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So i am pretty n00bish player(2 years of gaming experience) and i started off with black templars somewhere at the beggining of 6th. BT's were the army, which you know, just plain SUCKED in 6th edition. So i was like, '' , my army sucks, better build the clan raukaan Immortal chapter master of doom and some iron hands for the next tournament!'' and so came 7th edition, where we got significantly buffed(still not in League with white scars/clan raukaan) but ONLY US got objective secured land raiders (problem, Wave serpents? )as well as the changes to challenges with wounds spilling into combat (if you inflict 10 unsaved wounds on a 1W character in challenge 9 wounds go to the rest of the character's squad), made our rerolls to hit and rending in challenges really, REALLY useful. At that point i realized my mistake: NEVER BUY ANOTHER ARMY just because your current army is cannonfodder to the current flavour of the month armies(i spent lots of $$$ for an army i won't play as much as Black Templars in 7th edition, which i could've used to buy more LRCrusaders and Black templar-ish units and accessories)
Hope i've opened your eyes up and managed to convince you not to sell a kidney for a flavour of the month army, just because it is flavour of the month(with STRONG emphasize on MONTH

Well, I personally think its always in your long term best to buy and invest in an army you'll enjoy based on a variety of factors. If you like the fluff, aesthetics, and play style, you'll like the army through the thick and thin of edition and codex changes.

None of that stops people from taking issues with obvious power creep or totally random changes to their army that invalidate models/builds.

But yeah, buy the army you love, not the one that wins the most. Changes are, by the time you finish building the army, a new edition or codex will knock it off top spot. Not to mention time to paint, though I imagine FOTM chasers aren't overly concerned with a coat of paint.

Hey, to each their own, I suppose.

When you say flavor of the moth, you really mean Grown up men who have to win with plastic toy soldiers right?

Glad you realize your mistake and you are having fun and loving your army now.

 Blacksails wrote:
Well, I personally think its always in your long term best to buy and invest in an army you'll enjoy based on a variety of factors. If you like the fluff, aesthetics, and play style, you'll like the army through the thick and thin of edition and codex changes.

I got lucky with 7th. The psychic phase really helps with the Tzeentch army I'd been putting together. Now I have what seems to my newbish mind as a decent amount of dice to use each round. Be it nullifying their powers or summoning daemons. Need more experience/new units for that second one though.

I'm glad that you learned early that just because an army sucks now doesn't mean it always will. Personally, I think its better to play an army that you like the look and feel of over one that maybe wins a lot of games, but you don't like the fluff or aesthetic of. That being said, investing in more than one army can definately be a good thing as well. No one likes to lose every game they play, and if you have a range of forces with a range of power levels you'll have something for when you feel like winning a game, and something for when you just want to kick back and throw some dice. It also helps to mitigate codex creep and rules changes so that you'll usually have at least one army that doesn't suck wind.

What you did is actually a very good thing... in 7th your BT has OS landraiders like you said. But before that 6th had made you collect a (battle brother) army with IWND vehicles. OS landraiders and IWND (other) vehicles. This is good!