Warhammer: The Final Boss of Nerd Stuff 

Okay so I messed something up. The Dark Age of Technology is evidently the golden age of technology, from 15 to 25k. They call it that because they're scared of technology now. 25-29k, when everything was ACTALLY bad, is called the Age of Strife. Thank you comments for being polite about that.

The truest "war" of warhammer is the fans vs Games Workshop

My favorite thing about 40k lore is how much you can get out of it. One day you can be philosophically musing on the nature of evil, and the next day you can read about two Egyptian robot zombies with a 65 million year old grudge against each other using reality bending god technology to beat each other with their old man sticks.

"I do recommend getting into Warhammer, however that looks for you" That last part is so important for people to understand. I know painters who have never even played a game with their models. I know lore experts who are plastic-crack free. I know people who know Vermintide 2 in and out, but nothing of 40k. I think that's what makes it THE hobby

"Fulgrim is my favorite" - Yes inquisidor, this guy right here

A joke a buddy of mine made is that 40k may have saved my life. I got into it 2 years ago, and since then my life and choices have changed quite abit. Now I hang out with my 40k group atleast 1x a week (there's 12 of us) and spent all my money and time.enjoying my hobby. Before 40k I had no hobbies and just spent my time and money drinking and doing drugs and eating like shit. The plastic Crack consumed my income instead

Calling 40k a wombat hole is more accurate than you think. Wombats dig their tunnels in such a way that they've been known to literally twerk predators to death against the tunnel ceiling.

I love the over the top whackyness that extends to the players. On the tabletop with certain rule sets people have done things like called up other game shops across town to call in artillery strikes from other players because those artillery units had unlimited range making it perfectly legal and viable.

Warhammer was my first real introduction to classism as a kid. I thought all of us nerds were all in it together with our D&D books and imaginations of fantasy worlds. Turns out if you had rich parents you didn’t have to imagine it. You could own it in miniature. I always found it fascinating.

My old roommate was obsessed with this hobby, there must have been a box a week of 40k that showed up on our porch. Thanks for going through the trouble of summarizing this behemoth.

The lore is far deeper than it has any right to be.

I just got into Warhammer literally a week ago and man this is the most relatable video I’ve seen all year from the fact it remained hidden from me for 25 years to financial cost to the fact I’ve spent 12 hours today building this stupid huge Guard Army that are my treasures and I’ll hurt anyone who hurts them. Subscribed.

Picking Warp Talons as a first model was a very bold choice

"Up yours Fulgrim! Have a virus bomb you perverted snake!" -Rylanor

To summarize Orks Orks + Color Red = I am Speed Orks + Knife = Angry Australian Orks + Fear of some guy = guy is invincible Orks + Orks = Bar Fights In Britain Orks - Knife = s a d Orks + Scrap Metal = huge mech with hundreds of Orks needed to use Orks + Huge mech = Death Orks + Space Marine = Dead Orks Orks + Custodian = Mass Orks genocide Orks + Ork with Funny Hat = Portal

It's not just goofy and over the top, but it is also a platform for great horror stories.

"Hey! Have you guys tried drugs yet?" -My new favorite Fulgrim quote

The Nerdiness skill tree is like a straight bar. You start in the middle. One side has Warhammer and the other has Homestuck.

As someone who became a warhammer fan when my uncle gave me his old gaming rig in 2006, I just want you to know, the lore can be serious or even creepy sometimes, but for every "The Watcher in The Rain", there is a "The Infinite and The Divine". Just keep your head on your shoulders. Also, I approve this video. Very much captures the general vibe of warhammer 40K. Unfortunately, you forgot the blood sports and the super cocaine the eldar were also doing when they made buildings out of flesh and started having orgies with them, but I'll give you a pass. We people of the craftworlds didn't want anything to do with that anyway.

