Why part 2

Life was strange at that time, I was working 3 weeks a month in London and spending the 4th week in New York. Upon my return to London I looked for a local store and found one nearby. I invested in a copy of a just released book for the game called Codex:Armageddon and for the first time got to see the Salamander marines. I found their humanitarian aspect interesting and at that point decided immediately to do my first 40k army, the Salamander Space Marines.

This then grew into a website (as often my interest do, but more on that later), called Vulkans Forge. I had a wild time making up a background for the Salamanders as little was disclosed by Games workshop, so I created sanctuary cities, created pseudo realistic excuses for the Time of Trial on Nocturne, and postulated about the chapter fortress on Prometheus. I also painted my very first Salamander space marine (it was shocking).

Eventually looking for more about the Salamanders led me to the Bolter & Chainsword message board which was on EzBoard at the time.
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Why Armageddon?

Some small history is in order perhaps. I used to play games workshop games when they had a small shop in Dalling Rd. Hammersmith right back at the beginning. Rules like Laserburn were popular in 15mm, which was 'the' standard scale for science fiction at the time. I still have my copy of Rogue Trader (40k 1st. Version), however I stopped playing when I got married and concentrated on my career.

We now skip forward to the late nineties, staying in America with my then girlfriend (my first marriage was almost over), she was at work and I was bored with computer games. So as you do in foreign countries when bored, I set off to the local shops. Lo and behold a games shop, I wandered in and watched some guys playing third edition 40k.

Wow the figures looked a lot better, not to mention bigger! To cut a long story short, I left with a rulebook and a box of space marines. Buying a box of terminators in retrospect was not a good gaming descision, however like most dinasours I come from a different age, a time when you bought cool looking miniatures, in the assumption the rules would echo the look.

To be continued ...

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Welcome

Hello and welcome, I suppose some small degree of introduction is in order.

My online nickname is Brother Argos, by day I do boring things with Computers and security. However at night I make models and run websites based around Games Workshops Warhammer 40k science fiction wargame. Combined with my dayjob that sadly makes me some kind of Ubergeek, luckily my wife tolerates me!

This blog will give me a means to document my wanderings through my hobby, and my occasional real world comments.

My next post will explain the title of this blog and focus more upon Armageddon.