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I have know on Warhammer since I was a kid, but never took interest in the hobby since I lost my taste for gaming after encountering the nonsense that is the dreaded rulebook. Too many arguments, blablabla.

Recently WH40k has caught my interest and I have started to assemble an Eldar army, of no particular craftworld. Perhaps I will make some sort of outcast or renegade craftworld along the line, fluff doesn't amuse me all that much. I have heard good things about the books and I will take a look at some point.

OOOOoooohh, and my very own page for now

ninjad the page lawlz.

I thought it was cool and interesting. My first army was some non-painted nids. It was a stealer abusing list.

Black Templars! In 3rd edition

Unfortunately, at the time my army was so effective against my friends' armies that I almost never lost in our friendly games... making them a little less friendly at times :-/

My brothers also started eldar and ork armies at the same time! The ork army was great, he had a lot of fun modelling it and "orkifying" everything

One of my neighbors bought me a copy of Star Frontiers when it came out thinking that I was smart enough to figure it out and I was into Sci-Fi so it would interest me. She hasn't bought me anything for any birthdays sent, I think it was fate. Thanks to the tiles in the game, I understood using miniatures to represent a character for LOS and movement purposes.
A few years later in '87 my friends started playing with one of their uncles who just moved here from Waukeegan who was a DM, so we started playing D&D. He collected and painted Ral Partha and D&D miniatures and we used them sometimes when we needed to figure out where we were in the game.
There was one regular bookstore in Tupelo at the time, most of the others only sold used books and Christian books. The Village Green was THE place to get D&D stuff. One day in '89 they had the Rogue Trader rulebook and Warhammer Siege on the shelf for about $30 each. I fell in love with it, looking at the books every time I went in, I just about wore them out before I bought Rogue Trader, but passed on Siege, since it only had a third of it dedicated to 40K. I never could get my friends into it. We played using dice and pocket change as figures. I helped start a D&D club and found out where the FLGS was, about an hour south in Starkville, so I went down there and bought a box of Orks, a box of Marines, and a Rhino. Later on, I got more stuff, but never found someone who was seriously wanting to play, the guys at the club mostly collected and painted the miniatures.

I was "the 40K guy" and was contacted when 2nd Edition came out, everyone eventually lost interest due to Everquest. Then I was approached again when 3rd edition came out and HobbytownUSA was opened. I stopped playing when Hobbytown was sold off. Dawn of War came out and I got interested again when my sons liked the game and wanted to see my miniatures. I took them to our comic book store to watch a game and got the fever. I pulled out all the stuff I bought when various FLGS's and Hobbytown went out of business and started painting and building and doubled the size of my Dark Angels army from 3000 pts to 6000 points after getting stomped in Apocalypse last January. Our FLGS went out of business in April, so I started hosting games at my house, since I was "the 40K guy" in Tupelo and centrally located for everyone else.

It all started with a box of 30 Marines (some of which are still on the sprue) and a box of 30 Orks (ditto). Now I have 8500 points of painted Dark Angels and 6k+ points of Orks in various stages of readiness.

I was kind of led into it, just got told it was really good, so bought the warhammer and 40k box sets without even looking into it! and then just bought random models that took my fancy for years. only in the last few years have i really started collecting, so my first army is my current, my Black Templars.

ElTanko

My next door neighbour was a bit older than me, and played Rogue Trader when it first came out. I guess I was about 10/11

My first purchase was the epic box set 'Ork and Squat Warlords'

A year or so later, I bought his beaky marines from him.

I've been painting figures since 7th grade. That was.... 1982/1983 boys and girls and I was 12/13.

The LGS (Riders Hobby in Kalamazoo MI) carried Grenedier and Ral Partha mostly. Ral Lord of the Balrogs was a favorite figure. Then they started getting in Citadel (I think Ral Partha called the RP imports but they were Citadel) and White dwarf. This was when WD was not soley a GW magazine.


Soon though they released a line of fantasy figures called "Marauder". I can't recall if these were GW figs or if they were a licensed to make for the Warhammer. The Warhammer game I had included a ton of carboard chits to move around. I think it was a human and orc/goblin army. Anyway's. I loved the old dwarf army figures from Marauder. Most of them imperial (dress like empire figs today). I had all of them. I collected the Norse dwarfs and some other stuff. I remember being totally hooked. I really didn't play as much as collect the figures.

