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Most of my regrets have been not buying models being sold cheap: an army of Space Marines, Eldar, Grey Knights, Daemons, Tau for £60, Ann'grath for £80, etc.

The biggest modeling regret I've had was more of a face palm moment: I had bought the Baneblade kit and made the Shadowsword varient 'cause D pie-plate, but about a month after I had built it the new Imperial Armour came out that said R&H could only use the Baneblade and none of it's varients. So bugger me. It's still sat on my shelf and probably won't see the board at all given it's still not allowed for R&H in 8th ed. Thinking I might sell or trade it. :/

Rage-quitting 4th(not regretted in and of itself) and trading selling off all my guard models(the regret)

I am now completely rebuilding a full battalion(280 guardsmen plus vehicle supprt, tanks and sentinels); but with far less disposable income.

Also leaving my army case full of marines(sold off nearly a full chapter keeping only a company) where my autistic youngest child cold get to them and chewed up most of them.

Mainly botching my Night Shroud Bomber to the point it got turned into terrain...

Well, I sold off everything except a couple armies for both systems, and they wound up going for far less than they should have on ebay. The list as follows:

2000 pts. Legion of the Damned with Rhinos, Sgt. Centurius, 3 Dreadnoughts.

3,000 pts of Eldar

3,000 pts of Tyranids

3,000 pts of Iron Warriors

2,500 pts of Tau

1,500-2,000 pts of Thousand Sons

1,500 pts of Death Guard

And for that dirty ranks n' flanks game

3,000 pts of mostly unassembled Empire

4,000 pts of Orcs and Goblins

2,000 pts of Vampire Counts

3,000 pts of Bretonnians

3,000 pts of Ogre Kingdoms

1,000 pts of Dark Elves

3,000 pts of Chaos Warriors with some Daemon stuff thrown in

3,000 pts of Dwarfs

The best part of this was that recently my brother and I started playing 3rd Ed. 40K and 6th Ed. WFB, and people at my armory as well as some locals got interested and we're getting a fledgling Classichammer club going. So we wound up needing quite a few of those armies, but now we have to start from scratch.

Fortunately we held on to Crimson Fists, Dark Eldar and Imperial Guard. Also had the foresight to sit on Lizardmen, Dogs of War, High Elves and Beastmen.

Magnetizing my Razorback's.

Purchasing every 7th edition book.

Purchasing 6th & 7th edition gaming aids.

Purchasing more stuff than what I will ever have time to complete.

Hmmm... I'm seeing a common theme here.

As a lot of people have already mentioned, I now regret every model I no longer own. As such, I now horde my treasures like Smaug himself

Two of them:

I played and play to win. There was one guy in our group who played Space Wolves once upon a time, but he never won. He eventually quit. I am now in possession of all his models, free of charge, and they rarely get played with. He was one of those people who was embarrassed to be playing with toy soldiers, and I should have been gentle.

I would also have picked up my second army, Sisters of Battle first. Not that I regret playing Imperial Guard, I'm a treadhead and love them too, it's just that I spent, like many people, wondering whether to buy expensive metal figures or wait and hope they come out in plastic. I eventually decided that they weren't getting any cheaper, so I was just going to buy them anyway, and now happily buy expensive metal figures, and wish I had more free time to paint them up.

In that vein, I also wish my IG footsoldiers had been painted like my tanks. I did a generic woodland scheme originally, but I've since switched to a white and grey arctic scheme. I repainted the tanks I use most often, but haven't and probably won't ever get around to re-painting the troopers.

 Inquisitor Lord Katherine wrote:
Two of them:

I played and play to win. There was one guy in our group who played Space Wolves once upon a time, but he never won. He eventually quit. I am now in possession of all his models, free of charge, and they rarely get played with. He was one of those people who was embarrassed to be playing with toy soldiers, and I should have been gentle.