My step-dad got me into the 40k board game early on. It was so cool having a turn-based game with figures you decorate yourself. I wish it was more popular

Between love and two warhammer armies No way i’d choose love Two armies? That’s double of what i need to be happy

I played my first 2000 point warhammer game 3 years after starting lol. All my previous video game time now goes into miniature painting/ warhammer, and for me, it feels much more rewarding. 10/10

"Do you want to experience the bliss of sharing your life with another, or do you want to play with toy soldiers?" Toy soldiers and it's not even close

Honestly, you did a really good job of grasping the lore, the game, AND MOST IMPRESSIVELY the community that this hobby all revolves around in such a short time, it's genuinely impressive lol, I hope you continue to enjoy the hobby, enjoy your warp dust

As a BIT of a veteran I wanna say: Warhammer is expensive AT FIRST. It has a HUGE buy in cost, but remember, unlike card games, you will use these miniatures for YEARS. You only need to buy them ONCE. People still use miniatures they bought and painted in the 90s, and they look GREAT! Remember it's an investment and a collection. And once you have your full army (~ 2.5 to 3k points) your spending amount DROPS through the floor. I spend maybe 20 bucks a month TOTAL on Warhammer and I have 4 full armies. Sorry bit of a ramble, but just remember, your buying in huge, yes. But the cost doesn't stay high for long, just remember to budget properly.

4:40 Dark age of Technology is actually Humanities golden age. So strong and advanced, it would make star trek look like cavemen/children playing with a gun. They had AI like crazy. 40k call it the "dark ages" because they hate AI and the "over reliance on AI" and subsequent SkyNet scale of AI revolt launched humanity into "the age of strife". Which is the "dark age" you are referring to. You might be confusing and merging the two. edit: spelling

That last point you made was really important, and one of the things I miss most about not being able to play wargames anymore now that I'm not in college. Pickup games with strangers, checking out their paint jobs, *making up lore* about why your armies are fighting, that was so much fun. I used to go to tournaments pretty much every month, driving 300+ miles to play for 8 hours straight because no matter how much work and time it was, they were undeniably great times that I think of fondly to this day. I had to get out of the hobby because I just did not have the time, but I did keep a small collection of my favorites and ones that were painted for me by better artists than me as birthday/christmas gifts. Every now and then someone will point to them on my shelf and I'll get to tell them about the games I played, and it's a great reminder of good times.

Bro clearly hasn't met Napoleonic miniature gamers

My version of "dipping my toes" into 40k was a three hour long comprehensive timeline video, literally a couple of days ago. I haven't stopped.

I can't believe you didn't give the tabletop game a rating of "2 thin coats"

My favorite part about the Emperor is how he apparently existed throughout all of human history and at one point he tames a dragon? Literally nothing is off the table with 40k lore.

I got into Warhammer 40k back when i was in the army, it was introduced to me by a good friend that just so happened to have been the weapons squad leader. Hes a big nerd too, used to play a lot back in the 90s-00s and told me stories about how he used to play with his friends using whole rooms as the play space. I was very interested so i got into it for a bit, started collecting imperial guard. That was almost three maybe four years ago, i recently got back into it and dug out my box of old models that i never finished amd bought some of the new ones that came out while i was out of the hobby, I'm glad i did. Its helping me get through some stuff thats happing in my life right now.

It's always to refreshing to see someone's initial steps into Warhammer. My intro to it was Dawn of War, and I remember at that time that I was blown away by how fun and "chill" the orks were, what with my expectations about orcs being influenced by Warcraft and LotR. It took me about 4 years before finding out it was part of a sprawling universe. I pretty much read only Warhammer fiction now and I look forward to finishing the goddamn Horus Heresy books.

I like to say that Warhammer 40K is a bit like Homestuck, in that once you first get into it, you find yourself physically incapable of thinking about anything else for about 12 to 18 months. After that, you find yourself able to pick up other interests again, but there's a part of you that never really lets go.

May your channel grow and be ever more awesome. Thank you for posting this humorous and yet still insightful overview.

Loved this video! Such a cool and earnest take on a really wonderful hobby, glad you’ve enjoyed it so much !!

If you grew up in Britain reading 2000AD and judge dredd the 40k universe doesn't seem so crazy. It's part of our long tradition of extreme ridiculous satire. We don't take it seriously but we do love the insanity of it all.

Feels like the final boss of crafting too. I got into every hobby except painting. My husband got into warhammer, and guess who's painting all the creatures 😂🎨

It isn't a hobby its an addiction

Best synopsis for beginners I have ever heard! I have been a fan since Rouge Trader, and you have nailed this!

