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guiltl3ss wrote:Check gun cases for use as army cases. Walmart has a pistol case for 10 bucks that holds a feth-load of troops.

+1 on this, its great, my group has about 5 or 6 of those cases now, with ork and tau symbols spray painted on them etc

Get your dice from a novelty shop. I found 2X the amount of dice that you get in a GW dice box in the one dice box at my nearest novelty store, for half the price of GW.

and with that, get your tape measures/rulers from the hardware store. Much better quality and much better price.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Don't play a wargame
Shooting heroine might actually be a cheaper hobby than warhammer. Or not.

I know you're joking (probably), but I see this oponion a lot. Wargaming, even GW wargames, is a pretty economical hobby. For example, I also play video games. Over the last couple of years, I've bought a gaming PC ($1700au), and about... 20 PC games for it. Assuming an average price of $70au (most games are $90au here, but I get older games too), that's $1400au on games for it. $3100au. I also have a PS3, which was $700au when I got it. I've replaced it once due to the first exploding, which was $500au. I've got about 30 PS3 games, bought at about $100au. That's about $4200 over the last 3-4 years on PS3s and games for it. I also have a PSP, which was $500au, and about 30 games for it at about $60au each. $2300au. I have a Wii, since my fiancee wanted one, with Wii Fit (which admittedly was free with the console). The Wii was $500au, and I have about 20 games at $80au for it. $2100au. I buy a lot of games because I like single player games and I don't like replaying them often.

So over the last 4 years, I've spent about $11700au on my video game entertainment. Holy fething feth. Since getting back into 40k, I've bought a 1000 point Tyranid army and my fiancee has bought me a Hierophant. That's come to about $800au. It's also something I will use again and again, and not like replace. Once I've hit about 2000 points, my buying will be slowed down to models I just really want and maybe a few units for some different lists.

Even 40k is pretty bloody economical as a hobby.