How much of the WH40K hobby do you take part in?

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**dreadblade**

It would be interesting to see the breakdown here on Dakka.

If you take part in everything please tick the last box as well as the others.

Back in my RT days I didn't paint or read Black Library novels, now I'm totally immersed

**Stux**

What do you count as fiction?

I don't really read the novels, but I spend lot of time on wikis!

**dreadblade**

Yes I meant reading Black Library novels.

For everything else use GW's definitions: https://investor.games-workshop.com/the-games-workshop-hobby/

**Nevelon**

Yup, that’s all of them for me.

“Collecting” might be a little fuzzy. If that’s buying minis you don’t intend to use to game, I only do that rarely. Or all the time, depending on how cynical I’m feeling.

**dreadblade**

Nevelon wrote:
Yup, that’s all of them for me.

“Collecting” might be a little fuzzy. If that’s buying minis you don’t intend to use to game, I only do that rarely. Or all the time, depending on how cynical I’m feeling.

I guess if you buy miniatures you collect. I suppose you could paint for other people or game with other people's miniatures (playing someone else's Dark Imperium for example) without collecting.

**Alex_85**

Horus herecy novels till book 26, my Ultramarines army, some matches and some video games.

**wuestenfux**

40k. It costs your money, it costs your time, it costs your life (wife).

**Excommunicatus**

Haven't played in a year, considering giving that part up but haven't decided yet. Do I tick or no?

I've also read a lot of BL stuff but I try to avoid it, mostly because it's execrable. I do write my own terrible fluff, however, so I said I partook.

**Karol**

What is the difference between collecting and gaming?

**dreadblade**

Brother Castor wrote:
I guess if you buy miniatures you collect. I suppose you could game with other people's miniatures (playing someone else's Dark Imperium for example) without collecting.

**Karol**

How would you collect the models without playing, you wouldn't know what to buy without having a codex. I guess you could copy a list online, but those often are tailored for a single event, or some odd format like ITC, and don't work well in normal games. Or it could have FW units taken in the list, and you wouldn't even know it has it in.

**dreadblade**

Apparently some people collect the miniatures to build, paint and display but don't play WH40K at all.

**Spreelock**

Nowadays I don't do much of a modelling, as I used to. I'm still collecting, painting and gaming as much as I can. I also voted fiction, because I read the stories from rulebook.

**Karol**

Brother Castor wrote:
Apparently some people collect the miniatures to build, paint and display but don't play WH40K at all.

Ah ok, so it means that. Thanks.

**Galas**

You haven't put the option of "Talking about it on-line"
For me thats like 80% of the hobby.

**dreadblade**

Galas wrote:
You haven't put the option of "Talking about it on-line"
For me thats like 80% of the hobby.

Given that this is a poll on an online forum for talking about the hobby I think we can assume 100% of respondents do that!