WHAT IS WARHAMMER? A guide for newcomers.
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- As an adult who plays Warhammer, I get a lot of questions when I mention my hobby. Is that a video game? Is it like D&D? If you've heard of Warhammer, or if someone you know is into it, but you're not totally sure what is actually is, then hopefully this will clear things up! What exactly do we DO with all those toy soldiers anyway?
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Some say the leggings are the most important part
Leggings shield your naked legs like the Emperor of Man shields the Imperium from the mutant, the heretic and the xenos.
In a world of confusing subjectivity this is the only objective truth.
@@beanns6632 you be wearing leggings?...
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Lmao
Great explanation dude, for anyone new to this amazing hobby, my only advice is to try it! Have a look at what YOU like, paint the models you think look cool, read the lore that interests you and try and learn some new things through RUclips! Good luck! Just remember, warhammer can get expensive fast, so don’t jump in at the deep end. There are so many aspects to this hobby. Maybe buy one model or just a squad to begin with. Good luck :)
Buying Warhammer/40K miniatures, painting those miniatures and playing the tabletop game are 3 distinct but complimentary hobbies.
Im here thanks to henry cavill
🤝
Same here mate
"Is it like Warcraft?" Well more the other way around, several Blizzard veterans have been quite open about taking "inspiration" from Games Workshop back in the early days of the company.
I was told blizzard was originally hired to make a Warhammer game then backed out and made warcraft and StarCraft which were built from the work on Warhammer games they had been brewing for the deal with games workshop
@@TheEgoify that makes sense as it is easy to tell that fantasy warhammer ie age of sigmar is similar to warcraft and 40k to starcraft.
@@udontseethetruth Blizzard weren't the ones to back out, from what I remember. GW actually pulled the plug. Its the reason that Zerg, Protoss and Terrans resemble Tyranids, Eldar and Space Marines so much.
I think it's almost uniformly accepted that Warcraft and Starcraft are basically unofficial Warhammer and 40k games respectively
wasn't starcraft meant to be a warhammer 40k game, but they lost the license?
This has to be one of the best intros to Warhammer that I've ever seen!
This video is what I have been searching for over the past six months. It is a great description with no jargon. Many, many thanks!
Well done packing this much information into a 10-minute video! Definitely only the broadest overview, but then again, it’s a good intro to the “What is Warhammer?” question. Diving in deeper would certainly call for much longer videos.
4:31 Aha! This helps me fill a gap in my understanding of WH. Thanks! 😃👍🏼
5:30 In addition to the LOTR miniatures Games Workshop has made a surprising amount of games of all varieties (they made a Doctor Who board game!)... though they're niche enough that most people's reaction to their existence is 'hey I didn't know GW made that', and then forgetting about them again.
Like the most notable is probably Dark Future (a post apocalyptic car-combat game), because it had a video game come out on Steam within the past decade.
Smart move to not answer how expensive the hobby is. Let them find that out when they are deeper in the hobby and will hesitate more about backing out. Jokes aside, love the video. Will probably use it if any of my friends gets interested in warhammer since i am terrible at explaining things.
Your content is top notch Ian, very well crafted and that intro music was a superb choice - so catchy and atmospheric. Can't wait for the next one.
Personally, I'm more interested and intrigued by the books/novels aspect more than the other stuff (maybe also add the leggings lol), and that's how I stumbled upon your channel. Quality content, and a voice to match the excitement of it all. Subscribed!
As a non-crafter/painter I've only really perked up at the thought of the really fun seeming, epicly scaled, tabletop fights. This is not to knock anyone who loves the crafting and painting, but like, is there a way to get into this hobby that doesn't require that? Maybe I just need to find someone offloading old minis and run at it that way, lol.
Bro thank you. I never played war hammer before. I just seen the new warhammer 40k space marine 2 trailer and thought it look epic but when I search up warhammer and was mad confuse at what I was seeing cause it had so many different type of games
Interesting, I finally understood! My son looooooOooooves war themed games, and building armies. It may be an interesting shared hobby
I clicked on this video to understand more about Warhammer games, because there is a shit ton of them, but now I feel I entered a rabbit hole...
