Hello One-Ringers,
After several months of skulking around the forum I decided that I would finally take the plunge and join. You could stop here and that would be perfectly fine or read on and I'll treat you all to a little background on myself...in relation to the hobby of course. Anything else is boring isn't it!?
I was first exposed to the Lord of the Rings SBG when I was younger. My pop and I, still high on adrenaline from watching the Fellowship of the Ring in theaters for the first time, walked into a Hobby Town USA curious about what was inside. Lo and behold, there sat a Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game set on display (one of the first I believe with High Elves and Goblins). I was entranced. The box showed awesome figures locked in battle. How could I not want this awesome "toy"? My dad, being a fellow nerd, was curious as well and asked one of the clerks to explain what it was (this was not a GW store obviously or else we would have been swarmed at the door). The man explained what it was. He was a terrible salesman. "You probably don't want that." "You have to put them together." "You gotta paint them." "You gotta buy paints and brushes." "Oh, and a little kid like you would have to sell your soul to buy it (back then they only cost one soul)." I was crushed needless to say and I left that day turned off of LOTR SBG for a long time.
Flash forward to 9 months ago and I am a history/strategy/boardgame buff. I am recently employed with expendable income...(err as much as my wife allows
) and I am cruising through eBay and I decide to pick up a MoM SBG set for sale. The ghost of that salesman can stick it. I am a HUGE Lord of the Rings fan and a HUGE Strategy fan so why not? "Why shouldn't I keep it?" Several hundred dollars and several unpainted miniatures later I am officially an addict of this game and this hobby. From the collecting to the painting to the terrain to the game itself I am hooked. I wish I had taken the plunge all those years ago and gotten that starter set (don't ever sell your soul though, it's worth more than that). If I had, who knows how much more awesome I'd be at it than I am now? (sarcasm) Anyways, if you have read this far I'm sorry, but thanks for listening. I hope to see you around!