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Post by ash on Aug 8, 2009 20:35:28 GMT 9.5
So what was it? I'd start but have no time. So tell us what gots you into it. When I gots time ill give you my story (its sure to be self lifting and self ego largening and everyone likes that  |
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Post by majordodo on Aug 8, 2009 20:59:56 GMT 9.5
I started off with Dawn of War and reading the Novels, from there I picked up a copy of white dwarf (September 07 I believe, when Chaos Marines was done) and got the starter box a little while later.
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Post by ThePup on Aug 8, 2009 23:19:46 GMT 9.5
Space Crusade :-) Read a review of the C64 computer game back in... Oh $DEITY knows when... Thought "That sounds cool". A couple of months later, the boardgame was on special for 30 bucks in Woolies - the Old, OLD woolies, the one that used to be where the carpark is now - Draconis and Dave would know what I'm talking about! Begged Mum to get it. She did, then made me pay it off with pocket money, leaving it sitting in its shrinkwrap, mocking me from the livingroom for a fortnight before I'd finally paid it off. When I finally tore off the plasic wrap, it was my first time...Oh the sweet smell of a new, freshly opened game.... Anyway, played it to death with a few friends (Kruger for one... James? Darren? Don't remember who else!). Then by chance discovered White Dwarf in the newsagent one day. Got a copy, liked it. Didn't get another copy for about 6 months. Started getting them sporadically. Saw Necromunda, decided I had to have it. Somehow bought it... Not really sure how  Somehow met Darren... Again not sure how, and there was three of us playing Necromunda. Darren said he knew of another guy who gamed... So we found ourselves in a cafe called the "Poppy Kettle" asking for a guy named Steve. Next thing I know, we're also playing AD&D.... Much to Mums concern (You know people have comitted suicide, and its evil, and blah, blah, blah...  It's OK, that didn't last long, she's not stupid, she quickly realised it's a harmless, geeky passtime...) Anyway, much Necromunda happened, and AD&D, and Carwars. I Never really got grabbed by 40K, despite efforts of the others. I think I just preffered skirmish. Then I did something stupid and got a girlfriend... Wasn't so bad when we were 250km apart, and i saw her every fortnight - still got gaming in on the weekends apart. When she moved in, gaming pretty much stopped dead  Fast forward, I still get the very occasional game in, and collect rulesets I stumble upon, and hang around sites like this  Still attracted more to skirmish than to 40K type battles - not only due to cost factors, but just the style of game. Also interested in a couple of micro armour rulesets, but no cash to get 'em right now. Lad likes the occasional game, so he'll hopefully develop a greater intrest as he gets older. Also likes it at school when the teachers read books and don't show the pictures, making them imagine the story in the head. I've asked if he likes the sound of creating the story in his head too, which he thinks sounds like fun... Hello roleplaying ;D Wife glared at me for it when she realised where I was leading him  So.... I live in eternal hope. |
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Post by Disco Stu on Aug 9, 2009 23:30:50 GMT 9.5
This box art started it for me when I saw this in a hobby store back when I was a young 'un  Then it was the free 2nd ed plastic mini on the front cover of White Dwarf 166, then Space Crusade. |
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Post by majordodo on Aug 10, 2009 0:35:28 GMT 9.5
Truthfully mine was completely to impress a girl (yeah... believe it or not) not that it worked.
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Post by Doc on Aug 10, 2009 13:43:30 GMT 9.5
the White Dwarf in which the current landraider model was released; still have that one
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Post by pariah on Aug 10, 2009 15:23:00 GMT 9.5
Truthfully mine was completely to impress a girl (yeah... believe it or not) not that it worked. I thought it was more of a money making scheme. Not that that would have worked either. We need a friendly local gaming store in Mildura.  As for how i got interested, Rogue Trader first hit the shelves in 1987 abouts, which was probably what started it all in terms of 40k. 2 years later i was born, and eighteen years after that majordodo introduced me to the game. I then bought Battle For Macragge and have probably lost all the bits to it by now, having never assembled any. As you can see, i'm practically a 40k veteran. I do post on several great 40k forums though. |
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Post by draconis on Aug 10, 2009 20:21:37 GMT 9.5
I think I win... I bought my first figures back in 1974 at Crowels Library in Renmark (now Rural Tools). It was a box of Airfix 1/72 scale Ancient Britons... It cost $2.00, expensive even then (considering my old man only made $200 a week).
