How much is too much?

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There comes a point in every war-gamer's career where they realize that they are surrounded on all sides by little plastic and metal men.  My question today is, how much is really too much? Just so that I can speak from real world experience, let me give a brief inventory of what I own, in descending order of how many points of each army I own (organized into group by system):

  • Ogre Kingdoms (~7500)
  • Wood Elves (~7000)
  • Beastmen (~5000)
  • Tomb Kings (~4000)
  • Lizardmen (~3000)
  • Skaven (~2000)
  • Dark Elves (~2000)
  • Tyranids (~8000)
  • Imperial Guard (~4000)
  • Necrons (~4000)
  • Space Wolves (~3000)
  • Dark Angels (~2000)
  • Plague Marines (~2000)
  • Tau (~1500; edit: just found these)
  • Daemons of Chaos (~1000;  edit: just found these too)
  • Skorne (50)
  • Khador (35)
  • Northern Guard (Heavy Gear, ~750)
  • Blood Bowl Teams (3 Humans, 2 Orcs, Dwarfs, Undead, Dark Elves)

In all, that's 16 armies, across 4 game systems, plus a ton of Blood Bowl.  I own somewhere in the realm of 1500-2000 minis.  I guess that's somewhere between a metric F--k ton and a standard S--t load.  With the latest round of GW price increases, I think I'm going to try and sell a bit of my collection, though it's really hard to figure out exactly where to cut off.  If I could set an arbitrary limit, I suppose a max of 3 armies for each system would be appropriate. Which would leave me with this:

  • Ogre Kingdoms (~7500)
  • Wood Elves (~7000)
  • Beastmen (~5000)
  • Tyranids (~8000)
  • Imperial Guard (~4000)
  • Necrons (~4000)
  • Skorne (50)
  • Khador (35)
  • Northern Guard (Heavy Gear, ~750)
  • Blood Bowl Teams (3 Humans, 2 Orcs, Dwarfs, Undead, Dark Elves)

It seems that would give me a good variety of forces for each game, and take up considerably less space in my tiny apartment.  I think I'll probably keep 4 for fantasy though, I just can't pull the trigger on getting rid of my Tomb Kings... They're so pretty!

So a couple questions for you guys!  Where do you cut yourself off?  And I guess, where do you sell your minis?!

edit: apparently a friend wanted to buy my Lizards, one army down!

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