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So, I'm just curious about how people handle building their armies. Do you focus on a single army untill it hits a chosen point? Or do you work on multiple armies, building and painting a bit here and a bit there to avoid getting burned out on doing only one type of models for a long time?

I work on multiple armies. Got Necrons, Ultramarines and Astral Claws going right now, and just started building Infinity. But, it does stack up. It's harder to focus on a single thing.

I focus almost exclusively on one until it can be fielded multiple ways.

I have found that everytime I have tried to do multiple projects at once it tends to clutter things up and nothing seems to get done. I prefer constructing a single army to a single point (5000pts. for example) and then I turn my attention to other projects that I wish to do.

I focus on orks. So that i run orklequins, orktartes, orka militarum, orkdar, orkau and a bunch of others.

If I am starting a new army, I focus on it until I can use it. Then I go back to focusing on all my armies.

Merellin wrote:
So, I'm just curious about how people handle building their armies. Do you focus on a single army untill it hits a chosen point? Or do you work on multiple armies, building and painting a bit here and a bit there to avoid getting burned out on doing only one type of models for a long time?

I personally own all the armies, save for Chaos Daemons/Daeonkin, Tyranids (never really dug them) and the Mechanicus armies. I will soon have a Mechanicus army by a happy circumstance.

I love the game about as much as I did when I started. I find that playing that many forces gives me not only a "freshness", because I can and frequently do switch armies, which is also fun for my opponents because they never know what I fancied on any given day so they don't always have the same game against me.

What you learn from playing so many is, ultimately, how to beat them as well. So its highly instructional to play thoe armies and then when I return to my "home base" armies (in my case, Tau Empire and Adepta Sororitas are really my favorites) I know what to do against all the rest. I prioritize better. I know the traps.

Lots of virtue to playing different armies.

One word of caution: you absolutely do get a little rusty sometimes when you dont focus on ant one army, so for some people, playing a lot of armies, especially if you consider yourself middle of the road strategically, might be more detriment than good for you. It's hard enough to master the game as a game, let alone know the stress tolerances of your own stuff and have that "feel" for playing them. So if strategy and in game tactics aren't a strength, focusing in on one army might be better.

Once I get about 2-2.5k that I'm happy with I'll start a new army.

Thinking I might build the Footslog DKoK army I've always had my eye on after my Iron warrrior Mech army get finished.

I've built up a combined Admech force Im happy with but still have a lot of painting to do. I need to rebuy some units because of working with magnets to try to make units be the other part of the dual kit has made them look clunky and bad, but I don't mind as I love the look of Skitarii.

I also had some Black Templars which I'm not realy digging anymore, and decided to join my friend in making homebrew chapters, which works well with my friends homebrew Tau Sept. I recently got the Demi Company box and some bikes. But I want different heads and bodies for some of my marines so I've ordered stuff off of Anvil Industries for robed bodies, torsos and heads. I plan to kitbash myself some of the generic HQs.

Finally I also have High Elves for Age of Sigmar I wanna work on. A buddy bought the AoS starter and expanded on both starter armies with some Tomb Kings to go with it. Plan to use some of the fantasy bits on my space marines since Elves apparantly love robes.

So I have those 40k projects to work on

I currently dabble in three, but I want to sell at least one. Right now, I have Dark Angels, Tyranids, and Tau. I'm definitely keeping Tau, but it'll depend on the new Tyranid codex (if it drops sometime soon) as to whether I sell my Dark Angels or Tyranids.

SG

To clarify, I dont mean own and play multiple armies, I mean actualy assemble and paint multiple armies at once, Or focus on assembling and painting one army untill it is done.

Armies are never finished. Therefore, all armies get worked on all the time Seriously, I'm still actively painting and building units for my first army that I started 15 years ago at the same time I'm working on models I just got five days ago. Hobby ADD, baby!

I have three armies (Dark Angels, Tau, and Khorne Daemonkin) and I switch which one I'm painting frequently. This is probably not a good thing, as the end result is I have way too few painted miniatures, and these are spread around three armies. The upside is that I can switch gears and paint something different now and again, especially since Dark Angels have three different paint schemes (Green, Ravenwing black and Deathwing bone) and there are Kroot in my Tau force, which look very different from regular Tau.

