The hobby started for me with this box set. Nostalgia trip!!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, hard feels😂 I still can't beleive these things are floating around in such good condition!!

Imagine getting this much in todays launch edition

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

I know! I still see 3rd ed. terrain being used. And the models were solid too.

@daringdarius5686

4 ай бұрын

@@AnyWargameAnyTime I joined in 5th edition, and 12 year old me had been saving up a whole $114 to buy the big box kit. We drove 43 minutes to our local store, my Dad refused to enter the store and said "this is your first big purchase, you gotta do it." 12 year old me didn't realize I needed glue to assemble, got it, and the total was $115.34 or something (I still have the receipt but the numbers have rubbed off). The guy said "don't worry, I keep other people's spare change just for this reason" and he pulled out $1.35 in spare change people had left behind, and I walked out with an empty wallet, and gleaming that I now had a massive amount of models. God I miss those days. Spent every second relishing getting home to assemble the models, assemble them, and immediately broke the flight stand for one of the Deffkopters and was devastated... Then realized I didn't care that much, and began realizing I needed to paint and started saving up for paints. xD

@daringdarius5686

4 ай бұрын

Also, I'm subscriber #29, remember me when you get big ;)

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

@@daringdarius5686 Your name has been written in the tome for all the ages!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

@@daringdarius5686 Thanks for sharing, that's such a cool story and totally resonant with so many other stories of ours and others about getting into this hobby as a kid. Special times and great memories :)

I started with this as well, what a wonderful time in our lives to relive so thanks for that!

I got into the hobby in 2018 and have always been attracted to this wild box art. Legendary John Blanch masterpiece. But I've never seen an opening of it before now. What an incredible piece of history to experience in such a complete state. Lucky man. I need a large framed print of that cover for my game room.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

I know, it was such a bargain!! Yeah, that might just be my favourite piece of 40k artwork ever. Bold statement I know, excuse me while I peruse the rest of my 40k art collection to double-check😂

Hey, buddy. A bit late to this video, I just wanted to thank you for a trip down memory lane. My Dad and I built and painted some models from this. I wasn't as interested in them, my heart was on my sleeve for the Sentinel and Imperial Guardsmen. 😅 But it was really nice seeing something we did together years ago; I still have the terrain in my terrain box for games. Really liked the video, thank you!

this hit me right in the childhood

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

I know, right?

@pPod1231

4 ай бұрын

I still use the building and barrels from this for my games.

I'd say if you're gonna play this box set often, put it together. If you aren't going to play often and it's going to sit aside.. let it be and maybe later on you can come back to it and redecide. Happy gaming! Cool unboxing

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! That's a good point. I think it'd be most fun for me to play it as it is, unbalanced forces and all. Letting a newbie play as space marines and destroy my dark eldar might be a great way to get a few more wargaming converts😂

Build it! Allow yourself the full experience to relive the era… and congratulations, the condition of this set is amazing 😊

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

Watch this space. There's something in the works😉

Christmas 2001 I was able to experience this same feeling opening this boxed set.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

It sticks with you, doesn't it? Just going through the box brought it all flooding back :)

Aww, cool. I was 19 and GW store staff when 3rd ed was released, gave many intro games to kids to get them hooked :-) It was a good edition actually, such a huge departure from 2nd ed. Can't believe where the time goes.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

I know what you meant. Surely it hasn't been 26 years!!😂

I remember picking one off the shelf, those were the days, these are still way better than the modern silly priced box sets, remember 45 pound box sets 😄 even back than that was very expensive

My buddy who got me into Warhammer said that weare gonna be basically playing 3rd edition with a little homebrew. Can't wait!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

That sounds really cool!

This video hit me right in the feels! I had a similar experience, starting with 2nd ed. Thank you for making the video.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

It was my pleasure, as you can probably tell 😂 Thanks for watching!

Awesome stuff. Definitely build it!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

I'm cooking up something special😉 Watch this space!

