Warhammer coversations

*Shamelessly revives topic*

Because Lion El'Jonson HAS RETURNED!

One of the greatest heroes of the Imperium of Man is returning to the great war. Lion El'Jonson, primarch of the Dark angels, will arrive soon. He's got an awesome new model and couldn't have chosen a better time, with the Arks of Omen series going strong. He's s even getting his own book in the series!

So excited about this I just had to share. Spread the excitement around, you know!

JOIN US IN RIGHTEOUS PRAISE OF THE PRIMARCH RETURNED!!!

Also here's where you can find out a little more if you're interested. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/23/lion-eljonson-primarch-of-the-dark-angels-returns-to-warhammer-40000/

10th Ed likely to be in summer aswell. I hope they also release old world this year as its the 40th anniversary of warhammer fantasy battles and warhammer as a whole.

Also I hope in 4 odd years when the next load of books in a narrative event occur the one xenos faction they decide to care about at the time is aeldari craftworlds. Half of their named characters are outdated models.

Old world seems to be about ready to launch. It is a good time. And I agree about the aeldari. Arks of omen has mostly been orks and t'au (i hate t'au). Seems like a long time since eldar got attention.

What are your thoughts on 10th edition? Its exciting. Although it looks like we may lose strategems. Kind of a bummer.

We also may be losing alot of ap from units but the potential for more modle releases and less op marines makes it tempting. The tyranid fan part of me is excited for the new models but the aeldari part is dreading the fact it will probably be another 15 years until they get an update XD.

Seriously though. Half of their important units (aspect warriors) have 15 year old lead minis and 4/9 of the named craftworld characters are probably 20 odd years old. When the next load of books release I hope that instead of doing the 1 xenos as like Vect or some squat they do Asurmen. Or Karandras.

The cinematic trailer was neat. What'd you think @Dietsoda?

What's your opinion on each of the combat patrols and the factions in general?

(I'll say mine after someone else does)

That Picture Reminds Me Of This

I dont see how it remind you this by the way?

They Are Both Toys On Rocks

Wrong, factually incorrect. Completely wrong. Not toys, miniatures. They aren't on rocks, they are on fake rocks.

Astra Militarum; Nice bunch. Good for kitbashing, apparently. Seems like a moderately good army in-game.
Adeptus Mechanicus; Dunno. Skitarri are just about the only mechanicus minis I like, and I don't know how this force will perform.
Tau empire; What is it with tau and giant battlesuits lately? So unfair
Heretic Astartes; Acceptable. Spiky lot, yes? They'll do ok on the field
oh real quick Black legion boarding patrol; Pretty neat. Abbadon leading it is a good idea.
Space marines; The new patrols all look pretty cool. Good strong ones.
Adepta Sororitas; Fanatics. Strange. Some of this bunch seem pretty weak, but it is acceptable.
Drukari; Speed and melee. Good combo
Leagues of Votann; Not very familiar with these guys, don't know how they'll do.
Chaos daemons; Scary. Looks mostly melee based, but aren't a couple of them pretty heavy ranged hitters?
Grey knights; I hate grey knight dreadnoughts. And mechs. Those things just look so dumb. It appears to be a powerful force though.
Necrons; The miniatures look really neat. No idea how they will perform on the tabletop, especially with 10th edition coming out.
Genestealer cultists; Pretty well balanced actually. Just looking at this picture maybe a little low on melee units.
Orks; Scary. Enemies would be right to be afraid.
Btw ork boarding patrol; What's not to love? It's a well balanced force packing a big punch. Plus, it's based around stealthy orks. So that's funny.
Thousand sons/Tzeentch; I just love thousand sons minis. They're my favorite chaos faction. Well balanced force. Maybe could use some armored vehicles.
Eldar; Noice. Lots of speed, a walker, pretty good all around.
Death guard; Meh. Poxwalkers. Let's just say they're more fun to fight against than command.

Astra millitarum: at least it isn't a hoard of tanks and instead artillery in the box. As an army I think the boxes for astra millitarum should have upgrade kits just with heads and smaller details so you could make other regiments.

