boy was that a mistake. If there's a hobby you like, ,its always best to keep it niche, lest the mainstream completely ruins it and the hobby's communities as well
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Son, you build trenches around your hobbies, lined with barbed wire, mines and an artillery barrage if they attempt to get to close.
The Asians thankfully have their language barrier to act as this, Warhammer in that the level of nerd is suppressing the tourists but everything else has been raped like a locust swarm has ravaged the area
From what I've seen gw has basically ditched most of the 'hobby' part of the hobby and now is in the habit of 'retiring' models. If the demand got high enough I could see them offering prepainted sets too.
Warhammer still has an inbuilt immunity in that the whole point of the setting, especially 40k, is to be as grimdark as possible in the bluntest and sometimes most juvenile way possible. There is a limit to how edgy you can get, which has been reached a few times, but if you take away the ability of people to meme and flex about edgy content then there is no pathetic neckbeard group of hardcores that will keep the hope alive like with Star Wars. They will just leave for another tabletop game.
They already ditched their dark fantasy setting for something more generic so never say never. One of the big ethos these culture vultures espouse after all is 'X is for everyone' and their always making moves.
You'll know if they fall if they do female space marines, till then it's just throwing bodies at the issue hoping to either hold the line or crush them under the weight.
So regular 40k battles.
From what I understand of GW inside baseball, the unceremonious botch job of Warhammer Fantasy into Age of Sigmar was a profit-based decision, which is right in the GW playbook.
I want to get into Warhammer before the show premieres but I have lots of homework
I am going to pass along a jewel, Smitty. The All-Guardsmen Party. This is one of the better views of what it would look like to be a normal person trying to fight in the 40K universe.
Hands down my favorite piece of Warhammer media.
You linked the wrong playlist though. Deadpan delivery is best.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1fLIzO-7JpYb0ajewD4soD2PuXAcaJyy
Thanks!!!
Plenty of YouTube channels for that like Arch, Lutin, Adeptus ridiculous is another on that too that's good for newbies.
One benefit of having insomnia is that I can watch these super late at night
For the hobby side of warhammer, check out Eons of battle, tabletop time and Squidmar. Lots of cool paint jobs and builds. Play on table top has great videos of actual gameplay edited down to 40 or so minutes.
If you want Warhammer Fantasy, the Total War Warhammer Trilogy is an unironically great place to just dive in and start absorbing the best parts of the era everyone liked from it and find what races appeal to you most to start your reading there. And if you don't pick SETTRA THE IMPERISHABLE, KING OF KINGS, then you are wrong. Vermintide is also good if you have friends to play with.
40k doesn't have one on that level that stands above the rest as a jumping point, but games like Space Marine and Mechanicus are similar good times to just immerse yourself in small snippets before you get overwhelmed.