Your Gaming History Discussion

[Sorck]

Yet for me it's almost 60%

[Firey Baps]

There was a WD for Cities of Death that I remember distinctly because it had a really awesome Imperial Guard army that was set up for being Drop Troopers. The fella had done some really cool swampy mud effects on his sentinels, and I really wanted to copy it for swap mud for frozen on snow.

I really miss playing warhammer, I had a lot of fun with friends and that. I guess my only outlet is 40k games and reading the novels. I've missed a lot of the Heresy books though. I really want to re read Gaunts Ghosts.

Speaking of the games, has anyone seen Eternal Crusade? Because that looks awesome, and if it comes out in anyway like they are wanting it to it will be amazing.

For those who don't know - free players play as Orks, so there will be a shit ton. If you pay you can play as space marines, eldar or chaos marines. Apparently Tyranids are dev controlled, so they might just land on a planet and fuck shit up. Its an MMO and it'll be going on next gen consoles, you fight for control of a planet for a month and then move on. 

[Sorck]

I've only become a 'proper' gamer with a large painted army in the last two/three years (I would assume 3 now) as I decided I needed to have an army that was both painted and large. I decided on Guard as I wanted a bit of a change from the elitism of Eldar and the combat nature of Orks and Nids. I'd never really had tanks before you see. Since then I've built my guard up to about 4000 points of which 3500 or so is painted to at least a gaming standard.

More recently I've revived my original space marines as Blood Angels - I'm in the process of repainting the 10 terminators. The tactical marines were pretty badly damaged so they were scrapped and I instead bought 40 of them off of a friend at low cost. They go along with my Dante, Mephiston and assault squad I'd already bought to form a large BA army (will be about 2000 points). I'm probably going to look into building either a tactical reserve company or a battle company. I've also begun painting up my Orks. 5 Nobs took about a day to paint. I'll only be building them up to 1000 points or so though and they're primarily for display and use during combat patrol. If I was willing to spend money I'd add in a unit of kans, a KFF mek and a few grots. (Currently have 10 boys, 5 nobs, 1 boss, 1 trukk, 5 burna boys, 3 flash gits, Kaptin Badruck and 2 koptas in the WIP/to-paint list but I also have a further 30 or so boys). Lastly I've been painting up my Eldar using washes. Their 3 grav tanks have lost their turrets and there's a new codex so I'll probably just display them and then sell them on.

[Rarity Declis]

I've still got my 3000+pts of Dark Eldar mostly painted in my case somewhere, in case I need it. My old pretty army... with the changes to assault and making all my *already* paper-thin vehicles all have 2 Hull Points or something, and weakening the 4+ Feel No Pain save, and making Furious Charge less, I just felt that 6th Edition gutted the way the army felt to play and they await 7th edition or a new Codex, which is depressing because I think of myself as a Dark Eldar player, and I really enjoy 6th Edition, it's just 6th stole that magic sparkle that Dark Eldar had for me for about two years... Sigh.

I've got about 4000pts of Orks unassembled in a box somewhere. Knowing how many Orks are there, I can't get the motivation to even open the box.

I'm now working on my Tau (got about 1000 points; Commander, 3x Crisis Suits, 16x Kroot, 12x Fire Warriors, 3x Stealth Suit, 10x Pathfinders and a Piranha- enough to get on with) which I am painting in the Cities of Death colours, actually. I remember there being an Ork and Imperial Guard fight in that edition, where the Warboss was banished by a Sanctioned Psyker with a hope, a medal and a force staff.

Also, my Flamebringers DIY Chapter are being revived, since I returned to the UK, heard that the Imperial Fists are getting rules again (not since 4th!) and my Chapter will once again feel like an army rather than "Those Marines who aren't as good as Angels, Wolves or Grey Knights"- learning Lysander's job is to literally hunt down other Warlord is EXACTLY what I've always wanted forever, and I have always played it that my HQ will hunt down the enemy HQ.

[Mabbz]

I had a dark eldar army back when their old codex was fairly new. I didn't have any opponents though, and I was young enough that I mistreated them. I think the entire army gradually vanished/broke, because by the time I got back into wargaming with LotR dwarves I had nothing left. As for my dwarves, I have an entire 1000pt army (for those that don't know, 500pts is about the average in LotR) made of entirely metal models. I dread to think how expensive that was over the years.

