What got you into Warlord?

[madcobaia]

As I was getting back into painting after a break of about 4 years, I discovered Reaper, loved the minis, heard about the game, but never bothered to look into it. About a week ago, I decided to look into the forum on the various races and gameplay, and was drawn in from there. Now I'm hooked, and considering selling textbooks for more Reptus. *sniff* I think I'm addicted!

 

Interesting that many people discovered it after a long break from minis. Maybe this means something!

 

Then again, probably not.

[spiritual_exorcist]

Cool minis, which I justified as being great to buy for roleplaying purposes, needless to say I was more than a little pleasently suprised when the game came out (I knew it was coming, but I wasn't sure whether or not it would be worthwhile).

[Castlebuilder]

Since I was introduced to D&D 25 or so years ago, I've always liked fantasy skirmish games. Few of them, however, impressed me. The one I really liked went down the tubes when the company producing it was sold. I've been aware or Reaper Minis since they started, but didn't really pay attention to their games. I met the Reaper crew at Origins 2 1/2 years ago, and they sucked me in with some CAV demos. Once I learned Warlord, I was hooked and started running more Warlod Demos than CAV demos.

 

Castlebuilder

[Prophet]

Actually the demo that Qwyksilver ran at Gencon got me in it. Was actually looking for a Fantasy mini battle game to get into, Warlord is the best one i have watched/played.

Prophet

[Qwyksilver]

Ex-cell-ent!

[/Monty Burns]

[cristomeyers]

I had been an avid 40k player since I was around 13. My group eventually disbanded, and I was left swimming for awhile. I came to college, and in my sophomore year I got swept up in recreating the old Gamer's Guild, hoping to find some 40k opponents. One of the members is a BL, he demoed Warlord (though I wasn't involved in the demo) and he had some spare Warlord minis that he handed out (I got Arnise) and the little sneak-peak books. I was hooked. I started with a freelancer force that eventually became a Nefsokar force, then an Overlord force, and finally a Necropolis force.

 

It didn't hurt that the rules were more like what I had come to love about 40k when I first started playing before its Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader transformation.

[Evilbob]

I paint and play D&D and so I bought some minis for that. But it boils down to ---"It's ALL FreeFall's Fault!"--- he ran some demos up here at the FLGS and convinced my I could be a BL as a painter...Then after GenCon I was done for. I have sooo much pewter its frightning.

 

So its all Freefall, and Qwyk, and Turtle, and Ixmini, and CastleBuilder, and the Storm's, and Freefall's fault.

Thanks guys

[Jeff LaMarche]

My entry into Warlord is due mostly to Bryan and sculpting.

 

I played RPGs and Warhammer and just about every other game that came out from the mid-seventies until the early nineties, but by the late nineties, I had sold off all my minis and most of my gaming stuff. I was working 90 hour weeks in the Silicon Valley during the dot com boom with four young children (including twins) and really thought I'd never have time for playing, let alone collecting and painting, again.

 

Things happen. I escaped Northern California, and my kids started to grow, and after a while I found that I could squeeze a few hours of luxury time in some weeks. I started sculpting - took a class at a local community college, but since I travel a lot for work, was frustrated at how little sculpting I could do - often months went by without me doing any, which I hated.

 

I stumbled across a Green Stuff tutorial online, and a little light bulb went off in my head! Hey, I could bring everything I needed to sculpt miniatures when I travel. So, I started learning to sculpt minis, still with no intention of getting back into gaming. I had to buy some minis, of course, to see how they were sculpted, of course. Reaper minis seemed to be the best (I started to notice that all my minis were from Reaper), so I joined the forums here and after a little e-mail prompting by Gene Van Horne (one of the Reaper sculptors), I ended up going to RAC to try to improve my feeble miniature sculpting skills. Once at headquarters, I was easy prey for Bryan (in all fairness, I asked him to show me Warlord, but I think it was the pewter vapors or something...).

 

I still don't play much - I've got about a dozen figures painted and maybe another two dozen other WL figures unpainted, along with maybe another dozen DH figures, and that's it. I occasionally play a skirmish against my kids, but it seems I'm focusing most of what little free time I have now on sculpting, but now that my kids are getting older, I have hopes of getting back into both RPG and other tabletop games more and more as time goes on.

[cristomeyers]

Ah, children. The words of my girlfriend are echoing in my head right now...

 

"That's the best reason to have children. You can start your own gaming group."

 

God I hope she's not serious...

[Balthus]

Ok, here's my story - I suggest you get yourselves some beverage and some treats, because it's not that short... I also apologize for any mistakes and, well, goofs, because I'm no native English speaker! ;-)

 

Well, to start with, I'm in miniatures wargaming for about 20 years by now - I started with "Armageddon" which was one of the first fantasy miniatures wargames here in Germany (it actually used 1/72 scale historical minis which were more or less skillfully converted). With Armageddon being a brief interlude only, one or two years later I turned to a certain tabletop game made up by a British company which was set in a dark future in which "there's no peace among the stars... only war"... errrm, ya get my drift! ;-) That was when I started the quest to build up a complete chapter of elite warriors in blue power-armoured ("First, second and third company are now at full strength, Brother-Master!").

