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What if you had to start again from scratch? Do you re-create something similar to what you lost, or do you treat it as an opportunity to try something new?

If my home is burned, they I trouble so deep, that stuff like models or w40k don't matter. when the house that my great grandfather burned down durning the last war, it took my family 62 years to fully rebuild it.

I'd probably start replacing valuables and stuff I actually need. And recollect what I have now minus the Space Marine factions because GW did a great job of killing my desire to play them.

Lots of tears.


Then I dunno. It might actually give me the inspiration to get my Tyranids restarted from the ground up with fresh models.

However at the same time it would also be very crushing as I've had a good year building up a lot of models so seeing all that gone (stolen/burned/however) would be a massive moral blow.

I'd probably lose a lot of motivation all told and probably spend some time away from the hobby or slow growing a very small force.



That and if the insurance money was enough I might end up blowing it all on a new camera or lens instead. At least they would give me more instant satisfaction; especially since I know from prior experience that simply buying a HUGE number of models in one go can backfire and bury one under too much plastic to find motivation to know where to start.

I have rebuilt a army completely from scratch b.c of a fire (the fire of Fantasy rules) dur dur dur.

But for real i sold my 5th-8th Beastmen army when AoS 1.0 came out, they already was a bad army and lost 9/10 games, but then they made them into 4 different armys that didnt work together and removed all the characters, made them even worst. So i sold it.

When the new BoC book came out about a year ago for AOS 2.0, i rebought it all. And i was HAPPIER doing that, i'm a much better painter and hobiest, and was able to repaint them how i wanted now.

Being i only have 1/3 of my models in my house, and the others are spread out at 4 locations It would be rather unlikely.

I would probably be Rather devastated. I have an Inyanden army that has i think ever army box since 3rd edition. At least 60 wraithguard.
And my new kill team is all custom built and sitting ready for paint, spent a month putting them all together from kits all over the net D:
My warmachine would be imposible to replace easy, with loads of the old metal stuff.

Infinity. I not even sure about replacing those.
I have some out of production stuff as well that could be close to impossible to replace at this point.

Then i have all the custom stuff, since asuming its all the houses. Then the files are gone at my friends place with all the custom minis as well D:

Terrain is the real hit, That takes so much time to accumulate

Karol wrote:
If my home is burned, they I trouble so deep, that stuff like models or w40k don't matter. when the house that my great grandfather burned down durning the last war, it took my family 62 years to fully rebuild it.

Right, but surely you realize the house fire is an abstract thing. It could also be a car crash or theft. Anything that results in the loss of your models.

If I lose all my models, I don't think I'll try to rebuild my collection. You can't replace a decade, it just wouldn't feel right. I'd rather go to another system and start anew. I will be really upset though, as a lot of time went into those models.
Besides, if my models go due to a disaster, then other things probably went as well. I'd be too busy trying to salvage that than worry about warhammer.

-Guardsman- wrote:

Karol wrote:
If my home is burned, they I trouble so deep, that stuff like models or w40k don't matter. when the house that my great grandfather burned down durning the last war, it took my family 62 years to fully rebuild it.

Right, but surely you realize the house fire is an abstract thing. It could also be a car crash or theft. Anything that results in the loss of your models.

Not sure if your "house went on fire, models went with it" example necessarily covers all loss of models case.

If such catastrophic event happened to me, 40k would be the last of my worries. If I'm rebuilding my livelyhood grounds up, probably not. If it was a theft, and all of other things in life were in order, I'd probably start a new collection.

Now, if your question is actually "if you were given an opportunity to rebuild/re-pick up wargaming hobby, would that be a 40k collection to replace the one I lost," maybe not.

If mine all went, i’m out. There’s no way i’m repainting everything.

This has literally happened to me twice. First one was the case of a house fire. The second case was crazy ex girlfriend only a couple years ago. First time it was just 3000ish points of Necrons, but crazy ex girlfriend destroyed 4000 points of Necrons and a mix of basically 6000 points of Space Marines, possibly more. This is why I bring up financial investment in the game for armies.

I am just slowly rebuilding. I'm lucky enough that I got some buddies that let me borrow models because I still don't have a lot built due to the new job.

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
This has literally happened to me twice. First one was the case of a house fire. The second case was crazy ex girlfriend only a couple years ago. First time it was just 3000ish points of Necrons, but crazy ex girlfriend destroyed 4000 points of Necrons and a mix of basically 6000 points of Space Marines, possibly more. This is why I bring up financial investment in the game for armies.

I am just slowly rebuilding. I'm lucky enough that I got some buddies that let me borrow models because I still don't have a lot built due to the new job.

Sorry to hear about that...that gak sounds rough.

If I lost all my models I can't see myself buying more.

I wouldn't be able to replace all the conversions I've made over the years, and I doubt I'd have the heart to try and make them again.

I'd use the insurance money for other things, and probably only pick up stuff for other smaller games.

 Daedalus81 wrote:

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
This has literally happened to me twice. First one was the case of a house fire. The second case was crazy ex girlfriend only a couple years ago. First time it was just 3000ish points of Necrons, but crazy ex girlfriend destroyed 4000 points of Necrons and a mix of basically 6000 points of Space Marines, possibly more. This is why I bring up financial investment in the game for armies.

I am just slowly rebuilding. I'm lucky enough that I got some buddies that let me borrow models because I still don't have a lot built due to the new job.

