There's no doubt that Warhammer 40k has refined itself over the decades, striving more for sci-fi realism than much of its cartoonish past. Just as we're now seeing the more brutal and terrifying Beast Snagga orks replacing the sillier Orks of the past (you won't find any Flash Gitz in the Beast Snaggas) the Imperial…
Long before the days of Indomitus and Cursed City, there was the Disney Vault. Disney released movies, left them in theaters for a little while, held them back, then opened up the Disney Vault for a limited time in which they sold those movies on VHS and DVD, always with the fear that soon the…
Origins in Warhammer Fantasy
It's no secret that the first edition of Warhammer 40k was essentially Warhammer Fantasy in space, with space orks, space elves, space knights (marines), and, of course, space dwarves: the Squats. If you read the introduction to the Squat Army List, it basically gives a sci-fi explanation for why…
There are a lot of miniature paints on the market, at a lot of different price points and with a lot of different features. But which paint is the best? In this article we are going to look at miniature paints according to price per milliliter, price per star rating (to determine value), variety and…
I watch a ton YouTube videos about making terrain for tabletop wargaming and roleplaying. Some of the best are Black Magic Craft, Geek Gaming Scenery, and Terrainosaur, but there are so many more, and I learn something from each one.
But there's the law of diminishing returns when it comes to these things:…
In the Warp exist four powerful beings whose existence is derived from the psychic energy of all living creatures in the universe. (This doesn't refer to psykers exclusively, but to the mental and emotional power inherent in every being.) Therefore, the Chaos Gods, or Dark Gods, are forever tied to those living in the Materium,…
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…