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So basically I have this problem. And I've contributed it to my very low attention span. I just can't keep with one army. I've went through wanting so many different armies, I've ended up with Orks, Space marines, Space wolves, and Necrons. And warhammer fantasy empire(and I don't even play fantasy) And now I have my eyes on Tau... Anyone else find thereselves in this same situation? It's ridiculous, and costly.

I suggest bartertown.com

You can trade armies after your done playing them.

I have been trading about 1-2 armies a year for the past few years. I've had really good luck with it.
It keeps the game fresh for me.

I have the same issue, just with models... I've got...ohhh...something like a half-dozen unfinished conversions strewn about my house. And even larger amount waiting for any sort of plans to be thought up for them.

 ShadowMageAlpha wrote:
I have the same issue, just with models... I've got...ohhh...something like a half-dozen unfinished conversions strewn about my house. And even larger amount waiting for any sort of plans to be thought up for them.

Half dozen? That's nothing.

But yes, I know this issue. Nothing ever gets finished as I get distracted by new projects.

 Crimson wrote:

 ShadowMageAlpha wrote:
I have the same issue, just with models... I've got...ohhh...something like a half-dozen unfinished conversions strewn about my house. And even larger amount waiting for any sort of plans to be thought up for them.

Half dozen? That's nothing.

But yes, I know this issue. Nothing ever gets finished as I get distracted by new projects.

Half dozen is just a number picked out of the air. After quick tabulation... I have somewhere between 10-12 conversion projects, several dozen building projects, and something close to 2 dozen tanks I don't know what I'm going to do with.

 ShadowMageAlpha wrote:
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Half dozen is just a number picked out of the air. After quick tabulation... I have somewhere between 10-12 conversion projects, several dozen building projects, and something close to 2 dozen tanks I don't know what I'm going to do with.

That's more like it!

I used to have that problem, however I never even finished an army, about half a won before I swapped it for something different.

Now I am more wise, my grey knights I have had just about a year now, and I am starting a small allied necron force for them.

For me it was a case of trying to find an army that I enjoyed playing, after I found it, I stuck with it

I've actually found the best way to deal with the Army ADD is to try to not over-commit on any one army at any one time. For example, with 40k I'm building up Necrons, DA, and Tau. When I get bored with one, I switch to another, making a small purchases (ie, a crisis suit here, a Bike Squad there), working my way up to a larger force. It helps me keep things 'novel' while limiting my focus somewhat.

I have 500 points of my Eldar painted up, with the other 1500 either primed or still bare and converted but ready for primer.

But then I saw the new Dark Angels Command Squad, (specifically the Plasma Cannon model), and went, "Hey.....I already have 12 Terminators from Space Hulk 3e, and a un-primed Land Raider from 12(!) years ago! That's like...like...half a Death Wing army, already!

It never ends..........Arrrggghhh! I don't even have my Kroot Merc or 13th Company armies done from back in 3rd edition!

Hmmm I like the idea of not so much dedication to one army. Might give that a whirl.

I started playing last march and have gone thru tyranids, dark eldar, skaven, tau, chaos space marines, sisters, and now grey knights. Still play CSM, sisters, and GK. finally found an army(s) that I like the playing style of. It happens

Another than you can do is do wildly different game styles.
For instance...with orks I am capable of playing huuuuuge floot-slogging armies, smaller shootier armies, fast mechanized armies, biker armiest, walker armies, tank-based armies, etc.
You get the idea.
Though honestly, you might just want to go with that BarterTown idea. There's more variety to have there.

Yes, but with gamelines. I currently have armies for over half a dozen different game lines waiting to get finished off. Some of them are pretty new (Dystopian Wars and Firestorm Armada) and some of them are utterly ancient (Bauhaus army from Warzone). And of course there is my current Dark Angels army that is in the middle of a repainting project I started when we got the last codex in 2007. For a while my Infinity stuff was the most complete force I had, until I picked up a second faction and doubled the size of my first faction. I'm just glad the WFB Dwarf book is a ways off because I have 2000+ points of them completely unpainted, and I know that when their book comes out I will be giving 8th Edition a look. Not to mention a Khador army I have had for a while and still haven't even finished painting the starter set for (and to be clear, this is the metal starter kit from when the game was first released... The two jacks are finished, but I never painted Sorcha). It doesn't help that my gaming group is equally diverse and that we may switch off for a month to play a great many different games. This invariably pulls me toward getting a bit done on one army (and buying some more stuff I was looking at last time, before we changed focus) before leapfrogging to the next.

