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Personal Data
Name: Ian Van Damme.
Fantasy Armies:
Hordes of Chaos, Beastmen, Ogre Kingdoms, Skaven, Dogs of War. List of Honour:
How I started WarhammerHi, my name is Ian and I used to live next door to Kurt. He is in fact the one who introduced me in the fantasy games. He was the lucky owner of Hero Quest and Space Quest. In the meantime he taught me some things about painting scale models. I was really hooked up by it and wanted to paint my models as good as those of Kurt. After a while Kurt came from a holiday and told me about a game with knights and infantry and making army lists, I was sold to the World of Warhammer (then already where the Gods of Chaos watching me). Being a real fantasy fan I was interested and when Kurt bought the Fifth Edition Starters Box I wanted my own army. The first battle we fought was Bretonnia vs. Lizardmen. Steven, who was a friend of Kurt, played with Kurt with the Bretonnians. I was playing with the Lizzies. It was a plain and simple game. We tried to master and learn the rules. Because the first battle wasn’t really a battle and I wanted to use my own army I went shopping and came home with High Elves. The first models I painted were not that good and I think they are used now to be experimented on. I used the paint I had left from my scale models and the results were bad. But hey, I got my army and I was able to play. I was lucky in fact that the store where I bought my things was about to be closed and sold everything at a big discount. And I started buying more and more things until I had so much I would need a lot of time to paint all that. High Elves were fun to play but they aren’t really my type of army. So I started looking for another army to begin with and I chose Skaven, who’s battle tactic appealed to me: “He who runs away, lives to fight another day”. The days of playing with High Elves were over and again I began painting my Skaven. It was also the first army where I used the Citadel Paint and I was pleased with the result. From then on the quality of my painted models began to increase. I enjoyed playing with Skaven and I felt the taint of Chaos very intense. In the meantime I also had bought me some Dogs of War, who were first used as allies but after a while they were used as a stand-alone army. I was also making terrain for our battles and I’ve got some cool stuff (one of them is an outer wall of a High Elf Keep). I made the basis terrain like woods, hills, ruins and other stuff. And finally I stumbled in the hands of Chaos. I decided to start a Chaos army. At first I only took the plastic models because at that time GW had decided to begin a new edition of Warhammer and I used the Ravening Hordes to make my list. This army was one of the armies I would never play with. I really detested the daemons and mutated beasts. But when I first played with it, I knew that this was the army I was looking for. My quest was over; I had found what I was looking for (I’m becoming “Khorny”). From then on I mostly paint and play with Chaos. But once in a while I favor my rats above my slaughters (mostly when everybody says that I’m the lucky bastard and that I always win and….) And so this very moment I’m a Chaos player and I’ve met lots of people playing the game but to tell the truth, the most fun and honest games are with my three buddies: Kurt, Steven and Kaj. And although I don’t find the time to always make such great battle reports and come up with all kinds of hilarious stories, I try to do my thing in our gaming group (I haven’t figured that out yet but ‘hey’). |
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Argentum Non Habemus, Aurum Sed Valemus
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