Lets hear it biggest financial mistake on 40K you have made.

$300- Buying 3 broadside and 2 sniperdrone but were nerf by the time I got them.

$500- Bought into a eldar saim hann warhost and alot of the eldar but the 4th means I havent touched it.

Codex Genestealer Cults

Traitor legions book

Both had about a 5 month lifespan

$150 on a baneblade. Back in 5th edition. Never played apocalypse. Literally collected dust and i never painted it. Gave it away.

Traitor's Hate
Should have waited 1more month to get Traitor Legions instead. Though it's actually a nice read.

Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

If I knew how bad, bad in w40k means, I would have never started my army. Wasted 10 months of saved up money, for maybe 2-3 games that weren't much fun, but were part of learning w40k. After that it was borderline un fun, to a point, where other people stoped wanting to play against me, because it is not very fun to win vs my army.

Any and all Space Marine armies including Grey Knights, Black Templars and Black Legion now that Primaris is a thing, I feel like i've waisted all that time and money on something obsolete.

When I got back into 40k after a long hiatus, I had nothing and started from scratch. I have also made some mistakes...

£100 on a small Necron army bought at the dying days of 7th and after playing a few games I really didn't feel the love of them. Models were cool, but the play style just didn't gel with me. Managed to swap this for a complete kill team cassius deathwatch unbuilt on sprue and £20 so not too bad.

The mistake I'm *most* annoyed with though is my 8th edition astra Militarum force. Not only did I choose the steel legion (as I thought they looked the coolest) I blew £360 on literally around 1100pts of models. Realised that a horde army on my budget and time constraints would mean I'd never get a sizable force. Add in GW stopping the production of the steel legion models also killed my enthusiasm for them as ebay prices are stupidly high. Currently gathering dust as my attempts to sell them local have not met success.

Anyone here on dakka fancy a semi painted fluffy steel legion force with carry case for £150 with 8th edition codex and cards?

 Brutus_Apex wrote:
Any and all Space Marine armies including Grey Knights, Black Templars and Black Legion now that Primaris is a thing, I feel like i've waisted all that time and money on something obsolete.

most pessimistic prediction says it's a decade at LEAST before old school marines go away,

Biggest mistake I've made was spending as much kitbashing a single squad of noise marines that I'm yet to use as I did buying an entire 1000pt death guard army, brand new. Cost me ~AU$150 for that single squad.

1) Land raider. Pretty useless now in 8th.
2) Leviathan dreadnought. Pretty useless now with knights.
3) Regular dreads. Pretty useless now with contemptor dreads/armigers.
4) JP plasma marines. Pretty useless now with plasma inceptors.

My only 40k regret are my 3 Necron Pylons. Though here in 8th that might not be true any longer.

Waaay back when the Pylons were 1st released (during 3rd ed I think, maybe 4th?) I'd grown board of my available Heavy support options for my Necrons. I just wanted something different.

So it's the night before Games-Day Baltimore & FW is going to be present, thus I'm browsing their site making a shopping list. And I come across the Pylons. I didn't even know FW was making anything for the Necrons. "Hmm, those look cool". A bit pricey, and I'd have to trim the shopping list a bit, but they were within my budget. So I click on the link to their "Experimental" Rules. And was delighted to find that they were Heavy Support! Awesome! If they have any Pylons with them I'll get a few.
So the next day my buddy & I head to Baltimore. We have two great days of gaming, I get my Pylons, we catch a baseball game the next day & bounce home.
That evening I click on FW & print out the rules.

:(

Sometime, between when I went to bed Thur evening & when I got home late Sunday and hit print, FW had updated the Pylon rules. Now they were Super Heavies. :(

The circles I played in at the time virtually never allowed super heavies to be used. Heavy supports? Wether GW or FW? All day, any day. A SH? Nope.

GRRRRRRR!
100% waste of $.
To this day they're unassembled, Mint In Box, and buried safely in my front hall closet. I see them twice a year when I get the Christmas lights out/put the Christmas lights away.

Though like I said, here in 8th.... The people playing at the local shop don't seem to have any qualms about fielding SH stuff. Probably thanks to Baneblades, Knights, etc being right in the codex's. So maybe my Pylons will finally see play after all these years.

tneva82 wrote:
Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

Bought a Warhound when it was ~750ish points. Didn't have time to assemble it. Warhound was 1500 - was getting ready to assemble it. Now Warhound is...3k? Pretty much no point to assemble it, might as well just return it back to FW

Probably most of my stuff - anything more than a FOC, I don't need!

 CragHack wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

Bought a Warhound when it was ~750ish points. Didn't have time to assemble it. Warhound was 1500 - was getting ready to assemble it. Now Warhound is...3k? Pretty much no point to assemble it, might as well just return it back to FW

2k but yeah still basically "I lose" button. With just 1 model you basically can't score. Warhound also won't be wiping out enemy either. So enemy doesn't even need to kill it.

Still soooo tempted to buy model. Would be so cool. Bit pricey though for basically a painting project.

Really only 1 time i've managed to waste money, but its a pittance compared to most..

Managed to buy a finecast Kairos just a few weeks before they released the huge plastic version >.<

Fictional wrote:
Really only 1 time i've managed to waste money, but its a pittance compared to most..

Managed to buy a finecast Kairos just a few weeks before they released the huge plastic version >.<

You reminded me I did the same with the failcast hive tyrant. The thing didn't even fit together and the torso pieces were completely misaligned so I never even assembled it.

I bought <OVERPOWERED ARMY>.

It was a waste of money and I am sad because it got nerfed.

I suppose my actual biggest waste of money was buying a squad of metal Incubi. In 3rd edition.

I bought the Waaagh! Ghazghkull Supplment..

 Ascalam wrote:


Traitor legions book

But what a time we had with it. It was a great time to be an EC and DG player. I actually started to win some games when it came out.

 IronBrand wrote:

Fictional wrote:
Really only 1 time i've managed to waste money, but its a pittance compared to most..

Managed to buy a finecast Kairos just a few weeks before they released the huge plastic version >.<

You reminded me I did the same with the failcast hive tyrant. The thing didn't even fit together and the torso pieces were completely misaligned so I never even assembled it.

Yea, the Kairos is a bit deformed, he has a bent leg for a start.

I made a ynnari force for 8th spent three weeks painting them then a week before I'm due to use them they were made worthless.

Fictional wrote:
Yea, the Kairos is a bit deformed, he has a bent leg for a start.

It seems like any large finecast model just exacerbates the problems of finecast. While also be an expensive model. I'm glad they've replaced quite a few of the bigger models with plastic.

 Giantwalkingchair wrote:
$150 on a baneblade. Back in 5th edition. Never played apocalypse. Literally collected dust and i never painted it. Gave it away.

A Baneblade is very well playable in an Imperium soup army.