I was interested in WH because of the figures and artwork back about 30+ years ago. I still haven't played it.
I am the lore/craft/painting side of the hobby. I got back into 40k because some friends did, and we haven't played a game yet. It's been over 6 months, i have like 1000 points of Necrons and AdMech each.
The subtitles are absolutely awesome
Long story short, it's a tabletop RPG that uses miniatures, similar to D&D, just in a different setting or universe. Basically.
Just the video im looking for!
I'm Brazilian and I didn't now much about Warhammer, I knew that it heavily influenced Warcraft games, I knew that Henry Cavill digs it, and I played Dawn of War II a bit, but it wasn't my time of RTS. But damn there's a whole subculture revolving Warhammer
4:18 is my childhood in a nutshell
Very helpful. Thank you!
Oh wow! Now I know what I’ve been up to for the past 30 years. Quite silly really. Probably should take up golf like a proper adult. Do I have to paint the clubs? Does the golf course provide the terrain, or do I have to bring my own?
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Great video for newcomers, I still remember when I got started ~20 years ago. There certainly were no leggings back then though!
4:15 COrrection, Space Smurfs
I thought warhammer was all about a hyper futuristic world, so imagine my surprise when playing vermintide and fighting rats with steel swords
this was helpful
I had some vague knowledge about Warhammer, but I never expected it to be so massive, and its lore so big and rich. I'm really into the lore of the fantasy settings I enjoy, so I guess I might buy some of the novels to better get to know it all better. do you have any videos in your channel about the novels?
Yes indeed, thank you for mentioning people like myself who just love reading the books but have no interest in playing the tabletop games themselves.
Just a heads up, the auto-generated subtitles think this is in Vietnamese, which has given some weird results. Not sure if that's something you can tune from your end.
Ha! Amazing, I'll have a look!
I really thought this was a video game fr fr
What is WarHammer?
Nobody knows, your guess is as good as mine; just have fun with it while not making less fun for others.
i think you miss new back to clasick warhammer fanatsy
the old world;
i check it was aledy annoucnment 4:30
Watched the whole video and still didn’t understand what WH is , all I know now is what it is not .
A year late but it's a miniatures game (sort of like a board game but more focused on imaginary battles) the game uses plastic models by Games Workshop and those plastic models come usually unassembled and unpainted so part of the hobby is to build and paint the models to use in the game
Warcraft was the result of an attempt to create a Warhammer game. They actually didn't stop there either.
You've made a video that isn't specifically for me and my interests?!?? HOW DARE YOU?!!?
This got me laid thanks
Is the wargame not a pay-to-win thing? I understand that there is tactics involved as well, but from my understanding there are weaker and stronger characters in the game, right?
There are stronger and less strong types of units, but this is not by design. It's because balancing the power of so many different types of models is very hard and the game developers often make judgment errors when assessing the rules. However, the rules and points costs are changing all the time, specifically to correct those types of errors as best as possible. So, what is overpowered at the moment might be comparatively weak in six month time.
Honestly i could not understand the warhammer so searchingfor easy ones
To be honest I'm only into Warhammer for the leggings
0:00 GONNA WATCH IT ANYWAY, YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD
Ironic that this video has 40k views... 🤔
'is it for kids' yeah if you don't tell them too much about the lore
'how much does it cost?' lots. It costs lots
To be honest , I'm more interested in the lore and crafts aspects of Warhammer than the game itself.
Same. Love the lore and have read a ton of the novels but really not interested in playing the game.
I originally thought this too, but I play atleast 3-4 games of killteam every two weeks, so much better than full scale 40k
Don't worry, I'm working on my 12th army at this point and have never played a game.
I'm the same TBH I used to play when I was in High School in the library but that was OMG 15-ish years ago. :O
But I mostly just like the lore, the books, making stuff and watching stuff being made for the game.
me too painting conversions collecting
What is Warhammer?