Then the plastic beakies and skeletons came out. I had several odd figs as I mostly painted. I had Zoats (fantasy and space), Fimir, and an Ambull (look it up). I also owned both Realm of Chaos books and several of those figures.

My favorite figure was the Dwarf Gob Lobber. I kept up w/ GW stuff until 1 year into college (1990) and then left the hobby. I'd stroll into an LGS now and then but didn't buy.


I'd spend days staring at the latest catalog or White dwarf from the late 80's.


Fast forward 15 years to 33 years of age, married, with the first baby due in 4 months. I'm looking for something to read in a Barnes and Noble. There is a box of LOTR figs. I notice it is from Citadel. Gets me thinking and I decide to look up some LGS on the internet and make a bee line that evening to a store.

.... whoa.... miniature heaven. The industry has blossomed. I buy an army box of Orcs and Goblins and 2 blister of Confrontation figures. "I'm back in the hobby baby". I ended up falling pretty hard for Confrontation for 4 years then with Rackham's business decision to move away from the hobby aspect to PPP gaming. I moved back to my Orcs and Goblins which I had worked at on and off over the time. Finally I decided to pick up 40K with the release of 5E.

I'm the proud owner of a Marine army and necron army purchased over the last year and enjoying playing 40K for the first time.

I have 2250 of painted OG
I have 1000 of painted Marines
I have 1750 of painted Necrons.

I have more unpainted figures then should be allowed for 1 non astartes human... certainly more then I'd want my wife to know about.

The saddest thing for me is that I dumped all my old metal collection. I sometimes look for these figs on Ebay and cry thinking how much money they are worth now. Especially the dwarfs.

Well I just started dating this guy (who is now my bf). We just met at a club and we'd hung out once at my place. He looked normal and acted normal and all I could think is 'Damn it what's he going to think when he finds out I'm addicted to WoW!? and anime... and other loser stuff...' I went to his place and there were figures all over his desk. Initial reaction - YES! He's a dork too! Though I had no idea what they were I was pretty content that w/e they were existed. I was quite baffled as well that people played with them on a table. I played video games but never had even seen table top.

At first, I thought it was dumb. I love my computer. I love shiny graphics. Why would I want a bunch of plastic when I just got a 30" monitor and a dual screen set up? He took me to the local hobby store and tried to show me the models. I didn't care. They were ugly. They were dumb. They were expensive. Then I noticed a box of daemonettes. Chicks in bondage looking gear? That I could work with. He bought me a box for my birthday and it kind of snowballed from there. I'm still collecting chaos daemons and still playing them.

Heh. The first time I got into Warhammer, my dad had snagged me a model(Prince Tyrion), paints, glues, and files so that I would have something to do other than just tv and make-up work when I caught a bad case of mono in 6th grade.

Since then, I've been painting off/on, gaming a bit here and there, and saddling myself up for my big project now.

A 10,000 point Guard force, using Cadians, Stormtroopers, and the Respirator kits from FW themed around my upcoming marshlands table.

I started wargaming playing Risk, then my D&D group needed to resolve a big battle. I got the Battlesystem rules and we used them, even for stand-along battles until we got tired of it. About a year after than, I picked up the rulebook and army list book for Warhammer Fantasy Battles, waaay back when all the army lists fit into one book. I had Wood Elves, Undead and eventually Orcs. Then second edition warhammer 40,000 came out and I have played little else ever since. Though it must be said that I did seriously get into Epic Space Marine. If I could get another copy of those rules I would get into it again, because those were the best Epic rules.

oh Risk! Many a year has it been!

Though I loved the game, I remember that nobody ever got around to finishing one off in my family.

It all started back in the late 1980s with Space Marine one of the big box games they done way back in the day it was just loads and loads of Space Marines, Rinos and Landraiders. Fight the Horus Heresy were marine fought marine as it said on the back of the box. I played that game some much with my friends back then still i would love to play that game again if i can find it. the game has sadly has gone missing from my house some time over the years.