I've never considered buying minis as a waste of money. The life span of codices and rules in general is rather short.
Buying codices or supplementary books is another issue. I'm very careful here. I just have 5 codices in the 8th: all 3 Aeldari, BA and Necrons. But all 5 indices.

I've never ended up having a 40K model that was useless in the long run. Lots of rulebooks that got donated to the recycle when editions changed.

Most of my worst GW purchases were stuff like Gorkamorka, Necromunda, Warmaster. Of all those the only one that hasn't been is my Orkland Raider bloodbowl team. several editions and reprints in and still playing with the orginal plastics from the original box with a few special charecters tossed in.

7th Edition Datacards. Own almost all of them, used almost none of them.

7th Edition Codexes. Own almost all of them, used almost none of them.

8th Edition Forgeworld Indexes. Own all of them, used none of them.

Ork Stompa
Forgeworld Warhound Titan
Necromunda (2017)
Genestealer Cult Dice

I honestly at some times feel I've wasted my money getting back into 40k. Been back in 8th from its inception and have only had a handful of games, and not through lack of trying.

£150 on a start collecting Tyranids, the Tyranid swarm box they sold for a bit and a few models off ebay. I painted 2 gaunts then realised I didn't like painting them. The SC and Swarm box are both still unopened and sat in the loft.

So the general answer is "I bought unit/model A for the rules and the rules changed"?

Is that a waste of money? or is it a change in perceived value?

Maybe if you dont place so much value on variables like rules and make purchases based on constants such as the model and its aesthetics then nothing would truly be a waste of money?

Corsairs.

Got Squatted.

Somehow, I don't regret them, though.

Not so much a waste of money (as I ended up selling it for about as much as I spent) but a pretty big waste of time I once invested was on a 7E Necron Decurion army with a Destroyer Cult & lots of Wraiths.

As Destroyers are ridiculously expensive, I ended up converting mine (Immortal Torso + scratch-built bodies).
Spent weeks working on it and only played 1 game...against SW Thunderwolf spam with a Knight.
All the tricks the list was made for were basically ignored. I lost all enthusiasm for painting them. Ended up selling them by formations, and it was a good thing too as 8E was soon announced.

-

I regret nothing.

Well, i regret a lot of things, but i'm honestly ok with things i've bought. even those things i've never really had a chance to use were still fun to put together and paint.

I bought a bunch of stuff to do Kill Teams in factions like Harlequins, Genestealers, and Orks when 7th KT was released. Didn't take me long to realize I wasn't going to get around to painting or playing them and have been getting back what I can for them since.

Overall though, I don't have a lot of these for 40k. I didn't really buy in until I'd tempered my faction ADD through other games. Wasted money on other games though..... sheesh.

I own more than 100 terminators of various gear... not so much a waste as I always pick them up cheap on ebay and only spend $2 or less per model. But they are unlikely to see a table anytime soon., I still have fun painting them and tricking them out with different weapons.

The 5th, 6th and 7th edition rulesets & related codexes. I stopped playing after 3rd/4th ed. but kept buying the new books as they came out, expecting to start playing again sometime. I finally did with 8th.

I hate helmet-less marines so much that I blindly just bought a intercessor helmet for the push fit model who has his helmet on his belt.

Selling my collection in the first place was a waste of money because I spent so much on it and could only sell it for a fraction of the price. And the money I got for it I just wasted.

So now I've learned to keep things I actually like and not allow myself to be influenced by silly things.

tneva82 wrote:
Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

Why in the hell would you throw it away?

I don't think I have wasted money on 40k but I do have quite a lot of tomb kings....

It's hard to say. My night goblin army sits on a shelf now but I did get a ton enjoyment from playing it. Might also dust it off one day for something like KOW when I have more time. Part of the hobby is simply having the figures so even if your not playing with them atm it doesn't mean that they were a waste of money

7th Ed, Traitor Legions, decide to build a Death Guard army - to play for a few days at Warhammer World as part of my 40th birthday celebrations.

I bought Mk III marines and forgeworld plague marine shoulder pads, champion upgrades, rhino doors, autocannons for havocs etc. Plague Marines!
Plus Bikes, Obliterators, two Heldrakes. The jewel is FW Grave Warden Terminators - they look great and I take my time painting them up nicely, to run as combi-melta terminators.

Then 8th drops. Death Guard! Great, I think. I am nearly finished painting the army and the Index drops, about a week before the event.

I nearly cried :(

I'm glad we got new toys in our codex, but 75% of the stuff I bought was effectively invalidated. I'm also really annoyed that DG Terminators somehow forgot how to punch things, because, reasons. So my Grave Wardens have to be counts-as.

Really upset me!

For me, it's probably 30k. I bought the first big book, and then the army lists book, and close to 3k of emperor's children. I build it all, paint it all, and then realize I don't like 30k at all, plus, all the units I have are garbage.

So, I invested probably close to $1000 and go knows how many hours on a army I've used a couple of times.

Depends on the GSC codex...

I thought it was funny to buy a Baneblade and play it in a Tyranid list...it really was...

Now with potential changes to IG soup and GSC codex rumors about limiting IG stuff for GSC itll get a waste of money because I dont own an IG army...
Somebody needs a Baneblade ?

Racing to finish my 2000 point Imperial Guaqrd list before the codex dropped. I was new to 40k and didn't realize what would happen. I then raced to buy and build to get back to 2000 points of at least semi-effective models before the FAQs started dropping.

The point change pain was real man. My poor Salamander Command Tank...

 mjl7atlas wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

Why in the hell would you throw it away?

Because his life has no yoy in it...

Process wrote:
So the general answer is "I bought unit/model A for the rules and the rules changed"?

Is that a waste of money? or is it a change in perceived value?

Maybe if you dont place so much value on variables like rules and make purchases based on constants such as the model and its aesthetics then nothing would truly be a waste of money?

This.

Slavishly chasing the meta game, is a futile endeavour. GW will always change the rules, always. Models have inherite worth beyond what lacklustre rules GW produce for them.

Why people feel that the rules are crucial in defining a models worth is akin to putting the cart in from of the horse.

Use different rules, or use house rules, or make up your own gaming system with your opponents.

It is sad to see that this attitude has resulted in wonderful model lines made by GW being erased. Tomb Kings, the models were and remain wonderful, the rules for the models were however lacking. So sales were never good, as people's main point of concern was the artificial, this GW pulled the plug on a poor selling model line.

The only thing I have regretted buying from GW are the Kill Team rules, while they are a big improvement on 40k, I doubt I can conjure up the enthusiasm to play.

If the Brood Brothers rumor proves true, I will have no use for a fully magnetized Baneblade pinched from the drunken AM soldiers at a local nightclub, its all-female crew, some ogryns, ratlings, AM psykers. Or maybe I will just do a diorama out of them.

The biggest waste of money was a large High Elven army in the WHFB last edition. It was my first GW army, I've bought almost everything in the line up to stock up on models and options...and then End Times arrived. Ouch.

