what game got you in to all this

[james watson]

what game got you in to all this ?

for me it was heroquest and space crusade
but the first gw game i got was space hulk

just wanted to see what what most ppl thought

[mike954]

I looked through a copy of White Dwarf and liked the look of the minis. I then got ahold of rulebooks for Rogue Trader and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. I moved on to play 40k.

[neuromancer]

mm I think it was getting thw plastic 20mm romans and ancintbritions and playing with thw DF rules.

[Hugh]

I got into the "scene" via a chance meeting at school back in 1986, there was a small D+D lunch time club going which i popped into (run by one of this club's members ;-) ) and liked what i saw and joined in. Great times, although i dropped out of the whole RPG/tabletop thing in 1991......glad i'm back though lol.

[nidsplitter]

for me it was hero quest and space hulk first time around

[dave3]

Back in the late 70's there were a series of programmes called Battleground. Hosted by Edward Woodward, each week had a different wargame. I remember a Napoleonic, a WW2 and a naval game,I can't remember the others, but Peter Guilder was the man behind it all. My first rules were the Airfix WW2 set, (the green one). My friend and I played many happy hours in his garage on a pasting table, with his Germans vs my Russians. At the time you could get stacks of 20mm German kit, but only the T34 or KV1 for the Russians, how things have changed,happy days!
Dave

[dave3]

An article on the show,"Battleground" if you are interested...I didn't know Duncan Macfarlane was in it? must see if he has some copies!

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Dave

[ashleigh]

I wasn't old enough to do anything in the late 70's Dave!!!!

But myself and my brother started when in Middle School with Warhammer - he had Undead and I had Dwarves - bought some great non-Citadel models from a little back street independant trader in Ipswich!

From then my addiction has just got worse!!! :-)

Ashleigh

[Matt]

I brought a half-orc in a shop in Penzance made by Citadel. This progressed to orcs and dwarves, and Warhammer 1st Edition. Although things really kicked off with 20mm plastic WW2 miniatures and a home grown set of rules.

Until of course Rogue Trader was released and then the flood gates opened. Although Warhammer 3rd Edition was an important release for me too.

[mike]

For me it was in the 6^th form (and more years ago than I care to remember)

A friend of mine at the time had the rules for Traveller and, instead of studying for our 'A' levels, a whole group of us spend two years roaming around the galaxy in a pink starship

I can't recall all the details but it involved a 'misunderstanding' with the Galactic Police, an emergency spray job and insufficient red paint (don't ask)

After that it all got a bit silly -- great fun