I would also have picked up my second army, Sisters of Battle first. Not that I regret playing Imperial Guard, I'm a treadhead and love them too, it's just that I spent, like many people, wondering whether to buy expensive metal figures or wait and hope they come out in plastic. I eventually decided that they weren't getting any cheaper, so I was just going to buy them anyway, and now happily buy expensive metal figures, and wish I had more free time to paint them up.

In that vein, I also wish my IG footsoldiers had been painted like my tanks. I did a generic woodland scheme originally, but I've since switched to a white and grey arctic scheme. I repainted the tanks I use most often, but haven't and probably won't ever get around to re-painting the troopers.

I make it a rule to never tank off a game. Ever. That being said, I do make milder lists from time to time. I had a new person try 3rd Ed. a couple months ago with my Fists against an army of Eldar that I normally would never have run. He chose to use a Hunter Killer missile to stun a Falcon across the table rather than to pie plate the Striking Scorpions right in front of him. I could have NOT used my Haywire grenades, but that would do nothing for his tactical improvement.

I regret not picking up blisters of Tanith Imperial Guard models or the Uplifting Primer when both were still stocked in GW stores.

Never been a Guard player, but I love the fluff.

I regret not putting a much tighter lid on my 40k purchases. If I had simply stopped buying at roughly half what I own today, I'd still have plenty enough Eldar, IG, CSM and others to play.

Sure, it's great having tons of minis, but it's way more than I'll ever be able to play with. 2k is a good amount, and more than 3k is just excessive.

Oh man, I have so many!

Let's just go with the ones that come straight to mind.

First regret is when I glued all of my flyers and Raiders to their stands, and had nothing to store them in to and from games. I had to buy so many replacement bits that it would've been cheaper to buy one of those expensive cases to stow them in.

Second one is selling 15,000 pts of Deldar and 40,000 pts of heavily converted Iron Hands. It wasn't so much the monetary cost that hurt, but the fact that I put all of that time into making them my own only to sell them and see the whole army sold to a known destroyer of models. The next regret will explain why I sold them.

Regret #3 is entirely table manners related. I played with an old high school friend whom I thought that I could trust. He's the guy that got me into 40k, after all, so he'd be honest, right? We kept a running track of the games that we played, 100 in total, and he beat me 97 times. I thought that I was a horrible gamer until I start playing other people and actually winning. I even won a 4-player City Fight game that one of our local shops ran (not unscathed, but alright). Come to find out, he was cheating his dice rolls the entire time. I always sat on the opposite end of the long table that we played on, and never really "checked" his dice rolls. Once again, this guy was my friend. He was caught by one of the unofficial judges at the shop, who called it out and made quite a fuss about it. When confronted, he opened up and told me that he had been lying the entire run of our games.

I was furious, and sold my Dark Eldar and Iron Hands out of anger. So yeah, those are my regrets.

zerosignal wrote:
Buying a new Death Guard army when I saw the Vectorium rules in Traitor Legions, and then finding out it's all hot garbage fire six months later.

I put a lot of time and effort into that army, as it was for my 40th birthday week at Warhammer World.

I didn't win a single game. It just felt like I'd brought a knife to a gun fight. The only game I felt that I could have won, my opponent seized on me and that was it.

Seriously - whoever wrote the DG part of the index needs to be taken out back and deleted

the DG list is the way it is because it's incomplete. consider the scale of Primaris marines right now, we should expect a similer release for DG

I have purchased and started a Mechanised KDK army, and also a harlequin army, only to continue to build and paint necron stuff instead. Can't get away from the robot overlords

 Strg Alt wrote:
Wasting my time with a jerk.
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I will not suffer any jerks anymore.

My condolences. I've met roleplayers like that, even had one in a game that ended a couple weeks ago. They're utterly insufferable about their idiocy. Having to remind someone about the rules every damn week, the same rules to boot, for years on end, is utterly obnoxious and disrespectful to everyone else trying to have fun.

