Feeling Discouraged...

[Swarm God]

So I wasn't really sure where to put this. It's kind of about Nids. And its general. But it deals specifically with 40k. so yeah here it is.

I'm feeling super discouraged at the moment. I love 40k. I really do. I like building, I like converting, I like painting. But I only have so much time to paint... And I never get to play, like ever. The closest GW is an hour from where I live. The LGS by me has one gaming club for 40k and they are really not a pleasant lot to be around. I don't want to stop playing, but without the game aspect, its a money hole that I can't really afford or justify. I'm starting to feel like I'd be better off selling all the 40k stuff I have and washing my hands of all of it.

anyone else feeling this way?

[salamut2202]

i get this way too. oh, and i get the feeling on top of that is all this uselessness is costing money, time and effort you are increasing running out of. actually i cal it more of an obsession than a hobby.
i'm all ways feeling like

[WestRider]

I hear you. It's close to 1 1/2 Hours each way for me to get a Game in (and $10 for the round trip), and I have to work all the days that the main 40K crowd comes around. So I usually only get to play maybe 2-3 Games a Month, tops, and those are usually against the same couple of guys.

On the other hand, I do rather enjoy the games I manage to get in, and I get quite a bit of pleasure from the Modeling and Painting side of things as well. Even as it stands, I'm more or less satisfied with my Hours of Entertainment per Dollar ratio from 40K.

[Swarm God]

Sadly, it sounds like you get 2-3 times as many games as me a month and have at least double the amount of opponents...

I'm painting up my cousins tau for him and he is covering transportation and hotel for 4 days for Gencon this summer.

he has 4 armies. I think I should just offer to paint them all. and use them when I'm over. He's the only person I really play anyways.

[beardyneko]

I have the fortune of having a Bi-Monthly club nearby and a 45 minute option of playing the next town over.

But its filled with kids, 13+ kinda age, and there being only two or so guys my age, It isn't a problem apart from them never paying attention and playing every Army like Marines (Had a young Eldar player not use any Psy powers, charging right at me pretending that his 5+ invun was going to save him despite what I was saying against this plan)

My Problem lays in the fact that if I actually want to play someone my age or higher (so 22yrs old+) I would need to go to a Veterans night which has the issues of:
* 45mins - hour to get there
* Being late at night (meeting at 5pm, ending at 10-11pm)
* Having to take off 2 days of work if it happens to Rota that way (not a great idea)
* The last train home is at half 10, its cutting it pretty fine.

So yeah, crisis of faith happens even when you have a club nearby lols
My time is spent assembling, painting and planning out Army Lists. But since the only challenge I get is from a Chaos Marine player, I have to wonder about the Validity of my efforts.

[valtiel]

I know how you're feeling. I attend to university these days, studying medicin leaving no time for any kind of hobby and besides all my stuff is at home at my parents. My local gaming group is also close to where my parents live either so...

Also my Fantasy army was Chaos which was split apart which left me in doubt about staying with Warhammer. I finally decided to stay but just work on the models I have. Now I am in doubts about 40k as well since I'm not sure how my Tyranids will work but I feel my units have been nerfed. I think it will work but I am just... well not able to try it out either.

[Psychichobo]

I know the feeling. University's the only place where I really play, there's a local club, other than that there's a few people at home... but I'm more worried that if I get a job I'll be off somewhere which won't have a GW or similar place. That, and I'm a bit wary of GW's at times.

[WestRider]

Jan 31, 2010 8:21:59 GMT Swarm God said:

Sadly, it sounds like you get 2-3 times as many games as me a month and have at least double the amount of opponents...

That's at best. I got a total of one Game in between August 9th and January 5th, for example.

[Swarm God]

I wish I didn't know how you felt.

However, I've decided that I'm going to try and finish painting my army and see how I feel then.

I just made an awesome Hive Tyrant... Though there are blisters from all the hacking-at-metal I had to do.

[Devil's Advocate]

I found myself much in the same boat a couple years ago - unpleasant gaming atmosphere, opponents behaving poorly, long drives to gaming locations, not much money to support the hobby... I more or less stopped, but didn't sell any of my hobby stuff - the bitz, the armies, everything.

My fortune changed. I moved, and within a month of me moving, a brand new GW opened 10 min from my house.

It being a new store, there are quite a few people in the 10-18 year old range, and a few that are a bit closer in age to me (30ish). With so many new players, and so close, it's easy to get in a game, but difficult to find a player who is a challenge.

I've found myself as a teacher to these young'uns. a mentor who shows them the best way to behave, the way to treat your opponents, how to approach the rules from a reasonable perspective so there are no major rules disagreements, slowly improving and advising them on their army lists, tactical practices, modeling advice and more. I've had a great deal of fun and feel very lucky and glad that I didn't give up and get rid of my armies.

I'm the "old man" of the shop, and it really helps create a pleasant gaming atmosphere.

The point here is this:
If you enjoy it now, and have enjoyed it up until now, don't abandon it. There's more than enough hobby for you to enjoy. Give it some time, work to derive pleasure from what you can, and work towards a point where the gaming will be more friendly and accessible to you.

[CylonDorado]

I'm in pain right now. Just as the new codex comes out, I start my spring semester, and I have an evening class on Thursday (aka, 40k night at the gameshop). And the gameshop is like 5 minutes away.

But at least this is just a temperary couple of months...

And don't think it'd ever quit for good, but it's fine to take long breaks every once in a while.

[rainthezangoose]

i fell like the luckyest game alive after reading some of this stuff, never been to a proper GW Realy, like 2 for 2 secs. there a Local place in burnely i go to and its such a nice atmisphire, every bodys mates as such, and noobies are welcome, and we only bullie the fat kid a bit XD, fell like a sales person after that, man i fell soo much gratefull for the store XD i think am going to go and thank compaindiom for being open this weekend

[muadeeb1]

I guess I fall into the lucky side too, I moved and local gamshop(not a GW) is now 20 rather thn 5 min away but they have casual 40k/fantasy play tue/thurs/sat and RTT atleast once a month. We have on hand a warhammer vet from its inception who is also a multi GD winner and has placed in several GT so advice on modeling/painting/tactics are taken care of. For any and all those who are lacking some part or need to travel more I agree that the hobby side of build and paint is great but I see how not getting games in can kinda suck, so you have my condolences.....both for your predicament and suffering through my runon sentences

[Nepcros]

i think we are all in the same boat... i used to play alot and it was still never enough. I think you need to either make the time for yourself because it is what you want or regretably stand back and take a little time away to see it from the other side. I am just comming back from a little vacation and getting slapped in the face with the new edition. I may just walk away completly... we'll see...

[jbw271]

sounds like i'm a lucky one lol, i have 4 friends with different armies, i live literally a block away from the largest 40k facility in north ohio (US) and i play like 4 games a night, twice a wekk against different opponents, infact there's gonna be an 'ard boys tourney here this year, so i'm spoiled =-p