Warhammer | How to get your kids started
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- My boys love my toy soldiers, here's what I've learnt about getting them into gaming.
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One Page Rules is another place to look for a rule set that can be played in quite a straight forward way. Thanks for the ideas here.
I do need to check those out one day
Step 1: put them through college to get a doctorate to afford Warhammer
😂 Very true, same with so many hobbies.
😂 ohhhh ploy so true.
My boys paint a single miniature within about 10 minutes.
They shout “Finished! …. Dad, can I paint another one?”
Expensive hobby, indeed !
Because now they don’t want to paint any old crappy plastic soldier, or dinosaur from the toybox.
They want a proper Warhammer miniature to paint !
What have I started?! 😬
First: You must have kids. Yes, i know, that is the hardest part for most of us.
It’s good start for sure 😂
Great video. Like you, i too am a wargaming dad. My youngest two who are 7 & 4. As you say, a slow and steady introduction into gaming, making and painting is the way to do it.
My lads love painting. When it comes to gaming, Black Seas was our gateway game. Its a great game.i simplified the rules a bit, blue sheet down, a few rocks and stick some pirate flags on top of those lovely ships and we were away. Really good fun. Its a great hobby to share with your kids. Enjoy😊
That’s a great idea with Black Seas, Pirates and kids is a good combo.
You may want to look at Oathmark for fantasy. It's a simpler rule set than Warhammer fantasy. I have three boys that play it with me. My five year old daughter is already clamouring for a goblin army. I am glad you were able to find something to engage your sons.
Thank you. That’s a very good shout, I might give that a look.
My boys similar ages 8 & 6….
My 8 yr old loves it, but 6 yr old after a while, does not have the patience.
So you are far more ambitious than I’ve been.
My getting into the hobby purely started because I wanted a Board game of some type that we could all play and enjoy on a rainy day. And I remembered playing hero quest as a boy in the 80s. But I never even considered to actually attempt to play using proper rules.
I went off and using hero request as a template, designed my own set of rules. Including features that are myself would want in the game, but also having used the hero quest template for exploration and combat, it keeps things fairly accessible, fast moving, and importantly, relatively easy to understand.
My goodness, I can’t even imagine trying to learn Warhammer fantasy battles myself, Let alone trying to explain it to my kids.
My own advancement into the hobby, I’ve been looking at advanced hero quest, and also silver bayonet - as way to perhaps migrate from pure Board game, dungeon crawler, to perhaps setting up some of our terrain to explore skirmish wargaming.
And the skirmish war gaming, appealed with regards to potentially having a relatively low set up time .
That said I’ve yet to really dig into the rules of silver bayonet, and a simulate them myself.
As great as this hobby, new to me, has proved to be, it is time-consuming.
And if I was to have one criticism of the hobby so far, it’s the setup that sometimes puts you off.
Because it takes time to set up, it takes time to clear it all up.
Ohhhh that we would have a spare room in the house - where I could have a dedicated war gaming room! That would certainly be wonderful 😊
Oh I completely agree, I’m so lucky to have a permanent set up.
Great stuff Stu, love to see the next generation of Tau generals on the way up!
Thank you Jordan. The Tau have had their first layer of paint today, hopefully I can motive him to keeping going while the momentum is high.
Great video Stu. Loved this one. My love of miniatures came from my Dad's old DnD metal minis.
Don't have kids of my own yet, but as an ex teacher of 18years... its so refreshing to see children being encouraged to try new things and find a passion. You would not believe how much in my career I had seen children being shunned with tablets, phones and xboxs.
You nailed the point towards the end: To show pride and positivity with the hobby, that it is okay to do it. Growing up in the 80's and 90's, the hobby had such a negative stigma attached to it. Personally, i was ashamed of doing it until i hit my 30's.
Thankfully, not such a stigma anymore.
Whether your children stick with it or not, at least they have been taught to respect it and there is nothing wrong with doing it ❤ and they had some fun and life lessons along the way.
Great video. Kudos for being brave enough to show your family too.
Thank you Kelvin 🙂
Very cool video Stu. I laughed when you mentioned about your youngest cheating his way to victory. I know my boy loves to win and really dislikes the idea of not winning. Even with a small race if I come first he will still confidently state he won. I imagine all kids start out this way before learning the art of not needing to win all the time.
