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 ...

-- On the move with my iPhone