When I first got into the Games Workshop hobby and Warhammer way back in 1990, I was into Wood Elves. I had spent a bit of time playing Elves in a popular role-playing games, and I was a big fan of Legolas from The Lord of The Rings trilogy. In Warhammer, I liked the fact that Wood Elves could turn my opponents' armies into pincushions before they could cross half of the battlefield. I was pretty successful with this army, and I thought the party would never end.

Then I ran into my friend's Dwarf army. I poured arrow after arrow into these strange, stunty warriors, and they kept on coming! Very few of them died, and they didn't have the sense to run away when a few of them did fall. After playing a few games against Dwarfs and firing thousands of arrows into their ranks, I grew to love the rugged nature of these grim and fatalistic warriors.

My main Warhammer army became (and still is) a sturdy Dwarf force. I was collecting Dwarfs for about 10 years before I began working for US Games Workshop. A few months after I arrived, the current version of Warhammer was released and shortly thereafter the Dwarfs. When the new Warhammer Armies: Dwarfs and a completely new miniature line came out in early 2001, I scooped them up as fast as I could. Quickly amassing a solid collection of new metal soldiers, I began slowly painting the army. When a staff tournament was announced, I became motivated to sit down and paint in earnest. A few months later, I had a hardcore 2,500-point Dwarf strike force.

Since the creation of my current Dwarf army, I've had successes and failures on the battlefield. I've discovered that my Dwarfs are almost unbeatable in a one-shot game, but don't do so well in a sustained campaign. In a campaign, I can usually win the first game or two, draw a few, and then things get ugly for me. Unfortunately, once my opponents figure out my one-trick pony strategies, I'm in trouble. Try as I might, I rarely get back into the winning grove.

Now, Warhammer Armies: Dwarfs has been revisited again, and many of problems that I've had with my Dwarf army have been solved by new and upgraded rules. Not only that, but a whole plethora of amazing new metal and plastic models have been released. Now is truly a golden age for Dwarf players!