What is holding back your wargaming most?

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**Kaiserbudheim**

alanmckenzie wrote:
It'd be interesting to see this combined with what age we are. Right up to 22/23 it's money money money. As soon as you hit 25 and actually start making some money, it's time time time.

And then you get into your 30s, where for some of us it's child child child...which in essence is both time and money!

**LordOfTheSloths**

Lack of interest due to unacceptable rules and codex revisions.

**Talizvar**

Kids and just adult gamers getting sucked into life's diversions makes getting together for a game a bit of a puzzle.

We have a bit of a rules exploiter in our group so every new rules change he likes to showcase how broken the new rule is. It can be scary to behold.

**Riquende**

Had to say lack of interest. There are a load of games I'd like to try, or play more of, but the local scene is nothing but 40K over and over again.

**Melkhiordarkblade**

I think the big thing holding me back apart from money, is a lack of motivation, when ever I try to sit down and paint I usually do one coat of paint before I give up and play video games.

It's not that i don't like painting, it's just my friends are never around to have a game with so there isn't much of a rush.

**Nocturnal391**

Funds. If money grew on trees..

**Farseer Faenyin**

Wife and Kid

**G. Whitenbeard**

The Dolla Dolla Bills, yo

**Count Bosly**

I live in the county and don't have a car so it is hard to go and play games

**Gandohar**

Always time.
There are just not enough hours in the week when you are working and studying full time.

**Canine Gallows**

Money.

I'm looking through the FoW products and a single tank costs roughly £8. You usually need 4 tanks for a full combat platoon and that will cost £36. Now, there's 5 combat platoons in my list so that's over £200 just for about 1/4th of my list if I wanted a full list.

I suppose I'm lucky that there's loads of dirt cheap Sherman tanks floating around Ebay at the moment though.

Then it's Warhammer 40K! I struggle to find a justification to some of the prices.

Ebay is a gift from God when it comes down to these things.

**Shadowbrand**

When I moved further north I had the issue of fewer gamers. Less time, however money has improved.

Got to love the life of a minimum wage kitchen worker...Not.

**col. krazy kenny**

I think for us it is are different work schedules.

**hellrath**

Time, money and people, if I still had good friends who are into warhammer then part of that would be solved, but warhammer looks geeky/nerdy to them (probably)

**crazyfoxdemon**

My biggest thing is Location. I have to drive 40-70 minutes (depending on traffic) to get to the nearest store and have a game.

**Troike**

My own speed and insistence on having everything fully painted and based. I just seem to take a while to get minis fully done, so my army isn't growing all that quickly. I don't mind too much, though. A squad of fully completed minis really does look great, and an unpainted mini just looks, well, incomplete.

**SkavenLord**

All of the above except lack of interest.

**Grey Templar**

It is all about the money.

**Leigen_Zero**

It's a vicious cycle
I work to earn money to spend on wargaming,
because I work I don't have the time to wargame,
but If I gave up work I'd have plenty of time for wargaming
but if I gave up work I'd have no money to spend on wargaming

**Hive Fleet Cerberus**

Its mostly a Lack of money and people. My FLGS isnt warhammer specific, and they mostly play fantasy, so you cant just walk in and start up a game, and the leagues rotate between games (Currently its free game night, so I'll pop in and see if any one wants to play every Tuesday)

**Da Ork Killa**

ALL THE GOSH DANGNAMMIT MONIES! Does GW not realise it is so expensive?

**fishy bob**

Right now I'm afraid it's lack of interest. I have the money to buy models, the time to paint them and the places to play with them, but I just... don't.

**random_man**

Money. If it was cheaper I would find the time!

**happygolucky**

A-Level Exams for me, I have to concentrate my time and prioritize my concentration into my revision... as any sane person would do

**dementedwombat**

Completely 100% location for me. I'm currently going to college out of state (well, just graduated and have a week to sit around my room before I walk now) and don't have a car here. The combination of needing to ship my army stuff across the country every time I go back home on vacation and having no way of reaching my LGS has kept me largely out of the hobby except over Christmas when I end up back home long enough for it to count.

No idea how things will work out for me in the next couple years. I plan on spending a lot more time (and money now I'll have a real income) buying little plastic army men.

**Raz'kull Skull Krusha**

Time, always time.

**AtomicEngineer**

Both location and effort.

Theres not many people around to actually play against so im stuck mainly collecting without gaming and thats never as fun so you don't have as much drive to paint up your whole army.

**Samaphira**

My schoolwork has kept me from my gaming for some time now but just a few more weeks and it's over

**Metaljunx**

Money and people

**Doghead13**

Location. Let's just say that getting a game of Necromunda or Rogue-Trader-era 40k in the north of Scotland is far from the simplest thing in the world...