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A different take on an old forum favourite.  Instead of saying what armies you intend to collect at some point in the distant future, which ones are you extremely unlikely to collect and why?

I originally wrote it as 'never collect', but never say never in warhammer...   

For me its:
Tomb Kings, Dark Elves, Beastmen, Bretonnians and Lizardmen.  The rest are ones I might possibly consider (or collect already).

Tomb kings I will never collect because it would be boring painting so much bone and sand.

Dark Elves I've never been too keen on for some reason..?  Silly I know but I'm not a fan of purple, perhaps that's it . I've taken too many defeats at the hands of DE players as well.

Beastmen never appealed to me because they lack character and are too similar to be worth it IMO.  It would take a HUGE amount of work to get them close to how I imagine they should be.

I sort of painted a few bretonnians when the boxed set with them came out (5th ed?). Put off painting horses for life (that's why I collect dwarfs, daemons and chaos dwarfs ).

Lizardmen same reason as the Beastmen really.  Lack character and look too similar.  The lord/ heroes would be the exception (as I love the models), but not enough reason to collect them.

I seriously doubt I'd collect a Vampire Counts army either.

I love all Chaos stuff, Dark Elves, Wood Elves and Dwarfs.  I generally like the High Fantasy armies and avoid things like Skaven, Empire, Bretonnians, ... but I like most of these armies as well, but they are secondary enjoyments.

Ill just name the warhammer armies i wouldnt collect and none of the 40k which is a much bigger list.

I would never collect Empire, High Elves and Lizardmen. I think empire are so increadibly boring, high elves look ridicolous and for lizardmen i would hate to have to paint so many skinks and their units are so dull. All three armies could be so much better.

Seems a bit funny to not collect an army because of the paintjob, when it is up to you to choose the colours.

I wouldn't collect Skaven because the army seems pretty one dimensional and the models are pretty boring. The human armies also seem relatively mundane, although I'd consider Empire if I did it in an evil fashion.  High Elves I just dislike all round, too clean, too simple.

Most of the others I'd consider, but usually with a twist.  My TK army is a bunch of undead goblins, the regular models are pretty ordinary and boring, with no character.

Any army that has the word "Elves" in the title.

I enjoy all Chaos stuff, but I agree with all the aforesaid criticism of Beasts.  I have a big army of them that I used to really like, and was actually quite effective game-wise when I combined it with my Mortals, but I look at it now and it just seems really dull.  

Other than that, High and Wood Elves because they are pansy fops and I hate Legolas a lot - also, I dislike how Elves are almost always just aping LOTR in general.  (I do have a Dark Elf army though, which is okay because they're honest about being jerks).

Also, Skaven, Lizardmen, Brettonians.  None of them really appeal to me these days.

I'm surprised that so many people dislike Empire though, I think that they're really neat - religion + steampunk is a-ok in my books.

I would much rather go for Bretonians than Empire. In fact i think about buying a few of them often. I think they are way cooler looking than Empire are.

A nice twist on the old 'maybe one day' threads

I enjoy gaming but for me it's all about the painting, modelling, background story and fluff so I base my army choices around that.

I would never collect;
- Bretonnia Basically they are too non-fantasy if you know what I mean. They leave little room for imagination, the painting prospect is tempting (given all them there pretty colours) but just a boring fantasy element IMO.
- Lizardmen Really bad miniatures! I think they are really let down by what GW create for these guys, it's just poor, from the whole miniatures range the only 2 worthy of note are that Skink preist they did for Lustria and the forgeworld Limited Ed GamesDay Slann. The sooner Warplock gets in there and kicks them up the *rs* the better!!
- Dogs of War Too much work (even for a Chaos Dwarf collector!)

I think every other army I could come up a little twist here and there just to make them a bit more interesting and worthy of collecting, some would take more tweeking than others mind you (Wood Elves, Beastmen and Tomb Kings in particular) but might be worth it.

I wouldn't collect VC as I'm bored of them (my friend collects them) and they lack "personality" (which is their personality, oddly enough).

