Do you collect one, or ten?

[MithrilForge]

Column B - 

it’s always nice to paint new things and always fun for you and your mates to play against different armies ,especially if your favourite army is kicking butt a bit too hard in that edition 

plus the joy of trying new colour schemes ! 
 

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[ThePenitentOne]

Very much B. I supply multiple armies/ KTs for other people, so I need antagonizing forces. The idea is play the campaign, collecting building and painting as necessary to follow the Crusade. Right now, I have a huge collection of stuff still on sprues, so I doubt I'll be buying 2k worth of stuff this edition. Though I did buy the Kroot Box, the store Anniversary Ethereal, the WH+ Inquisitor and I'm likely to pick up some new Krieg, a Valkyrie, some EC and a box of Mandrakes. It might come to 2k points.

[Vassakov]

Probably more B these days, but I've still picked up things for Space Wolves - my oldest army - in this edition.

 

Admittedly, the contents of Leviathan are untouched as I'm awaiting to see where Space Wolves eventually end up. I tend to bounce around from project to project and I'm trying to work on the backlog.

 

More interestingly, I don't really do that much for 40k these days. I'm currently finishing off a couple of Terminators, a Librarian and an Eversor for my Grey Knights (need to get them done for the Cov GT) but otherwise my primary projects have been Word Bearers for Heresy & 40k, Seraphon and Tomb Kings. I still have some Sisters of Battle and two Cerastus Knights to get to though...

[Arikel]

Armies not as huge as other folks.  I have roughly a half company of My iron boots painted up, with more or less enough to fill it out to full company strength, + supporting characters and a bunch of first company vets. Also have a pile of grey that includes a small guard army, a small chaos force, several types of imperial weirdoes, a smattering of adepta sororitas and various other odds and ends.

 

If I can swing it, I’d like to get the sororitas and  knight boxes this year, and maybe some additional chaos stuff to have an army someone could borrow to fight me with;). The only imperial faction I don’t fully click with is the Adeptus Mechanicus. 

[Wormwoods]

Probably more in the B camp, though I'll probably be adding things to older armies forever, they just don't remain a focus. 2,000 points is about where I consider an army 'done', though, where done means 'not actively being expanded, but will get new stuff sometimes, when the mood takes me'.

[Bryan Blaire]

Definitely Option C - collecting the very few new things I might to paint want while watching GW drive most of what I liked about the game out the window into a deep trench in a flaming convertible.  I’ve got more than enough cool stuff to paint, cooler stories to tell, and other ways to war game without any need to feel connected or devoted to the company.

Edited October 9 by Bryan Blaire

[Deschenus Maximus]

Option C) start an army for a different game, while maybe adding a new unit to my 40k army here or there.

[Dr. Clock]

I've definitely gone the B route. I was unyielding in my Eldar puritanism from 2nd-3rd, and they are still 'my faction', but essentially my tastes and interests grew over time, and with each new army added. Plus it took me about 10 years to actually develop a painting habit to the point where I could add an army in a reasonable time. Since 4th it appears I have averaged just over 1 army per edition so it's now a semi-embarrassing 10 overall, which works out roughly to 1 army every 2 years.

 

The older armies are definitely over 3 or 4k points in total, and the youngest are only now pushing past the 2k mark. No new armies on the horizon for the now on my end, mostly just adding units of interest here and there, although the biggest hole right now is like 20 Navy Breachers and pair of Rhinos to turn my Deathwatch army into a proper Agents force (and finally painting my Hekaton).

 

I guess that's only like 200? points of painting per month, but over 20 years it's added up!

 

Should note I also found time to collect almost 4 AoS armies, but they were assembled more as RPG minis than for proper fantasy battles, and they definitely have holes to patch over for 4th, in addition to a good few proxies/alternatives... It does push my monthly average painting up to like 250pts, or like 15 MEQ per month, which seems correct for the past ~10 years anyway.

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor. 

[sarabando]

im like 13 armies into 2 editions of the heresy does that answer your question XD

[The Yncarne]

For the first 3 editions I tended towards focusing on 1-3 armies which I built to around the old org force chart level. Money was my primary limit. 
 

In 4th, 5th, 8th, and 9th editions I started a new army at the start of the edition and built them as the desire came. Time was my primary limit.
 

I hated 6th and 7th editions and only bought a few release updates for existing armies. 
 

I haven’t played this edition, but I’ll buy the occasional box to paint a different color. I don’t see myself making an army level purchase again. In fact, I have several relatively large armies I’d like to unload. The joy I used to have at looking at all that stuff just isn’t there now. 

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

I have collected multiple armies. It helps a lot when doing solo games to have a wide variety of models.

