Over the last year I have tipped my toe into 40K. It was not because my interest for WFB is waning, but rather I made the decision to start playing before that happened. I doubt that I will be as attached to 40K as I am for WAB or how I was attached to WFB, but I still plan on taking the time to play it well. I have never been a major tournament player, I was better at Tournament Organizing instead, so I really dont see me doing the tournament scene with 40K. Hopefully I will take some of the lessons learned from my years of collecting WFB and be smarter with how I design my army.
What Have I done So Far?
I have started my collection with the Assault on Black Reach box, which is the normal for most newcommers. I have started to put together a Space Marine army right now with a Battleforce along with a few other vehicles. I am currently around 1850 or so with what I have collected for them which would get me to a bare minimum for playing normal games at my LGS. As far as painting goes I am painting them up as Crimson Fists. I figure that after another battle force plus a few vehicles or two and some sternguard and this army is done for the most part. At that point it is basically an understrength company which fits the background of the chapter very nicely. I may put together other companies of the chapter, but I am going to try to take a lesson from my WFB days and focus on one part at a time with this army.
I may do a home-made chapter, but I am not interested in putting together many of the other different type of space marines. They just seem like the same damn army but with a few changes here and there. They remind me of the different bloodlines from the VC 6th edition armybook. Why cant they put all of the different armies in one book is beyond me, other than GW thinks that their customers are dumb enough to buy them, which seems to be the case.
What is upcoming
Imperial Guard is what has really brought me to 40K, and that was before the new book came out. IG reminds me of playing WWII games but not being WWII per-sae. I can't stand playing re-enactment games,(something that needs a post in of itself) so playing IG is something that really draws me. Of all of the different armies that I am interested IG is an army that I would most likely form an attachment with like what I had in fantasy. I have collected a few vehicles and some troops for this army and I can see me do a lot of things with this army. These guys are right next after I get the space marines done.
I still have the Ork portion of the AOBR models as well, and I find that to be the perfect opponant for my guys so I am planning on setting up an army with them as well. My LGS does have a few cheap battle forces for Orks so I would be getting a deal with them. I do find the army interesting, but not as interesting as the two previous armies. Perhaps I need to get the codex and read through it. They do have an easy paint job so I would not be putting much time in painting them. These guys are proabably next in line.
Interested but not that much yet.
Eldar is another army that I have some interest in. As of right now I have barely flipped through the codex so I have almost no idea what they are about. I have seen one guy at my LGS that has a beautifully painted army and does play them all of the time. They are also an army that looks like a sci-fi army, and not some kind of modern warfare knock off. They are still a cheap battleforce as well which does attract me.
Nids is an army that does interest me to some extent. From Starship Troopers to Aliens I can see a few things that I can do with this army. I think that they serve a great role in that they are the monsters of space. They serve a very great evil opposing force role that does interest me.
Tau is another army that I have some interest in. They actually look like a sci-fi army like Eldar, but they are not Eldar with different rules and choices. Something that I am interested in but not off the bat.
After that I really lose interest in all other armies, which makes for about half of the armies that GW has. An improvement in my mind since I still am enamoured with 75% of the fantasy armies even though I am not active in the 8th edition. I dont have the emotional nor the physical investment with 40K right now so I am not planning on any grand plans that I had with Fantasy. Good for me, bad for GW. If they come to their senses, I will be here if that ever happens. The good news is yet another hard lesson from GW is that I taking this piecemal as much as I can. I am not going five armies ahead of where I am like I did in Fantasy, and if something is amiss in the next edition, I have no problem boarding up what I have put together, keep what I really like and sell the rest, sort of what I am doing with my Fantasy inventory right now.
What is 40K to me?
Well it is a general change of pace for me, and I want to have it as an alternative to WAB and hopefully something that I can use for a break from WAB. Incidentally I believe that 40K will be the go-to game for most people so that may be switched for me unfortunatelly. I guess that I really need to start recruitment for WAB apparently.
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