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One my teachers at school gave me 5 white dwarfs and a the 3rd ed rulebook. I had these saved away for ages when a rugby friend of mine noticed I had them thought I played and he taught me to play. Then went to store and bought
Abaddon (at the point could only be used in 2m points with permission)
1 chaos bike (need 3 for a Unit)
5 chaos marines.
I've never stopped really other than now I don't got to the gw stores at all. Cant stand them at all.

Started with the DoW Games then got into reading BL books which got me interested in collecting the minis

I actually was at Okinowa. Kadena Airbase Specifically and walked into schillings one day and found the 40K club over at Schillings and was invited by Rob to play a game against the old Necrons and that's how I got started.


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I actually was at Okinowa. Kadena Airbase Specifically and walked into schillings one day and found the 40K club over at Schillings and was invited by Rob to play a game against the old Necrons and that's how I got started.

While I'd always been aware of it I never knew what it was really about. Then a watched a couple of friends play a game and thought it looked amazing so decided to take it up myself.

Heavy Gear 2 (PC game) got me hooked on miniature painting. I still don't play anything, though.

My dad was friends with a GW store manager here in the UK, picked up a 3rd ed. 40k set for my 11th birthday but then sadly stopped..........


.............Until LOTR came out and then everything spiralled out of control

Now have 40K, WHFB and LOTR, guess I was too young to stick to anything then, saying that my concentration isnt much better now

Saw this advert early 1991 ish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uozIWK51x58

An advert in Kerrang! for Space Hulk, circa 1991.

I was introduced by a family member who plays Blood Angels.

Via a mate at High School. 1985, 1/300 Ultra Moderns, Dutch Armoured Brigade. It was all down hill from there..... 1/72 Rapidfire, Rogue Trader Eldar then Ork, FOW from its first release, Epic and now NetEpic.

RPG's Cyberpunk, Twilight 2000, AD&D, Judge Dread

Yikes, I just voted "introduced by a friend" and I'm voter 666 for that ! lol

My first acquaintance with 40k occurred through the Chaos Gate PC game, but I got hooked on the hobby itself only about half a year ago, when my friend led me into the local miniatures store... So, which variant should i choose?

LOTR, my first army was Easterlings. And they have ben my all time favorit over the years, I got introduced by a person I know who ran a hobby shop.

I was invited to play WH40K in 1986 at a gaming store called Galactic Archives in the first Demo game GW set up on the day the product arrived. Thats were I was giving my first army 1,500 pts in Crimson Fist marines. I won that game against Orks by 1 point.

Lord Of The Rings "Battle Games In Middle Earth" partwork! Then I realised I hated the LoTR game and gave up, started 40k, then Warmahordes.

Introduced by my friends. I still remember the first time my mum took me into the warhammer shop in bluewater. Massive space-marine statue on the shop front, was like a temple.
I still remember the guy in the shop asking me what I wanted.
He seemed so dis-appointed when I said the stereotypical "Space Marines!" that he looked at me and went "Whatever you do don't paint them ultramarines, everyone does it".

So began my badly painted childish Black Templars. I still find my old warhammer bits now and than, not a single model was undercoated in spray and my painting was so thick that all detail was gone.

Walking around town and saw some Uruks in the window of my local GW. I liked those guys In the movie, so I bought a box of scouts and from then on I was hooked.

When my comic shop closed it's doors (as they all have here), my LGS started carrying comics. With the other comic shops in town having bad reputations, I started going there weekly. I was already playing Mechwarrior: Dark Age, and the switch to Warmachine was pretty natural. A year or so later, I bought a friends Khorne army, when the current codex was released.

When ever I frequented my Lgs, I would always see the box's and people playing, so it always caught my attention, but because of the price I never got into it. When dawn of war 2 came out, I bought, which lead me to reading most of the black library books. Finaly last fall I bought the starter set, and have been enjoying the game since

I was a sucker and fell for the RedShirt sales pitch in a GW store about 10 years ago.

I played a game at the local sci-fi / fantasy convention. The guy hosting the game brought fully painted necron and SM armies. He let me play his SM's and walked me through the rules.

Wow, some of you guys have been playing since before I was born...and I'm a month away from graduating college.

Anyway, I got started because my fiance and guy friends always played on weekends & they used to drag me along to watch. It was horrendously boring and I hated being left out of the conversations that always ensued. I had always sworn that I would never play because it was too expensive. Finally, peer pressure overcame me & I bought a farseer and a box of dire avengers. Almost a year to the day and two armies later...I might be picking up my friend's CSM because his girlfriend wants him to quit the hobby.

margomoh wrote:Wow, some of you guys have been playing since before I was born...and I'm a month away from graduating college.

Anyway, I got started because my fiance and guy friends always played on weekends & they used to drag me along to watch. It was horrendously boring and I hated being left out of the conversations that always ensued. I had always sworn that I would never play because it was too expensive. Finally, peer pressure overcame me & I bought a farseer and a box of dire avengers. Almost a year to the day and two armies later...I might be picking up my friend's CSM because his girlfriend wants him to quit the hobby.

Jeez, he needs to get rid of his girlfriend rather than his 40k stuff!

DoW 1 was the initial starting point for me. I then moved on to BL novels, to Dark Heresy, and then finally decided to pick up AOBR 2 years ago.

I had always been into airfix then my cousin showed me it i was too young to afford it then a couple of years later my mate got into it and so did i he quit about a year later

One day just walked into Battlground Games and Hobbies, saw some people playing... SO glad i walked in.

My brother bought the Battletech 3rd Edition box set way back when. I liked it a lot more than he did, since I have easily $10K worth of Battletech stuff.

I only got into GW games because my friend wanted to play them again. I still regret this decision.

I was like 12 when I wondered around a video game store, I found Dawn of War (the 2004 one) and the rest was history

I used to make airfix kits when even before school age, and by the time I had a bit of pocket money when I was age 7-8 ish I was in my local newsagent looking at model kits, when I spotted some funny little metal men in blisters for £1.50. Yarp, they were sold in my newsagents!

I took a pack of them home and promptly proceeded to drown them in my enamel paints without a clue as to what they were meant to be used for.

White Dwarf appeared on the newsagents' shelves around that time too, and I picked up the odd issue (without understanding much of it tbh), before me and my mates started buying the odd game like WHFB and RT.

I got locked in a GW over night. I had to play the ghost that resided there a game of warhammer for my soul.