That large pile of sad boxes is preventing me from starting anything in AoS. I can't decide what to do with them and I can't start another fantasy army until I figure it out.

There are no mistakes; only happy accidents.

The only things I regret lately are certain paintjobs. If it's a simple miniature I'll strip it and start over, but if I fudge up a colour scheme on a vehicle or something, I'll sell it off on eBay (often making my money back). It took me twenty years but I've developed as good a hobby-discipline as I'm ever likely to acquire.

Also, selling used 40K stuff on eBay for commission I've seen the MASS loss that so many players take with meta-chasing or "buy it all, but never finish it!" kind of approach that it's solidified my methods a ton. Basically you see the following:

New in box: Great
On Sprue: Very Good
Bits: Pretty Good
Assembled: Okay
Painted: Poor (exception being very well painted, which is rare).

Take a guess where 90% of the stuff I sell off is? The bottom two brackets, where you lose the most money by far. 40K and similar GW products are simply too expensive and time consuming to "dabble" in if you don't want to just throw money in the trash. Luckily I'm more or less past that point myself and I hope my resolve remains intact.

 mjl7atlas wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

Why in the hell would you throw it away?

This little thing called morals

Luckily most of my 'mistakes' have been reparable. Like buying things I end up not liking, plenty of the money I spent of them can be made back selling them off.

But I did get into 30k in 7th and now that I like 8th a lot more I don't really play it at all, so fair amount wasted on those books. I just need to wait until the FW Mechanicum units get 40k rules to use those.

Buying the 7th Edition Ork codex.

Also note I bought the Warlord edition that came with the Waagh Ghazghkull supplement that got released separately anyway a week later. Only good thing is the metal Ork objective markers.

 wuestenfux wrote:

 Giantwalkingchair wrote:
$150 on a baneblade. Back in 5th edition. Never played apocalypse. Literally collected dust and i never painted it. Gave it away.

A Baneblade is very well playable in an Imperium soup army.

I've never considered buying minis as a waste of money. The life span of codices and rules in general is rather short.
Buying codices or supplementary books is another issue. I'm very careful here. I just have 5 codices in the 8th: all 3 Aeldari, BA and Necrons. But all 5 indices.

How long are the cycles between units being bad, and then becoming good. For example something like a termintor model, when was the last time they were something people wanted to use, because they are good?

Karol wrote:

 wuestenfux wrote:

 Giantwalkingchair wrote:
$150 on a baneblade. Back in 5th edition. Never played apocalypse. Literally collected dust and i never painted it. Gave it away.

A Baneblade is very well playable in an Imperium soup army.

I've never considered buying minis as a waste of money. The life span of codices and rules in general is rather short.
Buying codices or supplementary books is another issue. I'm very careful here. I just have 5 codices in the 8th: all 3 Aeldari, BA and Necrons. But all 5 indices.

How long are the cycles between units being bad, and then becoming good. For example something like a termintor model, when was the last time they were something people wanted to use, because they are good?

There is no fixed cycle which says that a unit is bad in one ed and becomes decent in the following one.
Termies were certainly good in the 4th ed with all those assault cannons (each hit of 6 was rending).
Deep striking of Termies and Landspeeders all with assault cannons on one of the enemy flanks and then moving towards the center was very killy at that time.

For me it has to be the codices I have bought. I barely ever used them back in 7th and have never needed them in 8th. I've yet to get a codex rule wrong so I think I've been doing alright on that count.

Beyond that I made a few impulse buys on ebay for well priced models that I have never used.

Much regret for the cost I have sunk into the game, but there are a few things I actually regret.

- 7E and 8E BRB, a waste of money
- Lost Patrol, the game is abomible
- 6E Knight codex, like 2 months later GW turned around and released a new kit and book, with the fluff included instead of a separate, full-priced book
- fail cast Tyranid hive tyrant; the plastic kit is soooo much better
- 6E Tyranid codex, it was utter crap

Repulsor (hate the model and the rules)
Redemptor dread (again, model and rules suck)
Ven dreads (pretty much unuseable since eldar dex dropped)
Predator (only bought one so that I would have three but I don't even use one anymore)
SM codex (better off playing anything in it as another marine dex, so many changes to it and FAQs I should have gone digital)
Grey Knights (though adding a couple of GMDKs and a couple units of deepstrike strike squads would be fun...Oh and the dex..)
Xiphon (las cannons worthless against 3++ knights, who'd of thunk that anti-tank weapons would fall further out of a big ole target meta. At least I got it before the forge world price hike...)

Now that I type the list out I feel bad. That's a lot of plastic on my shelf.

 p5freak wrote:
1) Land raider. Pretty useless now in 8th.
2) Leviathan dreadnought. Pretty useless now with knights.
3) Regular dreads. Pretty useless now with contemptor dreads/armigers.
4) JP plasma marines. Pretty useless now with plasma inceptors.

Armigers I kind of understand, but regular dreads have a much better selection of weapon loads (both in numbers and in quality) than a Contemptor and can always stand in for a Venerable Dread.

The whining about "good" stuff becoming "bad" isn't really a waste if you got to play it when it was "good."

And at least you got stuff, esp, Codices / Army Books - I wish my Warhammer Fantasy Dogs of War had an Army Book for AoS or something.

Bharring wrote:
Corsairs.

Got Squatted.

Somehow, I don't regret them, though.

I miss Corsairs

SG

 adamsouza wrote:
7th Edition Datacards. Own almost all of them, used almost none of them.

7th Edition Codexes. Own almost all of them, used almost none of them.

8th Edition Forgeworld Indexes. Own all of them, used none of them.

Ork Stompa
Forgeworld Warhound Titan
Necromunda (2017)
Genestealer Cult Dice

It's like we're brothers

Storm raven, 2nd hand, but never been used on a table top.

Grav Centurions. We're solid in 7th. Hot garbage now. Also their drop pod delivery.

Ork Battle wagon. Another kit I've never actually fielded yet.

Extra Storm talons for a double Talon Wing formation or whatever the formation was called. Also Land speeders that were required, just for some reliable flyers turn 2.

Crimson Slaughter codex supplement, the 2nd release. Nearly identical price for the same exact content and the worst formations ever.

$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

They haven't told the employees at GW stores anything in close to 10 years. They hear about stuff the same time we do. They used to know what was coming a bit in advance but GW stopped that because they were worried about leaks.

If pressed, I might list my second box of Space Marine bikes. I don't use that squad nearly enough to justify having six men for it.

I might also list picking Marines in general since they're in such a mopey place right now, but I've spent enough time around GW to know that Marines are unlikely to stay a bottom-tier army for very long.

[Edit] ... and I suppose I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little worried about all the old-style marines I picked up getting obsoleted by future developments on the Primaris marine line.

