I’m not familiar with Warhammer very much but I would assume it’s a majority male hobby or a hobby that generally appeals to males? Is she the type to have the “women need to be in this hobby because there are too many males” mentality?
40k/Warhammer/tabletop wargaming is at best described as a money sink, at worse financial ruin waiting to happen.
There are a lot of different ways someone can engage in the hobby from simply building and painting models to actual battles vs someone else but regardless of what someone does it still requires having something to battle with.
Now there are several different scales at which people can play although the most common is the army level with individual soldiers either as stand alone models or sometimes grouped up into units where small "plates" can be used to place an entire unit on simply so you can move an entire cavalry group as one rather than having to move each mounted unit one at a time. Sometimes this is also important due to combat rules as the plate will be considered for attacking ranges in melee.
However there are also "larger" army options which include mountain sized vehicles named Titans. Now while there are Titans scaled to the common army models there are shrunk down versions so you don't have to lug around a 3 foot tall models that would be at risk of falling over and breaking. Essentially you just swap 1 inch tall soldiers for 1 inch tall Titans and play that way. There is also space combat which is a bit weird at times since space is 3D but whatever.
Regardless of what someone does with whatever models they go for it still all can cost an absurd amount of money.
It absolutely can cost an absurd amount of money but it is one of the open and future-proofed hobbies you can have.
A model from 30+ years ago can still probably be played today and will be able 30+ years from now if the world is still around. Even if Game Workshop lit itself on fire tomorrow there's still decades of rulesets, scales to play at, specialist games, skirmish games, etc and that's if you just want to play the game. You could easily just paint miniatures and never touch a single die or rulebook.
It's not that bad but it is a common sentiment that a drug addiction is a cheaper hobby than warhammer. The models, books, paints, etc required to play a game can easily go into the $1000+ range and that could just be for one army.
It's one of the few things still gatekept by nerds because no matter how much pozzed the parent company gets, at the end of the day it's an autistic wargame using models that you have to sit and paint for hours beforehand and you could never get a normie to do that.
I’m not familiar with Warhammer very much but I would assume it’s a majority male hobby or a hobby that generally appeals to males? Is she the type to have the “women need to be in this hobby because there are too many males” mentality?
Warhammer is the kind of hobby that you have to give more than you get out of it and derive fun out of it that way,
I’ve been meaning to check out the books. They look very interesting
Sounds like marriage.
If you were to simply burn your money in a bucket you'd probably still get a better return than spending/investing in 40k as a hobby.
That bad?
40k/Warhammer/tabletop wargaming is at best described as a money sink, at worse financial ruin waiting to happen.
There are a lot of different ways someone can engage in the hobby from simply building and painting models to actual battles vs someone else but regardless of what someone does it still requires having something to battle with.
Now there are several different scales at which people can play although the most common is the army level with individual soldiers either as stand alone models or sometimes grouped up into units where small "plates" can be used to place an entire unit on simply so you can move an entire cavalry group as one rather than having to move each mounted unit one at a time. Sometimes this is also important due to combat rules as the plate will be considered for attacking ranges in melee.
However there are also "larger" army options which include mountain sized vehicles named Titans. Now while there are Titans scaled to the common army models there are shrunk down versions so you don't have to lug around a 3 foot tall models that would be at risk of falling over and breaking. Essentially you just swap 1 inch tall soldiers for 1 inch tall Titans and play that way. There is also space combat which is a bit weird at times since space is 3D but whatever.
Regardless of what someone does with whatever models they go for it still all can cost an absurd amount of money.
It absolutely can cost an absurd amount of money but it is one of the open and future-proofed hobbies you can have.
A model from 30+ years ago can still probably be played today and will be able 30+ years from now if the world is still around. Even if Game Workshop lit itself on fire tomorrow there's still decades of rulesets, scales to play at, specialist games, skirmish games, etc and that's if you just want to play the game. You could easily just paint miniatures and never touch a single die or rulebook.
It's not that bad but it is a common sentiment that a drug addiction is a cheaper hobby than warhammer. The models, books, paints, etc required to play a game can easily go into the $1000+ range and that could just be for one army.
It's one of the few things still gatekept by nerds because no matter how much pozzed the parent company gets, at the end of the day it's an autistic wargame using models that you have to sit and paint for hours beforehand and you could never get a normie to do that.
I’ve heard of efforts to infiltrate the hobby. Good to hear it’s being gatekept
Found this clip on IG that is quite apt given various things.
https://gofile.io/d/1eBJ4O
No idea if the site will like gofile being used but it's a good throwaway site for clips since things are auto deleted after 10 days of inactivity.
Warhammer is such a male hobby that its got more trannies than bio females it seems.