I Have Way More Money Than Sense

I have a startling confession to make: I bought a Reaver Titan.  I bought it a year and a half ago, when people were still playing Apocalypse games because I was the only guy playing who didn't have a super heavy and I got a bit of penis envy seeing Strength D templates eating my dudes.  My girlfriend, thankfully, never saw the invoice when it came in the mail or she would have flipped out, for the price we could have gone on a really nice vacation. 

In retrospect, I wish we had taken the vacation.  Hot sex in a fancy hotel room in an exotic locale would be infinitely preferable to the grand total of 1 game I've played with my titan since I assembled this thing.  That game was memorable: it was when I killed Apocalypse at my store.  I put it down bubble wrapped by TH/SS Terminators and blew everyone else off the board without losing a single structure point.  It was the least competitive game of 40k I can remember ever playing.  And the other side wasn't exactly gimped, they had plenty of D weapons of their own.  But the void shields and overwhelming firepower made a mockery of the game.  

Prior to that game, we played Apocalypse every Sunday evening as a beer and pretzals fun get together.  After that game, we never played again.  I don't blame anyone else for not wanting to play against it, it was absurdly powerful.  But at the same time, I'm not going to shelf it if we are playing Apocalypse.  I paid too much damn money for it to put it on the shelf for the one day a week when it can actually get some play time.  Now sits as a display piece on my shelf collecting a thick layer of dust, and I think about all the things I could have done with that money, almost all of which I wish I had actually done instead.

The moral of the story is, don't spend over $200 on any single item at Forgeworld as you will live to regret it.  Actually, just to play it safe, don't buy anything from them.