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

Sorry, I'm gonna call bs on that one. GW advertised 8th's release months out from it's street date. Plus they also offered refunds for anyone who bought a codex close to the announcement of 8th.

wuestenfux 763618 10147765& wrote:
There is no fixed cycle which says that a unit is bad in one ed and becomes decent in the following one.
Termies were certainly good in the 4th ed with all those assault cannons (each hit of 6 was rending).
Deep striking of Termies and Landspeeders all with assault cannons on one of the enemy flanks and then moving towards the center was very killy at that time.

Ok, thank you for the explanation. I understand that there are no fixed times, but from the terminator example it seems to me, although this may be false, the time between something going from bad to good can be multiple editions.

 Grimtuff wrote:

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

Sorry, I'm gonna call bs on that one. GW advertised 8th's release months out from it's street date. Plus they also offered refunds for anyone who bought a codex close to the announcement of 8th.

That's pretty lousy customer service, as the GW employee knew that it was coming out. Hell, they announce preorders a week before they go live, so two weeks was plenty of time, and warhammer community did a long build up. They're in a tough spot, where they're expected to keep selling product they know, for a fact, has a very short shelf life.

As for the models being worthless, that's hyperbolic. They still have worth in that you can sell them, and even weak tea armies like GK don't sell for all that much less than other armies.

8th edition made fools of us all. I play IG, a strong army, and even I have plenty of stuff that never sees the tabletop: chimeras, veterans, hydras, heavy weapon teams (aside from mortars), etc.

I wish I lived in your part of the world where you can find buyers for terminator GK. I really do.

Also does buying those strange direction dice also count as wasted money? I got those alongside my army as something "I will find use for sure".

Karol wrote:
I wish I lived in your part of the world where you can find buyers for terminator GK. I really do.

Also does buying those strange direction dice also count as wasted money? I got those alongside my army as something "I will find use for sure".

Okay, to be fair, those sell for less than most models.

 Polonius wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

Sorry, I'm gonna call bs on that one. GW advertised 8th's release months out from it's street date. Plus they also offered refunds for anyone who bought a codex close to the announcement of 8th.

That's pretty lousy customer service, as the GW employee knew that it was coming out. Hell, they announce preorders a week before they go live, so two weeks was plenty of time, and warhammer community did a long build up. They're in a tough spot, where they're expected to keep selling product they know, for a fact, has a very short shelf life.

Read through the guy's post history. He's talking gak.

The 6th ed Knights codex which I used for all of one game was kind of a bummer. The 6th ed Marine codex didn't see too much use from me either.

I tried to work myself back into gaming and collecting first a couple of years ago after a 28 year break and was sold End Times. Within a couple of weeks AOS was released and End Times was no more. Really took the biscuit. Recently purchased the new AOS set Soul Wars. Still nobody admits to playing it in this area so it's just going to collect dust. Also spent out on a second hand starter box for Silver Tower. Again no players in this area. It's mostly all 40k here.

So turned my back on modern releases and started to concentrate on what I remember from my first time gaming in the 80's.No longer feel I am throwing money away for something I will never use.

I bought the drop pod like 8 years ago. Assembled it with great pain then never got around to paint it. Sold it some year later. Then like 2 years ago I tried again, and same result. Nowthe newer one is sold too.

I have a 4000 points black templar army fully painted. Yet I got defeated by the drop pod twice and it felt like a waste in a way. It has nothing to do with the rules, but I think that model kit is cursed...

Dont believe I ever used it in the game too...

I bought the Wood Elf army book, treeman, wild riders, and a decent wood elf army right when they were released for WHFB 8th edition. Little did I know that was the last army to be released before age of sigmar. I played 3 games with them before AOS came out and the uproar from AOS was so significant that I couldnt get anyone to play anygames, nor did I feel like getting all of those new rulebooks and dataslates.

I ended up selling the elves to someone else. That was my first effort of getting into the fantasy side of things and I still havent returned.

About 10,000 points of Necrons.

I only just recently got back into 40k, dug out the remnants of my beloved Tau army and sold them all making a fair amount of money, used it to buy the Eldar start collecting set along with 2 dire avengers squads and some guardians, wave serpent etc.
I painted the avengers, wave serpent, wraith blades and then decided I wanted to collect 1 army at a time and sold them all off to make some more space for my Scythes of the emperor!

Not really a waste of money but a waste of time as they never even made the tabletop.

The entirety of my 3rd edition Tyranids and Dark Eldar armies. They went into storage and I lost and broke so many models it wasn't worth fixing them. Easily a few thousand dollars gone.

I also have way too many power armoured Chaos marines but that's another story...

Models are never wasted... I tend to build armies around what I like, rather than what is effective in the game.

My biggest 'waste' was the collector's edition rulebook for 4th edition - turned out to be my least favourite edition until 6th/7th came along, so was my one and only dabble with the limited edition books.

Selling a reaver titan for money and now I want another one. Also all the pre-updates, nothing worse than seeing all the money you spent on old models going down the drain.

It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away. And for pretty arbitrary things.

I regret selling out all the time. I wish I had had better sense back then. I figured I'd have no one to play with, but really they're worth more than whatever the game is doing, what edition it is, or how powerful their rules are at the moment. I don't need to play a hundred games to feel satisfied with my collection, and I was having a blast making Mordheim stuff and converting and painting. There were outside influences however, but even then, I failed to recognize the importance the hobby had in my life and so I sold out. That was the waste of money right there.

Anyways, I dunno. Just shocking to see how many people acted like I did.

Every pewter model I ever bought. Seriously.



Also, every Rhino chassis model I bought before the current Rhino kit came out. I had literally a dozen of those in my Crimson Fists army alone. Replacing all of that stuff has been MAJORLY time consuming.

 darkcloak wrote:
It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away. And for pretty arbitrary things.

I regret selling out all the time. I wish I had had better sense back then. I figured I'd have no one to play with, but really they're worth more than whatever the game is doing, what edition it is, or how powerful their rules are at the moment. I don't need to play a hundred games to feel satisfied with my collection, and I was having a blast making Mordheim stuff and converting and painting. There were outside influences however, but even then, I failed to recognize the importance the hobby had in my life and so I sold out. That was the waste of money right there.

Anyways, I dunno. Just shocking to see how many people acted like I did.

For some morals and ethics are more important than money. Money is replacable. Morals & ethics aren't.

I don't support thieves. Period. Do you? donkey-caves like that cannot be supported. Price I paid for the recasted junk is pittance compared to price of moral integrity. Only regret there is donkey-cave getting that money. Burning money that would buy warlord would have been preferable than that donkey-cave waste of human life getting the price of that warhound.

Moral is what define you. Not physical product you own.

 Just Tony wrote:
Every pewter model I ever bought. Seriously.



Also, every Rhino chassis model I bought before the current Rhino kit came out. I had literally a dozen of those in my Crimson Fists army alone. Replacing all of that stuff has been MAJORLY time consuming.

