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2nd edition kinda started playing but was so young we didnt really get all of it . Third actually got into and the battles would rage all night then quit about 4th and finally picked back up again and have been fighting strong ever since but i always had fun hahah lesson of the day

I started 2 months before the release of 5th ed

I started the day my FLGS got in the 5th Edition book.

Rogue trader here, got bored with dark future.

I started with 2nd edition a long time ago and played pretty much back then. Then I lost interest right before 3rd edition came out and came back to 40k when the 5th edition was already out. I enjoy the 5th edition much more than the old rules back then, games are much more streamlined and many of the annoying discussions back then don't happen anymore. At least not in my games.

Rogue Trader for me. Still remember my Psyker using lvl 4 telekinesis to drop a dreadnought on a Marine Lieutenants head!

Drifted away from 40k in the early days of 3rd. My gaming chap's now tempting me back (with the promise that he'll start playing Epic!)

templeorks wrote:I started with the latested edition that's out now. And have found that I really enjoy the game.

QFT, my Orky brother.

The very end of 3rd edition, I bought our gaming group's copy of the 4th edition rule book when it was released shortly after we started. Drifted away for a bit, but our group got back into it after 5th edition was released.

3rd i had a huge ork horde but never really played i had battalions of zzap guns

then 2 yrs ago i got back into it by buying 2 battle forces of imperial guard

i love the currennt game

Well, I barely play it and collect the models mostly. I do have a rather large collection of the things, but they're spread out over different races and I've yet to build a proper 'all-comers' army.
But 5th, even though I have 4th rulebook about somewhere.

2nd edition, with the Angels of Death codex and a Blood Angels starter set. I like the streamlining of the current game but I miss being able to drive a tank around firing all of it's guns, I miss the psychic rules, and most of all I miss the strategy cards from Dark Millenium (we still use them often at home)

5th

I like 40k, so don't view this as a rant or anything. But really, the only reason I got into it is because at my gaming club only ONE other person (out of about 20) wanted to play fantasy regularly. Everyone else did 40k. So I took it up to get some variety... you can only fight lizardmen so many times before it gets a bit dull...

5th edition is really great overall, I really enjoy it

I started way back when right at the start of 3rd.

RT here - oh those where the day with no really codex to follow and shiriken catapult that could fire up to 6 times in a round.

Rogue Trader, and before that Space Hulk.


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thesilverback wrote:RT here - oh those where the day with no really codex to follow and shiriken catapult that could fire up to 6 times in a round.

Ha ha! Until you mentioned it, I had forgotten all about the awfulness that was 'following fire'.

Some of the most fun I ever had was with 2nd Edition in High School. Back when my uber Lord charged through Overwatching terminators to use his needle pistol before throwing his vortex grenade (which then swallowed him whole in the following turn).

My first minis were from pre 2nd edition but I didn't so much as play as pretend to play until the 2nd edition boxed game came out and my brother and I finally got the rules.

I remember being upset when 3rd because my awesome librarians were not nearly as cool anymore and grenades were now lame.

My history with 40k is very spotty.
Technically my induction was circa '98. No rule books and only the vaguest idea of what I was getting into. I bought a box of Eldar Guardians because they "looked cool" (oh, if only I knew then what I know now). I assembled two models and painted them both vastly different. I was very proud of myself, and then found out that what I bought was in no way shape or form an army. No one else was down for buying any either, so those poor fellas made their way into the closet and never came out (in the closet forever. The Eldar way, it seems )
My real intro was 4th ed, with only the core rulebook. I read that thing cover to cover I don't know how many times. I was interested in the modelling aspect, but couldn't work up the nerve to buy anything.
Then me and a friend got together and talked about how cool it would be to play. We had played everything else under the sun (we're talking 20 year rpg vets, here). So we decided that being adults with jobs and whatnot we had earned the right to squander large sums of money on little plastic mans. I bought a copy of 5th ed. and two tau battleforces. He bought AoBR for him and his stepson, and he went SM.
It was a rough six months. Then I learned of Kharn the Betrayer.
I bought a CSM codex, a battleforce, A termie lord, a box of termies and never looked back. Even sold the tau to feed the beast.
So I say 4th ed. Memorizing the entire core rulebook has to account for something, but 5th ed taught me three important rules.

These are the rules, carry them with you, always.
1- Read the codex before any purchases.
2- Rely not on the battleforce alone.
3- Sucker a friend into the hobby.

I'm also mildly furious with myself every passing day for not buying the newest edition of Space Hulk when I had the chance.

My favourite was always skirmish advancement Rogue Trader of ye olde days. 2nd edition had fun stuff, and 3rd cut me out of the game.

4th edition has been my preferred, 5th eating TLoS and the heart being torn out of Chaos and Sisters really turned me off. The Sisters Codex was what made me actually jump ship to other systems, as despite my RAWR HATE 5th it didn't make me stop really, especially with players at the oxford street GW being cool with 4th ed play. But yeah... at least my Bertha Jacobus looked good before I turned to Malifaux =3

Started on 2nd edition, played that for a bit then ended up taking a long break. I got back in to it right as 4th was about to be released. I read on another post that the card dred in the 2nd edition box is still tourny legal....thats nuts! lol. I would love to see that on a board.



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I remember being upset when 3rd because my awesome librarians were not nearly as cool anymore and grenades were now lame.

I started with 3rd ed, over ten years ago :| I was too young to really understand the game back then so I just had fun with my UM and complained that the DE had boobs (I was ten-ish, girls were icky). When 4th ed came out I really got into it though, that was when I was in my heyday.
Then I discovered women... So I've just gotten back into it now, at the arse end of 5th, so I'm not even bothering to learn these rules, just wait for 6th and hope they don't ruin it.