A way of separating a man from his money.
A lot of his money.
I’d play warhammer, but imported caviar is cheaper.
@@montithered4741 And I can afford to buy minis every once in a while. It's the time investment that kills me.
I'm a regular and I'll still watch just for the well crafted presentation and editing
This
Girlfriend said it did help. I showed it to her, she is the most awesome lady I could ever ask for, she got me, saint Celestine, for Valentines day, I painted up for her, being separated from her is hard.
I play Dungeons and Dragons -- but Warhammer made me fall in love with model painting. Mixing them can be magical. Nothing compares to the moment a party reaches the ritual chamber and instead of some crumby Lich -- you put down the Nagash Supreme Lord of the Undead model. Jaws drop. Faces palm. Pants fill. Roll initiative. Your fear tastes like gummie bears to Nagash.
Not gonna lie, your videos popped up on my feed a few weeks ago, and hooked me. I bought a few minis when I was a kid in the 90's but never played. But now I've got a source book for Age of Sigmar out for delivery today...
Never mind AoS, in the month since I posted this comment I’ve started building a Necron army. 40k it is! Thanks again for your channel!
That was a great introduction to those whom may be curious. I've been in the hobby for 35 years and still enjoyed this. Going to refer anyone who asks me about the hobby to this video.
Just wanted to chime in as a member of this video’s target audience-someone who is (was!) vaguely aware of Warhammer but isn’t (wasn’t!) entirely sure what it entails-and tell you how much I appreciated this explanation.
I feel like it strikes a really satisfying balance between being approachable and succinct and (for an outsider hahah) thorough: a quick but wholistic overview of the breadth of the franchise, hobby, and community.
Thank you for making this!
Mark my words Ian, you're gonna get to 100k subscribers within a year
I really hope so! I've been a subscriber since the 2nd video because of the top quality content that interests me.
Should stop at 40k 😃
here after cavill
Those aren’t leggings. Those are the legs of a now tracked servitor carelessly discarded
So glad a channel like this exists. The Arch's and Majorkills of RUclips make me want to vomit.
Who's here because of space Marines 2?
My boyfriend convinced me to join their warhammer 40k group. Though I know nothing. At all. So thank you for this 😅
What a great, eloquent explanation of all of this.
I get a chuckle thinking about how this is made for people who don't know the game, but the main audience watching it is still probably the people who know all this stuff already and are just nodding along admiring how well it's been explained. 😆
Fantasy and sci-fi ☑
Like chess but more confusing ☑
Not Warcraft☑
Leggings ☑
Ok I think I understand.
"After 35 years of this they're really rich..."
As a Magic the Gathering player, I know of Warhammer, but I don't know a thing about how it's actually played. I've just seen people at wargame tables measuring out distances with rulers.
I feel it's important to make the smallest of corrections. Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000 aren't in the literal same universe. By that I mean the planet that Age of Sigmar exists on isn't somewhere in the milky way galaxy of the 41st millennium (or even its distant past). Same ideas, same evil gods pulling strings, both have orks..... but they're different universes.
My favourite fun fact is that Warcraft/Starcraft started out as a video game version of Fantasy/40k but Blizzard wanted more creativity and GW was like bruh we are telling a story you can't be messing it up so they decided to go different directions
The initial plan was that 'Warcraft' would be a series of games in disparate settings - medieval fantasy, modern, future, post apocalyptic, etc. (Think sorta like Total War? Except those are mostly historical, but general idea - same engine, different settings). They wanted, at least casually, to get a license for WHFB as one of their first in the series, but Games Workshop wasn't interested. In the end they made a bit of a copyright friendly version, though things diverged quite quickly from there.
Starcraft is really similar only in that it's a sci-fi game following a fantasy game. There aren't really shared factions between the two - even the humans have a rather different aesthetic. The Zerg and Tyranids are kinda similar *now*, but this was back in the day of 2nd edition tyranids, which... do not look like that, and it's more that they both have a lot of xenomorph in them.
