New oldhammer /middlehammer blog

Yet another miniature gaming blog. I started this blog because the forums I used to frequent have lost it´s traffic & thereby their charm, but I still feel like giving my ramblings about gaming.

So who am I? I am a 34 year old teacher from Sweden. My gaming began with warhammer in 1994. A friend of mine had bought the 4:th edition starter with High elves & goblins:

 

I tried the goblins with some support from an Orc lord mounted on a boar, while my opponent had the High Elves, which also had a bolt thrower & some Knights. I didn´t know anything about the game & I got utterly crushed due to the imbalance, but I still had a great time & wanted to play more, so within a week we had our 2:nd game.

The second game my opponent introduced magic & magic items to me, once again I knew nothing so took some items I found cool, while my opponent fleshed out his characters with Specialsaves, Staff of Osiris, Death Sword & Slayer swords, well you get the idea. Even more of a problem was the fact that my opponent had a Wizard Lord, while I had no magic user at all, which he solved by not allowing me any winds of magic cards at all, needless to say I was crushed yet again.

But shame on he who gives up, I asked him if I could borrow the bestiary, the rulebook & the magic book over the weekend.

I was hooked by the Warhammer World, & one race in particular caught my interest: Chaos.

I loved the images of Chaos warriors & Knights & this picture alone made me decide which army I would start to play:

 

After this, nothing was ever the same.

 

This blog will start out by continuing through memory lane up until all the games I currently play (Kings of War, Warhammer Fantasy 5th, 6th & 8th edition, Warhammer 40K, X-wing, Song of Blades & Heroes as well as Fantasy Warriors, Battle Masters & much much more), I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it!