So remember all that nonsense and mystery a couple of weeks back regarding the Amazon Poison Dart Frog? Well, its time to let the cat out of the bag. For the first time in 20 years, I've gone back on my promise and picked up another main-line GW product: Fantasy.
I said I'd never do it, stuck to my guns, but in the end, the forces that be just wore me down like Chinese water torture. Now the cool part is that I got to walk into my FLGS and do something not everyone gets to do with a new GW game. Approach it as a complete newcomer. No pre-dispositions, no biases, just eager excitement. It got me thinking, how does the average player get into an army? Its a question I get often on the 40k side of things "Hey Bigred which army should I collect first?"
I approached Fantasy exactly as I suggest folks do it on the 40k side. Follow your eyes. Take your time, look through the MODELS, box by box, range by range, and see what visually excites you. Once you have narrowed it down to a handful of armies, flip through the codices/armybooks to get a flavor for the fluff, then decide. I consider rules distantly third.
What I've found over the years of watching folks do this is those who are really into their models tend to really get into the game. They tend to paint them up, and get them onto the tabletop, carrying that initial enthusiasm onto army completion and tabletop play. I can't tell you the number of rules-first guys I've seen who still play with metal models, and bitch to high heaven when the (inevitable) new edition and codex upends their "perfect unbeatable list".
In the end, play for the love.
Oh yes, I almost forgot... my choice: Druchii
~Don't fret my 40k readers, like any maniac collector I've started to upgrade and expand an old Night Lords army to round out some of the missing bits of the CSM codex I can't justify doing in Death Guard colors to give me more options on the tabletop. I've thrown up a poll to ask you our readers, what motivates you to collect and expand your armies? Feel free to drop in comments as to why you love your current army and what made you choose them over the competition. You know the drill, poll right column...ATTACK!