That's funny. I'm scouting ebay for pewter models and old Rhinos every week

Sgt. Cortez wrote:

 Just Tony wrote:
Every pewter model I ever bought. Seriously.



Also, every Rhino chassis model I bought before the current Rhino kit came out. I had literally a dozen of those in my Crimson Fists army alone. Replacing all of that stuff has been MAJORLY time consuming.

That's funny. I'm scouting ebay for pewter models and old Rhinos every week

Then I strongly suggest you NEVER watch the "How to convert pewter miniatures" video when I finally get around to posting it on youtube.

The entire point of minis is that they are one piece!

£300 on a hierophant biotitan. Saw the table once then my dad threw it out accidentally when I moved house.

I once bought 4000ish points of Grey Knights in one go and sold them on eBay for I think 60% of what I paid before I even got 1/3 assembled (less than a month).

My shame lives here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/405294.page

I've been fairly lucky with my 40K purchases, all things considered.Years ago, I bought a second-hand collection of Space Marines (Tactical Squad, Terminator Squad, Land Speeder, Predator, and a whole bunch of bitz), and they ended up being in absolutely atrocious condition. Still have some of it, but I realized in the middle of fixing up the first one that I really hate the Space Marine proportions, and was turned off fairly quickly. Overall though, not a waste, as it didn't cost me more than the price of the army case they came in, along with Harry the Hammer that was thrown in.

I once got conned by a "friend" into selling him a unit of Howling Banshees after I realized I was never going to start that Elder army, and he disappeared without giving me a single cent, but that's on me for naivety.

My purchases for 8th, I wish I hadn’t bought a primaris army before playing the game, now I feel like I’ve wasted money on a game I don’t really enjoy anymore, maybe in a few years I will come back to it and have fun but 40k seems like a chaw to play, I’m even losing interest in 30k, titanicus/epic is pretty much my last ditch effort to get back into the hobby.

It doesn’t help that I’m always away from home either so I really need to limit my projects as my time is so limited.

Collected Space Wolves for 30K, but didn't know anyone who played. Decided I should build a second army for 30K so I could demo it to friends. Decided on Iron Warriors because I wanted an army with a radically different playstyle to my Wolves, and a friend of mine was already doing Thousand Sons.

Bought about 5k of the army, and painted the first 2.5k of it - all the boring stuff like Tacticals done, so just things like Terminators and Typhons and stuff left.

Then events started popping up, and I went to one with my Wolves, and there were absolutely tons of Iron Warriors armies in my local meta. Played against them a lot too, and hated the experience. Completely killed the idea for me, and I haven't touched that collection since. About £1000 of minatures, and a bunch of hobby hours down the drain.

putting my elite cult mech army in comission 4 months before 8th hit.

8th hits, cult mech has been removed and my 9 kataprhon breachers who was blast template wep based are just display models now cuz they are crap due to gakky new wep dmg, and i totaly refuses to have anything to do with skitarii.

The Newman wrote:
If pressed, I might list my second box of Space Marine bikes. I don't use that squad nearly enough to justify having six men for it.

I might also list picking Marines in general since they're in such a mopey place right now, but I've spent enough time around GW to know that Marines are unlikely to stay a bottom-tier army for very long.

[Edit] ... and I suppose I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little worried about all the old-style marines I picked up getting obsoleted by future developments on the Primaris marine line.

Is it gauche to quote myelf?

I wasn't really thinking about it, but I did sell out of 40k at one point as well. I had a lot of stuff at the time too, 3000+ point collections of Tau, Nids, Necrons, Orks, Chaos, and IG, and if I'd known I'd be back I'd have probably kept the Guard or the Orks. I used the money to get into Warmachine and I played that for over a decade and never regretted jumping ship (and to be honest, if anyone was playing it at my LGS I'd have bought back into that instead), but not having to buy anything beyond the rules to start playing again would have been nice.

Any FW index.

IA:13 Collectors Edition (but I do like it as a stand alone book)

Both Crimson Slaughter codexes (again, good books)

Dark Vengenace (never saw daylight)

Point being I have become very picky with what I buy these days with the proverbial sword of damoclese hanging over the head of any codex, models, etc via CA, FAQs, etc.

tneva82 wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away. And for pretty arbitrary things.

I regret selling out all the time. I wish I had had better sense back then. I figured I'd have no one to play with, but really they're worth more than whatever the game is doing, what edition it is, or how powerful their rules are at the moment. I don't need to play a hundred games to feel satisfied with my collection, and I was having a blast making Mordheim stuff and converting and painting. There were outside influences however, but even then, I failed to recognize the importance the hobby had in my life and so I sold out. That was the waste of money right there.

Anyways, I dunno. Just shocking to see how many people acted like I did.

For some morals and ethics are more important than money. Money is replacable. Morals & ethics aren't.

I don't support thieves. Period. Do you? donkey-caves like that cannot be supported. Price I paid for the recasted junk is pittance compared to price of moral integrity. Only regret there is donkey-cave getting that money. Burning money that would buy warlord would have been preferable than that donkey-cave waste of human life getting the price of that warhound.

Moral is what define you. Not physical product you own.

Yes, but you could have contacted Forgeworld, told them what happened, and see what they’d like you to do. In some cases, they’ve asked for the offending model, information about the seller, and sent out a proper replacement. So you’ve thrown away money, gained nothing, and likely didn’t help them catch a recaster. You didn’t actually do anything worthy of a moral high-ground. Just wasted time and money.

Biggest mistake was selling An'ggrath... because i want him back, so i guess i have to call FW again.

6th edition psychic power cards. Finally pulled the trigger and bought them and then 7th edition was announced shortly after.

7th edition psychic power cards. IG order cards. Planetary Onslaught book because 8th edition was announced about a month after I bought it.

Countless box sets that have never seen the light of day.

Wow. Did I just get called out by the guy who threw away a Titan?

That, my friends, is hilarious.

Have fun with your morals and ethics and throwing money away. I'm sure that will pay off in the end.

Please explain to me how throwing away something you bought because you got cheated makes you better than me?

At least I can admit I was an idiot to sell my toys. How about you? Part of growing up, is knowing when you're being an idiot.

 Sim-Life wrote:
£300 on a hierophant biotitan. Saw the table once then my dad threw it out accidentally when I moved house.

Yeowch. I hope he apologized.

 battyrat wrote:
I tried to work myself back into gaming and collecting first a couple of years ago after a 28 year break and was sold End Times. Within a couple of weeks AOS was released and End Times was no more. Really took the biscuit. Recently purchased the new AOS set Soul Wars. Still nobody admits to playing it in this area so it's just going to collect dust. Also spent out on a second hand starter box for Silver Tower. Again no players in this area. It's mostly all 40k here.

