I'm 26 and from the UK. Been playing minis since the middle of 2009. I returned from living in Germany having vaguely heard of the game, and having collected a few Star Wars Pocketmodels. My brother mentioned that he had dabbled in a star wars miniatures game. Showed me and I was hooked. My ebay spending sky-rocketted and for about 2 years I was massively into the game. I haven't played very much at all in the past two years due to my work load in my final year of university and then my job search that removed my desire to play games until I found gainful employment.

The high point of my Star Wars Miniatures life was competing in Gencon last year. My issue is that I can count the number of people I know who play SWM in the UK on one hand. Vassal is great, but I still like my minis.

I currently live in the Czech Republic and have no miniatures with me here. Weirdly enough writing this is quite emotional. I loved this game, and it makes me sad that I have fallen away from it. My intention is to return to the UK at some point, join a regular gaming group and start converting people.

I feel your pain. Minis are few and far between in the UK, but the players are harder to find than a sealed box of Bounty Hunters!

I am 38 and live in Indiana and got into the game through a freind ACE ACE/ Mike Giles and have been playing for about 4 years now. Have always been a huge Star Wars fan and am really glad that I let Mike talk me into giving the game a chance. I have met several great people and hope to continue playing this game we all love for many years to come, as I am trying to train young jedi in the form of my son and daughter, and also anyone else who I think might be interested. I even got my mother to play a few games.

36, Pastor. Married for 13 years to an amazing twi'lek, with 4 padawans, a kath hound, and a ysalamiri (cat).

I started in the fall of 2005, during the long wait between UH and CotF. The Timothy Zahn novels had reignited my interest in Star Wars, and so I was looking online for a way to play SW as an RPG (I had played D&D for years beforehand). I came across WotC's stuff and thought it looked cool, so I bought a RS starter and booster (pulled Bossk). I happened to read the SWM rulebook; after that, all it took to hook me on the game forever was playing a few games against myself. Fun, easy, exciting, challenging...the whole game was amazing. I quickly discovered Vassal, and joined Chimaera's 200pt Vassal League, where I placed 5th (first tournament for me ever, and CS Zam Wesell was my prize). I've met a lot of really cool people on Vassal and in person over the years. In 2008 I attended Gencon for the first time, just hoping to win more games than I lost, and I got lucky enough to make it all the way to the Championship finals with Boba BH and Han RH (I lost to Bill). Then last year I managed to finally win the Championship with Mace and GOWK. Since then I've continued to be involved in just about anything I can. I've never really had a local group, so Vassal has been my SWM outlet; I serve as "the Vassal guy," who updates the Vassal files with each new V-Set and map that gets released. I've also done my share of help with the V-Sets in various ways too.

I am a 52 (53 in another 46 days) year old UPS driver from central Pa. I've been playing since '05, and have been to 4 GenCons. While I have no desire to design Vsets, I appreciate those who do and do what I can to support our community in general. I am currently the host of Sith Holonews Network. (which broadcasts in 8 minutes)

I am married (30 years) with 3 kids...24, 22, and 12. My 22 year old son Kris plays the game when he's not attending Liberty University.

I'm probably one of the youngest guys playing minituares at 14. Believe it or not, my 6th grade English teacher was actually the guy who got me started. Apparently some kids had played it before me, and he had gotten into the game buying packs in eBay and has an amazing collection(one I'm very jealous of). I started playing in 6th grade, when packs were $4 at Target.

I probably got the best luck ever in my first pack, a GaW pack. You already guessed- a Cad Bane my first pack. Unfortunately, one of my friends tricked me into trading it for a tonight of old Darth Vader's, but I eventually got it back after he pulled a second one in a pack. Ever since, I have loved playing the game with my friends, but have never really gone to any big events.

But I can also feel with the guys without a play group since I now don't really play SWM much except through the Vassak Campaigns we have been having lately.

Love you Bloo Milk:)

Klecser was a screen name of a guy who played this game and was a teacher. Can't remember his actual name now, he was a big vong player.

It was my brother in-law who first got me into it. He's a performing arts guy to.

I have 1 in my house who loves it and understands the rules. Sometimes he corrects me on the rules. It guarantees me a play partner now and in the future!

actually as a matter of fact i started playing by a similar setup. i used them for heroscape actually and though hey maybe this game could be fun too.