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I just sold my ig army it was around 2500 point. i didn't want to spend the money to buy 6to 9 vendattes to make my ig a good army. also i sold like most of sm army because with the new dex coming out i don't want to get stick with more useless units like my perds rhinos drop pods dreds my jumpmarines all useless in 6ed. so i got ride of them to strart over with nee dex. Any one else do this

No because I use two vendettas and mech guard and I'm 30-4 this edition

zilka86 wrote:
I just sold my ig army it was around 2500 point. i didn't want to spend the money to buy 6to 9 vendattes to make my ig a good army. also i sold like most of sm army because with the new dex coming out i don't want to get stick with more useless units like my perds rhinos drop pods dreds my jumpmarines all useless in 6ed. so i got ride of them to strart over with nee dex. Any one else do this

Wow. You might want to spend a minute to locate the shift key, maybe the comma key, etc.

As for the real question... Did I sell my armies due to edition changes? No. Over time everything is useful again (with a couple exceptions). My armies have weathered multiple edition changes and they will do so again.

I am tempted to do this with my nids. But ill just keep them for running practice lists against

Shouldn't you have at least waited for the SM codex to come out and look through all the rules before selling it? Seems kinda knee-jerk to me.

 Dannyevilguy wrote:
I am tempted to do this with my nids. But ill just keep them for running practice lists against

Or shelf them until the new codex.

Nope.

No need to overreact. I don't know what rumors you where reading but the SM book seems pretty good towards the existing models. (except vanguard vets for some reason)

I also didn't overreact when the Tau book came out, and didn't feel it necessary to buy 6 riptides.

You should have waited, sounds like you do not have patience at all. SM gets a new codex, guard will come out eventually and you do not need 9 vendettas to actually play guard. Should have given the list more time...

Yes sell your army, and then kick yourself in the arse next year when the IG get a new codex.

Wow, My plastic toy soldiers suck so I had to sell it. Does winning with plastic toy soldiers really matter that much to you?

Would also help if you knew how to actually write properly as was mentioned before. Can't take you seriously when you can't spell properly. Hey wait, you can work for GW now.

Lol sell your army because it's not an auto win -face palm-

Oh well time to buy a cheap army in eBay.

 Desubot wrote:

I also didn't overreact when the Tau book came out, and didn't feel it necessary to buy 6 riptides.

I've been thinking of selling my Tau army, though.

The only reasons to sell an army are to sell it for more money than you paid for it, or you want to play something else. As for new codices that change your army. Well that comes with the Edition changes.

There is an opportunity for new conversion models, as you convert some older models into the new codex rules. So do not get discouraged. Use it as an opportunity to flex your modelling skills.

For a game i injoy playing I'm sick of not have a good army ever. I always get what i like and build my army how i want it to work for me to find i wasted mt money because i did a good army from the codex like my ig 3 platoons of 50 guys 12 ac and lc 6lrbt of all types. then i find out only good way to run ig is vets and vendattas. so i wasted my money on crap units why are they even in codex if they junk

zilka86 wrote:
i find out only good way to run ig is vets and vendattas.

There is no single good way to run IG. You should be mad because you sold your army without sufficient information.

Why would i be mad for saleing junk units and a junk army. it my loss for buying bad stuff so all only buy good stuff from now on buy reading what's good on line

Yes. Zilka, I think you should do exactly this. Sell off all your minis and start over. regardless of the fact that you'll be kicking your butt latter when you find that you want those Tanks and Droppods back.

I admit, that I've not always made the wisest choice. But to sell off your army and start over, Before seeing how the new codex changes the meta... kinda nutty.

As for IG: if you weren't having fun with the army then you should sell them off.

I wouldn't sell one of my armies unless I was getting completely out of the hobby, and my sons as well. I've put armies on the shelf due to loss of interest in playing them, but they're available to play, or play against at any time.

Don't feed him!

Also, in this age of internet research before you buy! (if all you care about is tabletop performance)

No, I would never sell my army if it became "bad". I play my Word Bearers because I love their fluff and more importantly I love MY Word Bearers specifically, I've had a lot of fun watching them grow as characters and expand their armoury and ability to wage war.

