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First 40K army was Blood Angels Space Marines, because they were the ones that came with the boxed set and I liked the models more than the attrocious Goff Orks that came with the set.

First Fantasy army was Lizardmen, again, because they came with the box and I liked the idea of lizardmen. I don't play either faction anymore, Lizardmen because the direction they took the models doesn't appeal to me (saurus are just too damned skinny) and blood angels because I prefered Orks. I did start a small crimson fist army recently, but it was mostly just to have something different to paint.

My first 40k army was Tyranid. I love the fact that the galaxy is their buffet.

Black Templars.

I liked the idea of super-humans (Space Marines) and flipped through the "How to paint space marines book." I saw the Black Templars color scheme and really liked it. Then I found out that they had their own codex, so I chose them. I didn't want to play the regular marines that everyone else played.

Mahreens

from AOBR box
then I switch to BA

orcs and goblins in 6th edition, got the old startersbox with a full sized rulebook in it. and my cousin had a sh*tload of stuff (atleast that was what i thought at the time, turn out it was a battailon box and a spear chukka)

I had first wanted to play Tyranids, I just loved the way they looked and their theme.

However, my friend was like SM go go go! And well, AOBR existed, but I wasn't all Ork mode really.
(I play DOW 2 and I played Orks and Tyranids, but that was it.)

Then, sure enough after playing Orks more on DOW 2 I grew fond of the greenskins.
I pitch in and buy the AOBR set and take the Orks, and one of the local IG players tells me.
"Hey I'm getting rid of my Orks so if you want any, I'll bring them by."
Later that week, I bought about 2.5k points of Orks for $85 bucks, huge deal.

Now I play Orks for 40k and I couldn't be happier, I love the Green Tide, I love the Waaagh!

Fantasy... Orcs & Goblins, got the brigade for $50 bucks. Local was getting rid of it.

Never played Fantasy in my life, traded it off for 40k.

However I want to play Skaven or Ogre Kingdoms for WHFB

For WHFB I received a nifty unit of Chaos Knights from my brothers as my introduction into the hobby.

Despite the fact that I've been meaning to do so for years, I still haven't gotten into 40k (other than the video games :-P). I plan on starting up 40k as soon as summer or my next fat scholarship check comes to me in January.

First unit: RTB001 Space Marines box. 30 marines for $30AUD. Because they were cool. I played WW2 at the time, but had been reading SF since the age of 6 (some 13 years prior).

First army: Yriel's Eldritch Raiders. Eldar pirates, corsairs, reavers and general bloody nuisances. Because they weren't marines, but were nonetheless cool.

40k:

Necrons. I liked the idea of something more sinister than the imperium and fell in love with the fluff. As a bonus, they're easy to paint well, so I filled out my army fairly quickly. I actually bought the 3rd ed boxed set first, but needed more thought before committing to Dark Eldar.

FB:

Lizardmen. After buying lots of skaven and being daunted with the sheer numbers needed, I figured these could make a decent army without the quantity problem. I like the blue scheme and found it fairly easy to paint well.

ZF-

The first unit I bought myself was a 10-pack of Empire Halberdiers (the old plastic ones that all look the same), because I'd received a grey wizard on a horse as a gift earlier and decided that an Empire army would be a good idea.
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16 years later, I still don't have a real Empire army since I switched to High Elves shortly after.

40k: CSMs, about a year or two before their current mess of a codex was released. Never got deep into Warhammer before their current codex, so I didn't get to experience them as much as I wanted to before they were trainwrecked.

I'm a bit of a Khornate/Tzeentchian guy, with my 40k Chaos being more Khorne with only my DP as Tzeentch, but my WHFB is pure Tzeentch.

Dunno why I picked Chaos, I think they just appealed to me in general (I FEEL THA WARP OVAHTAKING ME! IT IS A GOOOOD PAIN!), Khorne especially, although I don't know why... *violent body spasm*

WHFB: Lizards. I'm a sucker for reptiles, they're just too cool. Although they don't have access to the coolest reptillians ever (Dragons ftw) I still couldn't pass up the chance to have an army of dinosaurs led by a floating magical bloated toad.

I started out with the 2nd edition starter set so my first unit was 10 marines all in the same exact pose.