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 Stormonu wrote:
I put the legs on my Skitarii Dragoon on backwards (left vs. right). Had to rip them off, drill them out and put them on correctly. Still looks messy if you examine it closely.

I also regret painting 1/2 to 2/3 of my RT01 models in different colors than my primary SM army. I've never stipped paint from models and I'm afraid to try it with these old guys.

I mean, you can just use the other set of servitor legs and it works perfect. All of my skitarii walkers are 50-50 left leg/right leg firstto add variety.

Of course, I'm not sure why the incense balancers on the legs are slotted for the balistarii instead of the dragoon now that I think about it...

When I say backwards, I mean the servitor legs were facing the outside of the model, instead of inside. It wasn't until I started painting I noticed the mistake.

Also, another regret - selling my 4th ed High Elf army. I got disgusted with Herohammer and after it had sat for years in storage finally sold it in 2007, having at least "one of everything" and enough troops to fill out a full army. For about $76. Somehow, one Swordsman of Hoeth survived the purge and now rests in the replacement army I bought - two weeks before the first End Times book came out. Total games played with said army? One, back in 1995, with the original army.

2 things.

I bought two forgeworld red books right before 8th dropped. I read the HH series religiously and truly thought I'd continue with 7th ed rules. Lol, just lol. Sold them a month later for pennies on the dollar, I never even used them.

The real zinger is a bit longer. I started fantasy in 1998, and in 2000 a friend gave me a huge box of space wolves/IG, with characters, gun crews, tanks etc. I didn't play 40k so they sat in a box. Fast forward to 2012. After moving roughly 2 dozen times over the last 12 years, I moved for the last time, from Fresno back to Oklahoma City, where I grew up. Once again I had to pack my things. Once again I came to the 40k box. I had no interest in 40k, but I knew the models had value, and if I never used them I could sell them. Well, while packing for the last time, I held that box in my hand, made an executive decision, and threw it in the dumpster. I moved back to OKC, met my old friend again, and started playing (wouldn't you know it) 40K. I RUE THE DAY I tossed them. Poor space marines and Guard are probably 100 feet deep in a landfill by now.

Oh man, where do i start ?

Me and my buddy got into the hobby maybe two years ago. Started to read about it, then purchased some models and slowly worked on this addiction.

I started out with Space Marines, and play/build my Salamanders Army since then (the first ever book i read about 40k was Salamander, so a simple choice for me).
He started with Grey Knights, cuz they where cool and shiny and also dealt quite the punch.

We played a few games, learning the rules and what not. Simple Fun with painted soldiers. I started playing in our Hobby Central, played there with other people, started to know a few more players and was more of an outgoing player. After a while i played with my GK bud again, only to see he could not for the heck use them. Like no psychic powers, no nothing. He didnt want to spend time reading his codex and learn to play. I of course beat the living heck out of him, with a freaking salamander army. He gave up his Knights after that, said they where boring.

He started a new army, Skitarii/AdMech and was quite hyped.He played a few games, but was still unable to beat me. And i didnt even wanted to win. I had like the most crappy list you could imagine, bolsting Tactical Marines and devastators, and a few pretty basic units. He got tablet in the third round, as we was not willing to learn his rules or do something other than stand and shoot in his corner.
He didnt want to learn anything new, adapt new tactics or just chat and read in the rulebook, finding some nifty things that would help him anyone. I mean hell, i never beat anyone else with a Skitarii army. Like not even once.

He was hyped for the 8th edition, only to let it slip right before it launched, as he lost interest in it.He said that this edition has ruined his army, although i think he didnt even read trough the Index.

Now this guy is a "I NEED TO WIN" guy and does not want to spend his time learning the basics nor using his army properly, and i completely regret the time spent with this dude trying to get him into the hobby and you know... play the game as it should be played, by rules. Now he plays AoS so... yeah... quite a downfall.

