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 Eggs wrote:
One of the reasons I have multiple armies is that I get bored painting the same colours over and over. My marine army is by far the largest, but after a squad or two of mostly purple, its nice to have a change. I've being doing a unit or two of marines, unit or two of elves, unit or two of orcs and away to start a unit of eldar. Repeat. It seems to be working so far, and I'm not burning out despite spending a lot of time painting.

I had the same issue!

Have about 3k of Raven Guard done, have about another 2k in my trunk of modelly goodness, but got utterly bored of painting black.

Have gone for daemons as my second army, huge variety of colours, many model options outside of GW so I don't have to give them all my moneys, which does my conscience good, and a very different army, both fluff wise and gameplay wise. The change, alongside starting X Wing, has really been good for me, and painting feels less like the chore it had started to become. Oh, and the buzz from tracking down a particularly appropriate 3rd party or OOP mini that I've earmarked for a unit means that's almost become a whole other hobby in itself!

Like others have said, so long as you're not spending beyond your means it isn't that much of a problem. My attention span is too short for big groups, so I've largely given up on building armies and just buy what I think will be fun to model and paint. And I feel much less wasteful buying a model here or there than buying a squad here or there.

You obviously have way too much money on your hands. The only way to cure this deadly disease is to send some to me.

But really, as they say, the grass is always greener. I played vanilla marines until I saw the new Dark Angels codex and realized I could turn terminators into troop choices.

I have an unhealthy love for terminators.

I have a confession to make. I noticed the price of the Warmachine starter going up in a few places. I dunno if there has been a recent price increase by PP, but I bought it while I could still get it for under £60. I'm publically stating that Im not buying anything else for any game system, until I have everything I have for that particular army done.

We'll see how long that statement holds...

I have boxes and boxes of stuff that I haven't painted. And I buy more because I think that if I was disciplined about it and painted everything I'd got first, by the time I was done the company I want stuff from would've gone out of business or whatever and I wouldn't be able to get it anymore. (I'm a really slow painter).

And so it goes on and on.

 Skarwael wrote:
I have boxes and boxes of stuff that I haven't painted. And I buy more because I think that if I was disciplined about it and painted everything I'd got first, by the time I was done the company I want stuff from would've gone out of business or whatever and I wouldn't be able to get it anymore. (I'm a really slow painter).

And so it goes on and on.

So true.

I suffered from this when I was a wee lad. These days, while I have more money, I'm a lot more restrained in what I buy, simply because I have actual financial obligations. There's nothing wrong with buying a lot, as long as, as already said, you aren't spending outside of your means.

I just give myself hard limits to make sure I don't spend outside of my means. For a long time, I was sticking to one army per game. 40k? Tyranids. Fantasy? Vampire Counts. Infinity? Haqqislam. Any new army had to be a new game, which in itself is a limiting factor (mostly because it meant talking friends into buying into it, which they mostly won't do).

I've moved on from Tyranids to expanding my Dark Vengeance Chaos into a proper army, for two reasons. One is I've 'finished' my Tyranids. I've built a 1500pt list I like, I have plenty of extra stuff to paint when that is all painted, and I'm (still) constructing the centerpeice, a Heirophant. They're done for now while I finish up painting them.

The second reason is I dislike having stuff for the hobby sitting around not being used, which is what my DV Chaos were doing. Building them into a 1000pt army is costing me, even at Australian retail, under $200au, thanks to using everything from Dark Vengeance and merely adding to it. Expanding it from 1000pts to 1500pts will cost me another $200au. So that's not bad for a 1500pt army I'm actually happy with.

Hahaha I totally know what he means. 1 month into playing 40k, I was already tired of my first army, Orks. I had about 20 boyz and some tanks painted before I moved onto Chaos Space Marines.

Those CSM only saw the light of four battles and one apoc game.

I hated painting the black legion scheme, but somehow I felt I had to have it. So soon enough, after only buying a megaforce and some termies I dropped CSM within two months. So, needless to say I dropped them.

Then I went with eldar, which I thought I really liked. Bought the megaforce and played them for about six months. Had a nice crisp paint scheme going, even if it was only about 15 models that got painted. I played eldar for about twenty games and three tournaments. Eldar were the most successful army I ever had game wise (19 wins, 1 loss), but somehow I ended up not favoring them anymore, and moved on.

After the fall of the eldar I went on an awkward stage where I'd buy one squad from each army and play kill teams with them. I had a necron, Sob, tyranid, tau, and dark eldar killteam. I also bought a bunch of Cryx stuff for Warmachine, and spent hundreds on Lotr (which I only played 3 games of) But I eventually settled down with black templars space marines and played them for three months.

Then one day I noticed something, there was one neglected army, those wimpy imperial guard.

So guess what? I decided to try them.

Instantly I was shocked by the amazing feeling of being able to control these little troops, humans like you and me. The fact that they had no fancy power armor amazed me, and that all they had between them and the enemy were some flashlights and cardboard. Instantly I loved them and they became my favorite army ever!!!!

Now I've been playing IG for two years and there is very little chance I will convert to another army soon!!

What the moral of this story is, you really just have to find one army you really like, and invest in only it, even though its hard

Good luck from a fellow ADD gamer

-Color Sgt. Kell