Follow up on Warhammer poll

Zombie · Post by **Zombie** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:16 pm

The question says it all. I'm just curious about whether Blood Bowl is a good gateway for Warhammer or the opposite holds more true.

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:20 pm

played blood bowl the longest iirc

Talafar · Post by **Talafar** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:25 pm

Warhammer first. Then all the other games. And recently Blood bowl.

Anthony_TBBF · Post by **Anthony_TBBF** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 11:30 pm

I actually thought Blood Bowl sounded stupid when I first saw it!

MistWraith · Post by **MistWraith** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 11:51 pm

I to thought Blood Bowl was a stupid idea, but then I got sukerd into playing a game of it.

I was hooked.

Colin · Post by **Colin** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:04 am

Actually I thought BB was a pretty cool idea. I had actually thought to myself, "why doesn't some game company come up with a fantasy football type game?" When I first saw BB in the store (2ed), I had to buy it.

Dragoonkin · Post by **Dragoonkin** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:23 am

Knew of 40k and Fantasy and such things, then a friend pulled out this crazy game one day called "Blood Bowl"...

Deathwing · Post by **Deathwing** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:28 am

I actually can't remember which came first. I think that it was the old 40K Rogue Trader rulebook, then it was a toss up between BB or Dark Future. (The first WD I bought (104) featured both the Big Guy rules from Star players and a great DF Redd Harvest interview with some wonderful Carl Critchlow art).
IIRC I'd decided on DF but for some reason (DF out of stock?) I walked out with BB. Back then both games were £19.99 and you could buy 2 (!) Land Raiders for £12.99.

All of which is largely irrelevent to what you're trying to ascertain, but thanks for making me feel old anyway....

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 9:31 am

I played 1st ed WFB

- but really discovered BB in 3rd ed. Now its my primary game.

Post by **Thadrin** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 10:58 am

We had a gaming club at school - back in the days of Vortex and Virus grenades in 40k. I remember one of my mates losing half his IG army to a single Virus grenade, and a Skaven army getting pretty much entirely routed in a 4 player WFB game when a Goblin unit on his side lost their bottle.

I remember playing a Chaos army with lots of bits of card instead of figures.

I remember the old Realm of Chaos books.

I remember at least some of the stuff Woody just mentioned (remember the days when WD had an events calender for each store? and each store had a resident BB expert?). God I feel old (and I'm ten years younger than him...

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zeroalpha · Post by **zeroalpha** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 11:23 am

I played warhammer fantasy first, started buying white dwarf and couldn't resist getting bloodbowl when it came out. Start of 3rd ed. Mind you i bought a number of GW's specialist games as they are now called, necromunda, BFG, epic, but fantasy and bloodbowl are the only ones i continus to play

Sushé Wakka · Post by **Sushé Wakka** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 11:53 am

A mate who introduced me intro Warhammer also introduced me into Blood Bowl (he owns half the games we play).

Methusalah · Post by **Methusalah** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:09 pm

I remember reading the BB articles in White Dwarf thinking it sounded great, but none of my gaming circle were interested (we were all WHFB players). Now I haven't played a game against them for months while I try and convert them to BB

sean newboy · Post by **sean newboy** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:51 pm

40k then Warhammer then bb.

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 9:08 pm

Started 40k with Rogue Trader, WD from issue 100, got into BB 2nd ed., fell out for 3rd ed, started again with LRB (and PBeM - thank god!).

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Follow up on Warhammer poll

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