well, my BFG history is probably one of the dumbest... sadly, i've came from 40k here to BFG.
before you now go off at me, i have to let you know a few things:
first: i'm 19, so when BFG came out (1999 was it?) i was 6 years old. unnecessary to say i didn't know anything about gaming by then.
second: i missed the whole "golden age" of all the awesome games now no longer available.
third: when i came into a GW store for the first time, it was already the time when no SG stuff was sold in store and all the mags were dead.
so, the actual story:
as a little kid, my parents got me a model train for my birthday. i played with that for years. good times. until the prices for the things increased by obnoxious levels, a little locomotive cost 40 euros when i got my train, a few years later it was 500 (and that was the cheapest you could get).
yeah, i quickly decided: i'm out.
so i switched to the much cheaper revell model building, small tanks, ships, airplanes and such. that was where i actually had to build and paint the stuff by myself for the first time, and i kinda liked that.
i was only sad that after i finished a model, it just stood there somewhere on a shelf or desk and thats it.
thats when a friend of mine came in and showed me warhammer 40k. i was amazed, it was the same model building i've done before, and on similar scale, but i can actually use the models for a game!
that lasted for a while, about the last three years. reading in the fluff, i always liked the space battle stuff, and researching the ships on the internet lead me to stumbling over the BFG models.
i read that there was a game for it! saw the models on the GW website... instant love.
that was a bit more than a year ago, and in my WIP thread ("the survivors") you can see a list of the things i already own.... yeah, i'm pretty madly in love
and with my fanatic motivation, i created a gaming community for BFG in my area, before i did that nobody played it. now we have four very active players, and another four already owning fleets.
and just before starting our own campaign, one of my friends and me decided to take part in afterimagedan's draco sector campaign