Sorry to hear about that...that gak sounds rough.

She's locked up in a mental facility and that's all that matters!

It's also why I impulsively bought 3 copies of Prospero and 1 copy of Calth and am still looking for more. Then I scavenge whatever I can from FW for extra bits of weapons. I definitely need more of them Combi-Bolters that came with the Headhunters! They make better Storm Bolters than Storm Bolters.

If I lost everything, I’d go down to a bare minimum army to restart. Hedonites of Slaanesh, 4 Keeper models, 3 units of Hellstriders and 2 Start Collecting boxes. And that would be it. Few hundred bucks, but i wouldn’t rebuy everything.

I might start collecting specialist games, since those interest me but I want to continue collecting admech as well. The effect of having to start again would probably be the thing that switched me.

Karol wrote:
If my home is burned, they I trouble so deep, that stuff like models or w40k don't matter. when the house that my great grandfather burned down durning the last war, it took my family 62 years to fully rebuild it.

Why do you do this to nearly every thread you're in?

Emotionally it would be devastating. Some of these minis I've had for 40+ years, and the ones I painted in HS/college were usually my better work. (My vision was always poor, but now its worse and I can't make out the fine details any more).

Assuming I can get past the depression, I'd not start any armies. Probably just do Frostgrave since that is small and economical. Maybe, just maybe build 1 army for Kings of War.

In any case, I've just come to the realization that I need to stop buying armies. I have seven large armies for different game systems in various stages of completion and I'm middle-aged. I may not live long enough to complete them. Now I have to sort out what I think I can complete and actually finish one or two of them.

However, I've also been in this hobby long enough to know that something will catch my fancy, and I will buy it. Just need to try to keep it small, not another 250+ figure army.

I'd do a little meta chasing at first, and then settle into an army. This is assuming I get paid out through insurance for my lost fortune such that I now have thousands of dollars to spend on new models.

Probably a blessing in disguise for me. I love playing miniature wargames, however the price is really a drag sometimes, and I seem to have a problem with buying stuff because it's cool and then never using it. If I lost everything in a fire, I would probably use the insurance check to replace important stuff, and then just go back to video games as my primary hobby. Maybe pick up a couple of miniature games down the road if I ever found a tight group to play with or had kids that wanted to try.

40k isn't the top of game systems I'd replace an army for, but I'd probably rebuild largely as is, but a little more focused on only buying units as I paint and play them. Probably wait for a new DW update and build from there.

Start rebuilding the same army again. I wouldn't do anything different about it.

Whoof, that’d suck - I have minis for a lot of other games beside 40K.

I doubt I would replace my 40K models. I would more consider it to be a relief to be free of too many minis. If I did try to rebuild, it would probably be one army, and I’d buy it already built and painted. Most likely Tau.

To me, though, a bigger loss would be all the RPG books - and my computer files, moreso than the miniatures. I’d be more likely to replace that first, before any models.

same faction, new colors.

Started Ultramarines in 1998 I think. Been a solid army throughout the years, but a few editions had SW/BA/other marine faction be on top, and I just use their codex with my models.

If I were to start over I'd pick a unique paint scheme that can fit imperial AND chaos space marines, and maybe have a Grey Knight spin-off that doesn't look out of place. Not blue though, I'm pretty done with blue. Not sure what color I'd go though.

 Carnage43 wrote:
Not blue though, I'm pretty done with blue. Not sure what color I'd go though.

Maybe a steel blue? Could go ultras, iron hands, Grey knights or iron hands that way

That's a tough call.

Pre-Marine-Codex-2.0 I'd have been torn between the gaming-hipster impulse to buy back just the Primaris stuff (and maybe Centurions...) and the practical impulse to cash out. Post-Marine-Codex-2.0 I'm still torn between buying just the Primaris stuff and cashing out, but now the gaming-hipster impulse is to buy Slannesh Daemons or Custodes instead.

I'd focus on replacing other stuff first, It'd proably be a few years before I touched gaming products again.

BrianDavion wrote:
I'd focus on replacing other stuff first, It'd proably be a few years before I touched gaming products again.

My wife went through a house fire, they bought a new SNES, VHS player and some movies , she and her parents said it really helped with the stress oh having nothing. So it might be good to at least start with a small force (something like 500pts).

I scratch built 80% of my vehicles and converted 90% of my dudes, and my neighbour very very nearly burnt our house down. Almost had this very situation to deal with.

I’d never be able to rebuild everything, would be irreplaceable.

-Guardsman- wrote:

Karol wrote:
If my home is burned, they I trouble so deep, that stuff like models or w40k don't matter. when the house that my great grandfather burned down durning the last war, it took my family 62 years to fully rebuild it.

Right, but surely you realize the house fire is an abstract thing. It could also be a car crash or theft. Anything that results in the loss of your models.

I am not very good at the abstract thing. The question was about house fires. Most houses where I live are at leat partially wooden. If there is a fire then nothing is left save for the spout. maybe the oven, if someone still has a brick one, but most no longer have those. But if it was a car that burned, then it is the same thing. Cars cost a lot of money, and you can't just buy them back. So if my moms car burned down, we would have much bigger problems them me not having models to play with. As this would mean someone would have to pick my mom up to work etc.

Why do you do this to nearly every thread you're in?

I don't understand your question, because am not sure what I do in every thread I write, besides writing, but I don't think your asking why I write, when I write, because that would make no sense. You have to be more specific.