Size of players' fleets - curious

[Sgt Cinder]

If people would not mind sharing, I'd like to get a feel for how many ACTA/B5 space ship minis people have.

I'd like to gauge my own collection against those numbers - see if I am just a poor wannabe, right around the average player, or way over the top and I just need to stop buying the little things!

I have (approx):
243 ACTA-scale put together, painted or waiting to be painted
181 Fleet Action-scale - same stage as above
900 Fleet Action-scale fighters sitting around in little baggies

Plus around 20 more ACTA-scale still in their boxes, 30 recently sold, about 80 more Fleet Action-scale on bases and undercoated, probably to be sold.

So at one recent point in time, a total of:
ACTA = 293
FA = 261
FA fighters = 900

Do I need a 10-step program? :?

 

[basaint]

Man, and I thought I was crazy...You win!

I prob. have about 100-150 ActA with fighters out the Kazoo.
I bet I'm low though...compared to all the Euro/Ukers who've been playing a lot longer.

 

[Sgt Cinder]

Man, and I thought I was crazy...You win!

Comes from picking up gaming systems that then go away and no one else in the gaming community has any of the pieces. I have to buy fleets/armies for all sides.

Same thing happened with Space Marine Epic. In my original group we each had one (different) army. Then, we all graduated and moved away. I moved back years later and Epic was gone. To teach/get people to play at my LFGS I had to provide all the armies (thank you ebay, I think...)

And I am really just curious to see what people have collected...I'm not trying to boast about my collection (numbers aren't much of a boast if the figs aren't painted...and I've seen a lot of incredible painting from several of the group here. My painting does not even come close)

 

[Rick]

I don't have any of the large scale ships anymore, all mine are fleet action scale, but I've got about 9-10 different fleets, EA, Centauri, Narn, Minbari, Vorlon, Shadow, Drazi, Dilgar, Brakiri and a few ISA. Not sure how many ships I've got, but it's around 50-60 for the EA, Cent and Narn, 30ish for the others, plus tons of fighters. I guess it's probably over 300, and about 50/50 painted!

 

[basaint]

Feel your pain about having to collect stuff so others can play...thats how I ended up with all mine. Hoping to get people to play, I bought all the races too.
That's probably why I also have every race from the 1st MonPoc, 3.5 races of Vor, almost 5 races of Void/UW and every race of SST.

 

[Burger]

You know you've probably got about £5,000 worth of stuff there!!!

 

[H]

also known as 4 bluestars!

 

[Da Boss]

Man, and I thought I was crazy...You win!

I prob. have about 100-150 ActA with fighters out the Kazoo.
I bet I'm low though...compared to all the Euro/Ukers who've been playing a lot longer.

beats me - I only have about the same as you - but only a few fighters as I use counters.

 

[Greg Smith]

A quick adding up gives me:

165 ACTA scale
201 FA scale
plus a plethora of fighters

 

[Burger]

29 ACTA scale
0 FA scale
8 fighters
About 30 3-D paper models

 

[godsgopher]

Yes Im in the same basket as most of you, I have to buy enough not only for myself but for anyone else if I plan on actually playing it.

I have all 5 Noble Armada fleets, and am Planning on collecting all the others or at least their starters. Plus there are a number of other miniature games I'm interested in so there is more money as well.

But its alright, I can afford it, after all Warhammer 40k has my love but it isn't getting any more of my money Now I can afford all kinds of things!

 

[AdrianH]

About 50 ACTA scale capital ships.
8 fighters which I rarely use.
And the "Sky Full of Stars" counter set, which supplies most of my fighters.

The capital ships can provide a few modest fleets for myself and an opponent, otherwise the counter set is easier to transport. The only fighters I have are those from the Shadows boxed set, which don't look much like "real" Shadow fighters. So I use counters, either from the "Sky Full of Stars" set or printed at home, for all fighters including Shadows.

 

[Iain McGhee]

'Round about the 50 mark too, plus enough fighters to fill all their hangars at the same time, spread over 3 fleets with some odds & sods.
Used to have about 80 more, but they've been sold off to pay for other gaming paraphernalia.

Never got into Noble Armada, but I'm likely to pick up at least a small number of the Star Fleet ships (famous last words, just ask the OP ).

 

[valthonis]

Same boat here as many, had to buy for myself and anyone else that wants to play.

FA Ships: 362
FA Fighters: 1224

All of this comes across all FA Scale races officially available with the exception of Pakmara, Shadows, and Vorlons.

 

[shiba-tenchi]

Seems many of us are in the same boat having to supply ships for all (or is that our excuse?)

ACTA - 158
FA - 3 (Corvans)

Really short on fighters though.

 

[Sgt Cinder]

You know you've probably got about £5,000 worth of stuff there!!!

It is worse than that...some of the ships (like the marathon) went for insane prices on ebay. I might have to sell my blue stars to pay off my CC bill! :lol:

 

[Sgt Cinder]

Seems many of us are in the same boat having to supply ships for all (or is that our excuse?)

Yes.
:wink:

 

[McKickaha]

You know you've probably got about £5,000 worth of stuff there!!!

It is worse than that...some of the ships (like the marathon) went for insane prices on ebay. I might have to sell my blue stars to pay off my CC bill! :lol:

hmm Marathons.....insane prices.....how much, roughly, not that I would sell any of the 5 I have of course.

 

[Sgt Cinder]

You know you've probably got about £5,000 worth of stuff there!!!

It is worse than that...some of the ships (like the marathon) went for insane prices on ebay. I might have to sell my blue stars to pay off my CC bill! :lol:

hmm Marathons.....insane prices.....how much, roughly, not that I would sell any of the 5 I have of course.

Looking up in my records:
Marathon = $46 (not as bad as I remembered)
G'Vrahn = $72
Shadow Hunter = $54
White Star box = $83
Nemesis = $64
Avioki = $54

Those were the worse prices I paid. Right after those, I happened to check Noble Knight Games and they had just put up for sale an entire game shop wall's worth of ACtA ships, which I promptly grabbed in one gigantic order (paid like $27 ea. for two G'Vrahn, $14 for a Shadow Hunter, $18 for an Avioki, Victory for $30, Cmd Omega for $20, two Bluestar packs for $18 ea...etc.)

 

[McKickaha]

Wow. all high prices. At least you got some good deals later. Buying B5 minis is indeed very addictive, got a feeling it will be the same with ST CTA for me anyway.