Nevelon wrote:
I always looked forward to the Golden Demon issues. So many beautiful models.

I liked the tale of four gamers series. Each month 4 guys would have a budget (I forget how much) to add to their army to build and play. Was fun from a more practical point, as hobbyists would build an army up with realistic limits, and a mix of modeling fun and tabletop goals.

 ChazSexington wrote:
Index Astartes was awesome, I think that was my favourite.

 Scion of the Emperor wrote:
Definitely the battle reports - they taught me tactics
The ones nowadays are lacklustre and short (not to mention very rare)

 Skriker wrote:
I always liked White Dwarf BEFORE it became a house organ, when it was a generic gaming magazine. My first issue of White Dwarf was in the teens, 14 or 15 I believe. It had articles on Call of Cthulhu and D&D and other games.

 Gashrog wrote:

 Skriker wrote:
I always liked White Dwarf BEFORE it became a house organ, when it was a generic gaming magazine. My first issue of White Dwarf was in the teens, 14 or 15 I believe. It had articles on Call of Cthulhu and D&D and other games.

White Dwarf was pretty much always a house organ, they were just a lot more subtle about it: Before Warhammer took off GW's bread and butter was import and distribution - if you bought any American RPG product in the UK at the time chances were it was imported or even printed under license by GW. It's ironic that GW subsequently started to falsely refer to 'The GW Hobby' as the be-all and end-all of gaming when once upon a time - at least in the UK - it actually had been.

I loved the good old days, like when the demo for Battlefleet Gothic was released as a selection of cardstock punch outs of cruisers, blast markers, etc, so you could play cruiser clashes with the beta rules included.

The late 90's early 2000's were awesome years to read White Dwarf.

 wuestenfux wrote:
Well, I remember the glorious column by the ''brain'' JJ.
I don't miss it.

Tycho wrote:

I loved the good old days, like when the demo for Battlefleet Gothic was released as a selection of cardstock punch outs of cruisers, blast markers, etc, so you could play cruiser clashes with the beta rules included.

The late 90's early 2000's were awesome years to read White Dwarf.

Agreed. Remember "Brewhouse Bash"? It was a mini game that came in a mid/late 90's White Dwarf. It was a small map of a pub and was basically a game about Orcs having bar fights. A real gem.

Like others, I also loved the old staples like, "A Tale of Two Gamers" and the great battle reports. One of my favorites was from the "Fat Bloke" era of White Dwarf and (I *THINK*) might have been one of the first appearances of the White Scars. The studio had just made a new trench battle game board and wanted ot use it for a battle report. Fat Bloke ran his White Scars army against Phil Kelly's entrenched CSM. In retrospect the bike army was an odd choice for trench warfare but it kind of helps illustrate some of the craziness of the time. Niether the game nor the makers of the game took themselves too seriously at the time.

My other favorite was an issue that detailed terrain someone had made over a series of lunch breaks for his Lizardmen army. Great article with some cool techniques and materials. This was back when they would advocate going to craft/hobby/hardware stores rather than suggesting you buy GW OFFICIAL CARD STOCK(TM) or any of that nonsense.

Man I miss those days.

 foostick wrote:
I bought all the old issues I threw out when I got back into the hobby and they really hold up. Some of the terrain stuff was incredible. Always recall an awesome Necromunda board that was over 5 foot tall.