This was my first 40k box. My older brother had 2nd edition but I was too young and only vaguely remember seeing it. But I remember getting this for like my 11th birthday or something and to this day I still have it all, was looking at the ruins yesterday haha. Although I’d totally forgotten about the rule book until right now, will need to dig that out. Cheers for the trip down memory lane!

@pPod1231

4 ай бұрын

Same! Still use the building and barrels from this set. Really disappointed when I got it out of storage the book was all water damaged

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

You're so welcome! Dig that book out and see what it brings back :)

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

@@pPod1231Oh no!😯Luckily they actually go pretty cheap on ebay. I think I picked up the copy I use to actually play about a year ago for under £20

Funny story...when 3rd wrapped up and 4th came out...one of my good friends was a head-office GW guy...he showed up at my house with like nearly 20 boxes of 3rd that were binned... and we gutted them and broke them down into the different parts (marines, Deldar, scenery, whippy-sticks, etc...) to this day, I STILL have sprues amd BOXES FULL of the Deldar, scenery and whatnot...lol. was a GREAT box...under 100 Canadian initially...crazy. (and yes, 3rd WAS the introduction for Deldar) Great vidya!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it. And, that's awesome!!! What are you doing with all those boxes??

3rd edition is what I grew up with. Grade 6 I think. Epic box. Ya all the other pieces of terrain that came with it plus a lil hover vehicle. To cool. Thanks for sharing that man.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

It was my absolute pleasure :) It really is something else to hear so many people having a similar experience with this box, it was a defining time for a lot of us.

Scatter dice + whippy sticks = WIN!

GW will never produce art that excellent again.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

No, the artists they have in these days just can't hold a candle to John Blanche!

@theylivewesleep.5139

4 ай бұрын

@@AnyWargameAnyTimethe real problem is that GW doesn’t even let them try. 90% of the art produced nowadays is sterile slop and it’s not because the guys behind it are necessarily bad at art. Back in the day John Blanche was able to insist on black templars, a much more obscure chapter at the time, being the face of third edition simply because he wanted to draw more medieval-looking and knightly marines. That kind of thing just won’t happen in the corporatised structure of modern GW. They will draw exactly what GW tells them to and exactly to the standard they can achieve within the timeframe provided.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

@@theylivewesleep.5139I agree. They won't even credit their artists anymore! Let alone let them unleash their creativity.

@theylivewesleep.5139

3 ай бұрын

@AnyWargameAnyTime yeah. There was a rosy time of innocence where the people at GW could make a name for themselves. Now it’s only the black library authors who get any notoriety. Any success, any career, any rising star will be hidden behind a corporate curtain.

Thanks for posting this - I must have read that 3rd edition rulebook to death, pages hanging off and all. Before even having that, I would learn how to play (me vs me) based off the blurry images of that reference sheet advertised in White dwarf. I would use a handful of space marines vs lizardmen skinks that were given to me from a friend, monopoly dice and books/cups for terrain. 3rd was really something special for my childhood.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

It really was my pleasure. I'm so glad that it's sparked memories like this for so many other people, it was a special time in a lot of our lives🙂

Looks like a great box & I think you should build it all! GW still uses the templates in Necromunda but no whippy sticks. Thanks for the fun video!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

2 ай бұрын

That's absolutely true, I totally forgot about Necromunda. Which is a game I play and enjoy :)

Bought my copy on eBay in pristine condition - gorgeous ! ! !

This is a great starter. The best part is the army lists at the back of the book. While nowhere near as comprehensive as what would appear in a codex, you could at least not only expand the armies in the box, but most of the other armies at the time. I know a lot of people prefer figures in the starter over terrain, but I think terrain of some kind helps providing and interesting experience.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

I absolutely agree! And yes, the army lists in the rulebook itself were a great thing, everyone could get stuck in!

