Is anybody into Warhammer here?

[Born of Mist He/Him]

Or wants to learn?

 

Please? I promise I'll keep it (relatively) short

[Qianweilian He/him]

1 hour ago, Born of Mist said:

Or wants to learn?

 

Please? I promise I'll keep it (relatively) short

I've recently been interested in the subject.

Hit me.

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

1 hour ago, Born of Mist said:

Or wants to learn?

 

Please? I promise I'll keep it (relatively) short

Isn't it a video game? I'm not really sure. Teach me.

[Born of Mist He/Him]

54 minutes ago, Qianweilian said:

I've recently been interested in the subject.

Hit me.

 

38 minutes ago, Through the Living Hopper said:

Isn't it a video game? I'm not really sure. Teach me.

Gimme a couple hours Im heading to school rn

[Denissimo He/him]

2 hours ago, Born of Mist said:

Or wants to learn?

 

Please? I promise I'll keep it (relatively) short

me.
I've been trying to buy (or totally legally find 3D print models, which doesn't help me eaither as I don't have a 3D printer) figurines. Currently learning mechanics.

[Born of Mist He/Him]

5 hours ago, Denissimo said:

me.
I've been trying to buy (or totally legally find 3D print models, which doesn't help me eaither as I don't have a 3D printer) figurines. Currently learning mechanics.

What faction(s) do you like?

[Conure1243 He/Him]

Not into Warhammer specifically, but I paint figurines (Thanks to the Stormlight Minis simply existing), and I've heard some things about it from my cousin

[Born of Mist He/Him]

Spoiler

Before we begin

 

Spoiler

 

Okay, so Warhammer is a game where you paint minifigures or "minis" and use them to play the game. It's basically the saying "The only difference between men and boys are the cost of their toys". You use the minis as toy army figures and fight another army. You generally can split them into 3 categories: Imperial, Xenos, and Chaos. Imperial is the main human faction, Xenos is an umbrella term for aliens, and Chaos is demons. Warhammer is also a setting where there is LOTS of lore in the books and game suppliments.

 

Now that was a brief overview of the factions. Here is a list of the main subfactions along with a short kinda memey summery of them, that's mostly lore wise cuz I've never played the game:

 

Also everything Imperium has fake Latin, idk why.

Imperial (The Imperium of Man, an oppressive, xenophobic Theocratic Oligarchy in which 99% of people's lifes sucks)

1. The Adeptus Astartes or Space Marines (Honestly they're big enough to be a faction unto themselves) Meme (The blue boys themselves. Wait. What do you mean they come in different colors?)
2. The Adepta Sororitas or The Sisters of Battle (Nuns with flamethrowers) Meme (Because everything needs to have sexualized bull crap)
3. The Adeptus Custodians or The Custodes (The Emperor's bodyguards) Meme (Why are 3 of them worth more points than a Knight?)
4. The Adeptus Mechanicus or The Admech (A cyborg cult that treats human life as expendable. It has occurred to me that the only unique part of that sentence is the cyborg part) Meme (THE FLESH IS WEAK)
5. The Astra Militarum (The main military of the Imperium, they are a horde army with tanks as the main damage dealer) Meme (Yes, humanity is a horde army, now get back to shooting or the commissar will shoot you!)

 

Xenos (A mixed group of aliens, most of the times not allied) 

