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Started by Sorck, September 01, 2013, 09:54:42 PM

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Pilum

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MY group at the time were playing D&D Basic, someone found a big book called "Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay". Looking this shop up got us into Blood Bowl (as we were major NFL fans too at the time) and then we saw some cool looking soldier models in the White Dwarf. So I got this "Warhammer 40,000" book and a box of "Imperial Space Marines". That would have been... let's see, second year seniors... '88, '89? Didn't really add to that (we got more into Titans) until there were alternate rules for using Orks in Space Crusade in the Dwarf, so I got the old plastic boyz (36 models for a tenner!) - saw that a rulebook called 'Ere We Go! was there (that and Freebooterz are still best army books ever, though the Realms of Chaos's are close behind. At least I've still got the latter!) and... yeah.

Drifted away just after 3rd (partly lack of opponents, partly utter frustration that my fairly reasonable 2nd ed Guard battlegroup couldn't do a blessed thing once the codexes started rolling (I think the rulebook lists themselves gave a fairly decent game, but some codex options just went OTT for my taste)) and got more into historicals, fantasy and RP (that's never left me tbh, still my first love!), then the fantasy got dull and I was round a lot of people playing 40k. Had money and time, decided I'd go back to one of the first things I saw years ago that made me WANT SO MUCH - Eldar, c/o WD 127 (and subsequent).

And here I am. Sold or lost far too much cool old stuff that would have been nice to pull out as a change of pace but having a decent time nonetheless. Lots of things have changed - especially prices! - but I'm still getting a buzz, and that's the main thing.
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I started 40k about 9 years ago (LOTR for about a year before that). I started with Tyranids in 3rd edition, because they were the cheapest way to get an army (second hand models). I then came up with a concept for a Marine chapter, using the traits system. The trait system was, sadly, removed before I could get my army together, so I stuck with my 'Nids and adapted them slightly.

Then, when 5th edition rolled around I got a Dark Eldar army. I've toyed with house rules and the like in the meantime, specialist games like Gothic, and I've played Dwarfs in Fantasy, but first and foremost I remain a 40k player and a Tyranid player. Hopefully I'll be able to break out my first army again in November if the rumours are true and the author is sensible. :P
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Chicop76

I started in 3rd edition when Tau first came out. I remember the Dark Eldar and Mrine starter set. I would say I been playing atleast around 2003 I believe. Maybe as early as 2002.

I statred with Tau and Eldar and I think nids in 3rd. Played eldar, tau, nids daemons, ig, sisters, and grey knights in 4th. In 5th I played Daemons, IG, Grey Knights, Sisters, nids. In 6th I am playing Tau , Daemons, and Nids, with some IG.

Oh I did play marines for awhile. When rending was really good.

The first army I ever fought was Dark eldar and I did play Uthrwe Strike Force and a Kroot Mercenary army when they both use to be legal.

I ownd a Necron army which I played about once, sold for more Tau.

I played Orcs, Dark Eldar, and Blood Angels before when people complained about my list and I switch armies and played against my list and still won and asked them I don't think it was the list.

I have yet to play the following armies:
Space Wolves
Chaos Space Marines
Black Templar

Funny that I played all the xeno armies and not all the marine armies.

I still say Necorons used to be a very dry army to play, but marine type armies come really close to being dry as well.


crisis_vyper

I known the hobby around Fall 2005, but only truly started at around Winter of 2006. So based upon when I truly go all out for it, I would be in the Warhammer nonsense for about 7 years now.

I found out about the hobby by accident when I was searching for Gundam models, and once I found out the complexity of the story, awesome figures and also that you can play with them I was instantly sold. Started with Tau in 4th edition, and before long I have a plethora of armies (with two misadventures with Bloodbowl and Fantasy) before I finally getting 'married' to the army that won my heart during 4th, but dared not played it; Dark Eldar.

Funnily enough, all the old armies that I have not played for a while (Daemons, Tau and Chaos) are the top-tier armies, while the one I am playing currently is at best a upper mid-tier army. Plan to mainly play with Dark Eldar, Orks and Daemons as my three main armies while trying to find my older armies some new homes to live in.


Firey Baps

In total I have bought models for these armies:

High Elves **
Skaven **
Dwarves *
Lizardmen
Empire *
Chaos *
Eldar *
Dark Eldar *
Chaos Space Marines *
Space Marines **
Tau
Tyranids *
Imperial Guard **

The ones with asterisks had enough for an actual army, the ones with two asterisks are what were my favourite armies and I enjoyed playing and painting and spent considerable time on.

To this day I have no idea where that Dwarf army has got to, I packed it away somewhere and have no clue where it has gone. It has vanished off the face of the world. The chaos space marines are mainly space marines that have been converted. I actually began deconverting them just before I stopped hobbying. In an ideal world I'd like to go back and finish up painting them. Those Chaos Marines were my first army to take me to a fan based forum, which coincided with the online Fall of Medusa campaign.

