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brother marcus wrote:
Hi guys

I recently got one of my friends into 40k and he's borrowing my tau till he builds up his own army. I was just wondering how you all got into it

I got into it quite young ( I was the annoying kid that didn't really know the rules and fielded what was cool :p ) I always walked past the store that used to be rammed and thought it was so cool, and then I played firewarrior on the ps2 and was hooked I went into the store the next day had my intro game and brought some space marines and I still love em 10 years on

Wish I kept my first models though I've only got one of the poor guys left :(

So guys fire away !!

I was asked for 10 years to play it. Kept saying "No, Dungeons and Dragons is the only game I play and its way cheaper".

Then in 2004, a co-worker asked me if I had ever played it. I told him the same story. Later I talked to a friend who had Tau and he showed them to me. i saw Robotech. I was like "What the.... They have ROBOTECH? You can play ROBOTECH in this game? BAD ASS". I love love love the old series.

Later my wife asked the friend what she should get me for my birthday. He told her "Tau". She had no idea the beast she was unleashing. She got on Ebay and tracked down a "Tau" army, bought it for $173 (I know right). It was actually a pretty decent force, 1500 points.

That was 2004. That marked the end of my D&D only days and the beginning of something much bigger. I have been a voracious gamer ever since. I have an entire garage dedicated to Wargaming and am easily one of the biggest spenders at my store of models.

I love 40K, loved (past tense) Fantasy, love Flames of War, love WarMachine, love...basically... all of it. I've easily spent enough to buy a car on models.

Space Marine for the PC. For all its faults it is one of my favorite games of all time and helped launch my love of 40k. I'm currently working on recreating Titus and Sidonus for my Salamanders stern guard squad. Of course they'll be in pristine Macragge blue rather than ash colored green. Good times.

FM Argos

I was 19.
Spotted the RTB001 box set in a hobby store (NOT a games store. Just a shop that sold models and games stuff).
Then noticed the rulebook (Rogue Trader).

Picked up the book. Read through the background. It had elements of the stories I liked to read back then (Bits of Asimov's Foundation saga, bits of Dune, bits of starship troopers, bits of Judge dredd - merged into a semi-coherent melange.

I started off with LOTR SBG, and played that for 2 years. After a bit I began to get interested in the armies two of my friends at the store were playing, DA and Tau. I asked them about it and as soon as they'd described the setting I was hooked. I got some Tacticals because they looked badass and went from there (I got carried away with the Tacticals though, coming from LOTR the customsiation blew me away. I didn't know about codices and so ended up giving them illegal loadouts like dual plas pistols, dual chainswords and all the special weapons).

Mt mum bought my older brother some first edition warhammer bits and bobs, then we started getting white dwarf. There were about 3 or 4 photos of marines, the EARLY ones, which I thought were really cool (I was 10 in 1987). Then white dwarf started advertising the new rule book for first edition warhammer 40k, rouge trader. I saved up my pocket money and bought it on release week! SO yeah, I have been playing since it started....

Space Crusade and Hero Quest, when I was really small my eldest brother owned Space Crusade and his friend had Hero Quest so I'd join in or just watch, they moved away from it when they found cooler things, a few years later I found White Dwarf at a shop in town, got semi interested again, Firewarrior then sealed me wanting to get back into collecting Space Crusade, then I built a Space Hulk game from 2nd hand sales and the DOOM Board Game... Just kept going from there.

While in Japan eldest brother got back into it and got his eldest son involved, now the 3 of us play and share building armies and stuff.

That magazine that had the Lord of the Rings models with it got me into that, a few years later I finally went from 'aware of the other games' to 'looking into 40k' and soon made the switch.

Went into the local gaming room with my MageKnight force looking for a game, since my brothers weren't in the mood to play.

Didn't find one, but I ran into one of my friends playing WH40k there. Looked neat, and there were a bunch of people playing it, so I figured, "Why not."

