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 adamsouza wrote:
7th Edition Datacards. Own almost all of them, used almost none of them.

7th Edition Codexes. Own almost all of them, used almost none of them.

8th Edition Forgeworld Indexes. Own all of them, used none of them.

Ork Stompa
Forgeworld Warhound Titan
Necromunda (2017)
Genestealer Cult Dice

It's like we're brothers

Storm raven, 2nd hand, but never been used on a table top.

Grav Centurions. We're solid in 7th. Hot garbage now. Also their drop pod delivery.

Ork Battle wagon. Another kit I've never actually fielded yet.

Extra Storm talons for a double Talon Wing formation or whatever the formation was called. Also Land speeders that were required, just for some reliable flyers turn 2.

Crimson Slaughter codex supplement, the 2nd release. Nearly identical price for the same exact content and the worst formations ever.

$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

They haven't told the employees at GW stores anything in close to 10 years. They hear about stuff the same time we do. They used to know what was coming a bit in advance but GW stopped that because they were worried about leaks.

If pressed, I might list my second box of Space Marine bikes. I don't use that squad nearly enough to justify having six men for it.

I might also list picking Marines in general since they're in such a mopey place right now, but I've spent enough time around GW to know that Marines are unlikely to stay a bottom-tier army for very long.

[Edit] ... and I suppose I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little worried about all the old-style marines I picked up getting obsoleted by future developments on the Primaris marine line.

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

Sorry, I'm gonna call bs on that one. GW advertised 8th's release months out from it's street date. Plus they also offered refunds for anyone who bought a codex close to the announcement of 8th.

wuestenfux 763618 10147765& wrote:
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.

Ok, thank you for the explanation. I understand that there are no fixed times, but from the terminator example it seems to me, although this may be false, the time between something going from bad to good can be multiple editions.

 Grimtuff wrote:

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

Sorry, I'm gonna call bs on that one. GW advertised 8th's release months out from it's street date. Plus they also offered refunds for anyone who bought a codex close to the announcement of 8th.

That's pretty lousy customer service, as the GW employee knew that it was coming out. Hell, they announce preorders a week before they go live, so two weeks was plenty of time, and warhammer community did a long build up. They're in a tough spot, where they're expected to keep selling product they know, for a fact, has a very short shelf life.

As for the models being worthless, that's hyperbolic. They still have worth in that you can sell them, and even weak tea armies like GK don't sell for all that much less than other armies.

8th edition made fools of us all. I play IG, a strong army, and even I have plenty of stuff that never sees the tabletop: chimeras, veterans, hydras, heavy weapon teams (aside from mortars), etc.

I wish I lived in your part of the world where you can find buyers for terminator GK. I really do.

Also does buying those strange direction dice also count as wasted money? I got those alongside my army as something "I will find use for sure".

Karol wrote:
I wish I lived in your part of the world where you can find buyers for terminator GK. I really do.

Also does buying those strange direction dice also count as wasted money? I got those alongside my army as something "I will find use for sure".

Okay, to be fair, those sell for less than most models.

 Polonius wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
$150 on a GK starter army, paint and tools $80 on books. First time in a GW store. Told him I loved the lore of the GK, and I wanted them to be my first army. Sold me the kit, 8th dropped 2 weeks later, and my books were irrelevant, and my models were worthless. The guy at the store claimed he had no idea 8th was gonna drop, or he would have told me to hold off on the books. Liar.

Sorry, I'm gonna call bs on that one. GW advertised 8th's release months out from it's street date. Plus they also offered refunds for anyone who bought a codex close to the announcement of 8th.

That's pretty lousy customer service, as the GW employee knew that it was coming out. Hell, they announce preorders a week before they go live, so two weeks was plenty of time, and warhammer community did a long build up. They're in a tough spot, where they're expected to keep selling product they know, for a fact, has a very short shelf life.

Read through the guy's post history. He's talking gak.

The 6th ed Knights codex which I used for all of one game was kind of a bummer. The 6th ed Marine codex didn't see too much use from me either.

I tried to work myself back into gaming and collecting first a couple of years ago after a 28 year break and was sold End Times. Within a couple of weeks AOS was released and End Times was no more. Really took the biscuit. Recently purchased the new AOS set Soul Wars. Still nobody admits to playing it in this area so it's just going to collect dust. Also spent out on a second hand starter box for Silver Tower. Again no players in this area. It's mostly all 40k here.

So turned my back on modern releases and started to concentrate on what I remember from my first time gaming in the 80's.No longer feel I am throwing money away for something I will never use.

I bought the drop pod like 8 years ago. Assembled it with great pain then never got around to paint it. Sold it some year later. Then like 2 years ago I tried again, and same result. Nowthe newer one is sold too.

I have a 4000 points black templar army fully painted. Yet I got defeated by the drop pod twice and it felt like a waste in a way. It has nothing to do with the rules, but I think that model kit is cursed...

Dont believe I ever used it in the game too...

I bought the Wood Elf army book, treeman, wild riders, and a decent wood elf army right when they were released for WHFB 8th edition. Little did I know that was the last army to be released before age of sigmar. I played 3 games with them before AOS came out and the uproar from AOS was so significant that I couldnt get anyone to play anygames, nor did I feel like getting all of those new rulebooks and dataslates.