I was just divorced and wanted an outlet to make new friends. A friend from work introduced me to her husband who turned me onto 40k. We played a couple of games - orks versus Space Marines. They were small games to learn the basic rules and I feel in love with the power armor. I read the Dark Angels codex and the Chaos codex then decided to build an army of Fallen Angels. I remember my first win after something like 50 games over the course of six months... I was able to line up all my Marines then when a full squad of terminators broke through a knot of trees I rapid fired all my Marines and successfully shot down all the terminators. That was my first forray into the realms of tactics. My next army was pure Ravenwing... I still remember assembling all those bikes and I still use one of the attack bikes with a multi melta in my current rendition of Blood Angels. I seem to have this thing for the black power armor... Hee!

Over the course of 15 years I have made many friends playing the game and this is still the biggest draw for me and the main reason why I still play. I mostly play in tournaments now because I like to get in several competitive games over the course of one day. The fame has changed over the years but it's still all the same as far as I'm concerned. It does seem like the WAAC attitude is in full force now and I am okay with that but from the aspect of a hobby I in this for building beautifully painted armies that have their own unique theme and tell a story. Here is a list of all the armies I have played:

Dark Angels (including Deathwing and Ravenwing)
Space Wolves (including the 13th Company)
Blood Angels (my favorite !!!)
Blood Ravens
Black Legion
Deathguard
Thousand Sons/Lost and the Damnex
Emporer's Children (2nd favorite !!!)
World Eaters
Orks
Necrons
Tyranids

I could never quite bring myself to play eldar as back in the day they were the power armor with crazy star cannons and fearsome Wraithlords. I still remember the day when the Chapter Approved article by Andy Chambers was released that granted terminator armor a 5+ invulnerable save... That was probably the biggest change to the rules that had the most impact on me as my first fully painted army was Deathwing.

It's all good. G

heh oh gorka morka days.

i had a friend come round to my house 6 years ago saying "i have something youd like, you get to build models and do something with them when they are built" so that got me.
he took me to GW and i picked up a guard starter box. Now i harp on from time to time on picking paints and doing research. Well not back then. my guard were painted black with blood red flak armour.
so a few years on i've switched places. i used to be about the game, now i am more of a casual fun loving player who focuses most of his time on painting and converting.
John.

My 1st army was white scars. Using the 3rd ed white scars rules. I couldn't decide what SM army i wanted to play, so the FLGS owner showed me the index astrates and told me that these books contained alot of history & Lore of chapters of note. Thats when i saw them... asian biker gang army (On a side note i was playing Unicorn clan in L5R at the time) and so began my 40k start.

I still have those poorly painted guys still on my shelf, as a reminder of where i started and what has still yet to come.

satanslandlady wrote:At first, I thought it was dumb. I love my computer. I love shiny graphics. Why would I want a bunch of plastic when I just got a 30" monitor and a dual screen set up? He took me to the local hobby store and tried to show me the models. I didn't care. They were ugly. They were dumb. They were expensive. Then I noticed a box of daemonettes. Chicks in bondage looking gear? That I could work with. He bought me a box for my birthday and it kind of snowballed from there. I'm still collecting chaos daemons and still playing them.

My missus is like that. She bought the Sister Repentia as soon as she could - "Girls in bondage gear with chainsaws led by a woman in armour with a whip? Yeah!"



Anyway, I got into it very young myself. A shop in Cardiff (Encounter Games now looong gone) used to break up the boxes of beaky marines and sell the sprues off at £1 each. Did the same with the skeleton army box and other things around the same time. My Dad would buy me those sometimes hen I was aged 5 or 6. When I was 8 we started playing Space Hulk, we bough the game and the two expansions, and were given another copy of the main game by a friend working on GWs book range at the time. So we had an enormous number of pices to build huge Hulks. We also got pretty much all the metal Terminators available at the time and later played games with Assault Cannons and Lightning Claws. Lightning Claws was great, whenever the Genestealers hoarded up and blocked off the only means of escape, Lightning Claws would come to the front and hack his way to daylight.

My first experience with GW was when I was painting my first Warmachine Army (i think). I was looking for a cheap set of paints with the primary colors to test my color schemes before I bought the actualy paint bottles. So, I picked up the Space Marines paint set. I used the backpacks on my Warcasters. And that was my first exposure.