I remember my first eldar model was a wraithguard and then a dreadnought (before they called em Wraithlords).

My first tyranid was the original carnifex

After that, it's all a blur...

Ifalna wrote:Tyranids as they were the only large creature type armies in 40k and I was always a huge Xenomorph/Dinosaur fan.

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40K BT army

cause they looked cool but arn't pushed in the same way the vanilia, blood angels, and space wolves were I thought.

It was 1992 and some of the guys I played D&D with were getting into 40k. I decided to jump onto the bandwagon and headed up to my FLGS to have a look. I enjoyed the comedic nature of the orks. I think the ork book at that time was called "Ere We Go!" I bought some blister packs of Mad Boyz and an issue of WD.

I remember being enamored by a boxed set of eldar harlequins but decided I would never be able to do them justice from a paint job perspective.

Orc and goblins...because they came in the Battle for Skull Pass boxset. I have been hooked since!

_Tim?

blood angel terminators, in the old days they were lead and the rules ment they were unstoppable.

I don't recall...it was probably the womble space marines. And I would have had them because they were some of the few plastic figures available.

I initially started playing 40K during 2nd edition with Space Marines (White Scars: a tactical squad, dreadnought and land speeder being my first purchases), but dropped them for Genestealer cultists soon thereafter...

My first mini was a Dwarf adventurer in 1987, shortly followed by various human adventurer types and a copy of WD93. Suffice to say RT [released in that isue] blew my mind and sasoon as I could save up £10 [allot in them days] I bought the RTB001 space marines and covered them in about 1/2 and inch of blue paint and some sort of white U on the shoulders. Twas all the rage back then!

Deciding that these were not up to scratch I procured some squats and the rest is history!

The old metal Dreadnought with assault cannon. At the beginning of 3rd nothing looked cooler.

I got AoBR, so I started Ork and SM armies simultaneously. Both have been expanded, as finances allow. Probably have 3-4K points, all told (only about 1/10 of which is painted, sadly).

A Space Marine Terminator Squad. Its been my most favorite squad to date and I have yet to build them. But I will never build them as they are my first models. (they are not plastic)

I love space marines. And thats just it.

Tyranid Warriors back in 4th edition, thought they looked great! As it turns out, they were quite bad in 4th but now they're my Shrikes in the newish codex.

In Fantasy it was a battalion box of Dark Elves. They have pirates, ninjas, dinosaurs, half-naked women, multi-headed dragons, and big blasty magic. What's not to love?

First wargmaming miniature I ever got: Reaper miniatures angel of death- the one with the wings open.

First Warhammer Miniature I ever got: The necrarch vampire mounted on horse. The one without the cowl, kinda looks like nosferatu.

Let's say, since the second grade I was into the undead.

Thousand Sons, cause:

A) Walking suits of armor powered by MAGIC!

B) Big fricking gippo hats.

After a bunch of random model tanks and rockets and stuff, my first warhammer miniature was a plastic skeleton chariot my dad got me for xmas when I was 10. The box for it still forms the core of my bitz box - with some of the bone-colored plastic bits still in there! - but things have definitely moved on since then ...

First warhammer army was lizardmen for fantasy, with their rules and the release of 5th edition. I had 4th but didn't really get into gobs or helves, but lizards clicked with my monster-loving self

First 40k 'army' was a bunch of metal necrons at the end of 2nd edition, but really it was blood angels with the release of 3rd - because I like the color red maybe? And the extra skullness. Though honestly I had wanted to play chaos since the first issue of White Dwarf I ever flipped through, and I drooled over the (then new) box of metal chaos terminators at my FLGS for months and months but could never afford them.

Now at long last the future has finally arrived, and I play chaos across all systems

- Salvage

40k: Orks a friend of mine had a boatload of AOBR orks, To be fair thu I had the 3rd edition starter way back in the day but at the time I didnt know anyone to play with so never did play a single game till many years later.

A single Imperial Guard heavy weapons team, back in 4th edition. I built an autocannon.

I followed up this up with a Battleforce and an additional Leman Russ Demolisher.

Mine was the old pewter Blood Angels tactical squad. I chose it because they were the models that first caught my eye, then I became obsessed with them!