Topic: POLL: Which Was Your 1st Warhammer Fantasy Rules?

[Dihenydd]

Ask me anything about the ancient times, and I will peer back through the mists of my memory to scry out what I can. But I will only answer in riddles, especially if your queries are rules based.

Not because I am being contrary, or even because I don't have the rules right in front of me, but because the rules were in the form of actual riddles!

Or charts.  I really do miss 40K charts for damage and general Orky results.  Also, Fantasy charts for magic and other mayhem.  I'm a nerd, so I do remember reading a chart and saying "Oh I hope I roll a 5 for that one day, it would be hilarious."  Yeah, no one needs to comment on that...

[Gankom]

It is interesting that after 22 votes, no one so far has started after 6th edition.

I think that says a lot about the average age of the forum members.

The younger ones probably left for Social Media ... 

As an interesting note, I'm on a discord server dedicated to the Old World and Warhammer Fantasy that has roughly 200 members. I'd say maybe 20-30 regularly active people. Just about all of them are clearly younger, and the majority of activity is in the channels dedicated to 7th, 8th or 9th edition.

[Midaski]

I was one of the first to actually vote, but didn't post.

I started in 1956 ... ... ...                            Well with toy soldiers

and I still have them in my attic.

However I was't introduced to the murky world of Warhammer until about 1998 when my next door neighbours' son brought home a box of unipose Wood Elves and showed them to my sons.

We ended up getting the Brets/Lizzies starter box, but never really played much until 6th came along. Eldest went with Dark Elves and Younger with Chaos ( not sure what that said about their upbringing  ) so I played around with the Brets for a while.

I just made the scenery to start with, before deciding I was going to get Empire.
The rest, as they say, is history. 

[StealthKnightSteg]

1. Some friends from school were playing it so I also started

2. It was in 1999

[ZeroTwentythree]

I played AD&D in the early 80s, and eventually our group experimented with Battlesystem (1985). But we quickly started looking elsewhere and found WFB 3rd. We still used various other miniatures (Grenadier, Ral Partha, Dark Horse, Minifigs, etc.) for a long time, rather than joining the Citadel Cult.

As much as I have a fond nostalgia for 3rd ed. (and RoC warbands, etc.) I still think 6th ed (or 7th ed. core with only 6th ed. army books) is the best edition for gaming.

[The Peacemaker]

2001 my friends told me about this game called warhammer 40k. It was in the nerdy section at the comic book shop.  As we walked to the 40k section I noticed some cool looking Bret knights and stopped to look and said we should play this game. As my friends had already bought their 40k stuff they craftily persuaded me that WFB was not the game to play!
About 2 years later, another buddy in the group wanted to get into WFB and knew about my initial interest in it. So we split the 6th edition box. I got the models, he got the book. We played 2 games back to back. Got the magic rules wrong and fireballed everything to death. Lol.
GW auction was coming up and I got the Empire codex and some greatswords for cheap. We did not play again though. I was disinterested in the rules because of no Steadfast - yes even back then before steadfast existed, i wanted it in the rules. And money was tight so it was to hard to collect.

2011ish, a year after 8th edition. We checked out the rules and we both liked it. Had money to collect. Empire and Vamp armybook came out shortly after and it was lots of fun.

[GamesPoet]

We got a bunch of old timers on here.

Let's hope the rumored upcoming new edition of rules brings in some new folks, and some of the other old timers back!

[The Black Knight]

I think Victor is right, the youngsters don't have the patience for old-style internet forums! 

[GamesPoet]

Suspect they have the potential to prove us wrong.

[GamesPoet]

It is interesting to see after 26 votes that 12 of those came in with 6th edition.  And 7 with 5th.  The two combined is 73% of respondents.

[Novogord]

I think Victor is right, the youngsters don't have the patience for old-style internet forums! 

I think that is true!
I'm on Reddit, to look at the nice pictures. But I find it very confusing and not very handy to follow a thread or topic.
A little the same with Discord. In big groups, everyone talks trough each other.

[Warlord]

I think Victor is right, the youngsters don't have the patience for old-style internet forums! 

I think that is true!
I'm on Reddit, to look at the nice pictures. But I find it very confusing and not very handy to follow a thread or topic.
A little the same with Discord. In big groups, everyone talks trough each other.

Agree. Its easy to miss whole chunks of conversation, and most posts or thoughts are quick and throw away.

[Warlord]

It was in the nerdy section at the comic book shop.

Huh? Isn’t that the whole shop?

[The Peacemaker]

It was in the nerdy section at the comic book shop.

Huh? Isn’t that the whole shop?

As a young man, the perception I had of the "warhammer" players was that they were the pinnacle of nerdyness. Whereas me playing magic the gathering was just a card game.

...I was quite a good looking 17 year old so was a closet nerd. Lol

[Warlord]

I was a good looking kid too.

I always thought Magic was nerdier.

But I also compartmentalised so had gaming friends, socialising friends, basketball friends. Not many knew my full self until after school was done.

[brr-icy]

4th. On the note above, in our area at least,  it was the magic nerds in the coffee shops that were looked at like in that way,  the group of warhammer players were all the cool kids

[GamesPoet]

I played AD&D in the early 80s, and eventually our group experimented with Battlesystem (1985). But we quickly started looking elsewhere and found WFB 3rd. We still used various other miniatures (Grenadier, Ral Partha, Dark Horse, Minifigs, etc.) for a long time, rather than joining the Citadel Cult.

As much as I have a fond nostalgia for 3rd ed. (and RoC warbands, etc.) I still think 6th ed (or 7th ed. core with only 6th ed. army books) is the best edition for gaming.

Yep, I recall the old days, started AD&D back in the 70s.  Vaguely recall seeing Warhammer in the early to mid 80s, but mostly as figures for roleplaying.  I even have a couple with the hex bases, oh my!  There was a long stretch of not playing much of anything, before I slipped into Warhammer 6th edition with the starter box as my basis for an Empire army.  The memories are all priceless.

[GamesPoet]

I think Victor is right, the youngsters don't have the patience for old-style internet forums! 

I think that is true!
I'm on Reddit, to look at the nice pictures. But I find it very confusing and not very handy to follow a thread or topic.
A little the same with Discord. In big groups, everyone talks trough each other.

Agree. Its easy to miss whole chunks of conversation, and most posts or thoughts are quick and throw away.

Sounds like it is all fast and furious, no sense of depth, not really social, no time to have real connections.  They might be surviving all the physical distancing, yet not sure they are really living the reward of real socializing.

[GamesPoet]

4th. On the note above, in our area at least,  it was the magic nerds in the coffee shops that were looked at like in that way,  the group of warhammer players were all the cool kids

When I entered hobby stores again back in 2008, it was interesting to see so many folks playing cards.  It was like an old person's bridge club or bingo night, without all the old folks.  I wasn't into card games (or bingo for that matter) back in my earliest days when things like pinochle and poker were introduced to me.  Playing with chess pieces and miniatures seemed far more interesting to me even then.