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Yeah, a few of us played at each others houses for a while. Problem was that i lived near a very small city and the GW store was the hub that us gamers used to meet and greet new arrivals to the gaming scene.

Not having thntrnteiee back then we lost our main supply of fresh blood and as such, our gaming at each others houses soon became the same 8 or so people with the same armies week in week out.

But, enough of this gloom This is supposed to be a thread about the joys of returning to the hobby!

Yes, GW is still overpriced, pushy, and a big mean corporate money making machine....

....But it's good to be back with a group of friendly gamers once more

Oh, OK. I'm glad that things improved, eventually.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:/pauses to check his pocket watch and noting the time, passes out the cognac and cigars.
Gentlemen, this thread makes me happy. Let me propose a toast, To the two tome Realm of Chaos, to Specialist Army Lists in White Dwarf, to the Ambull, to a model without red on it and to a page of new miniatures in a white dwarf that each had an amusing name.
Saluté

Kanpai!

[sniffs and wipes away a nostalgic tear...]
It was summer (because I wasn't in school), of... 1988 I think. Same year the RTB-01 (plastic beaky goodness) came out. I bought Rogue Trader, RTB01 and a handful of Testors enamels, then proceeded to paint them up in a god awful black and silver paint scheme. The Tyranids wore power armor and wandered around over near the Eye of Terror before it retconned into existence. IG had land speeders, tanks were all scratchbuilt and I converted some of my D&D minis with space marine parts to make... (looks around conspiratorially) Squats.
[sniffs again]
I miss my Squ.. I mean Tyranid food.

For me, it was a stepfather who moved us around like we were Romani. I would just start to get to know the locals and get a game or two in, and then we were off again. That and a general lack of money. I hung in through the start of 2e, got into WHFB for awhile, did some Space Hulk, Talisman, Epic and Man O War. I especially loved Man O' War. But generally ended up staring at my miniatures with no one to play with and just drifted out of it, although I carted my minis and rulebooks around for years, just never unpacked them. About a year ago, a crooked landlord and illness on my part left us with a week to find a place and not much money to do it with. The SO's kids were all moved out, so we ended up in this tiny little 1 bedroom place with a kitchen smaller than the walk in closet in my first house. Ended up giving away almost all of my roleplaying and wargaming things away to people before I moved. Ended up sucked into the DoW RTS (and expansions), and naturally, after I made the decision to not drag the packed up minis along this time, I have decided to get back into the game.

Khornholio wrote:I was taking a gander through Rogue Trader the other day...

I wonder how many of us are guilty of that little pleasure?
I was going through RT yesterday and spent a few hours amusing myself with all the changes that have been made over the... oh crap, it has been decades... Orks who had some semblance of aiming skills. Space Marines who weren't built from indestructium, or 8' tall. Vortex grenades (ok, maybe I don't miss those so much ). Anyone remember the mutation chart? That was great fun.

Khornholio wrote:
Games Day 2033

Hey, the guy on the right, behind his head. It's the new GW "authorized" terrain sculpts. I heard they'll be a sentence in WD about it giving a cover save. And maybe another one about how if it's at home with your friend, you can have it eat everyone on the table. Except Lucius. Or Cypher.

Khornholio wrote:Does anyone else miss Man-o-War (the game not the band)? They brought back Gothic, why not Man-o-War? Or Dark Future? Some of my best High School Memories involve "White Line Fever".

[sniff] I miss Man O' War. It was probably my favorite GW game. I'm sure GW kicked themselves over it, seeing as you could compile a fleet large enough to play with and still have your limbs and custody of your first born. Never could stand the Elven ships though. Always seemed kinda clunky to me.

Natorum wrote:Now someone's mentioned the music I have to wonder what everyone else used to listen to when painting their models...Anyone else still listening to the same damn music while they paint?

Yup. Ministry. Machines of Loving Grace. Skinny Puppy. Especially Skinny Puppy if CSM are involved. I put that CD in on repeat one weekend and went on a 36 hour painting jag for an Epic scale CSM army. To this day, if I hear a song from that album it makes my fingers twitch and want to paint.

njpc wrote:Its sad that reading this thread i'm remember GW once had a record label... with a band called Bolt Thrower I think.

I think a lot of us may remember that actually. Even sadder, I just googled them. They have a web page. Recently updated. http://www.boltthrower.com/news/news.php

I have to admit, I felt a bit of trepidation getting back into things. I walked past the LFGS in the mall a while back and the sheer number of kids who weren't even born when I first started playing was daunting. I started asking myself, "Do I even have a place in this world?" I felt very much like a dinosaur. Or a Squat. Jokes about "uphill both ways through the snow" and snickering at the retcons aside, this thread has probably given me more... I guess "confidence" is the word that I'm looking for. That I'm not alone in a sea of barely pubescent gamers who don't remember a time before Necrons. By this point, I have been excessively verbose, so if I may borrow from MGS, a toast, to all of you, for making dinosaur feel a little more at home.

Kanpai!!

And for the record, I'm pretty sure the Eye of Terror was actually created as a result of the collective mass of the dimensional rips at the bottom of all of our wallets that sucked our money straight into GW's coffers.

The rising prices and bad rules didn't though

I really sympathise with it becoming the same players, same old armies as well, gets very dull and boring after a while.

Any chance o getting some of you fellow dino's to chime in on a post I just made?

[ http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/259737.page ]