I played 40k and Epic back in the 80s and 90s but today I only keep up with the lore.
Great intro for my girlfriend that isn't familiar with this type of hobby beyond the models and boxes she's seen of mine.
Came across Warhammer 40K via the Spacemarines Game on PS3 and after reading about, I think I have become more interested in the lore via books and videogames.
Cool! Have u read many W40k books recently? I've mainly been reading Eisenhorn trilogy, Lexicanum lore, and listening to a W40k lore podcast (Adeptus Ridiculous).
This is a good channel that i just discover, ive always been a warhammer fan, had a space wolfs army and a dwarfs army, loved space wolfs books and the gotrek and felix series.
Keep up the good work in the channel
Ian, the best thing about your videos is how damn excited you are in the intro just before it fades to the music. You're practically shaking from joy, it's amazing. Never lose that passion!
"...is it like Warcraft ?" ... uhm ... well, yes, from a certain point of view... simply because Warcraft was meant to be a game about Warhammer but something didn't quite work out with the intellectual property and blah blah blah, so Blizzard changed it just enough to avoid a lawsuit.
p.s. I get a little confused by the term "high fantasy". Would you mind expanding on that a bit and other kinds of fantasy, for someone that has been reading fantasy books but is apparently a complete noob :D you put in opposition to "Tolkienesque" fantasy but when I went on wikipedia they say Tolkien is kind of the archetype for high fantasy... that just added to my confusion
Generally it's more of a reference to how fantastical the magic and fictional races/species are.
It's a bit subjective, but if there's powerful spellcasters, dragons, elves and powerful artefacts, it's high fantasy.
I'm here because of the Henry Cavill news
I reaaaaaallllyyy need to make some intro video based on that
@@ArbitorIan please do!
I think I may have found me a new hobby...
After a long and grinding day, a new video from Ian was the best thing, that could happen with me at the moment.
I’m here because of battle sister on the oculus quest 2.
Thanks, this was helpful! Our grandchildren are showing an interest, after their dad took them into a store for “a minute” …
what if i just searched up "what is warhammer" and this video popped up? do i stick around? 😂
If you are looking for lore than no. If you want to know where it comes from. Yes
I know I'm late but I kinda wanted this question answered when I first got here.
Wtf Blood bowl is set in the fantasy world?
The mad lad actually put a D&D link in the description lol
Here as my son is interested in it, he's nearly 10
Me having been in the hobby for 3 years listening to the intro: gonna watch this anyways
"The first setting is called Age of Sigmar..."
*warhammer fantasy has left the chat crying*
I was also surprised to see Age of Sigmar in a video "what is Warhammer?". Maybe if the title was "What ruined Warhammer"...
@@robertchmielecki2580 Oh booho. Warhammer FABA was not selling, single units in 40k were selling more than the whole game. GW had to do something about it.
I understand that the are probably long time fantasy fans that got upset after the game got shafted (plus some armies like Tomb Kings and Bretonnia disappearing, which I'm upset about) but there are way more people that started caring about FABA only after AoS was announced.
Played a few times over the years. Loved painting. Would love to just buy them already done. Couldn't be bothered painting again.
Thats the whole point of it
It's basically the Roman Empire in Space, right?
Right?!?!
Most difficult part of warhammer truly is picking a faction! I struggled so much from jumping between armies and spending so much money. The rule of cool doesn't work for people like me that think EVERY FACTION LOOKS COOL LOL. However, I found my heart in THOUSAND SONS I love the space wizards
If people were confusing warhammer with Magic the gathering , they will love the Warhammer 40k Commander Decks that will be published by the Magic: The Gathering Universes Beyond
Hi mate. Thanks for this awesome intro. I live in Amsterdam and near my house I always saw this Warhammer store and i wondered what was this all about. Now I get it... right now my hobby is Mechanical custom keyboards but once I buy a new house i will have space to start with the Warhammer models. I think painting will help me relax... Probably will not be the doing the playing time.
