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Rebel_Princess





While I've heard of people who got started in the hobby with the LotR sets when the Peter Jackson movies were still current, I've been wondering who here used to play games like 40k, AoS, or Warmachine before deciding that MESBG was the one game to rule them all? Do you still play with your other toys, or try to keep current with the ever shifting metas of more mainstream games? Was there a group of LotR players waiting for you, or did you have to build a community from the ground up? What's your story?
   
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Enemy of the Dúnedain



Italy

I started with the Hobbit starter set. Before that I played Warhammer Fantasy Battle.
Now I only play ME:SBG among GW systems (and Necromunda sometimes) as I honestly think this ruleset is far superior than the others GW games.
   
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain






A Protoss colony world

My first tabletop miniatures game was this one, with the Mines of Moria starter set back in 2008. Never actually got to play back then except for a couple of test games with my brother. I picked up stuff for a bunch of other armies in the next couple of years but still didn't play, then I got into 40k and kind of forgot about the ME game, until very recently when some local folks got interested and now I have people to actually play with!

My armies (re-counted and updated on 11/1/23, including modeled wargear options):
Dark Angels: ~15000 Astra Militarum: ~1200 | Adeptus Custodes: ~1900 | Imperial Knights: ~2000 | Sisters of Battle: ~3500 | Leagues of Votann: ~1200 | Tyranids: ~2600 | Stormcast Eternals: ~5000
Check out my P&M Blogs: ZergSmasher's P&M Blog | Imperial Knights blog | Board Games blog | Total models painted in 2023: 40 | Total models painted in 2024: 7 | Current main painting project: Dark Angels
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Regular Dakkanaut





Diddo, to MESBG being my first, way back when the magazine first came out. Played for 6-7 years and then stopped. Later in life a friend would get me into 40k and then just this year I got back into Middle Earth (the new Easterlings were too tempting to ignore). I still play 40k from time to time, but I'm no longer spending any money on it, just playing with my existing models.
I've dug up my old models from way back when, so will be adding the new Easterlings to them and later starting a brand new dwarf army.
   
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter







LotR was one of the first things I got into, back when I was in middle school and I wanted a fantasy game but getting a whole WHFB army was outside of my price range. I've since branched out and played lots of wargames; I've never considered LotR one of the main things I do, just because it falls into a kind of stagnant hero-duel meta depending on what the people around you have if you don't make an effort to shake things up, but I like it and it's stuck around in my library longer than pretty much anything else.

As far as the other parts of the question there are a few other LotR gamers, but they're mostly people I've introduced to the system, and I do still play a lot of other games; MCP and Infinity see my tables more frequently than anything else these days.

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Hardened Veteran Guardsman




I wish I had started with this game. I've been strugling with learning 40K due to time commintments for the last 3 years. It was far to complex for my first war game.

Recently I had a demo game of ME:SBG and instantly got it. It's an elegent system which is simple to pick up. A good balance of dice rolls meaning something without being so granular as to bog the game down. Combat is clear and the rules aren't bloated with exception after exception.

It's the perfect game to introduce war gaming and I really think GW should look into using it as such in stores.

As to locally there is a small but solid group which was a suprise as there is very little obvious as everyone also plays other games.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut




Started with 1:72 scale world war 2 back in the late 1980's...

got hold of the Mines of Moria box about 15 years ago and found I liked it but no one locally played it, only started playing again late last year with the Pelenor Fields box, this is easily the best fantasy combat game GW put out, easy to get into but with a lot of depth to gradually get sucked into.

Also perfect for someone new to the hobby as a box of 24 infantry for just about any faction can, with a tad of imagination and maybe painting base rims different for a few generic captains, be a playable army to get going with
   
 
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