So turned my back on modern releases and started to concentrate on what I remember from my first time gaming in the 80's.No longer feel I am throwing money away for something I will never use.

Oh, I feel your pain. I had tried an Elf Army way back when - the Herohammer edition - only to drop said army after being soundly trashed by an enemy army I had NO hope of beating. Was so disgusted, I sold the army off. Fast forward several years and I got talked into trying the game again, so rebought a High Elf army (with the Isle of Blood starter, and also bought a Vampire Counts army), only to have End Times drop a month later. When AOS hit, everybody else dropped out and sold their armies off. This time I kept mine, but I’ve got no one to play it with. However, I was smitten by the Nightgaunts I bought Tempest of Souls and a few extras. Just gonna paint and display them, no plans to actually use them in a game.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away. And for pretty arbitrary things.

I regret selling out all the time. I wish I had had better sense back then. I figured I'd have no one to play with, but really they're worth more than whatever the game is doing, what edition it is, or how powerful their rules are at the moment. I don't need to play a hundred games to feel satisfied with my collection, and I was having a blast making Mordheim stuff and converting and painting. There were outside influences however, but even then, I failed to recognize the importance the hobby had in my life and so I sold out. That was the waste of money right there.

Anyways, I dunno. Just shocking to see how many people acted like I did.

For some morals and ethics are more important than money. Money is replacable. Morals & ethics aren't.

I don't support thieves. Period. Do you? donkey-caves like that cannot be supported. Price I paid for the recasted junk is pittance compared to price of moral integrity. Only regret there is donkey-cave getting that money. Burning money that would buy warlord would have been preferable than that donkey-cave waste of human life getting the price of that warhound.

Moral is what define you. Not physical product you own.

Yes, but you could have contacted Forgeworld, told them what happened, and see what they’d like you to do. In some cases, they’ve asked for the offending model, information about the seller, and sent out a proper replacement. So you’ve thrown away money, gained nothing, and likely didn’t help them catch a recaster. You didn’t actually do anything worthy of a moral high-ground. Just wasted time and money.

Laughs in Chinese...

tneva82 wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away. And for pretty arbitrary things.

I regret selling out all the time. I wish I had had better sense back then. I figured I'd have no one to play with, but really they're worth more than whatever the game is doing, what edition it is, or how powerful their rules are at the moment. I don't need to play a hundred games to feel satisfied with my collection, and I was having a blast making Mordheim stuff and converting and painting. There were outside influences however, but even then, I failed to recognize the importance the hobby had in my life and so I sold out. That was the waste of money right there.

Anyways, I dunno. Just shocking to see how many people acted like I did.

For some morals and ethics are more important than money. Money is replacable. Morals & ethics aren't.

I don't support thieves. Period. Do you? donkey-caves like that cannot be supported. Price I paid for the recasted junk is pittance compared to price of moral integrity. Only regret there is donkey-cave getting that money. Burning money that would buy warlord would have been preferable than that donkey-cave waste of human life getting the price of that warhound.

Moral is what define you. Not physical product you own.

Ha, to me Copyrighting is the crime. A bullying crime at that. My concern is entirely on the quality of the product. If a recaster or 3rd party can create a product that is equal or better in quality, the “original” IP holder can go to hell.

Does the unpainted pile of models count?

 carlos13th wrote:
Does the unpainted pile of models count?

They are if you've ever picked a sprue up and realize you don't remember buying the models.

 darkcloak wrote:
It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away. And for pretty arbitrary things.

(shrugs) As long as I've got the space I'd rather store my unused models than part with them.
Because I'm well experienced with GW, their shifting rules, and that local metas change.
What's not useful today may well change tomorrow/next edition. And digging it out of storage is a helluva lot cheaper than buying it a 2nd time.

ccs wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away.

(shrugs) As long as I've got the space I'd rather store my unused models than part with them.
Because I'm well experienced with GW, their shifting rules, and that local metas change.
What's not useful today may well change tomorrow/next edition. And digging it out of storage is a helluva lot cheaper than buying it a 2nd time.

This. The effort of rebuying, rebuilding, repainting? No.

ccs wrote:

 darkcloak wrote:
It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away. And for pretty arbitrary things.

(shrugs) As long as I've got the space I'd rather store my unused models than part with them.
Because I'm well experienced with GW, their shifting rules, and that local metas change.
What's not useful today may well change tomorrow/next edition. And digging it out of storage is a helluva lot cheaper than buying it a 2nd time.

to answer more generally: I think that for many people, the anxiety or psychic toll of incomplete projects is unpleasant, so they'd rather get rid of things rather than save them.

There's also that moment when you are honest with yourself, and ask when you are really going to build certain armies or projects.

Bought a Heriophant bio titan about a month before 8th came out, got to play it once in a 2k point game, now it costs the entire army allotment

7th ork codex and data cards. Thankfully I sold them on eBay to recoup some of the loss. That codex wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on, was surprised I was able to sell it

Imperial Agents...

Buying the 7th ed Waaaagh! Ghazghkull codex.

Twice.

I bought an Eye of Terror Codex and bits to start building a Legion of The Damned Nurgle army. By the time I had the bits and started working on it for real, that Codex was dead and buried.

That pretty much ended me for 40K in any meaningful way.

Painstakingly collected and built the models to run a full Battle Company with my Dark Angels (Lion's Blade Strike Force with 2 Demi-companies). I ended up not getting to go to the one tournament I would have been able to run the list at due to not being able to get the day off work, and by time of the next one, 8th edition had dropped and the list was no longer valid. Now I'm sitting on a whole bunch of useless Tacticals and footslogging Assault marines that I'll probably never use given how cabbage their rules are in 8th.

From another thread:

 Brother Castor wrote:
I gave up at the end of RT and my parents gave all my WH40K and Space Hulk stuff away (with my permission) while I was at uni

Having said that, miniatures have moved on a long way in 25 years so at least I now have a modern set of models.

 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
Any FW index.

I forgot about these. That would have been a squad or vehicle each back in 3rd when I bought those wastes of paper.

The last two Ork Codex count? ATM I’d rather play with the third ed book.

Ooo! Ooo! Just thought! Apocalypse rules - biggest clunker in a good while.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Buying the 7th ed Waaaagh! Ghazghkull codex.

Twice.

We have a winner

I regret nothing.

But that's because the majority of stuff for the armies I had wasn't purchased at retail (even discounted) but 2nd+ hand at a vast discount over the space of about 16 years.

This was my army.


I now only have enough left to play a 1500pt 40k 2nd edition army and no more (15 Bikers was a 1500pt raven wing army in 2nd ed to give you an idea).

A guy I knew started a late 7e army focusing on a lot of drop pods carrying centurions. A few months and an edition later and his army was straight up unusable.

 chromedog wrote:
I regret nothing.

But that's because the majority of stuff for the armies I had wasn't purchased at retail (even discounted) but 2nd+ hand at a vast discount over the space of about 16 years.

