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Adeptus Titanicus
Space Marine (Epic - when a fiver bought you a diverse army in a tiny box)

Space Hulk 2nd ed.

Good old days...

The day my barracks buddy brought in the rogue trader boxes and boxed sets getting me into the hobby (Germany, 1989) and we put it together, painted them, and played it for almost every night for months on end before Desert Shield/Storm interrupted us!

When I moved to WA state and got the citadel journal about 1995 or 1996, there was a Cult of Khorne all terminator berserker army list, where several of the sgts and characters could become bloodthirsters! In one game the enemy Eldar dog piled onto my 30 man army (2k points!) and three bloodthirsters were triggered into existence! It was beautiful man! In another game some lowly SM sgt stood toe to toe with my bloodthirster for 4 turns, neither of us doing any damage to the other. Finally my bloodthirster stomped on him. Hilarious.

Through the years I enjoyed my Halo converted themed army, Gears of War converted themed army, and DKOK army...

Looking forward to the shenanigans in 8th with my Xenomorphesque Tyranid army!

Honestly? When I had an interview for a full time Till Monkey role at the Canterbury store in 2009. I properly fluffed it, but for the first time in my then 29 years, I got actual useful feedback.

That really boot a much needed boot up my arse.

Games wise? Probably the Veteran's Nights I used to run on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Tunbridge Wells store. Meant to be 6-10, but being a spritely young buck, it's typically run until I wanted to go home and go to bed. As a second job at the time, it was pretty awesome!

Playing Battle for Macragge with my Dad. He hadn't played warhammer for about twenty years and I think he enjoyed it. It's more about the time I spent with him, since he died unexpectedly a few weeks later, but it's something we did together that I can remember him by - no matter how badly I lose!

Bitz order and GamesDay's!!!

Getting into 40k in 1998 and playing from a rulessheet that was the 1 page, jumping Kharn the Betrayer in and out of LOS blocking cover to hack up Ultramarines.

Warhammer memory though, not so much GW. I don't really have any fond GW memories in particular.

Maybe that one time I was in Paris and was thrilled because it was the only GW with High Elf Bolt Throwers on stock. We didn't do no internet orders because our parents didnt those internets yo

 Insectum7 wrote:
Prior to the online bitz store, you could get a big book (released annually I think) which included every part of every model they made at the time. You could call them up on the phone, talk to a human, and give them a list of bits you wanted. I remember doing this a couple times in the late 90's. It was amazing.

Yes, I remember this too.
It was amazing... I got a huge set of paints from mail order,
just talking to the man as I was ordering a bunch of other stuff,
ended up with I don't even know how many pots of inks and paints and washes and all!
They were moving to a different pot type/size or something,
I don't even know, all I know is that a few days later I had a suitcase sized mail order box full of good stuff and it was awesome...

Oh, how could I forget, Drew the area GW manager up in Newcastle WA (Seattle) saw my painted army & hired me to paint stuff for the stores in WA starting in 1998ish to about 2006ish I think. Paint a box or blister for the store, get a box or blister of equal or lesser value for free. I was able to build a 40k, Inquisitor, Mordheim, Warmaster, fantasy, lotr armies for free & it opened me up to a freelance commission side job! I (my minis) was in a white dwarf & citadel journal because of that.

Buying and painting my very own squad of marines.

Back when I was a wee young lad at the tender age of 14 I scrimped and saved 30 US dollars of my own hard earned money to buy my first Dark Angels Tactical squad, the one with the solid metal Vet Sgt in the robes. Thus began my love affair with Warhammer 40k and the Son's of the Lion for years until I picked up 30k and never looked back.

Hmm.....
For me it has to be my old GW, before the policy changed. I had no friends when I was young, and when I started going to GW it became a place to hang out, meet people and have fun.
sadly policy changed to "hump the customer as soon as they enter and badger them to buy stuff and if they are not gaming, buying or shopping then kick them out"
Even browsing was verbotten, and the final nail in the coffin came in the form of timed slots and prebooked games. Needless to say, when Worthy Games opened up the dispossessed Warhammer players moved there instead and the local GW became a ghost shop. It has taken a lot of work by the dedicated staff to repair the damage that those policies caused and they are still a shadow of what they where.

Definitely the Space Marine game.....that was fantastic.

 Melissia wrote:
At and around the release of 5th edition Codex: Space Marines.

The game looked immensely promising, things were good and looking to be balanced.

Of course ,then Space Wolves came along...

I didn't play at that time (I played 2nd to 4th stopped after that until a year or 2 ago). Space wolves (just looking at the actual release of the SW slim codex I have on my book shelf, In whatever edition, came out in 2000) Unless of course you mean a new codex for them... then I suppose yes the usual GW releases a codex that is more powerful than the last stick (though hopefully this edition dispels that paradigm).

zerosignal wrote:
Adeptus Titanicus
Space Marine (Epic - when a fiver bought you a diverse army in a tiny box)

Space Hulk 2nd ed.

Good old days...

I loved the original space hulk (is what go me into 40k, parents bought for me cause was young). A Few years later was old enough to buy some 40k was hooked for years. Arh yes the good old days...

I've got two...

One was around when the first Lord of the Rings movie came out and discovering that GW had released the Lord of the Rings SBG. That was my first table-top gaming experience that eventually got me hooked onto 40K.

The second was the Medusa V campaign back in 2005. I enjoyed how we could report results from home via an online account and how each country had a specific region of the planet to fight over. I also remember during the last week of the global campaign how everyone could bring in a squad of Troops into the GW and have a massive 17-player battle to secure objectives.