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What attracted you to Warhammer?
The Hobby Aspect: Collecting, painting, and enjoying the fluff. 5 (18.5%)
The Gaming Aspect: Tactics, competition, and glory on the field! 9 (33.3%)
The Total Package: Both the hobby and the gaming. 13 (48.1%)
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Hobby or Gaming Aspect?; What attracted you to Warhammer?
Topic Started: 7th March 2007 - 06:44 AM (466 Views)
Queetik
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Alright, I'm just wondering what got everyone into this wonderful hobby of ours.

For me, personally, I've always loved fantasy, whether it was playing Dungeons and Dragons or reading a R.A. Salvatore novel. I loved the character of all the different races and how they co-existed or were constantly at war with one another. Plus, I've always enjoyed dabbling in art-type stuff. Thus, Warhammer just seemed natural to me. There was this great world where you could make up your own story about your own army, and pretty much do anything and everything you cared to in order to personalize it. Plus, there were these great (for the most part) miniatures that you could paint to represent this "creation." Oh yeah, and there was this thing called a "game" that you could play with them. But that was always secondary to the hobby aspect, in my mind.

So, yeah... Share, if you care to, what got you interested in Warhammer.
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Morgoth
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I voted both, although the gaming part isn't as big as I would like.
But fluff is the main reason for choosing Skaven. The pictures in my sick brain about the Eshin ninja-rats was too good, even as I at first didn't want a horde army.
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It was definately the gaming aspect that first attracted me to Warhammer, but over the 10-11 years Ive been gaming I have gotten much more into the hobby side... Initialli, my interest in the hobby aspects was very little...

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For me it was the prospect of having fully painted my own army.

Seeing as that is basically a hobby reason I voted that, but both could have been an option too, since I never planned to just paint an army and put it on display. I have the very real intention of playing (and perhaps even winning) games with it. It's just that that aspect has always been secondary to my desire to create a personalised army. When making army lists I first decide whether the list feels personal enough to me and fits my background requirements before I start worrying about whether it can win or not. Which unfortunately has the result that I'm a pretty incompetent general, but if that's what it takes to do my thing I'm prepared to deal with it.

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Skaven Lord Vinshqueek
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Gaming most definitely... Painting/ converting just isn't my thing, which shows when you see my 2k army not being fully painted even after seven years. :P

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Chieftain Cazgar
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well it started off as gaming and then as i got more and more into warhammer i began taking more care of my minis and thus put more time into painting/converting them.

so i voted both, as that's how i see myself now. a mix of hobby and gaming aspect
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Warlord Bloodfang
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The painting is what attracted me to Warhammer in the first place. I began painting to relieve stress during my VCE exams for year 12 and I've just kept doing it afterwards. I have played very few games, some with my bother (who has a very short attention span) and a few on game nights at the Gw in Chadstone shopping center.
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scrivener
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The hobby, definitely. The idea of having your own miniature toy soldier army was just too cool. The fact that it's not just a display thing but a functional game army made it even cooler. The fact that I can name them and write stories about them without appearing senile was just the best thing ever.
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Mar 7 2007, 02:43 PM
The hobby, definitely. The idea of having your own miniature toy soldier army was just too cool. The fact that it's not just a display thing but a functional game army made it even cooler. The fact that I can name them and write stories about them without appearing senile was just the best thing ever.

Makes my story seem a little unneccesarily long, huh :P ?

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Frankensqueek
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I like gaming (although I haven't fought a battle in about two years), but I would never take to the battlefield without a fully painted and based army.


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kingle tut
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:P The gaming, oh yes...

Everything that got me into it was the game- you have so much flexibility with what you do. That could NEVER be recreated by any software game. Largely because you can agree the rules with your opponent(s).

BUT once I got started, the modelling was extremely appealing. This seems the opposite of a lot of people who thought "heh, cool models" and then began playing. I didn't even realise I had any interest in the painting etc. until I realised that I must be one of the (very) few people around here with a full painted army, and conversions.

Saying that though, I don't buy nearly as much as anyone else. It's crazily expensive. My <i>entire</i> Tomb Kings army so far (700-900 points) was made from a single skeleton box, and bits and pieces I had from before.
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I started with the gaming but now that I haven't been able to play since the end of CWC it's become more generalized between everything. Right now the biggest pull for me though is thinking of tactics that I'll be using at the up-comming UEGT :D
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for me i think it was the pretty Models they had in GW but also the chance of renacting wars with my old old empire army ^_^
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I originally began this hobby with the LOTR game (introduced by a friend of one of my friends) before moving to 40K and, eventually fantasy (now my favorite). It was gaming that first drew me in as I loved the idea of recreating epic LOTR scenes and than the game system (and the fact there were oponents!) of 40K. By this time I loved the hobby aspect greatly and my love of the miniatures brought me to fantasy.

Yeah for the pretty models!!
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Aderashi
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For me it was the cool models and painting them that made me go to play warhammer. Wile computer games give you a finished product and thats it Warhammer allowes you to make your own unique army as you wish. AND it is just so much more satisfying to show a army that you fully painted yourself instead of showing a army that somone else did.

Then the gaming aspect is fun too that is reason 2 I starded playing this game. And of cource the people, we have some really nice people together and it is just loads of fun to play games with all the army. The high and mighty dwarfs vs sneaky backstabbin skaven or the old tombkings vs nasty woodelves. Its just so much fun ^_^
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