I really hate people like this, but man it hurts a bit as we where quite close friends, and a hobby and other crap around it tore us apart. Now i see all this was a time waster, with a guy who was out to win, and needed to win, but without effort. An i can not handle guys like that, really. A friendship dead, a hobby for him ruined. Quite the crap shoot dont ya think ?

Only investing in one wash, and for some bizzare reason I convinced myself it would work with everything :(

I left my monolith in the back window of my car while I went to a few classes at community college.

It was 108 in the shade that day.

The monolith didn't make it.

 Arandmoor wrote:
I left my monolith in the back window of my car while I went to a few classes at community college.

It was 108 in the shade that day.

The monolith didn't make it.

Not immune to melta now is it? IS IT?!

I'm... I'm actually kinda sorry dude. I had to say it. :(

 daedalus wrote:


Not immune to melta now is it? IS IT?!

I'm... I'm actually kinda sorry dude. I had to say it. :(

Ouch

Getting sucked in by the new TS models and starting my first Chaos army.... Then 8 Ed dropped and the psychic phase became super simplified. Legion of Sorcerers became meh to me. Ahriman's Exiles are boxed up and in the 'one day' pile now.

I still love the fluff and Ahriman, but the rules ATM have sent me back to my loyalist armies. Instead of buying a demon engine for my TSs, I bought a Corvax Blackstar or whatever it is for my Death Watch. I'm not going googoo over Primaris Marines, except maybe the Aggressors.. SO much fire!

Prediction- I will regret buying Primaris models in about 12 months....

We all made mistakes. Biggest one you will make is to stop taking pride in yourself. Takes a lot to be the best you can. because we all can be tops. I started no codex and had an array of weapons in squads and used to much glue. but most now live on happy in there battle company although mostly unpaint.[img]

1st regret was selling EVERYTHING I had miniature game wise.This included 2 sets of space crusade and both expansions for it(which got me into 40k,which started at 2nd ed)and a set of advanced space crusade(which became tyranid attack,I believe,.)3500 point space marine and ork armies,plus bits and bobs of other armies,some of the terrain pieces gw were selling back then,plus quite a bit of epic stuff too.for £125

2nd regret was rebuying everything when I decided to restart in 5th ed.Buying a rhino for over £20 when I bought my first one for a fiver put me off getting back into the hobby.Now my space marines and orks are now roughly at same points,but I now also have a necron army around the same points size,a tyranid army that's on the way,a small tau army and a few bits n bobs again.But I can not get into painting them like I used too.Oh how all the grey plastic mockingly laughs at my inability to get it all painted

Choosing Iron Hands as my chapter for getting back into 40k for 8th. After seeing the leaks/previews last week it's pretty clear GW wishes we'd play almost anything else.

 daedalus wrote:

 Arandmoor wrote:
I left my monolith in the back window of my car while I went to a few classes at community college.

It was 108 in the shade that day.

The monolith didn't make it.

Not immune to melta now is it? IS IT?!

I'm... I'm actually kinda sorry dude. I had to say it. :(

No, it is not. Of all the vehicles to receive QS's ability to neuter anti-vehicle weapons, the monolith, a vehicle (in)famous for its ability to ignore melta and lances in 3rd-4th ed, did not receive it.
Because Necrons can't have nice things. Unless they are brand new and inconsistent with the army's design history.
At least it can deepstrike now without blowing up or getting lost.


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 Commander Endova wrote:
Choosing Iron Hands as my chapter for getting back into 40k for 8th. After seeing the leaks/previews last week it's pretty clear GW wishes we'd play almost anything else.

Eh? They have 6+ saves that can be taken against mortal wounds and a stratagem that buffs their vehicles. What's the problem?
Even the dreadnoughts can get the save. That makes them tougher than other dreadnoughts.

Buying an Eldar vampire hunter when I was 14 (birthday money and savings) then proceeding to build it poorly, paint it poorly and then throw it away when I quit the hobby a few years later.

I still have a bit of me that wants to buy another just to do it right this time.