I think we can all agree that the days of just picking a codex and playing that one army are over with 7th Edition.
But what we can’t seem to agree on is how many trips we’re allowed to take to the 40k buffet. Me, I’m a fat kid at heart, I want it all. I want to make pew pew laser noises and jet engine whooshes as I play with my little toy soldiers on my little toy towns.
Events that limit sources make me sad. They make me sad that I can’t play with all my toys, my bone colored terminators look great next to their shiny grey armored knight friends, blood armored brothers, and even female sorritas. Not to mention the fact that agents of the Imperium like to come and hang out to make sure the rest of them aren’t having too much fun. It’s a hoot.
I want to play with five armies in one, and you know what Games Workshop wants me to do it too.
I know they want me too, because just this year alone they’ve but out THREE codex books, with another TWO rumored to be on the way in just mere weeks.
Plus their website is literally set up so I can click on as many factions as I want AT ONCE, and dump them into my shopping cart even.
How can you tell me to NOT play with all my toys I’ve been buying since 7th Edition came out? It seems to be literally en-grained into the rules themselves? Heck the good guys don’t even seem to have their own identity anymore, they’re just ‘Forces of the Imperium’.
I mean if it wasn’t for the color of their armor I couldn’t even tell them apart honestly. So if the company that makes these toys and wants us to keep buying stuff every month, made a rules set that encourages players to literally play with everything they own, why does no one want to let us?
Is it time to free the factions of 40k and let freedom ring across the grim dark 7th Edition land?? #FREETHEFACTIONS
This article wasn’t in anyway directed at any one event in particular. It’s a generalization – Let’s start bringing the hobby back to the game instead of the other way around.
About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
Job Title: Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.
With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.
While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