1. The Eldari  (A long lived race that's slowly dying out) Meme (They're just space elves)
2. The Drukari (Evil Eldari that live in the webways) Meme (Evil space elves *gasp*)
3. The Leagues of Votann (A hyper advanced society of short people) Meme (Not just space dwarves, Capitalist space dwarves)
4. The Orks (A hyper aggressive group of fungi [yes, you read that right] that includes grots [goblins], snotlings [other goblins], and squigs [they can be breed for anything, and I do mean anything], and orks [orks]) Meme (Ya 'ave tuh say all der linez wiff a cockney british accent. WAAAAGHHHH!!!!)
5. The Necrons (Space Robots with world ending weaponry) Meme (They turned themselves into literal terminators because a bunch of wizard frogs refused to give them chemotherapy)
6. The Tyanids (aliens from beyond the galaxy with the single-minded objective to turn everything into biomass to fuel the hivemind) Memes (They're VERY hungry buggy bois)
7. Genestealer Cults (A bunch of people brainwashed into cultists to help prepare for the tyranid invasion) (no meme but when the Tyranids invade and the cult finishes helping them, they willingly jump into a pool of acid. While they're falling in, the tyranids undo the mindlink in the cultist so they come to they're senses right before being desolved in acid) 
8. The T'au (A caste-based interspecies empire that works for the greater good) meme (most of the time it's a bunch of blue guys in Gundam mech suits)

 

I am going to stop there because most Chaos stuff I will link together with the space marines & other lore. If there is anything you want me to expand upon (besides space marines) let me know and I will prioritize that!

Edited April 24 by Born of Mist

[Denissimo He/him]

15 hours ago, Born of Mist said:

What faction(s) do you like?

Well, still researching, but the Death Guard and Genestealers are sick.

[Born of Mist He/Him]

59 minutes ago, Denissimo said:

Well, still researching, but the Death Guard and Genestealers are sick.

Cool! If I had money to buy models I think death guard would be pretty high up there

Though I will always be first and foremost a White Scars fan

[Born of Mist He/Him]

Oops

@Through the Living Hopper @Qianweilian

Sorry, forgot to quote you guys 

[PanLin they/he]

On 4/24/2026 at 2:25 AM, Born of Mist said:

The Orks (A hyper aggressive group of fungi [yes, you read that right] that includes grots [goblins], snotlings [other goblins], and squigs [they can be breed for anything, and I do mean anything], and orks [orks]) Meme (Ya 'ave tuh say all der linez wiff a cockney british accent. WAAAAGHHHH!!!!)

As a dedicated ork player, it's my duty to inform everyone that orks are objectively the best faction. WAAAAAAGH!!!!

My favourite squig type is the ones bred for long hair which then bite onto an ork's scalp and stay there, as orks can't grow hair naturally.

[Born of Mist He/Him]

Sorry all, imma get on this as soon as I have spare time.

On 5/23/2026 at 5:39 PM, PanLin said:

As a dedicated ork player, it's my duty to inform everyone that orks are objectively the best faction. WAAAAAAGH!!!!

My favourite squig type is the ones bred for long hair which then bite onto an ork's scalp and stay there, as orks can't grow hair naturally.

Low-key if I ever get into playing Warhammer I'll probably buy an army of orks. Though the boyz are probably gonna be bald cuz I saw a kit-bash YouTube vid where the guy used them to give a white scars space marine hair so that's how they'll be used.

Edited May 25 by Born of Mist
how does auto correct get pros from orks???

[PanLin they/he]

57 minutes ago, Born of Mist said:

Low-key if I ever get into playing Warhammer I'll probably buy an army of orks. Though the boyz are probably gonna be bald cuz I saw a kit-bash YouTube vid where the guy used them to give a white scars space marine hair so that's how they'll be used.

Oh that's such a cool idea! The ork-style ponytails have strong Mongolian vibes, so I can see that working really well. Innovative kit-bashing is probs one of my favourite things about the hobby.

Tbh I run far more grots than boyz so I have a lot of boyz arms and hair pieces and whatnot that I don't need, so let me know if you need any!

Edited May 25 by PanLin

[Born of Mist He/Him]

14 hours ago, PanLin said:

Oh that's such a cool idea! The ork-style ponytails have strong Mongolian vibes, so I can see that working really well. Innovative kit-bashing is probs one of my favourite things about the hobby.

Tbh I run far more grots than boyz so I have a lot of boyz arms and hair pieces and whatnot that I don't need, so let me know if you need any!

All right, thanks!