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.
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second: i missed the whole "golden age" of all the awesome games now no longer available.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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and just before starting our own campaign, one of my friends and me decided to take part in afterimagedan's draco sector campaign
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