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Name your army, give us one pet peeve you have playing/modeling/painting it

Chaos: Running out of black paint, AGAIN.

Chaos Marines, so anytime I open my codex.

Dark Angels, no matter how well I paint it will always be a low tier army.

wufai wrote:
Dark Angels, no matter how well I paint it will always be a low tier army.

as a chaos player with no heldrakes, I feel your pain...

Nids: I will literally never finish painting my army. Currently at over 400 models (including 15+ MCs)

My orks don't inspire me to paint them x.x

Having fun playing the game despite the people on this forum telling me that there's a mathematical formula that proves that I should be having a miserable time.

Always getting suspicious looks and having to be the butt of all jokes for playing with eldar. Especially annoying since I played grey knights in 5th and a some tau in 6th so now I've got a reputation for playing the best armies when all I want is cool tanks.

Sisters of Battle: No plastic infantry, so I can't convert them into anthros. : (

I like the current Sisters model designs, I just wish I could turn them into furries. My skills are not good enough to convert one-piece metal minis (okay, two if you count the backpack. Three for the heavy weapons since they come with a separate gun, but you get the idea)

Chaos: Green stuff work never looks as good as it did in my head....or when compared to others GS work......

Mordian Iron Guard: they are all metal

Dark Eldar. Worst thing about playing them? Injuring myself on my own freaking guys! Seriously, I've spilled more blood since I picked this army up in November of last year than in the previous ten years of 40k combined!

 Jimsolo wrote:
Dark Eldar. Worst thing about playing them? Injuring myself on my own freaking guys! Seriously, I've spilled more blood since I picked this army up in November of last year than in the previous ten years of 40k combined!

Do you at least use the blood to make realistic blood effects on the army's blades?

 Ignatius wrote:
Mordian Iron Guard: they are all metal

Vostroyan Firstborn: They are all metal, AND hyper detailed (not that Mordian's aren't, but by comparison Vostroyans have Mordian's smoked on the fiddly details).

In addition: Most annoying part of it to me is painting the damned treads on tanks. I play I.G. There are a bucketload of tanks in my army. I have painted six tanks already and feel like I spend 85% of the time painting the tank painting the treads. I know it's all in my head, but it still annoys the out of me.

Other than that, it's touching up chipped models. I know, I asked for it when I chose an all metal army, but no matter what I do, matte varnish spray, paint on spray, the models fall over and get little dings and chips. Every six months or so I take out every infantry mini in the army and check them for chips to touch them up. For an I.G. army with 70+ minis, this can take a while.

Those are my additions.

Take it easy for now everyone.

-Red__Thirst-

 Red__Thirst wrote:

 Ignatius wrote:
Mordian Iron Guard: they are all metal

Vostroyan Firstborn: They are all metal, AND hyper detailed (not that Mordian's aren't, but by comparison Vostroyans have Mordian's smoked on the fiddly details).

In addition: Most annoying part of it to me is painting the damned treads on tanks. I play I.G. There are a bucketload of tanks in my army. I have painted six tanks already and feel like I spend 85% of the time painting the tank painting the treads. I know it's all in my head, but it still annoys the out of me.

Other than that, it's touching up chipped models. I know, I asked for it when I chose an all metal army, but no matter what I do, matte varnish spray, paint on spray, the models fall over and get little dings and chips. Every six months or so I take out every infantry mini in the army and check them for chips to touch them up. For an I.G. army with 70+ minis, this can take a while.

Those are my additions.

Take it easy for now everyone.

-Red__Thirst-

My metal Sniper Scouts look like they were heavily drybrushed with silver paint. : /

Loving my astral aim only to have stolen away.

 Pouncey wrote:
Sisters of Battle: No plastic infantry, so I can't convert them into anthros. : (

I like the current Sisters model designs, I just wish I could turn them into furries. My skills are not good enough to convert one-piece metal minis (okay, two if you count the backpack. Three for the heavy weapons since they come with a separate gun, but you get the idea)

Thread won. seriously.



Anyway, worst thing about my army, the farsight enclaves, is that they didn't exist when I started, so I got myself regular infantry dudes at the time, but now I wish I just had more suits instead (limited budget means I cant just "buy more")

Space Wolves drop pod army - the amount of cases and foam I need

Space Wolves - Having the wolfy mcwolf wolf rubbish every time theyre mentioned.

Necron: Being told my army is OP whenever an opponent loses because of his bad tactics.
Even when I play bad lists..

Second one would be buying 2nd hand models, spraying them all metallic and then having to paint all the bases black! Soooo frustrating

2x210 wrote:
Chaos Marines, so anytime I open my codex.

this. Started playing crimson slaughter at least. I dislike getting psyched for all the sweet brutal cc im going to initiate and then hate how by turn two all my transports have been exploded and i'm footslogging. Also, not really a rules peeve, but my forgefiend always seems to miss.

Using a 30k army in 40k. People are still skeptical and think the whole legion list is op and trying to find a game is like begging for money 9/10 :(

CSM: being overrun and wiped out by my friend's Tyranids (Nidzilla with just enough Termagants to flood the Objectives). No matter how do I change the upgrades and list composition, what tactics and feints I try, 80% of time he wins and has nearly tabled me several times already. I suppose that's what I get for not playing Full MoN + 3 Heldrakes.

Guard: no matter how many dice I roll I still suffer more wounds than I cause

Black Templars: The damned shoulderpads. The white is easy enough but I can never get the decals to look right.

I also wish I could get a better source for choppy bitz for my marines.

Transporting my IG AirCav around .. 6 awkward and bulky flyers + infantry ...

white space marines. 'nuff said.

Blob Guard: The movement phase gets so long and tedious, that sometimes I'll just use sub-par tactics if it means not having to move 2 fifty man blobs.

Sisters: odd looks from people when I show up to play, and then people telling me "I didn't know they were still a thing

Necrons, everything before page 81 of the codex

Chaos Daemons.

Being told by elitist donkey-caves that my army has no place in the game because it's a Fantasy army, and that I should lose everything bar Greaters & basic Daemons and be shoved back into the CSM codex.