What was your first WHFB OR Wh40k Unit/Army and Why did you pick it?

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**artyboy**

Fantasy chaos. I picked it because I had a battlemaster's game lying around and they looked a lot tougher than the empire figs that it came with. I even made custom cardboard bases for all of the miniatures because there wasn't a game store within 50 miles of my house

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**mercer**

Battle for Macragge was my first boxset

**Ktulhut**

First fantasy was a box of the old single-pose black orcs, and first 40k was a few weeks later: The old plastic termagants.

**Asherian Command**

I found out what happened to my Terminators that I thought I kept my brother took them :sob:

**oni**

2nd edition box set. Space Marines and Orks. Painted the Space Marines with Testors model paint in the Ultramarines color scheme because those were the colors I had handy.

**Crazy_Carnifex**

Lessee...

12 Genestealers (Oldschool)

10 Termagants (like in Ktulhut's post)

**Ratius**

Space Wolf Bloodclaws circa 1993 from a Virgin Megastore.

Yes I picked them because they looked cool.

**Battle_Brother_Bruening**

My first army is IG, in fact I am still working on them. Either adding more today or next week. Currently at ~500 pts

i picked IG because I wanted a challenge and in so doing the only challenge is finding money.......

**vishra**

My first army is the one I started two weeks ago: Dark Eldar. Some of my friends at college have been playing on campus for the past couple years, and I played occassionally with a friends Tau. Finally decided I wanted to get into it myself, and the Dark Eldar and I fit pretty perfectly, so I went out and got a few boxes. I mean, in the absence of space ninjas, space pirates are obviously the best

**hemingway**

Orks were my first army back in 2nd ed. I had over 100 gretchin and would just mob the guy.

**Ktulhut**

vishra wrote:My first army is the one I started two weeks ago: Dark Eldar. Some of my friends at college have been playing on campus for the past couple years, and I played occassionally with a friends Tau. Finally decided I wanted to get into it myself, and the Dark Eldar and I fit pretty perfectly, so I went out and got a few boxes. I mean, in the absence of space ninjas, space pirates are obviously the best

DE get harlequins,who when painted black are absolutely space ninjas. Bonus points for painting their faceplates kabuki sytle.

**blood reaper**

5 Termagants

**Maenus_Rajhana**

Skaven, back in 4th (5th? don't remember for sure) ed WHFB. My buddies and I had been playing Warhammer Quest for a while, and decided to make the jump to the full-blown game. I had no idea what the Skaven were, but they had a cool icon and the little green pamphlet at the store sounded intriguing. Soon I was knee-deep in rats and cackling maniacally at my giant hamster wheel crashing into enemy units.