I hope I do not just come across as another complaining Sisters player here. I think I have come to accept the inevitability of life: death, taxes, and Space Marines getting all the love. I sometimes think that, since we cannot beat them (for releases), I may as well join them. The trouble is, everyone already plays them, and Marines vs Marines just sounds like an utterly boring prospect.
For the MEQ players out there, is Marine vs Marine as bad as I think it is? I am anticipating that both players would be using practically the same strategy, practically the same units, everything goes *ping ping* off armour and the game is decided by who can roll the most 3+'s. There is no Divine Guidance so you can laugh at your opponent's Termies falling to a single Troops Choice (assuming absurdly good rolls/bad saves). Secondly, how do you pick your chapter? They seem to be Smurfs, Angry Red Smurfs with Angrier Friends in Black Suits, Emo Green Smurfs with Bikie Friends and Friends in White Suits, Angrier Black Smurfs and their Boyfriends, Drunk Blue-Grey Smurfs and their Animal Friends, and Paint-By-Numbers `I Can't Believe Their Not Smurfs'. I do not consider the Grey Smurfs a real army, as they only have two flipping units. As a non-player, am I over-simplifying things here, or do they boil down to the same soup and it is just a question of picking the fluff you like best?
As a more general question, should I just give in already, or hold out in hope that Games Workshop runs out of chapters to do and I can finally run some new plastics alongside my (mostly) 2nd Edition models? That could be 2020, but at least it will still be the year before Dark Eldar will be rumoured to be updated.
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