Started playing dungeons and dragons at 8 (1976), added warhammer around 15 (1983), picked up 40k rogue trader around the late 80's (1988), played off and on all the way through to my late 20's (1998), spent another 5 years or so just painting models for the fun but not playing (1998-2003), gave it all away to much younger children of my cousins in my mid 30's (2004?) edited : included dates, gods now I feel old
I first learned of WHFB when I was like 6 or 7 (I am not a neckbeard yet though, pretty young so it wasn't so long ago). Had 3 big brothers who collected them (and even helped me out a bit!). Painted some *really* bad looking minis (poor bretonnian yeomen), and improved up to some alright looking skaven with awkward wood elves in the middle. Went to 40k only some years back, started collecting Dark Eldar. Heard about Eternal Crusade from another forum, found Dawn of War-games last year.
You can probably find programs to slow things down/allow usage if you look hard enough, though don't hold me to that. Hell, the first computer we had had a rough time running it until we upgrade (500 dollars for megs of ram? YEAAAAA BABY! )
A friend of mine collects a Khemri army (no playing), one day he took me to a GW-store and when I was home I looked it up, found the Lexicanum, read a lot about WHFB and then went over to the 40k side and continued.
Warhammer was extremely popular during the 90's in my neighborhood and school, which seems to be kind of unique phenomenon compared to US and UK where tabletop gaming is looked down upon. All the cool teenagers (even the athletes) played WHFB and WH40K and I got hooked myself. Read some books, comics and ofc played the hell out of dow1 and dow2. Still play the tabletop even with people in they're forties. Also played Final Liberation a lot with friends, when I was 12 I think we were three mates who met 5AM in the morning before school to play Final Liberation against each other for many months What I miss the most was the Dark Crusade multiplayer, damn that was a great time of gaming. Dow2 mp was good but not nearly as much fun as DC.
i stopped trying a few years ago. up until 2011 i had a working version. when vista came out i couldn't get a dos box to make it work. maybe i should look back into it
DoW! and to be precise that video is still n1 in my heart! View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UID6LEzvRRo
too bad the sergeant in it is the worst strategist ever...charging a squad with heavy bolters into melee combat against orks... a disgrace to the Blood Ravens i say!
