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What was you starting army/ first model you ever bought, i bet that the most votes will be Space Marines.

Edited: My terrible spelling.

Eldar here I bough the old 2nd ed box set (for the rule book) and sold the mini's to friends to buy some Eldar stuff.

I'm in the process of buying a Space Wolf army now should have roughly 2.5k points once my ebay orders come in.

Depends on what you mean by first. My first 40k models were some terminators I bought to use with space hulk back in the day. When I started up "real" 40k I bought Battle for Macragge, the Tau Codex and a Tau Battleforce all at the same time. I consider Tau my first army.

Warning long post ahead, skip to bottom for short version.

I'm afraid my first 40k army was indeed Space Marines, although they were Dark Angels so they were a little more interesting than vanilla marines. I started with the SM half of the 3rd edition box (10 marines + landspeeder). For the first few months I used the basic SM army list that was included in the 3rd ed rule book because I couldn't afford the Space Marine codex and Dark Angels minidex in addition to the models I needed for a legal army.

After a few years I left the hobby due to education getting the the way (couldn't afford 40k and uni) and all my old stuff got binned.

Now that uni is behind me I need something to fill the time not spent looking for a job. So since June of this year I've been getting back in to the hobby and spending most of my jobseekers allowance on 40k and Fantasy. For this second start in the hobby I went with Daemon Hunters simply because my local GW still had one of the OOP GK squad boxes in stock. They've now been shelved awaiting the new codex. Since June I've also got my grubby mitts on 1500pts of CSM, the first platoon of a guard army and 1000pts of Black Templars.

And here's the promised short version:

1st army when I started: SM
1st army when I restarted: DH

i have bought bits of every army and sold them on but my 'Real' army would be CSM.

Your list is missing things. Squats.

what are Squats?

I started out with the battle for Macragge box set and immediately fell in love with Tyranids.

tko75 wrote:what are Squats?

Biker Dwarf w/ guns. Eating by the Tyanids, there tech is still used by the IoM.

It was a whole army of bikers with a small man complex, whats not to love.

Bought my first warlock model in mid 2008-2009 (it just looked AWESOME) afterwards got hooked on eldar
And started eldar,then my tyranids.

tko75 wrote:what are Squats?

Sqauts were an army of,for all intents and purposes,"Space dwarfs",GW dropped support of them right before 3rd ed (IIRC),angering some and creating the term "sqauting" for GWs practice of dropping support for various armies.

Now,to answer the OP question,first army,Dark Eldar..3rd ed.

My memory is pretty hazy these days, it was one of three, although to be fair we are talking 88-90 here, so twenty years of solid gaming has lessened my ability to recall the individual moments.

I remember having three armies before 2nd started, which was a Deathskull Ork force using the plastic orcs box with the jelly bean style plasma cannons.

I also had a Siam Hian force with Eldar, think they where all metal with some eldar actually carrying heavy weapons, all manner of odd weaponry. Basically before Aspect warriors existed.

However I also had Spaces Marines, some metal but most of them from the plastics 'beakie' box, which I painted up as Thousand Sons as they where show on the side of the Space Marine 'Epic' box. Thats red (mine seemed a bit too orange, drybrush highlighting.. ouchie) with a black M for the newer players.

So yeah one of those three, I have a feeling it was the Orks, but I am not certain. I certainly had all three armies fully painted before the 2nd box though.

Oddly I remember playing myself more than once as neither of my brothers where interested, and the number of local players was really thin on the ground at the time well until I started the first GW club in the town.

Good Times.

Yay more tyranids.....

Tyranids were so adaptable and interchangeable i had to get them and of course the awesomeness helps.... not to mention monstrous beasts!

nom,nom,nom,grrrr......

Sadly the corect answer for me is not inluded in your poll :( - I actually started a long time ago with the fantasy starter box (don't know which edition) containing high Elves and Goblins (I went with the Goblins WAAAAGH )

Concerning 40k, I started off with a Chaos Reaver and right now I'm in the progress of building an apocalypse army around it

Necrons... I started 1 month before 5th... what a waste of $200 xD

Dark Eldar about 8 years back. My local store at the time pretty much was all marine equivalent bar 2 tyranid and one guard player. Disintegrators were abound .

I started with Epic and it was Marines, Eldar, Orks and then Chaos marines and Imperial Guard. When I change to 40K it was Marines and Eldar, then Orks and Chaos marines were later.

40k Salamanders, but when they were Dark Angels green

Epic IG army as well (no idea which regiment, but their fatigues were bleached bone , still have it around somewhere, well over 20,000 points!)

I actually did Dark Eldar and Necrons at the same time, I hadnt known anything about the game at the time So I purchased Dark Eldar and Necrons on accident Still have the necrons collecting dust but I just stuck with the Dark Eldar and from time to time picked up another army as a side project. I still remember SM players screaming broken when I destroyed them as DE, thankfully with the new codex I can continue making other people rip their hair out in frustration

I was into epic first, Adeptus Titanicus iirc, but the first 40k models I bought back in the day were the first tyranid box set with the 3 fugly warriors and lots of genestealers.

Skaven.

Oh, 40K? Eldar. IIRC, the first things I bought were a squad of Wraithguard and a squad of Rangers.

My first models were some old (dunno how old, we're talking probably 10+ years back) metal Space Marine Scouts. Also had some clip-together Space Marines from a painting starter kit and some WHFB Elven Archers. I also inherited my brother's Chaos Space Marine box, which needed glue.

Most the scouts have gone walkabout, I have some of the SM and 1 elf archer without a base.

It wasn't until about 5 years later that I got back into Warhammer. I'd purchased a metal Chaos Terminator blister (got a chainfist+reaper autocannon, he's still in use today; bless his little cotton socks) had an old Chaos Battleforce (the one before this one, must've been 3rd ed?) for about a year, and after my dad had promised me every weekend that we'd build it, I got the stuff out and started myself, building most of the box in one sitting.

My collection grew from there, with more berzerkers, some havocs, assorted tanks etc. and a metal Daemon Prince held together mostly by generous lumps of green stuff.

I inherited my brother's Tau after i'd assembled it for him and start painting it for him too and he'd gotten bored, so that grew too.