I have only one. Mainly because I can't afford collecting multiple armies. 40k sucks money like nothing else (well, maybe drug abuse costs more, but haven't tried so can't realy tell)...

Multiple armies... Marines, Nids, Dark Eldar and Guard

I've organized myself to paint one unit after the other. I am not starting a new one until I finished the current one. I am also always switching the faction after I finished one unit. Thereby I don't get bored by painting always the same scheme.

I have Orks which I'm currently building up now but I also have some Wood Elf and Eldar stuff that i'll be using to make a Corsair army and some Grey Knight stuff as well but I haven't started working on either of those.

I try to focus on one at a time.

The fact that I'm working on 30K Salamanders, Craftworld Eldar and Harlequins, and havent even finished painting up al of my Dark Eldarl either, tells you how successful I've been at that.

I like to focus on one army at a time. I get the urge to build and paint many models, but that usually ends with me buying a bunch of stuff, leaving it sit for months, and then selling it when a new shiny comes along. Focusing on one army allows me to keep things cheaper and get things done for that army. Letting things stack is demoralizing, and when that happens I tend not to get that army done.

As for getting burned out, this is one reason I play csm. I have my main force painted in an Alpha legion scheme and my zerkers/noise marines/plague marines painted in their respective colors. If I get burned out on one scheme I can switch to another for awhile.

I have hopped between armies in the past, but I noticed that doing so dramatically increased the completion time (building, painting and basing) of the armies.

Right now, I buy, build and paint one army at a time.

So far the change is working. My tyranids are almost built. And I'm saving money by not buying multiple armies.

I hate to admit the amount of discipline it takes to follow my rule of army building. I'm addicted to the plastic crack known as 40K, so I have to set up firm boundaries for myself. But I guess there are worse things to be addicted to.

That's my two cents.

 Jancoran wrote:

Merellin wrote:
So, I'm just curious about how people handle building their armies. Do you focus on a single army untill it hits a chosen point? Or do you work on multiple armies, building and painting a bit here and a bit there to avoid getting burned out on doing only one type of models for a long time?

I personally own all the armies, save for Chaos Daemons/Daeonkin, Tyranids (never really dug them) and the Mechanicus armies. I will soon have a Mechanicus army by a happy circumstance.

I love the game about as much as I did when I started. I find that playing that many forces gives me not only a "freshness", because I can and frequently do switch armies, which is also fun for my opponents because they never know what I fancied on any given day so they don't always have the same game against me.

What you learn from playing so many is, ultimately, how to beat them as well. So its highly instructional to play thoe armies and then when I return to my "home base" armies (in my case, Tau Empire and Adepta Sororitas are really my favorites) I know what to do against all the rest. I prioritize better. I know the traps.

Lots of virtue to playing different armies.

One word of caution: you absolutely do get a little rusty sometimes when you dont focus on ant one army, so for some people, playing a lot of armies, especially if you consider yourself middle of the road strategically, might be more detriment than good for you. It's hard enough to master the game as a game, let alone know the stress tolerances of your own stuff and have that "feel" for playing them. So if strategy and in game tactics aren't a strength, focusing in on one army might be better.

This. I own all non imperial armys and getting more imperial, it allows my gaming group to never know what im bringing so no one can list tailor

I focus on one army until it has the flexibility in lists that I want and is sufficiently developed in terms of models.

No, just focusing on a single army. It's a HH WE army atm.

I'll generally paint one army untill I get bored of that scheme and then paint a different army. Sometimes it's straight back to the previous army, sometimes it sits there for a year or more before it gets any more work done to it, depends on how I feel.

I find this is the solution to those periods where you're sick of something but still need to keep painting.

Building stuff is easy, that tends to get done in one big rush as I madly finish whatever stupid idea I wanted for the army, then it sits there in grey mocking me until I finally find the time to start painting stuff again.

The painting does get less hard as you go along though. I used to loathe it, then hate it, now it's a mere dislike bordering on apathy towards something that just needs to be done, with occassional moments of fondness when I accidently churn out a miniature that doesn't look terrible. Maybe one day, I'll even learn to like it?

Working on DA, Minotaurs, DKK, Tau, and Emperor's Children all at once, so uh, that

I've got two very large armies at this point, neither of which I plan to eliminate.

These days, I focus on adding a unit here or there to my main forces, or growing my smaller, allied forces in a similar fashion.