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Three that I can make a respectable army from (four if you split up my Space Marines).

I have somewhat less than 500pts in about every other faction, mostly as detritus from trades and craigslist purchases. I keep them around for when I want to paint something different.

I've been in this hobby for 20 years and own/have owned every single faction.

Recently I sold off my Iyanden Eldar, GK, and Tau, and started up vanilla Salamanders (which is strangely my first foray into the vanilla marine world). I've also considered selling off my orcs since they take up so much space.

I still maintain every other faction, including the newer AdMech, the Inquisition, and SoB.

Edit:

I play sparingly and mostly enjoy the game for the hobby. Maybe a local tournament 1-2 times a year and get a game in on average once a month. Once WHFB died out I started playing the game way less.

well: HH death guard (which doubles as chaos space marines, and regular space marines), HH thousand sons (read death guard ), solar auxilia, and Possibly an ork dread mob

This survey certainly makes it clear how GW stays in business, though.

How many do I own? All of them.

How many do I play currently? None. Completely lost interest in 40K for some time now.

 filbert wrote:
How many do I own? All of them.

How many do I play currently? None. Completely lost interest in 40K for some time now.

Well, you can always send me any orks and IG tanks you have, I promise to pay for shipping

Martel732 wrote:
This survey certainly makes it clear how GW stays in business, though.

Yup, those with the means to buy will do so. It's plastic crack.

Even if I had the means, I would avoid this rabbit hole for sure.

I have four that I keep up codexes for, several that I only own a couple units for barebones ally detachments or summoning or whatever, and one on the shelf I no longer have interest in but won't sell for nostalgia reasons (baby's first power armor army).


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I rarely have more than 2k of any given army though, I usually don't see the need to expand past the list I like. The exception is orks.

Martel732 wrote:
Even if I had the means, I would avoid this rabbit hole for sure.

Too bad you can't avoid the forum, board, and thread specifically discussing the topic. You're in a unique rabbit hole already.

I currently own/play three. I have my 2 that I've had since my introduction to 40k, Ultramarines and Imperial Guard. I also recently picked up Eldar.

Martel732 wrote:
This survey certainly makes it clear how GW stays in business, though.

What's it like to be so bitter with so much free time?

I play Eldar and Nids.
With the occasional Harlequin/Dark Eldar allies.

I own (in addition to the above)
Blood Angels

As well as a small smattering of CSM and DA.

I happen to like GW products... maybe not the prices or the gameplay, but the plastic models as of late have been superb. As such, I have 4 armies.

I have;
Grey knights (5k)
Legion of the Damned (1750)
Inquisition (1k)
AM (1500)
Crimson Fists (3500)
Assassins (1300)
Ork Armoured Walkers (1200)
A Night Lord raptor cult (1250)
Ad mech of knights/cult mech/skitarii (3500)
Harlequins (1250)

I think that's it, although I could probably do another 1-2k in daemons with my AoS stuff...

 jreilly89 wrote:

Martel732 wrote:
This survey certainly makes it clear how GW stays in business, though.

What's it like to be so bitter with so much free time?

It's more owning a smart phone.


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riburn3 wrote:

Martel732 wrote:
Even if I had the means, I would avoid this rabbit hole for sure.

Too bad you can't avoid the forum, board, and thread specifically discussing the topic. You're in a unique rabbit hole already.

I think I've got some company. I meant fiscal rabbit hole, of course.

hmmm...like fourteen? Probably a bit unreasonable, there will be a culling soon


Blood Angels maybe 10k ish? way too many
Grey Knights 4k ish
Inquisition 1,500
Space Marines (in Deathwatch colors) 2k
Orks 3kish
Sisters 3,500+
Admech/Skitarri, just bought a bunch of Skitarii.. so maybe 2k
Imperial Knights, three painted, one built, one on sprue 2k
Necrons 3,800
Tau 3k
Eldar 3k
Dark Eldar 2,500
Dark Angels 2,900
Imperial Guard 1k

Also Vampire Counts

I only really play and invest in my CSM, but I also have a tyranid force that was given to me that my girlfriend decided she liked and commandeered. I also have an old school Ultramarine force which I'm converting to Iron Hands for a friend. (Same guy who gave me the tyranids). That being said, he's pretty much decided that he has no interest to really play anymore and it'll probably end up being mine anyway. I also have like 800 pts of necrons in a box somewhere that i got for practically nothing, but I plan on giving those to someone else interested in 40K that likes the army. but lacks the capital investment to play. Since I seem to have armies just falling into my lap and shelf space is starting lack, I figure I can be the one to give away some armies for once.

So, I play one, but technically I possess 3 and a half.

I've been collecting since Rogue Trader, but only really got back into playing in 6th.

I have 2000+ points tyranids, tau, necrons, eldar, imperial guard, marines and orcs. Plus my son has 2000 points of chaos marines + assorted daemons, and about 1200 points of Necrons. Only the orcs and Eldar have been relatively unplayed - they are "guest" armies for friends to use.

At one time, I had a friends (unpainted) Squat army (about 100-150 figures, most on bikes), but that got thrown out some years ago.

I own and play; Imperial Guard, Orks, Space Wolves, Marines, Eldar and Tau.

In other words, too many

I don't plan on starting any more armies for the foreseeable future or buying anything 40k related for that manner.

I have marines as my main army, a small amount of guard and inquisition who get to show up for team ups.

I also have bunch of orks and are I'm starting to collect eldar of all three varieties

Just orks for the moment, and likely they'll be my only army for a while, and my main army forever, but I'm getting a feel for the other armies and what they can do as I get more experienced. Frontrunners are Spess Mehreens, Chaos/Daemons, Dark Eldar, and Mechanicus, in that order. Course, I still want to get my army up to a respectable size, first.

Technically only two armies for models for the most part (Necrons and Space Marines), but three codices (Necrons, Space Marines, and CSM's).

I own 6 (I think) but it's only really been the eldar who've seen any regular use in the last 15 years or so. I play a game or two a year with my mono-slaanesh Noise Marine army, but the rest just sit in the cupboard o'warhammer having had a game or 2.

3000 points of Imperial guard. This is my main army that I normally use, that includes my imperial knight.

2000 points of iron hands space marines

1250-1500 points of slaanesh chaos space marines

750 points of dark eldar

A bunch of random inquisition stuff used for allies with imperial armies

Two but my main is Tau. I have a small DE army started. I would start Necrons if I was to do a third army.

They say that 20% of the customers is 80% of the business. That's why players like myself don't matter to GW. It makes sense, but still really sucks. I'd probably be better off if they just squatted the BA.

I have 5 armies. I keep thinking that I should consolidate to one army so that I could assume a more completionist attitude and get at least one of each codex entry...but my lack of focus prevents this from happening. Plus I can't bring myself to get rid of things that I've painted.

One of my greatest triumphs this year was uniting a few of the codexes with a theme.

My main army is my Imperial Guard. I have around 3.5 k in models.
I have 2 (4) squads of Skitarii and some walkers for them. Maybe around 500 pts.

I got the Skitarii to be allies to my guard.

I own models for 11 armies, with sizes varying from a few squads to hundreds of infantry and a dozen tanks or so.

But I really only play two armies - Sisters of Battle with Space Marine allies. My mom plays against me with my Ork models.

I tend to keep my SoB, SM, Ork, Eldar and IG codices up to date. Eldar and IG I like to occasionally toy with including in my armies, since I like elves (though I don't care for the Eldar's arrogant sense of superiority) and I like the IG's aesthetic.