into Space Marines. Sold SM stuff to get into Grey Knights. Then IG.

Now Role-playing I started at 10 with D&D until age 13. I don't consider RPG the same as Wargaming even though they're both "make-believe".

I was 10 in 1991, and started out with HeroQuest and then Battlemasters. I suppose the next closest thing I could think of when I was 8 I read the Joe Dever "Lone Wolf" series, and there were pictures of Giaks attacking the Sommelending warriors, all of which were made by "Citadel Miniatures." Hmmmm.... So I guess that clocks me in at 22 years obssesing over little metal and plastic mens.

12 years though the various games. Though came to 40k only a couple years back!

Mistress of minis wrote:I started in 1987 with Battletech, I was 13 or 14.

Same system but I started in '86 at age 10

Started 40K in 1989 at the age 16. Kinda crazy I'm still playing at 37 y.o.

I used to play every now and then with my oldest brother when I was around 10 or 11. Then when I got a job at 16 I started to play regularly and bought my own army (CSM, oh how theyve changed )

malfred wrote:However, somewhere between the ages of 8 and 13 we made
games where we built something, and then we destroyed it.

Hmm, I guess that would count as a wargame

So, going back to when I was 9, me and the neighbor boys would build bunkers/trenches for GI-joes- and then see who built the best bunkers by shooting at eachothers guys with bb guns. I was pretty wicked with my lil crossman lol And we had to switch to green army men after I shot off too many heads or arms.

I still can hear my little brothers enraged cries of "YOU BROKE WETSUIT!!! ARRGHHHH " as he chased me around while I was laughing too much to run fast or fight back.

Kinda sad now, after seeing the prices of the collectible action figures and remember shooting them, blowing them up or cutting them in half with the Laser of Doom! (which was a magnifying glass...)