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So I'm pretty much a Chaos collector, I have a worryingly large Chaos army for WHFB, and a reasonable amount of CSM for 40K, mostly World Eaters. Over the years I've tried collecting other armies and always returned to just Chaos.

One army that I've never collected, but have always been intrigued by, are the Wood Elves (now Sylvaneth). I only just yesterday purchased the 6th edition Wood Elves army book from a charity shop. I think the reason I never collected them is that, when I was younger, a man liking whimsical elves and fairies would've been mocked mercilessly.

Does anyone else feel interested by an army that aren't what you normally collect or play? From a different game?

Eldar.

Shiny model syndrome is a heck of a thing.

There are very few armies that have not called to me at some point. I mostly resist.

I resist the call of brass and blood. While I reveled in chaos in 5-6th WHFB, it was with slannesh and nurgle. 40k I might dabble with xenos, but not the ruinous powers. But always in the back of my mind is the roar of the chainaxe and the cry of BFtBG.

I’ve got the necron half of the Indominus box in the POS. It is only a mater of time until they stir from their eternal slumber. As I have a core of them already, they are far more likely to actually happen. Probably when my ‘Nids get to a good point.

'Intrigue' as in 'I'm curious about but do not currently have,' or 'intrigue' as in 'I've got waaaaayyyyyyyyyy too many of them and am borderline obsessed?

For the former, it's the Tau. Their old-school giant robot anime aesthetic intrigues me, but there's no way in this world I'm starting ANOTHER mini game just to collect them.

Why? Well, I've got some 16,000 points of Dark Elves for WFB/TOW and more in que to paint - including DE Cult of Slannesh -fulfilling the latter version of 'intrigued'...

I originally wasn't into Chaos Daemons, I kinda liked the Tyranids and old Necrons more in the whole monstrous army going to wipe out everything motif, but I've been getting more and more of an inkling that I'd like the playstyle of Tzeentch Daemons, and out of the 4 Chaos Gods, Tzeentch has always been my favourite. I finally pulled the pin on it a few weeks ago and got a Fateskimmer and 2 sets of Screamers to start out. Looking forward to building / painting them, and I do already have some Thousand Sons to try them out with.

Bretonians for WHFB/Old World/Sigmar.

I love the force.
But i've never felt I could paint it to what I envision.
And I don't want to spend $$$ on commission painting.

So I doubt I'll ever own a Bretonian army.

ccs wrote:
Bretonians for WHFB/Old World/Sigmar.

I love the force.
But i've never felt I could paint it to what I envision.
And I don't want to spend $$$ on commission painting.

So I doubt I'll ever own a Bretonian army.

Same for me. I'm not a super good painter, and I hate transfers, so I know I couldn't do them justice.

Part of me wants to paint a unit of bretonian mounted knights in iconic F1 liveries.
Like, full-on custom transfers with scaled yet accurate tobacco advertising.

Not all the armys other than The Ordo Reductor i've ever wanted have been 'joke's, but lets face it - at some point we've all wanted a Mordian Iron Guard Nazi force, a Tallarn Taliban force (to fight the nazis obviously), a Praetorian English Redcoats force, an Inquisition Jokaero 'Barrel of Monkeys' army...

I have no idea why i havent got a Horus Heresy Knights-Errant force though.

 SirDonlad wrote:
Part of me wants to paint a unit of bretonian mounted knights in iconic F1 liveries.
Like, full-on custom transfers with scaled yet accurate tobacco advertising.

Each lance formation could be a different team's colours, racing forward under their Marlborough banners.

I've actually had this really cool idea of collecting and painting a Lumineth Realm-Lords army, but painting the units to look like the various nations' people in Avatar: The Last Airbender. And it would work well, as there are units that are air, water, earth, and fire.
Vanari=Fire
Hurakan=Air
Scinari=Water
Alarith=Earth
I think the models would look good in the colors of the nations, and a lot of the characters have magic swirly stuff around them that could easily look like they are bending the elements. I only wish I had time, money, and storage space to take on this project.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I only wish I had time, money, and storage space to take on this project.

This is what I've had to get realistic about recently. I would love to collect every army. Still, we can always dream.

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:
Each lance formation could be a different team's colours, racing forward under their Marlborough banners.

