Let's try this game -- warhammer 40K

If you aren't new to Warhammer 40k, chances are this has happened to you. When it happens, usually it takes any number of styles, whether it be the army no more grabbing your eye, or how the inspiration that motivated you to begin the army is no more there.

Other forms include playing and finding out an military is not suited to your play style, as an example a Chaos Marine player being too fond of death or glory style assaults might find themselves moving onto an army more expendable troops.

It may simply turn out that you find your army no longer unique, with everybody else collecting it, or worse yet, all of the above.

Certainly this is what happened with my Space Marines, and it's the cost incurred, or rather wasted, that inspired me to write this cautionary tale.

I got into Warhammer 40k through the Dawn of War video games, and the Dreadnought was my favorite unit in the game, after all that which is not cool about a huge robot piloted by an undead hero? So I went with my heart and played Space Marines to use Dreadnoughts.

So that is what I did, collecting Dreadnoughts, building every possible combination that I could, before long I had 4, and adding other Space Marine forces made sense, tactical squads, assault squads, even a battle force. But these models, yet great they looked (not mine), captured my imagination the way Dreadnoughts did.

Flash-forward a few months and my friend was getting back into Warhammer 40k, starting with the Assault on Black Reach set, collecting Space Marines. Avoiding the same army battle provides the excuse to move onto Chaos Space Marines, who being the Uber-villains of Warhammer 40k captured my imagination in a way Space Marines could not. Finding many Space Marine players at my local Games Workshop encouraged this desertion, and it is unlikely I will bother with a Space Marine army again.

This is not to say I'm off Space Marines absolutely, I still think the models look great, to put it accurately there exists an unpainted Dreadnought on my shelf currently. Even looking at them in White Dwarf, reading about them in the books, or seeing an army on a web site, sets me thinking of what I could cope with them. Just last week I got a perception for a White Consul army after reading Dark Creed by Anthony Reynolds, but while I might attempt the odd display piece, if I think about it, I know such army would be lucky to check out the tabletop.

So I continue to refrain from buying any more Space Marines, beyond the occasional part for a conversion, or indulging myself with a Dreadnought. As for what I already own, I am selling it to clear space. Hopefully reading this will ensure you never find yourselves in the same position.