What would you do with $1000 for wargaming?

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**Dannyevilguy**

I would buy all the models necessary to make the 10 Tervigon Tyranid list.

**blood ravens addiction**

i would get

space wolves codex
3 thunderwolf cav
6 drop pods
6 Gh squads
10scouts in rhino
40K book
canis wolfsbane?
wolf guard
razorback wiv 5 long fangs and rune priest
razorback wiv 5 long fangs
2 vindicators

BANG!

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**Mr Mugguffins**

Buy all the paints and hobby equipment I would ever need, then finisjh my Night Gobline theme army

**Ugavine**

I'd probably buy a gaming board then start a new army, probably Ancient Britons for Hail Caesar.

**Zed**

A 6x4 trestle table and some ruins. Then some more Noise Marines and Huron Blackheart. Then two Heldrakes *ducks*. Whatever pittance was left would go towards my IG.

**Compel**

Is $1000 even enough for a modern day Guard army now?

I ended up working out that to buy my 2000 point Imperial Guard army new, direct from GW, I'd end up spending £650. AKA, near enough $1000

**Squidmanlolz**

I'd probably commission for the remainder of my guard army to be painted to match the rest as I simply don't have time to do that right now.
Then I'd buy some terrain and Dark Angel models for my girl
Anything left over would go toward my Tau

**alanmckenzie**

A 2nd faction for all my games, maybe 1 super heavy for both my 40k armies, and then build a table. With excellent terrain. Think I need free money before I start spending on terrain rather than models.

**Kirasu**

1000$ for wargaming?

I suppose that would net me about half a GW army nowadays!

**tiger g**

buy a good camera to start selling all of the stuff I no longer use.

**fishy bob**

Kirasu wrote:
1000$ for wargaming?

I suppose that would net me about half a GW army nowadays!

Depends on your definition of a "GW army". 22.000 points of Blood Angels?

**Looky Likey**

A windfall I'd spend on something big like a Reaver and an airbrush to go with it. You can always by the little things a little at a tie, but big things take saving up and saving up ~$1000 is hard for a lot of people.

Me I'd spend it on a ton of Ork stuff this month as that's what I've dedicated this month's hobby budget on.

**Compel**

fishy bob wrote:
Kirasu wrote:
1000$ for wargaming?

I suppose that would net me about half a GW army nowadays!

Depends on your definition of a "GW army". 22.000 points of Blood Angels?

Kirasu is more correct than you think...

Totalling up in GW US prices for $1000, with relatively few wasted models and limited part swapping... A roughly 2000 point Imperial Guard army.

$33 Codex: Imperial Guard
$480 Imperial Guard Battleforce X 4
$149.00 Imperial Guard Chimeras x 4
$10.75 Guard Company Commander
$26.50 Guard Commissar x 2
$148.50 Guard Heavy Support Tanks x 3 (artillery or Russ, you pick)
$17.25 Imperial Guard Regimental Advisors
$132.00 Imperial Guard Valkyrie

This will get you an Imperial Guard 2000(ish) point army with.

1 Company Command Squad in a Chimera
2 Platoon Command Squads in Chimeras
8 Imperial Guard Infantry Squads with suitable heavy and special weapons
2-3 Veteran Squads (using Heavy Weapons team bits and part swapping). 2 in Chimeras, 1 in Valkyrie.
A sentinel squadron
3 heavy support choices

$1000 really does NOT stretch far when you play an Imperial Guard army.

**Kirasu**

fishy bob wrote:
Kirasu wrote:
1000$ for wargaming?

I suppose that would net me about half a GW army nowadays!

Depends on your definition of a "GW army". 22.000 points of Blood Angels?

Well yeah, my definition of army usually means "10k points" but still, it's expensive!

**Shadowbrand**

Buy a metric feth ton of Dark Elves.

Spend the rest on a second giant and a third box of minotaurs for my Beastmen.

**LockdownTF**

I'd honestly put most of it in the bank for safe keeping. I'd probably splurge a bit on something I wouldn't normally be able to afford but I'd want to put most of the money away some were.

**Desubot**

1000$ For wargaming?