Been into the lore and hobby since i 12. Im 40 now. Been a Blood Angel player since the start. 40k is just awesome.

The philosophy and themes of 40K lore can’t be expressed enough, it will make you laugh, cry, contemplate and cry more. It’s so deep and had so many avenues and trees I’d thought and interpretations; it’s amazing

I loved watching this. I don’t think I’ve seen any other video starting from the true beginning of just getting into a hobby, especially one as immense as WH40k. It’s absolutely something I’ve been wanting for a long while. Well done and thank you, truly

The beginning part about phrases is so apt it got me thinking about the ones I've heard. One of my favorites being "Come alien dogs and and bring the blades that thirst for the blood of heros, I will die standing as my ancestors did." Also half the things Grimaldis said in Helsreach.

I watched/heard this video while painting a friend's army (T'au Empire) and all i can say is this: This hobby is almost a life commitment and nobody is good at first. Lucky maybe but not good. However after a while you will become more adept to the lore, more skilled with the brush and more strategic with your army. And is soo satisfactory to win a game with a full painted army after an intense battle where the balance of power shifted from one player to another in a single round.. the emperor protects. Death to the false emperor. For the greater good. The ancestors are watching. Waaagh!!! Roleplay your army and have fun.

8:45 It's also the matter of which specific piece of warhammer is discussed. Looking at the books: Dan Abnett has a much more down to earth military narrative with the "Gaunt's Ghosts" series, McNeils Forges of Mars might often showcase he missery and horrort of an avarage human in 40k, "Brutall Kunnin" by mike brooks revels in wild and riddiculous misadventures of Orks, and Robert Rath does quite good Pratchett Impression in "Infinite and Divine". After almost 40 years of development there's about every kind of warhammer novel out there.

Your intro resonated with me so much! I'm 42 and just discovered 40k about 2 months ago... how the ** did I not know about this??? But now I can say I am deeeep into it( maybe a tiny bit too much according to my wife haha)! I have not yet played a real game but I love assembling an painting to death, it's almost therapeutic.

It's only been a week for me. Jeez, so much I've learned and played through and I'm only scratching the surface here. The lore is just **chef's kiss**

Callout for Luetin’s 40k lore videos. Spent far too many hours for years of my life watching them and they are fantastic.

I just got into 40K this year and it really is crazy how visible the hobby's presence is once you get into it. I tried to play Warhammer Fantasy Battles 20 years ago; my parents taught me to paint miniatures and I wanted to play the cool Warcraft-like game I saw at the comic store where I went to play Pokemon TCG. It didn't last long and I burnt out on painting, but I always wanted to return one day. I wonder how much of my decision to go for it was random chance and how much was market pressure. I have a Discord friend who kept pushing me to get interested in 40K and I was big into Magic the Gathering when suddenly, out of the blue, 40K crossed over last year with a set of licensed Commander decks. I was finally exposed to the lore and aesthetics first-hand, and I wanted more. Conveniently, I had *just* gotten back into miniature painting to supply my friends' new D&D group with painted minis, as well as painting the new Hero Quest game pieces. It all fit together too well. Anyway, I've been spending most of my free time on assembling and painting Orks for 6 months and only just got 500 points together to play Boarding Actions, which I have thus far played *once.*

You said “and death to the false emperor“ and instinctively i shouted for everyone around me to hear „HERETIC“

This was a fun video to watch. My gateway into Warhammer 40k was buying Inquisitor: Martyr (an excellent RPG). This game caused me to go through the warp gate and watch a lot fo lore videos on youtube. The lore, weapons, tech, and varied setting is WAY out there, making it a lot of fun.

Your enjoyment of the "abstract art" you made clearly marks you as a follower of slaanesh, stay put and await the nearest inquisitor to find you and bring you back into the Emperor's light.

For those curious about the strategy of the tabletop game: those objectives mentioned in the video are your win condition, you win by completing more of them than your opponent, which is a gross oversimplification but essentially accurate. This shift actually only happened a few years ago, before then, while objectives existed, the actual strategy largely boiled down to "Kill before he kills you", now you can actually win games you should have lost(in terms of unit losses) by cleverly scraping together all the VP you can.