I know I sound really heretical here. But I hate the painting. I wish I could buy a miniature army (of reasonable price) and play the board game.
I was always mostly interested into Warhammer RPG. When other RPG people asked me what it is my summary answer was/is:
"Imagine a world so overrun by dark and evil factions, if they would unite, they would wipe out the remaining 'good' guys in a very short time. Such a dark, grim world makes a wonderful world for adventure and RPG with the threatening atmosphere as there is always something going on at every corner. And all the fighting and darkness left its mark on the 'good' guys which are just a bit less dark and evil then the monsters they fight.
Not a world you want to live in but GREAT for adventure. Not those tidy, neat and clean US fantasy worlds of D&D&Co which remind me more of a Disneyland with good areas and the bad ones, petty much like modern US in a fantasy environment. ;p"
Or the VERY short reply: "Imagine LOTR on steroids and crack."
I haven't done much with warhammer in around 18 years or so but I've just been addicted to listening to you discuss various aspects of the 40k history.
I first discovered Warhammer at my friend's through PC games back in the mid-'90s.
Neither of us was aware of the existence of any miniatures nor tabletop wargaming aspects thereof at the time.
I first learnt of this side of the franchise just like 15 years ago by a lucky accident when I stumbled upon one documentary about this craft-hobby while randomly switching TV channels. I didn't catch the beginning and for a few more years thereafter I was still not aware of the fact that the wargame came first. :-)
Also, my then-reaction was, "Why do the miniatures NOT come already finished (assembled and painted) from the factory? This therefore must be a very niche hobby since the company likely misses out on many potential customers who would otherwise be interested in the collecting and the wargame".
:-D :-D
Please don't kill me!! :-)
Just to quickly address those "other questions":
_Is Warhammer for kids?_ No, because...
_How much does it cost?_ Yes.
Got back into the hobby 2 years ago, best decision I've ever made. I've made new friends and made old friendships stronger. You can enjoy it quietly in your office, painting a model or reading rules. Or you can meet up with friends, grab some beers, and get hammered playing 'hammer. Best hobby ever.
You know what sucks? Being rased in a differnt world ( the hood lol) then growing up and discovering these awsome games that i didnt even know exsisted. Now im in my 30's and have no one who would even entertain the idea of checking out these kinds of games. I try going to a hobby/game store, but then they open at 2 and by 3:30 im surrounded by a sea of teanagers and kids being dropped off by parents asking me what time i close lmao. Its just not the scene for a grown man who DOSNT have questionable morals if you know what i mean, so here i am, lots of d&d books, war hammer models and magic cards, and no one to play with, and being rather oldschool, online play is just confusing and i hate being the guy who is not only still learning the game but still learning the program (roll20 for example.) I wish i had a time machine to go back and build in the community.. now i feel like its just too late...
Can someone please put a video out about what " broken" and "blanced" means and why GW has such h a hard time doing that? Why is it so hard to put out a balanced game w/no need for updates and additions and editions!?!? Please, can someone explain thoroughly!?
Trying to explain warhammer is a lesson in futility, one always grasp a context that needs more context. The god emperor is where most people start to try and explain, but tbh the best place to start is orcs. Once you ve established a base line of crazy then you can gauge on what tone you should go to explain further. Orcs to crazy? Explain the Astarte's and the how orcs arent even all that scary. Not impressed by war crazed psykers who are more like a plague than species? Explain chaos, and the abundance of waysthe universe can kill the fuck out of you.
oh okay so im com,pletely justified in just liking the crafts aspect and maybe the tabletop aspect but not the books or the *insane* lore?
i don't have a very big budget, so buying the models can be very complicated. So, i 3d print them. But i would like to play games with them, but since they don't come with their little information paper i don't know how good they are. So i was wondering if there was some sort of website where i could find what their stats are, and also if i could play with them at events or competitions with other people?