Having grown up my whole life entrenched in Games Workshop, it wasn't until a few years ago that I ever played a historical wargame and got involved in that community. But once I was in that community, and particularly in the online communities I came upon two things I found difficult to process about historical…
I work in online marketing, and today I got a bee in my bonnet about what the data would say if I started plugging Games Workshop and its many properties into the various SEO and Google tools that are available. Chiefly for this project I used Google Trends, Moz, Ubersuggest, and Yahoo Finance. I'll explain…
This seems like a long time ago to some people, but to others the wounds are still fresh. Warhammer Fantasy Battles took place in what is now called Warhammer: The Old World, a world which Games Workshop's lore writers and designers quite literally blew up. The Old World exploded, a few of the gods survived,…
No miniature is complete without a good base, and if you're anything like me, the basing is some of the most fun of making a miniature. Basing is like making little dioramas--it's storytelling. Even if it's something as simple as adding sand to a base, it begs the question: why is this mini in the…
Games Workshop has a report titled "Our Business Model" on their Investor Relations page, and I, as an MBA who works professionally in marketing (and who has played Warhammer for nearly 30 years) thought it would be interesting to review it, make comments on it, and respond to it. I'm going to be reproducing it…
DISCLAIMER: Games Workshop gets an awful lot of money from me, so I freely admit that they are definitely doing a lot of things very right. Even though I'm writing this article I don't consider myself to be a hater. I'm not trying to drag Games Workshop through the mud, just make some suggestions that…
With the Space Marines the most well known faction associated with Warhammer 40k, to the point of even being synonymous with the game, it's only fair that someone would want to know the origin of the Space Marine Legions, how they're organized, and what happened to all of them. This article will answer those questions.…
The God Emperor of Mankind is the leader of the Imperium, but he's more than a leader: he is a father and a god to them. He created the Space Marines, created the Primarchs, and it is through his incredibly psychic abilities that the Imperium continues to exist as well as allows Imperium ships to…
WWIII: Team Yankee is a wargame from Battlefront (the same company that does Flames of War), which is based on the novel, Team Yankee, by Harold Coyle. The book, which came out in 1987, is a technothriller which describes a shooting war in East and West Germany at some point during the 1980s.
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There is no one-size-fits-all army that everyone should start Warhammer 40k with. Each has its own unique playstyle and lore and look, all things that ought to be kept in mind when deciding which army is the right one to spend your hard-earned dollars on.
If you're reading this article, I'm going to…