This is a good video. I like listening to people just getting into the hobby. I read the lore and paint the minis only these days. Used to play, but not in 20 years.

I got Dawn of War in a humble bundle and figured "I like strategy games and this star craft rip off seems interesting. I'll install it someday" and promptly forgot about it. 2 years later a friend of mine introduced me to Warhammer 40k because he knew I liked chatting about sci-fi universes with good lore. I was shocked to find out that "random sci-fi strategy game" that I'd never installed was based on it. I now have spent way too much money on games and miniatures, way too much time painting miniatures, and way too much brain room with exhaustive lore.

I just came back to warhammer yesterday after a 10+ year break and spent $250 on the new Leviathan starter box, then got home and realized I could get a 3d printer and filaments for around that price and print them at home. My girlfriend had a blast making the models with me and even wanted to run a couple small games. Overall fun hobby but very time consuming and expensive.

Welcome to the fandom brother, although I am quite saddened that you chose to join the losing side. Cadia Stands!

The last line of the video, Hersey!!!!!! This was great by the way. Hope more people get into Warhammer and Henry Cavill can keep Amazon in line!

"Go forth. Have fun out there. and DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR." *Chef's kiss*

As an English person who was in to Warhammer in primary school, this was an emotional rollercoaster 😂

"Warhammer is the final boss of nerd stuff" Warhammer is merely the gateway drug to even nerdier nerd stuff.

Love me Warhammer. Like your oration. LOVE your paraphrasing! Take your sub, friend.

As a person who has been apart of this hobby for 10 years and counting, I think you hit the nail on the coffin for summerizing and talking about this hobbies!

I have been into reading lore for years, my friend finally got me to paint an old start collecting blood angels box I’ve had for over 5 years. 8 months later i just keep painting and painting, haven’t played a game yet. For anyone new, just give it a shot. The painting part really is a great hobby- a chance to shut off my brain and just paint- and it’s so tangible. You watch this army grow, you see your skills grow. It’s great. Hopefully one day my blood angels will see battle. For the emperor and sanguinius. Great video too by the way man.

I am glad that I am not the only person who thinks the "Show me what passes for fury among your misbegotten kind!" line is one of the most metal quotes ever made. I also love one of the voice lines for the dreadnoughts in the first Dawn of War, "I live to serve... again," and the Eldar Rangers voice line where they whisper "We... are the dealers... of death..."

I think my favorite thing is learning people's chosen army - after everything is said and done seeing where people land always get's me excited. The Emperor Protects!

I will say this, has having started in the hobby almost 2 years ago it was one of my best decisions. It is expensive and the rules can be hard to follow sometimes. But the community, and building your guys is the best feeling in the world. Every time I finish a mini I feel proud of it even if it isn’t my best job.

There also is a warhammer shop in Manhattan beach in LA. The nice thing about going to official shops is that you can ask for building and painting tutorial and they’ll provide the materials and walk you through. On the game side it takes a lot of space (except the skirmish ones) and some smaller hobby shops may not let you have games. In the official you can call ahead and get a table or on a slow day just show up and they have terrain and matts there. Just have to be lucky that the manger at the shop is chill about the rules since GW is annoying when it comes to what you can use or talk about in the stores. The smaller Warhammer shops tend to be way more chill about non-official GW materials and tools being used.

I just recently got into miniature painting and phew, you’re so right about the cost. I’m out hundreds of dollars for paints and a couple boxes of minis and that’s even with Black Friday discounts. I’m really enjoying though, it’s incredibly relaxing even when I mess something up. I actually don’t know anything about warhammer, so this video was very informative thank you!

I'm actually very much already into Warhammer. In the 90s my uncle gave me a lot of his old models and his 3rd edition codex. I read it and soaked up all of the available story. Me, my brother, one of my sisters, her husband, and many friends of mine have all been in and out of the hobby for decades now. So it always amazes me when i hear someone hasn't at least heard about it. For a long time most malls had one GW store and someone always strays in at least once in their life

I first saw the Warhammer books and models at my local hobby shop in the mid 80's. I was fasinated, but didn't have the money. About 10 years ago, it popped up on my radar again. Now I had the money, but I don't have the time. So... I listen to the audiobooks during my commute. #ForTheEmporor !

