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Mr Clark said:
How do you feel about the potential Grey Knight upscale?

I didnt go GK based on the rumours from this time last year. Dont want to get an army and have it useless right away.
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5650pts Nightlords horus heresy fully painted
4300pts skaven whfb 6thed fully painted
3500pts orcs and goblins 6thed 80% painted
2000pts tau empire my first army my beloved tau is painted in random colours because each guy was special when i was 12
5k ish never counted of word bearers 40k and 30k and daemons all mixed in painted semi randomly autism
3000pts dark elves fully unpainted
2500pts liggers painted very poorly
3000ish of warriors of chaos mostly metal and classic plastic sculpts painted poorly
i have boxes full of random armies and random shit. i think i have a full guard army just from collecting stuff and buying stuff for cheap on ebay. i like my skaven and my nightlords the most and i hate niggers the most
 
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No, I'm not sorry.
 
Rick The Stick said:
My book journey has been fun.

After Soul Hunter I decided I'd just jump into the Heresy to give myself a break from Talos and the gang. Only did 2 before I jumped to something else to give that a break too, but I fuckin love it so far. Already know the broad strokes of things and they still manage to make me like Horus and feel like shit over his fall. Also "Kill For The Living, Kill For The Dead" is the coolest fucking shit I've ever heard.

Then I went to Helsreach. The Templars were one of the first actual chapters I was drawn to when I got into Space Marines and that seemed like mandatory reading. 10/10. Not much else to say other than Andrej is one of the most likable characters I've ever read and I'd love if he popped up in more stories. Grimaldus' speeches feel very "and today is our Independence Day" which was very cheesy in a good way.

After Helsreach I just threw a dart at a random chapter and landed on the Carcharodons. Red Tithe was wonderful, and the Night Lords showed up again the cheeky little fuckers. Wasn't too interested in the NL plot line but their interactions were really enjoyable. The Carcharodons themselves were fascinating and I'm definitely looking forward to reading the, what, one other novel and a couple short stories? Bummer.

Currently I'm taking a break from Space Marines, but I swapped them out for the SoB so lol. Had zero idea were to start so I just picked something that seemed cool, and chose Book of Martyrs. Liking it so far. I find myself chuckling at the constant "and then she prayed/said a small prayer". These cunts pray more in 10 minutes than I do all month.
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If you need a break from spess muhreens then dive into the gaunts ghosts series. Dan Abnett is the only author I would ever still pay GW for. Take your time and just carefully imagine the scenes in your head. Dan does a fantastic job with descriptions and the entire series could translate pretty directly to a screen.
My first book was the imperial guard omnibus, which introduces you to all sorts of guard branches fighting all sorts of enemies. Remember if you have no money annas archive is your friend.


(Dan really likes to use spank as a verb for ricochet. If you want a good laugh imagine a gachimuchi scream every time he uses it)
 
Not sure if points are accurate as haven't calculated since they re-valued everything but was around 2.5k Blood Angels, roughly same for Dark Angels and World Eaters, probably 2k Black Legion plus a knight and some combat patrols, in various stages of paint.
 
Mr Clark said:
Points. How many do you have in your army? I wanna know how many warhammers youve collected.

2.5k Custodes that took 6ish months on and off to paint. No forgeworld so no tanks which would take me to 3kish
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900 in Dark Angels
800 in Orks
500 in Iron Warriors
300 in Kriegers

My time, budget, skill level, and play frequency usuaĺly tops me out at about 1000 points before I'm ready to do something else.

I tend to binge and purge on painting projects. Keeping the house clean in the midst of one is a fool's errand.

I also like doing kits with fewer models. When you have a bunch, it starts to feel less like a hobby and more like a chore. Quality over quantity.
 
Mr Clark said:
Points. How many do you have in your army? I wanna know how many warhammers youve collected.

2.5k Custodes that took 6ish months on and off to paint. No forgeworld so no tanks which would take me to 3kish
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I have a lot of purple/pink/black/violet/white/gold/silver retards. Some of which are no longer “viable units for Emperor’s Children” so I gotta formally separate what’s CSM and what’s in the best legion.

