The shifting of my miniature collection

Anyone who is following me has probably seen the figures I've put out in the past few months. It went from Tau to Chaos, to Warmachine figures, a small bit of Dystopian wars.

I've come to the point where I'll settle with my current 40k armies and won't be upgrading a whole lot at the time. As of now I've got;

Tau; Roughly 1750 points before upgrades

Orks; Roughly 3100 points before upgrades

Chaos (Daemons & Marines); roughly 2700 before upgrades

Those are decent amounts to change around a few armylists. Considering I usually play 1850 points with my friend, it should really be enough. If the new Ork codex hits the shelves I might get some stuff here or there, but that's in the long run somewhere.

Anyone who followed me for a while also noticed how there have been a few armies missing in this list. I've parted ways with my imperial forces. I sold off my Grey knights army and my Dark angels. I needed some space and they were sitting around collecting dust. These were also armies I got into the hobby with last year, because of the low model count. Dark angels was roughly 30 models. My Grey knights started out as a Draigowing force with just over 20 models... that eventually ended up being 60+ models and a lot of other fun things. I don't play that often either. I should add, I still have a really small group of Grey knight figures around. But it's pretty much inquisition only. Coteaz, some Henchmen, another inquisitor, some assassins. Might be fun for a combat patrol type of game under 500 points or so. Another reason I decided to sell them was playing other armies seemed way more fun.

I've had a few games here and there. A game with my Tau, a game with my combined Daemons. I lost miserably, but I had a good time. I'm clearly not that much of a fan of 2+ and 3+ saves armywide I guess. So I guess, the least fun armies need to go at some point. I enjoyed rolling for Warp storms way more than running rampant with a Dreadknight. Though I'm quite sure... running rampant with a Daemon prince will be good times.

So, 40k is slightly "on hold" for now. I'm somewhat finished with my armies to have enough choices to make up for different types of lists that might look like fun. Well... I guess I could use Crisis suits more... but in general; I'm good for now.

I'm putting my money on Warmachine at the moment. Slowly expanding 2 armies to 50 points. Maybe there'll be a third one, maybe I'll look into Hordes... I don't know. The issue however is; no one in my area plays Warmahordes. But I guess I'm not that active of a player anyway. But I always like to build an army with an actual goal in mind. Like "X amount of points" or a themed list. At first I started Warmachine for the aesthetic and the steampunk inspired theme... for some reason that sticks more to me than aliens going for an "all out war" like 40k. Besides; I can store both my Warmachine armies on a single shelf on a wall... good luck doing that with an average 40k army. Clearly a bigger shelf required.

And then there's Dystopian wars, which I still have to play my first game of, but a friend of mine is building a seascape table (which makes more sense considering he collects Dystopian wars figures as well), so that can't be that far away. At least I can run around and scream "you sunk my battleship" without playing an actual game of battleship.

Also; painting figures requires a decent time investment. I have a decent amount of time, but I also have other interests I want to get to. My games library on Steam is nearing 100 games and a fair few I have yet to play. I should blame summersales... and I guess I should blame my lack of impulse control, heh. I'll get to those games eventually... they're good when you're on a tight budget and don't have money for figures. 

Finally, and this is something on my mind lately. The more and more I walk into the local GW store I just browse around, spectate some game for a bit and don't really see anything worth buying anymore (except for some paints). It's not because GW is expensive or a bad company (they might be, but that's not the point I'm trying to make). That's the aforementioned "I'm good for now". I'm one of those people that is not the target demographic for GW I guess (or any other company). I don't have this desire to have the new thing, because it's new and flashy. Tau might be arguable, but as I said in a previous blog here; I got it for cheap. I've spent about 250 euro on my Tau army, and that includes the codex... and that is reasonably cheaper than the average 1750 to 2000 points army for retail price (and like I also said; it was all new in box)

So anyway; right now I'm good to go, but obviously I could probably come up with a new goal like "OMG WANT NEW ELDAR NOAW!" but reality has set in at some point and I figured; then what? Buy army, paint, play 1 game and sell again? And with a loss at that. Since clearly, painted armies don't earn you money, unless you're really, really good at painting... which, by that notion would jack up a 3000 point army to a higher pricerange. If I spend 500 euro/dollars/pounds on an army and do a "high level pro-painted" standard, that army will probably sell for more than 500... but it also means you'd have to find people whom have 500+ to burn in one go. Those people are rather sparse.

So, that's a small update from my behalf 

Peace out,

M.