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Long story....

Me and a couple of friends used to go to this Internet cafe to play WoW or CSS or COD etc. Gaming happened back then, although i only noticed card gaming. I didn't go all that much, every other week probably. But we found out it was closing, and since i was going there fairly often, i told my Mum and Step-Dad, and a couple of weeks later, they had 'bought the place' (well the technically bought the business/stock and agreed to take the lease over). My Step-Dad was incharge, and kept one of the former 4 employees on, just to help him get started. So i was helping out as well, not much to start with. But once this other guy left, i became ore involved, and because of the Magic, 40k and Pokemon nights, there were 3 days a week, when the shop was open for 9-11 Hours. So i would loo after the place after school for 2/3 hours while he went home for a bit. And then i stayed and played on the PCs.

I watched the 40k a bit, it was pretty much all 40k, but i wanted to play LOTR, so i asked around. And one person had some LOTR and wanted to play, so i played a few games, and then some of the other gamers said i should get 40k since thats what everyone else plays (this person i was playing, didn't want to play LOTR every week either). So as payment for my first few months helping out (i wasn't officially working at this point) my Step-dad bought me about £200 worth of Chaos on ebay (about 5000+ points) And thats how i got into war-gaming

I first started painting them for fun, because i thought they looked cool. Genestealers were the first i bought, then some space marines. After collected a few and painting them i was asked if i played, and thought why the hell not i'm this deep in.

I picked up my first set of 40k models back in high school. I went to my LGS to pick up some comics and the store owner was in the middle of a game of fantasy.

I watched for a bit, mainly admiring the paint job of his Bretonians (I think), then he showed me some of the stock he carried. I ended up grabbing the 40k box at the time. It was the Black Templar and Dark Eldar set. Ended up painting most of the Marines as Ultras, then they sat in my attic for years.

Graduated college, moved back home, and as I was cleaning out my stuff when I stumbled upon the long lost box of figures. Now for the sad, scary, part of the story... I packed up the Marines and took the little tackle box of unassambled DE bitz and threw it in the trash. Why? I do not know, but I'm still kicking myself to this day.

Anyway, the box sat in my closet for another year or so when I randomly took a trip back to the LGS to pick up a copy of Carcassonne. I stumbled upon Doom: the board game (big Doom fan). After playing a few games with some friends I decided the figures needed to be painted.

It took a few weeks, but I managed to complete the set. They looked pretty good and, somehow, made the game more fun. I wasn't done yet, though. I still had an itch to paint some more. Out came the Space Marines. I did a little research and decided upon the Space Wolf paint scheme (I liked the colors), then learned, through dakka, how to properly strip models.

After painting up atleast 500pt of Wolves, I started getting curious about the actual game, so I went out and bought the current rules and a copy of the SW codex, so here I am.

Sorry for writing a book.

A friend stumbled upon Gorkamorka online (I think) and asked me if I wanted to share the starterbox with him. I thought it was interesting and said yes, we never got around to actually playing the game and gradually lost interest for years. Later, when AOBR was just coming out I wandered into the local GW to see if Gorkamorka still existed and got interested in 40k instead, been playing since. I still have the Gorkamorka models though, thinking of using them in my current army

Heroquest + a lucky white dwarf which happened to have the opening of the only irish store at the time!

Went to a friends house and he had a a huge battlefield set up with marines, that was when i was 9.
Then a GW opened locally at age 11.
Another friend showed me LoTR warhammer at 12.
DeAgnostic released the LoTR magazine and I got everyone 13-15.
And it's just gone down hill from there.

I was seven or something, and my mom was at a cafe with her book club, and I was always required to come. anyway, she let me wander into the "Game Shop" next door. I guess she didn't relise the "game shop" was actually a GW store! She then went to the cafe, and left me with the company of the shop owner. Anyway, within minutes I was hooked, I liked the ponies (wood elves on horses) and GANDALF! In the end, after much pleading, my mum got me the painter starter kit with 5 SM and paints. I loved the models! Only I wasnt the greatest painter so i decided i would return to the hobby when I became 12!
I forgot...
But in grade nine my cousin came over to stay and had a few models with him, warhammer models! Anyway, I demanded that my mum bring me to the hobby shop again.

THE REST IS HISTORY!

Well, I started reading the books first but I got into the game by hearing a friend of mine talk about it

I was an "Other" vote.

