"Your First Warhammer figures?" Topic

My first Warhammer figures were the 30 figure set of Halberdiers in 1990.

I still have them and they form the core of my Empire Army.

Your first?

Xin/Jeff

A few Citadel adventurers in the early 80s iirc

Fantasy Battalions box, So many figures for a cheap price.

Wackmole9 +1

Space Marine Terminator with Lightning Claws for use in Space Hulk 1st edition being played at One Eyed Jacques, the local game store.

Did Warhammer sell non-plastic based minis originally? I bought several pewter single loose (no blister pack) minis along with Warhammer Fantasy Battle when I was on holidays as a young kid.

Can't find any on google though…long gone unfortunately. I'd recognize them if I saw them. I remember a troll/orc looking dude with serious over bite holding an axe at the waist

The Box of 30 Rogue Trader Beakie marines.

Beakie space marines. Never played much with them, so didn't get a lot. Skarloc's Wood Elf Archers, 80s wardancers. Then 1992 bought heaps of the then new Empire range for WHFB and really started playing.

My very first were some plastic marine scouts. My first army were Blood Angels, back in 2nd edition when they were just red marines with a few special units and characters.

The Eternal champion and Dwarf Kings of Legend boxed sets.

I got the Eternal Champion boxed set but I had Chaos Warriors bought from the hobby shop in Hucknel years before that.

I believe they were called 'Citadel Imports' and were cast in the US by Ral Partha.

I bought a box of plastic Citadel Orcs, probably 1984 or 5.

Still have them.

@War Panda; they did indeed link

My first were a pair of Bretonnian knights and 8 bretonnian archers, released at the start of 5th ed.

Some of the early adventurers I had various figures, Mini Figs, Asgard, Greenwood and Ball etc, then the first Warhamer Rules,

Tally Ho!

Thanks Mike. I never knew if they were "related" to the rules or not. Boy did I ;love those minis. Even more mysterious because they were bought in a small bric a brac shop. Thanks for clarifying that.

7 sets of miniatures from the "Battlemasters" game that was on sale for $7 USD each in the early 90s. Three of us split these for Chaos, Empire, and Orcs.

And I forgot… another friend got a 4th army… Bretonnians. You can see the miniatures on this thread: link

For those who want to know, or relive, the figures from the Dawn of Warhammer, see here solegends.com/citcomp1 – all the pages scanned in from the first Citadel Compendium of 1983, and bonus Ral Partha stuff as Citadel sold them in the UK.

The covers have fallen off but I still have my copy around somewhere – with pencil rings around the figures I bought :-)

Some friends were playing 4th edition which had just come out. I joined in and bought the box set on sale from Walden Books for $40. USD I swapped out the Elves for more Gobbos and bought some of the Citadel champions. I miss those figures and those games.

My first GW Warhammer box set was BC7 – Heroic Fighters of Known World.

But my very first miniature purchase predates GW by at least 5 or 6 years – Knights & Magick, King Arthur from Heritage

A box of monopose Black Orcs, another box of monopose Orcs with bows and swords, followed by a couple of boxes of monopose plastic Dwarf Warriors and a metal command group. Only the Dwarfs survive to this day but I remember lying, ill, in my parents' bed, and my Mum presenting me with the Black Orcs and Orcs when she came home from work.

The beginning of the madness, waaaaay back in 1995!

These were mine:

Well, I actually bought a lot of 5th Edition Wood Elves all at once, but these were amongst them. I picked up a "free, take one" Warhammer flyer from a strange store called "Games Workshop" on a family trip to Ireland the summer before and I spent the next summer drooling over the flyer and working my tail off on a farm for $3.15 USD an hour to raise money to buy some of the Wood Elves I saw in the diorama pictures. I was 13. Didn't have any idea there was an actual game that went with the models, and if you told me there was another kind of game that wasn't Monopoly or Solitaire or Mario Kart, I would have probably given you a blank look of confusion!

I think the 30-set of Empire Halberdiers looked more like this:

I still have a fond memory of telephoning the US Games Workshop mail order team on my dad's rotary telephone to place my order, and the young man on the other end of the line patiently waited as I choose each individual Wood Elf Glade Guard sculpt (Glade Guard are the ones with spears, by the way… the bowmen are called Archers). He even made suggestions when I wasn't sure what a model looked like in hand and gave advice on how to make a complete unit within my meager budget (I think I had raised about $72 USD). Those were the days…

Got these guys from a friend. These were my first WHFB miniatures.

Rogue Trader Beakies and RT rulebook pack for 40K.