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Not so much a waste of money (as I ended up selling it for about as much as I spent) but a pretty big waste of time I once invested was on a 7E Necron Decurion army with a Destroyer Cult & lots of Wraiths.

As Destroyers are ridiculously expensive, I ended up converting mine (Immortal Torso + scratch-built bodies).
Spent weeks working on it and only played 1 game...against SW Thunderwolf spam with a Knight.
All the tricks the list was made for were basically ignored. I lost all enthusiasm for painting them. Ended up selling them by formations, and it was a good thing too as 8E was soon announced.

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I regret nothing.

Well, i regret a lot of things, but i'm honestly ok with things i've bought. even those things i've never really had a chance to use were still fun to put together and paint.

I bought a bunch of stuff to do Kill Teams in factions like Harlequins, Genestealers, and Orks when 7th KT was released. Didn't take me long to realize I wasn't going to get around to painting or playing them and have been getting back what I can for them since.

Overall though, I don't have a lot of these for 40k. I didn't really buy in until I'd tempered my faction ADD through other games. Wasted money on other games though..... sheesh.

I own more than 100 terminators of various gear... not so much a waste as I always pick them up cheap on ebay and only spend $2 or less per model. But they are unlikely to see a table anytime soon., I still have fun painting them and tricking them out with different weapons.

The 5th, 6th and 7th edition rulesets & related codexes. I stopped playing after 3rd/4th ed. but kept buying the new books as they came out, expecting to start playing again sometime. I finally did with 8th.

I hate helmet-less marines so much that I blindly just bought a intercessor helmet for the push fit model who has his helmet on his belt.

Selling my collection in the first place was a waste of money because I spent so much on it and could only sell it for a fraction of the price. And the money I got for it I just wasted.

So now I've learned to keep things I actually like and not allow myself to be influenced by silly things.

tneva82 wrote:
Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

Why in the hell would you throw it away?

I don't think I have wasted money on 40k but I do have quite a lot of tomb kings....

It's hard to say. My night goblin army sits on a shelf now but I did get a ton enjoyment from playing it. Might also dust it off one day for something like KOW when I have more time. Part of the hobby is simply having the figures so even if your not playing with them atm it doesn't mean that they were a waste of money

7th Ed, Traitor Legions, decide to build a Death Guard army - to play for a few days at Warhammer World as part of my 40th birthday celebrations.

I bought Mk III marines and forgeworld plague marine shoulder pads, champion upgrades, rhino doors, autocannons for havocs etc. Plague Marines!
Plus Bikes, Obliterators, two Heldrakes. The jewel is FW Grave Warden Terminators - they look great and I take my time painting them up nicely, to run as combi-melta terminators.

Then 8th drops. Death Guard! Great, I think. I am nearly finished painting the army and the Index drops, about a week before the event.

I nearly cried :(

I'm glad we got new toys in our codex, but 75% of the stuff I bought was effectively invalidated. I'm also really annoyed that DG Terminators somehow forgot how to punch things, because, reasons. So my Grave Wardens have to be counts-as.

Really upset me!

For me, it's probably 30k. I bought the first big book, and then the army lists book, and close to 3k of emperor's children. I build it all, paint it all, and then realize I don't like 30k at all, plus, all the units I have are garbage.

So, I invested probably close to $1000 and go knows how many hours on a army I've used a couple of times.

Depends on the GSC codex...

I thought it was funny to buy a Baneblade and play it in a Tyranid list...it really was...

Now with potential changes to IG soup and GSC codex rumors about limiting IG stuff for GSC itll get a waste of money because I dont own an IG army...
Somebody needs a Baneblade ?

Racing to finish my 2000 point Imperial Guaqrd list before the codex dropped. I was new to 40k and didn't realize what would happen. I then raced to buy and build to get back to 2000 points of at least semi-effective models before the FAQs started dropping.

The point change pain was real man. My poor Salamander Command Tank...

 mjl7atlas wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

Why in the hell would you throw it away?

Because his life has no yoy in it...

Process wrote:
So the general answer is "I bought unit/model A for the rules and the rules changed"?

Is that a waste of money? or is it a change in perceived value?

Maybe if you dont place so much value on variables like rules and make purchases based on constants such as the model and its aesthetics then nothing would truly be a waste of money?

This.

Slavishly chasing the meta game, is a futile endeavour. GW will always change the rules, always. Models have inherite worth beyond what lacklustre rules GW produce for them.

Why people feel that the rules are crucial in defining a models worth is akin to putting the cart in from of the horse.

Use different rules, or use house rules, or make up your own gaming system with your opponents.

It is sad to see that this attitude has resulted in wonderful model lines made by GW being erased. Tomb Kings, the models were and remain wonderful, the rules for the models were however lacking. So sales were never good, as people's main point of concern was the artificial, this GW pulled the plug on a poor selling model line.

The only thing I have regretted buying from GW are the Kill Team rules, while they are a big improvement on 40k, I doubt I can conjure up the enthusiasm to play.

If the Brood Brothers rumor proves true, I will have no use for a fully magnetized Baneblade pinched from the drunken AM soldiers at a local nightclub, its all-female crew, some ogryns, ratlings, AM psykers. Or maybe I will just do a diorama out of them.

The biggest waste of money was a large High Elven army in the WHFB last edition. It was my first GW army, I've bought almost everything in the line up to stock up on models and options...and then End Times arrived. Ouch.

