Ah, that sucks for you in your area. My circumstances are a bit different we've got some seriously invested people playing. Plus I enjoy WWII models, grew up with them! I got lucky I'm able to spend less than $100 for a 1000 point army. Did you ever play a scenario? I just really enjoy the variable dice draw. Two buddies of mine played 40k like that the other day, they said it was pretty fair even in 40k.