Ok so I first encounter Warhammer in school, some friend bought the starter for 6th edition and then the interest for the game began to grow quite quickly between our geeks friends, and in 1-2 months we were close to 15-20 people at our grade (there were 200 people per grade..) playing the game! Also at the time the game was very approachable in Spain, in any news stand you could buy a white dwarf and even some non-geeks were playing it. With time the interest on the game calmed down after 1-2 years but we continue playing with my close my close friends until World of Warcraft began to catch traction in 2007 and we stopped playing. On 2010 I moved to Israel, first to do college but then I stayed to live there, in the meantime my mother also moved to Israel and decided to just throw those : ”chilidish toys”. I did not like that at the time, but I was not using them so…
In 2013, tow events brought me back to the hobby, first there was the End of times series I heard from some internet rumors. So I began to buy the epub books from the black library and read how finally they were moving the fluff and I loved it… up to the last book that I hated it…as they killed all of the fluff of the old world. At the same time with a friend I played poker regularly, after a game that finished early we found by his place some of his old lotr miniatures and began to play to sbg, and we loved it . So we both ditched poker and began to play it 2-3 times a week. As there were no one else we knew that played we begin to buy more and more miniatures online for the sake of variety. So quickly in 6 month we had all the lotr range! Mostly already bought painted ( at the time we had a rule to only by painted miniatures). But that game had some big flaw he did not scale well, so a game with 200 models per side would take us 13 hours! So then we decided t try the massive games of GW, first we did 40k, and also as we did not knew other people that played in the next 2 years we collected all the WH40k army’s except guard and witch hunters.
A group Challenge to Paint a NEW Army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle or Rogue Trader
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Fred's Empire Retinue
If you are here then it’s likely you’re an enthusiast of classic miniatures, tabletop games, and fantasy in general (or at least you’re curious). The question I’ll try to answer is ‘how I got here’. My name is Fred Rose and to give an answer I first have to make a confession. I have a minor obsession with making and having pretty miniatures. OK, not a minor one, it’s a 38 year old one and counting that started the minute I skipped out of art class and got off the Lake St. bus one snowy January day in 1979 in Minneapolis, MN to see what this curious hobby shop was that I passed everyday on my bus ride. When I stepped through the door of “The Little Tin Soldier Shop” that day, I didn’t know it at the time but the ‘Tin Soldier’ happened to be one of the epicenters of the nascent RPG and table top gaming hobby in the U.S.
What I saw as a 12 year old, already addicted modeler, when I pulled open the steamed up door of the old storefront was truly a spectacle. The back half of the store featured a ‘War of the Ring’ battle using a mash-up of Chainmail and some home brew charts, a dozen players, at least 2 referee/game masters, a colorful battlefield spanning 8 cafeteria tables, and legion after legion of wonderful, strange, painted lead miniatures. All the hero’s and monsters of my favorite JRR Tolkien stories were maneuvering for a grand showdown. This was something I had to be a part of and so my $3 a week allowance was enough to by me a pack of 6 Ral Partha dwarves. After a few weeks I had enough painted troops for a small regiment and was able to participate in my first game as a junior commander. My addiction has nothing if not grown, and wandered into many genres both historical and fantastic, but in the ensuing 38 years I always have maintained a soft spot for the sort of high fantasy I saw that first time as a child and the sort that Warhammer Fantasy Battle brought to us in such a creative and polished fashion in the late 1980s.
What I saw as a 12 year old, already addicted modeler, when I pulled open the steamed up door of the old storefront was truly a spectacle. The back half of the store featured a ‘War of the Ring’ battle using a mash-up of Chainmail and some home brew charts, a dozen players, at least 2 referee/game masters, a colorful battlefield spanning 8 cafeteria tables, and legion after legion of wonderful, strange, painted lead miniatures. All the hero’s and monsters of my favorite JRR Tolkien stories were maneuvering for a grand showdown. This was something I had to be a part of and so my $3 a week allowance was enough to by me a pack of 6 Ral Partha dwarves. After a few weeks I had enough painted troops for a small regiment and was able to participate in my first game as a junior commander. My addiction has nothing if not grown, and wandered into many genres both historical and fantastic, but in the ensuing 38 years I always have maintained a soft spot for the sort of high fantasy I saw that first time as a child and the sort that Warhammer Fantasy Battle brought to us in such a creative and polished fashion in the late 1980s.
Jeff's Army of Chaos
Hi OWAC Brothers
My name is Jeff , I've been playing games in general since 1977, starting with Dungeons and Dragons. Around 1987-1988 I discovered Tabletop Wargames and never looked back. My friends and I play every period/genre, but my most favorite is Fantasy, and I really have a love for Games Workshop figures from back in the 80's and 90s.
