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MichaelStockin

MichaelStockin

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Have you been oldhammering?

I stopped wargaming when WFB 4th came out.
Got back into wargames about 15 years ago when I sold my own range of 6mm sci-fi and then later 15mm fantasy.
Then about 5 years ago I started 10mm WFB and stopped that last year to play 25mm WFB instead.

I did dabble in Mordheim 2 years ago-ish but that was only half a dozen or so models.

It was not until last year I started playing and buying for 25mm WFB so I have much to collect build etc.
But it does feel right.
 
I started playing Space Hulk shortly before 4e Warhammer was published, reading White Dwarves about half a year prior.

Warhammer 4e box set I got for Christmas in ... 1992...? I think, the year it was published.

Since then I was Warhammering, 40k-ing, Necromundaing, GorkaMorking, Mordheiming, Epicing... all to different degrees.

During the 2010's I was into Warmachines/Hordes and some more historicals, but never lost touch with Warhammer.
 
I never stopped playing Rogue Trader, although I sold up a few years ago (housing association said they would help me get funding to move house, then never, and expected me to vacate in a few days so I had to sell my 40k stuff to hire a rude ass van driver who dropped half of my stuff). Oldhammer fantasy Id say about a year, yet to actually play though (I won't play with unpainted minis, it's a game for both players to enjoy, I hate playing against bare metal or plastic so I hold myself to the same standards I expect from others).

Will get back into 40k eventually, Fire Hawks have always been on my to do list, and I'm feeling the Nurgle itch again (not as concerning as a Slanneshii itch admittedly, just smells worse), I just wanna finish my Brets and Skellybois before I start another army that won't get painted before Armageddon.
 
Padre said:
1st ed. 1983. Never stopped. And don't yet intend to.
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I did have a pdf of 1st ed, confused the hell out of me. I've always picked up 'new' rules by playing games, but when I've tried getting people interested the wargamers say it's too DnD. Mind you these same people nearly had mental breakdowns when I tried getting them to roll up RoC warbands, too many charts and dice rolls they say *snorts* not enough if you ask me. I love a good old dice roll on random charts.
 
Citizen Sade said:
Blimey! I was there in the earlies but 1st is before my time even. Should we petition to change your forum rank to living ancestor?
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Did you see my 1st ed re-enactment videos using my old figures from 1984? First part at
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Got my first minis after playing Fighting Fantasy game books, I got Fighting Fantasy – The Introductory Role-playing Game and picked up Dragon Warriors Book 1 which refer to White Dwarf and Citadel Miniatures. First issue of WD was 121, which has Space Orcs, Realms of Chaos, WRFP and more. Had picked up WFB 3rd and Rogue Trader soon afterwards. Was playing WFRP with school friends every lunchtime. A teacher brought us a copy of 40k 2nd Ed when it was released and we were allowed to use a small room to play games in too!
I was drifting into other “interests” during college and failed to connect with a like minded group at Uni (GW was clearly focused more on a younger demographic and was pricing out of my range too)… Still kept a eye on the hobby, but only got more invested again when a store opened in Hudds and I started picking up Black Library books and copies of White Dwarf again. Lockdown kicked in and had spare time and resources to spend on picking up painting materials.
Had been reading Realms of chaos 80s blog before this, so digging out my old minis was a logical extension (and justified as cheaper than new ones).
 
It depends a little on how you slice it. The first Citadel game I played was Rogue Trader, right about when it came out. (I think I bought my first box of RTB-01 from a mall bookstore, oddly. Weirdest thing finding a box of crazy plastic soldiers in a mall bookstore.) But I'd bought some fantasy miniatures several years before for D&D, and I'd long had some interest in historical models and miniatures. Anyway, if you want the strict GW take, late 80s. In the early 90s I started using rules from other companies, and I was really never a purist about my collection. It was always as "Does this look good together?" kind of thing. (Which is part of why I moved away from GW in the early 90s: that's when players over here started insisting you could only use "official" stuff. And tournaments and that calptrap took off in a major way.) But I kept quietly playing with friends, and in the early 2000s I started going back out in public with my toys some, slowly. I'm still a little shy about that, oddly. I just feel out of place in game stores, truth be told. But folks I've met through this forum and related places . . . that's definitely a happy place. Glad to go thousands of miles to be out in public with you lot. :)
 
Slave to Darkness said:
Wonder how many people got back into warhammering due to lockdown?
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A LOT! :lol: It was a pleasant retreat from the disturbing reality of the pandemic…
No doubt many have dropped off subsequently and imagine an even smaller subset got into Oldhammer style gaming.

I saw it as a good opportunity/excuse to get back into the hobby rather than skirting round it just reading and watching videos about the hobby I loved in my formative years.
 
I started with playing home made war games using toy soldiers in the late 80’s. A mate of mine got the box of dungeon bowl in about 1990 and that kicked it off for me. We started with DB and Space Crusade. When second edition 40k came out we got our parents to take us to the local GW in Aberdeen and clubbed together pocket money to buy the starter box. Next 6-7 years we played regularly and I tried to get the group we played with to expand into WHFB and Epic but it never really happened. Then in my late teens I discovered beer, cars and girls so the toy soldiers got packed away.

Then about 12 years ago we were moving my old dear out her house and I came across it all again. Sadly she had given away my rather large Space Wolf army but most the fantasy and epic stuff was still there. Interest was reignited and I used TacCom forum to find someone to play epic with. Expanded from there. I have also infected my youngest son who loves 3rd Edition WHFB but mainly plays AoS and DnD as it’s what the kids around here his age play.
 
I started gaming with Heroquest which must have started when I was 9 or 10 (2011, 2012), with my dad's old set that he'd kept around. Unfortunately all his old gaming stuff had gone for the most part but Heroquest and my love for Labyrinth and Skyrim really got me going on fantasy stuff. The Hobbit was my favourite book as a kid. Started actually wargaming after tasting role-playing (getting allowed in a friend's big brothers game of One Ring RPG) and then getting upsold some space marines by a GW store manager.

So it depends whether you count my teenage gaming as Oldhammering. Many of my models were post-millennium, and I mainly played current edition 40k, but owing to my folks being skint a lot of the time a large proportion of my stuff was second hand (usually free from family friends who'd quit the hobby years ago) and my favourite models were some of those old ones. That and my start with Heroquest makes me think I started Oldhammering pretty early.

I got really into Oldhammer during uni where I ran my uni's role-playing society where we played a lot of old-school rpgs, so old warhammer followed on pretty naturally. Had neither the cash nor the space to actually do anything with this interest, so I've started painting my old models and building up a proper collection since graduating (2023).
 
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