No making the same mistakes as I usually do

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Stay alive mode

Quick one tonight — it hurts really bad to talk. I’m finally going to the doctor Friday to figure out what’s going on. Right now I’m just trying to stay alive.

What I dug out of the pile

The Games Workshop trip last week, where I picked up the Tech-Priest Manipulus to convert into an Inquisitor warband — I went digging through the stuff I still had. I’ve got two Death Watch upgrade sprues, and I forgot I had this when it came out: just got hit in the head with a Death Watch sprue. Boom. Imperial Agents Combat Patrol. I was going to participate in a combat patrol event a while back.

Technically a bad combat patrol, but I love Imperial Agents. I love Inquisitors. I love the third edition Daemonhunters codex — that’s really what I drooled over as a kid.

Returning to 40k

I decided I’m coming back to 40k. Going inside that GW store gave me the itch again. 11th edition is going to be here probably between June and September. I think September, maybe? It’s this year — no matter what, it’s this year.

But I’m coming back on my terms, so I don’t fall into the same mistakes I made my whole Warhammer 40k career. So — rules. Just imagine a fancy graphic popping up, because I’m not going to make one. I’m just trying to survive.

Rule 1: F the rules

Don’t care about the rules. Don’t care about being competitive.

I’m going to build and convert a 2,000-point Imperial Agents army. I’ll use the rules and codex to play, obviously, and I’ll build a tournament-legal list so I can show up anywhere. No Legends. Sticking to legal armies and loadouts and WYSIWYG. But I don’t care about winning.

Nothing against Goonhammer, nothing against the competitive scene. I’m just not going to look at the site, the subreddit, the Discords — any of that, the entire edition. I’ll look at Instagram and YouTube from a hobby and inspiration perspective only.

When I was a kid, when I didn’t have money to buy and just dreamed about Inquisitors — converting them, making them, looking at INQ28 and how cool that is — that is the side I want.

Rule 2: No metawatching

No engagement with the competitive scene. My participation in the hobby will be hobbying. Not forums, not Discords, not reading competitive 40k content — because it makes a FOMO loop, and I’m avoiding that this time.

I get caught up in that personally, really bad. I’m sure a lot of people do. I read content and get caught up in a meta I’m not even playing in. So I don’t know why I care about it.

Rule 3: No pre-orders

No pre-orders. I don’t currently own a full 2,000 points, but I think I can get close with conversions, kit-bashing, and the bodies I already have. We’ll see how far I can get.

When I do need new additions, used only. I’m not falling into the FOMO loop. I don’t care if some crazy hotness comes out — I’ll get it eventually.

I’m going to plug into the hobby and plug out of the commercial aspect, because that’s what I get caught up in.

Rule 4 (probably)

Maybe the rule is just: have fun hobbying again and not get caught up in everything else.

I’ll see you tomorrow. Going to go crash. Hopefully Friday I get some answers and stop being so sick all the time.