When I was in 6th grade, I walked past a shop in a mall with my mom and saw a couple small display minis. You know the ones with a dragon and a crystal? It was small and there was another one, a demon with swept back wings. I thought it was sooooo cool. My mom bought it for me and I spent the next year in a toy shop at the mall where my brother had a restaurant. It was mostly board games and toys and such, but they had a few boxes of lead minis. Before long, I had about 30 minis and they were separated between "good guys and bad guys" and my friend an I made up some little rules to kill each other.

It wasn't until many, many years later that I got into WHFB (4th ed.). It was all downhill from there.




Ghidorah

When I was very ickle, my great uncle collected WW2 plastic kits/soldiers and would paint them and make massive dioramas in his garage on shelves. To a kid it was like seeing WW2 as it happened!

When I was like 14 or 15 a friend of mine wanted and got the Warhammer 40k basic set as a birthday present. Since I was the one into rulebooks it was up to me to understand the whole thing and we had a test game or two with the included space marines and orks. I quickly noticed how bad the 2nd edition orks were so I passed the opportunity to get the orks from the box to another friend and got some Eldar when I was in UK for the next time.

My brother picked up a magazine with "Cool lizardmen figurines in it", and after about a month of persuading each of us, we all picked up Warhammer Fantasy.

I would have said introduced by friend, but it is more like "introduced by nearby person". I chose other.

It's a longish story. I played the Space Crusade demo in the early 90's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_naUVG7oU This awesome beast of a game.

Then played the DoW series of games on the PC, had a few mates at school who were into it too, the painting and the gaming but I didn't know where to get the stuff from.

Eventually years, and years later up until 2 months ago, I started my new job, got talking to a GW rep and bought some Space Marines, a shed loads of paint, brushes etc and I've spent about £200 on paints, a command squad, a dreadnought, shrine of aquila, honoured imperium, a copy of the latest WD magazine, a Tau XV25 stealth team and a drop pod =]

I don't do things by half haha

I'm not into the gaming yet, I know of a couple of places that do it but I'd rather just paint because they look cool for the minute =]

After buying figures to use for Tunnels & Trolls, I bought Warhammer 2nd Edition in 1984.

The rest is history.

I saw my friends playing it at my school

A friend tried to get me into it by giving me a codex to read for a while, I was always a big sci-fi fan so it wasn't a big leap. Said friend now hates me because I got into it and his other friend didn't (ironicaly the one who didn't get into it helped me put together a chimera and wants a demo game).

was a mix foar me.... i bought dawn of war for my brothers 19th birthday and i downloaded it on my computer..aaaannd talked a bout it with a friend and he played warhammer 40k sooo he introduced me to it....now i have played 8 times and won 2 times

My friend got me into it a long time ago.
He quit right after I started.

I found bluetablepainting on youtube.

DoW, then shortly after I finish Storm Of Iron and saw it on the back page, then in like a week a friend told me

Me and my friend played Dow and Dow2 casually. A little bit before Xmas, we passed in front of a Hobby store while doing some little Xmas shopping. We went in and checked the prices and all and ended up buying AoBR and splitted it.

Long STory,

so when I was 9 or 10 I was into Yu-Gi-Oh and still went to see my local football (I don't now as it's so soul crushing and depressing, even when they win).
After some of the games my family and other friends would go to a local pub which would allow kids in a certain part of.
We found out some Sundays that was card tournaments, couldn't find out more details so resolved to turn up to one.
Turned out it was a M:tG pre-release but the guy running it told me they were part of a club and that I should check it out, after about 6 months of going I got into wargaming as many people did, and I've been going ever since

Battletech was purchased for me by an Uncle when I was still in grade school around 84. Although I didn't really play a lot until High School (when I played with a friend often) where I also started painting minis (had built and painted models previously).

Battlemasters and Heroquest (I owned battlemasters, not the other), Battletech, and Axis and Allies would be my intro into it.

The one kid at my school that does the same...

Wandered into my local GW all those years ago

I put in that my friend introduced me, but in fact I already knew about 40k from Dawn of War. We both were fans of the games and thought it would be interesting to start playing 40k. Glad we made that choice.

Ciaphas Cain books, borrowed from a friend

One of my employees was into it and thought they would try to get on my good side by introducing me to 40K... I got hooked but he still got fired

I actually found out that my dad had a first edition space marine model, he said it was a toy soldier, and one day I walked by toymaster, and saw new models, I thought yay more toys, then I had my first game, and I was hooked.