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 Bobthehero wrote:
I play IG, never used a Leman Russ

Your Win/Loss ratio is better because of it

It is, consider I can buy 2 Earth shakers for the price of a LR

 Mr_Piddlez wrote:
I really want to start a SoB army, but I don't think I can handle any more disappointment. (I currently play exclusively Non-FW CSM.)

I won a tournament on Saturday with them. they also have won more tournaments for me than any other codex, and more Best Generals. Hopefully your confession may become a gnesis story!

I have severe Hobby ADD, I struggle to stick to an army. Right now my plan is to do Eldar, then maybe SOB, if I can stick to a plan.

I bought a Baneblade with every intent of using it in a game, but I never have.

I hate painting. It's not that I don't have time to paint, because I absolutely do, I just really, really don't enjoy painting, so I play with a mix of painted and unpainted stuff. (I love converting and kitbashing though!)

I seem to be unable to keep to a consistent color scheme for my armies. I have a lot of Battle Sisters in pink armor and white robes, but then I decided I wanted my Celestians to have white armor and pink robes to set them apart more noticeably, and I found they looked way, way better that way. But they don't make the colors I made my pink from anymore, so I can't paint anything in pink anymore, so if I get back into painting, I'll probably have to paint them with red or purple or blue robes. And then at one point I figured I might paint their robes differently based on what squad they were in, neglecting the fact that I don't organize my collection into squads, I just find a model with the correct equipment and stick it in the appropriate squad.

I have never, EVER won a game against someone that was not an immediate family member of mine. Including the time I refused to take stuff out of my army to make it fair when facing a kid who was only able to field about 900 points of stuff in a local 1500 point tournament. I lost that game, and it was not particularly close.

In the past 6-8 years or so, I've rarely fielded the same list twice. I create dozens and dozens of lists on Battlescribe, most of which never see a game, and I often write them just because I wanted to include a particular model or unit in my army next time. Also, my inner powergamer hasn't learned to shut up yet, so I flip-flop from taking the more powerful units to taking units I like for one reason or another. It's also hard to not list tailor a little when I know that my only opponent for the past decade is going to be fielding foot Orks, like she always does. In that situation, is there even a point to trying to develop a take-all-comers list, since I never play against anyone else?

I make really, really bad decisions. Like moving up the bulk of my Battle Sisters toward a hill in the middle of the table while a mob of 20 Slugga Boyz approaches from the other side, totally out of line of sight. Or (not tabletop related) choosing the bow over an SMG in a third-person shooter game when I have always been terrible with single-fire, semi-auto, sniper, and basically any weapon where I can't hold down the mouse button to unleash a steady stream of bullets, because I thought it would be nifty to use a bow in a sci-fi game.

I play female characters and armies almost exclusively in every game I've played for over a decade. I just look at male characters and have no desire to play or field them. Not tabletop related again, but when it comes to deciding to buy a new video game to play, one of my make-or-break points is, "Can I play a female character?" with imaginary bonus points if there's no stats difference between choosing a male character and choosing a female character. It's annoying that Planetside 2 made it so difficult to find out that female characters were playable, I must've spent at least an hour trying to figure it out.

I haven't been able to sit down and just read a book since I read Faith and Fire (the 40k one, not the real-life religious book of the same name by a different author). Dunno why. Maybe... Gonna put spoilers tags here despite the book's age.

Now, the most reading I do is a Darwin Awards or Dilbert book while on the toilet.

Son, you haven't read enough Dan Abnett if you get soured by deaths of characters. I nearly threw a chair when Honen Mu died at the end on HH: Legion

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
Son, you haven't read enough Dan Abnett if you get soured by deaths of characters. I nearly threw a chair when Honen Mu died at the end on HH: Legion

It's not just that characters died. I used to read tons of military sci-fi like John Ringo's Posleen series (I stopped with that series after the prologue of Cally's War, because the opening gruesome torture scene was not to my liking), David Drake's Hammer's Slammer's series, and a variety of others, and I had tons of fun reading it and the characters dying rarely bothered me. It's just, in this one case, the deaths were so utterly pointless and contrived. They also lost maybe 2-3 squad members throughout the first 95% of the book, then in the last part they kill off another 10-15 in rapid succession.

Anyways, it's just my guess as to why I never read any novels again. It also roughly coincided with me getting more into online computer games, which have the instant gratification thing going for them.

I have never used guardian defenders, nor do I ever expect to no matter how much gw wants to shove em down my throat. nor have i ever missed them.

I absolutely loathe loyalist marines of all colors except wolves and grey knights, and have never owned a marine model.

when i first started, 3rd or 4th game my gaming group made me play a game using marines just so i could try em out (everyone played marines and they felt everyone should). Only time i have ever used a marine army.

