What to get?

[treadiculous]

Okay.. I've had a £600 tax repayment come through and I'm siphoning off up to 10% to spend on models. (the rest is sensibly going to savings, bills, DIY and my mechanic).

I am now struggling to choose:


Option 1 - Ork Anti Aircraft

www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Orks/ORK_VEHICLES/ORK_HALFTRAKK.html

with

www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Orks/ORK_VEHICLES/ORK-FLAKK-GUN.html



Option 2 - My Dead Stuff Project

2 boxes of catchan and some other 'dead' bits



Option 3 - Female guard squads

2 units of this: www.brother-vinni.com/shop.htm#!/Female-Troopers/p/39327499/category=9008390

1 unit of this: victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/product/arcadian-rifles-squad-female



Option 5 - Scenic crates / hills of crates

www.antenocitisworkshop.com/crate-heap-1-for-28mm-wargaming.html

and

www.antenocitisworkshop.com/crate-heap-set-1-for-28mm-wargaming.html



Option 6 - Scenic Walkways and Road

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390974816798?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Industrial-building-Dual-Silos-scenery-terrain-warhammer-40k-wargame-Infinity-/121697973947?hash=item1c55c3b6bb

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wargames-Terrain-Scenery-28mm-Scale-Road-set-40k-Bolt-Action-Dust-Tactics-/181816866947?hash=item2a55213883



Option 6 - Ork Bommer

standard GW kit with a few added extras



Option 7 - Some kind of stompa hunter unit



Option 8 - Get no models and put the money toward a decent bow for archery



Option 9 - Get no models and put the money toward a graphics card



Option 10 - Elite Dangerous

[emptyhat]

Why get two squads of Vinnie's stuff and 1 squad of Arcadians?

[treadiculous]

I've been looking at that myself...

the logic was that Victoria mini's were a box of 10 (costing £31) and Vinnie's were boxes of 5 (costing £15).

However, victoria mini's offers free shipping on orders over $50, so if I bought two sets of the Arcadia I get the free shipping.

It'd probably be the same for Vinnie's stuff - that buying more than 10 miniatures works out better for shipping.

I'll probably start with Victoria's stuff and get Vinnie's next.


there's also these gals though they're not quite my style: statuesqueminiatures.shop033.com/p/8544067/sm018-resistance-cell.html

[Adkenpachi]

Option 10, i need a partner in crime.. or space policing, either way.

Or 8 or 9, seems more sensible; )

[emptyhat]

Vinnies look like they fit with Catachans better.

[cheminhaler]

The heap of crates look good. You can probably just make something like that if you can find the crates and barrels cheaply enough. So I'd say buy an Ork Bommer just to give you the excuse to shout out 'its a bomma!' during games.

[Walk]

Im of the opinion that the gaming board and scenery make the game just as much as the models do. Thats why I voted for the roads.

[treadiculous]

Chemin - those hills are the cheapest versions of multiple barrels that I know of (I have looked extensively), and as soon as you add in labour costs then those hills are an absolute bargain!

Roads and the walkway scenery would really add a lot to the game, walkways give a nice excuse for height too.

[treadiculous]

in the end I got one of the two sets of hills (the set which is 3 smaller hills), some catachan for converting in to corpses, 3 deffkopta and 15 stormboyz.

completely failed once again to bring balance to my armies and further increased the bias toward ork numbers.

[emptyhat]

There are always more Orks.

[treadiculous]

yes.

what I didn't realise is that Stormboyz aren't just good cargo for a big bommer, thanks to the new rules they now they have deepstrike, can be given power klaws and are just shy of a melta gun in points. they can also try to run further at the cost of a dangerous terrain test.

the Deffkopta's may get sold on to the lad at work who is beginning to collect orks; his main enemy will be space marines and eldar. (I'm not sure why I bought them, I think it was a random low bid).

[treadiculous]

so the hills arrived today,

they look great with good detail and work well (had a test game and they are mostly very stable).

I really like the solution they provide as they are hills with steps that look ace.

they're made of expanded polystyrene so they are very light weight - I have some concerns over their durability though think they'll probably last me well given that I have card scenery which is doing fine in its eighth year!

bargain!

I also note that the hills have been coated in a base coat which will help lots!