Yeah, nice! With knights of different liveries from each team over the years or something? Not sure what the deal is with unit sizes etc because id want to include team Shadow - i was originally thinking of one hueg blob of knights with an iconic selection of jarring patterns and colours with one all-black knight who always triumphs.

Maybe the HQ could be team Shadow?

 SirDonlad wrote:

Cap'n Facebeard wrote:
Each lance formation could be a different team's colours, racing forward under their Marlborough banners.

Yeah, nice! With knights of different liveries from each team over the years or something? Not sure what the deal is with unit sizes etc because id want to include team Shadow - i was originally thinking of one hueg blob of knights with an iconic selection of jarring patterns and colours with one all-black knight who always triumphs.

Maybe the HQ could be team Shadow?

Damn you, I'm going to have to do this now. In the name of the Duc de Prost, Sir Pierre Of Gasly leading his Alpine Knights into battle....

....rather slowly, this year, it would seem...

 Skinflint Games wrote:

Damn you, I'm going to have to do this now. In the name of the Duc de Prost, Sir Pierre Of Gasly leading his Alpine Knights into battle....

....rather slowly, this year, it would seem...

So youre into F1?

Have some secret sauce on me.

Williams are going to suddenly become good after the summer break.
Same performance jump as Mclaren - the changes will trim a minuite and a half off their total race time and they will be duking it out (ba-dm-tsss) with Redbull.

Oh, and team Hesketh will be an absolute gem - "led by Sir Hunt of Belmont, the Hesketh Light Brigade (emblazond with a dazzling vision of their lady) and shod in armour made under the direction of the Honourable Lord Hesketh are a mercenary formation in these lands..."

I have been interested in the War of 1812, but done little beyond think about it.

 SirDonlad wrote:

 Skinflint Games wrote:

Damn you, I'm going to have to do this now. In the name of the Duc de Prost, Sir Pierre Of Gasly leading his Alpine Knights into battle....

....rather slowly, this year, it would seem...

So youre into F1?

Have some secret sauce on me.

Williams are going to suddenly become good after the summer break.
Same performance jump as Mclaren - the changes will trim a minuite and a half off their total race time and they will be duking it out (ba-dm-tsss) with Redbull.

Oh, and team Hesketh will be an absolute gem - "led by Sir Hunt of Belmont, the Hesketh Light Brigade (emblazond with a dazzling vision of their lady) and shod in armour made under the direction of the Honourable Lord Hesketh are a mercenary formation in these lands..."

Oh yes, hence my Evil Sunz warband Da Skooderia Ferrorki!

I can believe that about Williams, Sainz wouldn't be going there unless something was going to happen...

..and now I see a regiment of cavalry, Lord Bruce's Own in papaya..

Hesketh would be amazing, particualry if you made them a banner featuring a (ahem) prophylactic manufactureer

 Skinflint Games wrote:


Oh yes, hence my Evil Sunz warband Da Skooderia Ferrorki!

That.... Actually explains a lot... ..the Tiforksi.. ..the 'Ferrorki Kultur'

 Skinflint Games wrote:

I can believe that about Williams, Sainz wouldn't be going there unless something was going to happen...

Honestly? If i told you what i'd been doing for the past four years you wouldn't beleive me. Its been the most delicious fun and im really sad its coming to a natural end.

 Skinflint Games wrote:

..and now I see a regiment of cavalry, Lord Bruce's Own in papaya..

Lord McLaren of Auckland leading Sir Schekter of Cape Province, Master Hunt the second, Conté Fittipaldi the Second, Baron Von Lauda the 5th of Vienna...

 Skinflint Games wrote:

Hesketh would be amazing, particualry if you made them a banner featuring a (ahem) prophylactic manufactureer

100% the internets want photos when you do it good sir!

Sisters of Battle for me I think. Their overall visual is incredibly, possibly definitively 40K.

I've sort of got the approach that I'll colllect a smallish force for every faction unless I really dislike the faction and don't want it to be part of my game world. I see my hobby in that regard more like building settings than just collecting one army.

So I hope you don't mind if I answer in that vein.

I've got the "classic" Fantasy - elves, dwarves, men and the forces of evil.
I've got 40K sci fi.
I've got Dark Ages ancients.