I like painting, i am just not good at it and lack the focus to get it done so my army never gets fully painted.

I miss VDR

I'm planning on making a Guardian-heavy force for my Eldar, despite the fact that many people have told me that Guardians aren't that good.

I stand by my 1KSons not only because I like the fluff ans style of them. I'm also hoping that someday they might have a few months of unbeatable cheese thanks to a new codex (that later will be obsolete when the following edition/faq lands). But for just a few months... please GW. Just a little bit.

I jink with my Ork Warbikers all the time and still fire them as BS2 because I'm an Ork masquerading as a Dire Avenger.

*Is there something you've never done that you believe most 40K gamers take for granted?
- Played an actual 40K game. I've played a kind of demo/learning game with the manager of the GW shop I buy/paint/play at, but I'm too tentative (ok, almost scared) to because of #4

*Are you TFG on open gaming or club night?
- I'm not competitive. Yeah, it's nice to win from time to time, but I'm really not a competitive gamer. I use gaming (TCGs, Tabletop, PnP RPGs, Video Games, Board Games, etc.) as a way to relax. So, I'd honestly doubt I'd ever be TFG on any kind of night.

*Do you have any bizarre obssessions about list-building or army comp?
- About 40K, not so much. I haven't seen anything while hanging around my local store that players couldn't or the person running the game couldn't come up with an compromise or fix for. AoS, I kinda want some kind of ability to build a list so that it's comparable to my opponent. There are several systems being used right now, and none of them have been widely adopted. That said, I'm also glad that AoS doesn't have a list system. It means you can each bring just a couple of models to the table and not worry about losing abilities because of being unbound.

*Are there any rules you consistently forget or just plain don't know?
- The vast majority of 40K. Of all the games I've played over the years (including several years in MTG), I've never seen a ruleset so complicated as 40K. It's honestly overwhelming for someone who hasn't grown up on it per se. I know there are several people that wouldn't mind helping me learn. Unfortunately, even when plans are made, those several people don't tend to show up at my local GW shop (where I buy/play). Even though I can use Programs/Apps like BattleScribe, I'd still have to look up rules probably rather frequently. And, the rules for just my army (be it DA or Nids) plus the rules in the BRB that are referenced by each codex would take up a good amount of room in a folder or notebook just by themselves. There's always going to be a couple of TFGs at every gaming shop, but most of the guys that play at my local GW are really cool. They'd be happy to teach me. But, the times they are there, I usually am just dropping by to get something as I'm right in the middle of painting or assembling. And, when I'm actually ready to play, no one is there.

SG

I have played Unbound. 5 Warbosses and a Painboy, on bikes. Opponent knew what I was bringing and agreed to it just to see what would happen vs his CSM TAC list. It wasn't so much a game, as an exercise in him removing models. He conceded at the bottom of turn 2. I felt bad, but we both laughed and agreed never to do that again.

I have never played a game over 1500 points, and most of my games take 4-5 hours. I chalk this up to a combination of looking up rules, having a lot of models to move (Orks), and assaulting early and often (Orks).

I make thousands of lists a year that never get played.

I grew up playing with my brother and we precisely measured everything. Every movement of every miniature, every shot, everything.

It kills me a little inside when opponents in my GW just measure the first few models and guesstimate the guys behind.

My new bane is in AoS when they don't measure most pile-in moves.

Anyone feel my pain?

My favourite game size is around 600 points. I do play bigger games though.

Sometimes me one of my friends will play a game where we just pick units, work out a counter pick for the otherside and then stop when we think we will have a roughly even game. Shockingly we've found this method better than using points.

Frozocrone wrote:I jink with my Ork Warbikers all the time and still fire them as BS2 because I'm an Ork masquerading as a Dire Avenger.

I see this a lot. Jink should prevent ALL shooting, but that's for a different thread

ServiceGames wrote:*Is there something you've never done that you believe most 40K gamers take for granted?
- Played an actual 40K game. I've played a kind of demo/learning game with the manager of the GW shop I buy/paint/play at, but I'm too tentative (ok, almost scared) to because of #4

Are you terribly shy? If there are some good guys at your local GW, as you say, any one of them would be happy to play a game and teach you as you go. The rules can be intimidating, but there's no substitute for just getting stuck in! If you're having trouble getting a pickup game, see if one of the guys could schedule a night and time to get things rolling.

I love to use Bel'akor in my chaos armies whenever possible, but rarely if ever use Invisibility. Personal favorites are shrouding and Psychic Shriek.

I tend to spam crusader squads in crusader land raiders at all problems, even vehicles. That power fist sword brethen plus thunder hammer captain are the only damages, but dang it does the idea of frothing mad space marines attacking a tank with swords amuse me

 the_Armyman wrote:

Frozocrone wrote:I jink with my Ork Warbikers all the time and still fire them as BS2 because I'm an Ork masquerading as a Dire Avenger.