I had a thought too that the original space crusade game could be decent for younger gamers. It has been many years since I played but I remember it has relatively simple rules and was played in about the same area as a standard board game (since effectively that’s what it was). I think I have a couple of copies in the garage. I bought extra since it came with “minis” that are pretty close to 40k minis albeit not as detailed, though part of that is the age of the game
That’s a great idea with Space Crusade, I really enjoyed it myself as a teen (after Heroquest kicked it all off), you should definitely give it a go with your lad and report back. I may have to see what they go for on eBay these days.
Excellent video and sterling parenting 👍 Get ‘em started early (on the Ansell pose)
Thank you 😊
OPR is the all around system. Both for Competetive and casual players
I definitely give a look one day for sure
I think this might be your greatest video ever. I don't have children of my own, but when I was a kid my Dad encouraged me to always be around models and miniatures. He took me to a Games Workshop waaay back when I was about 12 years old (1983!)
If not for him introducing me to the world of gluing stuff together and painting them I might never have caught the bug.
To see your sons at such a young age actually sitting down and modeling and painting on that level and on to an actual skirmish game is nothing short of uplifting!
YOU sir are one of the coolest Dads on earth. This kind of parenthood is what will ground your boys with purpose and give them an interest that could potentially last a lifetime!
Thank you for such a really lovely comment 😊
Great video Stuart :) Unrelated to the video TBH; there was a video a few days ago by someone else that Citadel have changed their paints and not told anyone. Have you noticed any difference? Happy birthday to Jacob for November.. the big 10.. double digits :) Please tell them both they've done a great job painting their figures :)
Thank you Julian, I’ll definitely pass that on to the boys.
I don’t use a huge amount of Citadel paint outside of Contrast, so the stuff I have tends to last a while. But I’ve not noticed anything myself.
Your kids paint better than me mate 😂😂😂
You love to see it, hope they have a good hobby experience
😂 They’re enjoying it very much so far
This video is gold. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you 🙂
A brilliant video! Great ideas! My little lad is 2 so he's a tad young but i'm looking forward to being able to introduce him to wargamming! He already shows an interest, loves looking at the miniatures. Anyway, really awesome video! Thank you!
Thank you 😊
Loved this Stu - really wonderful and heart-warming stuff - delighted you’re starting to develop that gaming relationship with your boys, loved watching and long May it continue! Damian
Thank you Damian 😊
And dice towers. Use dice towers. My 5 year old had a great time playing Silver
bayonet. But she really wanted to chuck dice
That is a really good idea, the dice do go everywhere!
Absolutely awesome video! and great for us new dads. Any thoughts of trying One Page Rules with your kids? could do fantasy regiments etc in that ruleset.
Thank you 😊
You know I still haven’t checked out one page rules, I really need to. I think it’s because I choose mainstream games that I can scale as they learn more, but I probably need to check them out.
@@MiniatureRealms Totally makes sense! again just wanted to say that this was great. As someone who has a 3 year old and another one on the way soon. Definitely looking forward to including them in the hobby in the future years.
Thank you, and hope your kids follow your footsteps into gaming as well. 🙂
Next up? Napoleonics!
Just kidding, Battletech before Blucher, obviously! :)
😂 I think I have my old Wargames Research Group Horse and Musket set of rules knocking about somewhere.
@@MiniatureRealms- Used to play those old WRG Horse &Musket rules - until they pretty much put me off gaming altogether about 30 years ago. There’s much better sets around nowadays, rules that are both more realistic and much more fun to play.
Yeah I was joking, while I probably have the rules knocking around it’s the last thing I’d play these days. I’ve got plenty of other sets for that period (and many others as well). 🙂
@@MiniatureRealms - Still got my set on the shelf. Was even thinking of giving them a go again, for nostalgia’s sake. 🏹
But then again, maybe not. Lol. 🤓
Interesting. I really hope they can afford Warhammer. It's way too expensive and addictive for most adults!
I hope so too, like most hobbies and leisure activities it can be expensive.
Nah man not warhammer! start them on something else. They have all their adult lives to get addicted to corporate overlords and their plastic crack 😂
😂 very true
I’d second that. So many better gaming systems around, and also much cheaper figures. Been gaming much of my life and have never bought a single Warhammer model!
We play lots of different games in the house, and they have and will try wargames other than Warhammer, but remember ‘better’ is subjective.
@@MiniatureRealms - sure, you’re probably right. Have always thought Warhammer was a game designed for pre-teens. There is indeed a place for it!
Yeah not really a game for pre-teens, even young teens would need quite a bit of help. Definitely easier to start than some things, but not nearly as simplistic as some people who don’t like ‘it’ (whatever flavour of Warhammer) may think.