This could easily be it's own topic.

[Rarity Declis]

So, discuss the armies you've had over the years; any that have disappeared over the years, or been mistreated, or are sitting in the back of your closet, or maybe are still fighting the God-Emperors/Chaos Gods/Gork and Morks/Yum yum biomass/Greater Good's fight!

I've still got my 3000+pts of Dark Eldar mostly painted in my case somewhere, in case I need it. My old pretty army... with the changes to assault and making all my *already* paper-thin vehicles all have 2 Hull Points or something, and weakening the 4+ Feel No Pain save, and making Furious Charge less, I just felt that 6th Edition gutted the way the army felt to play and they await 7th edition or a new Codex, which is depressing because I think of myself as a Dark Eldar player, and I really enjoy 6th Edition, it's just 6th stole that magic sparkle that Dark Eldar had for me for about two years... Sigh.

I've got about 4000pts of Orks unassembled in a box somewhere. Knowing how many Orks are there, I can't get the motivation to even open the box.

I'm now working on my Tau (got about 1000 points; Commander, 3x Crisis Suits, 16x Kroot, 12x Fire Warriors, 3x Stealth Suit, 10x Pathfinders and a Piranha- enough to get on with) which I am painting in the Cities of Death colours, actually. I remember there being an Ork and Imperial Guard fight in that edition, where the Warboss was banished by a Sanctioned Psyker with a hope, a medal and a force staff.

Also, my Flamebringers DIY Chapter are being revived, since I returned to the UK, heard that the Imperial Fists are getting rules again (not since 4th!) and my Chapter will once again feel like an army rather than "Those Marines who aren't as good as Angels, Wolves or Grey Knights"- learning Lysander's job is to literally hunt down other Warlord is EXACTLY what I've always wanted forever, and I have always played it that my HQ will hunt down the enemy HQ.

Also, my first army was a Chaos Marine army, because my friend told me I could have an army of Chaos Terminators and Chaos Land Raiders and they were a super elite army (back when I was... 12?). I first picked up a box of Chaos Space Marines (8 in a box!) and after some time, I add Abaddon, a Daemon Prince (the old metal Daemon Princes can die in a fire, I love the new plastic ones), a Sorcerer, 12x Khorne Beserkers, 5x Nurgle Marines, a Dreadnought, 16x Chaos Marines (half with bolters, half with chainswords and bolt pistols), 3x Chaos Bikers (my favourite unit), and an Obliterator.

Unfortunately, when I first left the hobby after a year of playing, I got rid of them, which is something I regret so much and I'm trying to put back together as a side project, including the original, metal, crappy Dreadnought and old style Nurgle Marines with the knife and pistol at each side; not the metal Daemon Prince, that thing can die in a fire.

[GreaterGoodNewZealand]

I got into 40k at some point during 4th. My first set was the Battle for Macragge, which also formed the beginnings of my first army, my space marines, which are now long since gone.

[Cammerz]

My first White Dwarf was issue 283, just over 10 years ago when I myself was 10, and that was the first time GW had ever made plastic Cadians for IG.
My first kit was a box of 5 plastic Chaos Space Marines but not long after I moved into Space Marines and began painting them as Blood Angels. They didn't last.

My longest surviving army are my Tau who I still use, I also have a decent number of Skaven from the early days but they haven't seen action in quite some time. My Chaos Space Marines (with newly-added Daemons) have changed dramatically over the years (and gone from Black Legion to Word Bearers). I started properly collecting Orks not long after they were last updated although the 2000pt army is almost entirely unpainted and in various states of disrepair.
More recently I've been working on Imperial Guard (the first and only army where I've painted the models before construction) and I've dabbled in some small fantasy armies (a few mounted Empire models and 400pts of Wood Elves).

I have almost all of the White Dwarf magazines from 283 to the present day and I've seen the change in quality. To this day my favourite articles are the LotR Fantasy Fellowship where they had the rules to create your own fellowship of the ring (WD 284 and 290). Back in those days they had new rules printed in WDs, from Chapter Approved to new scenarios, and there was love for Specialist Games (mainly Inquisitor). Plus there were regular freebies which weren't just trying to sell us things (unlike the recent posters).

