For some reason I remember there being an earlier FO board game, perhaps based on FO3, though I may be wrong.
I played miniatures board games as a teenager Mage Knights and Hero Clixs etc but they became an expensive hobby. I remember someone dropping $100 at once on a dozen packs of figures only to get nothing good. That was a lot of money as a 13 year old kid!
Always saw Warhammer as a more expensive elitist type of game.