I ended up selling the elves to someone else. That was my first effort of getting into the fantasy side of things and I still havent returned.

About 10,000 points of Necrons.

I only just recently got back into 40k, dug out the remnants of my beloved Tau army and sold them all making a fair amount of money, used it to buy the Eldar start collecting set along with 2 dire avengers squads and some guardians, wave serpent etc.
I painted the avengers, wave serpent, wraith blades and then decided I wanted to collect 1 army at a time and sold them all off to make some more space for my Scythes of the emperor!

Not really a waste of money but a waste of time as they never even made the tabletop.

The entirety of my 3rd edition Tyranids and Dark Eldar armies. They went into storage and I lost and broke so many models it wasn't worth fixing them. Easily a few thousand dollars gone.

I also have way too many power armoured Chaos marines but that's another story...

Models are never wasted... I tend to build armies around what I like, rather than what is effective in the game.

My biggest 'waste' was the collector's edition rulebook for 4th edition - turned out to be my least favourite edition until 6th/7th came along, so was my one and only dabble with the limited edition books.

Selling a reaver titan for money and now I want another one. Also all the pre-updates, nothing worse than seeing all the money you spent on old models going down the drain.

It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away. And for pretty arbitrary things.

I regret selling out all the time. I wish I had had better sense back then. I figured I'd have no one to play with, but really they're worth more than whatever the game is doing, what edition it is, or how powerful their rules are at the moment. I don't need to play a hundred games to feel satisfied with my collection, and I was having a blast making Mordheim stuff and converting and painting. There were outside influences however, but even then, I failed to recognize the importance the hobby had in my life and so I sold out. That was the waste of money right there.

Anyways, I dunno. Just shocking to see how many people acted like I did.

Every pewter model I ever bought. Seriously.



Also, every Rhino chassis model I bought before the current Rhino kit came out. I had literally a dozen of those in my Crimson Fists army alone. Replacing all of that stuff has been MAJORLY time consuming.

 darkcloak wrote:
It's actually surprising to see how many people are so blaise about their property. Chucking titans in the trash, buying hundreds of dollars worth of models only to leave them in a closet or give them away. And for pretty arbitrary things.

I regret selling out all the time. I wish I had had better sense back then. I figured I'd have no one to play with, but really they're worth more than whatever the game is doing, what edition it is, or how powerful their rules are at the moment. I don't need to play a hundred games to feel satisfied with my collection, and I was having a blast making Mordheim stuff and converting and painting. There were outside influences however, but even then, I failed to recognize the importance the hobby had in my life and so I sold out. That was the waste of money right there.

Anyways, I dunno. Just shocking to see how many people acted like I did.

For some morals and ethics are more important than money. Money is replacable. Morals & ethics aren't.

I don't support thieves. Period. Do you? donkey-caves like that cannot be supported. Price I paid for the recasted junk is pittance compared to price of moral integrity. Only regret there is donkey-cave getting that money. Burning money that would buy warlord would have been preferable than that donkey-cave waste of human life getting the price of that warhound.

Moral is what define you. Not physical product you own.

 Just Tony wrote:
Every pewter model I ever bought. Seriously.



Also, every Rhino chassis model I bought before the current Rhino kit came out. I had literally a dozen of those in my Crimson Fists army alone. Replacing all of that stuff has been MAJORLY time consuming.

That's funny. I'm scouting ebay for pewter models and old Rhinos every week

Sgt. Cortez wrote:

 Just Tony wrote:
Every pewter model I ever bought. Seriously.



Also, every Rhino chassis model I bought before the current Rhino kit came out. I had literally a dozen of those in my Crimson Fists army alone. Replacing all of that stuff has been MAJORLY time consuming.

That's funny. I'm scouting ebay for pewter models and old Rhinos every week

Then I strongly suggest you NEVER watch the "How to convert pewter miniatures" video when I finally get around to posting it on youtube.

The entire point of minis is that they are one piece!

£300 on a hierophant biotitan. Saw the table once then my dad threw it out accidentally when I moved house.

I once bought 4000ish points of Grey Knights in one go and sold them on eBay for I think 60% of what I paid before I even got 1/3 assembled (less than a month).

My shame lives here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/405294.page

I've been fairly lucky with my 40K purchases, all things considered.Years ago, I bought a second-hand collection of Space Marines (Tactical Squad, Terminator Squad, Land Speeder, Predator, and a whole bunch of bitz), and they ended up being in absolutely atrocious condition. Still have some of it, but I realized in the middle of fixing up the first one that I really hate the Space Marine proportions, and was turned off fairly quickly. Overall though, not a waste, as it didn't cost me more than the price of the army case they came in, along with Harry the Hammer that was thrown in.

I once got conned by a "friend" into selling him a unit of Howling Banshees after I realized I was never going to start that Elder army, and he disappeared without giving me a single cent, but that's on me for naivety.

My purchases for 8th, I wish I hadn’t bought a primaris army before playing the game, now I feel like I’ve wasted money on a game I don’t really enjoy anymore, maybe in a few years I will come back to it and have fun but 40k seems like a chaw to play, I’m even losing interest in 30k, titanicus/epic is pretty much my last ditch effort to get back into the hobby.

It doesn’t help that I’m always away from home either so I really need to limit my projects as my time is so limited.