Warhammer/Warhammer 40k ?

[Spook]

Just curious if any of you collected any Warhammer or Warhammer 40'000 armies?

Currently I'm working on a 1000 point Daemonhunters Army for 40'000. A few models from which can be seen here:

Grey Knights : Eight in total including a Sergeant and a dude with an incinerator. Need another Sergeant and a flamer to have two complete squads: http://www.members.aol.com/rhysthomas/GK1

Grey Knights : Another shot of four Grey Knights including the Sergeant. A little brighter though and more defined. http://www.members.aol.com/rhysthomas/GK2

Eversor Assassin : To me one of the coolest looking models in 40K. http://www.members.aol.com/rhysthomas/Eversor

I'm still tinkering with how I want the five Terminator models to look. To me the current 40K Codex has them far too bright and clean looking; instead I want to make them darker and more gothic. I was dead pleased with how the first lot of models turned out; so I suspect I'll stick to that sort of scheme but with a few conversions here and there.

I also need to get an Inquisitor Lord (not too keen on the current models so again there might be another conversion) and in time a Dreadnought and some Inquisitorial Storm Troopers.

I don't have as much time to paint as I'd like with University/Football/Pub/Band and snowboarding getting in the way of me being a dork. But I hope to have the entire lot ready for the 'Winter War' campaign that's coming up before Christmas.

If I can ever meet that deadline then I'll work towards building a Chaos Space Marine army. The new models are amazing. I'd stopped playing Games Workshop when I was fifteen; but I wandered past one of the stores last year and was really amazed at how far the figures had come on; that combined with the all new Lord of the Rings franchise instore. The day after I got my pay cheque I went out and bought a Mordor Army.

[Eradius Lore]

(below all 40,000) i have a 14,000 point ultramarine army and a 6,000 point deamonhunter army, i have also at one point had a 4,000 point chaos army, a 2,000 imperial guard army and a 1,000 point dark eldar army. i have been playing 40k for about 8/9 years

me and my mate both play massive battles between his orks and my space marines, once we put our entire armys against each other. it was really funny, orks advantage is there numbers, and i have more space marines then he did orks, i won in one turn because of the amount of fire power, over 30 lascannons and 45 terminators, 12 hq units and 4 veteran squads and a lot of men

[Void Dragon]

I have a 1200 point Ultramarines army, and I also have about 500 points of Tyranids (just a beginner)

I have only played with ultramarines, with two victories out of three games played :P (mostly against Necrons)

I do have the problem that the dice hate me: I throw 1 half of the time...

[Green]

I used to collect Games Workshop stuff when I was a teenager (Eldar, Space Wolves, High Elves, Dark Elves and Chaos). I used to be more fond of the painting than the playing, but I did really enjoy playing Necromunda.

Last time I went into a GW shop, I was appalled at how much the prices had gone up. I thought it was expensive in 1994, for god's sake!

[Marky Lazer]

My mates play it, I don't really know anything about it.

[Void Dragon]

It is in fact waaaaaaaay too expensive, that's the main reason I have only 1000 point army. I use it only to play against friends, not in official tournaments.

I do like the playing way better than the painting :P

But foremost: it's one of the nicest universes I know fluff-wise!

[Wolfeborn]

only just got back into 40k have abotu 1k points of Tau, and just boguht myself a 2k orc army of ebay for £40 so can be fairly cheap. Am currently trying to design an army list for my squats as have loads of them and they canned them *sniff* so will work something out loosley based on imperial guard and orcs and try and figure out a back story that works since there homeworld was detroyed and they have all but been wiped out of the 40k universe.

I do however have pretty much every fantasy army going other than chaos, bretonian and lizards, oh havent got ogres either. but still easier to list what I havent got than what I have, spent way too much money on fantsy battle armies hehe though have been playing for 18 years or so.

I also now have a ridiculous amount of LOTR figures due to battle in middle earth mag they turn up once every 2 months and i say "oo more figures" and put the in a box rdy for me to paint lol. (still not painted yet)

[Wolfeborn]

hmm double posted sry

[Winters_Sorrow]

Originally Posted by Green

I used to collect Games Workshop stuff when I was a teenager (Eldar, Space Wolves, High Elves, Dark Elves and Chaos). I used to be more fond of the painting than the playing, but I did really enjoy playing Necromunda.

Last time I went into a GW shop, I was appalled at how much the prices had gone up. I thought it was expensive in 1994, for god's sake!

Pretty similar experiences as you, Green.
Used to play it as a kid - Undead and Dark Elves mainly, but grew out of it.

I continued with Blood Bowl for a bit longer but haven't set foot inside a GW for at least 8 years now. I got very sick of the fact they used to "revise" the rulebook every year so that your current army was useless and I just realised I didn't enjoy playing it anymore and that GW were money-grubbing, profiteering scum

[Green]

They are indeed. I remember when they got rid of the age-old assassin model that they had used for 40k for years and brought in 3 new assassins. Each one weighed about the same as a £1 coin, but were about £6 each. Complete and utter ripoff.

[Roboripper]

used to have an 40K Ork army back in 2nd Ed days then moved onto Necromunda. have the beginnings of a new Guard army but it's got no further than a couple of units of Guard and half a Sentinel

[Snowdog]

Like Green I used to paint more than play, though I also used to read a lot of the background material which was incredibly detailed and pretty interesting. I was never much good at painting though which was why I gave it up and sold all my unpainted miniatures for £50. I've still got a few painted figures from the Regiments of Renown series, Bugman's Dwarf Rangers and the skeletons, can't remember their name off-hand.

Wolfeborn, I like your avatar picture

[Sparks the Knave]

In both Warhammer 40,000, and Warhammer Fantasy, the back ground is simply awesome. the best thing by far about bother of those 'worlds'.

I do collect and play a good many of Games Workshops games (expensive as all hell, but so is any hobbie worth loosing your soul to).

Their best 'product' (IMHO) is Warhammer Fantasy roleplay (in 2007 Warhammer 40k roleplay will be realeased upon the world also!). Mordheim is awesome, and so was Necromunda. painting is fun, and good for your ken.


but as stated, the back-ground world/fiction is gritty, fantastical and smacks you in the face with a blood-smeared hand.

I'd describe the earlier 40,000 background material (first half of the 90's) to be the perfect Future-Gothic, dark-punk mind-f#(k world.

[Green]

I still have an old Chaos book from donkey's years ago (pre-gloss years). It's one half of a two part set (never found the other half, it was all before my time ) and has 40k and t'normal kind in it.

It has the old version of the Horus Heresy, where he got injured on a cult planet and got inducted into the cult, none of the poisonous warp influence or owt like that.

Excellent book, has great in-depth histories of all sorts of stuff and also had great stories, untainted by the namby-pamby later years.

But damn, they couldn't paint back then.

[jof]

heya, ive collected for the last couple of years (about 6 i think) but its fallin into disrepair over the last year, ive never learnt how to play though i have had some offers of a friend.