[Tawnis]

I kind of waffle between these two on an edition to edition basis. 

 

Space Marines were my main army from 3rd-7th edition and I was always of the mindset of more Marines to one day get to chapter strength. (20 years later and I'm a little over halfway there, though I've taken some detours along the way.) In early 4th I picked up some Necrons and enjoyed having a smaller secondary army. Space Marines grew the fastest, but it was nice to have something to swap to every so often. Paint something different or try out a unique and different unit. 

 

This mostly stayed like this through that time period, though I slowly began to accumulate smaller armies from friends who left the game and whose armies I adopted. I'd play them every so often, but Space Marines were still my go to until I stopped playing myself around the start of 7th Edition. 

 

I got back into the game near the end of 8th, and I knew that while I still loved my Space Marine army, I wanted something new and wildly different. So I took on the army that has been my main force to this day, Kroot. While they are the primary army I run and I've been expanding on them every edition, I've also found myself with still having a bunch of pieces of many other armies in the game and as such have been expanding out and playing weirdly neglected sections of those armies. 

Kroot obviously are a given as they are my main army. 

In 9th I also ran an all Scouts army for my Space Marines. Though most of them hit the Legends bin in 10th so I haven't had too much of a chance to take them out since. 

I played Agents of the Imperium before they got a full codex to themselves, what a wild army that was. 

 

Most of those I basically had the units for already, but beside my main army, I've slowly been accumulating a few things here and there. Some GSC units to go with the mountain of Genestealers I have, some Sisters of Silence to one day field a full SoS army. Random odds and ends to play weird lists from all over the scope of factions. 

 

I guess what my long rambling tangent leads to is a bit of both as my answer. Rather than add 2k to my main army or get a new 2k army each edition, I'd rather add 1k to my main army and get some odds and ends to shake up playstyles in my now many side armies. 

[Schurge]

For over a decade I collected and played exclusively World Eaters. It was only when we got our codex - which I don't even think I ever bought - that I started a second army, Grey Knights.

 

Be careful what you wish for.

 

My Grey Knights never really got off the ground, I think I have 500 points. When there is room in my life for Warhammer again, I look forward to expanding it to match my World Eaters which sat at 10,000 points.

[Monstra Sumus]

I think I'm going to be Option B when 11th edition hits. 

I have been doing Marines Malevolent for about 15 years now but I'm considering starting something fresh for a new edition. I'm just not entirely sure what as of yet.  

[Halandaar]

Both!

 

By which I'm mostly a type-B - add a new faction (I'm currently working my way through collecting all 25-odd AoS Spearheads), but I have a couple of big collections which will always be added to each time they get new models released; my Craftworld Aeldari and my homebrew Astartes chapter. 

[Allart01]

I’ve been playing and collecting World Eaters and Dark Angels for 15 years, first 40k then Heresy, with occasional kill-team level palate cleansers.

The main divergences came from Specialist Games (Necromunda, Titanicus, AI, BFG, Legions) - though when I can I keep to the same armies (my LI, AI and BFG forces are Dark Angels).

I also still have and cherish my old Fantasy Armies, Orcs and Bretonnia, from way back.

All in all, I’d say I tend to not collect more than one-two subfactions but I also tried and collected most GW’s games. In the end, it’s a decently varied collection.

Edited October 11 by Allart01

[Rogue]

For a long time, I fell into category A - I started a marine army back in first edition, and slowly built it up over the years. My plan was to stick with marines and build a huge force. But as it turned out, I hit two of my big goals - a full battle company, and a half-company of old-school terminators - at about the same time as primaris marines became a thing. The scale disparity put me right off adding them to my existing force, but I really didn't want to start a new marine army from scratch.

 

Also around the same time, I started a GSC kill team, and began to expand that into a viable tabletop force. Now, a few years later, I've reached the point where I have at least one of every unit in the codex (Benefictus aside), and have most of the duplicates I want too. So I'm thinking about going for a third army, or possibly the halfway house of expanding my brood brothers into a stand-alone force.

 

So, sort of A, in that I generally add models to a single army over the course of an edition, and sort of B, as I like the idea of having different forces to play around with (even if it's a very slow process).

 

But mostly C - I like to build an army to the point where I can switch in any options I want to, but without collecting over and over to the point where I'm never going to field the excess models.

 

 

[excelite]

We usually play games around 1k points and Kill Team, so that’s usually the barrier for me.

 

Usually I just buy army/ Christmas/ launch boxes or combat patrols that I want to paint up. By now I got around 10ish different 40K armies that get gradually extended when a nice deal box comes around and I feel like painting the included units…