I vaguely started Tau and joined the old Tau Online hoping for tips and whatnot, then I decided against going any further with them and went back to building up my Imperial Guard instead.

I figure if I had actually stuck to a couple of armies, one or two of those, mainly the Imperial Guard and the High Elves, would be absolutely massive.
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Restayvien

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Some great stories in here...the nostalgia is tangible. :)

I started in 1997 I think, around the dawn of 3rd Edition. I would have been 10/11. A friend of mine had some Ulthwe (in name only) Eldar models painted in various metallic colours which I thought were really cool. He showed me the local GW and I looked around to find something that I liked. I found one of the £5 boxes Veq mentioned with Khorne Bezerkers on the front of the box, and realised I was in a fairly special place, haha. I think I only had £4 on me so I bought a Khorne Bezerker Champion, which is still kicking around my house somewhere as I refuse to throw it away whenever I find it! Not long afterwards my parents bought me the 2nd Ed Space Marine/Ork starter box. KJ had the Space Hulk boxed set as well which was great fun.

I remember the new 3rd Ed Space Marine/Dark Eldar coming out and getting bought that. I started Dark Eldar for a while before my mum decided to sit down on them when they were piled up on my bed. Few survived. :P I've collected pretty much every race apart from Sisters of Battle since then.

I remember the release of the Necron Raiders and their rules (in an issue of White Dwarf I believe?), way before they got their own codex. The scarabs were pretty severe back then, ripping tanks apart left right and centre. Can remember the release of Battlefleet Gothic (I've collected Eldar, Imperial Fleet and Necrons), and Blood Bowl too though I only ever played half of an introductory game. Warmaster and LotR, still seem very recent to me. Even Inquisitor doesn't seem 'that' old. I shamefully jumped on the badwagon and started collecting Tau when they first came out as well, though dropping and smashing my Devilfish in KJ's back garden put a bit of a stop to that as I was so annoyed.

I liked some of the old specialist games too, never played Necromunda although I put some gangs down on paper, but I got a couple of great Gorkamorka games in the store on a desert board with an Ork fortress. I played one or two games of Epic 40,000 which I lost because my teammate didn't cooperate and lost our flank. Never got a chance to play...what was it called...the card came based on psychic abilities, Dark Millenium? Some of the old PC games were great too - Dark Omen, Final Liberation, the original Space Hulk.

I've collected Fantasy a few times too, Skaven originally and later Chaos Daemons. I'm still tempted by the Vampire Counts every now and again. I had Warhammer Quest for years as well and got some great games out of that before I traded it for a mountain of Orks which I gave to Diz. Have read so many 40k and Fantasy books as well...Gaunts Ghosts (Necropolis!) and the Gotrek and Felix books stand out as some of the best.

When I moved to my current town around 1999 I started a gaming club at my school, but that was always pretty small (usually only 4 or 5 of us). I recall a childhood friend of mine I hadn't seen for 6 or 7 years turned up once with a massive case containing a well crafted and painted Black Templars force which would crush us all under the tracks of his Landraider...good times. ^^
I only had two main opponents for years and years, KJ and his Orks (who I'd play against once a year when I visited him in Wales) and a mate of mine who lived nearby and collected Blood Angels. Lots of Marine vs Marine games, which I'd win more often than not as his force was combat and character oriented whilst mine was a large shooty force. Later on I'd give Diz a game every now and again.

Loads of good memories, shame it's so expensive and time consuming though. No room in my life or bank account for it any more, but I still play the games and read the books. I'll buy a codex and write lists every now and again, or buy models for the purpose of entering a competition on here. 8)

Pilum

To revisit this: had the idea of seeing just how the cost argument really stands up. I used http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html and used 1989 as my base year. I remember all the "big box" games then (Blood Bowl, Adeptus Titanicus, Space Hulk et al) cost £19.99 then. The venerable Space Marine box cost £9.99. Tossing those into the website gives a present value of £42.14 and £21.06 respectively.

Dark vengeance currently retails at £61.50, a box of tacticals £25. You can make your own judgement as to whether the better detailing options of the modern stuff outweighs the price and model count differentials. To be fair, though, the original 40k box (ie 2nd edition) might be a better comparator to DV and that retailed at £40 in 1993 - which in modern money comes to £69. A more damning example comes from my current project, 5 Aspect Warriors were listed for £2.99 in WD127 (July 1990) which is calculated to £5.76. 5 + an exarch on the website today is £24...

I acknowledge this approach could be seen as simplistic but it was an interesting exercise - and for what it's worth, the way I feel about trying to justify 40-odd quid today to my wife is still roughly as intimidating as £20 did to 13/14-year-old me to my parents! (You can all keep the amateur psychoanalysis to yourselves! ;D )

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