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Lets hear it biggest financial mistake on 40K you have made.

$300- Buying 3 broadside and 2 sniperdrone but were nerf by the time I got them.

$500- Bought into a eldar saim hann warhost and alot of the eldar but the 4th means I havent touched it.

Codex Genestealer Cults

Traitor legions book

Both had about a 5 month lifespan

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

Traitor's Hate
Should have waited 1more month to get Traitor Legions instead. Though it's actually a nice read.

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

If I knew how bad, bad in w40k means, I would have never started my army. Wasted 10 months of saved up money, for maybe 2-3 games that weren't much fun, but were part of learning w40k. After that it was borderline un fun, to a point, where other people stoped wanting to play against me, because it is not very fun to win vs my army.

Any and all Space Marine armies including Grey Knights, Black Templars and Black Legion now that Primaris is a thing, I feel like i've waisted all that time and money on something obsolete.

When I got back into 40k after a long hiatus, I had nothing and started from scratch. I have also made some mistakes...

£100 on a small Necron army bought at the dying days of 7th and after playing a few games I really didn't feel the love of them. Models were cool, but the play style just didn't gel with me. Managed to swap this for a complete kill team cassius deathwatch unbuilt on sprue and £20 so not too bad.

The mistake I'm *most* annoyed with though is my 8th edition astra Militarum force. Not only did I choose the steel legion (as I thought they looked the coolest) I blew £360 on literally around 1100pts of models. Realised that a horde army on my budget and time constraints would mean I'd never get a sizable force. Add in GW stopping the production of the steel legion models also killed my enthusiasm for them as ebay prices are stupidly high. Currently gathering dust as my attempts to sell them local have not met success.

Anyone here on dakka fancy a semi painted fluffy steel legion force with carry case for £150 with 8th edition codex and cards?

 Brutus_Apex wrote:
Any and all Space Marine armies including Grey Knights, Black Templars and Black Legion now that Primaris is a thing, I feel like i've waisted all that time and money on something obsolete.

most pessimistic prediction says it's a decade at LEAST before old school marines go away,

Biggest mistake I've made was spending as much kitbashing a single squad of noise marines that I'm yet to use as I did buying an entire 1000pt death guard army, brand new. Cost me ~AU$150 for that single squad.

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.

My only 40k regret are my 3 Necron Pylons. Though here in 8th that might not be true any longer.

Waaay back when the Pylons were 1st released (during 3rd ed I think, maybe 4th?) I'd grown board of my available Heavy support options for my Necrons. I just wanted something different.

So it's the night before Games-Day Baltimore & FW is going to be present, thus I'm browsing their site making a shopping list. And I come across the Pylons. I didn't even know FW was making anything for the Necrons. "Hmm, those look cool". A bit pricey, and I'd have to trim the shopping list a bit, but they were within my budget. So I click on the link to their "Experimental" Rules. And was delighted to find that they were Heavy Support! Awesome! If they have any Pylons with them I'll get a few.
So the next day my buddy & I head to Baltimore. We have two great days of gaming, I get my Pylons, we catch a baseball game the next day & bounce home.
That evening I click on FW & print out the rules.

:(

Sometime, between when I went to bed Thur evening & when I got home late Sunday and hit print, FW had updated the Pylon rules. Now they were Super Heavies. :(

The circles I played in at the time virtually never allowed super heavies to be used. Heavy supports? Wether GW or FW? All day, any day. A SH? Nope.

GRRRRRRR!
100% waste of $.
To this day they're unassembled, Mint In Box, and buried safely in my front hall closet. I see them twice a year when I get the Christmas lights out/put the Christmas lights away.

Though like I said, here in 8th.... The people playing at the local shop don't seem to have any qualms about fielding SH stuff. Probably thanks to Baneblades, Knights, etc being right in the codex's. So maybe my Pylons will finally see play after all these years.

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

Bought a Warhound when it was ~750ish points. Didn't have time to assemble it. Warhound was 1500 - was getting ready to assemble it. Now Warhound is...3k? Pretty much no point to assemble it, might as well just return it back to FW

Probably most of my stuff - anything more than a FOC, I don't need!

 CragHack wrote:

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

Bought a Warhound when it was ~750ish points. Didn't have time to assemble it. Warhound was 1500 - was getting ready to assemble it. Now Warhound is...3k? Pretty much no point to assemble it, might as well just return it back to FW

2k but yeah still basically "I lose" button. With just 1 model you basically can't score. Warhound also won't be wiping out enemy either. So enemy doesn't even need to kill it.

Still soooo tempted to buy model. Would be so cool. Bit pricey though for basically a painting project.

Really only 1 time i've managed to waste money, but its a pittance compared to most..

Managed to buy a finecast Kairos just a few weeks before they released the huge plastic version >.<

Fictional wrote:
Really only 1 time i've managed to waste money, but its a pittance compared to most..

Managed to buy a finecast Kairos just a few weeks before they released the huge plastic version >.<

You reminded me I did the same with the failcast hive tyrant. The thing didn't even fit together and the torso pieces were completely misaligned so I never even assembled it.

I bought <OVERPOWERED ARMY>.

It was a waste of money and I am sad because it got nerfed.

I suppose my actual biggest waste of money was buying a squad of metal Incubi. In 3rd edition.

I bought the Waaagh! Ghazghkull Supplment..

 Ascalam wrote:


Traitor legions book

But what a time we had with it. It was a great time to be an EC and DG player. I actually started to win some games when it came out.

 IronBrand wrote:

Fictional wrote:
Really only 1 time i've managed to waste money, but its a pittance compared to most..

Managed to buy a finecast Kairos just a few weeks before they released the huge plastic version >.<

You reminded me I did the same with the failcast hive tyrant. The thing didn't even fit together and the torso pieces were completely misaligned so I never even assembled it.

Yea, the Kairos is a bit deformed, he has a bent leg for a start.

I made a ynnari force for 8th spent three weeks painting them then a week before I'm due to use them they were made worthless.

Fictional wrote:
Yea, the Kairos is a bit deformed, he has a bent leg for a start.

It seems like any large finecast model just exacerbates the problems of finecast. While also be an expensive model. I'm glad they've replaced quite a few of the bigger models with plastic.

 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.

I've never ended up having a 40K model that was useless in the long run. Lots of rulebooks that got donated to the recycle when editions changed.

Most of my worst GW purchases were stuff like Gorkamorka, Necromunda, Warmaster. Of all those the only one that hasn't been is my Orkland Raider bloodbowl team. several editions and reprints in and still playing with the orginal plastics from the original box with a few special charecters tossed in.

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

I honestly at some times feel I've wasted my money getting back into 40k. Been back in 8th from its inception and have only had a handful of games, and not through lack of trying.

£150 on a start collecting Tyranids, the Tyranid swarm box they sold for a bit and a few models off ebay. I painted 2 gaunts then realised I didn't like painting them. The SC and Swarm box are both still unopened and sat in the loft.

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?

Corsairs.

Got Squatted.

Somehow, I don't regret them, though.