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OK, since posting the above, I built my new Best Kit for AOS: Lord Kroak. What a delight to build, and it's wonderful to look at. Can't wait to start painting it.

Aleguzzler Gargant Savage Orruks STD Chariot Those are my three favourites of models currently still for sale I think.

Goal: Two part. Fun hobby, plus occasional games against 40k players who dabble in AoS (and who I can usually at least match with any stack of ****** I choose to play - I won our escalation league a couple years back with Savage Orruks minus Arrowboys) Patience: I have the spousely green light to go now, so I'm a-gonna go now. Haha. eBay: I don't really do eBay these days. Lol Proxy: does Kroak have the same base size as a Slann? I actually haven't looked that up. Wait, I'm on the internet... [pause] No, it looks like Slann is 50mm and Kroak is 80mm. But I could definitely do it in the sort of casual games I usually play. Or maybe do something crazy with two bases and magnets? I like crazy...

I painted a SC box for a local store demo a few years ago and really liked doing the cold one dudes, that's the motivation there. Haha

Ugh, for starters, after typing it out, it's just 7 bucks more to get a second SC: Skinks than a separate box of Skinks and Terradon Riders, so that's change #1. Hahahaha Not as many Skinks, but an extra Bastilodon.

OK, I'm starting a Seraphon army from scratch, with my tax return money coming in soon. Here's what I've got in my Cart on the GW web store. Does it look reasonable? If you had a similar budget, and were starting from scratch, what would you do differently? For reference, This comes out to about CAD650, USD560, GBP340 Start Collecting: Seraphon Start Collecting: Skinks Lord Kroak Stegadon Skinks Terradon Riders Saurus Guard I hemmed and hawed about Kroak vs. Slann plus another box. Ended up going Rule of Cool for a Kroak. Could be convinced otherwise.

I'm not saving Likes so I spent one on your behalf. #TeamPlayer

I'm very interested in this topic. I've grabbed a few printed items off of Etsy (non-commercial shipping from eastern Europe to western Canada takes a seriously long time!), and my entire Kharadron Overlords army is built from TitanForge models.

I sure hope so - I just painted a lovely metal Throt the Unclean a couple weeks ago haha.

Just this - imagine the hobby whiplash with, for example, Flesheater Courts or Slaanesh? Year to year either of those have been Z-tier, S-tier, and other places in between.

I'm so glad I haven't read the Skaven battletome yet. I'm about a thousand points in to my painting project (I looked at points, minimum unit sizes, and base sizes, and some Googling to figure out what the heck some of my second-hand models even are, but that's all) and I have no idea what anything does. And it is EXHILARATING! Such freedom!

The trick that I've noticed in myself with small games in general is that the more time I spend thinking about my list ahead of time, the less fun the games end up being. If I whip together something and play it, and my opponent does something similar, we both have a nice time win or lose. If either or both of us spend a bunch of time fine tuning the best list we can get, the game isn't as fun. It feels like there are more stakes.

Hey bud, those cymbals are AMAZING I love them.

Going great starting with Skaven this year. I still haven't played a game since before Covid, but I'm having a delightful time painting.

I have a lead on getting an old metal warp lightning cannon this weekend, and possibly some other reclaimed junk. Can't wait!

Here's what I have so far, gang. Can you imagine, not even knowing the proper unit names? It's wild but I'm loving it. 5 of whichever "Runners" night or gutter it is that come in 5s 10 Stormvermin Doomflayer 4 Rat Swarms Throt the Unclean (some sort of hero these days?) 2 Warp something thrower gun things

You realize all we have to do is say the word "halflings" about 25 more times in this thread, based on nothing at all, and we will all convince ourselves that they are a real thing, right? (ref: darkoath, vampirates, etc.) Halflings

Oh! I even know the story of Public Universal Friend, and hadn't connected it to your handle. That's too funny.

So I'm starting a new army project in a completely different way from what I've ever done before. It's Skaven - I traded for a random pile of Skaven models. I'm familiar in a general sort of way with Skaven, I can identify most of the units by sight, and I know vaguely about the Skryre/Moulder/Eshin/Pestilens divide. However, I don't have a Skaven battletome (of any vintage) and don't really know what Skaven things do in AoS (of any vintage) other than in the most general sort of way. I am deliberately NOT looking at lists or rules. The only concession I am making to rules at this point is 1) base sizes and 2) unit sizes. For bases - all the models I picked up were on (or came with) square bases, so I'm following the published base size guidelines. For unit sizes, I have a single blister with two Plague Censer Bearers, I see unit size 5, so I'm setting them aside until I pick up 3 more. I have 17 Night Runners, I see unit size 10, so I'm setting 7 aside. That sort of thing. Building legal units, but without further regard for rules. So far, I'm pretty enthusiastic about the project. Once I get everything I currently have painted, *then* I'll start looking at rules, and seeing what I want to add. Like the subject says, this is a completely new way of going about hobbying up a new army for me. I've always started projects, even second hand/reclamation projects, with a pile of plastic/metal/resin in one had, and a rulebook in the other hand. Stuff that is not "good" in a list gets shoved aside, left to the end, forgotten. This time, I'm painting all of it without ever knowing if it's good. Are Doomflayers good? No idea! But I've already painted one. What about Gutter Runners? A unit of 5 little rats seems so weedy. But they're MY painted weedy little buggers. Has anyone else tried something like this - not necessarily following this blueprint, but doing a new project in a completely different way from what you normally would?

I'd be fine sipping some of that soup. "Waiter, there's no beard hair in my soup!" "I'm so sorry sir, let me replace that watery abomination right away."

Yeah, ultimately the core of my frustration is that I would like for Option 1 for the book to not be as a farm team to feed individual units to other factions, but to be a thing for itself. It's not the Marks themselves (although I definitely prefer Undivided for StD), it's the way it feels like all we are doing is adding to other lists and not being our own list.

Haha I got mine for full price at my friendly local, so that smooths over the salt (I like those guys and don't begrudge them the money).

A random post in another thread made me think of this actual unpopular opinion (by "unpopular" I mean I suspect many people would disagree). Slaves to Darkness and Beasts of Chaos should all be dedicated to Chaos Undivided, with no options for single-god Marks. Any units that you would put in single-god armies belong in that other faction's book. So Nurgle-Marked Chaos Warriors or Pestigors (for example) would be in the Maggotkin of Nurgle Battletome, not the StD or BoC Battletomes. All that you would find in the StD and BoC Battletomes would be un-Marked units. UNPOPULAR!

During my struggle with mental health one of my two main self-identified symptoms (the other was a couple episodes of hiding under my desk at work to cry) was a total loss of interest in hobbying. The loss of interest in the hobby was the "final straw" that led me to finding help. Medication and counselling later, and I'm hobbying like a madman again (and sitting at my desk rather than crying under it).

The trivial answer of "What makes you start a new army" is that I start a new army when I finish the current one. Getting to what you're really asking, "What makes you start a particular new army?" - it's almost always based on starting from a core of models I already have in my collection. I've got bits and pieces of kits and units going back a couple decades - NIB, second hand, 3rd party, etc - such that I could start almost any faction with at least a few models as a head start. I've got a dozen or more painted armies - only twice in my life have I ever just grabbed a bunch of new kits and started an army from zero (once in 99/00 with starter box Lizardmen, and then circa 2016 when I did a bunch of commission painting for my FLGS and took some Flesheater Courts starter boxes as payment)