My poor Raptors.
 
Penne Dreadful said:
About 5k of painted Eldar, plus a smattering of various other armies and a handful of BFG fleets each around 1.5k.
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This probably happens once in a while to newfags like me who don't know much about the tabletop stuff yet. I was browsing the thread and saw posts like this and I couldn't initially figure out if you all were talking in terms of playing piece totals or dollars spent on playing pieces. It's points you're all listing, right?

It wouldn't shock me to learn that some of you do have thousands of these things or have easily spent thousands on this stuff.
 
Dean Pentel said:
This probably happens once in a while to newfags like me who don't know much about the tabletop stuff yet. I was browsing the thread and saw posts like this and I couldn't initially figure out if you all were talking in terms of playing piece totals or dollars spent on playing pieces. It's points you're all listing, right?
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Yes, these are all points values. The dollar cost is going to be much lower for most armies, although AdMech and Genestealer Cults have the unfortunate combination of expensive models with low point values and so might come close. For reference, a standard game of 40k involves an army of 2k points on either side, which will consist of a number of models varying by army, from maybe 12 at the lowest for Knights up to not much more than 200 for the spammiest hordes.
Battlefleet Gothic, the other Warhammer game in my post, targets lower point totals as a rule - the official scenarios all target either 750 or 1500 points, and the biggest annual tournament at Adepticon (still small; it's a dead game) goes for 1350.
 
Mr Clark said:
Points. How many do you have in your army? I wanna know how many warhammers youve collected.

2.5k Custodes that took 6ish months on and off to paint. No forgeworld so no tanks which would take me to 3kish
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Word Bearers and Ultramarines, probably 1k for CSM and 600 for SM. I just stripped and reprimed my entire CSM army because they were first and Id like them to look good.

Best part about CSM is that multiple different recipes for the same unit blends well so long as you use washes properly to dirty the model up. Im working on a gradient with WB red and also a metallic layering fiasco with a mix of Flesh Tearers red and Leviathan Purple. Might go in another direction too and go almost a full dark, almost blood red or even a bright Khorne red. The metallic trim is also very variable, from a bright silver to a gunmetal steel. Ultramarines are mainly brush control practice fodder for me. Im working my way through with the basics, triple edge highlights all the way up, box art approved.
 
Eisenstein was great, Garro is a chad, Dorn is autistic and I like him quite a bit from his bits, and watching all these people slowly come to faith is pretty cool. On to Fulgrim, and I'm not feeling it too much. Not vibing with the Emp's Children at all. Nothing to do with the writing or anything, just not really grabbing me.
 
Rick The Stick said:
Eisenstein was great, Garro is a chad, Dorn is autistic and I like him quite a bit from his bits, and watching all these people slowly come to faith is pretty cool. On to Fulgrim, and I'm not feeling it too much. Not vibing with the Emp's Children at all. Nothing to do with the writing or anything, just not really grabbing me.
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Perfection and culture are a choice.

Keeping reading, it gets funny
 
Rick The Stick said:
On to Fulgrim, and I'm not feeling it too much. Not vibing with the Emp's Children at all. Nothing to do with the writing or anything, just not really grabbing me.
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They're super hateable when you meet them from Loken's perpective, but Fulgrim will soften your opinion of them.
 
Rick The Stick said:
Eisenstein was great, Garro is a chad, Dorn is autistic and I like him quite a bit from his bits, and watching all these people slowly come to faith is pretty cool. On to Fulgrim, and I'm not feeling it too much. Not vibing with the Emp's Children at all. Nothing to do with the writing or anything, just not really grabbing me.
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Completely opposite here, fucking hated Eisenstein and how it wastes the readers time re-telling the events of Galaxy in Flames. Yeah, Garro is cool and all but I really felt like I could have just skipped the first 150 pages and be better off for it.
 
Volpone Glory that. book is aggressively mediocre. Really wanted to like it, but towards the latter half of the book, it just gets really unnecessarily complicated and then just continues lingering after you stop being interested in anything these characters are doing and they do not follow up on any of the interesting warp stuff that just go ech, whatever weird conspiracy in thee command staff.
 
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