Ok so I first encounter Warhammer in school, some friend bought the starter for 6th edition and then the interest for the game began to grow quite quickly between our geeks friends, and in 1-2 months we were close to 15-20 people at our grade (there were 200 people per grade..) playing the game! Also at the time the game was very approachable in Spain, in any news stand you could buy a white dwarf and even some non-geeks were playing it. With time the interest on the game calmed down after 1-2 years but we continue playing with my close my close friends until World of Warcraft began to catch traction in 2007 and we stopped playing. On 2010 I moved to Israel, first to do college but then I stayed to live there, in the meantime my mother also moved to Israel and decided to just throw those : ”chilidish toys”. I did not like that at the time, but I was not using them so…
In 2013, tow events brought me back to the hobby, first there was the End of times series I heard from some internet rumors. So I began to buy the epub books from the black library and read how finally they were moving the fluff and I loved it… up to the last book that I hated it…as they killed all of the fluff of the old world. At the same time with a friend I played poker regularly, after a game that finished early we found by his place some of his old lotr miniatures and began to play to sbg, and we loved it . So we both ditched poker and began to play it 2-3 times a week. As there were no one else we knew that played we begin to buy more and more miniatures online for the sake of variety. So quickly in 6 month we had all the lotr range! Mostly already bought painted ( at the time we had a rule to only by painted miniatures). But that game had some big flaw he did not scale well, so a game with 200 models per side would take us 13 hours! So then we decided t try the massive games of GW, first we did 40k, and also as we did not knew other people that played in the next 2 years we collected all the WH40k army’s except guard and witch hunters.