Warhammer’s literature arm, The Black Library, has more than a hundred titles of Warhammer 40k books (and Warhammer 30k books), and when you’re new to 40k and only have the lore in the rulebook to guide you, it can be easy to get lost when fans start talking about the Horus Heresy or the Eye…
We've all heard the complaints time and time again: Warhammer is too expensive--Games Workshop is ripping us off!
But are they really? Is the cost of Warhammer reasonable, or is it truly a money grab?
Why Is Warhammer So Expensive?
There are three reasons why Warhammer models cost so…
The nine loyal Space Marine Legions are each differentiated by special characteristics, weapons, leaders, and rules that make each one have not only a different flavor on the gaming table, but a different play style entirely.
Fortunately, there exists quite a bit of lore about each one of the original nine legions,…
When we dive into a new Warhammer 40k army, there are a lot of choices to make to get the best value Start Collecting or Combat Patrol box. Veteran players may make their 2000 point army lists before they ever buy the first model, while other players might just buy what looks cool and let…
Warhammer: Age of Sigmar is Games Workshop's flagship fantasy wargame. It rebooted Games Workshop's fantasy game Warhammer Fantasy Battles when, in 2015, that game was discontinued and Age of Sigmar took its place.
What Do You Need to Play Warhammer Age of Sigmar?
To play Warhammer Age of Sigmar,…
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…