Warhammer Questionnaire - Daemons of Chaos & Dark Elves Feedback

Warhammer Questionnaire
Hi everybody, recently I posted up a questionnaire on Warseer and a handful of other Warhammer Forums, and after collating the information it's now time to showcase my findings. I'm going to work through all of the armies first and then I'll talk about the other questions that I had on the Questionnaire. However to start here are the Daemons of Chaos & Dark Elves.

The Daemons of Chaos were considered one of the 'Most Powerful' armies and came in 3rd place which is highly respectable. However despite this they weren't high up on the collection statistics, over 50% of people have never collected them which put them in 10th position overall, and only 10.75% of people use them regularly besides 20.43% of people who use them occasionally. This means that they're 9th in 'Army Popularity' and that not many people consider them to be their Primary force.
The most interesting statistic was the fact that 58% of people wanted the Daemons of Chaos to be removed from the game entirely or rolled into a generic chaos book which goes hand in hand with their seemingly small importance to Warhammer in general. In reality though, this army is the 'Newest Army' and they've not been around as a standalone force for very long which works against them. However it seems that the majority want them to be reabsorbed into a generic chaos book, and perhaps GW should do this by looking at these findings.

Dark Elves were enemy number 1 in terms of their overall rating position as they came in as the most powerful army overall! However this didn't squash their popularity...
People considered them to be the 6th most important army in the Warhammer game, and all the armies above them would be considered the 'Vanilla' armies (Empire, Warriors etc)
It seems that due to their recent release the Dark Elves are used primarily as a Main Collection, which goes hand in hand with their 'Powerful nature'. However they're still only the 6th most popular army overall whereas they're joint with the Daemons of Chaos as being the 10th Least Collected Army. So they're more common on the tables, but less people have collections sat in stasis or that they've parted with - which might explain why GW pushed such a large release for the Dark Elves as they knew there was a huge threshold of people that could potentially purchase them.
Differently to the Daemons though however, the Dark Elves are deemed less likely to be removed and people believe that they can act as a their own force without being rolled into a generic 'Elf' book. Some people did suggest this however, but in general only 4% of people wanted them to be removed from the game leaving them as 11th to be take the chop. 


 

Have Fun

 It's A Hobby Not Punishment

So we've probably all fallen foul to this at some point, and it's the terrible art of falling out of fun with the hobby....

Now I want to give you my own personal story, I started playing in 2008, I'd played 40k a few years previous too this but gave up on the hobby for different reasons. After a bit of a break I decided that I wanted to get back involved and after listening to some podcasts from that period I realised that the bug had come back and before I knew it I was looking for a new army. After a bit of deliberation I finally agreed on picking up the Dwarfs, and boy was it good getting involved in the hobby again after a long break, I'd seriously missed the painting side the most and before long I had a few events under my belt with the Dwarfs and had started a Dark Elf army.

Before long two armies had formed, and it wasn't long until a third had formed in the way of the Empire. Now it seemed like I was venting my hobby rage and steaming through armies, so being ruthless I recognised it was time to cull what I wasn't using, and with real life getting in the way the Empire and Dark Elves were actually sold.

I've sold a lot of armies in my time, however selling the Dark Elves is one of my biggest regrets. If you can find another way of getting some cash, then do it as you'll only regret it massively later on.

After a bit of a break I moved onto the Skaven and turned that into a huge force that I truly enjoyed using, but by this time I'd sold the Dwarfs and wanted to look at collecting the Beastmen. And in the mayhem that ensued with real life, the Skaven were also sold off leaving me with the Beastmen - and at the time I thought this may be the end as I wasn't entirely sold on the horny boys.

And then it hit me.

So after that adventure I found my 'Fun'. Sounds a bit mad really but I can honestly say I had an okay time with the other armies, but what I managed to involve the Beastmen left me thinking all of my previous experiences with Warhammer were extremely dull. The mixture of 8th Edition setting in and getting involved in campaign gaming and playing with some top notch blokes made me realise what I had been doing before was not how Warhammer should be played. Thankfully I've still got the Beastmen, and I have to say that I absolutely love using them, regardless of how pants they may seem they're absolutely right for me to play. Effectively I've found my fun, and I think finding that army is the key to having a good time with Warhammer - and unfortunately it's such an expensive hobby you really can't afford to try different things out.

But anyway, that was a bit of a ramble, but the message behind the story is to have fun and don't be stressed about games. If you are then you're taking it too seriously, just find an army you enjoy as well as an army your opponent can enjoy and have a blast.

Mark