I see this a lot. Jink should prevent ALL shooting, but that's for a different thread

To be honest I think I would still be shooting xD

I got into 40K about 1989, and have steadily collected since then - over six seperate 2000+ pt armies, each boxed set and rulebook edition and at least two companies of space marines. Yet until I joined an escalation league three months ago, I'd played enough 40K to count on a single hand.

When the Horus Heresy Space Marine game came out (in 89'), I measured and scaled up one of the land raiders and constructed a model out of a (used) pizza box and bits from a GI Joe Vamp. I still have it, sitting next to the one I bought from GW about a month later.

I play IG and win/come close to winning against Marines

I rarely play Ravenwing, even though I'm a hardcore DA fan. As of 7th edition codex, I bought a Dark Shroud and 2 squads of 6 bikers because they're too good not to use....

 Stormonu wrote:
I got into 40K about 1989, and have steadily collected since then - over six seperate 2000+ pt armies, each boxed set and rulebook edition and at least two companies of space marines. Yet until I joined an escalation league three months ago, I'd played enough 40K to count on a single hand.

When the Horus Heresy Space Marine game came out (in 89'), I measured and scaled up one of the land raiders and constructed a model out of a (used) pizza box and bits from a GI Joe Vamp. I still have it, sitting next to the one I bought from GW about a month later.

I built a hybrid of the new and old rhino out of a pizza box!

I love dreadnoughts. Way too much. I have 3 Death Company Dreads, 4 regular Dreads, and 10 Furioso Dreads. That new forgeworld dread makes me happy (the pricetag doesn't though).
I also love playing with giant tanks. My Fellblade and Spartan are some of my favorite models.
Link, because my models made it to the interwebs somehow.

 Bottle wrote:
I grew up playing with my brother and we precisely measured everything. Every movement of every miniature, every shot, everything.

It kills me a little inside when opponents in my GW just measure the first few models and guesstimate the guys behind.

My new bane is in AoS when they don't measure most pile-in moves.

Anyone feel my pain?

Oh man, you'd hate one of my opponents. He moves his 50 man blob by taking the back rank and putting them 6" in front of the front rank. Pretty sure that's a common blob squad tactic to not spend 20 min in one movement phase.

On topic: After I finished painting my Flyrant I flew him around my living room like an action figure. Sound effects and all

 Mulletdude wrote:
I love dreadnoughts. Way too much. I have 3 Death Company Dreads, 4 regular Dreads, and 10 Furioso Dreads. That new forgeworld dread makes me happy (the pricetag doesn't though).
I also love playing with giant tanks. My Fellblade and Spartan are some of my favorite models.
Link, because my models made it to the interwebs somehow.

I want that many

Screw the dreads, I want that Fellblade.

 Mulletdude wrote:
I love dreadnoughts. Way too much. I have 3 Death Company Dreads, 4 regular Dreads, and 10 Furioso Dreads. That new forgeworld dread makes me happy (the pricetag doesn't though).
I also love playing with giant tanks. My Fellblade and Spartan are some of my favorite models.
Link, because my models made it to the interwebs somehow.

Nicely painted armor, Mulletdude. A Spartan, Fellblade, and 2 Sicarans is serious business!

 the_Armyman wrote:

 Mulletdude wrote:
I love dreadnoughts. Way too much. I have 3 Death Company Dreads, 4 regular Dreads, and 10 Furioso Dreads. That new forgeworld dread makes me happy (the pricetag doesn't though).
I also love playing with giant tanks. My Fellblade and Spartan are some of my favorite models.
Link, because my models made it to the interwebs somehow.

Nicely painted armor, Mulletdude. A Spartan, Fellblade, and 2 Sicarans is serious business!

Thanks! They also had some dreadnought friends backing them up. They're on the other side of the table and not in that shot though
Like this guy!

EDIT: I'm bad at hyperlinks, apparently =\

I absolutely love my finished models, love coming up with unique armies, army lists, I fluff literally every part of my battleforce and have extensive backstories for my leaders -

But I have an incredibly hard time motivating myself to build and paint my models for fear of messing them up. I currently have four imperial knights (two FW) in various stages of completion, a reasonably sized Dark Eldar army with zero finished models (the last time I ran raiders one had to be blue-tacked together to be fieldable), an entire shipping box of metal Sisters of Battle, two custom exorcists, and a DE Tantalus. In my entire history of playing the game, I have finished exactly two models, a Land Speeder Storm and a old metal SM scout sniper. I don't play or have any interest in playing SM. I cannot seem to retain focus and motivation for long enough to finish models and it drives me nuts, because it doesn't stop me from buying more (I currently have 3 more knights on order).