A Harsh Reminder! 40k is a bit too expensive for my finances

 The last two months have been horrid for my finances, so I have decided to sell a good chunk of my hobby to help with the house costs this month. This means a bit returning to sanity with my 40k collections. I am only keeping about 1500 poitns combined of Death Guard and Chaos Cults (down from about 2000), and about 1500 points of Astra Militarium with Inquisition Allies. 

Future expenses for the whole period from November 2025-November 2026 are going to be limited to building up the Astra Militarium Amry to 1500 points (currently 1000 points)

a) Merceneries Box Set for Battletech 

b) A Box of Les Grongards Rough Riders and heads for them

c) Box of Les Grongards Heavy Weapons 

d) A Box of Bulldogs

e) Support for Challenges Games and Comics (my local game store-mainly by buying and building a 1k store army-almost done with it)

And that is it. No new 40k armies. Since I want to support my local store, 40k become prohibitevly expensie (with the exception of factions that can be built with Wargames Atlantic Kits)

September Gaming

 In September I mostly played 40k. Two games of 750 points each with Thom's Orks, a multiplayer game pitting 1200 points of Death Guard with Josh and Nathan, and a four player Combat Patrol Ironman Torunament.

Me and Thom at it

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The Trophy, tables, and players for the Combat Patrol Ironman Tournament

Some action shots from all my games!

Assorted Painted Miniatures for Warhammer 40k and 28mm Sci Fi or Fantasy Science games.

 

Joy Toy sized resin figure

Project Done: Battlefleet Illustris

 Fianlly finished my Imperial Navy Battlefleet, Battlefleet Illustris 

1x Mars Class Battlecruiser

2x Lunar Class Cruisers

1x Dauntless Class Light Cruiser

3x Cobra Class Destroyers

5x Sword Class Frigates 

2x Armed Freigther

1x Fuel Tanker

1x Super Heavy Transport 

August 2025 Gaming Summary

 August was busy month despite my Summer Semester courses ending in the first week. Zoe's school started on the day my summer semester does, and then Ceren started work a week later. So my short summer break was busy. Still I cannot complain a got in a lot of games:

1) Multiplayer 40k game pitting my Death Guard (1000 points) in a free for all vs. Necrons, Space Marines, and World Eaters. I was not the winner, and while I had fun, I think 40k multiplayer really needs alternating activations.

2) A game of Battlefleet Gothic pitting my Imperial Navy Battlefleet Gothic (1120 points) vs. an equal Chaos Undivided force. A victory for me. 

3) Two games of Battletech. A learning game demo at Challanges Games and Comics, and the final game of the thrid season of the Affordable Atrocities Campaign at Level Up -Duluth. 

4) Multiplayer Kill Team: Pitting my recently finished Rogue Trader Entourage and Voidsmen vs. Brood Brothers vs. Kriegsmen. The Brood Borthers won. I did not enjoy the game not becuase of losing, or my opponetns (they were great) but the sheet number of things I needed to remember to play my Kill Team overwhelmed me. And RT one is one of the least demanding one. This pretty much led to my decision to back off skirmish gaming (Trench Crusade or KT) in preference for investing into 40k Boarding Actions. It is not that I will not play KT or TC, but I am not investing for them, and they are not on the monthly rotation (which is pretty much 40k, Battletech, and Battlefleet Gothic) 

Small Project Finished: Eldar vehicle and ships

 Every since the great and late, and much missed Kyoteblue had gifted me several worths of DBA armies in miniatures, I vowed to follow his example and when possible gift stuff to fellow players. A fellow palyer gifted me his overflow stuff. Among them were a Eldar Falcon, and many Dorpfleet Commander bits. I do not play Eldar but now one person in my local store community that does. I decided to entice them to join my Illustris War BFG/40k campaign, by building them a Eldar inspired BFG fleet from the bits, and painting the Flacon (and fixing it) in their army colors. I thoroughly enjoyed this little project. 

Small Project Finished: Rogue Trader Entourage and Voidsmen at Arms

 A small project done. Rogue Trader and Voidsmen at Arms. These were built with the idea of representing the Rogue Trader elements of the Imperial Fleet I was building for the Illustris War. But I decided to focus on just a Navis Imperialis force. I gifted those fleets to Adam at our store community, and will gift him this as well. 

It was fun collecting and paiting. There is Reaper, Alternative Armies, Carnavale, and Necromunda Escher in this unit. 

Edit. In the end my friend told me to keep them, so this part of the collection stays with me.