It's not anyone's place to tell you how to play 40k, but if you think the essence of the game is fielding the "best" units the internet tells you is good just so you can win consistently then I don't think you've discovered how much fun you can have with the game if you love what you have, even if they're not arranged in a cheese-list.

Seriously, just pick an army you love and stick with it. You and your opponents will have a much better time if you field a force you adore rather than "lol internet sez il winzorz!"

I liked my ig butt it was a bad army. i was told a lot that the only why to run ig is vets and vendattas i don't care for flyers our vets butt if that the only why to have good ig then i rather not play them. allso tanks are not good in 6ed and nother are droppods. Any vehicle is really no longer good because of hp only good tanks are av14 so I'm getting 5landriders

Obviously a troll stop feeding it

zilka86 wrote:
I liked my ig butt it was a bad army. i was told a lot that the only why to run ig is vets and vendattas i don't care for flyers our vets butt if that the only why to have good ig then i rather not play them. allso tanks are not good in 6ed and nother are droppods. Any vehicle is really no longer good because of hp only good tanks are av14 so I'm getting 5landriders

I disagree. My 1750 Eldar list consists of 3 Wave Serpents, and Crimson Hunter minimum. Last week I took 2 Fire Prisms. At the end of the game, one Serpent was Immobilized (stupid terrain), one was wrecked (which took 4 Turns of shooting) and that was it. I lost my Rangers who were hanging out in a forest, and I lost both 3-man squads of bikes. The damage to my opponent was even worse. In the end he had an untouched squad of Warriors, 1 Trueborn, and 1 Haemonculus.

zilka86 wrote:
I liked my ig butt it was a bad army. i was told a lot that the only why to run ig is vets and vendattas i don't care for flyers our vets butt if that the only why to have good ig then i rather not play them. allso tanks are not good in 6ed and nother are droppods. Any vehicle is really no longer good because of hp only good tanks are av14 so I'm getting 5landriders

Told by who? The internet? The medium of communication known universally for extremes of opinion? where one thing is either completely worthless or a must have?

If you think you had a hard time with your Guard then you'll have a harder time spamming land raiders. If you wanted an AV14 wall you should have stayed with IG.

Selling your army is a terrible idea. I can see doing an even trade for a different army, or doing so if you need the money for life circumstances (if you need to pay the bills etc.). I can also see possibly doing it to an army I was never going to play ever again (getting out of the hobby, or just don't like the faction etc.)

All that said selling your armies just because they are not currently good? Terrible idea. Things go in cycles, something that is great now might not be later, and something that is bad now might be awesome. Furthermore you are unlikely to ever get a good return on your investment. Models sold almost never make back what new models cost, so say you sell a tactical squad for 30 bucks, and then want to buy one when the new book comes out and it is not $40, you lose out. Throw in any time spent painting and modeling, and the return on your investment is just terrible.

Edition changes are always hard.

My Nid army is awful now. And I'm tempted to go buy some Tervigons just to make it good, but there's always the fear that Tervigons won't be very good in the next codex which can't be too far away.

If you've got other armies you enjoy playing with, just leave the "bad" ones be, I say and wait for a new codex. If in doubt, don't spend money. You can't waste it if you haven't spent it.

 Kasrkin229 wrote:
Obviously a troll stop feeding it

I will bet my entire Ork-army that he didn't even sell a single model.

 Dannyevilguy wrote:
I am tempted to do this with my nids. But ill just keep them for running practice lists against

We got depressed by 5th. But all we need was to add wings to the tyrant, one tervigon - and we bought 18 gargoyles, which we fancied anyway. Poor old stealers went back in the box of course. Only one real new purchase and it's an army that quite a few people reckon is brutal.

So we say the glass is half full.

I've only ever sold 2 armies:

Sold my necrons (4th edition) simply because 7 years later they lost their appeal to me.

I also sold my 3.5 CSM army, it was 1k sons (this was partially due to the army being terrible and mostly because I wanted to go the death guard route).

Troll, for positive. It makes me wonder if these people actually try to type like their idiots. "If I don't spell words correctly and use no punctuation, theyll think im young maybe! or legitimately an idiot!"

ConsecratedIron wrote:
It makes me wonder if these people actually try to type like their idiots.

Whose idiots?