This was my army.


I now only have enough left to play a 1500pt 40k 2nd edition army and no more (15 Bikers was a 1500pt raven wing army in 2nd ed to give you an idea).

Is that a lego titan? I can see at least some lego on it.

Don't really regret buying anything as I love the models and my unpainted stuff is just treasure waiting for me to take care of it. Even my Ork army I can't be bothered with I still enjoy having just in case inspiration strikes me, plus Killteam has given me a little kick in the ass to start painting all my infantry guys.

I actually have more regrets not buying something than actually buying, to later see those models go out of print. I still wish I had collected a High Elf army and a proper Dark Elf army when WHFB was still a thing for example, or bought myself some Tomb Kings(some of the models were gorgeous).

 Eldarsif wrote:
Don't really regret buying anything as I love the models and my unpainted stuff is just treasure waiting for me to take care of it. Even my Ork army I can't be bothered with I still enjoy having just in case inspiration strikes me, plus Killteam has given me a little kick in the ass to start painting all my infantry guys.

I actually have more regrets not buying something than actually buying, to later see those models go out of print. I still wish I had collected a High Elf army and a proper Dark Elf army when WHFB was still a thing for example, or bought myself some Tomb Kings(some of the models were gorgeous).

I was disappointed to see I couldn't get the necrosphinx when I came back.

 IronBrand wrote:

 Eldarsif wrote:
Don't really regret buying anything as I love the models and my unpainted stuff is just treasure waiting for me to take care of it. Even my Ork army I can't be bothered with I still enjoy having just in case inspiration strikes me, plus Killteam has given me a little kick in the ass to start painting all my infantry guys.

I actually have more regrets not buying something than actually buying, to later see those models go out of print. I still wish I had collected a High Elf army and a proper Dark Elf army when WHFB was still a thing for example, or bought myself some Tomb Kings(some of the models were gorgeous).

I was disappointed to see I couldn't get the necrosphinx when I came back.

You and me both.

The rule books and codex are a big waste of money and paper. Once a new edition comes along, that $50 codex is now $7.

None.

Whatever I buy, I've researched and judged its worth. And I always found use for my investments. I've yet to err in this.

 CadianGateTroll wrote:
The rule books and codex are a big waste of money and paper. Once a new edition comes along, that $50 codex is now $7.

If you've had 100 fun games using the rules in the Codex, it's hard to call it a waste.

My Black Templars for everything since 5th ed. I like the look of the models but the rules make them next to useless and they don't even feel fluffy enough to justify playing so 13k+ points worth of them just sit gathering dust on my shelf.

Second biggest regret is having bought a Thunderhawk, I got it back when the exchange rate was horrid and it was through our GW bunker so it also had local tax. $1000 wasted on the worst resin kit I've ever owned. Everything was warped like hell, all of the internal pieces, assault ramp and canard wings were the wrong size and didn't fit. I had to cut them down and rebuild so much of the model it was almost like scratch building. Either they used molds for mismatched masters or had massive problems with not using the correct fillers to control the resin shrinkage. Result was that nothing fit correctly and was the epitome of bad FW castings. Spent two months fixing that pile of crap only to have it blasted off the table in every game of Apoc by warhound titans that were half the price and half the points and far more durable, in most game it was one shotted as soon as it hit the board due to how crappy the Apoc flyer damage was handled and one single wound had a 50% chance of turning into 3 structure damage and downing it. 900 points of flying crap coffin. Dumped it and the $200 carrying case as soon as I had the chance. Apoc on the whole was garbage as a format and I never should have gotten into that.

Lastly buying into Warmachine & Hordes, I loved the look of Khador and the Farrow but after attending a local league night I hated the gameplay and hyper aggressive player base so much I just threw my army down the storm drain next to the store and never looked back. The entire group of WMH players was basically composed of "that guy" players and tossing the models was one of the best gaming decisions I've ever made in 30 years of gaming. I'm only sad that I bought two full armies worth of stuff before I realized just how crappy that game is.

When I heard the Ork Stompa was going to be in the 7th Edition codex I bought it. Only for every tournament in the area to ban them.

It wasn't until I was on a hiatus from the hobby that I manage to talk to one of the TOs who instituted the ruling. He was allowing knights, but not Stompas. I asked him to put one ~370pt Knight vs the ~800pt Stompa and have them fight twice. Once with the knight charging and once with the Stompa. The Knight one shot the Stompa both times.

Additionally the Morkanaut, but I've used it a lot even though its not the best. The Stompa I've never gotten the chance to use. Even in 8th its overcosted.

6th edition collector's edition BRB and CSM Codex. Power creep wrecked my army and I spent more time trying to catch up to the meta than I did playing the game. Still look back and wonder how I got caught up in the hype.

Thinking back, I had about 15 different lists I used against different players. Those books meant I was list tailoring before every game, sometimes for weeks.

 p5freak wrote:
1) Land raider. Pretty useless now in 8th.
2) Leviathan dreadnought. Pretty useless now with knights.
3) Regular dreads. Pretty useless now with contemptor dreads/armigers.
4) JP plasma marines. Pretty useless now with plasma inceptors.

Just curious. Don't leviathans with butcher/storm cannons have WAY more firepower than its equivalent pts in IKs?

Currently, I've got storage boxes full of WHFB stuff that's sitting around collecting dust, spiders, and regrets. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it at the time, but AoS isn't my thing, and it's all been unusable for years. I like the armies and the models, so I don't want to get rid of them, but I don't like the only way I can actually use them. It's just a steadily increasing feeling of "I could have saved so much money, space, time, and effort if I'd known that WHFB was going to shortly implode" every time I look at them.

Aside from that, I've not really regretted a lot of GW purchases. My CSM were started late 4th/early 5th, and their 5th codex was the first I actually played them with, so I've always been used to them being crap; my Eldar are probably alright even though I've not played them since 5th; my Tau--again, not played since 5th--could use their Crisis Suits being sensibly balanced, but aside from that no real issues; and my Necrons are casually workable, but could use a spruce up in terms of pricing.

Overall, I've enough faith that I can actually play with most of what I've got RE: 40k, or otherwise that fixes will come for what I can't. Except CSM, which I just have because they were my first army and are cool.

That reminds me of my even bigger regret: my Lord of the Rings SBG collection that's just been sitting around gathering dust for the past 10 years. I've got a little bit of just about everything, too. With the resurgence of LOTR SBG, maybe it'll catch on locally and I might finally get some use out of the stuff (not holding my breath tbh). The models are really cool, and I absolutely love LOTR (the movies and the books), but there has never been anyone around to play.

 Asmodai wrote:

 CadianGateTroll wrote:
The rule books and codex are a big waste of money and paper. Once a new edition comes along, that $50 codex is now $7.

If you've had 100 fun games using the rules in the Codex, it's hard to call it a waste.

