Returning to gaming

[Deraj]

As the 2-5 of you who peruse this site have probably noted, I have not been active. At all. Why is this? Life is busy? That's no real excuse, I still have time, I've just been giving up on warhammer. Why? Maybe it's because my favorite army are welves, and I hate painting them with a passion. Maybe it's because my hobby shop is something around 250 miles away. Maybe it's just that I have completely lost any ambition for anything warhammer based. Yes, let's go with that.

So: does anyone know a way to get it back? I really do want to play again, but I've grown to hate my delves, and I've sold every other painted army I have, leaving me only my welves, my favorite army, yet.. the one I cannot stand painting. Should I just get an airbrush and a dip pot to paint my core choices quick so I have a fully painted army, and therefore have more fun playing?

You see... I love the game, but I'm just growing bored of it. The fluff really isn't great, there are few good books and stories, I'm just bored.

Anyone else been at this point? Any ideas how to beat it?

[Arguleon Veq]

I go through phases like that, usually switching to 40K when I do feel that way. It is often a new Fantasy army book that brings me back.

Perhaps read the Time of Legends books to get you back into it. The Horus Heresy books are working for me with 40K.

Another common option is to get involved with one of the specialist games. They are often more fun, take less time to play and are easy to get into as you dont need to do much painting etc. Thats how I have gotten some friends back into Fantasy.

So perhaps try out a Mordheim Campaign with a few friends, or start to play a bit of Bloodbowl. Both are in the Fantasy setting, Mordheim using pretty similar rules [although BB is in an alternate Fantasy setting] so they should ease you back into it.

[Deraj]

Well... at gd this year I went nuts and bought 3 mordheim groups, so I really should, but half the players around here insist on playing 'test' warbands, IE brettonians, TK, and things like that that aren't actually in the book.

As for the time of legend books... The melakith one just dragged on, I found the nagash one to be something akin to a history book mixed with battle reports in its dryness, though I did like the Sigmar one, I don't like empire as an army.

The bloodbowl game should be out in the next few months, so I don't want to get into the table top with that yet. I guess I will see about mordheim. Or maybe I'm just bound to live in cycles, I just got back to 40k a few months back, then I got into dnd not very long ago, so I'm bound to return to fantasy at this rate

[Arguleon Veq]

Well dont be too long away from it!

Most of those other Warbands do have proper rules from Town Cryer and from the old GW Mordheim specialist page. So they work just fine. I think the only real game wrecker in Mordheim is Nurgles Rot for the Carnival of Chaos.