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I played 40k in 2nd edition, took a 3rd edition break, and returned about 8 years ago. My first game back was a test game in a GW store. They allowed me to use the Store's Iron warriors (500 pts) vs store employee run Tyranids (750 pts). Needless to say, in my lapse of edition had overall forgotten how to play so I came in for a test game.

I got ransacked. I literally had zero fun. So I buy the rb, the chaos codex, i played eldar in 2nd, and didn't want to go with them again. Spend 2 weeks painting and picking up models at a FLGS as I was working overnights with literally 4 hours to kill per day. Came back with a Iron Warriors army at 2K, all rhino's/ marines, with inflitrating havoc squads.

I came back to a look of shock with a fully painted, based, highlighted army and kicked the tar out of the employee's dark angel's. He asked how'd I learned to play and what was effective. I pointed out, he forgot the first think I said 2 weeks earlier "i was a 2nd edition eldar player who used to play tournments, i'd like to see what's changed about the game." He then asked was I picking anything up, as I mentioned "No, I still have my 2nd edition Eldar army." 1 week later Rd2: my Eldar kicked the tar out of his Dark Angels.

Hi all.
First wargame( in 1985 )Firefly,(WWII 1/300th scale) 1943, Russian Tank Corps, vs1943 German Panzerkampfgruppe.(The Russians beat my Germans...it was my first game after all.)

My first game of 40k was"The battle at the Farm" from the old RT rulebook.(1989.)

Pedro Kantor's paper cut-out marines were,soundly thrashed by the vicious paper cut-out Orks!(My orks were very lucky!)

TTFN

when I first started space marines (11 years ago) we didnt even have a rule book or codex to help us. We just wanted the cool looking units and models. so my "friend" told me that a space marine whirlwind shot 72" and had a blast of 7" around the model hit AND that it ignored armour saves. it wasnt until 2 weeks lator that our local store started to have game night that we could get a chance to look at the rules and find out he was full of sh*t

Oh man, my first game was playing black templars against a guard army in low points cost. Basically was a shooting gallery.

My first real game with my tau, motha effing guard again and marbo pops out and kills my 3 broadsides. The guard hate begins.

1993 or 94, a typical back in the day gaming store basement, poor lighting, stinky, people smoking cigarettes, a pool table sized board with some awesome hex terrain 20 person king of the hill battle tech event.

Me and my buddy went and had never gamed before. Got hooked into Battletech and it spiraled over into the GW stuff.

My first game was a three-way battle between three brand new players, 500pts each. I took my SM instead of the Orks, since my whole list fit in a shoebox. Opponents were Tau and Necrons. There were many trips to the rulebook and our individual codices, as well as requests for clarification from our two more experienced friends playing at the next table. All in all, it was a mess of slow play, gray plastic, and incredibly stupid moves. I had a blast! Gave me my first win, too. The Tau player nearly got wiped and while the Necrons made so many WBB rolls that he lost about 5 models in the whole damn game, I managed to kill off enough Tau to pull ahead on KP. I think I'd enjoy a slightly larger game against a single, experienced opponent who can coach me a lot more, at this point, but a small, sloppy, confused slugfest wasn't a bad way to start.

First game was like 10 years ago hehe...

My dark elves vs. friends skaven, stomped him into the ground.

Back in 4th ed, I was playing Catachans (when they still had a codex). An all foot army, and I was proud that my army was the only one in the store made up entirely of non-caucasian models.

The store was kind enough to make a list for me (I didn't have the codex) and let me use their codex. I played a 1000pt game against somebody playing Mech Grenadiers IG. I don't really remember how the game went, except that I had like 150 guardsmen and he had like 40 guys in 4 Chimeras and a hellhound so I was feeling pretty confident.

Been gaming at and purchasing at that store ever since. A great memory for sure.

Back in 3rd editon. Me and my two buddies played 3-way games My Schaffers Last Chancers VS 5 Termies and 10 SMs VS 15 Shoota boys and 2 Meganobs. We used about a 1/3 of the actual rules and made the rest up(Termies could Deep Strike every turn and not scatter ). Our table was the basement floor and our terrain was a toy barn.

Later(when we all had more models, but no legal lists still) we played on a 5x5 table with lots of wooden blocks to make castles for terrain.

Didn't actually start playing real games until around mid-4th edition.

My first game was in '91 or '92, in WHFB (I think I'm the only one to have WHFB as their first game so far...). I think it was third ed.

My thin white line of High Elves vs my mates Undead. It was about 1500 points and a close game throughout, I rolled poorly in the last couple of rolls and failed to destory his large unit of skeletons and it cost me the game. I remember spending hours going over what-ifs afterwards, recounting every single dice roll and how things might have been different if that roll was had failed or succeeded.