Which is precisely the issue with the Imperial Armour books from Forgeworld. My gaming group pretty much unilaterally bought one of each book for ourselves, which mean that since NOBODY actually ran any of the FW stuff, the IA books were a colossal waste of money.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Currently, I've got storage boxes full of WHFB stuff that's sitting around collecting dust, spiders, and regrets. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it at the time, but AoS isn't my thing, and it's all been unusable for years. I like the armies and the models, so I don't want to get rid of them, but I don't like the only way I can actually use them. It's just a steadily increasing feeling of "I could have saved so much money, space, time, and effort if I'd known that WHFB was going to shortly implode" every time I look at them..

9th age/KOW? Those are around even here so would think UK would have those covered even better. In particularly I like T9A but lack of easy sources for high elves keeps me from them. Ebay can get pricey and hard to find in sufficient numbers.

tneva82 wrote:
Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

Hmmm, so it was good quality then,lol

Where do you live, I am interested in some dumpster diving
Also, in future if you are not satisfied with some other titans, feel free to send em my way, I am happy to pay for shipping!

Thinking about it I don't really regret much but as I've built my Scythes of the emperor force one of my early purchases was a corvus blackstar. It's a beautiful model and while I don't massively regret it I think that buying something else would have been more optimal for my small force to start with!

7th edition Tau Codex. Bought it in spring 2017. Never used it.

Eldar Army. Bought it and never used it.

Any terrain stuff I bought. I wanted to paint it but I never get around to it.

My Horus Heresy army. I wish I had instead invested in a Knight army along with Guard reinforcements I could use for HH and 40k.

Drop Pods. I bought three and never used them. Never will. They just collect dust.

That one box with a Stormraven and two Stormtalon gunships. I ruined the Stormraven with a crappy conversion job, gave one of the Stormtalons to a friend and now just have one left.

Oh, god, all the models I ruined. I don't want to talk about them. Some of them were expensive FW kits and it pains me to think about it.

The Imperial Army 2 second edition book. Used it for like two games.

7th Ed Space Marine Codex/Rules. Never used it. Thankfully it was an ebook edition.


The Chaos part of the Dark Vengeance set. Yeah, I don't have a good track record with chaos armies. I wanted to start it but I just couldn't get over how bad most of the plastic kits are.

A lot of this stuff amounted to non-starters. I don't think I ever blew through an army that went above 1000pts.

Not sure there is a lot I regret for 40k, other games yes, loads, but for 40k pretty much everything I have I'm happy with. Largely because I tend to buy models for the sake of building and painting them so not too fussed if they seldom see the table (indeed I have loads that have never seen the table, and some that likely never will)

I do have regrets though, I regret not standardising on steel bases, I have a sort of 30k force on them and other games on them but all my current other 40k stuff is on the usual plastic - and its too much pain to change them, steel is so much easier for transport

I regret buying the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer at a cheek-clenching price just a couple weeks before the even better Damocles Gulf Edition of the Uplifting Primer came out.

Also, I bought far too many Perry and Warlord historicals back when there were no good plastic alternatives to GW minis. Sure, some of them scale alright with the LOTR minis, but their poses were sooooo boring. And the parts are so tiny they don't work for conversions with anything else.

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Is that a lego titan? I can see at least some lego on it.

Not "Lego" as such, but a more generic construction brick that was compatible - it was a brand called "Coko" - their main claim to fame was military stuff in the 90s.
They had an M1 tank, an M2 Bradley, a Jeep with TOW launcher and a bunch of khaki clad grumpy and stern faced soldiers armed with a variety of guns (m-16, M9 pistols). They also used locking ratchet joints. But yeah, it's sort of a "lego" titan. it was my "warhound" proxy in the early 2000s (post "apocalypse" being released).

Long before brickguns were a thing.

All of the 8th ed launch combined codex book thingys.
Useless waste of money tbh.
Psychic card decks from 7th. An even bigger waste.
A second blast/flamer set before 8th dropped. Winner.

 Just Tony wrote:

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 CadianGateTroll wrote:
The rule books and codex are a big waste of money and paper. Once a new edition comes along, that $50 codex is now $7.

If you've had 100 fun games using the rules in the Codex, it's hard to call it a waste.

Which is precisely the issue with the Imperial Armour books from Forgeworld. My gaming group pretty much unilaterally bought one of each book for ourselves, which mean that since NOBODY actually ran any of the FW stuff, the IA books were a colossal waste of money.

I bought all the IA books, and hardly used the rules in any games. Not a waste, though as I enjoyed (and still do) reading them and looking at the colour plates.

Biggest waste of money so far is probably that second Baneblade - still in its box a decade later.

This is rather generalized but makes some sense: buying too many models ahead of time and watching them incrementally get "obsolete" and not having cracked the box and building/painting new models at a snail's pace.

Get a bunch of marines of various types, from the 25mm base days.
Then they go to bigger bases.
Then they have new boxes with better stuff.
Then we have Primaris.
Playing a collectable game one would have to consider the pace of obsolescence.
Mind you, there are many extra cool bases being sold and a horde of means to upgrade but the bits box is getting awfully large.
But yes, I play Black Templar so I am everyone's friend as a "casual" player to take the boots to (Imperial Guard almost makes them good as "support").

The "wasted" money is not committing to my own custom chapter so I can pick and choose rules for them to the special snowflake of the month as needed.

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 Avatar 720 wrote:
Currently, I've got storage boxes full of WHFB stuff that's sitting around collecting dust, spiders, and regrets. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it at the time, but AoS isn't my thing, and it's all been unusable for years. I like the armies and the models, so I don't want to get rid of them, but I don't like the only way I can actually use them. It's just a steadily increasing feeling of "I could have saved so much money, space, time, and effort if I'd known that WHFB was going to shortly implode" every time I look at them..

9th age/KOW? Those are around even here so would think UK would have those covered even better. In particularly I like T9A but lack of easy sources for high elves keeps me from them. Ebay can get pricey and hard to find in sufficient numbers.

I really like KoW, and even tried to make a Nightstalkers force for it, but it's not been an active game anywhere around my area since it first started. I bought an Elf force when I first heard about it, and got really excited to play because the rules seemed tight and it seemed like a very agreeable game that could even use WHFB miniatures at a time when WHFB was very much still around, but nobody played it, then about 2 years ago when I asked around again, I found one guy willing to give me an intro game--apparently (one of) the best KoW player(s) in the country--and that was it, nobody else played it. 9th Age I've only ever seen national tournaments of hosted, never casual games played nor even mentions of it.

I'm sure they're played, just not where I can get to nor with any frequency.

I also bought Robotech RPG Tactics at Retail. I got 2 Starters, and 1 upgrade of UEDF Destroids and Zent Artillery each.

I opened one of the starters and ended up giving it to a friend because I knew I would NEVER get around to building, painting, or playing it.