As a veteran I'm very glad you had an excellent first experience playing in this community, I don't play much anymore but it feels like the douchebags and edgelords have the loudest voices sometimes, but they are a loud minority and most staff members and players you'll meet in the real world are lovely people and I hope more newcomers have the same experience as you.

Amazing video! Honestly can't get into the "usual" gameplay of Warhammer (in general), don't feel confident with either the arts and crafts nor the expensive price tag behind it, but I do *love* the media associated with it, be it the Vermintide games, Mechanicus, Gladius, the RTS games, etc etc and the Lore and fan animations, would love however to see more *roleplay* focused warhammer games. Initially though I was also kinda thrown back by the superficial amount of fascism and jingoism present throught the series (and most prominently in the community) until I noticed the clear satire in the Lore (sadly not in the majority of the online community) Also i was thinking "is that snow in summer" during the Lore segment and then you just play Shadowlord in the ending credits, I love it. Ain't no way RU-vid recommended me a Nier fan through content that isn't even Nier related.

praised be the real god, the Omnissiah, I like your choice of Musik, I guess getting a bit into Warhammer gives one a "interest"(or an ear for) in classic music

One of the funniest explanations of the lore I've seen, and I've been around 40k for a few. In fact my 1st battle was in 1988 so I've seen it all evolve over the years. I really like the reference to sweaty gatekeepers at the end and have had the unfortunate experience of meeting a few in my time. But I've also been in it for 30 years. That's just gonna happen.

The lore is funny. I love the Orks and they are the most ridiculous thing I have every seen and I am deep in many a thing. Also might be worth mentioning, I’ve been in the hobby for just over 20 years as well at this point. I will say that I didn’t care to much about the 40k side of things back when as I was, and still am, a Fantasy man. Not Age of Sigmar, but that which came before which to me had a much more interesting lore, but that’s just my opinion and people are allowed to like AoS more. The reason I mention this is because I grew up reading the Gotrek and Felix novels and they are what really made me fall in love with all the lore. Later I got into the Commissar Cain books and I still love both sets of books to this day. Gotrek and Felix is just a high fantasy good time with good guys, bad guys and a reoccurring after school villain like character. Commissar Cain is an incredibly interesting way of writing as it’s written as an autobiography of a Hero who, by their own admission, was just running for their life, fighting those enemies that got in his way, waiting for the dust to clear and then being praised as a hero because he accidentally killed the big bad while running. Both are excellent romps and both are available in audiobook form, though don’t buy them from GW as they are terribly overpriced. Just go on Audible and get one a month for 75% less then what GW charges with your free token. I love the Lore, I love the setting, I hate the company currently, but I still hope to see more of Dah Boyz join dah WAAAGH if it’s what they want. Just so long as they know how much it may cost ‘em in teef.

This is a fantastic video to send people who are new to the hobby. It's so well done i just watched it for the second time, and I've been a warhammer fan for 2 years lol

I love all aspects of this hobby, and my favourite thing about the lore is how you can go from learning about Sly Marbo, essentially rambo for 40k, super silly character to reading dark imperium and having Guillaman being a conduit for a philisophical debate deciding what is godhood and what does it mean to be a god. Or reading about orks who are really fight for a laugh to Krieg who have a nihilistic sacrifice themselves willingly in the millions for minor objectives. The juxtaposition between the serious, grim dark and the jokey silly lore keeps it remaining fresh and easy to always stay interested.

"... And I thought it was a French thing" The food I had been eating is now plastered on the walls, like the heads of Fantasy peeps and the mention of Bretonnia or whatever there

One minor correction with he scattering of the Primarchs it was later revealed that the Primarch's biological mother had a hand in it as a way to of keeping them away from the Emperor's tyrannical influence. Other than that spot on summary.

Also worth looking into Kill team for just getting into the hobby. Some of the best teams can be made with one roughly ~$60 box. Great for getting your feet wet with the hobby side and a fun game on its own

What's amazing is that Warhammer was created as a parody and now its the gold standard of edgy stuff.

