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 Hulksmash wrote:


Yeah, we've got a small group of guys that play a few times a year. But I'm bringing in a few more over the next few months. I basically have enough for everyone to play whatever fleet they want except for Orks so no one has to pay to play and I can get games in once every few months. I love Gothic but I've long sinced pushed it into the "if I want people to play with I have to provide models" category. Which isn't to bad since I've used ebay and vendors at events to pick up stuff relatively cheaply.

What you appear to do out of desperation I have done with several systems out of deliberate policy.

I call it hosting.

BFG is now a host game for me as I have an Imperial Navy, Chaos, Space Marines, Ork, Necron and Eldar fleets most at 3k points. I was not intending to host BFG but to play others before the game died, so my story mimics your own.

However I got into several games systems as the group member who collects AT-43, Confrontation (4e), Warmachine and intially Dropzone Commander, all with several factions, no one else has any collections of note for any of the above except DZc which took off. But by collecting multiple armies without getting anyone else to invest at all i developed my collections to the point where I can always slap down enough models for a damn good game for 2-4 players with nobody else having to provide anything but time and company. Its a no nonsense way to play and its a good excuse to collect multiple factions. This is reciprocated with other games I play but don't invest in in turn.

the only real rule in hosting is to pick a top points total and dont exceed that with any faction this way expensidture is kept under control, as you might have guessed I collected to 3k for my fleets and achieved this total for all except Marines and Orks..

Yeah, I just love BFG so I was buying fleets for myself and like to have enough to field everything so I've got all the Battleship and Grand Cruiser classes for all and then enough cruisers to generally flush out a large fleet and I try to maintain 6 of each escort (exceptions being Tyranids) so I have flexibility (though this may increase to 9-12 depending on how things shake out). I do wind up with around 4k-5k for every fleet but this way I scratch my collector bug and people can play the same faction if they coose.

Did the same thing with Epic.

The hosting thing just kinda happened when I realized it was a good way to get games in locally with stuff I had collected for myself. I plan on doing the same for Wrath of Kings for our local group. While other members of our local group provide models for other games they love. It really does work out.