Roll those dice gently - it's my first time.

[Nosher]

Operation Warboard - late 80's, Airfix 1/72nds

[petercooman]

97, when i was 12, played warhammer fantasy. year after came 40k and a second hand heroquest box. Had been collecting WW2 soldiers, but never had rules for them at the time.

[howayman]

about 76/ 77 i think world war two 1/72 airfix and others. it was a anything goes whatever you had made you used. the rules involved picking cards from a bag,  red and black and numbered 0, 1, 2, and 3 one was a turret hit the other a hull. great fun then into WRG WW2 and modern. still have 93 T80s released before anyone knew what they looked like. they have square turrets like the challenger.
great times and great games. historically yuk though.

[Fenton]

I think I was about 8 or 9 playing with my brother who had bought Donald Featherstones Miniature wargaming playing Ancient British vs Romans on the attic floor

[Hertsblue]

1973 playing ACW with the inevitable Airfix plastics. I was 26 at the time and probably should have known better..... 

[Malbork]

1973 aged 11 using Donald Featherstone's rules for Airfix Napoleonics (bulked out with ACW figs) and WWII. As we "matured" we moved to Lionel Tarr's WWII rules and then metal microtanks, many of them pirated by a mate at school.  Order for 10 Pz IVs Monday morning and 10 lumps of lead vaguely resembling said vehicle delivered at break time on Wednesday in return for 20p and some sweets

[Chad]

First serious game was in '72 I think, aged 25. Local paper ran an article on a wargames club in the area. Joined and first game 25mm Napoleonics. Everything seemed to use average dice then.

Used to play with airfix placcies as a kid.

Chad

[DaveL]

Don't believe Chad - it was the 1930's!!!!     

Played on my own in early 60's with Airfix plastics throwing needles to gain hits and an old Britains gun firing matchsticks.

Middle 60's my school mate and I bought Hinton Hunt (can't believe how bad they were - but all we had then and we thought they were great).  Painted them but never played a game!

1980's -found out a teacher I worked with played, painted and made his own so managed about 3 games with him.

First real wargame was in 1989 when I met Chad (the guy from Adler put us in touch with each other)  and we've been gaming every week ever since!!!!!!

DaveL

[Steve J]

First real wargame was in 1989 when I met Chad (the guy from Adler put us in touch with each other)  and we've been gaming every week ever since!!!!!!

Wow ! That's pretty amazing. I'm lucky if I get to game once a month on average. If I had a dedicated games room I could leave stuff up would help immensely!

[Techno]

Airfix WWII plastics in (date deleted)....But not with any proper rules...Just made those up as we went along.
Straight lines of sight ?...Nah..Our men shot bullets that had curved trajectories.
First proper historical game was in 90/91 ?....ECW...Just SO much fun.
That's not counting all the D&D games in the 70s and 80s....Plus Warhampster around the same time.

I truly envy you lot !
Cheers - Phil.

[TinyTerrain]

Early 80s I was about 13 and it was Traveller (RPG) and Car Wars

Cheers

Craig
Tinyterrain modes

[mijalo]

Aged 17, just over two decades ago, with 6mm ECW, using rules myself and a classmate made up.

[Albie Bach]

I was pretty young and in Doncaster when I started collecting Airfix kits and figures. I'm not sure of my age but I was probably about 9 or 10, so it must be about late 60s. I was lucky to have a couple of like minded mates along the road and we soon started playing ww2 wargames using simple home-made rules. We played for several years and extended our games to include other mates in the area and had huge games.
I was mortified to find HMS Fearless and the Centurion tank weren't around in the second world war but generally we used ww2 stuff. I remember it got a bit daft once with one chap occupying an island with his Napoleonic Highlanders (probably landed by landing craft from Fearless) and I nuked 'em with my Phantom Jet. We had decided to use everything we'd got that day.
One day one of the lads said "D'yer nore wot, sum foke du this reight."
Unfortunately we never kept it up, I moved darn sarf when I left college and I didn't get into proper wargaming until about 9 years ago.

[Squirrel]

Interesting. My first proper wargame was in 1973, I was ten. A mate of my Dad's had a dedicated wargames room with what seemed to me a huge games table, must have been about 8ft x 6ft. Played Napoleonics with metal figs of unknown manufacture, but I think were 20mm. Used good old Donald Featherstone's rules.

heers,

Kev

[nikharwood]

Good question, FK.

I think it was about 1979, aged 8-9 and micro-tanks...never looked back