The latest Dark Angels release is a continuation of that. We've been playing 40k again and while I still have loads of stuff unpainted and in need of repainting (badly) I have bought a load of new units with stuff still waiting in the queue from 2007 (and a few repaints from as far back as 1996). But as one of the guys in the group doesn't play 40k, himself (we loan him armies) I fear that we may be switching up soon to Infinity or something else. And despite my best intentions that means my painting and purchasing will get side-tracked.

I'm almost glad when we shift focus to MtG or an RPG for a while (well my wallet is sad with the former) because I don't have to paint anything with those two, so it tends to buy me some time.

ZekeWN wrote:
So basically I have this problem. And I've contributed it to my very low attention span. I just can't keep with one army. I've went through wanting so many different armies, I've ended up with Orks, Space marines, Space wolves, and Necrons. And warhammer fantasy empire(and I don't even play fantasy) And now I have my eyes on Tau... Anyone else find thereselves in this same situation? It's ridiculous, and costly.

No, never, you are crazy, get help soon (ignore my sig).

Same issue, but I don't think it's a low attention span.

For me I just constantly want to know and explore more of the setting. It's rich and there is so much to it. Fortunately, my kids are more than happy to go along for the ride.

Right now I have a HH army sitting in boxes waiting to be assembled; I did convert a Saul Tarvitz so at this point I just need to finish painting it so that I know for sure how I want the rest of that to go. Unlike some others I don't sell my miniatures off. I prefer to come back to them and I generally rotate what I play from one month to the next.

I'm having trouble helping my brother pick an army, I had about 250 points worth of orks and decided to swith to space marines for him(he plays with whatever I choose for him, knowing in my infinite wisdom what is the best for him :end sarcastic narcisism Its just he is very ambigous what he wants for an army!

Best thing to do is simply take him to a GW store and let him wander around and see what looks cool while patiently answering questions. I've done this with each of my boys.

A few years ago, I took one of them in for a look around. He would pick up a box and ask what they were for. At one point he grabbed a box of genestealers and asked where their guns were. I told him they didn't have any. He looked up at me and said, "You mean they eat the others? Awesome!!" He played those until a month ago when he switched to grey knights because he liked the Storm Raven.

I paint like 3 miniatures from one of my armies and promise my self I will stick with them till they're done and with in a week I'm painting something else.... I have hundreds of unfinished models :(

For me the biggest problem is the painting. For vehicles it's mostly the god-awful annoying issues with painting them black, because I'd have to sand 'em all (otherwise the flat surface areas have all-too-obvious irregularities that show through black like a damned bunch of LED lights).

But even with infantry there's the fact that I'm slow. And I mean SLOW. Take the slowest you can imagine, and then at least quadruple it As it takes forever to finish a model, it's hard to even sit down and get started. Whenever I think I should paint something, I end up just assembling more unpainted stuff or not even that. Bleh!

So now I have 3-4 armies (C:BT/C:SM, Orks, Chaos Marines) that I like and don't really intend to get rid of at any point, but that'll get painted in maybe a decade considering there's at least 14 000 points worth of them all put together. Sigh.

My problem is that I can't pass up a really good deal, especially on an older or unique model that looks cool.

If not for that then I would probably have one massive Dark Angels army instead of 1500 to 3000 points each of DA, Vanilla Marines, Legion of the Damned, Eldar, Tau, and Necrons.

The most complete armies I have are Ultramarines, Sister of Battle, Legion of the Damned, and Necrons, all of which haven't been added to since 3rd Edition. For instance, the Legion of the Damned used the "Cursed Founding" rules in Chapter Approved.

I also have partially done armies of Kroot Mercenaries, Space Wolves 13th Company from the Armageddon world-campaign, Craftworld Eldar, some 2nd edition Chaos, and I am now starting a Deathwatch force.

I figure that at least if somehow I ever played an Apocolypse game (as likely as winning the lotto), at least all my Space marine armies could come together as a Crusading force, with Sisters of Battle alongside.

I don't have this. I have the hobby swap attention span problem. This week I could be thinking about nothing but 40k, next week I couldn't care less.

I'm definitely feeling this right now about marines, Or had been feeling burnt out on them lately. Most recently I've been back to my main army with a new list that's doing really really well. But I just finished collecting 95% of my second army(necrons). And now will be assembling and painting those as well as finishing up a few special kitbash's and conversions for my main army to get them completely wysiwyg and painted fully for tournaments and whatnot.

I don't think I necessarily have army ADD though.

My solution is just to find cheap ways to make the armies I want. So if I want a few predators for my SM army I just get them cheap from ebay. If I want a band of acolytes for a GK allied detachment I convert them out of sm and fantasy bits. I want pedro kantor? Extra terminator arms and an old tac marine. It comes together pretty cheap

I used to hop armies all the time when I first got into the game back in 2E. Now that I'm playing again 75% of the races don't appeal at all and the ones that do won't tempt me from my chosen.

