What is holding back your wargaming most?

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**radiohazard**

Kids.

Not for Money concerns...

My daughter wrecked £100 of WM models that were painted to an uber standard.

**Belphegor**

Time.
Stupid irreplaceable, non-compounding commodity without means to grow its net.
Shove that it your piggy bank, old-man white-beard.

**Sanchez01**

at one point me Ex held me back... i only got 2 games in the entire year and a half we were together

**oadie**

So many things are holding me back. It's amazing how few wargamers I've been able to find at such a big college. So few players means it's damn near impossible to schedule a game, especially since we're all students.

As for the painting/hobby aspect, it's 90% time. I finally got some paints together and I can't get a spare minute to prime some models. On the rare chance I do have some time, I'm exhausted from the rest of my hectic day AND it's raining, making priming damn near impossible.

**Shake Zoola**

Time...with the wife gone money isnt an issue...i just need to find the time to paint it all...difficult between a 50 hour a week job and preparing my OCS paperwork...

**Squig_herder**

My problems are first time then money [soon to be fix, im now employed, yay] and then lack of people. But now that im employed again im going to find the time and really get back into it. So hopefully some people follow me where I am.

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Sanchez01 wrote:at one point me Ex held me back... i only got 2 games in the entire year and a half we were together

Thats criminal

**Vitruvian XVII**

Time. I play far too much X-box 360 and when im not on that i procastinate so bad that i never get anything done. :(

Started a blog though to motivate myself.

**Boss 'eadbreaka**

This should be multiple choice, as time and money are holding me back

**DruidODurham**

Just moved and returned to the hobby, so people are holding me back the most. BUT, I just started working at harris teeter, so now it'll be time as well (although I guess not money anymore). God, I just wanna play some games.

**Fishboy**

Time is crushing me right now. Due to travel I have had little play time, and painting is out of the question. It has taken me 3 months to paint up one vulkan and 7 marines.....

**yermom**

Honestly, i'd rather be spending time with my girl friend right now. Not that she has anything against me playing with miniatures and rolling dice, but girlfriend > warhammer IMO

**Sanchez01**

yermom wrote:Honestly, i'd rather be spending time with my girl friend right now. Not that she has anything against me playing with miniatures and rolling dice, but girlfriend > warhammer IMO

Totaly agree man, Girlfriend always > 40k...

but like Squig_herder said, it is criminal, well for my situation it was... She would get pissed when i would play, when she was out of town anyway... she hated the Nerd side of me...

You are lucky she has nothing against it... i envy you for that

**starbomber109**

Space is my largest problem (or maybe I should say storage, I still have to figure out a good transit system for my guys.

After that? Probably money, and attention span.

**solkan**

What's holding back my wargaming the most? The continuing delays behind the Midwest Teleporter Network.

Seriously, first it's the delays with the flying car, then the teleporter falls behind schedule, too?!?

But really, the big impediment for me is overambitious projects, and second to that is transporting miniatures. Especially during the winter, it's the dilemma of "Do I put the figures in the car, drive to work (and probably take the boxes into the office), then drive to the store; or drive home after work, grab the figures, and then drive to the store?"

**Vulkan**

Yea my Gamesworkshop closed.. In fact GW left my state all together and the closest mini store is like 20 miles away and I'm epileptic so driving has been out of the question for awhile now.. ._. Please kill me

**Commissar Molotov**

Booze, women, and football are killing my gaming...

Fall ain't a good time for me to try to play miniatures - there's freaking football on Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday - and some freaking Fridays as well!

**Freddie Gibbs**

yeh money and location is holding me back, but hey, im only 14 years old, i got plenty of time finding a job so the money thing aint holds me back.
nor are the girlfriend problem. i never had a girlfriend in my life, so i got no problem with that

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result: then i can i just move out to the LGS

**Goliath**

I'm in my GCSE Year at school, so I have very little time to hobby,
combine that with a limited budget (£30 per month) and I do not have enough resources to hobby that much (1 hour a week)

**Joostuh**

Time and motivation to keep painting, every 6 months or so I have a painting frenzy and paint half an army. Then do nothing for 5 months. Also the lack of good tourneys here in NL is keeping me from dominating the entire NL 40k community!

**The Angry Commissar**

being at boarding school sux when i have over 10k points of stuff. at least i have lots of time to work on them. i play almost every time i go home

**Shellfishguy**

Time, followed closely by Money. Three kids w/activities, wife back in college and only one income all add up to not much gaming getting done.

**Cane**

Time; interesting to see money being a big factor --- I assumed most people on this site had armies ready to play but I guess there's a lot more WIP than I thought.

**Guards_fan**

What holds me back: I like making odd things so takes a while to finish a project and i don't wargame whilst Im building.

**somecallmeJack**

I just don't have any opponents. If I want to play, its an hour's train ride, & I can't usually go in the evenings when clubs are on.

**Linked**

Money :sigh:

**DX3**

Clearly - we need more than 24 hours in a day!

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Time. Never enough time.

I currently work 12 hours, 6 days a week. 6a.m. to 6 p.m.

After work, it's dinner, DVD, Bath then pretty much bed.

My days off are typically spent doing chores.

BAH!

**perplexiti**

Definatly time, when you've got a wife and kids plus sport and work commitments it leaves very little time for gameing, I'd be lucky to get 1 game in a week.

So this weekend was good, a game of fantasy and a game of bloodbowl!

**Minaith1989**

Money without a doubt. I have the dreams and ambitions but no funding to back it up! So its a slow walk towards eternal power...

**oggers**

Monies and time. :(