I'm new, picked up a leviathan box spent the last 2 weeks or so making the models. I've bought paints and materials but I haven't even started basing/painting yet because I've been so distracted with customizing every model and reading lore. Surprisingly I'm only 200 bucks in right now, which is alot, but not as much as I expected. I think by the time my models are table top ready I'll be 400-600 in. Whilst its definitely not cheap by any standard, honestly I think I can get a few months worth of fun before I even consider actually playing the game. The 10th edition codices haven't even released yet so I'm gunna be waiting until then at least. Setting the actual game aside interacting with the community alone is amazing, going online talking in forums, finding niche communities who love successor chapters that no one has ever heard. And just walking into hobby shops and talking for hours to the people there makes the cost all worth it for me.

Bro only vid of urs i watched but sick vid i love it

Hey, the Monrovia store is a hell of a drive on the week, but take a weekend and go. Amazing stuff there, the workers and the other customers are all amazing. Also there is like a 20% chance to see someone working on a warlord titan which is always a treat

Iron warriors/chaos guard player here, great vid, I love hearing new perspectives on the hobby. If anybody is interested, find a local hobby store (doesn’t have to be a games workshop) that sells board/card games, find somebody there that knows the game you’re interested in, and start asking questions. Some people just build and paint, other people ignore the craft and just want to play the game, just do whatever interests you

I’ve been into 40K for nearly a decade now, and I’m just here for the books and the video games. I may, at some point, get one of the new terminator squads for some decoration for my computer desk, and paint them as Iron Hands, of course, because Iron Hands are OBJECTIVELY the coolest loyalist marines and I will suplex anyone directly into an ICU if I am challenged on this. But other than books, fan content and video games, I’m good. I’d rather not have to sell my only remaining leg to play the tabletop.

Super well-made video! Enjoyable to watch

i started off small by getting the codex for my army. I read the book until I saved enough to get a model. Over time I save enough for small things, paintbrush here, colors there, then my first model, the Enginseer, was gifted to me by Warhammer 40k friend (Astra Militarum player) I met thru a game. I recently finished painting and varnished it and i couldn't be more proud of a time and energy spent so fulfilled. Anyways, hello fellow SoCal native! I'm in Norwalk/Cerritos area, and the flesh is weak.

good ol' war hammer 40k in debt

I got lucky when buying models because I had a buddy who knew the cost inside and out. I ended up with about 2500 pts of Black Templars for about $320. Is is a usable army all at once no but its a ton of fun regardless.

Late to the party, but you totally deserve a comment. I'm an elder nerd, have been into 40k since the beginning, waay back in the wild days of 1st edition. This video is one of the most reasonable and accurate summaries of 40k I could have ever expected from a newbie. Your description of the lore was both mostly accurate and hilarious, good for you. "Hey guys, have you tried drugs yet?" Great line. Also, if you haven't seen it yet, go watch Space King, an absolutely savage parody that dropped last month.

I have never seen such a accurate yet short description of 40k

As a fan already up to my teeth in the wombat hole (and debt) I always like to see new fans of the hobby explain their perspective on things, and I’m glad you’re enjoying stuff

Thanks for the video, it was great fun, despite the heresy at the ending.

It was the same thing with me. I bought a book called 'Warhammer 40,000' in a second hand store. I read it and as a SiFi nerd I loved it. There is a store in my city about that. I literally walked by hundreds of times. There are books over books, games over games. My timeline on YT is filled with 40k stuff right after klicking the first video. It's like open a door. I was able to understand jokes and references I not even noticed before. It feels like you got the red pill.

As both a recent Elantra owner and warhammer lore binger this video spoke to me

I have been into Warhammer 40K, Fantasy, the Horus Heresy and every other form of Warhammer for almost 20 years now and I have never met a single person who was actively invested and interested in it. I've met plenty of people that knew of Warhammer as a franchise (specifically 40K), but none that ever knew anything about it. Crazy to see all this fresh blood suddenly interested in Warhammer. 15 years ago I was on my own building terrain and painting models that never saw the table because I never had friends to play with. Can't say I'm not bitter but it is what it is. Never fear though because GW is doing their best to make 40K more and more accessible to more and more people, for better or worse.

you can equalize the price of the miniatures if you either use a 3d printer or buy from 3rd party stores (i do the ladder one and since i live in Europe its less expensive than in usa, a imperial knight in gw prices costs here 145€ while in usa one costs 175$)