When i first heard the announcement of dawn of war 2. Back then i wondered: "wait, is there even an other game previous to this? Anyway, the hell is this game about? Oh look, they've got chainswords, like in gears of war" Then i searched around for more information, untill i was "blessed" by the discovery of the lexicanum... in the mean time, i could have also briefly tested the tt version, thanks to my cousin who, for a short time, had a set composed by some slugga boyz,tank bustaz, 3 bikaz and a deff dread...
Shadow of the Horned Rat on Playstation gave me a glimpse years ago as a kid. Then Warhammer maps on Warcraft 3 custom games peaked my interest. Looked into it and started reading the WH fantasy books about Gotrek & Felix. Then jumped into DoW1 &2 and didn't come out for many many MANY hours later. Then Space Marine on x360. Now I'm here and dying to start buying the WH40k books as soon as finances allow.
I had met 2nd edition of tabletop that my friend have, but the real start was when i played W40koW (the first one). Now i have 4-5k of Raven Guard + played all games + red something close to 40 books
I remember back when I was 12 years old(I'm 26 now) I was curious about this games workshop store it was really cool, had those hazard tape all across the wall very gw-esque haha and a huge hulking space marine figure to represent it's real life size standing infront of the store, it was so cool to my 12 year old self. So anyways I was too scared to go in by myself so days later asked a couple of friends to go with me, the staff was super nice taught us how to play on one of their battle boards. I bought a 5 man space marine tactical squad for like $30 and would come there every saturdays for game night. Some of the funnest days when we had 10 people vs 10 people all combining our units.
Back in 1989 I bought a album from a British band named Bolt Thrower. The title of the album was Realm of Chaos and had a cover from Games Workshop featuring Crimson Fists. The interior gatefold had terminators and genestealers fighting plus a booklet with various illustrations from Games Workshop and the albums lyrics. I was hooked...on metal and 40K.
The first time i watched Warhammer 40k, was in Dawn of War, i got 18, and that was idk 5 or 6 years ago? I was bored of playing Cod, CS and Halo and well everysingle damn game in that year, my father is a game lover to so thats why i played everything that come hehe as my family and uncles. My uncle give me Company of Heroes Original Game, and in it was an demo of Dark Crusade Tau vs everything in The Javannah map, i finished playing the demo more than Company of heroes haha, the thing called my attention was the Orks, and i liked the futuristic theme of Taus. But what get me was the Orks, Space Orks, with guns, yeah that called my attention has a kiddo, now as a grown me i already read all the Lore and read almost all the books with 2 or 3 exceptions that i couldnt find or pay I love all the Races and i dont got an favorite i will play with everything this game can get me, ignore my Luna Wolves Pictures is just because is badass as everything in W40K or i mean W30K
I used to thumb through White Dwarf on the shelf of the local hobby store where I played DnD with a bunch of like minded Nerdiacs back in the late 1980's early 1990's. When I came back on leave from Korea after I joined the Army I bought the 2nd edition starter set and the Angels of Death Codex. I painted it up and it sat unused for awhile in my barracks room until I fell in with another bunch of Nerdiacs in the 101st back in 2001-2003. We were all infantry squad leaders and team leaders and we gathered every weekend we had off in my garage to drink beer, roll dice, argue over whose measuring tape was right, and smash things. Then we all went to Iraq where we had to wait for 6 months for the mail to start working. Then we commandeered some internet and all ordered 1000pts of troops to paint and play with. Unfortunately our patrol schedules never lined up and we never got our OIF 40K on. We were all miraculously reassigned to Ft. Benning to be instructors after OIF1 and we met frequently on weekends to continue the divine ritual. 2 years later we all got reassigned to other places and I haven't done TT since. I have 4 armies sitting in cases in various stages of build. I've since occupied my thirst for 40K with BL novels and Space Marine. my channel: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtnaYN0d6c8
My first experience was in 1987 when I picked up a copy of White Dwarf 93 with the iconic artwork showing the Crimson Fists defending Rynn's World. It was my first introduction to Warhammer 40K and I purchased a copy of the Rogue Trader rulebook the next day. Later that year I bought my first box of RTB1 Marines and Chapter Approved: The First Book of the Astronomicon. I've been playing ever since (with breaks for military service, college and contracting overseas) and the Crimson Fists remain my favorite Chapter.
