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Tiarna Fuilteach wrote:Picked Daemonhunters based on the picture on the front of the old codex of an Inquisitor on a pile of skulls with a thunder hammer

Similar story. I was introduced into this game by some friends in a local comic shop, which also did gaming, in the 90s. The shop is still in buisiness, and still does both fairly well. I was in the shop for second edition, but I never played it. At the time I was around 13 and thought it was way over my head. But I would watch the locals roll dice and pick up their space men when I came to get my books. Third hit and some of the locals griped about it, some cheered. I'd just laugh about it, buy my comics, and walk out.

One day perusing through the books and models, the cover art on the 3rd edition box set caught my eye. It's the one with all the Templars on the mound as if making a final stand. I fell in love with that art right there on the spot, been playing Templars ever since.

Everything else since then has been on strength of codex/rule of cool, but that was my one impulse buy of 40k.

Well, now I know how to pick my next army