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How I got hooked

Written by Warren Falconer | 15 March 2010

 

Okay so I know this has been around forever. But this piece of art from the 3rd Edition 40k rule book started my spiral into all things tabletop wargaming. In all reality, this site is here in a large part because of this art. I was at a friends house just hanging out, he showed me this book, I started flipping through it, found this picture, and within weeks all my hard earned allowance was gone, and it stayed that way for a long long time...still kinda is that way. If I see the remainder of my paycheck after everything as my allowance for being a good falconator...hmmm, anyway what got you started in the hobby? How did you find it and fall in love? 

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#1 steeldragon 2010-03-15 21:31
My dad brought me some old Ral Partha AD&D models... they were fun to paint but wanted something different and discovered in a random toy store GW blisters... Fantasy was more of the same so my options were a Space Marine Captain or a blister with 5 Swooping Hawks. I decided on the SM captain. He still commands one of my SM companies
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#2 Jrad_711 2010-03-15 22:42
For me it was actually the Fire Warrior video game on the PS2. Fell in love with the Tau and i just happened to have a friend that had played since Rogue Trader. I didnt know that he played until i mentioned the game. Another friend and me got started around the same time. To this day i think Fire Warrior has the most true to form version of the Bolter found anywhere.
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#3 Limey_ElJonson 2010-03-15 23:09
I hadn't played since Rogue Trader and gave it up when I found beer and women and Motorhead.

I was walking past a GW store two years ago and poked my head inside for a look at the books as I was getting on a plane. I bought a copy of Horus Rising.

That was the first mistake... lol
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#4 Elazar The Glorified 2010-03-15 23:54
For me it was Space Crusade. It was for sale in this weird toy shop near where I lived that seemed to be in it's own little bubble of static time.
I absolutely loved Space Crusade and the image of these 5 mentalists in power armour taking it upon themselves to clear out a massive space hulk of all its alien life-forms. Then I bought a copy of White Dwarf and found out there was a whole world beyond just Space Crusade!
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#5 Bo Bo 2010-03-16 01:45
That picture has stuck with me as well, I'd dearly love to make a Diorama of it! Also the 3rd ed marine codex cover and a lot of the old 2nd ed chaos artwork have been favourites from day 1.

It was a box of tactical marines and all the awesome on display in the GW I got them in that had me sold on the hobby. Have never looked back since.
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#6 inmygravenimage 2010-03-16 03:47
At school, I was 10 I guess, and a guy brought in a couple of epic knights. Played, grew up (ha!) and now back playing 20 years later thanks to my nephews.
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#7 ColCorbane 2010-03-16 04:37
I think it was one of my school friends who got me into it, I say think as it was over 20 years ago and the old grey is a bit hazy on things back then.
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#8 SonsOfProspero 2010-03-16 08:12
Think it was my copy of "Dark Millennium" (given as a gift, IIRC), then I went and found the Rogue Trader rule book. Been hooked ever since. I stopped playing when 3rd Ed came out, and only recently picked the game back up. I have pretty much been participating in the hobby since RT days, though.
As for art that still gets me, I clearly remember two (and the always used to be in WD scattered amongst the retailers lists):
1) The Avatar standing over the smoking corpse of a SM
2) A Grey Knight Terminator banishing a Keeper of Secrets.
Always loved those simple yet evocative B&W drawings.
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#9 Ruthven 2010-03-16 23:52
I got started on 40k in September 2008 when I started hanging out in a local hobby shop that carried it. It was a brand new store and all kinds of people were flocking to this game that had bad ass looking models. I had never heard of Warhammer before then, but I was hooked right away.
I was scared to death to paint the minis, but I got over it and feel pretty confident with my skills now. Since Sept. 08 I have fully painted Eldar and Vamp Counts armies, and I started Blood Angels last January.
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#10 Soundwave 2010-03-17 10:41
I first started with Games Workshop when I was in primary school, playing Warhammer Quest obssessively. Then I moved to Portsmouth for secondary school and got into Warhammer 40,000 during 2nd Edition and went for Blood Angels.

I stopped playing when I was 13 due to the expense of the hobby - and then I started up again at about 20 or 21, I forget now, but a friend of mind was heavily into Imperial Guard. Since then I've worked my way through: Imperial Guard, Black Templars, A Tau combat patrol, Space Marines, Chaos Space Marines and now... back to Imperial Guard.

At the moment, I'm 25 and looking at going back to my roots - with building a Blood Angels army! I'm also eyeing up Eldar too (who won a poll on my blog for my next tournament army). Decisions decisions
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#11 BDub 2010-03-17 19:14
I already loved miniatures and collected and painted the odd few I liked here and there. I used to pick up White Dwarf when and if my LGS carried it and one day I saw a piece of John Blanch art of a 40K scene (before 40K had come out) and it caught my interest. A short while later I saw the preview art of "The Last Stand of the Crimson Fist" shortly before Rogue Trader came out and I was sold. I remember buying the book and a box of plastic marines and a few metal marines with special weapons. I have been hopeless ever since. 1987 was a long time ago.
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#12 Emperors marine 2010-03-17 21:06
It was the books about 15-16 years ago. I picked one up and got up hook,line and sinker!! It was awhile before I realized that not only were there books about 40k, but also a great line of models to go with it. Bought some, built them and have been going strong ever since. The gaming part came even later, but got to playing and it's now over with for me!!I'M HOOKED!! HERE GW TAKE MY PAYCHECK FOR THEN NEXT BIGGEST, BADDEST AND NEWEST MODEL!!
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#13 WilhelmRochRedDuke 2010-03-17 22:46
Buddy of mine started in 40k 2nd edition.. I watched him play a few times. I didn't care much for the models. I really liked fantasy stuff at that time.. eventually I baught a bargain box of the skeleton Army and the rest as they say is history.. I'm on my 4th army...
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#14 Gunzhard 2010-03-18 19:15
Similar story to the OP.

Flipping through my friends Realm of Chaos book (the big green one, of the Rogue Trader days).

I read the story of the Emperor and Horus and stared long and hard at that amazing drawing that accompanied that story. I was hooked from then on...
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