Anyone here play Warhammer?

Warboss Squee · August 10, 2013, 11:47:34 AM

Quote from: Piestrio;679798I played dwarves years ago but my collecting/playstyle just didn't jive with how the game worked so it wasn't ever terribly fun.

Now of course I'm getting back into 40k (which I also used to play, Marines and Eldar). I'll give the game a to but honestly 90% of the fun for me is painting and collecting minis. I prefer historicals for playing, with Napoleon's Battles being my all time favorite game.

I have two thousand points of Empire, still in the boxes. The game community up and died here, and there's no one to play.

Ladybird · August 12, 2013, 08:36:56 AM

I used to play Chaos Warriors - solid battle line of, er, thirty-odd men in hardcoreplate mail, some knights / chariots on the flanks, and keep moving forwards until everyone is dead. Blood for the blood god, milk for the Khorne flakes, etc.

Okay, maybe my tactical skills could be better. And I could have used cheesier units. Meh.

But I left my models at my parent's when I moved, and don't have the time or money to get back into it now (Or 40k, which I think I'd go into now, probably Chaos Space Marines). Plus the new Chaos Warrior infantry models are rubbish.

noisms · August 12, 2013, 08:49:20 AM

Between the ages of 12-16 I probably played at least once a week. But around the 15 year old mark my friends and I increasingly focused on Blood Bowl and Necromunda - cheaper, but also more enjoyable in our experience. Blood Bowl is just about the most fun game ever invented.

Piestrio · August 12, 2013, 12:07:07 PM

Quote from: Warboss Squee;679805I have two thousand points of Empire, still in the boxes. The game community up and died here, and there's no one to play.

That's sad and surprising! Your area must be in dire straights if GW can't make it

thedungeondelver · August 12, 2013, 12:41:55 PM

Quote from: Piestrio;680373That's sad and surprising! Your area must be in dire straights if GW can't make it

Could be worse; ask me about my Heavy Gear armies I've owned over the years.

fuseboy · August 12, 2013, 12:52:43 PM

At one point, I realized I was buying miniatures to pay homage to a hobby that I wasn't actually playing. I'd window shop, buy, feel good for a little while, then put them in the box with all the others.

When I realized what I was doing, I didn't have to buy them any more, I could stop at the window shopping part.

Piestrio · August 12, 2013, 12:56:23 PM

Quote from: fuseboy;680384At one point, I realized I was buying miniatures to pay homage to a hobby that I wasn't actually playing. I'd window shop, buy, feel good for a little while, then put them in the box with all the others.

When I realized what I was doing, I didn't have to buy them any more, I could stop at the window shopping part.

Yeah, I did that for a long time and ended up with quite a bit of money sunk into unpainted minis.

Now I have a very strict "No buying until everything is painted" rule that caused me to sell off all my unpainted stuff a little while ago when I realized I was never going to paint it.

thedungeondelver · August 12, 2013, 01:12:45 PM

Quote from: Piestrio;680386Yeah, I did that for a long time and ended up with quite a bit of money sunk into unpainted minis.

Now I have a very strict "No buying until everything is painted" rule that caused me to sell off all my unpainted stuff a little while ago when I realized I was never going to paint it.

That's kind of where I'm at right now, myself. I mean, in terms of having tons of unpainted stuff. I like the GW odds and ends; they're very good for other types of games I do play. I'm a huge Tolkien fan so the GW LotR figs stay, of course I play D&D so the reaper stuff is a must...that leaves...Heavy Gear.

Yeah, I'm thinking these may go.

Piestrio · August 12, 2013, 01:15:52 PM

Quote from: thedungeondelver;680388That's kind of where I'm at right now, myself. I mean, in terms of having tons of unpainted stuff. I like the GW odds and ends; they're very good for other types of games I do play. I'm a huge Tolkien fan so the GW LotR figs stay, of course I play D&D so the reaper stuff is a must...that leaves...Heavy Gear.

Yeah, I'm thinking these may go.

It was pretty tough but ultimately liberating. I no longer have this guilt when buying minis that says, "should I really by this? I have all those dutch belgians/spanish/iberians/romans/dwarves/etc... to paint..."

Now buying and painting minis is pretty fun again.