[Arguleon-veq]

My first WD was 226 I think, the 40K 3rd Ed release. I had been playing a little while before that though.

I remember an article once on how you could make a 1500-2000 point Warriors of Chaos Fantasy army for £36! It was based on 2 Warrior box sets and a Knight box set then converting a few characters out of it and as fantasy used far fewer models back then it was actually a fairly effective army. Khnur Knells Doomblades! I still have the models I used to do the same thing.

I used to love those little £5 model boxes you could get. 8 Wood Elf Archers, 8 Beastmen Gors, 8 Chaos Dwarfs etc. All single piece models but a great way to start an army. You could get 5 Marines too. So it was really 10 for £10.

I think the first models I got were the free Dark Eldar with that WD, 5 Chaos Space Marines for £5, 8 Gors with Halberds/Shields for £5. The Chaos Space Marines even come with quite a few bits!.

That was the start of my Black Legion for 40K led by my Khorne Lord on Jugger who had many a fight with my mates Black Templars Emps Champ and my Chaos Warriors who used to have epic battles with a mates Skaven, Vermin Lord smashing down Warrior units my Chaos Lord on Dragon [which I got for again £5 off a mates brother who was quitting] running down hordes of Skaven only to get blasted to death with Warp Lightning. Me and my mate still discuss those early games.

It was just the two of us for a few months then we got about 2/3 mates into it, then another lad joined our school who already played so it was about 5 of us for a few years with occasional trips to local GW's. I didnt actually lose a game for years and years, I even got kicked out of a local GW for beating the manager over and over when i was about 11/12 haha.

Then we all started going a club held in a library in my next town, went there for a few years then eventually started going my current club which got me into tournaments.

Won my very first tournament with a 'none competative' build, did it pretty easily and there were a few guys there that are always in and around top 10 in the country and it was a 28 man field so i was pretty pleased.

Since then I go to the two closest clubs now and again but mostly play at home with a group of 6 players and go about 4-6 tournies a year.

[Kur'os]

The first WD I ever saw was the one with the Hive Tyrant cover around 8~9 years ago.  Had never been interested in miniatures until that point...

Several months later, I stumble across a GW in a CA mall.  As I was far more interested in WFB at the time, my first model was a Skaven Jezzail.  Over time, that spiraled into a Skaven army that was never played as I had no one to teach me the rules / play with.  But I still collected and built models. 

I picked up the 'new' plastic Carnifex because I really liked the idea of magnetizing it and just having an awesome model.  Of course, I then started looking at 40k more and thought the Tau were pretty cool looking.  Not to mention they used battlesuits, which really appealed to me. 

Fast forward 3 years, I finally play my first games of 40k.  Though I'm already hooked, I'm now able to play with my several armies that I've built up.  ^ ^;;  I introduce several friends and coworkers to 40k and it spreads like wildfire...

I then met and befriended several 'veteran' gamers who opened my eyes to the specialist games: Bloodbowl (Skaven), Necromunda (Delaque), Mordheim (Skaven and Chaos), and BFG (FW Tau). 

That was 3 years ago.  Nowadays, I'm focusing on my Tyranids in preparation for their rumored update.  The rest of my armies have updated sans Orks, but as long as Deff Dreads don't get any worse, my mob will be fine.  ^ ^

-Kur'os

[Deraj]

I got into 40k right after my 4th birthday in early 94...

I was taught to read at a really young age and loved things like the hobbit and war stories, so a couple weeks after I turned 4 when I was layed up in the hospital for about a month my brother bought me a bunch of codices (since they were under $20 at the time.) I still remember that they were the 2nd ed nids, that awesome yellow space wolf codex, and the first run of dark elder. By the time I turned 10 I had an army of each, quit for awhile since that's a lot of money for a kid (although I worked at a barn the whole time to pay for them) then when I turned 15 I got another job and started playing fantasy but collecting 40k models, and now I've collected every army except tau, sisters of battle or tomb kings. Also; I think what makes me feel like it's a cheap game now is that I did play back when I was younger and didn't have a well paying job, but had enough money to try other hobbies and see how expensive they are comparably. 

