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I've done the eBay Drain four times just based on small innocent thoughts.

Innocent Thought 1:

Necromunda sure is a lot of fun. But it was better when we combined my set of terrain with my friend's set of terrain. You really can't do a lot with just one set. I'll see if they're on eBay.

$500 later I have 4 more complete sets of Necromunda terrain, and somehow ended up with 6 rulebooks.

Innocent Thought 2:

I would really like to have a set of Space Hulk tiles for special Necromunda scenarios.

$600 later I own every Space Hulk item ever produced, and somehow managed to pick up an extra copy of Tyranid Attack while I'm at it.

Innocent Thought 3:

Warhammer Quest was a fun game. I really miss that. I wonder if anyone's selling a copy on eBay?

$600 later I won every single Warhammer Quest item ever produced (except the Imperial Noble! NOOOO!) and somehow managed to pick up a complete extra set of monster minatures.

Innocent Thought 4:

Marines are boring and I'm sick of making lists for them. Hey, I've still got those two Necron Battle Forces that a friend left at my house years ago. I wonder if he'd be interested in selling them to me?

$600 later I have an 8000 point Necron army off eBay and even managed to convince my friends to buy me Necron stuff for my Birthday.


I don't like having innocent thoughts any more. They're always so expensive.



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7 pounds. That ain't so bad given the prices he normally goes for... no, no, bad. No. I will resist. I am strong.

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I was just reminded of another thing.

I was in a bad mood one day - can't remember why - so I went with a friend to GW and bought a Great Unclean One, a Nurgle Daemon Prince, 3 boxes of Plague Marines, 2 Rhinos and a Linebreaker Squadron.

I felt better after that.

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There was the time I was doing a FW order and bought a Macharius as an impulse buy.

Super-Heavies should never be impulse buys...


Actually, for proof of just how insane I (and my group is), think back to when Battlewagon Bitz was still Battlewagon Bitz and not TheWarstore w/200% Markup.

They were selling Leman Russ kits for less than half the price of a normal kit (compared to Australian prices). I knew I needed a couple to finish off my second Armoured Company, but realised that I would end up with just over 20 Russes. Me, being me, thought that having some random 'extra' Russes just wouldn't do, so rather than ordering 8, I ordered 15, so I'd have exactly 30 by the end.

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malfred wrote:Yeah, my impression of the thread was, "How far will you go to make that one
conversion or whatever?"

Does completely draining the stock of all the major bitz sites just to get Deathwatch Terminator pads count?

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Orc Town Grot wrote:On Heresy one guy was boasting about his 12,000 points of Grey Knights! Not many have got to that point yet!

Friend of mine's got 6K of Grey Knights, and it's about 60 models, so 12K isn't much. It's more than you could ever field, but from a modelling perspective, it's not a huge amount. 30k of Guard on the other hand...

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Teh_K42 wrote:Especially you, H.B.M.C. . I'll believe 30 Russes when I see them.

Sadly I don't have a group shot of all 30. Whenever I've put them into Companies my odd-ball Company (Annihilator, 6 Demolishers, 3 Exterminators) always seems to be absent. I do have these two though:






Before anyone says anything about the shots - a photographer I am not, and that's my phone's camera. There's more than that, like the super-heavies and artillery, some of which you can see here:





And everyone in my group is like this. For instance, here's my friend's Eldar army:




[Missing From Pictures: 2 Revenant Titans]

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Not my Eldar.

As I said, they belong to a friend of mine. The two Revenant Titans were on a different table when that shot was taken.

And to your questions:

1. I always bother with infantry! Infantry are the backbone of the Guard. I have over 400 infantry models for my Guard. Only the Mordians showed up for the battle above because in my army's fluff the Mordians are the Artillery guys (hence the guys standing on the Basilisks). My Mechanised Company (two 45-man platoons made of plastic Cadians, all riding in Chimeras) were going to take part in the battle, but the game was big enough already.