My army for this challenge is Chaos 4th Edition. I could have gone with a couple of different armies but Chaos is what I had most of. I have to say I'm a bit of noob of most other armies as I only had a few opponents over all these years and only have an Empire Army which I started in 1990.
My name is Jeff , I've been playing games in general since 1977, starting with Dungeons and Dragons. Around 1987-1988 I discovered Tabletop Wargames and never looked back. My friends and I play every period/genre, but my most favorite is Fantasy, and I really have a love for Games Workshop figures from back in the 80's and 90s.
My army for this challenge is Chaos 4th Edition. I could have gone with a couple of different armies but Chaos is what I had most of. I have to say I'm a bit of noob of most other armies as I only had a few opponents over all these years and only have an Empire Army which I started in 1990.
Kober's Dwarven expeditionary force
Kober's Dwarven expeditionary force:
About me: I have been collecting miniatures and playing board games for over 30 years. My addiction started playing a Avalon Hill game called Chancellorsville in the 7th grade. Not long after, I started playing Dungeons and Dragons and attended my first gaming convention. At this convention I saw a game table full of terrain and GW Rogue Trader miniatures. I was instantly hooked. Some of the first fantasy miniatures I purchased where Dwarfs. Over the years I have collected a sizeable Dwarf army, many of these models are included in my expeditionary force.
About me: I have been collecting miniatures and playing board games for over 30 years. My addiction started playing a Avalon Hill game called Chancellorsville in the 7th grade. Not long after, I started playing Dungeons and Dragons and attended my first gaming convention. At this convention I saw a game table full of terrain and GW Rogue Trader miniatures. I was instantly hooked. Some of the first fantasy miniatures I purchased where Dwarfs. Over the years I have collected a sizeable Dwarf army, many of these models are included in my expeditionary force.
Monday, October 30, 2017
Sean's Bretonnians
Hi All,
Before I tell you about my army let mebore tell you about my gaming history.
I first saw the D&D boxed set, I forget red or blue, back in 1978. My friend's older sister had it and we had no idea what to do with it. By 1980 I had played one game of D&D with some kids in a club at school. That was pretty much a disaster.
An older kid in my apartment building started introducing some of us to AD&D, he used a mixture of Judges Guild stuff in our games and we tended to use Airfix army men and wooden blocks to map out the dungeons and play it like a table top skirmish. He also introduced me to wargames like Blitzkrieg, Squad Leader and Caesar at Alesia. We would go down to the Compleat Strategist on 33rd Street to buy Airfix, AD&D books and the various games Avalon Hill and SPI, to name a few.
Before I tell you about my army let me
I first saw the D&D boxed set, I forget red or blue, back in 1978. My friend's older sister had it and we had no idea what to do with it. By 1980 I had played one game of D&D with some kids in a club at school. That was pretty much a disaster.
An older kid in my apartment building started introducing some of us to AD&D, he used a mixture of Judges Guild stuff in our games and we tended to use Airfix army men and wooden blocks to map out the dungeons and play it like a table top skirmish. He also introduced me to wargames like Blitzkrieg, Squad Leader and Caesar at Alesia. We would go down to the Compleat Strategist on 33rd Street to buy Airfix, AD&D books and the various games Avalon Hill and SPI, to name a few.
Victor´s Night Goblins
My initial contact with Warhammer was through its first Spanish translation in 1994, with its 4th edition.
The first miniatures I saw were the Night Goblins in the one of the first publications of the Spanish White Dwarf magazine edition. At that time, I was 13 years old and had not much money to invest on this hobby, so I have only completed my Night Goblins collection recently.
The first miniatures I saw were the Night Goblins in the one of the first publications of the Spanish White Dwarf magazine edition. At that time, I was 13 years old and had not much money to invest on this hobby, so I have only completed my Night Goblins collection recently.
Whitehorn's grey horde
My earliest memory of Warhammer - my first army - was Undead. I got my first blister pack of Marauder Skeletons in 1989 and nothing has really changed. I've played lots of other armies for lots of other games, but my heart has always belonged to the cold, unrelenting dead.
As such, I have a lot of undead in various states of painted, half painted and sat in a box. Rather than start a new army, I'm painting an armylist woth of models using those that have yet to receive any paint.
My unpainted 1,000 points "army" looks like this:
As such, I have a lot of undead in various states of painted, half painted and sat in a box. Rather than start a new army, I'm painting an armylist woth of models using those that have yet to receive any paint.
My unpainted 1,000 points "army" looks like this:
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