I gave up on 40K a good number of years ago due to the arms race. Gave it a tentative retry early last year, but it still seemed to have the same problems. A lot of it is finding the right players and all approaching it with a collective "this is what we want out of the game". Spent some of last year building up a small chaos force (building and painting is 99% of my hobby now) and bought the new rulebook as the Crusade rules look like just the ticket for being able to approach the game with a story driven approach in mind.
Think this is still my favourite model I made last year, which is part of that 40k force:
Currently wondering whether to make a fantasy version of the same character.
Warcry - I've got the books for that, but not been able to try it yet. Yet to hear someone say anything negative about it!
I gave up on 40K a good number of years ago due to the arms race. Gave it a tentative retry early last year, but it still seemed to have the same problems. A lot of it is finding the right players and all approaching it with a collective "this is what we want out of the game". Spent some of last year building up a small chaos force (building and painting is 99% of my hobby now) and bought the new rulebook as the Crusade rules look like just the ticket for being able to approach the game with a story driven approach in mind.
Think this is still my favourite model I made last year, which is part of that 40k force:
Currently wondering whether to make a fantasy version of the same character.
Warcry - I've got the books for that, but not been able to try it yet. Yet to hear someone say anything negative about it!