Merellin wrote:
So, I'm just curious about how people handle building their armies. Do you focus on a single army untill it hits a chosen point? Or do you work on multiple armies, building and painting a bit here and a bit there to avoid getting burned out on doing only one type of models for a long time?

 Jancoran wrote:

Merellin wrote:
So, I'm just curious about how people handle building their armies. Do you focus on a single army untill it hits a chosen point? Or do you work on multiple armies, building and painting a bit here and a bit there to avoid getting burned out on doing only one type of models for a long time?

I personally own all the armies, save for Chaos Daemons/Daeonkin, Tyranids (never really dug them) and the Mechanicus armies. I will soon have a Mechanicus army by a happy circumstance.

I love the game about as much as I did when I started. I find that playing that many forces gives me not only a "freshness", because I can and frequently do switch armies, which is also fun for my opponents because they never know what I fancied on any given day so they don't always have the same game against me.

What you learn from playing so many is, ultimately, how to beat them as well. So its highly instructional to play thoe armies and then when I return to my "home base" armies (in my case, Tau Empire and Adepta Sororitas are really my favorites) I know what to do against all the rest. I prioritize better. I know the traps.

Lots of virtue to playing different armies.

One word of caution: you absolutely do get a little rusty sometimes when you dont focus on ant one army, so for some people, playing a lot of armies, especially if you consider yourself middle of the road strategically, might be more detriment than good for you. It's hard enough to master the game as a game, let alone know the stress tolerances of your own stuff and have that "feel" for playing them. So if strategy and in game tactics aren't a strength, focusing in on one army might be better.