 

I also got involved in the fantasy counterpart to this game, but that left me... well, somehow unsatisfied. See, I just fell in love with that certain army of valiant knights in shiny armor (some folks call them a "bloody circus", however...), I liked the miniatures and all (well, I somehow seem to have some kind of affection for folks in big suits of armour), but there was something about the rules I just didn't like - only the first line of your regiment(s) may slash out at the enemy... and if the enemy's a bit faster than you and hits you first, no-one of your superior forces (well, at least as far as numbers are concerned...) may strike back.

 

Then, one day, thanks to the internet, I came across Reaper's DHL and Warlord-lines of miniatures. Seeing the miniatures, I decided to get hold of a few of them, only to develop my skills in miniatures painting a little bit further (truth is, I was bored to DEATH painting big guys in blue power armour again and again...). Some weeks after that I noticed a copy of the Warlord rulebook at my local retailer. I was surprised that there was a game named Warlord, too, and not just a line of nifty fantasy figs, I browsed through the book and instantly liked what I read - some kind of skirmish game, about two dozen or so figs, really nice sculpted minis, great terrain (well, terrain that is really of some use and well worth some efford while building it)... that copy had to follow me home!

 

And now here I am... again trying to set up an army of big guys in big suits of shining armour and blue robes(not again... *sigh*), along with three - maybe four - other guys who are tired of clumsily 'wheeling' regiments of fantasy soldiers whose first rank is only allowed to strike at the enemy... well, some kind like that! *g* After only a few Warlord games, I can say I like the engine very much and I think my Crusaders are going to be my most personalized tabletop-army ever. I hope you enjoyed reading my writings - now excuse me... I still have to sculpt 12 new Templar Knights' heads and shoulder pads...

[shakhak]

Owned a bunch of the badass Warlord minis for use with dnd encounters.

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Chainmail being abandoned by WoTC, leaving me void of a strategy table top game.

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The rules being free to download, during open beta

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One Warlord addict with 3 factions and growing.

[Akela]

I was sitting in my office (my small and cramped one back at the old facility that I shared with Kit) working on CAV stuff - ah the good old days when I only had one game to work on - when Ed walked into my office holding a black 3 ring binder. . .

 

I knew that playtesting of Warlord had been going on for some few weeks, back then I had really no interest in it, after all, CAV was what I was hired to work on - not fantasy - however, I kept peeking in Gary Hoover's office at a big stack of orcs and trolls he was painting up.

 

. . . he dropped the 3 ring binder on my desk and said "I need you to work on Warlord" . . . That was November 7, 2002. That was when I first "got in to Warlord."

 

The R.A.G.E. system and the Warlord setting represent 3+ years of work, many long hours going over math models and statistics in the conference room, long arguments over style, design, intent, feel, reading the old Warlord (the original black and white one from the 80s - back when clip art used scissors and glue) and old Apocalypse, long hours spent listening to feedback, playing test games and watching my company of dwarves trudge across the field to death or glory, observing test games (even the ones where very little playing was done due to time spent arguing), and ultimately today - knowing when to step back and let the game grow and the setting expand with the contributions of other authors, the freelancer artists and sculptors, and its fans.

 

I still have that black 3 ring binder. It's not as black any more, more of a gray color, with lots more dust and scuff marks. But the opening page still says "Warlord Skirmish Draft v0.4"

[Brushmaster]

The R.A.G.E. system and the Warlord setting represent 3+ years of work, many long hours going over math models and statistics in the conference room, long arguments over style, design, intent, feel, reading the old Warlord (the original black and white one from the 80s - back when clip art used scissors and glue) and old Apocalypse, long hours spent listening to feedback, playing test games and watching my company of dwarves trudge across the field to death or glory, observing test games (even the ones where very little playing was done due to time spent arguing), and ultimately today - knowing when to step back and let the game grow and the setting expand with the contributions of other authors, the freelancer artists and sculptors, and its fans.

 

And what great work you guys have done even though nobody's perfect , I think you've come pretty close with the RAGE system . Great job and thanks for the hard hours .

[Redfeild]

Great posts guys.

 

I find it amusing how many people were already buying the Warloord mini's even befor learning there was a game attached.

 

I'm an old hand at fantasy gaming, having played the original TSR Cainmail back in the 1970's.

 

I'm curious. How did the origional TSR Chain Mail compare to Hasbros WotC CM?

 

You are the first person I'v heard of actualy playing the origional.

[ReaperShaun]

re: what got me into warlord

 

I played cav for a while and ended up going to RCON last year. Everyone was playing warlord and i was one of the few people there (along with Spartan6) who wasnt. I asked Qwiksilver to show me how to play and the rest is history. Now I have a large overlord force and Spartan6 and I find ourselves doing demos a few times a month.

 

I just ordered like150 bucks worth of reven. I think I can see where this is going. Ive got like 30 pounds of pewter for CAV... may as well have the same for warlord.