2. I haven't got any Titans. I chose to go the tank route, which is why I have 8 super-heavies (2 Macharius' hadn't arrived yet thanks to FW's shocking service, otherwise they'd've been on the table as well). I will eventually get a Reaver, as it is my fav 40K Titan of all time, but I want to wait until I have the money (heh) and for them to make some new arms.

3. Heh. Good question. Shows a good amount of perception for someone to go "If you have that much on that side... what the hell are they fighting?". The simple answer to that is CHAOS. The longer answer is a LOT OF CHAOS. This table was a 10X6 or 12X6, can't remember which, and ther was a nearly 5X6 block that was just a Chaos parking lot for vehicles.

The first turn the vehicles came steaming through the massive gateway in the fortress walls (about 3-4 feet from our gunline). We opened fire, wiped out virtually everything that came through (Arty Companies are SOOO much fun, especially when there's a Bombard and a trio of Manticores - I love those tanks). This left a carpet of infantry far as the eye could see, so we spent the next turn sending pie-plates downrange to wipe out as many as we could.

The infantry were wiped out and replaced with small clumps of Independant Characters (all with Daemonic Runes or Adamantium Mantles). Another wave of tanks came screeching in on our right flank, to which I poured my 'Odd Ball' Russ Company, which included 6 Demolishers. Those things cleaned up at short range.

About 30 Terminators landed in our lines, and were fought off valiently by some Blood Raven Terminators, my Mordians and Kyoto-Pattern Inquisitorial Fire Teams, a Scorpion and 2 Revanants. The Revenants died pretty quickly though, one falling to many, many chainfists, and the other to massed incomin firepower from the 6 or so Slaaneshi Havoc squads that were manning the walls.

6000 points of Grey Knights came to the rescue, finishing off everything on the walls in short order, and bailing out our middle-left flank. Then Typhus and a huge Retinue showed up, and a wave of Greater Daemons, including a HUE Daemon Prince (using the Balrog model) that was a special rule for this set of Apoc games (there were three games like this over 3 days). Typhus and his retinue eliminate my Macharius, Hellhammer and numerous other things.

On comes a 30-something model Seer Council backed up by 30 Harli's come rushing in, and they cut their way through everything, banish the massive daemon prince, and helps out the Grey Knights (taking down a big Nurgle Daemon Prince as well).

Over on my side I manage to fell the oncoming Bloodthirster, Keeper of Secrets and Great Unclean one before they can get within charge range. My artillery silences the Defilers on their side. A Vortex Grenade runs rampant, taking out a Manticore and a few scattered Guardsmen, but thankfully missing the huge bunker that contains my Regimental HQ, Inquisitorial teams, Vindicare Assassins, Snipers and other things.

The game was huge. Biggest game I've ever played. Can't remember how many points. Didn't involve any of the Eldar tanks as it happens, just the Wraithlords and Wraithguard.

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Completist. That's me completely.

If I end up with a couple more Guardsmen than I need, I'll buy the needed models to turn them into an extra squad. I hate having additional models (the two extra Cadians I got a hold of give me fits as I have no where to use them). I can't have things that aren't complete.

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Oh I have unit pools, and I keep things modular, two examples being:

1. I have 8 Cadian Meltaguns and 12 Cadian Flamers. I can swap out 4 flamers in a Command Section for 4 Meltaguns, and so on.
2. I have two plastic Chaos Termies w/Reaper ACs and 2 w/Heavy Flamers that I can swap in an out.

So all the special and heavy weapons exist in a pool of models. The same goes for a lot of my Marine Sergeants and HQs (I've got 12 Captains, 5 Chaplains, things like that). But regular guys... it's them I hate havng more of.

I have this random Cadian Sergeant and Flamer in my box'o'models, and they're currently sitting with all my Necromunda stuff as I have no where else to use them. I've also got two spare Bolter Marines and a spare Flamer Marine. No use for them.

I doubt I can trade away some random Bolter Marines.

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