 Glorioski wrote:
I don't have this. I have the hobby swap attention span problem. This week I could be thinking about nothing but 40k, next week I couldn't care less.

That's actually more familiar for me as well. Though it's usually the case of spending so much time with one hobby - or with video games, with one single game - that there's a bit of a burnout and I end up doing something else entirely for a change. But generally the previous hobby comes back sooner or later, as well.

ZekeWN wrote:
So basically I have this problem. And I've contributed it to my very low attention span. I just can't keep with one army. I've went through wanting so many different armies, I've ended up with Orks, Space marines, Space wolves, and Necrons. And warhammer fantasy empire(and I don't even play fantasy) And now I have my eyes on Tau... Anyone else find thereselves in this same situation? It's ridiculous, and costly.

Yes definitely. I have built every 40k army except Tau at least once. Some, like Space marines IG and Chaos I've built multiple times. Currently have for 40k: Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh CSMs and a Chaos Renegades army. Currently building Tzeentch CSM, Dark Angels, Space Wolves and Dark Eldar. So yeah it is a common problem that many of us face and yes it does get expensive, especially as prices continue to rise and the codex books are now $49.50 (insert your local currency price here).

On top of this I have Space marine, chaos and ork armies for Epic scale goodness; Dwarf, High Elf, Norse, Chaos, human and a startup Goblin blood bowl teams; Many, MANY gangs worth of minis for Necromunda (with my Redemtionists sitting in for veterans for an alternate rengades army using the IG codex); A massive horde of British armor, guns and infantry covering all 3 war periods in flames of war and the majority of available British commonwealth lists; Multiple growing malifaux warbands; Still other minis for even more games. I had to make myself stick to British only in Flames of War because I didn't need to have as massive a horde of germans in addition to the massive horde of british I have. I know my weaknesses.

Used to have multiple Fantasy armies as well and keep percolating in my brain building an ogre army despite the fact I have no interest in actually playing WFB in the future. I just enjoy all the model aspects of the hobby and each army has different cool things to its character that make it slightly or significantly different to model than other armies.

Skriker


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 Zande4 wrote:
I paint like 3 miniatures from one of my armies and promise my self I will stick with them till they're done and with in a week I'm painting something else.... I have hundreds of unfinished models :(

I get this because I get tired of painting the same colors for too long at a time. I had multiple fully painted armies: Daemonhunters/Grey Knights and Witchhunters/Sisters of Battle which were varied enough that painting each half of the armies made it easier to ultimately complete because painting the armored halves of each army was a different experience than the stormtroopers, characters, henchment and special units involved. The other was my 2000 points of tyranids from the previous 'nid codex days. Not sure how I got myself to paint that many models that were pretty much exactly the same color schemes except for the amount of some of the spot colors used. Wow...some how it worked. I have since sold all three of those armies off and the armies that remain are in various states of completion. My khorne marines have more painted minis than other armies do, but still has plenty of newer additions that are not yet primed, or are only primed, or primed, inked and drybrushed and ready for detail work. My slaanesh and nurgle armies are also mostly in a state of inking and dry brushing and being ready for detail work with a few exceptions. I've never let my playing dictate what I paint either, so just go with it.

Skriker

 tvih wrote:

But even with infantry there's the fact that I'm slow. And I mean SLOW. Take the slowest you can imagine, and then at least quadruple it As it takes forever to finish a model, it's hard to even sit down and get started. Whenever I think I should paint something, I end up just assembling more unpainted stuff or not even that. Bleh!

This. I always get distracted on some other side project when I'm trying to work on just one. I started with Blood Angels in 2008 and ended up with Orks, IG and Eldar on top of that now, with none finished.

clively wrote:
Best thing to do is simply take him to a GW store and let him wander around and see what looks cool while patiently answering questions. I've done this with each of my boys.

A few years ago, I took one of them in for a look around. He would pick up a box and ask what they were for. At one point he grabbed a box of genestealers and asked where their guns were. I told him they didn't have any. He looked up at me and said, "You mean they eat the others? Awesome!!" He played those until a month ago when he switched to grey knights because he liked the Storm Raven.

Would a trip around the online store be just as effective?I have limited local unit options. I'm not sure if either of the local stores has space marine scouts, or terminators. The grey knights only have 3 boxes.

I have a friend with this issue. He's been playing for just under a year now, and all he has are 5 tactical marines, and he announced he'd stopped collecting marines the next day.
That's the most decisive he's ever been about an army.
We've all stopped trying to persuade him to collect our favourite armies already.
He'll only change his mind next week.