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**Wayniac**

I am certainly considering it as I'm priced out of 40k and 40k doesn't seem like fun, but WM/H seems to be fairly fun and could fill the role of my "social" game. The only issue is that I'm also looking at starting up Kings of War (a much better WHFB than WHFB I think) so don't want to stretch my already limited budget too thin

**Mordekiem**

Deadnight wrote:
Mordekiem wrote:

Exactly! It's not like 40K players stop when they get 1850 (or 1500 or 2k) points, either. They usually have quite a bit more in their collection. In 5th edition points I probably had 5-6+k in marines and 4-5k+ in eldar.

Some do. But plenty more don’t. I think it’s a case of “my mileage varies”. I guess my experience comes from playing in a very competitive meta back in 4th ed, so it may not be indicative right across the board, for all “types” of players but I figure its broadly accurate for a fair number of players.
I didn’t see huge 40k collections. I think we’re all on the same page when we refer to 40k as an “unbalanced game”. Every codex has a certain number of A-tier units/builds, B-tier units/builds, chaff etc. In my experience, there was never much point in focusing on the chaff. You’d see plenty A-tier stuff, maybe some B-tier stuff, but it was fairly pointless taking anything else (I saw plenty tau armies with 3 hammerheads, I saw none with 30 vespids). My experience is that most folks I played with would have (per army, at least) a solid “core” force, which would rarely change, and a small sideboard of “other” stuff.
5,000points? Fair play to you though. That’s a pretty hefty army. Mine would probably max out at about 2,000pts of tau, with little point, in my midn, of going beyond that - i had everything i needed.

Well, I played 40k from 2nd ed to 5th edition. So what, about 15 years or so? LOTS of time to build it up.

As for players stopping around 2k that was not my experience at all. I am not aware of anyone that built up a 1500, 1750, 1850 or 2k list and stopped cold. But it could just be the people I played with. Each meta/group is different.

**Deadnight**

Mordekiem wrote:

Well, I played 40k from 2nd ed to 5th edition. So what, about 15 years or so? LOTS of time to build it up.

As for players stopping around 2k that was not my experience at all. I am not aware of anyone that built up a 1500, 1750, 1850 or 2k list and stopped cold. But it could just be the people I played with. Each meta/group is different.

Absolutely mordekeim. With me, I started playing at the tail end of third, and fell in with the competitive scene. Like I said, there wasn't much point buying huge amounts of stuff for my tau, beyond what was effective. And what I saw with my mates was the same. Sure, they had multiple armies, but there was little to no chaff in sight.

And then I got lucky towards the end of fourth edition, and realised the game sucked. As as much as I wanted to find a new army that would be cool, I just couldn't find it in 40k. So in the end, I walked away during fifth and discovered warmachine.