That large pile of sad boxes is preventing me from starting anything in AoS. I can't decide what to do with them and I can't start another fantasy army until I figure it out.

There are no mistakes; only happy accidents.

The only things I regret lately are certain paintjobs. If it's a simple miniature I'll strip it and start over, but if I fudge up a colour scheme on a vehicle or something, I'll sell it off on eBay (often making my money back). It took me twenty years but I've developed as good a hobby-discipline as I'm ever likely to acquire.

Also, selling used 40K stuff on eBay for commission I've seen the MASS loss that so many players take with meta-chasing or "buy it all, but never finish it!" kind of approach that it's solidified my methods a ton. Basically you see the following:

New in box: Great
On Sprue: Very Good
Bits: Pretty Good
Assembled: Okay
Painted: Poor (exception being very well painted, which is rare).

Take a guess where 90% of the stuff I sell off is? The bottom two brackets, where you lose the most money by far. 40K and similar GW products are simply too expensive and time consuming to "dabble" in if you don't want to just throw money in the trash. Luckily I'm more or less past that point myself and I hope my resolve remains intact.

 mjl7atlas wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Bought warhound titan. Then found out it was recast. Straight to garbage bin.

Why in the hell would you throw it away?

This little thing called morals

Luckily most of my 'mistakes' have been reparable. Like buying things I end up not liking, plenty of the money I spent of them can be made back selling them off.

But I did get into 30k in 7th and now that I like 8th a lot more I don't really play it at all, so fair amount wasted on those books. I just need to wait until the FW Mechanicum units get 40k rules to use those.

Buying the 7th Edition Ork codex.

Also note I bought the Warlord edition that came with the Waagh Ghazghkull supplement that got released separately anyway a week later. Only good thing is the metal Ork objective markers.

 wuestenfux wrote:

 Giantwalkingchair wrote:
$150 on a baneblade. Back in 5th edition. Never played apocalypse. Literally collected dust and i never painted it. Gave it away.

A Baneblade is very well playable in an Imperium soup army.

I've never considered buying minis as a waste of money. The life span of codices and rules in general is rather short.
Buying codices or supplementary books is another issue. I'm very careful here. I just have 5 codices in the 8th: all 3 Aeldari, BA and Necrons. But all 5 indices.

How long are the cycles between units being bad, and then becoming good. For example something like a termintor model, when was the last time they were something people wanted to use, because they are good?

Karol wrote:

 wuestenfux wrote:

 Giantwalkingchair wrote:
$150 on a baneblade. Back in 5th edition. Never played apocalypse. Literally collected dust and i never painted it. Gave it away.

A Baneblade is very well playable in an Imperium soup army.

I've never considered buying minis as a waste of money. The life span of codices and rules in general is rather short.
Buying codices or supplementary books is another issue. I'm very careful here. I just have 5 codices in the 8th: all 3 Aeldari, BA and Necrons. But all 5 indices.

How long are the cycles between units being bad, and then becoming good. For example something like a termintor model, when was the last time they were something people wanted to use, because they are good?

There is no fixed cycle which says that a unit is bad in one ed and becomes decent in the following one.
Termies were certainly good in the 4th ed with all those assault cannons (each hit of 6 was rending).
Deep striking of Termies and Landspeeders all with assault cannons on one of the enemy flanks and then moving towards the center was very killy at that time.

For me it has to be the codices I have bought. I barely ever used them back in 7th and have never needed them in 8th. I've yet to get a codex rule wrong so I think I've been doing alright on that count.

Beyond that I made a few impulse buys on ebay for well priced models that I have never used.

Much regret for the cost I have sunk into the game, but there are a few things I actually regret.

- 7E and 8E BRB, a waste of money
- Lost Patrol, the game is abomible
- 6E Knight codex, like 2 months later GW turned around and released a new kit and book, with the fluff included instead of a separate, full-priced book
- fail cast Tyranid hive tyrant; the plastic kit is soooo much better
- 6E Tyranid codex, it was utter crap

Repulsor (hate the model and the rules)
Redemptor dread (again, model and rules suck)
Ven dreads (pretty much unuseable since eldar dex dropped)
Predator (only bought one so that I would have three but I don't even use one anymore)
SM codex (better off playing anything in it as another marine dex, so many changes to it and FAQs I should have gone digital)
Grey Knights (though adding a couple of GMDKs and a couple units of deepstrike strike squads would be fun...Oh and the dex..)
Xiphon (las cannons worthless against 3++ knights, who'd of thunk that anti-tank weapons would fall further out of a big ole target meta. At least I got it before the forge world price hike...)

Now that I type the list out I feel bad. That's a lot of plastic on my shelf.

 p5freak wrote:
1) Land raider. Pretty useless now in 8th.
2) Leviathan dreadnought. Pretty useless now with knights.
3) Regular dreads. Pretty useless now with contemptor dreads/armigers.
4) JP plasma marines. Pretty useless now with plasma inceptors.

Armigers I kind of understand, but regular dreads have a much better selection of weapon loads (both in numbers and in quality) than a Contemptor and can always stand in for a Venerable Dread.

The whining about "good" stuff becoming "bad" isn't really a waste if you got to play it when it was "good."

And at least you got stuff, esp, Codices / Army Books - I wish my Warhammer Fantasy Dogs of War had an Army Book for AoS or something.

Bharring wrote:
Corsairs.

Got Squatted.

Somehow, I don't regret them, though.

I miss Corsairs

SG