I began playing Warhammer 40,000 at the very beginning of 3rd Edition and only at the behest of a massive advertising campaign by the local hobby store "Hobby Town USA". Well, I went in and happened upon a group of players trying out the new rules for 3rd edition on some very impressive boards built by the owner of the shop (who was an avid collector and artist, but was hard to get to join in on games). After watching them, listening to the cheering and groans in equal measure, and seeing the pure enjoyment everyone was having...I was hooked. So I began my journey into the game of 40k. Fast forward many years, and I've now refined my original Space Marine armies (Ultramarines) into the Black Templar chapter after finding their background and zealousness much to my liking. Not to mention, I love to get in your face as opposed to hiding in the back shooting. I've also corrupted several of my friends into playing 40k and find regular opponents of Space Marines (SW and BA as well), Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, Orcs, Tau, Eldar, and occasionally the Necrons. I've started building up an army of Dark Eldar because they are awesome. Not to mention its supposed to be one of the hardest, if not THE hardest, armies to play properly. I say bring it on! Though, I'll be forestalling most of the process until the new codex is released in Q3 2010. Oh, I'm also from the Twin Cities in Minnesota. If anyone is around the area, feel free to holler my way.

Otherwise, you can find me killing time at an online text based strategy war game called Promisance. If anyone is interested in trying to learn how to play, send me a PM. Could always use a few more players.

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