tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473115843829010429.post5139743187293478842..comments2024-01-01T17:07:33.375-08:00Comments on Atomic Warlords: The First Legion: A New HopeMarcus the Blackhearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04188895276631758426noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473115843829010429.post-85163716752869410022013-01-18T22:59:14.366-08:002013-01-18T22:59:14.366-08:00I had a couple friends who played this weird minia...I had a couple friends who played this weird miniatures game. It was called, if memory serves, the Armageddon Campaign. As I understood it, you spent weeks building and painting little toy soldiers and tanks and then played the game. If the soldier died, you put him up on the shelf and <i>never used him again</i>. To make sure you never used him again, you registered your game results on a website.<br /><br />It was a very, very stupid game.<br /><br />But then I was instructed a bit more, bought a few of the cheap boxes of models GW was selling off, was given a few more, and then--in the thinnest Chaos Codex ever written--I read two paragraphs about the Legion with a huge Napoleon complex and was hooked.Virtual Strangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01040333093180694172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8473115843829010429.post-13713718335660935262013-01-07T00:02:55.796-08:002013-01-07T00:02:55.796-08:00I remember my first exposure to 40K, too. I kept ...I remember my first exposure to 40K, too. I kept seeing the Rogue Trader book @ on the shelves at the same comic book store your "dealer" worked at. It took me _forever_ to figure out that Rogue Trader was actually the base game. I always thought it was an expansion to just plain ol' Warhammer 40,000 (it isn't). If memory serves, the Rogue Trader book was in the neighborhood of fifty american dollars WAY BACK THEN.<br /><br />I finally got the book for my birthday in... '89, methinks. It lasted three days before the pages started falling out. Yep - that book had the shittiest binding of any book anywhere. I ended up tearing all the pages out very carefully (which really wasn't that difficult, considering) and putting them into a 3-ring binder.<br /><br />I've never fully recovered - been a 40k addict ever since.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02241658572407691666noreply@blogger.com