Nice! This was my introduction to the hobby back in '98, I still have the box, those ruins, the whippy sticks and the first miniature I ever painted. Sadly I've lost the rulebook at some point, I think I may have traded it for the 6th edition fantasy rulebook which I still have, if that's the case I'm happy with the trade as I play exclusively Warhammer Fantasy but still would be great to flip through that 3rd ed 40k rulebook. Perhaps I'll get into old 40K one day, wouldn't mind doing a 3rd ed Orks army to recreate what I had as a kid. :) Well, I did just sell the rest of what I had of those Orks so probably not.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

Why not try something new! I've never had a tyranid army, thinking maybe 3rd ed nids might be fun😁

I love the look of the current line of Kabalite Warriors and want to get some but I have 20 3rd edition Kabals and they were very fun to build. Never been one to leave things on sprues to try and keep them mint or whatever so I even kitbashed a few of them. Made one a sort of commander by x-acto grafting a skull onto his face. Gave him one of the spare pistols the sprue comes with too so he could dual wield them. As much as the detail is pretty simplistic on these early plastic models, I do love the style and making everything connect together with a sort of round joint means you can really change up their pose a lot. I got the Leviathan boxset for 10th edition and I'm quite happy with it but I do miss being able to easily avoid doubles by adding extra bits and changing up the pose.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

I know! There really was something quite special about how you could have 20 Kabalites from the same kit and every one of them unique.

There is a Getting Started Section on the rulebook, which is basically the idea of a turn with 2 miniatures. Small correction you can't charge 12" only 6", you move 6" and charge 6" if you are Infantry. Jump Infantry moves 12" and charges 6". Units like hormagants allow you to move 6", move more D6 with fleet of claw and charge 12" with their leap. For the ones who thinks this is not enough, yeah it's not, that is why you may need Vehicles to get around the table. Also, most games last 6 turns in standard missions, but they can be very fast because there are only 3 phases. Also, if you don't have 3rd edition Rulebook, 4th is fine, it's basically some updates to the core rules(sizes for miniatures and terrain, shooting priority, desimbark from the vehicles access points, and better assault rules), so you can totally play with 4th edition Rulebook and 3rd Edition Codices. It's totally fine also to play with miniatures that have bigger bases, but the part to get out from vehicles might be a little bit funky, and also templates with the coherency of troops; because of the bigger bases, so keep that in mind.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the reply. You're totally right with the charge range for infantry, I totally borked that one!

@V0IV0DE

2 ай бұрын

@@AnyWargameAnyTime well, maybe just confused, there are some special rules that allow one to do that, i.e. Leaping Assault from Hormagants with additional fleet of claw(they can run in the shooting phase, which is something other miniatures cannot in 3rd and 4th without special rules, hence the usage of Transport Vehicles for getting the miniatures better positioned on the board).

I got that set. It was so good.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

I know! It's really cool having it around again :)

oh, the nostalgia, my first 40k box. I was around 12-13 years old. THe codexes at the time were so awesome. 26 years ago! you make me feel old! I got the dark eldar and my brother the space marines. I painted the eldar as shown on the box, worst ecision ever. I swapped then to black and red, then to midnight blue. I still have those eldars today. I grabbed them this year from my parent home.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

I know! I'm growing my collection of 3rd Ed codices, I was doing it for the lore even before I got back into playing 3rd. I actually tried painting my dark eldar back in the day like the box, it did not go well😂

Still the launch box with the best artwork. But no set beats assault on Black Reach!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I still see something new in that scene every time I look at it :) And yes, Assault on Black Reach is an absolute banger of a box set too, I've still got some ork koptas kicking around someplace. But the 3rd Ed box is where it all started for me, it'll always be number one in my heart😀

This is as old as me. My first Box Sets are Adeptus Titanicus 2018 and Legions Imperialis.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

Not bad boxes either. Maybe in 26 years time you'll be doing an unboxing of them and losing yourself in youthful reminiscence😀

1999 got this for Christmas. Wow Thankyou for sharing this! Dare I ask how much it was to get hold of this?!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was a special xmas getting that under the tree. I'm glad you enjoyed it😀 I can tell you that it was under £100 including delivery on ebay. I didn't expect to win that auction!