Admec: from what I've heard the combat patrol is actually only around 300 points and is just the start collecting but with 1 mini swapped out. As an army admec are fine, although I've heard they are a complicated army to play.

Tau: I personally only really like Tau infantry and may have at least point made plans for an army of sheild walls and fire warriors. The combat patrol is decent though. You could make a decent kill team out of it and the mech is very good at murder. I will talk of my problem with the tau later.

Chaos marines: the patrol is decent I think. As a faction csm is decent but the specific legions are better. They almost made my 1st army be heretics tough so...

Space marine box 1: Ultramarines: should be raven guard seeing as it is focused on stealth.

Sisters of battle: some of the unit sizes are wrong and all the models are monopose. This is because it'd just a remake of an old 8th/7th edition army box. As a faction, they're fine.

Drukhari: at least the box is focused on the kabalites, the one part of the army I like. Very speed. Personally I hate the drukhari as they are the aeldari who caused slannesh's birth.

Vottan: once again I like infantry too much but this box is decent. It has speed, Melee and ranged so decent. I don't really have an opinion on the vottan though.

Daemons: only has khorne. It is basically just the khorne start collecting with 10 dogs and the blood throne (which can be built as a skull cannon and herald of khorne) is replaced with a herald of khorne. Skullcannon is better as it is the only khorne ranged unit. Each of the chaos gods should get their own combat patrol.

Grey knights: infantry good, baby carrier bad

Space marines 2: dark angels: decent box but not enough infantry. Now the lion is back they can have him lead them so, that's fairly cool.

Necrons: no necron warriors. It only has deathmarks and/or immortals (same kit). The croissant is decent and the overlord is cool. The infinite and the divine is a good book.

Space marines 3: blood angels: Why split the squads into 5

Genestealer cults: box looks decent. One of their boxes can be purchased to get the older cadian infantry and a heavy weapon.

Orks: I hate deffcoppters for 8th edition. Deff dread is better killer kan. Overall, painful.

Thousand sons: too many tzangors and no rubric marines. As a faction they are great and would be my next choice if I wasn't doing craftworlds.

Space marines 3: space wolfs: decent?

Craftworlds: good. The wraith lord is very good and can capture objectives. Bikes are fast. Craftworlds is a good faction. They left before slannesh.

death watch space marine 5: space marines but upgrade kit.

Death guard: my friend would like it for the poxwalker hoards but they are just bad and die easily.

I believe the tau should get a second faction for tau auxiliaries. This would be where the only tau you can bring are pathfinders, fire warriors, a leader unit or two and maybe stealth suits. It would then have all the current kroot units with maybe an extra one or two units. Then follow this with more races with 2-3 infantry some elite and a leader unit or two.

New box set!!

Alright so I have some questions about warhammer. First of all how exactly do you play it, like I’m pretty sure it’s a tabletop RPG but I don’t know the specifics of it. Or what you do besides fight people. Also since it’s a tabletop game I’d assume you need dice to play right? Because I’ve started playing DND with some friends, and I’m probably going to buy my own dice set. And I was wondering if those same dice could be used for warhammer, or do you need different ones?

I think you build and paint your miniatures.

It's similar to a tabletop rpg but you control armies made up of units with stats. There isn't much to do other than fighting and building/painting the miniatures but you could make lore and such for your armies. They don't require any type of dice other than the trusty d6 so you  shouldn't need more dice (probably).

Sounds interesting, what are the specific stats that the armies have? Also I’ve seen a little bit of warhammer stuff on YouTube shorts, and it seems like there’s different factions of sorts in the game. Are these people those factions created by players or are they part of the game.

There is a large group of factions to choose from and multiple game systems. I would suggest going to https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Home?_requestid=4975223 and looking at warhammer 40,000 for sci-fi and warhammer age of sigmar for fantasy. (There are others, they don't matter)

There would then be a bar on the side (or a bar that says refine if you are on mobile) All the factions are shown on the side bar (or refine) under (for 40k) space marines, armies of the imperium, armies of chaos and xenos armies or (for aos) the 4 grand alliances.

I could probably answer most basic questions people have about warhammer. Probably. although I know nothing about the meta or good combos and such