I doubt I'd collect TK as they seem like a beginner's army (lots of chariots to kill things quickly, simplest shooting ever, never have to run away, don;t need to worry about failing to cast or miscasts etc) and they can end up being very dull to look at without more work than I would find rewarding (considering I'd rarely, if ever use the army).

Empire, I used to like as the medium. Now, I dislike the view they've taken of Helstrom Rocket batteries, clockwork horses etc etc.

Skaven: too many of the same looking model, a very flat colour (without adding random fur colours in) and a bit dull.

High elves: their high elves, he he he. Just got an intense dislike of the snotty pansies...

DoW: Not enough appeal to me for such difficult to get/expensive models.

There are likely others, but I can;t think of them. However, I will end up with some of each army or an army of each

No elves. Never.
No brettonians either.

Well, I think in my 19 years of playing I've done just about every army there is. I always liked some races better than others but when a 'new' army comes out I'm always tempted.

I sold of most of what I had and now am concentrating on Chaos Dwarfs and on and off on a looong working project namely a Chaos Tzeentch army.

Other than that I do need a new 40.000 army too, don't have a single one left anymore...

No High Elves - I simply dislike them

No Brettonians - They don't really seem to exite me much, lots of knights seem a bit boring, plus they don't suit my playing style

Skaven - I used to want to collect them, even bought a few models with view to making an army, then painted my first Clanrat unit.  End of.

Put simply, theres no army I wouldn't collect in WFB if I had the time and money. The only slight exception is lizardmen as I don't like the current models, but Warplock inspired me as to how cool they can look

Thommy H, I've found the complete opposite to be honest. As for the magic, it's just remembering which order to use it in.

As AGPO said, if I had the money and time, I'd still collect them all, he he he. The ones I mentioned earlier are merely the ones I'd collect last.

I hate Skaven. Always have, always will. Consistantly ugly models and boring colour schemes. The models make me hate the army so much. And my first opponent was a Skaven player.

I don't like Lizardmen. The models and colour schemes are boring. There are some striking schemes, but not so much so that would make me want to collect these guys. However if I was to collect them, it would only be rules wise, not model wise. Rules-wise, I am still yet to find an appropriate match for Fimir. Lizardmen, Beastmen, Daemons are close, but I shall see when the new Lizardmen come out...

Bretonnians are BORING. As an Empire player, Bretonnians are so very boring. They have some very nice models though, and I may actually collect them one day - but I find the heraldry style armies repulsive.

I won't ever play with Nurgle either. The models are always so ugly too.

Skaven, for reasons already mentioned. The models are ugly, and there is no character in them in my opinion.
High Elves.
I dislike them with a passion. I think their rules are retarded, and they are easily cheesed out. They also look like an army of pansy fairies, and I am not digging that either.
Daemons of Chaos.
Not much to say there, except that I think that the idea behind that army is completely stupid.
That and it's a major bandwagon army right now where I am at.

Why do everyone hate skaven and elves so much?

For me, it's:

-Tomb Kings: Only fun thing with them is the giant scorpion and the ushabti. Everything else is too similar to me (just skeletons), and it's not funny with magic that can't go wrong!
-Ogres: Too few miniatures, works better as DOW for me.
-Daemons of chaos: too few minis, and too much of a strange mix of different gods. What in hell happened with the hating between the different gods!?!?

Would say DE as well, but painted with dark red they are kind of very cool.

Elves are smug and arrogant.  Skaven spread disease and kidnap humans to work in their mines.

Seriously - what's to like?

Qft.  If it doesn't have spikes then it's not a real army, damn it.

Hey ya'll! Haven't been posting in a while, cause work and school and stuff, but here I am now so : Armies I am unlikely to collect
                         Any Elf army (too pansy)
                         Tomb Kings (too Blah)
                         Empire (too Human)
                         Bretonian (too normal)
                         Tzeentch (too casty)
                         Slaanesh (too fruity)
                         Beasts of Chaos (too many)
                         Ogres (too few)
  
I am working on a DoW army in a lustria theme with amazons for Dualists, Home grown Pygmies for halflings and Mauraders on Cold ones for Cav. Maybe some Gobo Spiders in there too.