How many of you...

[Narthecium]

Precisely how I feel.

[Wildfire]

I'm a huge offender (if that's the right term) of switching codexes at a moment's notice. I play around with the latest ones, I go back and forth between the old ones whenever I get a new idea. I get bored easily, and playing the same list over and over reduces my enjoyment of the game.

 

While fluff is fun to read, I'm a gamer. I don't allow fluff to affect building a competative army list. Painting and modeling I care about even less, from an artistic point of view. Probably ~50% of my models don't have a lick of paint on them.

So no, those things don't matter to me.

 

That being said, I get annoyed with excessive proxying. A little proxying now and then is fine, but if you use a unit regularily you should invest in some models for it (they don't necessarily need to be the exact ones GW intended, just consistant and easy to remember). This is for clarity during the game, to keep things easy to remember and keep the game flowing.

 

Having one mob of boyz representing a squad of marines, and the nob being the lascannon is difficult to remember. Making a bunch of Goliaths represent a unit of devistators, and the ones with pistols pointing upwards being the marines with missile launchers and those with pistols pointing downwards be the marines with bolters, is just plain annoying (no kidding, I've had someone do that).

 

However, substituting a squad of ork bikers for SM bikers to try them out is just fine with me. It's logical and easy to remember, and there's no sense in dumping a bunch of money into models you'll use three times before you decide you don't like them. Magnitizing all your models to allow weapon swaps is not only easy but smart, in my opinion. These things I'm happy to allow.

 

I'll also add that the C:SM was a huge disappointment to me. I felt that the 4th edition C:SM was so good, with so much variety and playability, that I really looked forward to what they were going to do for 5th. And then GW took a giant step backwards, so much so that I stopped playing 40k altogether. The only thing that's brought me out of that funk has been the new SW 'dex. So I have a lot of sympathy with anyone who is so unhappy with C:SM 5th ed that they want to play using a different chapter that "counts as" SW.