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Hello, I'm a long time player of 40k who is returning after a 4 year hiatus (3 years since I painted anything). I had been considering returning to 40k ever since I finally fully kicked my World of Warcraft addiction. I ran across a podcast known as 40kradio which took the smoldering coals that I'd kept for 40k and fanned them into a massive blaze. Now I am gathering materials to repaint my forces to standard and continue the fight into 5th edition.

I started gaming when I was 5 on my father's computer. My father had built models as a child. I think somewhere, I was instinctively programmed to take that fascination to a massive new level. I first noticed GW miniatures in the various shops where I was purchasing Magic cards and what not at the time. I had also seen the massive collection of Ral Partha D&D miniatures my friend and his father owned and used.

One day I was over at a friends house a number of years later, I discovered the 1992-1994 GW catalogs. I'm not sure where he got them but I couldn't help but thing that they were interesting. My friend then got Gorkamorka and we fiddled around with that for a bit. I purchased a Space Marine Bike around this time, painted it black as I recall. I happened to be with one of my childhood mentors at a gaming store. The local gaming club was meeting at the time. Something on the table caught my eye. At that time it was a new release, not so much [urlhttp://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1252704_99120104016_EldarFalconmain_873x627.jpg]anymore[/url]. It was painted in Alaitoc colors as they were then. So thus I set on the path of the Second Edition as it died. I lead my Eldar (in Biel-Tan colors) to victory in 3 games before falling victim to the rumors of the nerfing that was Third. Being young in age and short of wisdom, I quit 40k and took up Fantasy for a while.

Due to family issues I moved to Georgia shortly there after. Both my armies, or rather the pieces I'd kept, were lost in the move. In Mid 2001, older and wiser, I took up 40k again. Again I picked Eldar, this time with a scheme derived from 5th Edition Dragon Princes of Caledor. My army was and still is rather haphazard but I managed to tailor it into a nasty little force at least from a casual play standpoint. I didn't have much chance to play 40k on a really regular basis as I could never convince my friends to join up (they liked Mage Knight :( )

I played a good many games between 2001 and 2004 especially during the Eye of Terror. I saw combat in a number of mega battles at the GW store that was then located at Discover Mills. I also took part in Games Day Atlanta 2004 (I have the Archaon and the badge to prove it) picked up nearly enough Fire Dragons from the speed painting thing to make a viable squad. I brought my skaven army newly assembled, having wanted to field it in the upcoming Storm of Chaos summer campaign. I was the only straight up baseline Skaven list player I saw that entire campaign. Everyone else was some twelve year old with a bunch of ninja rats. I once took a direct charge at a mega battle from a fair sized unit of Bretonnian Knights Errant under that vicious little Errantry list. It stopped the table, sword wielding Clanrats, breaking a unit of Knight Errant on the Errant's charge. Of course the Errant regrouped and came racing back to my poor rats' demise. All in all, I got consensus MVP for the section I was playing on as opposed to the Chaos Knight/Grail Knight brawl at the other end of the section where the horses did all the fighting.

At the end of that summer I went to college, figuring that I'd take a break from wargaming and get back into it when I had settled in a bit. However, a certain MMO with politically correct orcs in it waylaid me for a good while followed closely by the demise of the last FLGS that had actual tables and such to play on inside. It was a Fantasy/Warmachine dominant environ so my Eldar haven't seen battle since late 2004 and my Skaven haven't fought since late 2005.

I played DnD and such heavily for a few years, got into EVE online and then picked up WoW again for a few months. All the while, the spirit of wargaming sat like Ynnead, dully pulsing. I then finally kicked my WoW habit for good by speed leveling a Blood Elf Retribution Paladin to 70 in a absurdly short amount of time. I realized that I had seen the entire game for the most part without an insane level of commitment; that I was bored stiff by it. I had literally done and seen everything that was worthwhile in that watered down excuse for a WHFB knock off. One can only take so many pop culture references in one's fantasy before it becomes trite.

I then went on my way until I stumbled across 40k Radio, this turned the sleeping spirit of 40k into a raging beast. I then began to race as fast as I could to get back up to speed with the hobby and such. Being that Atlanta proper still seems devoid of places to play or buy minis, I began looking to the suburbs for such things. I managed to find a place where I can buy such things but no playing haunts as yet. Doesn't matter that much in the short term, I plan to redo my Eldar army's paint job and composition so it won't be battle ready for some time. I've debated whether to go with the standard Craftworld look like I did before or to do something more piratical. I've even toyed with the idea of Chaos Eldar, perhaps led by the corrupted Eldrad or some such. (He did die last I heard which means technically Chaos would potentially have dibs on him.)

Anywho, I had heard tales of Dakka over on 40k Radio's Freebootaz forums as well as Warseer and B&C but it was the D6G 5th Ed preview that convinced me to mosey on over here and take a look at participating for myself.

Welcome to Dakka,

great intro

HFN

Welcome ot the forums

I see you, Eldramesha!!

Good day to you. Verbose and informative intro-Well done!

Welcome to Dakka!

Welcome aboard man. There's a solid Atlanta contingent here on the forums. I'm in similar shoes, coming back to the hobby after a long break (and a bit of WoW...) and dealing with restructuring and repainting an army, while trying to find local spots to throw down.

Check out:
The Gaming Pit a bit north of Decatur
Hobbytown USA in Kennesaw

There's also a GW store proper way up at Mall of Georgia, but rumor is it's going to be closing. Grain of salt not included.

Welcome to Dakka!

Teek wrote:Welcome aboard man. There's a solid Atlanta contingent here on the forums. I'm in similar shoes, coming back to the hobby after a long break (and a bit of WoW...) and dealing with restructuring and repainting an army, while trying to find local spots to throw down.

Check out:
The Gaming Pit a bit north of Decatur
Hobbytown USA in Kennesaw

There's also a GW store proper way up at Mall of Georgia, but rumor is it's going to be closing. Grain of salt not included.

Welcome to Dakka!

Main issue with me, is that I'm MARTA bound though I'm sure I can find rides eventually.