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my friend showed me the dawn of war winter assault, and my stepdad signed a deal with black libary
then igot macragge

Worked at a comic book store. I was hesistant to try it at first but one of our quarterly sales meetings became a GW presentation and I bought a Chaos Rhino that night. It all went downhill from there :p

A classmate brought a White Dwarf to school when I was in the 6th grade. I stole it.... and fell in love with the 'eavy Metal section! About a month later I bought the game (the one with all the grots) and my painting adventure began. Really didnt start playing until 2009 tho.

I have played Btech and RISK, but not at the fevered pitch I devote to 40K. Looking at starting Warmachine next!

My mum said I needed to play less video games and get a hobby and I knew a guy at school who played so I asked him if I could play a demo game with him sometime, hence my wargaming life began.

My dad got me started with Panzerblitz at a young age. When most kids were playing ball outside, I was moving armored units around the Eastern Front.

I remember visiting a friend of a friend years ago and seeing a bunch of awesome little models covering the shelves in the basement (her dad played, I think). Thought it looked cool, but I didn't know what it was, at the time. A few years after that I horked a copy of Dawn of War and had some fun with it. RTSs are pretty hit or miss, for me, so I played a bit but never got hooked on the series. I think I was looking online for related torrents and came across the motherload - core rules, expansions, codices... all the .pdfs and even a folder of paperhammer plans! Immediately ganked it and started reading. Not too long after that, I was cruising Ebay for the AoBR set - my first (and probably best) 40K purchase.

I voted DoW, for simplicity's sake, but there's an element of introduction (without explanation) by a friend, as well.

Me and a buddy played Dawn of War and have been hooked ever since!!

I was already playing AD&D (1st Edition) and Champions (3rd Edition), this was like 1989 or so, and one day I walked into my FLGS and saw a copy of Rogue Trader and bought it after reading maybe two pages and flipping through it once. I didn't realize it was a wargame and not an rpg until I got home.

I couldn't afford enough models back then to play 40k properly, they were crazy expensive when I was 13, but I had a handful of models and basically played 40k like it was D&D with my friends. We just made up our own campaign rules (that were super, super broken). Eventually I talked my parents into getting me Adpetus Titanicus and Epic Space Marine for Christmas and my birthday respectively, and that was the first wargame I got into. Then in high school I got into Mordheim and Necromunda, and one of my friends had Space Hulk.

But I only started playing WHFB in the last few months, after more than a decade away from wargaming at all, after finding out that there was a store in my neighborhood. And while I have the latest edition of the 40k rulebook (not as kewl as Rogue Trader by a long shot), and a 1500 pt CSM army, I haven't actually played 40k yet.

I got into wargaming at about the age of 11 when my dad finally decided I played too much WoW. Like, my grades suffered because of it and by the end of it all I still only had a level 20 rogue :( Anyway, one day he's like "There's this cool game I found called Warhammer" and then we bought BFSP. That's pretty much it.

Mr. Self Destruct wrote:I got into wargaming at about the age of 11 when my dad finally decided I played too much WoW. Like, my grades suffered because of it and by the end of it all I still only had a level 20 rogue :( Anyway, one day he's like "There's this cool game I found called Warhammer" and then we bought BFSP. That's pretty much it.

How long did you play wow for because I played on the 10 day trial then the free month you get when you buy the battlechest and I've got around a level 50 warlock. I didn't find it difficult at all and I wasn't like an addict who does everything infront of the screen I played at a leisurely pace, anyways thats OT but I wish my dad bought me miniatures (I'm 14)! Maybe I should become a wow addict.

In 1969 I was given the game Gettysburgh as a present from my parents and is is still sitting around in a closet somewhere or maybe a box as my wife and kids moved last year. In 1974 I received the original AH Third Reich game. My first miniatures were for a role playing game that at the time was just called Dungeons & Dragons and at the time my friends and I had no idea what that would eventually turn into as we played it off and on for quite a while. I then got into a Space based wargame called Rogue Trader and have been supporting the daemons at GW ever since.

Fighting Fantasy books at break in school with a cople of my mates.

Older brother's friend showed me his 40k models, thought it was pretty cool, but then many years later I picked up the game dawn of war and remembered "this was the same thing that guy showed me years ago!" and then I bought a few marines and was hooked from then on. Thanks Relic.

I was introduced by a friend, but as a little kid I loved building models and spent many Saturday mornings playing with plastic army men. We used set up dioramas on a 8'x4' plywood table in a friends basement. Wargamming was really the next logical step once I could start working and had disposable income.

I just wish I had started earlier so I could have gotten my parents to buy me more ! You kids who live at home learn from my mistake and milk your parents for all the miniatures they're worth !

i was BORN into 40k xD

Walked into a hobby store with the intention of picking up some paintballs...as I was looking around I saw a table set up with just some ruins and stuff asked the store guy what it was for and he said.....Warhammer....walked out with Paintballs, a box of Emperors Children and a chaos codex......had to go back later because I didn't realize I needed the Big Book, lol.

I went over to a rather wealthy friend from school's house and he had second edition boxed set. fairly well painted too! Thats where it all started!

Introduced by a friend at about nine years old playing some form of GW top trumps and then beating each other up pretending to be and I guote 'Space Marines and weird green tubby things'

I can remember my first game of Dawn of War, Chaos and Orks versus Space Marines and Eldar, *sighs while reminiscing*

I was introdused by my now much hated frieand(he hates me now because my army was biger then his in 2 weeks then his in 2 years) i stared VC and now play VC and 40k SM

Walked past a hobby shop, and it was love at first sight!

Space Crusade as a 9year old Happy memories *sniff*

I went to some fantasy gaming camp or something and I learned about it there

Walk past the warhammer section in a local toy/gamestore in my youth and have been stuck ever since.

I was at some party at the home of my parents friends, whose children had Wood Elves, and they then showed me other warhammer armies. I found it interesting and decided to start play Undead. That was very long ago, I think I was eight years old or so.

I was going home on a bus when I noticed my friend was reading a book (last editions Space Marine codex) with some dudes in it who looked pretty cool. I went over to him and thats kind of how I started. I now have a Salamander Marine force which is funny because:
A. All Space marine codexes mainly advertise Ultramarines
B. I originally wanted to collect Raven Guard

friends got me into LOTR and the DoW got me into 40k

I'm a little surprised this wasn't a poll option, but through the 40k RPGs, mainly Rogue Trader. A few others I know got into it that way, too.

I voted other. I had seen it once as a passing memory when i was younger. I decided recently that wargaming is fun, and choose warhammer as my first game. Read the books, played a few games with a battleforce. Now I play a large Tyranid army in as many games as possible!

I said introduced by a friend, my best friend had been playing for years and his birthday was coming up and so I went and got him a box of Dark Elf warriors for him. He said I should go with him and see some games so I did and it went from there.