[Rarity Declis]

I have almost all of the White Dwarf magazines from 283 to the present day and I've seen the change in quality. To this day my favourite articles are the LotR Fantasy Fellowship where they had the rules to create your own fellowship of the ring (WD 284 and 290). Back in those days they had new rules printed in WDs, from Chapter Approved to new scenarios, and there was love for Specialist Games (mainly Inquisitor). Plus there were regular freebies which weren't just trying to sell us things (unlike the recent posters).

Oh god, yes.

I remember the Tale of the Four Gamers, where they started with £50 and then had £25 per month to add more, and it was seriously amazing to watch; the latest Tale of Four Gamers, where they simply add whatever, I find a bit boring to watch. I like the aspect of also having a money limit; if I could find some people who wanted to do that, I'd do it with them. Although, £50 wouldn't go very far nowadays, it'd probably be £80 to start and £35 per month.

I miss Guy Haley, it was so full of character then. I remember there being articles on how the Codex Arstartes is used, for example, how does a Marine chapter hold a line, how do they defeat armies a hundred times their size, how they attack, destroy, etc. It was good reading.

I remember an article on the Dark Eldar's lifestyle, and the Battle Reports were more than just "I line up here, and you line up there, and the big pretty unit does the best." When the Templars came out, they had a mini-campaign, it was a great read. And each battle had a little story attached, rather than just a paragraph next to a massive photo; it really drove home that this hobby is as much, if not more so, about the story and fluff than anything else, and it's something I still do today when I play with friends: "Why are we fighting over this city? Why are your Fast Attacks Scoring? Is it because you're hunting down civilians? Then I need to make sure your Fast Attacks don't survive the match...." That kind of thing.

And the Cities of Death issue stands out as great in my mind; that battle report was fun and it was so full of tips.

[Firey Baps]

Loved To4G! Easily my favorite article because it perfectly encapsulated the hobby for me. Also I loved seeing how they customised their armies.

The one I enjoyed the most was a WFB one, I can't really remember it. But there was an Empire army modeled around the Stirland River Patrol, and they had a massive mortar called Big Bertha.

Damn if I had the money, I'd grab 3 friends and start that up right now.

[Chris]

Hi, my name is Chris and I've been an addict hobbyist for about ten years.

I started with the 'Battle for Middle Earth' magazines, it got me into the GW hobby with Lord of the Rings... Eventually I started 40k with Battle for Macragge. Pretty soon on, I dropped LotR like it was a live grenade thrown in my lap and started making love to the Spesh Mereeens.

[Fhanados]

I started playing Tyranids in 3rd edition before they had an official codex. Probably around 1999 I think. I would have been 13 at the time. Back when a Carnifex was $40 and Hormagaunts came in blister packs of 2 for $12. I pretty much went bankrupt building a mostly metal army that was frequently tabled by Space Marines and Tau, so I started on Chaos Space Marines after a few years.

After about 3-4 years hiatus I got back into the swing of things while I was studying by revitalising my brother's Dark Eldar for a while, and starting a Necron and Space Marine army when AOBR box set was released (Necrons were an impulse buy).

My Space Marine army got put on indefinite hold when my Black Templar friend who I was building it with quit the hobby. I probably have more Space Marines than any other 40k army, with two SM halves of AOBR, DV, the old DA battleforce (mostly converted to Chaos now) and some assorted bits and pieces. Despite this, my main 40k army is Chaos Space Marines.

I started a recovery project for my old CSM, stripping and repainting and making many additions. It's pretty quickly catching up to my Space Marine force, and currently has more painted models than any of my armies (save Tyranids) ever has. My project log can be found in the hobby section of the forum.

I also have a rather large amount of lizardmen models I've picked up from various stores, websites, and ebay over the years. Lizardmen are where my true passion in Warhammer lies, and looking at the collection I probably have more than my CSM, SM and Necrons combined.

I have a box of abandoned minis from my early years that includes my Tyranids (what's left of them), my brother's Dark Eldar, my other brother's Orks and some random junk.