Then I saved up for 3 months - being 13 and only having a $2.50 per week allowance and only if I cleaned my room - and bought a box of Dire Avengers, because they looked the coolest out of the boxes there and I had no idea about different factions, or needing a rulebook, or even that they came in multiple pieces and unpainted. Fortunately, I'd done some model airplane building and painting in previous years, so I had some plastic model glue and some paints and brushes already.

Didn't see any of those guys between 2003 (maybe 2004) and last year, because I got too sick to game and by the time I went back to the gaming room, I couldn't find anyone playing 40k there. Later that game room closed down. Last December or November, I went in to the local GW to get some paint, and thought I saw a couple of the people I used to play with. Didn't stop to say hi, because my social anxiety was kicking in a lot due to there being like 10-20 strangers there.

I started with some of the books (Space Wolf Omnibus, etc.) that my brother exposed me to. I was also a WHFB player a while back. The past year or so my brother has been pestering me to get into 40K and I finally did.

Well I got in to Fantasy first. My friend bought a boxed set back when it was Brets vs Lizards, probably 1996 or so. I was inspired and bought some Lizards. Another friend bought the 2nd edition 40k boxed set, however I couldn't really afford a 2nd army. I started Space Wolves but only had a shadow of an army until 3rd edition came out.

First GW product was HeroQuest back in the early 90s sometime, at the time I noticed a company on the box called Games Workshop and my juvenile mind though "wow, that must be the best place in the whole world", then something shiny took my attention away and I didn't think about the company till my early teens when a friend showed me these cool future soldiers with chainsaw swords and automatic rocket shotguns, there was that company again! Wait, they also make a version of HeroQuest with entire armies???!1

Like the guy above I ended up diving into Fantasy by splitting the Bretonnia/Lizardmen WHFB starterbox with another friend (who happens to frequent these boards too!) From there, it was inevitable that 40K crept in, it was 2nd ed at the time, I toyed with Ultramarines first, then Chaos Marines for quite some time, before settling on the mighty mighty iGuard. Got older, got into booze, cars, women etc, sold the Guard.

My mates in high school were really into Dawn of War which I had absolutely no interest in or the 40K background, as I was a Starcraft fanatic.

Then comes a rainy day and I had just missed my bus, which meant I had to wait half an hour til the next one. So, stepping into the local shopping centre to kill some time, I spotted a Games Workshop and decided to see what all the fuss my mates made about DoW.

A GW employee, in typical but friendly fashion, drags me into an introductory 40K game using the then newly released AoBR set. I quickly fell in love with it, helped by the knowledge that you could paint the minis yourself (I had no idea prior to this).

Forward five years and I've got a mountain of unpainted minis which is continuously growing.

White Dwarf articles before RT dropped.
They'd been showing teasers and models beforehand, and a mix of Mad Max and Star Wars looked cool.

We'd mark off a 6' square on my bedroom floor, and play using the mix of models available at the time.

Before that though, my Mum's mate told her about her son using Citadel models for DnD games, and bought me a box of adventurers.

Had been playing Fantasy with some friends for a couple years and then when 3rd edition came out in 1998 we decided to start fresh with 40k. Got some blood angels at the time which I still have, and over the years have managed to collect just about every single army to a sizeable force.

Seems like DoW was to the younger generation what Space Crusade was to us old grumps.

Yep, my first contact with 40k was Space Crusade. Still, I didn't get a taste of what 40k really was until summer 1994, when some friends and neighbors invited me over to a game and lent me a copy of the Codex Imperialis for me to read.

Now I think of it, soon it'll be 20 years from all that. Wow.

Early nineties - went to a game store to play some Battletech and saw some people playing Rogue Trader. So I would buy some models whenever I got the chance. Nothing matched up as the store just had a hodge podge of models so I built a mercenary force of whatever I could find.

My friend started talking about it in the military. Got me hooked instantly about the fluff. When returning to the reserve and resumed my civilian life, I bought my first AoBR starter set. It was lovely.

