PenitentJake wrote:I played two or three games of Rogue Trader back in '89. I had a tactical squad of Marines and my buddy had a box of Orks. My marines were the Order of the Phoenix- the idea was that they were originally all from different chapters, but each had died in battle... Only to be reborn as the Order of the Phoenix... So they kept their original colours except for their left arms. My buddy's Orks were outfitted with pompadour hair squigs and painted to look they were wearing rhinestone jumpsuits... Riffin on Elvis.
Then Space Hulk dropped, and I went deep down that rabbit hole. I bought every Genestealer Cult model I could find. When second ed dropped, that was my peak. I ran youth programs and bought a bunch of minis so that kids could play. We also played classic Necromunda. I played pretty hard in third too. By then,
GSC were out officially, even though Tim Huckleberry tried to keep it going with his Citadel Journal dex, so I switched to Sisters.
We only played a few games of 4th, but then we went hard on 5th. When 6th dropped, they shafted Sisters with a White Dwarf dex... and after having been through it once when they sunsetted
GSC, that was it for me. I sat out 6th and 7th... Well, sort of.
The 7th ed
GSC dex dropped in December, and being a
GSC fan, I bought it on sight. The announcement that 8th was on the way came before I had a chance to buy the 7th
BRB, so I decided to wait. The refresh of Sisters was announced as part of 8th as well. That was magic to me- my two favourite factions, both of whom had been treated terribly by
GW were finally going to get the attention they deserved.
I bought in harder and faster than at any other point in my time as
40k player... But at the same time, many of the people I had played with had drifted apart. So more buying and collecting than every, but not as much playing as I would have liked.I doubled down on 9th, because Crusade was everything I ever wanted from a game, and 25PL armies gave me the opportunity to collect many additional small armies so that I could supply friends with models when we were bored.
I'm skeptical of 10th, and taking a more measured approach on the purchasing front. I intend to do some 10th ed Crusading, but I do prefer 9th edition rules so far, and I like that the 9th Edition is in a finished state. Waiting for all the bespoke faction-based Crusade content again is going to suck, and
GW is only going to give me 4 months from the time the last dex of 10th drops and the 11th ed begins. It sucks to only have access to all the tools I need for four months before the whole cycle begins again.
Right now I'm focusing on getting enough painting done to facilitate the campaigning to come.
everything. 100% nihilism" shtick. 