| "body"> | | | | sense, tactical squads, assault squads, even a battle |
| Unless you are new to Warhammer 40k, chances are | | | | force. But these models, however great they looked |
| this has happened to you. When it happens, it can | | | | (not mine), captured my imagination the way |
| take any number of forms, be it the army no longer | | | | Dreadnoughts did. |
| grabbing your eye, or that the inspiration that | | | | Flash-forward a few months and my friend was |
| motivated you to begin the army is no longer there. | | | | getting back into Warhammer 40k, starting with the |
| Other forms include playing and finding out an army is | | | | Assault on Black Reach set, collecting Space Marines. |
| not suited to your play style, for example a Chaos | | | | Avoiding the same army battle provides the excuse |
| Marine player being too fond of death or glory style | | | | to move onto Chaos Marines, who being the |
| assaults might find themselves moving onto an army | | | | Uber-villains of 40k captured my imagination in a way |
| more expendable troops. | | | | Space Marines could not. Finding many Space Marine |
| It might simply turn out that you find your army no | | | | players at my local Games Workshop encouraged |
| longer unique, with everyone else collecting it, or | | | | this desertion, and it is unlikely I will bother with a |
| worse yet, all of the above. | | | | Space Marine army again. |
| Certainly this is what happened with my Space | | | | This is not to say I am off Space Marines |
| Marines, and it is the cost incurred, or rather wasted, | | | | completely, I still think the models look great, in fact |
| that inspired me to write this cautionary tale. | | | | there is an unpainted Dreadnought on my shelf right |
| I got into Warhammer 40k through the Dawn of | | | | now. Even looking at them in White Dwarf, reading |
| War computer games, and the Dreadnought was my | | | | about them in the books, or seeing an army on a |
| favorite unit in the game, after all what is not cool | | | | website, sets me thinking of what I could do with |
| about a huge robot piloted by an undead hero? So I | | | | them. Just last week I got an idea for a White |
| went with my heart and played Space Marines to use | | | | Consul army after reading Dark Creed by Anthony |
| Dreadnoughts. | | | | Reynolds, but while I might attempt the odd display |
| So that is what I did, collecting Dreadnoughts, building | | | | piece, if I think about it, I know such army would be |
| every possible combination that I could, before long I | | | | lucky to see the tabletop. |
| had four, and adding other Space Marine forces made | | | | |