The Warhammer 40k universe is ripe with opportunities for exciting storytelling and gameplay. After nearly three-and-a-half decades worth of lore and backstory, with more than a hundred novels and several hundred well-loved characters, factions, regiments, vehicles, weapons, and tactics, it is hard to say which games deserve the most love in a list like this.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…