Bloodrazor Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Hi All, Just recently started putting together and painting my new Blood Angels Army and it's coming along quite nicely. However, suddenly I have been bitten by what I can only describe is the "envy" bug. I really like other people's armies and stuff I see on the forums makes me want to collect and paint other armies at the same time. It got me thinking, is it a bad thing? It breaks up the monotony of painting the same army, different models and more than likely a different colour scheme. Was wondering if anyone could weigh in on their thoughts and experiences. Cheers Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantomzero17 Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Well I've painted individual marines from other chapters before. But I only have 3 playable forces my Night Lords, Black Templars, and Orks. Sometimes for me swapping to something else keeps me plugging along. As compared to when I just keep painting one force where I tend to put it on the back burner and leave models half painted for several weeks. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disciple of Caliban Sgt Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 As long as you aren't putting yourself in the poor house I don't see why it is a bad thing. Everything in moderation but multiple armies are nice for breaking it up a bit. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodrazor Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Haha that's my thoughts too. As long as I'm not in the poor house it's all good :D I just can't help but feel that my Blood Angels (Great Army, Great Fluff etc) will get left by the wayside if I get burnt out painting red. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotsmasha Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 As long as your models are WYSIWYG, there's no rule that says your models *must* be painted the same. So if you want to try another Chaper out without collecting a whole army, paint up some Grey Hunters (or whatever) and play them as a BA Tactical Squad. As long as you tell your opponent pre-game, "Hey, these GH are just a Codex BA Tac squad", you should be all good Cheers, Jono Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodrazor Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 As long as your models are WYSIWYG, there's no rule that says your models *must* be painted the same. So if you want to try another Chaper out without collecting a whole army, paint up some Grey Hunters (or whatever) and play them as a BA Tactical Squad. As long as you tell your opponent pre-game, "Hey, these GH are just a Codex BA Tac squad", you should be all good Cheers, Jono This is true. The only thing is it might not be another Space Marine army, it may be IG or perhaps.......xenos. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I'm all for diversity - I have my core army (or anything Chaotic, basically), with smaller supplementary armies that I've inevitably picked up over the years. They're nice for breaks and challenges, and to practice new skills that I may want to either perfect or adapt for my more prominent armies. It's definitely a good thing, stops you feeling that you're stagnating or that the game is getting stale! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathspectersgt7 Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I Want to do all 1k chapters Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stercus Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I think all of the current thousand chapters would be a stretch. I did always have a hankering to paint a single marine of each founding legion, as they stood at the beginning of the heresy. And then paint those same eighteen men as they stand in m41. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Master Belial Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 In a slightly different vein. I went with a joint army of the Dark Angels and its Successors. I have marines from all the official successors and then a few homemade Successors. The squads are even intermixed to make it easier to swap out brothers with different armaments. It allows me to paint a variety of miniatures with varying paint schemes but bonded in purpose. Perhaps you could do the same and add Successors. They may play the same but would give you something different to paint to break up the monotony of painting a single color. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toomanyprojects Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Absolutely not. This hobby caters to anyone's whims and it is all the better for it. I myself have three marine armies on the go, along with necrons and Daemons. Whilst building up my flesh tearers army, I somehow managed to convert thirteen librarians for the mother of all unbound armies :) Have fun with it, this hobby caters to all :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3907869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactire Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I've always been of the one big army camp. However this can lead to burnout, having now nearly completed my GC, I've actually started a couple of side projects. The starter sets have been the reason for this along with my 9 (now 10) year old, so now I have a small Nid force, the DV Chaos and DA forces and the Stormclaw Orks. I also picked up a couple of half used sprues from a gaming store to expand the Chaos marines and Orks, and also start a small BT squad. So yeah, I think stick with your main project but dip in and out of others. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3908048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fibonacci Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 The point of the hobby -- or any hobby -- is to have fun. If you think it will be fun to start collecting bugs on the side, then do so. If you think the models from a different game entirely like Infinity look cool, paint some. The only thing I would say about collecting multiple armies is to make yourself a budget and stick to it. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3908218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW1 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I have a massive amount of models. That have been stripped and restarted a stupid number of times. Currently somewhere knocking around there's a great company of wolves, a company of smurfs, several hundred guard, Eldar, enough bikes to do a company of scars, a big pile of lead awaiting formation into a crusade force. And then there's way more WHFB than I care to count. Eventually I want to fill the 2 display cabinets currently looking a bit bare with finished armies but I keep flitting from one thing to another. One day I'll stick to a project long enough to make an impact on the backlog. ;) Lol ... All I recommend is not letting it get quite as bad as I have. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3910701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teetengee Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 As long as your models are WYSIWYG, there's no rule that says your models *must* be painted the same. So if you want to try another Chaper out without collecting a whole army, paint up some Grey Hunters (or whatever) and play them as a BA Tactical Squad. As long as you tell your opponent pre-game, "Hey, these GH are just a Codex BA Tac squad", you should be all good Cheers, Jono Im not even sure wysiwig is an official rule anymore..... Nonetheless, there is nothing wrong with multiple armies, except the strain on your wallet. Thankfully for those of us in the chaos camp, we tend to have an easier time scratching these types of itches without getting to far away from our codex. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3910742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ordo Machinum Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I Want to do all 1k chapters Start with Deathwatch? Long ago, I started a DWatch force that had captain models like Khan, Vulcan, Azrael, etc as it's Sgts. Each commanded a squad of their model's core chapter's successors. The idea was to make the army flexible enough to role with any codex. The deciding factor was the main DWatch Captain had to of the Codex being used. My Horus Heresy version of this was to build a chapter of 100 "robotic" marines and say they were an auxiliary of the Adeptus/Dark Mechanicus to use multiple legion rules. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3910776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathspectersgt7 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I think all of the current thousand chapters would be a stretch. I did always have a hankering to paint a single marine of each founding legion, as they stood at the beginning of the heresy. And then paint those same eighteen men as they stand in m41. Well I'am at 35 now And are at a playable level. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3910787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hushrong Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I concur with others that it is not a problem to want or have other armies just as long as you keep your finances in check. Lets just say I have made a lot of dumb and useless purchases where the money could have been better spent. So I have been getting into the mindset that I need to get my moneys worth out of the hobby. If I buy something I need to be building, painting, or playing otherwise I have just made poor investment. As for wanting to build up new forces I would suggest kill teams. You can build up troops and play other armies while you slowly build up a new force alongside your BA. Another idea to break up monotony is to try and make one-off minis. Awhile back I got tired of thinking about and building CSM so I decided to try and build a HH Iron Warrior out of plastics for a change of pace. It helped and once I make its base and paint it I think it will look nice on a display shelf. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3910842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adeptus-Alaska Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I Want to do all 1k chapters Oh, you would!!!! I am currently at three armies World Eaters for 30k/HH World Eaters for 40k And Lamenters for 40k But I was THAT guy who had an inane amount of projects/armies. Had to tone it down after the fire....... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3911037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucio Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I picked Chaos Marines as my core force so I could avoid model fatigue when painting yet another Tactical Squad. It means I can legitimately paint daemons, Imperial Guard, convert a load of different poses and surfaces whilst still maintaining a core theme. Keep everything unified by using a similar pallette for all the models (reds, pinks and purples) helps it feel like a linked force but as can be seen in my WIP thread, I still get some decent variety. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3911514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafetyTurtle Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Actually I think it's rather common in this hobby, I think most people have 2 or 3 armies or more.My personaly problem is that I see one or two minis from an army I like and suddenly I wanna collect the entire army, even though I only like two of the models ^^For my own sanity I've limited myself to my Ork army, a Marine army and will be doing a 30k army and try and leave it at that cause I also like big armies at the same time...having huge collections. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301363-collecting-multiple-armies/#findComment-3911615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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