Anyone who has followed this blog for a longer period of time knows that I’ve been struggling with Warhammer 40,000 for a while. I’ve been playing off and on since 1989, and I honestly can’t stand the business model. If that game needs to be updated every three years after being in print for close to four decades? You’re doing a shit job.
Sadly, most of my friends have a bad case of 40k Fever. It’s pretty much all they want to play, so I can either NOT play games with them and happily plug away on my other projects, or I can put together something that I do like in the lore and grumble about it a lot.
Yeah, I’m a bundle of fun. People line up around the block to play games with me.
Space Wolves have always had a special place in my heart. They don’t care about the Codex Astartes, they look like they can pilot a longboat, and beards are cool. Plus, they have wolves. Wolves are cool.
I’m going to put together a total of 2,000 points for this army, for a game I really don’t like, just because the people I play with are a lot of fun and I don’t want to NOT play games with them!
Still not sure how to keep engaged enough to learn the janky ass rules without lighting it all on fire, though. Sure, One Page Rules has a good alternative, but good luck getting anyone with 40k Fever to break from the GeeDubs greed train. Grumble grumble.
I’ll have some Terminators up soon, and probably a Rhino or two. And some Bloodclaws and a Dreadnaught. That’s still not 2,000 points, but that’s what I own already, so it’ll have to do for now, hahaha!
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I know the feeling on GW rules, I stopped buying them on 5 th Edition, and haven’t bought them since ! LOL The Wolves look great though, and hopefully you’ll have some fun, even with those janky rules ! LOL
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I think I stopped around 5th as well! It just felt unsustainable. But the only people I game with just won’t budge from it! I’m thinking of working them into another game like Five Parsecs somehow, see how well they work with a solo game. I don’t hate the minis, just the “rules”… ugh.
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I haven’t tried to play Warhammer since the early 2000’s and I don’t care for the gaming business model either. Its change for the sake of profit and it isn’t treating your customers well, though there are plenty that are happy to pay. As Dave said, the wolves look great! I like that most don’t have their helmets on so you can see how Viking-like they are.
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I think our gaming histories parallel each other pretty closely! That business model annoys the hell out of me. It’s a shame they make cool models, otherwise they wouldn’t see a buck from me. Then again, I did promise my wife I would stick to a gaming budget, so GW probably won’t see any more from me anyway…
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