Quick info: That already primed Marine seams to be second ed. (or from the start playing 4/5? Marines box that was still sold in our local GW for 10 Euro) monopose Marine. The arms do not fit to the Entry Boxes arms which could be freely posed with all the Marines (as well as regular bases). I still remember this details like it was yesterday. Spend so much time to do a terrible paint job on all of those models at the time. ;)

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

I think you're right there. The guy I bought the box off probably popped it in as a replacement for the one missing from the sprue. It's been 26 years, who knows where the original ended up😂

Ancient relics worthy of being added to the chapter armory.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, totally. How to add it to the armoury and still use it??

Just bought 2nd and 3rd edition recently as bundle both complete & sealed for £340 total, both these are my first ones!!!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

28 күн бұрын

Oh wow!! Amazing to find them both sealed!! What are you going to do with them? Build them or keep them new and fresh?

@mancman-bu4kz

27 күн бұрын

@@AnyWargameAnyTime I'm going keep 3rd edition for myself but give 2nd to my mate for his bday, it was 1st set we bought and went halves on using paper round money lol

They got that template set in the new age of darkness box set. In orange tho my set is.

wish I could hear it, good luck sir.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

You didn't have any sound?

I started with 2nd Edition but 3rd Edition was my favorite.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

I played some 2nd ed over the years, it can't have been the easiest place to start !😂

@Redmow51

4 ай бұрын

@@AnyWargameAnyTime It wasn't. It actually frustrated me. I hated the vehicle rules. And the ability to bring anything to the battle sucked. Many people I played against had some of the cheesiest army lists ever.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

@51I've seen a video series on youtube that goes through a standard round of 2nd Ed, blew my mind!! All these things that can trigger based on other things that interrupt the flow and order of what happens next. Thems were wild west days 🤣🤠

@Redmow51

4 ай бұрын

@@AnyWargameAnyTime Well, there was the time my opponent threw a void grenade at mi Rhino loaded with my leader. He was cackling until I revealed the Rhino had a Void grenade detonator. I think it was void...or vortex...can't remember the name of that silly grenade.

Do it ! ! ! That box was MENT to be built ! ! !

@AnyWargameAnyTime

2 ай бұрын

Check out the build series ;)

It's such an unfair machup, lol. Templars ignore the de armor, have a flamer / melta landspeeder, and a missle launcher aginst 19 shuriken and a splinter rifle? Lol. Especially since DE had a codex that has a preface saying the army is designed for vetern players, lol.

1:06 EPICUS!

@AnyWargameAnyTime

2 ай бұрын

I know! That box art is just something else.

12:18 . . . Then you may consider building a Guard army too .

@AnyWargameAnyTime

2 ай бұрын

You mean ANOTHER guard army ;)

@stevenmcgrath5114

2 ай бұрын

The 101st Steel Legion fought along side the Knights of Dorn at Helsreach.

That was a controversial edition... At the time, you either loved it, or hated it.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

It was VERY different from 2nd. In the end I think both 2nd and 3rd are great in their own ways.

I miss template weapons :(

@AnyWargameAnyTime

26 күн бұрын

Me too :-)

As a Black Tamplar player, may the God Emperor continue to favor "Oldhammer" ! ! !

@AnyWargameAnyTime

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely! The Emperor protects ;)

10 marines and 20 eldar in a starter set is rather paltry compared to what GW puts in their starter boxes nowdays.

@AnyWargameAnyTime

4 ай бұрын

It was a pretty good deal for the time. I haven’t bought many starter boxes, but GW quality is much better now!

@thequestbro

4 ай бұрын

Yea I am just commenting on how much things have changed. Leviathan was a humongous deal.@@AnyWargameAnyTime

@flaekingr5109

4 ай бұрын

​@@thequestbrobut what's the price difference? And where's the terrain? Model count is great, but there's more to playing than that.

@thequestbro

4 ай бұрын

Terrain is free dude. @@flaekingr5109

@MadSpaceWolfDiary

22 күн бұрын

​@flaekingr5109 hard to quantify based on region and the years between with inflation, but it was in the states as of 2002 100 usd msrp for the 3e starter, the next one, battle for mcragge, started at 60 usd and that was around 2004