Where has the fun gone in 40k and some Mordians!

So I went a good two weeks solid before my Tau orca goal hit bottom. LOL oh well time to pick myself up anew. Any how I don't think I like the Tau very much. I keep getting drawn to the guard but Cadians just aren't my thing either. So...I got bored one night and took out six metal IG Mordian Iron Guard and started painting them just for fun. With some Iced Earth playing in the back ground I started to feel the nostalgia of 40k days gone by. How much fun it was to play with my best friends in a garage with pizza boxes and Mnt Dew everywhere. I reminisced of the days when my polymorphined assassin on combat drugs took out my friends far seer with a vortex grenade! Or when my sniper assassin took out Mephiston across the board after turn 2 winning me the game on secret objectives! Yes I loved assassins!

The tournament scene has killed 40k for me. This is no strike at those that like tourneys, that is all i played for most of my 40k career. I feel that between the constant list chattering and GW's price increases, ect, ect, that fun has been sucked out of the game for me and allot of others.

Where has all the fun gone? I think the only fun these days is the one off fun games I play with good friends of a like minded nature that are the best. Being married with children is busy so naturally I find those guys to play with as they aren't in it to win it in most cases. So I have sold off my Tau, and green skins and am starting fresh. Warhammer fantasy is pretty much dead to me ( i wont go on about that one) and for the first time in a long time I have only one 40k army. A rag tag group of minis from yesteryear assembled into a fun fighting force. I really need to complete a project I think with all the stuff I do I get to a point were things become "new shiny" and I must have. So I have made a promise to wife that I will only collect for my Iron guard for 40k. And not move onto anything else until I am satisfied with them being a completed army.

So here is what I have and more is coming in the mail!

The final run down:

10 Ratling snipers (future Sharps rifles!)
x2 Uksar Creed)
x5 various commisars
x1 leman russ exterminator
57 las rifle guard
8 sergents
2 flamers
6 melta guns
11 grenade launchers!
4 las cannon teams
7 mortar teams
5 heavy bolter teams
2 missle launcher teams
1 auto cannon team
1 chimera
1 Valkerie
3 officers

Whew I have my work cut out for me.

FORWARD TO VICTORY!