3d printer in a year or two.

**frozenwastes**

Multi pronged approach:

X Wing: Doesn't require painting and gameplay is good. $180 of whatever looks good + $20 for a good black table cover.

MTG: Set of one of each common from recent releases, some lands and some good sleeves. A pauper draft cube that can provide hours of fun for up to 8 players at once. $75 with good card sleeves.

Terrain: $100 for a larger zuzzy mat after shipping. $200 in resin and plastic terrain pieces and trees.

Hobby: Gravity fed airbrush (likely a Badger), Compressor and a few set of Vallejo Model Air paints. $325

Reaper Bones 2 Kickstarter starting in a couple of days: $200 of miniatures.for fantasy skirmish gaming.

**-Loki-**

Lots and lots of terrain for Infinity.

Go nuts buying from Sarissa Precision, Blind Pig and Warmill to have enought to make some super dense city. 2-3 megacity elevated street sets and 2-3 non-elevated sets from Warmill. Apartments from Blind Pig, lots of them. Random bits from Sarissa Precision like the Warehouse and Warehouse storage, water tanks, etc. Then random flavour buildings from Warmill - one of each of the Foodbooths, one of each of the ORB buildings, a couple of waste management buildings, and the Medical Facility.

**Jimsolo**

Battlefoam for all of the minis I have. Any money I have left would go to a Dark Eldar army.

**Blacksails**

A hard plastic/resin game board. Basically the Realm of battle set and the FW urban expansion for it. Or any suitable alternatives, but definitely terrain or terrain like investments for me.

**TheAuldGrump**

Hold on to it until Through the Breach and Malifaux 2e are generally available - then go hog wild.

Not a game that I am currently in - but I am a big fan of integrated wargames and role-playing games.

The Auld Grump

**ComTrav**

Is "take a break from work to hobby" a valid answer?

If not, Dark Elves are looking pretty good.

**VensersRevenge**

Seeing as I have just started up Battletech, I would probably buy all the rules, Make a WOB Combined Arms Battalion, and then buy a lot of paint, glues, brushes, and if I can find it for a somewhat reasonable amount of money, more Heroscape terrain.

**malfred**

I would stick to my current buying plan, enjoying the benefits of
guilt-free shopping.

**bu11etmagn3tt**

I bought an award winning painted 3700 pt whf army with codex and case for $1000 on ebay...

**rohansoldier**

If I had that kind of money, I would finish my eldar/chaos marines/ogres and with the rest, buy a army of the new dark elves I have always wanted and pay someone to paint it!

**ivangterrace**

Update on my part.

I shopped around on ebay and bought:

Tau crisis suit commander NIB
SM vindicator assembled and unprimed
Predator NIB
5 tactical terminators, 1 w/ cyclone missile launcher

That cost me around $150ish

I tried ordering $275 of new Space marine kits from frontline gaming but they like to not ship the stuff I buy from them or respond to my inquiries in a timely manner, so I have filed a paypal claim (it's been 20+ days since I ordered from you, not having my stuff by now is not acceptable).

At my hobby shop I bought:

1 box of new tactical marines
1 set of 40k magic power cards
3 pots of paint
2 brushes.

I basically have spent $500 of my $1k but I'm getting $275 back from paypal so I've only spent $225.

I'm so bad at 40k I can't even get the stuff I buy. ugh.

**Largeblastmarker**

I would;
get a sheetload of brushes,
an airbrush,
a gameboard,
A titan (cuz apoc),
The Apoc book (cuz titan),
IA something,
some battlefoam (my minis are covered in layers of varnish but I think they are wispering for me to stop brutaly hauling them around),
some tau (starting tau anyway),
some eldar (they have some amazazazing models),
some dark angels (cuz allies),
some scenery,
3 land speeder storms,
Convert a ROB tile (its funny cuz the acronym for realm of battle is rob) into a display for my spehhs mehreens,
But all of this wouldn't fit into 1k so I would clip the odd expense here and there. But it would be great.

**godswildcard**

Thunderhawk.
Thunderhawk.
Thunderhawk.
GoooOOOOO!