The second box was a box of WWI Doughboys (same brand n' scale) bought on my 1975 september holidays in Whyalla, the name of the shop escapes me... My long term memorys good, but it aint that good ;D
My third box was a box of Warterloo Scotts infantry (same scale n' brand) also from Crowels Library (by now owned by the Hartleys) I bought these with my apricot cutting money in the summer of 1975...
This may become a serial guys... next instalment later.
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Post by anon on Aug 11, 2009 19:54:38 GMT 9.5
hey ash [your admin right?] maybe keep this thread gw hobby related otherwise you will get people posting how they win cause they bought lego in 1932 or something...
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Post by majordodo on Aug 11, 2009 21:17:34 GMT 9.5
hey anon. maybe log in and be less of a n00b?
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Post by blacktemplar on Aug 13, 2009 21:14:32 GMT 9.5
1- Firewarrior on the PS2, then a novel about some rabid space marines. You know the ones I'm talking about.
2- Anon, the way i see it "the Hobby" doesn't necessarily mean the question is Games Workshop related.
3a- "In 1932 Ole Kirk Christiansen began manufacturing ironing boards, stepladders, and wooden toys in the town of Billund, Denmark. Two years later, when his company had grown to have half a dozen employees, he gave it the name Lego."
3b- "in 1958 the stable stud-and-tube style of brick was introduced"
Thank answers.com for these amazing Lego facts which are entirely irrelevant to this post.
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Post by ThePup on Aug 13, 2009 23:12:03 GMT 9.5
Thank answers.com for these amazing Lego facts which are entirely irrelevant to this post. Lego is never irrelevant... Lego rocks. Heck, I've played a couple of wargames games with the lad where we used a couple of policeman and some aliens from the mars themed lego :-) Lego men are great for wargaming! Anon can either log in or piss off. |
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Post by ash on Aug 14, 2009 23:23:07 GMT 9.5
Yeah anon!
How dare you do things differently you bastard.
Anyways back on topic, I fingerpainted in kindergarten which gave me an artistic flair and thats how I got into the hobby. I think I also played in a previous life or something.
Anyways I started playing GW games back in 89 or something, that makes me about 10 years old. Is that the age you are in in yr 5??
Heroquest, Spacehulk, spacemarine (the picture provided by Discostu) that game was awesome (epic) but unforunately when I asked Mum to get it for me she got me Ultramarines instead which was a Spacehulk like game but well dodgy and featured only marines.
Also got into Man'o'war and the Dark Future stuff. went forward from there.
It would seem that GW started most of us off.
Lately my focus in the hobby has changed and I am branching out into new things and even creating stuff of my own.
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Post by ash on Aug 14, 2009 23:24:51 GMT 9.5
And yes, Lego is never irrelevant. In the 6 months I have probably purchased more lego than I have in my entire life before 2009. I have found some awesome rules for using Lego in a wargame type of way (in the dirt cheap games section I reckon)
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Somehow met Darren... Again not sure how, and there was three of us playing Necromunda. Darren said he knew of another guy who gamed... So we found ourselves in a cafe called the "Poppy Kettle" asking for a guy named Steve. Next thing I know, we're also playing AD&D.... Much to Mums concern (You know people have comitted suicide, and its evil, and blah, blah, blah... 
It's OK, that didn't last long, she's not stupid, she quickly realised it's a harmless, geeky passtime...)
Still attracted more to skirmish than to 40K type battles - not only due to cost factors, but just the style of game. Also interested in a couple of micro armour rulesets, but no cash to get 'em right now.