The setting I'm fascinated with is the 30 Years War. I'd love to collect a few forces for that time period, and paint them up in the outrageous style of the time but then absolutely grime them and weather them to all hell. That war was like the apocalypse for the region of Germany I live in, and I'd love to do it justice and make a set of region-appropriate terrain for it.

But do I need ANOTHER huge project?! Probably not.

Skaven

And I technically collected them. When AoS 2.0 was happening I bought a whole bunch of them and --- I built about 3 clanrats in 3 years..

I since came to terms with the fact that I love Skaven as a concept; but for some reason I can never muster the desire to actually build them. Nothing wrong with the models, nothing wrong with the army (esp since in AoS they didn't need a billion slaves to function). Just didn't click with me on a building front for some reason I can't specify.

So I sold off the whole bunch of things that I've never worked on and moved on; I still have Warhammer TW to play Skaven armies on battlefields when I want.

For 40k, clearly, I have long looked at SoBs, but when they were metal, I couldn't affor them, then they go tunning plastic kits, and we get to play a lot less plus I started shifting my leisure money to guns at that time. And here we are, and I still didn't pick any up and instead SM and IK mini projects.

Minor Axis army are what I long for in Bolt Action, mostly Romania, but for the very same reasons, didn't get around to it anyhow.

I must say that the Easterlings in MESBG are incredibly cool, and are much better than the orcs or goblins buuuuuuuutttt....butbutbut...they would only feel right in games against Gondor...and they're just soooooo boring.

 Da Boss wrote:
I've sort of got the approach that I'll colllect a smallish force for every faction unless I really dislike the faction and don't want it to be part of my game world. I see my hobby in that regard more like building settings than just collecting one army.

See I would like to do this and have tried to. I think my problem is that I tend to make every project a HUGE one. I don't just want a 2K points force, I want 5K or 10K! More choices! More alternate models! I can't trust myself to not go berserk.

SamusDrake wrote:
I must say that the Easterlings in MESBG are incredibly cool, and are much better than the orcs or goblins buuuuuuuutttt....butbutbut...they would only feel right in games against Gondor...and they're just soooooo boring.

In the books, Easterlings fought against the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain and the Bardings of Dale, and you could definitely feasibly include mirkwood elves in there too as allies, if you wanted more variety. Also in the history of ME the Easterlings invade Rohan during the time of Helm Hammerhand. I think the movie Easterlings are not much like the book ones, but they definitely fight more than just Gondor! Just AFAIK they never cross the Misty Mountains in the Third Age.

Rohan vs Easterlings...that could work!

 Da Boss wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
I must say that the Easterlings in MESBG are incredibly cool, and are much better than the orcs or goblins buuuuuuuutttt....butbutbut...they would only feel right in games against Gondor...and they're just soooooo boring.

In the books, Easterlings fought against the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain and the Bardings of Dale, and you could definitely feasibly include mirkwood elves in there too as allies, if you wanted more variety. Also in the history of ME the Easterlings invade Rohan during the time of Helm Hammerhand. I think the movie Easterlings are not much like the book ones, but they definitely fight more than just Gondor! Just AFAIK they never cross the Misty Mountains in the Third Age.

Easterlings also fought other Easterlings, and probably the Khandish, Haradrim, and even denizens of Mordor at times given they only occasionally entered formal alliances with them.

Goodie-Easterlings? Hmmmm....

Why not? One of the more popular ideas is that the two blue wizards (after heading east) managed to sway a large portion of Rhun away from Sauron worship.

Yep I don't think we ever hear anything of them, even in the notes Tolkien made. The only thing that suggests they might have fallen is that we never heard of them taking the White Ships; but then again as we never see them in the books, it stands that we likely never saw them depart either*

But yeah its very likely that two wizards would have caused all kinds of trouble for Sauron in the East. Sam even remarks that the Men of the East are not true evil and just missguided and so forth.
They are indeed just men, not creatures birthed and twisted by evil like the Orcs are



*even if they did, I seem to recall that Radagast never departs?

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Why not? One of the more popular ideas is that the two blue wizards (after heading east) managed to sway a large portion of Rhun away from Sauron worship.

Apparently doing this to a significant degree during both the Last Alliance and War of the Ring. Quite possibly a decisive intervention given how close-fought both of those wars were.