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I've got this friend who keeps switching armies, habitually. He does this in every game we play, but it's only become annoying to me now that we play WM/H. He was limited more by his wallet when we were playing 40k and Fantasy but now he pretty much buys three or four models for one army, proxies up a list on the table, loses and promptly switches forces again selling what he had (at a loss) and buying the new armies warcaster/warlock and his lists two largest jacks/beasts. If he actually had the money to be doing this I'd say all the more power to him- do what you will. But he doesn't, he's constantly strapped for cash and this is pretty much his only hobby these days.

His switch record for WM/H is: Skorne, Cygnar, Cryx, Cygnar, Cryx, Skorne, Cygnar (Now that I beat his Skorne list last night). I'm not entirely sure if it's solely about the list losing or if it's just his extreme indecisiveness at hand. He's not really even played enough to know the rules fully for any one game (WM or Hordes) and is always forgetting his units special abilities and rules only to blame his loses on those things.

What can I do to help my friend commit?

I have the same problem with someone I know who played 40k and swapped from Necrons to Eldar to Dark Eldar and finnally to some horrific witchhunters thing.

I solved it by marching him to the nearest GW shop and making him buy an ork battleforce and all the other stuff at once. It took loads of effort but I let him win his first game against me by playing awfully then he was happy with his orks.

Of course this only works if you have enough money to buy a substantial amount to guys at once...

Let him win a few times and then once he seems to have commited to a 'winning' force tell him "no more proxy" so that he'll buy the remaining models.

BTW: Your friend sounds like a power gamer in the making. He's obviously looking for something he doesn't have to put much thought into, but will win regardless.

Just nail the army book of his current force to his hand.

That should solve the problem.

S_P

Brutii11 wrote:I have the same problem with someone I know who played 40k and swapped from Necrons to Eldar to Dark Eldar and finnally to some horrific witchhunters thing.

I solved it by marching him to the nearest GW shop and making him buy an ork battleforce and all the other stuff at once. It took loads of effort but I let him win his first game against me by playing awfully then he was happy with his orks.

Of course this only works if you have enough money to buy a substantial amount to guys at once...

There is a problem with this though- he can and will buy, what is considered, large amounts of models. In WM/H your warcaster, a few 'jacks and a couple units is a playable force at 15 or 25 points (pretty common game levels at my FLGS).

oni wrote:Let him win a few times and then once he seems to have commited to a 'winning' force tell him "no more proxy" so that he'll buy the remaining models.

BTW: Your friend sounds like a power gamer in the making. He's obviously looking for something he doesn't have to put much thought into, but will win regardless.

He's been playing war games and skirmish games longer than I have. He isn't anything in the making, just has general commitment issues as of late. He did do this in 40k though, from Eldar to Chaos to Space Marines back to Eldar then to Demons then back to Eldar before he quit to play WM/H.