I was playing various role playing games and WFB when 40k came out. One of my friends bought a box of space marines and a few of us bought rogue trader. It wasn't the most popular game by a long way then. WFB ruled and role playing was still a better group activity with your friends. 40k just kinna snuck up over the years and took over. Took over everything.......scary

I started of with LOTR and quickly found an interest in 40k. My real intrested started when I started lurking about dakka. Brining me up to now, we're I'm getting my first box set next month.

FIRE OF WRATH!
Seriously, I had so much gun with heroquest, I soon bought space crusade, and the bigger games were the next logical step.


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Fun...

Kind of a fun thread to read.

I started playing Warhammer Fantasy when I was 9 years old. A friend of my eleven-year-old brother convinced him to play, and he, in turn, convinced me to join.
About two years later my brother stopped playing and I bought almost a battalion worth of Empire models for €10,- from him.

About a month ago, over six years and 7000 points of Fantasy later (2k empire; 2,5k orcs; 1,5k dwarves, 1k elves, and several Mordheim warbands), I decided to give 40K a try too. There was increasingly less Fantasy being played and more and more 40K at my flgs, and it sounded fun of course

I was always kind of interested, but Dawn of War pushed me over the edge to play.

 Tigramans wrote:
My friend started talking about it in the military. Got me hooked instantly about the fluff. When returning to the reserve and resumed my civilian life, I bought my first AoBR starter set. It was lovely.

Always wondered, what's the typical army actual Veterans go for?

I got Into 40k when me and my Mother were visiting the her new Boyfriend at the time Later to become her Husband and my stepfather and he suggested having a look at in the local GW as his two sons played and perhaps I would like to have a look? This was back in 3rd ed 40k we went in and I was taken back by the look of the 40k models I got a box of tau then and there. After I got my ass handed to me far to many times with the tau at my schools Warhammer club I had another look on the interwebs at the GW site at the different armies and the Guard jumped out at me I got box of the then new Cadians and then I was hooked.

About 5 of us got tired of losing in Twilight Imperium to one of our friends, so we were hoping a tactical game would level the playing field. He decided to play IG and SW and is undefeated still, but we have all at least one 1 game at this point.

Space Crusade in the early 90's, although I was unaware of the larger 40K world at the time.
It wasn't till the mid 90's that I got in to 40K proper.
I'd just come back from living in Israel for a couple of years and all my old friends had gotten into MtG while I was gone.
I went with them to a FLGS where they used to get their cards in order to buy some for myself.
I got there and lo and behold they also had a wall filled with 40K miniatures.
I used the money for the magic cards to buy a dreadnought and a space marine squad instead.

Got into the hobbying aspect about 6-7 years ago, after deciding to ditch this model range called Robogear. Built a relatively small (1500 ish points) Tau army which I detested doing after which point because of the god awful monotony and getting sick of the yellow colour scheme. Shelved it and sold it last year.

I created my own Space Marine Chapter, built it up for years and years, got AOBR and started an Ork army as well, then one day I walked into a Games Workshop store for the first time in a long while, and for some reason on this occassion the guy there offered to teach me the ropes of the tabletop game. I'd previously played a game or two with a friend using a horribly misrepresented idea of the rules, and I enjoyed the practice games quite a lot, which got me in to regular play.

I started my Imperial Guard a few months after starting playing for a 750 doubles tournament which our pair came fifth in out of about 25~ teams. I had tanks and my friend had Vendettas, probably the most fun tournament I've ever been to.

I also adored DOW and played it frequently around the time I got my Marines started, I've played every game in the series and I still play it now with mods. (Purgation over Kaurava for Soulstorm in particular rocks)

 Wyzilla wrote:

Always wondered, what's the typical army actual Veterans go for?

Define "actual Veterans".

Veterans aren't trained - they're grown. In combat.

Thinking about it, while Space Crusade was the first Citedel Miniatures game I got into, I probably spent more time playing those well known Games Workshop products Railway Rivals (A board you're supposed to draw on? NO WAY!) and Dracula