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Imperial Guard.

All my lovely models get taken off the board waaay to much.

Grey Knights: My units are expensive so when I deploy I have significantly less on the table than my opponent and feeling out numbered. Even more so because I abuse the heck out of DS.

Blood Angels, you can't play a viable Jump Pack army...

Sisters: having only one troop choice. We really need some frateris militia...

Orks - 6th (and now 7th) edition CC nerfs.
Eldar & Tau - Having people assume you're a jerk just for having those armies.
IG - too many tanks left to paint
Grey Knights - Shading and highlighting silver
Emperor's Children - Having my army divided into two codexes and losing all sonic upgrades.
Chaos Daemons - Being a CC army in 6th/7th edition
Sisters - No real codex available for too long
Imperial Knights - Way overpriced with changes to D weapons

Thought of another one for Sisters of Battle.

I haven't made a purchase for my Sisters since December last year, when I asked for a second Exorcist as a Christmas present. This is purely because there is nothing that I have yet to collect that I would actually use in a game.

I have:
-4 Meltagunners, 5 Sisters with Flamers, 5 with Stormbolters
-5 Superiors with Plasma Pistols/Chainswords, 2 Superiors with Boltguns/Power Swords, 1 Superior with Boltgun/Power Maul (got those 3 Superiors when there was no difference between power weapons), 1 Superior with Boltgun
-1 Canoness with Eviscerator/Bolt Pistol, 1 Canoness with Storm Shield/Power Sword (could reasonably use as a Canoness with a Rosarius, Power Sword and Bolt Pistol)
-2 Penitent Engines
-4 Sisters with Heavy Bolters, 2 Sisters with Multi-Meltas, 2 Sisters with Heavy Flamers
-10 Seraphim including Superior with Bolt Pistol and Power Sword and 2 with pairs of Hand Flamers
-2 Immolator Chassis able to be swapped between Rhino and Immolator with free choice of weapon
-a 10-person Battle Conclave consisting of 6 Death-Cult Assassins and 4 Crusaders, Uriah Jacobus, a Uriah Jacobus proxy from Reaper Minis (also 4 Crusader proxies from Reaper Minis)
-about 20 Repentia with a Mistress
-2 Exorcists
-a modified Celestine model (gave her a jump pack from the Sanguinary Guard kit in place of her normal shroud and halo
-a priest with a chainsword
-a Sister Hospitaler and a Sister Dialogus
-2 or 3 bearers of Simulacrum Imperialises and a modified one to carry a Bretonnian Fleur-de-Lys (Lis? Can never remember, which is bad since I'm from Quebec) banner
-and enough Battle Sisters with boltguns to field a footslogging army without any vehicles when combined with the other models

I have at least one of pretty much everything I would ever use. There's nothing left to get that I want; the only purchases I could make would be rounding out my collection. And apart from the vehicles/walkers, it all fits in one KR cardboard box.

Daemons

The paperwork.

IG: The ever-threatening deployment zone spacing issue. Bunch and get blasted or spread and leave half the army in reserve?

The ever-threatening between-buildings traffic jam. 'So that's 30 guys, 3 wide... great, the guys at the back of the squad are out of range of the guys at the front, let alone the enemy...'

The ever-threatening backwards move. Move up 6", get shot back 7", move up 6"...

Also, 1 guy in an army of 100+ with a broken lasgun makes me very, very annoyed.

GK: I agreed not to play them in 5th as they were too good (I accidentally built a Paladin-bomb because 2-wound termies are cool), didn't see much action in 6th due to low-model-count armies suffering. Didn't see play as allies that often because they were AoC. Now, in 7th, they'd be back to being good, and able to ally with the rest of my armies... but we're not playing 7th...

IG. Having to use an older Codex because the newest one invalidated my army by dropping units and characters.

Black Templars, getting told that Chapter Tactics is so awesome and we totally shouldn't complain because we got awesome units that every other CT does better.

The more I think about it, the more World Eaters and Black Templars have in common, it's rather scary.

Doesn't matter what army when I chip the paint or parts fall off

Playing Tau, the worst part is definitely having to put up with how much complaining people seem to do about them. So glad that the interent masses have found other stuff to complain about and moved on by now.

 dementedwombat wrote:
Playing Tau, the worst part is definitely having to put up with how much complaining people seem to do about them. So glad that the interent masses have found other stuff to complain about and moved on by now.

That's why I'm hoping that if Sisters of Battle ever get a nice update with a new range of plastic models, the Codex is not overpowered.

I would not look forward to having played Sisters of Battle since 200...7? 8? I dunno, and then have people automatically think the worst of me online whenever I mention what army I play. Grey Knight players went through that, even the ones who were still using their painted metal minis.

Space Wolves: Running out of beards.
Space Marines: Too many bald heads, not enough beards. Space Marines are 100 times more manly with nice beards.
Dark Eldar: Transporting those fragile Raiders and Ravagers.

Necrons: Few options for long range fire.

Also, victories are often attributed by losing player to gimmicks or an OP codex, even though there are umpteen weaknesses to exploit.

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

This. I hate having to carry a milk crate full of drop pods along with my KR bag.

Ravenwing have to work really hard, otherwise White scars do very similar things for less points.

Orks: I lack the patience to paint 250+ models.

Also, armor with large blasts ;_;

Tau. Playing to my army's strengths and feeling bad about it.

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

Chaos: Running out of black paint, AGAIN.

Looking at my nicely painted Genestealers, then shrugging and not using them Again..

Transporting it.

Tau: having players think I play them because they're strong.

I played them from 4th to 7th! I stuck by them all the way through 5th edition, dagnabbit!

A second one for both chaos space marines and grey knights. Whenever I fielded either abaddon or kaldor draigo and someone had to make a quip about failbaddon or the warp dust movie. They are slightly funny once but I still like the fluff for both characters and hearing the same bad joke every time is realy annoying.

 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!

I know this pain!

Think of it as a sacrifice to Slannesh to keep your guys alive a bit longer

BA: having outdated costs, and knowing that when it gets "fixed," I will lose half the builds I run in exchange for four useless "artifacts" in the book.

They might not be useless though...

Maybe they get the jump pack of blood or something that let's them move 18" or something like that.

You never know...

 Glorywarrior wrote:
They might not be useless though...

Maybe they get the jump pack of blood or something that let's them move 18" or something like that.

You never know...

the bloodpack of bloody bloodness?

Sisters...


It's always, "WOW that was a really close game" or "Dang they are tough to beat"

Except that is ALL my games lol.

Blob Guard, getting them out, and putting them away. I already have spine problems and they just make it worse.

Playing Eldar casually with friends. I have a < 50% win rate. If I win it's because Eldar is a tier 1 army and I should always win. If I lose, it's all my fault.