Kronos Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Inspired by the recent article on WarCom, and with The Fabled Hobby Magazine coming to a 500th Issue celebration - What Was Your First Issue? Its probably not the case much anymore, but for my experience and Possibly that of many Grey Beards, we started the Hobby simply buying the cool looking magazine on the shelf (A devious Ploy by James Workshop). My First Issue was 231, 8 Year Old Me didn’t realise a core character about me was about to be born. I actually didn’t buy my first Warhammer Model Until I was 11! I Remember reading that Magazine until the very pages fell off. I Clearly remember being in Awe at the Releases of Scylla and Dechala, The Beautiful Chaos Army Showcase and the Tyranid Battle Report. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kim Woof-Woof Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 (edited) Mine was 181... January 1995. I was 12 years old. There was the article on Chaos Spawn (with some truly surreal and inspiring John Blanche artwork) and the release of the old metal Flamers of Tzeentch (the ones that looked like a parrot in a nightdress). But most memorable was the massive battle report using every Orc, Goblin, Chaos Dwarf, Empire and Wood Elf model they had! It gave me a very unreleastic concept of what Warhammer was! Edited May 4 by Big Kim Woof-Woof 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyshadow Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Okay, so I’m not the youngest person here on TGA! Super cool issue with the first release of Arbites units for 40K. Cover still gives me goose bumps. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimDork Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Great idea for a thread! This was mine👇🏻 I was already loving painting random D&D minis and I saw the free transfer sheet on the front of the mag and pestered my mum. Although, like Greyshadow, I started picking up white dwarf regularly from issue 169 and started getting into GW stuff. I remember going down to the corner shop each month, “Has it come in yet?” 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kim Woof-Woof Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 6 minutes ago, GrimDork said: I remember going down to the corner shop each month, “Has it come in yet?” Hah, same here! Although it was the local toy shop for me, which stocked an incredibly small selection of GW stuff. But they did get the White Dwarf in every month, which was the only Warhammer-related thing I could afford at that stage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EccentricCircle Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 I got into the hobby through the Battle games in middle earth magazine instead so while I read my friends' white dwarf magazines when they brought them into school, I actually never bought one until a couple of years ago when Cursed City came out and they had some extra character profiles for the game! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitGas Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 I think around 210 was my first but I read the German version back then, so I‘m not really sure if the content was always exactly the same but around that time seems right. It certainly had the same dreadnought (over here they called them cybot back then) cover. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Taylor Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Mine was 176 which had a cracking Blood Bowl match, amazing guides for a Fantasy Chaos lord on a dragon and Ork Buildings and a great Fantasy Battle report. I’d got 40k second edition a bit before this but this really opened my eyes to what was out there and what you could do. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerekKruger Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Without a gallery of cover art I don't think I could tell you what the first issue I personally bought was. One of the first weeks be issue 199 (I remember Abaddon on the cover) but I bought some before then. My older brother started earlier though, and the request issues of WD I read were well below 100. They were very different to what they'd become later (I remember one had an advert for Axis and Allies in it for example) and I used to spend hours pouring over them. Good times, good times. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chikout Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Does this age me? 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerekKruger Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Right, just browsed some covers, and the easiest issue I definitely recognise having read is 55. As a side note, that 80s era fantasy and sci-fi art is great. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketPropelledGrenade Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 I don't remember the number, but I remember Codex: Daemonhunters had just released for 40k and they were the issue's big battle report. So not nearly as long ago as some, but still while past. Issue 300 something, I would guess? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acrozatarim Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Mine was WD 166, October 1993. The release of 40k second edition, complete with a free plastic space marine on the cover. I was 10! I still remember the battle report fondly. Might have to dig it out and see what else was in there. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyRyan Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 (edited) I remember issue 250 - celebrating the release of 6th Ed of Warhammer Fantasy, in the battle report a lone surviving Empire Militiaman charged and killed an Orc Shaman who had earlier killed the rest of his unit. Such a moment. Then I remember finding the ‘Black Gobbo’ issue, as a youngster I thought that was great! Edited May 6 by RandyRyan Auto correct doesn’t like the word Gobbo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kim Woof-Woof Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 14 hours ago, Gaz Taylor said: Mine was 176 which had a cracking Blood Bowl match, amazing guides for a Fantasy Chaos lord on a dragon and Ork Buildings and a great Fantasy Battle report. I’d got 40k second edition a bit before this but this really opened my eyes to what was out there and what you could do. I must have picked this up as a back issue, because I distinctly remember the Chaos Lord on Dragon guide! Formative stuff for launching my Chaos obsession. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ejecutor Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 I am a bit younger and only bought like 3-4 in the past. The first one was pretty likely this one (I sold them like 2-3 years ago): 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painbringer Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 The first issue of White Dwarf that I have ever read was the issue 201. At the time, I was attending drawing and illustration classes and one of the guys who used to travel a lot at the time brought it. These magazines were almost impossible to find in Belgrade at the time - Serbia was just recovering from severe economic sanctions and GW stuff were really expensive. So I asked this guy to borrow me the issue for a week or two and then I read it almost completely. I carried it to school every single day during those two weeks and used to read it during the breaks between classes. I did not have any minis, nor did I understood the rules, but the artwork, lore articles and pictures of minis and battlefields really made an impression on me. Few months later, the same guy brought WD 199 (the one with Abaddon on the cover) - and that picture (and Chaos Space Marines in general) has been burned somewhere in my cortex from that moment. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Taylor Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 On 5/5/2024 at 5:59 AM, Big Kim Woof-Woof said: I must have picked this up as a back issue, because I distinctly remember the Chaos Lord on Dragon guide! Formative stuff for launching my Chaos obsession. It was a great guide and probably one of my favourite white dwarfs. That’s when I started getting into fantasy as a guy at school had the 4th edition and I got exposed to it. Started with Orcs and Goblins and dabbled with Chaos at the time (the chaos box was ace in 4th edition but I’d probably hate it now with all the options!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EonChao Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 (edited) My first issue was 188. A friend brought a copy of it into school and I was hooked by the look of the Tyranids on the cover as well as the Space Marine battle report inside with the Imperium vs Orks. I picked up a back issue of it a few days later at my local GW. Funnily enough I think I'd already had one of their free brochure magazines at a gaming event held at a local school but it took a few months before I connected the two. The first brand new issue I brought was 195, which had a really cool fold out image with the metal Thunderhawk attached to the cover if I remember correctly. Sadly I got it too late have a chance to get a copy of the Sergeant Centurius figure when the event for that ran 😅 Also if they released new Spyres for Necromunda I would buy them in a heartbeat entirely down to my nostalgia from these issues. Edited May 6 by EonChao 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Praecautus Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 (edited) Burnt into my memory. Don’t remember a modem competition though. Certainly some wfrp stuff and things Edited May 6 by Praecautus 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarouan Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 (edited) I have issue with my first White Dwarf, since the numbers for the french version at that time had totally nothing to do with the OV. So saying the number will mean nothing to most of you. Edited May 7 by Sarouan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clan's Cynic Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 (edited) 285 for me. Edited May 7 by Clan's Cynic 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HCMistborn Posted May 8 Share Posted May 8 While I have been in the hobby since 2012, I never bought a White Dwarf until the 500th issue. It felt like the perfect milestone issue to start buying them lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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