I finished my Warmachine army and never got to play so I sold them. Fast forward 4 years later, I was looking to getting into painting again. I didn't want to spend the massive amount of money on the metal figures of Warmachine again so I started researching on the best buy for plastic figures in Warhammer 40K. So, I bought my AoBR box set last January and have been painting since. My first solo battle against a Dark Angels army gave me my first loss. My second and third battles were Mega battles along with an IG and Black Temlars armies which we won against a Tau/Tyranid/Chaos Marines.

Next army to tackle is a Tau army of which I already bought the Battleforce box, Piranah, X8 Battlesuit, Pathfinder team, and Hammerhead weapons upgrade sprue. After I fully paint my White Scars army, I will get started on these bad boys...

I played D&D and 1st Ed. AD&D at school, and when browsing round my FLGS (Anyone remember when Alchemy was Reider Design and sold RPGs?) I saw the WarHammer boxed set. Looked fun, so bought it.
It had an intro fight with Dwarves vs Orcs/gobbos "The Ziggurat of Doom", and I was a big fan of dwarves back then!
Being summer, and having some spare bricks around, me, my bro and some mates built a Ziggurat in the back garden, and dug out our D&D models!
We tried using the RPG rules included, but never really took to them. (Although I did like the idea that each spell point you used aged you a little. Something that would make playing a mage in a long term campaign quite interesting).

Ah, those were the days!

My first GW purchase was bloodbowl. my second purchase was space hulk.. my third purchase was necromunda..

my first fantasy army (after all the above purchases) was about 10 years after my first GW purchase and it was Orcs and Goblins..

Ahh... the memories.

Kinda went like this. I was 12, my mother had a student name Scott (wish I knew where he was to thank him) that was in the London exchange program where she was hosting in London for American college kids. He was really into the game, and showed us how to play (2nd rules, to much for a 12 year old...). We split the box with him, keeping the rules and orks. we also got the necromunda box to supplement the 40k guys. it was cool for a while, then I gave away to card boar heroine (MTG). I played that for 9 years, and the ork stuff just languished in the closet.

Then i got the 3rd ed set, played around with that a little, didnt do to much, not even with my friend in HS. Then when I got to college, BOOM! I was blown into the game like never before. I purchased two of the original boxes sm stuff in it. It was crazy. I was always purchasing stuff online, a SM army, a Nid army, etc. I eventually sold off the SM and Nids, to much for me. But then I settled on Eldar for my second army.

Then I got into fantasy a year later, wood elves. now i've started to paint a tomb king army.

In 4 years I've i've spent about 3-4k on warhammer. wowzer.

I first discovered Minis when a good friend brought some of his lord of the rings minis to school. I was hooked. So, I went down to the shop and bought a box of lizardmen. Only becuase of the way they looked!

two_heads_talking wrote:My first GW purchase was bloodbowl. my second purchase was space hulk.. my third purchase was necromunda..

my first fantasy army (after all the above purchases) was about 10 years after my first GW purchase and it was Orcs and Goblins..

Why the 10 year gap? busy with the 3 games? or generally just lost interest?

It's been great to read eveybodies first experience with the hobby and to see that mine is similar to a few.

I was about six years old and I didn't live in a very good area but I had a good friend across the road who was about four or five years older than me. We had a lot in common as we both enjoyed learning about wars and such so we were a good match. One day he invited me over as his dad had set up a gaming table. I was very confused but went in and saw a green table with rivers and hills on it. And a bunch of models on top. My friend taught me the rules and we played a few games over the course of the next few days. I was hooked. It wasn't until I was seven that I managed to convince my dad to buy me the starter set. So we went to Argos where I picked up the 2nd Edition box set. I was overjoyed but horrified at the cardboard ork dreadnaught

I painted all the marines and orks with poster paints as I couldn't afford anything else. I made a chapter called the Diamond Marines and I don't think I have them any more. I remember my first blister was a Cadian sergeant and a trooper. Cost me a months pocket money. I still have them. I remember everything was so brightly painted back then, it hurts my brain to remember.