Greetings and salutations, fellow nerds! I go by Hag and have
for just about as long as I can remember. I’ve been gaming since grade school,
starting with D&D. Like a lot of others, I bought lead miniatures to game
with and painted them with enamel paints formerly used to paint model cars,
planes and tanks. My collection of skeletons, barbarians, dragons and the like
slowly grew as I blew any allowance and lawn mowing money at the local hobby
shop.
When I
got to middle school, a friend of mine told me that he and his dad were getting
into a new game that let you use fantasy miniatures to wage war against one
another. Like playing Risk or Axis and
Allies, but with models instead of tiny plastic roman numerals or infantry and
tanks. Needless to say, I was intrigued. He showed me an ogre his dad had
painted and the 3rd edition Warhammer Fantasy rulebook and Armies
book and I was hooked immediately. Undead, Skaven, Chaos, Elves…this was quite
possibly my first nerdgasm.
Over
the course of my wastrel adolescent years, I spent almost all my McDonald’s paychecks at the comic shop that was my new weekend hangout. My interest in WFB
waned as soon as 40k Rogue Trader was released. I bought some Eldar pirates to
battle my friend’s box of plastic Space Marines and battles on an army blanket
on the basement floor commenced. The rest, as they say, is history. I soon
abandoned the pansy Eldar to embrace Chaos and with a few dalliances here and
there, I have been a follower of the dark gods ever since.
Being a grown up now (married with kids) my gaming time is really limited so most of my nerd energies are spent building and painting stuff that I sporadically get to play with at local shops (Mind Games mostly, Gajo for random tournaments here and there).
Here is
a quick list of games I have played extensively over the years. Games I
currently play (time permitting, being a grownup hampers one’s free time) are
marked with a *.
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Roleplaying games of just about any stripe
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Warhammer Fantasy Battle
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Warhammer 40k *
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Epic 40k
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Battlefleet Gothic
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Warmaster
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Mordheim
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Clan War
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Warmachine
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Battletech *
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Flames of War *
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Collectible card games
And here is list of
armies I currently own or am working on. Expect to see the majority of things I
write about here to be the have something to do with these, either directly or
indirectly.
- Imperial Space Marines- Raptor Chapter
- Chaos Space Marines- World Eaters, The Purge, Noise Marines and Cultist Guard
- Chaos Demons
- Dark Eldar
Eldar
- Orks
- 3039 era Battletech
You can expect random stuff from me, thoughts on lists, units and tactics along with battle reports showing just how much I suck at gaming now that I have next to no free time to do it :D
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